> > In most states this is how it goes: a line of traffic going the speed limit is usually in the right lane, and then occasionally a few cars pass on the left going maybe 10 miles over the speed limit or so. But, it seems, in Ohio we do it a little different.
>
> In Europe, it's different still. The speed difference between adjacent lanes on a road here in the U.S. averages maybe 10 MPH. On the German autobahn, you have to be careful not to make that assumption, because you can look back, not see anything behind you, switch lanes, and suddenly somebody's right on your tail. The difference in speeds can be 40 MPH or more. Of course, they measure in kilometers per hour, or possibly even kilometres per hour, so nobody really knows how fast anybody is going anyway. ;-)

Gosh. Neither of those methods apply here. In Auckland, the usual thing on the motorways is that everybody drives at or above the speed limit of 100 kph, except in the right (passing) lane which is usually inhabited by an old man in a Mini doing 45 kph with a 22-wheeler truck approximately twelve centimetres from his back bumper.

I haven't driven much in other cities, so I can't talk about them, but outside the cities all the roads are just one lane in each direction. Those roads feature either the old man in the Mini, or a guy on a tractor, or somebody towing a caravan, with nine thousand cars backed up behind them. When you get to a stretch of road where you can pass, traditionally the second car in line will also be somebody towing a caravan. This car will slowly and torturously manage to pass the first car, drop back to 45 kph again, and we all continue as before but slightly rearranged.

Brunnen-"just one more reason I want a helicopter"G