You shouldn’t be merging lanes to avoid mergers unless something particularly stupid is happening. You should be gently adjusting your travel speed up or down by a few MPH to accommodate mergers in your lane. That is the correct and efficient thing to do, both as a courtesy to other road users, and in terms of making…

I don’t see why there needs to be a whole lot of moving back and forth between the right lane and the middle lane! Everyone says this and I don’t get it. Watch mergers coming onto the highway. Gently lift off of, or increase, your throttle input to end up behind or ahead of the merging person, as is appropriate.…

I do not live in the country, I am thinking about my daily commute on an urban freeway, where we have 3 through lanes in each direction; the left lane is a carpool lane, the middle lane has 80% of the people in it, and the right lane has almost nobody in it except for the occasional slow driver, so you can’t use the…

See post above. It is most critical when the road is congested, and it is doable. People who are avoiding it are, in my book, lazy drivers who are inflicting their laziness on the rest of us.

I disagree, I think when it is busy is when it is MOST critical to use all lanes fully, be attentive to traffic leaving or entering the roadway, and blend them in to the flow.

I have been flashing a lot of cars lately that I think have their high beams on, only to find they’re low beams aimed high, and yes, they are frequently toyotas!

This problem has gotten 10x worse in my area in the last decade. SO many people just decide “hey, it’s dark and I want to see, I’ll use my high beams! IN THIS CROWDED URBAN AREA”. ARGH!!

Also, to all the people who advocate moving to the middle lanes to avoid merging traffic: please stop doing that. If you’re a slower driver, stick to the slow lane. You can handle a merge point once every mile or so. The fact that so few people use the right lane by this faulty logic seriously reduces roadway capacity.

NO! STOP MOVING TO THE MIDDLE TO AVOID MERGERS. If you are a slower driver, use the right lane. The right lane IS a through lane. Interchange density on a typical freeway is normally a mile or more between exits. IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE MERGING TRAFFIC ONCE A MILE, YOU SHOULDN’T BE DRIVING, PERIOD.

In Seattle, drivers are so horrible, the fast lane is always the slow lane, and the worst traffic gets, the more you pass on the right and the farther right you have to go to pass. Because everyone is a special snowflake who DESERVES the fast lane, and to go 5 MPH under the (already low) speed limits.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. The right lane is still through traffic. People doing this “middle is through lane” crap reduce road capacity for us all. Please stop thinking this way. Use the right lane as a through lane, if you are a slower traveler.

I disagree, and people thinking this way causes problems. The slow lane and the merging lane are one and the same. People need to merge in and out of that lane effectively, and people in that lane need to accommodate mergers. If you’re too slow for the middle lanes, and you’re just driving in those lanes to avoid…

Keep right except to pass! I actually got a personalized license plate frame for my car that says “please be courteous, keep right except to pass” because I am so sick and tired of people on my commute having terrible, terrible lane etiquette.

Dad joke gets a star!

I thought that way until very recently. Now I think Honda is on the start of a real upswing, and it does actually seem foundational. It’s early days yet, and it may be a blip (and that wouldn’t be surprising given the past...I said from the start, when the deal was announced and the media just kept blabbing about the…

Oh, McLaren. I’ve been saying to take Honda around back and shoot it for half their time in F1, and now that McLaren is finally running away, it looks like Honda is just about to become competitive with Renault!

Don’t listen to Consumer Reports. Problem solved!

Your gen lancer is a great little car! I endorse this article. *stamp*

I always tell people, effectively, cars ARE mass transit. They move the most amount of people around! Is that the mass transit system you want to have? No!

This evil bastard is trying to gaslight the ENTIRE WORLD. Closest thing there is to a real supervillain.