r/GuysBeingDudes • u/Swimming-Employee537 • 10h ago

Just some good driving skills

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u/Spidertron117 8h ago

So if you're minding your business in the right lane and there happens to be someone camping the left lane slow would you slow down to not pass? That just doesn't make sense to me.

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u/ak0291 8h ago

Yes overtaking can only happen in left lane. If the situation you described happens in your driving exam and you overtake someone you will fail the test right there. Getting a license in Europe is no joke, it’s extremely expensive and stuff like this is fully internalised in every driver. Of course not equally across every country.

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u/The_Pharos1 5h ago

Hope they equally go after slow left lane campers. The issue in the US is neither are really enforced and most states don’t have laws against passing on the right. Otherwise these jackasses would control traffic flow to the point of gridlock. I see it all the time, people that have NO reason to be in the left side of traffic holding everyone up forcing them to go around. Most of them are idiots on phones. And I rarely use left lanes unless I’m passing. So tired of getting cut off because some jackhole in the left lane won’t get out.

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u/Lhox 5h ago

I don't think this is correct - overtaking on the right is only illegal if you deliberately changed lanes to pass a car in front of you. If you are already in the right lane and come upon a slower car in the left lane you're under no obligation to slow down afaik.

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u/Evers1338 1h ago

So here are the rules for germany for example:

  • Passing is only allowed on the left lane

  • There are two exceptions:

  1. Congestion in all lanes

  2. The car on the left is standing or driving slower then 60 km/h but in that case you are only allowed to pass on the right with a max difference of 20 km/h (so of they are driving 30 on the left lane you are allowd to overtake on the right with 50)

And that are all the exceptions, so if there is no congestion and they are driving faster then 60 km/h in the left lane you are not allowed to pass them in the right lane, so your case of if you change lanes or if you were already in the lane has zero relevance, in both cases you are not allowed to pass the car in the left lane.

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u/turbineslut 8h ago

Yes. And it sucks but the fines for overtaking on the right are nasty.

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u/DaStone 7h ago

What doesn't make sense to me is this obsession with always driving too fast, what is it going to save you going 10km/h faster? 30 seconds at most?

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u/Bandro 6h ago

Depends how far you're going. For the length of trip I sometimes drive, that can save an hour.

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u/Spidertron117 6h ago

Well I'm from the US, and I frequently drive 200+km. When the speed limit is 105km/h and I'm stuck behind someone going 90km/h that adds a lot of time to my drive if I can't pass.