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“Failure to yield” is a law in some places. You don’t get to lane camp.
Also, most states have “Keep right except to pass” laws. So if you’re not actively passing, you need to move over.
So yeah, they are breaking laws.
This works the other way too, though. If they are passing slower traffic, it doesn't matter if you want to pass even faster, you gotta be patient and wait until they are no longer passing and pull back into the outside lane before you pass.
Not sure if you mistyped, but if you're in the left most lane and the person in front is passing someone, then you stay in the lane until they move over.
I live in Australia. The right lane is the overtaking lane and the left lane is for normal travel.
But to adapt it to use language which is region-neutral, I used "outside lane" to refer to what would be my left lane. Because it sits on the outside of the road corridor. No mistyping.
Honestly, the term "inside" and "outside" don't really help. On a two-way road, the "inside" would probably be the one closest to the divider, whereas on a separated highway, I'd probably consider it the closest to the exits (the opposite). That's inconsistent at best.
It's honestly just easier to say, "I drive on the left/right" and then use left/right like you normally would.
Regardless, my point is that if you're behind someone who is in the rightmost lane, you have to just wait until they've finished passing before you can pass them. If there's a lane to their right, you don't need to wait, just overtake in the available lane, even if they're passing someone else. I've actually done that on highways with two lanes going each way, where the pass in the "normal" passing lane, and I pass in the oncoming traffic lane when clear.
Maybe we're saying the same thing, but it sounded like you'd wait behind them even if there's another passing lane available, which seems silly.
Yes, that's exactly what I said (assuming we're talking about in an Aus/UK scenario). To repeat myself, but with the left/right/inside/outside thing fixed
What you're saying is logical but is the opposite way to how it actually works, at least in the UK but I believe elsewhere as well
In Australia and the UK you drive on the left normally (the outside lane), and overtake on the right (the inside lane). In America that would be drive on the right (outside lane) and overtake on the left (inside lane).
I live in the UK and can tell you conclusively that is not correct.
I agree that's how it should work, but that isn't how it works, at least in this country.
I'm talking specifically about your use of inside vs outside lane
Oh I see. So you would say the inside lane is the one furthest from the centre of the road?
Yes, and it's stupid.
I have met some people online that are very allergic to the idea of breaking the law. Which is kinda exotic for me because where I live (middle-Eastern Europe) the uncommon is for someone to actually stick to the law lol. It’s very interesting that we are so different in this.
For us when there was communism here, everyone had to break the laws to get by and so we are probably used to it even when most of the laws actually make sense nowadays.
Oh you mean like Slovakia, not like Lebanese-Spain