What exactly is "left lane blocking"?

"Jim Yanik" .> wrote in message
.. .
> Arif Khokar > wrote in
> :
>
>> Skip Elliott Bowman wrote:
>>
>>> * If I'm alongside a car I'm passing and see your car approaching at
>>> 80 from 1/4 mile behind, should I immediately abort my pass, even if
>>> it means colliding with the car I'm passing? Or should I immediately
>>> slow down to pull into the right lane to allow you to pass first?
>>
>> At 5 mph, it takes about 3 minutes to cover a quarter mile. Unless
>> you plan on taking more than 3 minutes to pass, I wouldn't worry about
>> it.
>
> That would be "completing the pass" before the faster car would be
> hindered,thus no problem.

That's exactly what I meant.

> But they expect to be able to pass regardless of faster traffic,MFFY
> behavior and LLBing.(duration of blocking is not relevant,it's still
> *blocking*)

I suppose that's one way of looking at it. If a car is in a lane, then by
definition that lane is blocked from faster cars using it. But following
that logic, no one could ever pass for fear of maybe blocking a lead-foot.