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On highways in Europe it is illegal to pass on the right, meaning that the fastest-going vehicles are supposed to be in the leftmost lane. On top of that you're
by chmod775 6y ago
On highways in Europe it is illegal to pass on the right, meaning that the fastest-going vehicles are supposed to be in the leftmost lane. On top of that you're supposed to switch back into the right-hand lanes if they're empty.
Taken together this means that you can generally go pretty fast in the leftmost lane.
- marmaduke 6y agoThat’s the theory perhaps. The practice OTOH would disappoint.
- chmod775 6y agoIn some countries I know it generally works, in others it maybe doesn't. I can't speak for italy.
- marmaduke 6y agoI would invite the downvoters to try driving in southern France at their next opportunity. People pass on the right, drive slowly in the middle lane and tailgate dangerously in the left lane. Then you also have the special letter of the law crazies who zig zag every minute across multiple lanes to pass people in the middle.
- detritus 6y agoYeah, having driven on Italian motorways - my experience is the exact-opposite of what the law supposedly encourages.
- kenneth 6y agoAfter moving to the USA from Europe I was quite shocked at the free-for-all on American freeways. The European model is followed very well in Switzerland, and it's extremely pleasant and practical to have the ability to cleanly overtake, overall reducing traffic and allowing different vehicles to go at their optimal speed without being stuck behind the lowest common denominators (trucks, busses, etc. clogging everything up)
- jpcooper 6y agoYou are wrong. In the U.K., which drives on the left and is in Europe, it is not expressly forbidden to undertake (pass on the left) anywhere, including motorways. This is independent from the legal requirement to remain in the left-most lane if possible. On designated one-way streets, and thus not on motorways, passing on either side is expressly allowed. Of course, reckless undertaking at high relative speed on the motorway may be interpreted as illegal under other more widely encompassing laws.
- aledalgrande 6y agoThat is only in the UK. In the rest of the continent it is illegal.
- denysvitali 6y agoIllegal ≠ does not happen, and actually from my experience of driving in Italy, passes on the right are almost as common as the one on the left
- jdsully 6y agoIt’s illegal in much of the US and Canada as well. It’s just rarely enforced.