urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:shortcipher This account is only used for reading Chris Boyle 2008-01-24T01:11:51Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:shortcipher:68833 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z 2008-01-24T01:11:51Z Keane - Can't Stop Now Prompted by my driving to Coventry and back today (I haven't done that for a while). I've never quite understood this one; someone explain it to me please? (<span class='ljuser ljuser-name_gerald_duck' lj:user='gerald_duck' style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://gerald-duck.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif' alt='[info]' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://gerald-duck.livejournal.com/'><b>gerald_duck</b></a></span>, I'm looking mainly at you here.)<br /><br />How, on $DEITY's green earth, have we ended up in the situation where all HGVs appear to be limited to very slightly different speeds around 60mph and it is legal (<abbr title="as far as I know">AFAIK</abbr>) for them to attempt to overtake each other on two-lane roads such as the A14, painfully slowly, over the course of about a mile, jamming up dozens of following vehicles? The total time lost to occupants of following vehicles due to this phenomenon seems large. More importantly, so does the increase in accident risks, considering typical impatiently short following distances.<br /><br />Have there ever been any attempts to get a law passed banning overtaking with a speed difference of less than ~4mph (at least, when there are only two lanes)? If so, what was the outcome?