I don't understand parking lights either. What is the point? I'm pretty sure it's illegal to drive with just your parking lights on (or, at least, it is in ID and CA).
I have never understood the left-lane-is-for-passing rule, though. I actually didn't even know it existed until I moved here and read it in the driver's manual (it was prolly in the CA driver's manual too, but who pays attention to those rules?). In CA, the left lane is for driving. If everyone only drove in the right lane, except for passing, you'd have an even worse traffic jam everywhere. You need both lanes for driving because there are so many cars. And as for passing, you zip in and out of the lanes to make your pass. Using a turn signal often prevents your chances of making the lane change successfully.
Here I have noticed people tend to pass more in the left lane, and the slow cars keep to the right, but people don't keep to the left-lane-is-for-passing rule generally (and neither do I).
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Date: 2006-02-22 06:48 pm (UTC)I have never understood the left-lane-is-for-passing rule, though. I actually didn't even know it existed until I moved here and read it in the driver's manual (it was prolly in the CA driver's manual too, but who pays attention to those rules?). In CA, the left lane is for driving. If everyone only drove in the right lane, except for passing, you'd have an even worse traffic jam everywhere. You need both lanes for driving because there are so many cars. And as for passing, you zip in and out of the lanes to make your pass. Using a turn signal often prevents your chances of making the lane change successfully.
Here I have noticed people tend to pass more in the left lane, and the slow cars keep to the right, but people don't keep to the left-lane-is-for-passing rule generally (and neither do I).