overtaking
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thumb|Battle for position between Kuba Giermaziak, [[Norbert Siedler and Nicki Thiim during the 2012 Porsche Supercup race at Silverstone ]] thumb|right|A car passing a slow-moving tractor Overtaking or passing is the act of one vehicle going past another slower moving vehicle, travelling in the same direction, on a road. The lane used for overtaking another vehicle is often a passing lane farther from the road shoulder, which is to the left in places that drive on the right and to the right in places that drive on the left.
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Rules of overtaking
- In English-speaking countries
- In other countries
- Nationwide ban on overtaking as road safety measure
- Vienna Convention on Road Traffic
- Overtaking on the inside
- Legal status by country
- Overtaking road signs
- Overtaking in racing
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|Battle for position between Kuba Giermaziak, [[Norbert Siedler and Nicki Thiim during the 2012 Porsche Supercup race at Silverstone ]] thumb|right|A car passing a slow-moving tractor Overtaking or passing is the act of one vehicle going past another slower moving vehicle, travelling in the same direction, on a road. The lane used for overtaking another vehicle is often a passing lane farther from the road shoulder, which is to the left in places that drive on the right and to the right in places that drive on the left.
==Rules of overtaking==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “overtaking” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.