Keep Left, Pass Right

Hi. ‘sup!

So I was driving home today and saw something in my rearview that I have seen countless times before, and it struck me that I was looking at a dangerous driver.

Let me explain.

I have a style of driving which some of my friends think is quite reckless and others think is quite granny-like. So through the law of averages I think I must be a fairly, well, average driver. And I prefer not to speed, mostly ‘cos I can’t afford fines.
But I do have my preferences in driving.

I believe that the fast lane is for people travelling at the speed limit or higher (this obviously doesn’t apply in heavy traffic ) I hate it when I’m driving down a quiet stretch of highway at 120 and there’s some cowshit asshole sitting at 95 with no one in the lane to his/her left.
If I’m not in a hurry, I’ll sometimes overtake ( or is it undertake, if I have to pass on the left?) and then, sitting right in front of them, drop to 70, until I see someone else coming up behind, and I’ll take it back up to 120. This usually makes the cowshit asshole move over a lane, its definitely more effective than sitting behind them flashing your lights.

Another thing that gets to me is when I’m driving in the middle lane cos its travelling at 120 and there are enough speed freaks swinging by at 140-160 in the fast lane to stay in the middle lane.
Then I come up behind a car that’s doing 110, or 115.

Just enough to slow me down and piss me off, but that’s not the worst bit.
So I wait, often patiently, for a gap in the fast lane.
It comes, I pull out, and as I pull alongside him he suddenly realizes that he’s not doing 120, and speeds up.
By then, I have an Audi up my ass, and I look like the douchebag travelling at middle lane speeds in the fast lane. I either have to speed, to pull ahead, or drop back behind, which usually leads to the douchebag dropping back to 110 again.

FUUUUUUUUUUUC CCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!

So back to today.

I’m coming from Buccleuch to Marlboro, usually quite a fast stretch of highway.
I’m in the fast lane, as usual, doing 120, as usual.
I pull up behind a 4x4 urban pavement hopper, doing the 110 thing. So I undertake, and proceed.
Next thing I’m on a downhill, and this cowshit douchebag is suddenly up my ass doing 130 or something.

I decide fuck him, I;m not pulling over, and as we hit the next uphill stretch he starts fading again.

Then it struck me.

The ban on cellphones in cars, and associated laws/traffic suggestions, are in an attempt to keep the drivers attention where it should be. ON DRIVING!
But the guy behind me today is paying so little attention to his driving, that the slope of the road, and not his accelerator/speedo, is dictating his speed.

I wonder if you could track drivers like that, and cross reference it with, say, rear end collisions, if there would be a correlation?

Oh, yes, happy birthday to me!