@Seek_Kolinahr: On some roads here the speed limit is 65.
@shrubbery: I will do the brake thing, too, if I am behind someone and so there’s no need for me to be tailgated, as I can’t go through the person in front of me. However, if I am going as fast as I feel comfortable going, and someone is behind me, obviously wanting to pass me, I won’t stay in the left lane, I’ll move over and let them pass. I do agree with you about not letting people in, when they should have merged “back there.”
As I said, around here, everyone goes 80 in the left lane, or they stay out of the left lane. There’s no “pull over and cool off” as @Seek_Kolinahr suggested, because it’s really just keeping with the flow of traffic. Again, as I said, if someone was doing 50 or 60 in the left lane, they’d really be in danger because they’d be cut off from the right. Even in construction zones, where it says you must slow to 45 mph, the slowest people will go is 60. Cops will sit by the side of the road and you can go by doing 80 and they won’t pull you over.
I am not sure if it’s “New York driving” but people here are very cut-throat. I think it’s a “metro area” thing because if I go upstate, it’s not that way.
This is not a “jca” thing, this is the way it is, here. I’m not the fastest, most aggressive driver on the road but I’m not the slowest. I’ll move out of the way for those who are looking to pass, but I know my place, and unless I’m going 80, my place is not the left lane.