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Great idea in theory. I’m often convinced those passing lane lunkers are just a bunch of holier-than-though vigilantes out to impose their own notion of an appropriate speed on me!
But how do you enforce this law fairly and consistently? What criteria are the officers to use to decide that someone was hogging the lane as opposed to just taking their sweet time getting past other cars?
And too often you pull into the passing lane to cruise past someone going slower than you and the anal retentive bugger speeds up to keep pace with you. Does that make YOU the passing lane hog? If you ease back behind him you KNOW he’ll just slow down again. (I’m sure these ‘none-shall-pass’ slow lane turds are somehow related to the passing lane lunkers.) Sure you can floor it and leave them in the dust, but that just gives Mr. Officer a much easier ticket to write.
Beyond that, how does one either prove or disprove a lunking offense? If the burden of proof is on the officer then they’ll have to follow someone for awhile and capture it on video. For this to work that’d need to be in an unmarked car, or else from an aircraft. (If it works with a regular police cruiser then the judge should additionally remand the culprit for a brain scan - to look for one). If the burden of proof is NOT on the officer then this is just too open to interpretation, moodiness and potential abuse.
I resent passive-aggressive / anal retentive behavior at the wheel - but I’m not in favour of impractical legislation either. What say you?
