Carlux

In France you must indicate that you are passing, and so you put your turn signal on when you are about to pull out into the passing lane, AND LEAVE IT ON while you are passing. You then signal that you are going back into the driving lane.

It is is fact illegal to stay in the passing lane on the autoroute when you are not passing. Now that there are helicopter road police, as well as the kind on motorcycles,you have even more chance of being fined for this.

thursdaysd

"It is is fact illegal to stay in the passing lane on the autoroute when you are not passing." If only that were true in the US!!! (Or maybe it is true, but it's never enforced.) We wind up with slowpokes stuck in the "fast" lane and people passing on the right.

nytraveler

It' true here in the US too - but, sadly, most drivers are clueless.

Carlux

I guess you need a few more of those helicopter cops.

stfc

Well, I've looked in my Book of How To Drive in Countries That Aren't England and I can find no reference to using indicators to let a slowcoach know you want to go past. I shall inform them for future editions. I won't repeat what it says about Italian drivers for the sake of international relations.

Jake1

It's the law in many US states, but not all of them.