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Traveling south on M1 between J30-29, 80 85mph, Octavia goes past around 5mph faster, spot lights behind grill etc, hes happy too leave everyone alone
at this speed.........
Pull out too overtake a slower car, pass it see a fiesta coming up fast behind, pull over too let him past, sure enough he passe's me then gives
the Octavia the headlights then tries too underpass it.............
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Serves him right the twat. IMHO undertaking is prolly the most dangerous thing to do on a UK motorway. Quite simply most people do not expect it and
may pull in on the undertaker (appropriate word EH).
Now in the USA it's a different ball game entirely
If people had better lane discipline, it wouldn't be possible to overtake on the left hand side. Probably not a good line of defence with the
octavia driver though
^Ditto
If people stayed in the left lane unless overtaking, how could undertaking occur? Also undertaking can be seen as a conditioning process, if someone
gets scared when they are undertaken, then they will pull across and everyone is happy once again.
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Originally posted by smart51
If people had better lane discipline, it wouldn't be possible to overtake on the left hand side. Probably not a good line of defence with the octavia driver though
Excellent, always nice to see a cop car just when you want one, had the same experience in the same area of the M1 a couple of years ago with a woman
in a megane or similar doing the same sort of thing. I laughed when she was on the hard shoulder a bit later on with the boys showing her a video
To be fair too the cop undertaking wasn't on, he came by me like a tw@t flashing his lights at the Octavia too move, he couldn't undertake
as all 3 lanes where pretty busy he got what he deserved.
I agree with the lane discipline comments, didn't rely apply on this occasion though.
undertaking, or in the USA "passing in the slow lane" is one of my biggest pet peeves. It is so incredibly irritating to have people just
cruising in the fast lane! You have no idea! 
And what that does is force even those who wish to be law abiding citizens to pass in the slow
lane...
I wish that people would get ticketed for it so that it would stop. It's dangerous....
See peeps.....this is where it all goes wrong. There are three lanes on a motorway and they are lanes 1, 2 and 3 funnily enough! There are no such things as a fast and slow lanes at all.
Is he joking?
I do like those RS's. I work at what was a Skoda garage and we supplied our local plod with those and Fabia comunity support
cars . I did give it a little bit of welly everytime we delivered one. He he.
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Originally posted by sgraber
undertaking, or in the USA "passing in the slow lane" is one of my biggest pet peeves. It is so incredibly irritating to have people just cruising in the fast lane! You have no idea!
I wish that people would get ticketed for it so that it would stop. It's dangerous....
Me too James.
James - That depends entirely on which state you are in. Somewhere it's legal, somewhere it's never enforced, and somewhere you get raped
if you try it.
It's like that with all the road laws. Wisconsin's fastest highways are 65mph (+5 and they won't pull you over), other states are 70,
75, some states even max out at 55!! And sometimes you can get away with +5, +10, or none at all!! It's really a crap-shoot.
In general, to be safe you stay under +5 if you're in somewhere you're unfamiliar with, and +0 if you know the state is
"strict".
I usually just make sure somebody is always going faster than me.
And yes, I HATE lane hogs. I once flashed a guy to move over !!5!! times in a row on a three lane with nobody else around, and he still wouldn't
move over.
In Canada, we're so polite that having slow traffic move to the right lane is merely a suggestion (if it's not too much trouble, if you
wouldn't mind, it's alright if you don't want to...). On Washington State highways (just to the south of me), however, holding up
three or more cars is an offence, and the State Parol is strict on this! It's wonderful - pull up behind a slow vehicle, and they pull over
right away to let you pass!
If there's one thing I have to concede that the french are better at than us it's lane discipline, driving on french motorways is bliss
compared to ours. No one stays out in a lane longer than they need to, and on the rare occasion someone is in your way, if you indicate left to show
you wish to pass they'll move over into a teeny gap to let you pass. Brilliant.
I must admit I have very little patience for lane hogs any more, 18000 miles of motorway driving a year will do that to you. The worst area is the 5/6
lane stretches of the M25, how anyone can sit in lane 4 without feeling like a pen1s is beyond me. My favourite game with middle laners on a (very)
quiet motorway is to see how many times you can lap them (overtake in lane 3, move back to lane 1 and slow down so they pass you, then move back to
lane 3 and overtake again, and repeat) before they twig 
the people being undertaken most of the time are breaking the law as well as those undertaking them.
cruising along in a lane when there is space in the left hand lanes is illegal. you are supposed to pull out to overtake then pull back in once
finished overtaking. you can only stay out if you are continually overtaking ie the left hand lane is fairly full of vehicles doing 60 then you can
stay in the next lane if you doing 70. in very heavy traffic the speed differential becomes lower so that all the lanes are used but in light traffic
there is no excuse for poor lane discipline.
on the m25 in very light traffic ive regularly had to pull out of lane 1 to 4 to pass someone cruising in lane 3 then go straight back over to lane 1.
i doesnt help that whilst politians demonise speeding regardless of conditions many of them admit they are middle lane morons themselves and dont see
what is wrong with it.