I got into a discussion about teaching your kids to drive.

this is on a 4 lane road.  2 lanes go west 2 lanes go east.

One opinion is that you should tell the kid to stay in the fast lane,  it keeps you out of the slow lane and its safer due to not having to watch out for merging cars, and slow drivers. 

The 2nd opinion is stay in the slow lane/   Your chances of getting a wreck are lower  since you are driving slower and the wrecks gets worse the faster you go.

I'm not going to taint the discussion with my views at this point. What do you think?  SC

"Slower Traffic Keep Right"  That means, drive in the slow lane . . . if you come up on someone moving slower than you, move to the left lane and go around them.  Once there is no one in the right lane going slower than you, move back to the right.  Use your turn sigals for all lane changes and make sure you've put plenty of room between you and the other driver before you change lanes.  Of course, if you on I-59 going to Birmingham, it's just the opposite . . . the "slow lane" there will jar your brains out!

Hey Bignick you talking about my beetle ! I have done a lot of trips between Ooltewah and Fort Payne Alabama wher my dad lives and i just have a great 60mph drive down with people waving etc at me in the bug. At least i think they are waving at me, they may be doing something else but i just enjoy the ride.

Quote from: Smelly_Cat on February 03, 2011, 08:06:10 PM

I got into a discussion about teaching your kids to drive.

this is on a 4 lane road.  2 lanes go west 2 lanes go east.

One opinion is that you should tell the kid to stay in the fast lane,  it keeps you out of the slow lane and its safer due to not having to watch out for merging cars, and slow drivers. 

The 2nd opinion is stay in the slow lane/   Your chances of getting a wreck are lower  since you are driving slower and the wrecks gets worse the faster you go.

I'm not going to taint the discussion with my views at this point. What do you think?  SC

Hey SC , I would be more worried about keeping your Kid in the road no matter what lane it is

Very true.  I think to this point it is more of a concern over altitude than lane position.   

This is how the conversation went down.

I was  ragging  about the stop sign super boy rolled thru and my buddy says that the cops sent him a ticket for speeding  from south ga.  His Kid is at school somewhere in Gnatville.

so we where pontificating about our teaching driving etc.

So he is training his kids to drive in the left /fast lane due to that merge traffic/slow driver etc..  Which I think is ^&%&^ crazy.  I bit my lip and kept my mouth shut since it was what his Pop taught him.  Family tradition in all.

I'm more into the right lane driving and  passing slow drivers. blinkers. mirrors,  look around.  But driving in the left lane just makes you haul arse and get tickets.  SC

[me in the Crossfire:]
'kay, is this guy paying attention to the fact that I'm catching him?...
Hello?
You! Outta the fast lane...
'Scuse MEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..........
what's he...am I in the middle of Blue Angles formation driving practice?? PASS THIS GUY AND MOVE OVER!!!!
Great. I'm now late for being twenty minutes early to work...
Fine, make me look like the hero-[right turn signal-weave around before hitting the semi who's in the right lane like a good driver- back over (on two wheels)-full throttle-]WHEW!

[me in the VW]
hangin' out in the right lane, I'll get there when I get there...
Go on around man-hope you get there before she drops the baby!
What's the rush, everyone?

Funny how the yen and yang works. That, or I'm schizophrenic!

EPILOUGE: [me in the Vee]

GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRAKEBRAKEBRAKEBRAKEBRAKEBRAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO!!!!!!!!!!!!
BRAKEBRAKEBRAKEBRAKEBRAKEBRAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Driving home last night (after the superbowl) I was reminded of the things my Dad says every time its a known "drinking" holiday (new years, the 4th, superbowl, memorial day...etc...). He always warns about watching out for drunks. How does this affect which lane is safer? Well, he told me once about a safety study that investigated drunk drivers going the wrong way on the interstate. Apparently there were enough late night head-ons to conduct a study and it showed that most of the time, the drunk was going the wrong way in the fast lane with their lights off (they thought they were in "their" slow lane".

I tried to find the study, but someone else commented that a drunk might think your fast lane is their only lane on a 2 lane road, another reason to avoid it.

So the lesson is, avoid the fast lane because you won't see the drunk with his lights off as he is barreling down the interstate at you in the wrong lane.

Get him a bus and let him drive it like this:
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KC