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We should have used the German/Austrian system years ago and perhaps now the lazy and selfish British driver may have become educated enough to understand it. Driving on the autobahn is a joy compared to the motorway here. Decent lane discipline, variable speed monitoring on the vast majority of the network.....sadly we live in a backward country in many ways.
Also I note that some are moaning about drivers not moving to an open lane from a closed one quick enough. While that is the correct thing to do as soon as possible where a motorway electronic sign is telling you to do so by a red X marker above your lane, it is entirely incorrect to do so when the lane is merely closed by roadworks or whatever and there is a merge in turn sign telling you to move to another lane. The correct procedure is to move the the end of the closed lane and merge in turn....hence the name. The british way of Queuing and not doing that properly merely makes the queue longer and more frustrating.
In Germany, at least, it's an offence to overtake when approaching roadworks, for whatever reason. At least it was about 30 years ago.
I know, I've had an on-the-spot fine for it.