Kyiv this morning!

[Tomconroy]

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[Lovie777]

1. Kinda reminds me of San Francisco. ...

[The Jungle 1]

2. Ukraine you sure do make me smile

Bless you and yours.

[L. Coyote]

3. Ukraine has retaken towns 35km east of Kyiv, 300 dead in theater bombing.

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[niyad]

4. Slava Ukraini!

[aggiesal]

5. For those who've never driven in Europe, you get to see a unique driving law ...

The driver is in the right lane and approaching the cars in the lane immediately to the left, with the cars in the right lane way ahead.
In Europe, you're only allowed to pass cars to their left.

So instead of staying in the right lane and passing the cars in the left lane, the driver changes lanes to the far left lane to pass.

In the US, every driver would have stayed in the right lane and just pass the cars.

In some areas in Europe, each lane has it's own speed limit, with the slower limits to the right and the faster limits to the left.

[lagomorph777]

6. Um, it's supposed to work that way here, too.

"The fast lane" refers to the left lane. We don't have legislated speed limits per lane, but we are supposed to pass on the left.

But Americans are assholes and scofflaws.

[msfiddlestix]

9. ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ n/t

[Samrob]

7. I am 80 and I remember being taught that passing is on the left because the left is for speed.

Born and raised in PA.

[msfiddlestix]

10. where do you reside? That's how it's been here since I started driving in the 60's

I'm not sure you intended how you stated that.

[aggiesal]

12. No, I meant it as I wrote it ...

And yes I know here you pass on the left as well.

But here if the Highway Patrol is behind you and you pass on the right, they won't pull you over. In Europe they will.

And at every state that I've driven in, wherever the Interstate freeway has more than 2 lanes, everyone passes in whatever lane they are in, regardless if they're in the left or right lane of the car they're passing.

I only see the left passing lane respected on 2 lane roads, and only if everyone driving slower are in the left lane.

[intrepidity]

13. But, in the very first moment of the video,

doesn't the camerman car pass a car that is left of it? Are you saying that they could've been pulled over for that?

[aggiesal]

15. If he did, yes ...

You can't pass on the right for any reason.
You will get a ticket if your caught.

[aggiesal]

17. Here's another driving law that they're strick with ...

If you're on a multi-lane road and a car next to you is 1 inch (2.5 cm in Europe) ahead of you and they turn on their turning signal to change lanes into your lane, you have to slow down to let them in.
If you speed up and that car has to get in behind you and a police officer see's it, you will get a ticket.

[intrepidity]

18. But what if the person with the signal on is trying to pass illegally

and the other car speeds up, which one does the cop pull over?

[aggiesal]

19. I would say the one trying to pass illegally ...

They have to have the right of way.

[msfiddlestix]

14. Yes, I find that to be true as well (here in the states)

I haven't traveled out of country, but yes here those scenarios seems to be true here.

I think by and large people pass on the left, passing the right happens but is generally less often than the opposite.

Personally I don't like passing on the right, but often it can't be avoided. Plus our on and off ramps are generally designed on the right.

obviously, there are many exceptions.

[msfiddlestix]

8. This is very encouraging news, ty!

[Tommy Carcetti]

11. Thought that view looked familiar.

Fun trivia: Miley Cyrus's music video for her song "Nothing Breaks Like a Heart" was actually filmed in part on a bridge in Kyiv over the Dnieper River.