sustained loss of traction

[Girvs]

http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/roadco ... -left.html

For normal laned roads it does say "keep in the left-hand lane as much as you can" but realistically how many drivers apply that procedure?

http://www.landtransport.govt.nz/roadco ... iving.html

WRT the above and motorway driving it comes under safe driving. I'm sure thats a safe driving procedure as opposed to an enforced procedure. Either way I'm sure ignorance is bliss when they want to overtake that car thats 400m ahead of them.

Safe driving on motorways

When driving on a motorway:

* keep left, unless you are passing

[sergei]

Awesome find

[rollaholic]

many states in the US have the keep left rule, and the state troopers enforce it too (at least in the states i have driven in) in my experience they were way less anal about speeding too.

i cant speak for new york though (someone mentioned yanks?)

its fantastic to be honest, you pull out, you pass, you pull back in. its like never ending passing lanes, so people just travel at their speed - none of this speeding up when theres two lanes. (oooh... wideness!)

most americans are shocking drivers when it comes to the mechanics of driving, but they are most definitely far more courteous than kiwis (on more than one occasion people stopped in the middle of a round about to let me in!) maybe something to do with gun licenses being easier to get than car licenses. which is not saying much.

[B1NZ]

My work mate got a ticket on a motorway in the UK for passing in the left lane, apparently you have to keep left and you are only allowed to pass on the right side of a car.

Sounds like a good idea

[Bling]

I've heard of someone passing on the grass strip between the roads of a motorway when both lanes were blocked

[frost]

many states in the US have the keep left rule,

umm what!

[rollaholic]

errr

you know what i mean!

[DexGT]

My work mate got a ticket on a motorway in the UK for passing in the left lane, apparently you have to keep left and you are only allowed to pass on the right side of a car.

Sounds like a good idea

This actually used to be the law here , but people got dumber and couldn't figure out which side was left .The government decided it was easier to let you pass any way you could than 'edumicate" all the tards who think it's fine to do 80 in the right (fast ) lane

[fivebob]

This actually used to be the law here , but people got dumber and couldn't figure out which side was left .The government decided it was easier to let you pass any way you could than 'edumicate" all the tards who think it's fine to do 80 in the right (fast ) lane

That has never been law in NZ, you've always been able to pass on the left in a multi-laned road. Given the the number of people who think that driving in the right lane is their god given right, it's not necessarilly a bad thing

[1I1]

What about those courtesy lanes, can pass on the inside of cars that don't use them?

[sergei]

What about those courtesy lanes, can pass on the inside of cars that don't use them?

lol, and what about the on-ramp lanes that split in two (for those stupid traffic lights placed because idiots don't know how to merge)?

What I find is that people are doing 40kph until they hit motorway, I usually pass them on left (it is kind of crazy to merge motorway traffic that doing 100 at 40-50, especially when there is a truck coming fast from behind).

[Loudtoy]

What about those courtesy lanes, can pass on the inside of cars that don't use them?

Yup and it's been done before, so long as you can do it safely there's no reason you can't do it. Also why do people insist on only travelling 60-70k on gravel roads, even when they are wide and dead straight, the speed limit hasn't suddenly dropped and there's at least as much grip as a newly wet road. Gets on me nerves that one

[jakesae101]

yes but your used to doing 200+ kph on straight gravel roads most people arent

[sergei]

I have no problems with people going slow on gravel:
1) you are not getting your car damaged (windscreen/paint/lights smashed by stones)
2) less dust
3) they have more time to move from centre of road

[duddley]

the worst is the piece of shit cars and clapped out 4x4's towing horse floats out to woodhill spewing out black smoke who wont pull aside to let people past . one day i was behind one that got down to 45kph on a hill and its in 100kph zone!

[solitaire]

the worst is the piece of sh*t cars and clapped out 4x4's towing horse floats out to woodhill spewing out black smoke who wont pull aside to let people past . one day i was behind one that got down to 45kph on a hill and its in 100kph zone!

Hell yes... i ride at woodhill quite often and getting stuck behind a horse float in riverhead is absolute torture...

[sergei]

the worst is the piece of sh*t cars and clapped out 4x4's towing horse floats out to woodhill spewing out black smoke who wont pull aside to let people past . one day i was behind one that got down to 45kph on a hill and its in 100kph zone!

Ahh those $&#$%.
Damn, how riding horses is not animal abuse again?
These assholes along with campervans tend to destroy good weekend.
They also pick the most unsuitable roads for whatever perverted stuff they do.

[duddley]

they also ride on the road letting their horses shit every where and cudnt give a shit about who evers car runs it over

[d1 mule]

the lawyer seems to think i have a reasonable chance of getting off.........at this stage lol finges crossed

[xsspeed]

did lawyer say why you have a chance to get off, or is he just buttering you to get more coin?