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Originally Posted by Bram
I dont see this as a problem. When roads like roe, tonkin, (and even the freeways in places) are only 2 lanes, but have to carry the ENORMOUS volume of traffic on our roads today, then it is impractical / impossible to only use one lane. Even alot of the smaller 2 lane roads carry massive traffic every day. Simply saying that "sticking to the left is correct" is pretty much a retarded statement. The only time its practical is when the left lane isnt already carrying peak capacity road volume. So at low volume hours or on low volume roads. (Country roads etc) unfortuantly most of our busy roads are already carrying peak volume, or higher. So left lane isnt an option.
But what does shit me, is using the right lanes but sitting well under the limit. If your in the right lane, you should go as fast as possible. (And by that i means as fast as the traffic infront of you will let you.)
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I concour.
I've said it before, I believe there are three general types of drivers in relation to speed.
1. Those that do the correct speed limit dictated BY an accurate GPSS reading.
2. Those that incorrectly believe they are doing the speed limit due to 'slower than actual speed' speedometer calibration. Eg, speedometer is showing 100kmph but actual speed is 94kmph.
3. And those that feel more comfortable doing slightly less than the speed limit but again are doing significant less due to inaccurate speedometer calibration. Eg, think they are doing 95kmph but actually doing 90kmph or less.
So obviously on a two lane road this is a fundamental problem.
The only way around this imo is for everyone to use GPS speedo, giving all drivers an accurate understanding of their Actual speed.
Personally I find the actual speed limit to be, generally, fast enough on any given road.
Furthermore, when doing the actual speed limit, only very rarely does someone push up trying to go faster.
Also moving into the left lane as a matter of principle is not feasible due to the drivers listed in points 2 and 3 above.
Trying to stick left, whilst doing the actual speed limit is a dangerous activity due to excessive lane changing, braking and acceleration caused by majority of driver not knowing their Actual speed.