You have seen “handicapped driver” license plates. It usually means the driver is physically impaired in some way, such as having difficulty walking. It sometimes means having difficulty driving.
This doesn’t mean they’re driving slowly. That isn’t a defining characteristic of a handicapped driver. All of us have driven slowly at one time or another – as for example when we’re trying to gimp a car with a problem – such as overheating – as far as we can go before it conks out altogether. Or because we’re driving a truck with a heavy load in the bed. Or an RV.
Or even because we just want to drive slowly. Maybe because we’re sight-seeing. Maybe because we’re timid/cautious drivers – and that, as such, isn’t a handicap, either.
But it becomes one when it handicaps others.
As for instance the handicapped driver depicted in the video embedded with this article. He was driving really slowly – 15-20 MPH below the speed limit. Who knows why. There may have been good reason. But there is never a good reason to handicap other drivers by making no effort to get out of their way. Which should always be done as a matter of common courtesy whenever one decides to or needs to drive significantly more slowly than whatever the speed limit is. In part because we all know – well, most of us do – that the speed limit is itself slow, evidenced by the fact that most of the time, most drivers are driving at least that fast and usually 5-10 MPH faster. Many would go faster than that were it not for the tacit understanding that, as a rule, you can drive 5-10 MPH faster than whatever the speed limit is without running too much risk of being ticketed for “speeding.” 
The point being, whatever the speed limit is, most of us understand that’s at least as fast as you ought to be driving and if you’re not then you ought to yield to faster-moving traffic. As by moving over to the right lane rather than squatting obliviously – or obnoxiously – in the left lane. As by moving off onto the shoulder if driving slowly on a single-lane road, so that the cars drivers who want to be able to drive the speed limit can at least do that.
If most slow drivers were to do that, few of the rest of us would complain about slow drivers – because there’d be nothing legitimate for us to complain about!
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I followed one of these today. going 57-65 in the fast lane speed limit is 55.
Everyone in the fast lane travels 65 or higher. Slow lane is about 60.
The guy in this KIA hatch seemed to have been distracted, constantly changing speed and wandering into the right lane.
After several miles, he must have noticed he was all over the place and situated himself in the slow lane.
I’m going to speak some personally observed truth now. A vast majority of the ones I see driving a vehicle with a HC tag are overweight brown women. They go to their doctor, tell the doctor I need a HC tag because I’m fat, and they get all the good spaces right up front.
Tell me again why our society is not a trust/honor based society any longer? Only a society that’s based on commonly held beliefs and values can survive, and the controllers know this. Hence, multiculturalism, and the destruction of civilized society.
Yes, it’s only a HC tag. But it’s an indicator. One of many.
No brainer. F² is too lazy and disgusting to walk from car to store. I have NEVER seen a wheelchair van using the nice blue spots by the door. Total grifting scam.
Here in WA it’s truck fascination on the freeway. Truck right lane, car left lane. Looks fine, the car is rolling along at a pace to easily pass the truck. Nope, got to slow down something psychological about going fast, past that big truck. Car slows to barely faster than truck speed meanwhile the LH lane folks stack up behind the moron.
Maybe left-lane slowpoke clovers are physically hobbled by having too many spike proteins in their bloodstream. Thanks to the covid so-called “vaccines”, more people than ever are doing idiotic actions as excess spike proteins float around their arteries and veins, and congregate around vital organs including the brain.
Maybe, but left lane bandits predates the discovery of spike proteins during “covid” by about 50 years.
The video caused me to think of driving in Southeast Texas decades ago. The shoulders on some of the highways had shoulders as wide as a regular car lane and when I came across a slow moving pickup the driver would proactively move over onto the shoulder and keep going a steady speed. I was amazed at that. They happily waved, and I gladly waved back.
Some slower moving drivers would even drive the whole way on the shoulder as if it were the slow lane.
Wish we had wide shoulders like that up here in The Northland. If anyone were to try driving on the shoulder in the wet times or in Winter they would certainly wind up stuck in a ditch.
Just imagine if all the highways and roads had wide shoulders like in Southeast Texas. Surely that would cost 40 Billion Dollars to build. And, as everyone knows, 40 Billion Dollars isn’t available to do that.
…Oh, wait, how many news articles have this in the title? “USAID Costs $40 Billion A Year.”
Then, there’s this bit: “In fiscal year 2023 alone, GAO determined the federal government improperly dispensed $269 Billion.”…
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/02/no_author/from-oversight-to-overlooked-the-governments-failure-to-control-trillions-in-misspent-funds/
Indeed, out here in the hinterlands it is common if you’re turning left and have traffic behind you and no oncoming to pull into the oncoming lane to make life easier for the guy behind you.
And I expect Ukraine and Israel both have really really good roads with wide usable shoulders.
“ pull into the oncoming lane to make life easier for the guy behind you “
Yes, and also lessens the odds of getting rear ended. Especially important on a motorcycle – I loathe LH turns with no turn lane. I’ll use the oncoming lane but if traffic coming, straddle the centerline to avoid getting rear ended. I cringe seeing a motorcycle with a LH signal on, stopped in the traffic lane as a sitting duck.
Common courtesy is no longer common.
My personal pet peeve is the driver that gets in the left lane of the freeway, sets the cruise on whatever, usually a bit over 70 (the speed limit dontchaknow) and won’t move over so you end up passing on the right when you get a chance. Move over let others that want to driver faster pass you safely.
As it feeds off your angst. Best to back off and starve the foul demonic wretch.
I get that, they tap their brakes on you and if you manage to get around them somehow, they’ll flip you off and suddenly find the speed to chase you to the ends of the earth to vent their frustrations out on you when you just wish they’d fucking move over a second ago.
Slipknot was right, People=Shit