Posted 8/09/2004 05:17:00 PM by Douglas

If you're going 110 miles an hour on the freeway, and someone comes up behind you because you're going too slow, move your ass over! It's bad enough to find people parked in the left lane that can't even get it up to the speed limit, but I'm sick of the good Samaritan types out there that think it's their personal responsibility to slow traffic down to their own glacial pace just because they don't have anywhere they need to be.

Apparently, I'm not the only one.

Remember the saying: "Two wrongs don't make a right?" It's not your job to enforce the speed limits, which are kept below the normal speed of traffic because of poorly conceived environmental rules and the government's greedy desire to collect revenue from fines. Also, freeways are designed for very fast speeds; the design speed is usually higher than the legal limit.

Someone trying to obstruct traffic is creating a greater danger than a driver going faster than the artificially set limit.

Besides being monumentally unsafe, there's nothing more frustrating than being behind an "Aggie Road-Block" on a two lane freeway when two morons are side by side driving in formation at exactly the same speed.

I endorse a libertarian approach to traffic enforcement: If you haven't hit something, what have you done wrong?

"Lowering the freeway speeds in some Texas cities a few years back is not what's going to help reduce pollution," he wrote, "since bottled-up traffic causes more smog than the people doing 70-plus."

Folks, let's show some courtesy out there. If a right-hand lane is free, I always drive in it. The left lane is for passing only, unless the freeway is gridlocked. Go the speed you are comfortable with and allow others moving faster to safely go by.

What an amazing streak of rational driving advice? This guy's got it figured out. And he's a Libertarian? Who'd a thunk it?