I drove in the US recently and noticed how easy and stress-free it was to drive on motorways. Everyone just drives forwards and it doesnt matter in the slightest what lane you are in. If you want to overtake someone you can of course do it, but there is no obligation to get back into the nearside lane you can just carry on in a straight line until you come across the next person in your lane (which in Nebraska, could be in hundreds of miles time). This is because undertaking is legal in the US. I have also read that it is legal in Australia, New Zealand and some provinces of Canada.
Middle-lane morons are a huge problem in the UK, because we have to go all the way across two lanes and then back again, just to get past them. The sole reason for this is because undertaking is illegal. I also hate middle-lane morons, but if we were freed of this obligation to keep to the nearside lane on a multi-lane one-way carriageway, there would be no issue would there?
Overtaking is the most dangerous thing about motorway driving, due to the blind spot and having to switch lanes at high speed. So why not make it safer by vastly reducing the amount of lane-changing we need to do?
It seems perfectly safe in the aforementioned countries, so why is it so strongly disapproved of in Europe? Is it different because the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all sparsely populated with lots of empty highways? Would it work here? Anyone who has driven in North America would surely agree that it is so much easier and safer not having to constantly change lanes.
Middle-lane morons are a huge problem in the UK, because we have to go all the way across two lanes and then back again, just to get past them. The sole reason for this is because undertaking is illegal. I also hate middle-lane morons, but if we were freed of this obligation to keep to the nearside lane on a multi-lane one-way carriageway, there would be no issue would there?
Overtaking is the most dangerous thing about motorway driving, due to the blind spot and having to switch lanes at high speed. So why not make it safer by vastly reducing the amount of lane-changing we need to do?
It seems perfectly safe in the aforementioned countries, so why is it so strongly disapproved of in Europe? Is it different because the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all sparsely populated with lots of empty highways? Would it work here? Anyone who has driven in North America would surely agree that it is so much easier and safer not having to constantly change lanes.