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p> POWER DRIVING br> Re: Eric Peters' Keep Up -- or Pay Up! : /p>

Comments on Eric Peters' article.

p>Thank God. There's nothing like cruising down the road only to find some left lane hog doing 54.5 MPH and refusing to yield and move right. My only wish is that more states were as sensible as Louisiana. Perhaps the police will also ticket those idiots who don't understand the term "merge," who stop at the end of the acceleration lane when trying to enter a highway and put their turn signal on, pitifully pleading and waiting for someone driving on the highway to stop and let them in. Frequently I've been accelerating up a highway on-ramp only to encounter this scenario. Nothing like going from zero to 60 mph and then back again in less than 100 yards! br> -- Chip Johnson /p>

Regarding Eric Speedy Peters' "Keep Up or Pay Up," a comment:

A side result of any such law as he proposes will be that if I want to use the left lane to pass somebody at whatever seems to me to be a safe speed -- which will probably be at least 10 mph slower than Eric Peters -- he and Richard Petty will have an even more fevered attitude of entitlement to their personal left lane, their breakneck speed, and their imagined right to perch on my bumper. And I'll finally have to patent and market the battery of tail-mounted defensive/offensive measures I've had on the drawing table for some time.

p>Sure the left-lane slowboats are an irritating lot, though it's rare in my experience that they'll be driving under 60 mph. Don't we already have enough unenforceable laws? Relax, or something. br> --

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