Inside, Outside, Near Lane, Far Lane, whatever...

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:

bboyminn:
> Now, first and foremost, I'm not criticizing you; you call 
> the lanes what you call them and that is that. But, I find
> the logic in those designations completely contradictory to
> what I see as common logic. So there must be a logic I don't
> see. 

Geoff:
Seriously, there are a lot of situations in life where logic doesn't 
play a part. I have been driving for not far short of 50 years. I 
have never thought of my interpretation of "inside lane" as being 
illogical or curious. 

It was received knowledge. We just accepted it. Everyone uses 
the same meaning here. Obviously, US thinking has diverged 
from ours.

As I said in a previous post, it is possible that we look on 
overtaking as being "on the outside" - which would tie in with 
the racecourse analogy put forward by a couple of contributors.