I got my first traffic ticket yesterday.....WTF!!!

I guess I'm ignorant because I thought this was sort of a universal, but not often enforced law. I can't imagine it being enforced in my tri-state area because of traffic congestion. I don't often see self-enforced speed monitoring in left-lane drivers; it's more like people plotz themselves in the left lane and kind of zone out, until they realize they've got a massive line of annoyed drivers behind them, and then get over into the middle lane. 

Umm...you did break the law. How did you not deserve a ticket?

You are a piece of work! "I didn't deserve it." Holy privileged above the law idiotic attitude! I have no respect for that. Ignorance of a law is no excuse. Go ahead and bitch at me too. You have no leg to stand on. 

There doesn't need to be a sign or a commercial to hold people accountable for the law. If you are driving, you need to know the laws.

You're lucky you didn't get a speeding ticket, too, since you were also speeding....

Wow.

You are one entitled bitch.

If you came across to the officer like you are coming across here, no wonder you got a ticket.

My step mother had a perfect driving record for many, many years, until she got a ticket for having fuzzy dice hanging from her rear view mirror. No speeding or other laws broken, just that. Everyone could have a perfect driving record but eventually you get caught because no one is perfect. We've all broken driving laws, however minor. Not stopping before the limit line at the intersection, not fully stopping at a stop sign, going through a yellow light, going 72 when the speed limit is 70.

It sucks to get a ticket and it's easy to tell yourself that "I didn't deserve it", but if you're breaking the law, you do. And I'm not saying that in a self-righteous way, as I sometimes choose to speed, etc. But if I decide to do that, I would need to accept the consequences. Using the left lane just to pass has always been around.

Ignorantia juris non excusat.

And you did deserve it, you broke the law. It sucks but, there it is.

How did you not notice the cop behind you? Seriously.

Wow. I was sympathetic until you got all entitled and started calling other peas nasty names. 

There's a lot of driving laws that aren't posted and advertised in the news/radio, etc. but you're still supposed to know them. 

It's so annoying to be trying to pass people and come up on someone in the left lane with cruise control who's oblivious to everything going on. 

My mom is one of the traffic vigilantes. I hate riding with her. She shakes her finger at people (that can get you shot here) and insists on putting the cruise control on the speed limit. 

I wouldn't let her drive in Chicago where only going the speed limit can get you run over. 

I got a ticket on the freeway in Detroit one day. I had a perfect record before then--my first car was a Mustang convertible, so I was a cop magnet. Years later I was on the freeway with cruise control set, but I didn't realize that the speed limit was lower on that stretch--the increased limit sign was right in front of me when I got pulled over.

I absolutely was in the wrong, and admitted it to the police officer. What was annoying was that he actually told me that because my address wasn't in the village where he was an officer (Allen Park) that he was going to give me a ticket. I still deserved it. He thanked me for my nice attitude. 

I have a lot of family members who are law enforcement. The way they're treated really sucks. My step mom's sister is highway patrol. The stories she tells are horrifying. 

I've always thought the same thing. Not that they were trying to be the speed police.

As someone pointed out above, all 50 states have some variation on this law, and Michigan has had it on the books for quite some time. I'm frankly surprised that someone with a "perfect driving record" wasn't aware of it. Aside from being the law, it's just common driving courtesy. From your posts, it sounds as if you had people (including a cop on a motorcycle) behind you and were impeding the faster traffic in that lane with your cruise control set at 76. You annoyed the cop with this behavior, and I can guarantee you annoyed anyone else that was behind you by not following the law and simple courtesy. Thus, you got a ticket.

Now I know what happens to the entitled kids at school who think they should never have a consequence for breaking rules when they grow up.

I've gone 55 years without robbing a bank, so I expect just a friendly warning that it is indeed against the law when I do.