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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jul 2006
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And this is how I approach it where I live. Every idiot seems to LOVE driving in the right hand lane for the entire duration of their boring, underwhelming, "I only need my 'economical' 4 cyl auto Camry (using the same amount of fuel as a Falcon 6 - but you can't tell them that...) to get from A-B" trip regardless of their speed. I just undertake them and be done with it. It's only frustrating when you've got one in the left doing 90 and the other in the right doing 91... :evil3: When this occurs cars should be impounded and drivers fined...oh wait, that only applies to "hoons" not morons... |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: George town, tasmania
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worse is when the idiots overtake (not that i get passed that often) and then slow down once the overtaking lane finishes.
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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I always thought that duel lanes (2 lanes) had the keep left unless overtaking rule and mutli lanes it wasn't (3lanes)
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Southside
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Thats when mystery lane comes in handy
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Melbourne
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Hey, don't tell Vic drivers that they should be keeping to the left in multi-lane roads/highways/freeways (even with "Keep left unless overtaking" signs).
I get a whole (left) lane to myself!!! |
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Cobra Motorsports
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Melbourne
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I got done for overtaking in the left lane about a year ago now (wasn't speeding).... couple a points and a few hundred dollar fine..... All because some idiot decided it was cool to be doing 60km/h in an 80 zone in the right lane........
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Half way between Syndey and the Southern Highlands
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IDIOT DRIVERS!
There are a lot out there today. For example today my family and me were heading home from the beach and were at a single lane t intersection onto mount ousley, near wollongong and a black corolla with 4 men of middle eastern appearance try and push in and drag race us up a hill. My dad drives a v6 prado and took up the challenge and just absolutely blew this underpowered overweight corolla out of the water! they took about another 500m to overtake us after we settled down, a P plater also. I feel sorry for P platers who are given a bad name by other idiots on their P's. |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Perth
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Then the right lane slows, coz there is some merging happening two lanes to the left.... man I hate these freeways - they are a good idea, just very frustrating to drive on with anything more than minimal traffic. I used to live in Sydney and the M4 was HEAPS less frustrating to drive on than the freeways over here...
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brisbane North
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Some people say, they set their cruise at 109kph and just sit in lane 3!! !go figure! |
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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I'm not sure increasing the criminality of such offences would work. No doubt one of the ignorant drivers camped in the right lane would claim 'left lane phobia' as a medical condition.
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Perth
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I'm a right lane hog! But that's cause i'm right on the speed limit and when I see someone coming up behind me I jump into the left so they don't have to slow down. Otherwise i'm going left, right, left, right every 20 seconds.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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hmmm this could be the right thread for this little gem
![]() A Darwin man has been fined $2,000 for filming himself masturbating while speeding along the Stuart Highway. The man is already in jail until August after pleading guilty to carrying cannabis in the car boot and two plants on the back seat. Brenton Alan Erhardt, 39, pleaded guilty in the Darwin Magistrates Court to dangerous driving. He was pulled over by police on the Stuart Highway in July speeding at 147 kilometres per hour, south of Daly Waters. He admitted to officers he filmed himself masturbating while driving from Adelaide to Darwin. He also pleaded guilty to driving unlicensed, carrying two cannabis smoking pipes, administering the drug and carrying a loaded rifle. Magistrate Sue Oliver says the driving was bizarre to say the least and conduct she expects of someone much younger. |
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If you did in fact get done for this I have officially lost the tiny, microscopic amount of respect I have (had) for police!!! |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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you've obviously never driven in italy or indonesia.. they're insane over there :P |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Vic
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The thing I hate is being in the right lane and going past other traffic. I'm a little over the speed limit and the traffic I'm overtaking is right on it or a tad under. I'm passing them but not at a huge rate of knots. Then some sits right on my ***!!!! As soon as I've cleared the cars I'm passing and just going to change one lane to the left the said dives in and passes me on my left!!!
The other thing that pushes my buttons is when I'm at a red light. It turns green and within the second it takes me to move my right foot off the brake to the accelerator and start to press down on it some dick behind me gets on the horn!! God damn I hate that!! If anything will drive me to do a road rage that is it!!! Can't people just wait a second or two??
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Northern Suburbs Melbourne
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Anywho if that happens, wait at the light and then slowly creep off the line.
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Melbourne
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Too many guesses on this topic. This is straight out of the Queensland Transport road rules.
Keeping left When you drive on a two-way road, the basic rule is keep as close as practical to the left. When you drive on a multi-lane road where the speed limit is more than 80 km/h, you must not travel in the far right lane unless you are: overtaking turning right making a U-turn avoiding an obstacle driving in congested traffic. You could be fined for driving in the right-hand lane.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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i usually sit in the left all the time the only time i get naughty is if the left lane is full of pot holes, the law says you maintain your car in roadworthy condition, beating the crap out of it with nasty pot holes " I WONT DO ".
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Brisbane
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ive used the shoulder a few times with dicks that seem to think they are cops so sit right on 99kmh and stay side by side for km after km NOTHING shits me more than that, its keep left unless overtaking not sit side by side and be a law unto yourself.. then you get the muppits that speed up for overtaking lanes when you have been behind them for the past 10K doing 88 in a 100 with no chance to get past..
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Sydney
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I actually really like the way Italians dirve on their autostrada's!
If someone is blocking the right hand lane (or be it left I cant remember) the following car turns on their indicator, indicating they wish to pass, if they still dont move, they get flashed. And you know what, the person getting overtaken doesnt all of a sudden think they have been robbed of their right to travel in that lane, they usually move over letting the other car overtake and everyone happily goes along on their journey! I dont see what the problem with having to change lanes to let someone pass is? Now driving in Italian cities... thats WHOLE different argument! ![]() P.S I also got beeped last night at a light! I was in the process of putting my foot on the accelerator (and I was watching the light, it wasnt as if I didnt notice) and I got BEEPED!!! Seriously the guy must of had his hand on it just waaating to beep me! |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Perth
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