What drives me NUTS about that is if you want to creep, thats fine... creep in the TRAVEL lane!!!! There are 2+ lanes on every highway. People use the passing lane (fast lane) to travel and it makes me mental. I'm from New England, been here my WHOLE life, drive in more weather than most people do because I worked for a newspaper, there is not 1 day of the year they are not open. 1, 2, 3 feet of snow, you must go to work! State of emergency, they don't care, they are open. Ive driven in 2 foot storms, 38 miles each way. In all my years Ive never seen a crazy accident, Ive seen foolish things that people do and one of those things is travel in the passing lane. MOVE OVER!!!! LOL Oh it gets me fired up. If someone wants to go quicker, then who is the person who thinks they own the road to travel in the passing lane, slowing everyone down? Thats when things get heated and people do stupid things. I see it all the time.
I drive a little BMW with All wheel drive, let me by. If I want to take my life into my own hands, then get out of my way and let me... better than me weaving on more crowded, bad roads, to try to get ahead of you creeping along in the passing lane blocking those who want to GO!
I understand your frustration about slow drivers in the fast lanes....and the bolded sentence above looks great in theory, but since there is usually more than just you on the road, when you hit that patch of whatever, regardless of your expertise, and go sliding sideways, you are going to take out some poor soul that is driving in the slow lane, at a "MANAGABLE FOR THE CONDITIONS" speed....that is what the highway patrol officer told my cousin who was an "expert snow/ice driver", and he flew along, in the fast lane, going the
posted speed limit.....then he hit that black ice, went cattywompus all over 4 lanes of traffic, and took out 5 other drivers....HE got the ticket and the lawsuits because even tho he was doing the posted speed limit, that was for when the weather was good...."drivers are to adjust their speed down to managable for the conditions....". I personally know my limitations...and when I back out of my garage, and my vehicle SLIDES SIDEWAYS ON THE ICE IN MY STEEP INCLINE DRIVEWAY, all the way out into the street, THAT is above my pay grade...I park that sucker in front of my house, and call in. I leave the icy freeways to all you experts, going 70 mph on ice and snow!