Ha ha ! I’m the one who keeps out of everyone’s way. Rothbury to Didcot (305 miles) in a little over 6 hours last Monday. Including a diversion into Morpeth to fill up with petrol, two more service station stops and all the 50mph sections on the A1 in N Yorks.
VB
Maybe it’s time to do away with the fast lane, allow undertaking and make it the same as the US?
Having just driven across Teaxs, New Mexico and Aeizona I think the standard of driving over there is a lot better. Albeit, it’s nowhere near as congested. Plus they do actually have cops over there.
Certainly better than the standard of spelling over here 
Kinell he’s going native 
There is no such thing as ‘the fast lane’, the man on the Speed Awareness course told me so! 
And he’s right of course. Everything but lane 1 is an overtaking lane. Pretty much by definition if you’re overtaking someone you’ll be going faster than them. The problem is people who move into the overtaking lanes and then don’t overtake.
The phrase ‘fast lane’ seems to be an American one. This is slightly odd because when we took our US driving tests it was explained to us that if we were planning a very long freeway journey we should move as quickly as possible to the lane nearest the centre of the road where we could trundle along for twelve hours without getting in the way of anyone else. The lane closest to the edge of the road tended to be where the more dynamic stuff happened, with traffic entering and leaving the freeway pretty briskly. As long as you had your wits about you (and if you didn’t then why were you in charge of an automobile ?) this worked well.
VB
Brits like to queue and therefore expect people going slower to get out of the way.
In the US they just go around the slower cars whether that’s using an inside or outside lane doesn’t matter, it gets interesting when the car you are going around decides to change lane without looking (as is normally the case in yankland)
If slow people get out of the way you are no longer queing?
Hence why I used the term ‘expect’ it doesn’t happen and we just queue.
Road deaths in Texas are 4x those over here btw.
I always maintained bonnet mounted machine guns were a bad idea.
Needs to be grenade launchers really
Depends whether you want the largely intact vehicle to career off the road with the driver dead at the wheel, or the whole thing to go up in a fireball directly in front of you as the RPG explodes in the fuel tank. The former gives you a better chance of survival as you reach the accident point, a few seconds later.
Depends how you measure them. Per inhabitant, yes List of countries by traffic-related death rate - Wikipedia, per vehicle it’s roughly 3x, per km driven it’s nearer 2x (they drive further than we do).
Very long journeys, which are more common there, tend to be very tedious and unexciting and, counterintuitively perhaps, this causes people’s attention to wander and can even lead to them falling asleep. Both these things are common precursors to lots of people going dead. There is something to be said for driving in a fashion which forces you to pay attention. A bonus is that you reach your destination more quickly.
VB
Being drunk helps with the tedium.
Pfft, probably a drop in the ocean compared to the gun murder rate in Texas.
Yup. It seems like a remarkably safe place when you are there. It’s hard to believe some of the stuff that goes on there.
Today’s muppet-of-the-week contestant:
Note the obligatory Audi. Surprisingly poor effort as if he had left it roll forward another 30cm he could have blocked four spaces .
Don’t think that will get through an MOT
Think it might on Fetlar.
VB
