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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules
Message-ID: <3111@looking.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 89 03:19:43 GMT
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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I think we might do well with the British system.  Drive at passing speed
in the left lane (really the right lane over there) or get a ticket.
Pass on the right and you get a ticket.

It's really not that hard to avoid these problems.  Passing involves two
things:  A) Accelerating to a good speed so that the pass only takes a
very short time and B) Checking the traffic coming up on the left to ensure
you can complete your pass without blocking somebody.

The people who do the weave in a clump of cars are right out.  Nobody
likes them.   Tailgating is bad too, although sometimes it is very tempting
to tailgate somebody who is passing at 1 kph relative speed if they
refuse to speed up to finish their pass.

I drive fairly quickly so I don't get passed by a lot of cars on average,
but when somebody comes up behind me, I speed up and cut right.  Nobody
has to blink their lights at me.

I also think there should be a law for two lane roads (1 each way) that
any driver going slow enough to build a line of over 5 cars behind them
should be required to pull over.   There bunches of cars are dangerous,
but unless there is such a rule, they will always happen as long as drivers
go at different speeds.
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473