Excellent. Now if they just replaced a few speed cameras with actual traffic police then there might be more chance of catching more idiots like this.

Its fine if your actually overtaking, but its always 1 idiot who sits in the middle lane causing / forcing people to undertake as the outside lane become slower then the inside lane....

Ziggy

Also another reason to have a dashcam?
Maybe keep a backup of that motorway journey - just in case someone decides you were 'overtaking' for a bit too long ?

I think the problem here is that far too many people refer to motorway lanes as "fast lane", "slow lane". I've even heard & seen (on YT comments) daft remarks like slow & fast lanes, even giving them speed limits of 50, 60 and 70 respectively.
As this has never ever been taught, I can only assume that people have imagined these new rules into existence because of lane 1 being used by lorries @ 56 (slow)?

next to tail gateing this is one thing that winds me up

sludgeguts said:

I think the problem here is that far too many people refer to motorway lanes as "fast lane", "slow lane". I've even heard & seen (on YT comments) daft remarks like slow & fast lanes, even giving them speed limits of 50, 60 and 70 respectively.
As this has never ever been taught, I can only assume that people have imagined these new rules into existence because of lane 1 being used by lorries @ 56 (slow)?

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For some reason I feel as though these are the same people who take offense at someone travelling in lane 1 undertaking at 70...entirely unaware they're causing it. Yes we all know it's illegal, but if you're sitting on the cruise in empty lane 1, you've been up for 14 hours and you still have 2 hours left on your trip going all the way out to lane 3 and back again because of one idiot suddenly seems like far too much effort..

StevenRB45 said:

For some reason I feel as though these are the same people who take offense at someone travelling in lane 1 undertaking at 70...entirely unaware they're causing it. Yes we all know it's illegal, but if you're sitting on the cruise in empty lane 1, you've been up for 14 hours and you still have 2 hours left on your trip going all the way out to lane 3 and back again because of one idiot suddenly seems like far too much effort..

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Undertaking is illegal, however, if you've just driven miles (for example) in an almost empty lane then come across some muppet pootling along at 60 in lane 2 & decide to drive on by in lane 1, this is not undertaking.
To undertake, you would have to come up behind them in lane 2, move to lane 1, drive past then move back into lane 2.
I've already been down this route with Thames Valley police when some cockwomble took objection to my 'undertaking' him in one of our minibuses. Fitted with a limiter, I couldn't push it beyond 62mph, the lane was clear for miles ahead & some muppet was sat at 50 in lane 2. As I sailed on by in lane 1, the guy started flashing his lights & sounding his horn.

Good! I can't deal with this "slow and fast lane" junk. God knows where people are learning it. I normally end up moving over because someone in an Audi doing 85 pushes me back as soon as I'm out!

when i was learning in 2008
Not only are you told nothing about motorways

But nothing like speeds for lanes etc is mentioned, and thats half the problem i think, there having to go onto a motorway and find out for themselves whats what

Ziggy

I think there are several explanations for lane hogging:
1. The timid/incompetent. Goes along the lines that if I stay in the middle lane and just speed up and slow down with the traffic I will only have to change lanes twice - once to get in the middle lane on one to leave the motorway. Epitomised by frightened old ladies and old men driving in a hat or smoking a pipe.
2. The class-conscious. Rationale"Where I passed my test the inside lane was for tractors and trucks and the outside lane was for party officials and the super rich, and as I am neither i will stay in the middle. I know my place"
3. The communicator. "Why are you waving your hand at me in that crude fashion? I am on the phone so I can't be bothering with all that lane changing stuff until I am finished, then I'll get back up to your back bumper in the outside lane now go away you little oik"

Plus many many more I could think of.

maybe they owt todo a tv advertisement to ""Teach"" the motorway etticate

Maybe get the Morning new programs a video to show

Get the rules sledgehammered into our skulls?

Ziggy

Well I am pretty sure you are far too young to have ever seen any of these but back in the old days of black and white telly (and some colour ones too to be fair) there used to be "Government Information Films" which covered all sorts of stuff from closing farm gates after you, wearing a seat belt ("clunk click every trip"!) how to park a car etc.
Motorway discipline was another. So was what to do in the event of a nuclear attack but it wasn't much good (close the windows and curtains and hide under the table was about the gist of it).
So yes Ziggy, I would take 0.05% of our foreign aid budget and spend it on a fresh crop of Government information films, and get them directed and filmed by young talent.
After all a £6m budget should be plenty.

"Now let me show everybody how to drive on a motorway..."



We refer to lanes as "fast & slow", we drive at speed whilst holding our mobile phone to video said driving...
Also, looking at the still (^^^) of the opening second, he looks like he's doing 80mph, there's double digits next to this but the next around is definitely three digits

I just love the commentary on that.
Looks like the papers have used it too lol