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American road laws are insane here. The law should be simple; you must be in the outside lane at all times unless you are overtaking, and once you're done overt
by adw 8mo ago
American road laws are insane here. The law should be simple; you must be in the outside lane at all times unless you are overtaking, and once you're done overtaking, you should merge back into the outside lane.
https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/overtaking.html https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/overtaking.html
- throwup238 8mo agoAs far as I know that’s the law in every state I’ve driven in, but enforcement is pretty much nonexistent. Some states like Texas or Louisiana might have signs reminding people to stay out of the inner lanes except for passing but I’ve never heard of anyone getting a ticket over it. What’s enforcement like in the UK? For example, the specific law in California: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH§ionNum=21654 https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
- adw 8mo agoVigorous.
- HPsquared 8mo agoConfusingly, the slow lane is called the "inside lane" in the UK, even though it's on the edge of the road and the fast lanes are in the middle.
- closewith 8mo agoThat used to be the case in Ireland too, but confusion due to cultural contamination means pretty much everyone moved to numbering lanes (from the "outside"/"slow"/leftmost lane).
- wiredfool 8mo agoI wish. Seems like this is the only place where the verge is in the inside.
- albumen 8mo agoI've been driving in Ireland for 30 years and I've never heard anyone number lanes. For me it's left/slow; middle; or right/fast lane.
- closewith 8mo agoWhen I did my B license test probably about 30 years ago, the Rules of the Road all referenced inside/outside lanes. When I did my CE license last year, it had been updated to only use lanes 1, 2, 3 etc. Obviously fast and slow are just colloquial terms.
- direwolf20 8mo agoThat seems rather inefficient on an 8– or 16–lane road.
- StillBored 8mo agoWhy? If everyone followed the rules the lanes would segment into slowest on the right, with gradually increasing speed to the left and people moving between the lanes as needed to overtake. It would be far far far better than the chaos of having to move across all the lanes of traffic all the time because there are random campers driving below the speed limit in every single lane.
- direwolf20 8mo agoFirst, everyone switches right as soon as there's a gap in a righter lane, so lots of unnecessary switching. Second, the right lane is always full making it hard to merge on or off the highway. Third, the leftmost lanes are underutilized when they could be filled with people who have a long way to go until their offramp.
- boisterousness 8mo agoThat's fine when traffic is light. At rush hour, all lanes are full and nobody is overtaking.