HOV lane behavior... 4444Scott en Aztl‡n Umm, Scott, *not* wrong. H-O-V. "High-Occupancy Vehicle." That *is* the primary purpose of the facility...
Scott en Aztl‡n
Hmmm. Are you ever the only car on the road? "Fastest car in a group" refers to the fastest driver among a group of drivers in the lane. As I said, it is not possible for the fastest car among a group of cars to also be going the same speed as all others. Think about it. If he was going the same speed as all others, he would not be the fastest.
Point one: Because the HOV lanes operate separately from the GPs, it is interesting but to relevant to the law how fast or slow traffic is in the the GPs. But for the sake of discussion, if the HOV and GP lanes are moving at the same basic rate and there is a slower person in the HOV lane (65 vs 75), he still doesn't have to bail out. KRETP isn't applicable to the HOV lane-GP lane transition. It only applies in a multi-lane single direction HOV facility.
No, he's going the normal speed of traffic. He's no faster than the others except the one going slower than the normal speed. "Fastest" means you are faster than everyone else. In your example, the 75mph driver is going the same speed as all others except one -- who would then be the "slowest."
No he doesn't. If the GP lanes are going 75 as you posit, I'd suggest that you ought to bail out into the GP system and go with that flow, where KRETP is applicable.
HOV lane behavior... 4446Scott en Aztl‡n Hmmm. *I* look silly pointing out that the purpose of the HOV lane is for HOVs? And...
