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I drove out west on the 2 lane interstates for a few years while in college, I automatically stay right except to pass in most cases. Here with the multi lane arrangements I treat the middle lane or the one next to the left lane as the right lane and pass on the left when I need to. I cruise at 74 or so most of the time. But even then I get passed by people doing 80-90 or more. Seems with the two lane arrangements, and people actually obeying the keep right law, make cruising the interstates more pleasant. The thing that pisses me off is the people who fly by at 90+ then don't maintain the speed going up hill. I usually wind up passing people who blew my doors off on longer hill climbs, or any hill climbs for that matter doing my cruise speed because they can't maintain speed. In that case I wind up sitting in the left lane to pass everyone til the hill is over.
Seems as if the running joke here is, on I-80 the limit is 80, on the parkway its 110, on 24 its 75, and on the turnpike its 95, so on. And that is just to keep up with traffic. Its impossible to do the limit on 287 in the 55 MPH zones without getting run over. And that is not sitting in the left lane. I do wish they enforced the move over or slow down for emergency vehicles more often, as with the keep right cept to pass.
As much as I would love to see the Autobahn system occur here in the US, it will never happen because we're cheap bastards. No one here will go with paying the necessary up front costs to design an autobahn system. Even to convert our interstate system would cost billions, if not more, and no one will go with the costs. Not to mention the driver training system would need to be completely overhauled.
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