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Ugh my buddy used to do shit like this when we were younger, he'd get us on the highway and the immediately start doing 80 in the fast lane. No buddy we are not racing your base model honda civic against my base model chevy prism.
*Passing lane
There is no "fast lane"
This is country dependent.
on a two or four lane highway, sure. on anything six lanes or larger, there definitely is.
No, there is only one regular lane in each direction. And if you want to pass you take the second land. The third lane is to pass someone who is passing someone. The forth lane is to pass someone who is passing someone who is passing someone. And so further.
If there are six lanes, the sixt lane is to pass someone who is passing someone who is passing someone who is passing someone who is passing someone who is driving in the regular lane.
The speed does not matter.
Which functionally turns the innermost lane into the fast lane. Y'all are whinging about semantics.
Anything above 3 lanes is no longer a highway, it's a mental illness
The ludicrous lane.
They've gone to plaid.
We passed 'em! Stop this thing!
Y'all realize they count all the lanes, not just the ones going one direction right? A 3 lane highway is 1 lane each direction and a suicide lane.
I guess technically it can be a 2+1 highway if you so will, but true.
Still, anything above 4 lanes is dangerously close to mental illness territory
lord give me the confidence of a man from a town with a population of 500
I'm not sure what the implication here is to be honest - am I supposed to be the small town man in this scenario?
yes. calling more than two lanes each direction being "mental illness" screams "i have never been in a crowd"
If there is that much traffic there should be a train line instead.
While I agree in general, there's still the last bit from the station to home. I can only get a hundred pounds of kitty litter on my trike. If I need to haul more, I need an (hopefully electric) automobile. I just finished buying everything for a project I've been designing for a few years. If I had taken public transit, it would have taken 3 or 4 trips.
Right. So I live in an apartment in the capital of my country, where transit moves far more people than the highways ever does.
While we're being derogatory, your opinion is incredibly American
they is the uniform vehicular code. they do count like that where you are, you just don't pay attention
Wrong again. They are not where I am.
It is the Richtlinien für die Anlage von Autobahnen (RAA)
Which has to comply to a version of the uniform vehicular code if citizens of your country are going to be able to use their extant drivers licenses internationally.
True, good correction.
That's like 130 km/h. That's incredibly slow lol.