It could be, but I just think they think it's OK to chill in the center lane. Everyone else is doing it, after all, never mind that everyone else is also causing traffic to be worse.

Edit: After returning and reading more comments, yeah, a lot of (likely) Americans think it's OK to be a middle lane camper, even in more rural areas.

As long as you’re not impeding the flow of traffic that’s fine. Some people stay left or center and impede traffic because they want to make everyone go slower. My brother is one of those people.

I tell him he’s not the police and is actually being more dangerous than just getting the fuck out of the way.

Just like someone wants to go slower. Let others live and they can live or die with the consequences. Don’t inject yourself into a dangerous situation to prove a point.

Yeah. If I stayed in the right lane, every couple miles I'd need to change lanes to avoid an exit only, or free up space for entering traffic to merge. But that leaves one of not two open lanes to my left.

Also changing lanes is stressful for me: the situation changes quickly, and even after checking blind spots I've almost sideswiped someone a couple times. (Also honked to keep a pair of cars in front of me from picking the same moment to shift into each other.)

So, I get the principle, and I also am annoyed with slow traffic in the left lane. But if there's room to pass on the left, that's what I see as necessary.

It is the job of the person merging onto the freeway to find a safe place to merge. The person on the freeway is also able to move out of the right lane if they so desire, but they aren't required to from what I understand.

All of that said, I see people being center lane campers all the time whether it be in the middle of a city, where it's arguably fine, to rural but populated areas where it causes traffic, to the middle of nowhere, where it isn't inconveniencing me, but is just weird.

Surface streets

3 lanes

You don't need to tell me where you live.