Do you know how similar the driving in Germany is to Canada? You can go and trade your license without doing any additional training.
http://www.kanada.diplo.de/Vertretun...__licence.html
You guys are turning German drivers into some mythical driving ubermachines, in reality, Europeans just have more education and training for pretty much everything you do. You used to need to have a license to a ride a bike or go swimming as a kid (license is the wrong word but it was a card and course). Do you think that made Poland some biking and swimming utopia? It's just how things are over there. I promise you, they don't spend more than a couple minutes on "Keep Right Except To Pass". Does it take any more than a few minutes to cover this:
"If you are passing you are allowed to use the left lane. If you are not passing then don't be in that lane. If you want to pass, take a look to make sure there isn't someone coming up that will pass a lot quicker than you. Passing on the right is illegal."
That's all there is to it. There is nothing in that sentence that is left for interpretation.
This thread is making me seem like I rage up and down deerfoot on a daily basis, which I don't. I lost the will to try and weave around traffic or get mad at people a long time ago. I drive from one end of the city to the other, daily, it has numbed me to stupidity of the people on the roads.
It's seeing the responses in this thread. That's what's driving me nuts. It's basically everything wrong with what we see on the road summed up in one thread and the worst part is, it's from otherwise smart posters. I just can't understand how this is a debate of some sort. There's nothing to explain, there are no caveats to "Keep Right Except To Pass".