I have never heard of it before joining the platform and now see it almost everyday (always fails). I cant imagine stuff like that happening in germany. Why are people doing this ? What is the intention? It almost looks suicidal (sorry for strong language).
Thanks all for your help and sorry for my bad english.
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As an American who had a brother that lived in Germany, and visited frequently, I constantly bring up Germany’s way of managing traffic on highways as an example of how things should be. In my albeit limited experience, and I could get some of the details wrong, but almost all of your laws are designed to keep the Autobahns moving. Even speeding is mostly dealt with tickets by mail. Cops stop people for obstructing traffic, not helping provide support for vehicles on the side of the road, etc. Here, its the opposite. Cops don’t enforce leaving the left lane for passing, and instead pull people over for speeding causing even more traffic issues. Because the left lane for passing isn’t enforced, you have people driving whatever speed they want in any lane they want. Forcing people to have to pass on the right, etc. Its not uncommon to come across a mini traffic jam caused by someone in the left lane going exactly the same speed as the people in the right. So, people get frustrated and start tailgating the person holding up traffic, and the person who is being tailgated who has no self awareness that what they are doing is dangerous enough, will brake check the person behind them. Neither behavior is right, but the person in the passing lane going slow is really the instigator of the whole problem. So many of our traffic issues in the states could be improved by taking a page from Germany’s book. Some states have started posting signs like “slower traffic keep right” but no one pays attention to them, and the cops really aren’t enforcing them.
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