Motorway lane discipline - would these help?

[markmifsud]

Well, to be fair, you never used a single full-stop in your sentence.

to be fair, he did use one at the end of the sentence

....... who do 60 mph in the middle lane,which can be a pain.

 

[E55BOF]

That's what we need to improve lane discipline! More full stops! If vehicles aren't moving, they can't be changing or blocking lanes...

 

[itaintemeyouno]

I think it's getting worse though. I quite often see people that sit in the outer lanes with no intention of ever moving back to the left. Maybe it is as someone said foreigners that don't understand how our roads are supposed to work. Peterborough is an immigration heavy part of the country.



Thats just semantics on the lane name. You know what I mean.

I'm aware of what the law says for speedo calibration. I don't need a calibration certificate to know that in my car at 70mph my GPS says 70 and in my wife's at 70mph it says 61mph on the same GPS device. I'm not presenting my findings to a judge, I'm discussing it on a forum. As long as your driving on level ground so no change in height which GPS systems don't generally take into account they are extremely accurate.

My point was that setting a speed limit on a road and then varying everyone's speedos creates a situation where people still all travel at varying speeds. So say I was following my wife, she hits 70mph on her speedo and thinks she's not holding traffic up. I come up behind her and she's only got 61mph according to my speedo that's annoying because she's not doing the speed limit and holding me up. She on the other hand might be completely unaware that she's not doing 70mph.

That's a theoretical, she knows her speedo is off. I'm just saying the tech has existed for a long time to have accurate speedos and if all our cars showed the same speed, life might be a bit more pleasant on the roads.

Don't rely on a GPS reading either as these are often time delayed and not 100% accurate.

 

[neilrr]

Good!

More of the same please.

Driver convicted and fined £940 for hogging the middle lane of motorway | Gloucestershire Echo

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[neilrr]

http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/2127273-post64.html

 

[frostbite]

If I come up behind a slower car that could reasonably move over, I'll flash once, then again a few seconds later, to let the driver know I'm there, and if he/she still does not move over, whether due to pig-headedness, ignorance or lack of observation, I'm done waiting. I know it is wrong, but if it's safe to do so, I'll nip past them on the inside. I wouldn't do it to a police car, though; whatever the rights or wrongs of the situation, it's not a good idea to tweak policemen's tails...

Undertaking may not be in accordance with the Highway Code but it isn't in itself against the law. You can't be prosecuted for an infringement of the Highway Code, only an infringement of the law. That said, lack of adherence to the Highway Code can contribute to your downfall in a case of, say, driving without due care etc.,
Weaving from lane to lane in an overtake-undertake manner can be construed to be driving without due care and attention or even dangerous driving and that's when the Highway Code can come into play in proving the offence.

 

[FastLaneJB]

Don't rely on a GPS reading either as these are often time delayed and not 100% accurate.

Time delayed, yes a small amount and not 100% accurate, also true. They are however more accurate than most cars speedos which are made to be inaccurate by design to safely stay inside the law.

 

[scumbag]

due to the amount of traffic now, you could review the law and delete the bit requiring drivers on dual carriage ways to use the left except when over taking.

After all, everyone on the carriage way is going in the same direction, and as stated, if you are in slower moving lanes on the right, people on the left do come past, to take an exit etc etc.

solves the problem in my book.

tailgating is far worse.