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Mrguy4771 t1_j9fcbd7 wrote

Reply to Tired of NY transplants not knowing how to drive. by user1752916319

This is called "confirmation bias". When you see someone driving like an asshole with an NJ plate, you assign some broad description for them "look at this idiot". This happens hundreds or thousands of times.

Then a NY plate is driving like an asshole, and you say "look at this fucking idiot from NY, it's always the NY plates that are driving like assholes, fucking NY idiots".

So even though the NY plates are likely only a small percentage of the idiots you encounter on the road. Your brain has tricked you into thinking ALL NY PLATES = IDIOT DRIVER

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mcgeggy t1_j9f9xp9 wrote

Reply to What’s going on with NJ these days? by AdministrativeBall58

I’m right below you in Howell. It is really sad how much more traffic there is. For almost 20 years I could drive along the back roads and traffic was minimal. Now there are cars everywhere, and the just want to build huge warehouses all over along with the new housing developments, adding heavy truck traffic to the mix. It’s insane!

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eonetiller t1_j9f9wz2 wrote

Reply to comment by Sufficient_Cow_6152 in Tired of NY transplants not knowing how to drive. by user1752916319

Pennsylvania Title 75. Section 3313. Subsection D.

Driving in right lane. (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) and unless otherwise posted, upon all limited access highways having two or more lanes for traffic moving in the same direction, all vehicles shall be driven in the right-hand lanes when available for traffic except when any of the following conditions exist:

(i) When overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction.

(ii) When traveling at a speed greater than the traffic flow.

(iii) When moving left to allow traffic to merge.

(iv) When preparing for a left turn at an intersection, exit or into a private road or driveway when such left turn is legally permitted.

(2) Unless otherwise posted, no vehicle or combination over 10,000 pounds may be driven in the left-hand lane of a limited access highway having three or more lanes for traffic moving in the same direction except when preparing for a left turn at an intersection, an exit or into a private road or driveway when such left turn is legally permitted.

(Apr. 29, 1994, P.L.148, No.25, eff. 60 days; June 25, 1999, P.L.164, No.23, eff. 180 days; June 26, 2001, P.L.734, No.75, eff. 60 days)

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BF_2 t1_j9f8vua wrote

Reply to What’s going on with NJ these days? by AdministrativeBall58

The worst is attitude that if you're driving in the left lane you MUST exceed the speed limit by 15-30 MPH or you're in the wrong. I use the left lane for passing slower cars, not for speeding. I do exceed the speed of the slower car by 5-10 MPH to avoid their "speed matching" me (which can be either a normal reaction or their just being a butt hole). I do return right ASAP. But just because you want to criminally exceed the speed limit doesn't mean I must as well.

Also up there in rude behavior (or outright stupidity) is failure to keep an adequate distance from the car ahead. The NJ Drivers Manual tells you to stay THREE SECONDS behind the car ahead. If you do that you vastly reduce the chances and the consequences of a rear-end collision and you make zipper merging feasible.

Classic BS: I'm in the right land and ahead is a row of cars entering on an on-ramp, maybe 1 or 2 car lengths between them. There's no way I can engage in a zipper merge with them. I can either continue and cut them off or I can move left. THEN when I move left, they all speed up ABOVE the speed limit, effectively trapping me in the left lane. To be safe I would need to merge right between two cars who have left a six-second distance between the -- but that will never happen in NJ.

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