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Old 16-09-2018, 23:12   #12
Onramp
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Re: Middle Lane Hogging

I think there is a solution to the speed limiter and long overtaking problem.

As we all know, different speed limiters max out at slightly different speeds, vehicles have different masses, they accelerate and decelerate at different rates. Overtaking is the natural wish of the driver not to have to change their inputs to the system (go flat out against the limiter).

If you allow tweaking of speed limiters to within a certain tolerance, it won't help either, since then, every lorry has to either be overtaking or driving at the speed of the slowest limited truck.

Here's my proposed solution: Time-limited speed boosts.

If it were possible to raise the limit of the limiter for the purpose of overtaking, the whole thing could be over within a shorter time, freeing up the middle lane. Of course, you would want to allow enough time for an overtake to occur, and accept that the overtake won't always be completed within that time - but at least when the normal limit kicks back in, decent progress would have been made.
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