aquaoren
Contributor
No offense and I'm not trying to bash you or attack you personally but the way you described your behaviour when you see an EV in your mirror is the source of some of the problems described in this thread.simbrooks:Its not always the right hand lane, i was driving in NYC the other week and they put them down the middle lane, so that everyone on the right moves further right and those on the left go further left - parting of the waves.
I always pull over when they get within about 50yds or so behind me and let them pass - this always seems to happen in the built up part of town in a 30mph zone. However, i then seem to find that even with an open road and the speed limit that is above 30mph, that they cant go over 30mph, however urgent the case might be that they are transporting. I usually end up having to follow them a bunch before they pull off the road toward their destination, not overtaking them out of respect even though the speed limit would allow me to do so - why dont/cant fire trucks and ambulances drive any faster? Are they too heavy, underpowered, have they got limiters on their engines or laws they have to abide by? I have seen them in the UK doing 70mph or more on "interstate-like" motorways, but here i might hear a siren and see some lights coming on a ramp behind me, but unless the traffic is really backed up it seems the ambulance/fire truck just gets left behind due to its slow speed with a chasm of space in front of them from others not wanting to overtake the emergency vehicles, but them not going as fast as vehicles way in front - i just dont get it, this isnt a whine about them, just wondering why they go so slow if there is an emergency. Maybe its just an Orlando thing?
Lets think together: you move away when they come close enough, which in your opinion is 50 yards.
Safe distance on the highway is about half your speed (in km/h) in meters. So let's say, you're driving 100km/h than your safe distance to the car infront of you would be 50 meters (Or 50 yards, as 1 meter is about 1 yard if I'm correct?). It means that if you decided for yourself that 50 meters are enough, you've just condemned the EV to drive not faster than 100km/h if he wants to stay safe.
We are back to the same issues we were discussing in the driving thread couple of weeks ago. There is no solid driver education in North America and nobody is being taught how do "drive it Right"
You see the lights in your mirror, you hear the sirens, you move away immediatly without making a decision whether the EV is now close enough so I could move to a different lane. It's not your decision whether he is close enough. Your duty is to make way without any other consideration, immediatly!!!