Whilst some confusion may still hang over from the horse and cart era of "nearside" and "offside", maybe some people have been watching too much American television. Let's leave it on the table and discuss it at the next club meeting. Someone had better bring their Queensland Drivers Guide.
I thought that this was a simple matter, but if there can be this sort of confusion, how can we ever hope to raise the overall standard of driving. Maybe we should just continue with left and right lanes. Again some in the room seemed to think that because they were travelling faster than other vehicles, they were entitled to remain in the far right lane at all times, and only using the left lanes when they saw the signs "Keep Left Unless Overtaking".
In a similar vein,
I was recently in traffic adjacent to a young lady in a Ford Laser. In
less than three kilometres, she changed lanes at least eight times before
turning right across the roadway, without once using her turn indicators!
Of course the Police would only act on such behaviour after it had caused
an accident, but to me it meets the definition of "driving without due
care and attention", as well as the simple "failing to indicate". It was
a nervous period when I realised that due to differences in lane speeds,
I was going to have to overtake her! Would she, or wouldn't she?
But none of us would ever do that, now would we?
Recently in the paper there was discussion of a recent survey of people's likes and dislikes, most hated behaviour in traffic. The most hated seemed to be tailgaters. I have trouble with drivers who lead too closely, ie won't move into their correct lane appropriately. Flashing headlights don't often work as our lights are below their line of rearvision view.
One day we'll arrange
to give all of our members a license test and see how we can all improve.
Campbell
