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Re:I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017) by Izkata on Monday July 19, 2021 @01:24PM (#27885104)
There's that, but there's also the possibility that it's conflating two things: If you're speeding, you'll also have to go around cars that aren't, which reminds me of this one about weaving between lanes vs sticking to one lane that the Mythbusters tested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZefgUVg3qx0 (4 minute long cut of segments from the episode).

They found that weaving between lanes is faster, but not by very much depending on which lane you're comparing it to. The final result (shown at 3:54 in the link) was:

* Weaving between lanes: 1h 16m

* Lane 1: 1h 19m

* Lane 2: 1h 20m

* Lane 3: 1h 29m

* Lane 4: 1h 33m

Lanes 1 and 2 are close enough I can imagine it being chance and more tests resulting no noticeable difference. And for an over-an-hour drive, it's already no reasonable difference anyway.

Re:I had to give a wrong answer to get the job (2017) by tharkun__ on Monday July 19, 2021 @07:46PM (#27888572)
This basically just says you have to know which lane will usually be faster and why.

If you know the area and traffic patterns you can do that and basically stick to your lane for long periods and just switch a few times. I have something like that on my pre-covid commute for example, where you have to be in the right most lane until between a certain off ramp and the corresponding on ramp. There's always lots of traffic and you go between 10 and maaaybe 40 km/h. There you switch to the leftmost land so that you don't get bogged down by the regular mergers from the on ramp in the right lane and the 'middle lane drivers' who merge into the middle lane right about there too. Then until the next on ramp you stay on the left lane but have to switch over to the right lane again because no trucks allowed on it and most people try to pass on the left lane while everyone else is stuck with middle lane drivers and trucks.

If you know the area in the above example, just choose lane 1 for sanity. If you don't know the area and happen to stick to lane 4,id rather try weaving to be honest.