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To expect people to drive in the correct lane on the motorway?

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Sidge · 27/08/2007 21:42

Drove back from Yorkshire today - 250 miles, most of it on the M1.

Couldn't believe how many people seem incapable of driving in the correct lane - often there was a virtually empty inside lane, then the traffic was all stacked up in the outer two lanes.

What's that all about? Is it because there's a lorry about a mile and a half ahead that you might have to pass in a couple of minutes, so they just sit in the middle lane instead to save having to actually steer the car?

Or is there an invisible force field surrounding the inside lane that only certain cars can break through?

Grr, bloody idiot drivers.

And don't get me started on how many knobheads still use their mobiles whilst driving...

Tech · 30/08/2007 14:45

I believe it's been proven (can't remember where I read this now) that on heavily loaded roads the American system of pass any side is more efficient - i.e. it allows more cars to get through a given amount of road at a given speed. Maybe we should just adopt it?

To avoid the "three-lorries-abreast at 60" danger they just ban trucks from the left two lanes. Seems to work OK. You occasionally get a mass slowdown but it's usually followed by a speed up fairly promptly. Also cos everyone goes about the same speed it feels less fraught... I always think that anyway, though my experience is limited to roads around New York and Miami I must admit.

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