Originally Posted by
RPK79
A quick google search brings up Maryland's drivers manual as an example.
That is what you get with a quick google search, crap. Driver manuals are all to often wrong about the law, as is Maryland's in this case.
The actual Maryland Transportation Code is not much better but normal passing to the left does not allow what you claim:
§21–303.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, this section governs the overtaking and passing of vehicles going in the same direction.
(b) The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle that is going in the same direction shall pass to the left of the overtaken vehicle at a safe distance.
(c) The driver of a vehicle overtaking another vehicle that is going in the same direction, until safely clear of the overtaken vehicle, may not drive any part of his vehicle directly in front of the overtaken vehicle.
(d) Except when overtaking and passing on the right is permitted, the driver of an overtaken vehicle, on audible signal, shall give way to the right in favor of the overtaking vehicle.
(e) Except when overtaking and passing on the right is permitted, the driver of an overtaken vehicle, until completely passed by the overtaking vehicle, may not increase the speed of his vehicle.
This part makes little sense and sounds like an collision about to happen.
Again, give way is not defined as yield in traffic law. And in this law giving way is just asking for a collision.