British motorways.
Here I risk the wrath of the Magic Circle, I'm sure, but let me expose to you the esoteric and arcane secrets of the aforementioned British motorway and how to speed up the entire arterial network. If you are one of the apparently endless people that wasn't aware of the revelations about to follow, then please, for the love of love, don't tell me about it and just take them as a gift and use them; because if you're reading this, the chances are that I quite like you and would feel at least some passing remorse at being obligated to send parcels of dog blancmange to you through the mail weekly for the rest of your life as a result of your confession.
The secret is, you see, that British motorways work like this. There are 3 lanes in each direction (for the most part). Of these lanes we drive in the one on the left. The other two lanes, or "outside" lanes as they are often called, are to be used only when actively passing other vehicles after which we pull back into the left hand lane. Yes, I am aware that this results in the expenditure of 3 extra calories having to turn the wheel each time but it's just the way we British agreed many years ago to do things.
There is not now, nor has there ever been, a "fast lane" or a "slow lane" on the motorway (no matter what the BBC or ITV news tells you when discussing a fatal road traffic accident), although there is sometimes a crawler lane on a hill so that lorries and Opel Cadets don't unduly slow traffic as they struggle up them. The lane in the middle is not the default lane to drive in.
I am only saying this because my people inform me that the cost of a satellite mounted laser lane control system that instantaneously vaporises idiots that persist in using the motorway incorrectly is prohibitively expensive. Some kind of points accumulation system that results in offenders being banned from the motorways is, however, still a possibility when I am Overlord. Alternatively everyone will be treated like Americans and restrictions on which lanes it is legal to pass in will be lifted, resulting in much chaos and carnage for my amusement.
Personally I'm still hoping for the frickin lasers.
The secret is, you see, that British motorways work like this. There are 3 lanes in each direction (for the most part). Of these lanes we drive in the one on the left. The other two lanes, or "outside" lanes as they are often called, are to be used only when actively passing other vehicles after which we pull back into the left hand lane. Yes, I am aware that this results in the expenditure of 3 extra calories having to turn the wheel each time but it's just the way we British agreed many years ago to do things.
There is not now, nor has there ever been, a "fast lane" or a "slow lane" on the motorway (no matter what the BBC or ITV news tells you when discussing a fatal road traffic accident), although there is sometimes a crawler lane on a hill so that lorries and Opel Cadets don't unduly slow traffic as they struggle up them. The lane in the middle is not the default lane to drive in.
I am only saying this because my people inform me that the cost of a satellite mounted laser lane control system that instantaneously vaporises idiots that persist in using the motorway incorrectly is prohibitively expensive. Some kind of points accumulation system that results in offenders being banned from the motorways is, however, still a possibility when I am Overlord. Alternatively everyone will be treated like Americans and restrictions on which lanes it is legal to pass in will be lifted, resulting in much chaos and carnage for my amusement.
Personally I'm still hoping for the frickin lasers.