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by tristor 1032 days ago
We (for some measure of we, but at least the US and most Commonwealth countries) have laws against this. It's called "Impeding the Flow of Traffic". As far as it matters, you are absolutely and directly wrong about your statement here. It's the 95km/h driver that needs to change.

You seem to have an agenda in your comments here, and in some of them I think you have a point, in this one you are overplaying your hand.

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50mph on a 65mph road may be "impeding the flow of traffic". 63mph certainly isn't.

I'm a bit confused regarding your insinuation of an "agenda" in my comments? I've been in enough situations where somebody behind me or others on the road was endangering everybody just because the car in front of them wasn't going the $safe_margin_above that they were expecting of everybody. So they go like 3ft behind them and put pressure and stress on people. It's a dangerous mentality that can get people killed. It's not the "slow person" (going at 63mph) that's the danger in that scenario.

I personally find GPs agenda of promoting patience, common sense, and safety on the roads to be both dangerous and offensive. That kind of mentality is only a hop and skip away from becoming a deranged anti-car environmentalist.