Yes I'm a criminal, but they made me do it

Nowadays i try to stick to left lane as much as possible....
Sadly doing flat 70 im ending up undertaking loads of lane huggers...
Just last weekend i must have done about 20 cars on M1 on inside lane....
**** EM :D
 
I swear there's a directly proportional relationship between the number of miles you're away from London and the number of people keeping to the left lane
 
Acme said:
That doesn't answer my question. I could have overtaken a car, and then be stuck behind a slow moving car in the outside lane which is not moving over to let me pass.

It is acceptable to then move back to the inside lane, and pass them on the inside, if it is not my intention to move back to the outside lane, but merely to make progress..?
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I expect that to be borderline with the police. If you do it straight away, I would expect that is breaking the rules, if you do it after a while, and it is safe to stay in the nearside lane for a period of time after the undertake, maybe not.
 
SlyReaper said:
Adaptive cruise, plus lane assist, equals self-driving car. :p
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As long as it's not a Pug 308 with ACC...

I soon found out why. You see, most adaptive cruise control systems are tied into the brakes, so that they can slow the car down in accordance with the traffic conditions ahead. Peugeot’s, however, isn’t.

So where most cars will sense that the car in front is slowing and apply the brakes, the 308 will instead back off the throttle until it can no longer, then bleep loudly, throw up a big red warning message telling you to brake, and disconnect the cruise control altogether.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/long-term-tests/peugeot-308-sw/
 
iaind said:
I swear there's a directly proportional relationship between the number of miles you're away from London and the number of people keeping to the left lane
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People up north are too poor to pay the fine?
 
Mr Badger said:
Get your cool starry bra on:

Driving along a stretch of 2 lane motorway today in the inside lane, traffic fairly light and moving freely along at the speed limit. Car in front of me pulls out into the empty outside lane. Next thing I'm going past him on the inside. Check my speedo - I'm still doing the same. Look in the mirror to see him disappearing backwards with more vehicles undertaking him as has evidently decided to slow down in the overtaking lane.

I seem to recall that unless you are in lanes of traffic that are crawling along or maybe one lane is heading for an off ramp, that there is no excuse for undertaking on the motorway. So what are you supposed to do when someone pulls a stunt like that?
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I don't see the problem with that. I am sure the Police would let you know sharpish if that's wrong.
 
I happily stick cruise control on at around 70mph and normally pootle along lane 1, often I will pass cars on the left that are either in the outside lane or the middle lane. Generally I will try and overtake by going to the outside lane, but not always.
 
iaind said:
I swear there's a directly proportional relationship between the number of miles you're away from a major city and the number of people keeping to the left lane
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Fixed!

It's no better up here around Birmingham :(

markweatherill said:
It seems to me that on some of our motorways, you make best progress in lane 1. The other lanes are jammed up with people in a hurry going nowhere fast.
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Yup, I always have a good laugh at the people joining the M6, desperate to get into the "fast lane" as soon as possible; even when it means stopping in the left and middle lanes to push into gaps which are far too small, only for the rest of the traffic in the left and middle lanes to cruise past them when they get out of the way :p
 
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This winds me up no end. Slow, generally women / old people, in the outside lane on the dual carriageway I take on my way home from work. Pootle along at 40 in a 50. You can see them look confused as they check their rear view mirror everything other second wondering why I'm so far up their ass.

I needed a poop really badly yesterday so undertook some guy who was getting on a bit, 70+, as he was going 35 in the outside lane. There's also a mediocre hill that seems to catch every nonce out and they slow right down. People give me "WTF you doing looks" as I pass them going 50 when the hill has slowed them down to 40..

Some people just shouldn't have a license..
 
That isn't really "undertaking", it's traffic in one lane moving faster than the other. Undertaking is purposely moving ROUND them on their inside.
 
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What's more annoying is when people don't stick to a constant speed and I overtake at 70 and then find that they speed up to 75 when they realise they're being overtaken.

Also I chuckle at people who join the motorway and go straight into the middle lane and then religiously stick the middle lane, even when a lorry pulls out a bit ahead to overtake another lorry, they drop their speed to 50 instead of overtaking in the outside lane. Some people must have a crippling fear or lanes 1 and 3. So many people do this that on my usual morning queue at 0 to 30mph on the m27 I get to work so much quicker in the inside lane as it is generally empy except for lorries so I move much faster.
 
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