Before I finalize my tentative slotting of the drivers I'm talking about firmly into the 'dumbass' column, I'd like to know if the behavior I've been witnessing is because of cross-cultural gaps rather than actually dumbassery.
On US highways, the convention -- the rule, in fact -- is that you stay right except to pass. Now, I won't even begin to pretend that Americans follow this rule. They don't. However, in general, if someone moves aside to let a faster car go by, they're doing so by moving right. And they typically stay there, unless they're going faster than other people in the right lane themselves. With me so far?
However, I've been noticing a lot more cars with Canadian plates on them around these parts lately, and what their drivers tend to do is the exact opposite: they stay in the left lane, and if they move aside for a faster car, they immediately jump back into the left lane... even if the right lane is empty for as far as the eye can see ahead of them. (Many times they don't move aside and you see a long line of cars moving right, passing the Canadian, and moving left again to pass the slowboaters on the right.)
Is the convention reversed up north?
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
On US highways, the convention -- the rule, in fact -- is that you stay right except to pass. Now, I won't even begin to pretend that Americans follow this rule. They don't. However, in general, if someone moves aside to let a faster car go by, they're doing so by moving right. And they typically stay there, unless they're going faster than other people in the right lane themselves. With me so far?
However, I've been noticing a lot more cars with Canadian plates on them around these parts lately, and what their drivers tend to do is the exact opposite: they stay in the left lane, and if they move aside for a faster car, they immediately jump back into the left lane... even if the right lane is empty for as far as the eye can see ahead of them. (Many times they don't move aside and you see a long line of cars moving right, passing the Canadian, and moving left again to pass the slowboaters on the right.)
Is the convention reversed up north?
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs