I approve of fines for tailgating it sends me mad. People are now driving soooo much closer.
But hogging the centre lane, that is more difficult. If you keep returning to the inside lane then you simply cannot get back out again, and and soon as there is a lorry or a slow car you get stuck going slower and slower. If you are going 70 miles an hours how can you possibly block the lane, no one else should be going faster.
But hogging the centre lane, that is more difficult. If you keep returning to the inside lane then you simply cannot get back out again, and and soon as there is a lorry or a slow car you get stuck going slower and slower. If you are going 70 miles an hours how can you possibly block the lane, no one else should be going faster.
Thats like asking how does the M25 come to a standstill when its a circle.
I think hogging the centre land refers to when a driver is not making progress and not overtaking the vehicles in the nearside lane but running alongside of them.
Also when the nearside lane is clear where you can make safe progress allowing the trafic behind in the centre lane to pass without entering the offside lane
But why is hogging the centre lane worse going to be worse than exceeding the speed limit?
In California when we drove there it was illegal to be undertaken. But also illegal to speed and they proactively controlled the limits.
There used to be notices on the M25 telling you not to change lanes.
Quote from: Digeroo on August 14, 2013, 21:38:22
But why is hogging the centre lane worse going to be worse than exceeding the speed limit?
In California when we drove there it was illegal to be undertaken. But also illegal to speed and they proactively controlled the limits.
There used to be notices on the M25 telling you not to change lanes.
I agree, at a certain level of traffic it is NOT very safe to keep changing lanes - but at that level of traffic there will almost always be someone slow-ish in the right hand lane or cars coming in from a junction and therefore being in the middle lane is warranted. I often drive in the middle lane but with adapted variable speed and alternating with the fast lane. I only go into the right hand lane when it is actually empty and I can't see the next lorry ahead. As I drive with variable speed when I am in the middle lane, I am not holding anybody up. Hoggers are holding up people, because they are NOT using the middle lane to overtake or prepare to overtake a slower car.
I agree with people driving too close, that's just bullying! Trying to make other people get out of the way - not on! The road is for everybody.