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I encountered two huge roundabouts in the centres of Turin and Valencia, the latter was a ridiculous 8 or more lanes, both packed with locals in Whacky Races mode, cars shooting out from all directions. Emerging from both unscathed, apart from receiving "Mama Mia" fist shaking from an angry...

I took a drive from Lewes to Crowborough on the A26, where speed limits vary between 30mph and 60mph. I was part of ‘a huge convoy’ behind a small white van, the driver always driving at exactly half the limits. So on wide open and straight stretches of the A26 north of Lewes 25mph or 30mph...

.... which they then jump.

I’ve had the painful experience of French speeding tickets reaching me once back home. Three on one journey once, all from fixed cameras not coloured brightly or visible, as they are in the UK. A typical scenario would be a 120kph limit on an autoroute, briefly reduced to 80kph in a dead...

I think of the examples of the A272 between Piltdown and Newick, and the A26 for example east of Isfield. I’ve very often come across a nervy older driver, typically in a Honda Jazz, driving at 25mph or 30mph. Dashed white lines in the centre of the road. If the road has zero oncoming...

There was also big speeds driven on the empty roads, ********s caught doing over 150mph. The police commented on the phenomenon. Cycling on the Saddlescombe Road, plenty of incidents this spring of convertibles passing close by at astonishing speeds. With the highway otherwise all to themselves.

I worked for a firm where if driving to a client's involved a motorway, one of us had to take the 50 year old nervous women in our car. Don't think she ever drove on motorways due to the phobia.

.... and if you're driving a modern fast car?

And France, Austria, Italy, et al. It works.

Regarding (1), I can't remember them expanding on that. But I've worked with very nervous drivers (usually people who took their test later than when young), who hated driving on motorways.

The AA Research team a couple of years ago found out through an extensive survey, just why so many drivers trundle along in the outer lanes when not overtaking. Surprisingly, it wasn't: "I'm doing the speed limit, others can do one". Instead the majority were because : 1. Nervous driving on...

I've driven a lot in Austria, France, Spain and Italy. Two things stood out: 1. It's mandatory and literally everyone abides, to pull into the slower lane once you've overtaken on a dual carriageway/Autoroute. 2. There is hot headedness, but in my experience it's limited to a wave of the fist...

Someone in my family asks why do people have overtake-itis? His argument is that no matter what speed (slow) you're doing on a single carriageway without solid white lines, people shouldn't overtake, where does it get them? .... to a destination a minute earlier. A colleague of mine bought a...