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Careful with terminology too, because "inside" and "outside" don't mean the same thing to different drivers, particularly in the UK compared to elsewhere. Many
by xnorswap 3y ago
Careful with terminology too, because "inside" and "outside" don't mean the same thing to different drivers, particularly in the UK compared to elsewhere.
Many people hear "inside lane" on a motorway and think it's the "fast lane" near the central divider but that's actually the "outside lane". ( source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/outside-lane https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/outside-... ).
But that terminology has been confused over time and so many people get it the wrong way around that the DVLA has stopped using it in the highway code.
- meheleventyone 3y agoDo you know the origin of the UK use because that always confused me as it’s obviously wrong from the drivers perspective of the road! My wild guess would be that from the drivers seat you look outside to the fast lane and look across the inside of the car to look to the slow lanes.
- xen0 3y agoThe normal terminology for the sides of a car are 'nearside' and 'offside', with the nearside being where the kerb is, offside being where other cars would be. So I would suppose 'inside' and 'outside' were also considered relative to the kerb.
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- ace32229 3y agoThe fast lane is the furthest lane away from where you'd enter the motorway, therefore it's the outside lane (or so the logic goes!)
- HPsquared 3y agoBut... aren't entrances/exits usually on the "outside" of something?
- taneq 3y agoWow, I'd never thought of it like that. I'd always assumed "outside lane" was the lane closest to the "outside" of the road (ie. the edge) and "inside lane" was the opposite, and was very confused when I found out some people used it the other way around.