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I have this in my area, which was weird coming from actual big cities with way more dense traffic.
It's like the courtesy from the shared misery of, "We're all in this shit together" never got a chance. Instead people here seemingly never evolved beyond the "If I tailgate this one car, the 100 in front will disappear" phase.
When you're overtaking someone going slow, but they speed up next to you, so you're stuck now and will miss the exit. Just pretend they were probably lonely and just needed someone next to them for a while.
alternatively, if your vehicle is not driven by unicorn farts and has something with a bit of oomph to it, and you don't mind risking it: Mash accelerator, assert dominance, make exit.
while you're not strictly supposed to, you can also slow down and go behind them
that's quitter talk
I'll hit the brakes, he'll fly right by us.
I don't want to be responsible for any bad driving. I just shut my eyes and let Jesus take the wheel.
Quit speeding. Changing lanes all willy nilly hurts traffic, not helps it. Statistically, you go the fastest when choosing a lane and staying there. The three seconds you save getting to your destination isn’t worth making all the traffic behind you worse. And while you’re at it, leave at least one car length in front of you for every 10mph you’re going. You shouldn’t have to rely on your brakes to slow down on the highway.
There are diminishing returns with increased speed, not going to deny that or any of the safety concerns, however extremely passive drivers and lane warriors are a major nuissance and contribute greatly to traffic. No one knows how to zipper merge properly and worse, they take it as a personal afront that you dared to cut ahead of them in traffic.
It boils down to self centeredness and discourtesy.
If everyone kept right when not passing like we're supposed to there would be no "changing lanes willy nilly". If you get passed on the right neither you or someone in front of you is fucking up.
Thanks for mansplaining basic driving concepts.
Don't act on your assumptions as though they're reality. You'll always be wrong and appear insane.