[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

[Jim Lynch]

On 01/11/2013 01:19 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I have noticed on my jaunts to Boulder that above the Mason-Dixon 
> line, driving changes radically for the better. If I'm approaching 
> someone in the left lane, they pull over to the right. If I use my 
> turn signal to indicate I'm changing lanes, the car I'm about to pull 
> in front of will either make a bit more room for me of flash lights to 
> let me know I'm clear when it's really close. No one guns it to cut me 
> off from changing lanes.
I grew up in the midwest and at that time I observed the same thing.  
The reason, I believe, is (or was) that there were laws in place that 
required you to drive on the right unless passing.  They were well 
enforced.  The UK is the same way.

Jim.