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Comment by mikestew

5 hours ago

The rule in Indiana is that on a multilane highway you must move to the right to allow overtaking traffic to pass.

That's a rule just about everywhere, but that's not what's being discussed. I'm in the right lane doing the speed limit, and OP claims that's "technically" illegal due to contradictory laws. (Where there is no real contradiction, because the Chesterton's Fence is that we don't want Farmer Jones driving his tractor to his fields down I-75 through Atlanta.)

Right. What's (maybe) illegal (and definitely unsafe) is staying in the left lane, although driving at the posted speed limit, and impeding traffic that wants to pass.

  • Oh, as a Washington resident[0] I completely agree.

    [0] The "joke" here being that WA drivers are notorious about parking in the left lane while driving 5mph under the limit.