jont wrote:Most drivers are spatially lazy - they would rather sit where they are, even if they have to change speed, than maintain speed but have to change position (it's highlighted if you use cruise control a lot). Where do you draw the line between lazy and deliberate hogging?
My parents frequently remain in Lane 2 when they're driving on the motorway. There has to be approximately a mile of empty L1 (hyperbole, before any of youse start quoting HC at me
) before my father will pull into L1. The mother is much more keen to change lanes, but when it's busy she does have a tendency to just hang out in L2.
They don't consider what they're doing as lane hogging, as they do often overtake lorries in L1, it's just the large gaps in between the lorries that they won't pull into. The other thing that I find amusing is, I do try to maintain good lane discipline, and tend to drive in L1, but does mean I change lanes fairly often to overtake lorries etc, and my parents have moaned at me for changing lanes so often...
But yeah, I don't really care if the person in L2 sitting there actually is doing about 70-75 (so kind of keeping up with average traffic flow) I only really consider it "lane hogging" when they sit there doing 60 or below, thus causing a fair few people to have to switch lanes to overtake etc.
However, ironically, in the real world, the drivers who sit in L2 driving at about 70-75 tend to be the most irritating for me, as I nearly always will be driving up behind them marginally faster on CC, so it's either a case of cancelling CC, and then set CC to a speed matching theirs, and practice proper lane discipline without needing to overtake them OR I go ahead and overtake them, then get stuck alongside them, so I have to put my foot down and increase my speed to get past.
That's why I've given up on CC now, and prefer to use my right foot.