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You posted a misleading/unclear portion. So it is good that you corrected the perception. Still I don't see the pathlogy, as what he and you engaged in IS the reason for the keep right EXCEPT to pass. So +/- 10 mph no real big deal. So you pass, get back to right lane, engage C/C, life is good.
Random variance of speed is a sign of ineptitude.
So to all those LLC's out there that say "Why should I move, I'm going the speed limit," your question has been answered in law. Yes, the speeder is more likely to be involved in a traffic stoppage for a citation of the MAX SPEED LAW, but, the LLC is more likely to be involved in accidents.
Yup! Passing on the right is THE antidote. It has never been against the law!
Ever eat at Spangers fish place end of University?
It was always considered a real treat to go there.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/spengers-fresh-fish-grotto-berkeley
However, the "food scene" has been on steriods and for awhile ! Food choices can range from the banal, right up to ridiculous, past the sublime !
Funny how a little hole in the wall "TOP DOG" has been surviving (with 4.5 star ratings) for 46 years !!! (that I know of)
http://www.yelp.com/biz/top-dog-berkeley
She was biking to class....
https://youtu.be/jw4XWoRajow
It's a sometimes messy interchange, exit and on-ramp using the same piece of road. Hey, the airbags worked. Driver was in the car, on the phone - hopefully dialed after the incident.
I have made it my personal crusade to never spend a dime in Berkeley and I have adhered to that for many years so far. I'd sooner run out of gas than stop there to fill up. I might make an exception for Top Dog though---I'd grandfather them in
Hmm...no wonder the drivers are so cranky there. Who likes to live under the lash, after all?
Got there about 12:10, and apparently this gigantic central Police Dept only has one officer competent and capable of signing off tickets, and he isn't there (I'm sure out to lunch). They told me he'd be back in 20 minutes. I said I'd be back (but not in an Arnold Terminator way; though I'd love to drive a vehicle through their bullet proof window/reception area). I went to get lunch myself, returned about 45 minutes later and guess what, the officer still wasn't there. I sat until 1:25 waiting impatiently, and finally they tell me to pull my car up to the "loading zone" by the building. Wait another 5 minutes and out comes the officer. Took about 10 minutes to get all the paperwork back signed as there was another lady and vehicle also doing a similar thing.
I get to the window, she hands me copies of the citations now signed off, and says $10! I'm like "10 DOLLARS!?!" And she said "yes, sorry, it's 10 dollars; sorry I didn't tell you in advance." I asked if that was per ticket or just a total fee and she said it was ten whether you had 1 citation or 5.
The Court won't be as understanding with their fees in addition to these (the court will surely charge PER ticket), so I sent off my letter of "Requesting a Dismissal on the 2nd Identical Charge" to the Sheriff responsible today."
Let's see if he's reasonable and helps me to not waste the Court's time.
Never buy in an HOA, and places with lots of gated communities are usually socio-economic failures (like Indio and much of southern CA).
Then the winner, a guy in a big late model GMC 4 door pickup, kind of lurches into a crosswalk as I am jogging through it, I have green. He was shaving with an electric razor, no joke. Should be a massive stunning fine for something like that.
Always amusing seeing someone in something like a new Range Rover playing with a phone while "driving" too. Way past time for progressive penalties. Of course, it's a demographic who have seldom had to answer to anything, ever.
If the local anarchy-preventers would go after non-signalers and phone yappers like they do speeders on wide open roads, they'd be able to pay off the national debt.
Funny how in primarily democratic areas (read TAXEM MORE sentiments) how the lower to no sales/income tax to FOREIGN levies continued to be PLAYED.
But license endorsements, that's trampling on my freedumb or something. You get the laws you pay for, for both gargantuan RVs and behemoth trucks and SUVs.
My failure remark was about areas with gated communities - they tend to be those with gigantic socio-economic gaps, an effectively invisible middle class, a huge underclass with a small top few, etc. What we're all probably devolving towards, unfortunately.
You have a thing about repeating what you clearly have already posted. Repeating hardly advances the discussion. Yet when asking for past clarity... IGNORED to cries of misinterpretations.
And from my experience, the new batch of retirees aren't really as hippy and environmentally sensitive as they want to appear - they act as entitled to their big houses and guzzlers as much as those who came before. Those who fought the system 40-50 years ago became the system.
Thanks for repeating what I in effect said !!
Off topic !!
In regards to the diesel thread, sorry it is hard for you But then given the less than 2.5% diesel cars PVF, evidently the majority of PVF owners share the persective ! @ least you lesed a US market BT.
Making the shift to diesel in 2003 was an almost total no brainer, sans no wider spread of TDI product offerings. After 'vetting' the oem with the most TDI products (VW), and a $236 TDI premium, it was making a leap to VW that was the issue. Despite continued less than stellar overall ratings the anecdotal VW TDI's that I have are as reliable and durable as any highly rated Japanese oem. I dare say more so !!!
did I expect that? NO !!! Is it a surprise? Pleasantly and economically SO !
You have a thing for turning discussions into the weird mess as seen in the diesel topic, with painful hard to decipher replies and strange arguments. Easy and normally WAY more costly ! DEVOLVING? It is designed to do that!!! But them the demos work HARD @ it also. Given examples like Detriot, GREAT results !!!! INDEED!
You have a thing about repeating what you clearly have already posted.
He was one of those "I'm going 5 to 10 over the speed limit and you're going to like it campers." He didn't like going 0 to 5 MPH over the Speed Limit (that's all it took to move him right), but he wouldn't get out of the way for 11-15 MPH over either (under-posted 65 MPH CA zone).
For the FEW that actually "keep right EXCEPT to pass," I salute YOU! Anecdotally I try to DO that in the real word. So I don't do near the saluting that should happen.
One guess is higher rpm to get proper torque going uphill, aka don't like whiny rpm. Don't like to lose fuel mileage.
This same problem described occurs on Interstate 5 just south AND north of Encinitas, CA. Also occurs regularly on the 52 East of the 15 heading in and out of Santee.
Speaking of hills and speed, what gets me is when people slow at the bottom of a hill, and I am in my fintail - especially on slower suburban roads. If I don't keep up momentum and hit the ground running, it'll be a slow crawl at the top of some of the hills here.
Euphonium has a point about bridges - and tunnels. Drive around Seattle to see traffic suddenly lose 10mph when dealing with the danger and uncertainty of a bridge or tunnel.
Maddening...
:@
I've always believed it's due to the governors on the trucks and the fact one is not actually
governed greater than the other by enough to correctly make a pass, but the driver goes
for it.
When the semi gets close to the tractor of the slower truck, the air blast that comes off
the front of the leading truck hits the broad front of the passing truck, slowing it down
with the air resistance. The governed engine won't make enough moxie to pull through
the extra resistance, so it takes a slight downgrade or other helping factor to speed up
the passing truck to complete the pass. Or the slower truck drops a little to let the
offending truck get around.
In a car, I can feel that blast of air when passing a semi. But I always notice it so much
more when I'm driving a UHaul cargo van or their smallest box truck when I was
around semis on I-70. I can imagine the force it puts on the bigger and broader
front of a semi when it gets near the front of the slower semi.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
The whole pulling in front of upcoming traffic is extremely inconsiderate - they have mirrors.
Reminds me of an incident I had this morning - I am cruising down a 40mph arterial at maybe 43mph, it's well before 0600, no traffic on the road I occupy, a Tundra pulls right in front of me from a side street turn lane, I change lanes to let him in, he then speeds up and matches my speed, I drop back as i have to turn soon (the road splits) and give him a flash - and he throws a fit. I end up passing him when the road splits (funny, once I drop back, he slows, what a coincidence) , he gives me the finger and flashes me. Gave me an exasperated laugh to start the day - entitlement knows no specific vehicle type.
Elephant Races are what I have always called them.
There is no need to "pretend" to be driving near the speed limit at these locations, even briefly.