[torstenvl]

I understand that people have strong feelings about going the speed limit in the left lane. However, that is not consistent with either safe driving practices or the law.

The left lane of a multi-lane highway is for passing. If you are going the speed limit in the left lane and someone is trying to pass you, you are still required to yield and allow them to overtake you.

This is the law in nearly every state (Alaska, North Carolina, Ohio, and Maryland do not require you to get out of the left lane unless you are going below the speed limit).

https://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5804590/slow-left-lane-driving...

From the link: Now, some people counter that as long as they're going the speed limit, they don't have to move over — and by slowing down would-be speeders, they're making the roads safer... Apart from the fact that in 44 states, simply going the speed limit doesn't permit drivers to travel in the left lane, this argument doesn't make a lot of sense based on research into how accidents occur.

[vgeek]

So that is why people in Ohio love camping in the left lane. When driving in places like Utah, Montana, Dakotas, etc. 95% of people pass and get back in the slow lane. In Ohio and surrounding states, it seems like people have an aversion to the first lane and immediately jump to the middle lane if available or just persist in the fast lane after passing, even when the slow lane is empty. If people drove with a float:right mentality, wouldn't congestion be eased by allowing more efficient flow based on speed segregation and less unnecessary braking?

[ericmay]

Ohioans park in the left lane because they’re dumb. They don’t know the law. I’m an Ohioan.