In all of Europe, if you pass another vehicle on the right on the freeway for ANY reason, it is automatic license suspension for one year. Almost as severe penalties for failure to move over to the right to allow faster traffic to pass on the left.
These two simple and ironclad rules make freeway driving so much easier there than in the United States! Someone comes up faster behind you, you just move over, period, and the guy goes safely by, even if he's driving over the speed limit. You don't really have to look to the right, because you KNOW there will be no one passing you on the right.
Here in the States, we've got the cowboys in their SUV's and Beemers squirreling around like the freeway is their personal slalom-race, and plenty of equally butt-headed PC's driving at or below the speed limit in the left lane. Some actually think they're "protecting the law" by slowing everyone else down!
Just two kinds of dangerous pigs -- which a simple law has been shown to fix.
2007-12-25
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