why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

Nothing like a prisoner going into his parole board hearing and seeing all the members wearing semicolons on their wrists. Fuuuccck

What is "hogging the middle lane"? I thought that was the whole point of the middle lane -- for when you wanna just drive the speed limit or w/e. There are other lanes for passing and/or entering/exiting.

yeah hogging the passing lane is the real crime

i do support immediate execution for chilling in the passing lane and tailgating tho

Who wouldn't be proud to be British after creating that macro?

can't see the macro at work but the middle lane on UK motorways is a passing lane and only the worst subhuman beasts drive along it all day like it wasn't

whats the left lane for then

You mean the right lane.

o shit

the left lane is the lane to drive in if it's clear in front of you. the other two lanes are both for over-taking depending on speed and volume of traffic. there's a habit amongst terrible drivers of joining the motorway, heading straight for the middle lane and then sitting there til they leave the motorway, even when the left hand lane is clear as far as the eye can see. it forces people into the fast lane because you can only overtake to the right.

does the middle lane refer to the middle of the 3 in each direction, or the two middle in the center of the six total?

doesnt seem like the best use of space to have two passing lanes and then one where everyone is supposed to cruise and enter/exit thats prob why yr empire crumbled

Maybe UK driving is just different (I mean aside from the obvious right vs. left) -- in the US the right lane is the one all the entry and exit ramps feed into, so it really makes no sense to stay in that lane because you constantly have to slow down for people entering and exiting. Hence the middle lane is for driving and the left lane is for passing.

driving is shit. there should be no lanes.

middle lane = middle of 3 in each direction

i assume in general the distance between our motorway off-ramps is greater than the distance between yr highway off-ramps

anyway i know where this is heading, i'll look up comparative accident stats and you can get ready with the Battle of Lexington jpegs

OUTER LANE (closest to shoulder) - For merging onto the freeway; slow drivers wearing formal headwear; big slow trucks.

CENTER (CENTRE) LANE - For most motorists, so they don't have to keep bouncing between outer and center lane whenever an old man in a hat begins merging from an on-ramp.

INNER LANE (closest to the median) - People in a hurry; Knight Rider; Cops

also Neanderthal sort of otm except driving is great, just morally reprehensible

what was the battle of lexington, something involving adolph rupp?

srsly tho youre trying to put most of the traffic in one lane when you have three why, you dont need two lanes for passing

at most points on the motorway the system works out as 3 lanes of traffic moving at increasing speed as you go to the right - except most of the time at least one of the lanes will be blocked off and there'll be traffic signals and speed limits in force - but there are big swathes of motorway where there's nobody in front of you for a couple of miles even in the left hand lane

America builds highway exits every 100 feet because we need to be able to get absolutely anywhere by only driving on a highway.

i'm not defending this as a paragon of systems thinking btw

distance between off-ramps on motorways as an average must be 8 or 9 miles

TRAFFIC SIGNALS?

more like a slowtorway, wot wot

£100 ON THE SPOT FINE

yeah pp, the joke is half the motorway is being dug up and worked on at any one time. especially during holidays.

this is what happens when you build a low-quality road network not intended to be used as an emergency landing strip for long distance bombers

I know. We can't all be North Korea, now can we.

Not even going to get into how U.S interstates also suffer continuous construction but without traffic signals.

roads basically have to be repaired a lot is one of the things abt roads, especially in places with winter

and semi trucks

what I'm basically saying is that if people stopped driving on them they'd be doing better

If more people drove in the middle lane, it would spread wear more evenly on the road surface and reduce the need for repairs. Especially trucks, they're always wearing out the slow lane. Just move over and let that tarmac recover a little.

cars should be made out of styrofoam

^^^ i've thought this in the past, then you cd decriminalize DUI and speeding

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vikwfvPBI_g&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvikwfvPBI_g

How do they define hogging the middle lane, is what I'd like to know.
I've been forced to be in it for a while (not all the livelong day) because of the speed of vehicles in the other lanes.
When I'm joining the motorway I appreciate it when other ppl move over into the middle lane.

cars should be made out of styrofoam

Ever seen the inside of a Geo Metro?

I was in a three-car accident once with one of those. My first thought was Wow, that woman was carrying around a lot of fishing bait.

yup, inside of most bumpers now is just impact foam, instead of a hard bumper attached to the frame

Everyone missing the salient point, which is IAMPROUDTOBEBRITISH

Ever seen the inside of a Geo Metro?

I drove one for about two years , and it was quite possibly one of the cheapest, most unsafe pieces of crap ever. :(. Glad I never got in a wreck in it.

3 cylinder vehicle, went from 0-60 if the stars were aligned right and you had the luck to be going down a hill.

when gas spiked up to $4 here the prices on those things (routinely sold for $1000-$2000) literally doubled because they got such insane mileage. so bizarre to see Metros suddenly be the car to own (for about 3 months)

I was riding in a girl's Ford Aspire (same concept - 3 cylinder death trap). She hit a piece of concrete on the highway and a few miles later her right front tire blew out.
I've been rear-ended and hit from the side twice at speed, plus accidents as a child - that blowout in the Aspire was the most terrifying thing I've experienced.

i used to drive my brothers girlfriend manual 3 cylinder car. that was one of the most fun cars to drive.

America builds highway exits every 100 feet because we need to be able to get absolutely anywhere by only driving on a highway.

― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:16 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Apparently it is also the law that if you are about to miss your exit you must fly across three lanes of traffic to make it instead of going on to the next exit

oh traffic woah(!)s

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Posted: September 10, 2013, 3:53:02 PM
Everyone missing the salient point, which is IAMPROUDTOBEBRITISH

clearly not made by a brittishes

yeah otherwise would've spelt it 'pouint.'

would of* you mean

ouf

Sacramento highway roadwork = scrape off surface, widen lanes, mark lanes with those bullshit stuck-on plastic things and never repaint or resurface

exciting fun when you switch from surface painted to scraped barren wasteland OH HEY WHERE DID MY LANE GO

or just do loads of midnight construction to repave the emergency lane and leave the rest of the highway falling apart yr tax dollars at work etc