You would think. There would have to be some reason for it. But this is the actual driveway (on the right). I don't understand how they got one tire off the ground in this driveway. I think they just somehow stomped on the gas pedal, but it didn't burn rubber or anything.

I don't think stomping on the gas would get a wheel off the ground in that car...

Sadly, some people's limited understanding of physics comes from watching The Matrix.

It could have been spinning ie power braking and looked like it was off the ground because of that.

This uninsured driver thing is scary, reading the comments section in an article about harsher punishments for uninsured motorists the other day. The number of people who don't think they don't have to have it, say they cannot afford it so do not buy it but drive anyways, or simply brush it off is startling.

That's a 60mph zone?!?

Eh, maybe that stretch isn't since it's in town, now that you mention it. It's the Pacific Coast Highway.

As long as you stay out of the left lane, I don't care if you drive 30 in a 60. Slower traffic keep right and pass left. One of the first rules of the road that has been forgotten, mostly by immigrant drivers like the Hispanics in white Ford box trucks with their paint supplies or ladders on the roof! :#

I was thinking about this a few weeks ago. I was driving in a rural area, and there was a car cruising along at around the speed limit in the left lane. I had to pass it on the right, and it was a couple of people chatting.

It got me thinking about a focus group of drivers that I did many years ago. A young woman in that group said that she took off on a road trip, and figured out after a couple of hundred miles that she wasn't supposed to cruise in the left lane. She said, "I grew up in the city. You're supposed to cruise in the left lane there. How was I to know that it's different in the country?"

She actually brings up a good point about our inconsistent lane philosophies. If you're in a major metro area and you're going to travel 20 miles on a highway, you're supposed to move toward the left so it's easier for others to get off and on. But if you're outside a metro area and you're going to travel 20 miles on a highway, you're supposed to stay in the right lane.

I guess maybe the consistent part is that you leave the leftmost lane for passing, whether it's a 2-lane road or an 8-lane road. But even in metro areas you get the idiots who are cruising at a very high rate of speed and they're camping in the left lane.

One might think it's an issue of 2-lane roads versus multi-lane roads, but in a metro area a 2-lane road gets cruisers in both lanes, and that's kind of necessary.

So it makes me wonder. At what point when you're departing a metro area are you supposed to make the philosophical switch and never cruise in the leftmost lane?

When there isn't an exit every 1/4 mile.

The nearest large-ish city to me with that driving situation has it marked. There are signs up that say "Through Traffic Left Lane OK" or something like that. California is one of the 29 states (as of this 2010 article) where you are required to move over if traveling at a slower speed than normal traffic:

http://jalopnik.com/5501615/left-lan...e-by-state-map


The most popular law follows the Uniform Vehicle Code, which says a car driving below the "normal speed of traffic" should be driven in the right-hand lane. Because it indicates "normal speed" instead of saying "speed limit" a driver going above the speed limit but slower than most traffic is still in the wrong.

I will be the first one to admit I am not a great driver. I recently got a car over an SUV because the SUV was totalled andthe other day I looked in my review and side mirror changed lanes, didn't hear a honk or anything, just had a sense that someone was still on my left. I look over and this guy I ran off the road was just rolling with me on the shoulder. I swerved back over and he came back on the road and out of the corner of my eye I could feel his burning eyes. I was a bit worred because he was driving a plumming truck and I know he had some pipes that he was going to hit me over the head with, but I pulled into a sushi place and he yelled stuff and drove by.

The worst are those shitheels who purposely stay in the lane to keep others from going faster as if their self-annointed traffic hall monitor. Only to be topped by the people who pace the car next to them!

If there's more than 2 lanes in a metro area then the far left lane is still the "fast lane".

I call them "block-jobbers"