Assuming no traffic on the motorway, yes.
However in practice as those in the outside lane drive too close together, traffic slows approaching the junction, one brakes, all behind brake, and that lane comes to a halt.
Last time I drove up the M5/6 I used the inside lane as much as possible, avoided the outside lane dickheads, and it was a lot less stressful. At one point I passed a queue of cars at a junction, and it was way over half an hour before they caught up with me.

Speed itself isn't the issue, it's people driving too close together and not reading the road ahead of them. If you have to use the brakes on a motorway other than to stop as you come off the slip road then you're not anticipating enough and/or driving too close, a lift of the throttle should be all you ever need, unless some other driver has done something really stupid.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:13, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

people driving too close together and not reading the road ahead of them. If you have to use the brakes on a motorway other than to stop as you come off the slip road then you're not anticipating enough and/or driving too close, a lift of the throttle should be all you ever need, unless some other driver has done something really stupid unregulated immigration and asylum seekers clogging up our roads in their Dacias and Trabants.

And yet there's only one person with the bottle to talk about these isses. Only one REAL alternative to those Brussells sprouts - that's right, that Nigel Lawson chap.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:17, Reply)

Driving in London enforces a lot of cultural stereotypes.
One of which is that most of the aggressive tail-gating cunts on the road are white.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:21, Reply)

Rubbish.
It's like fucking downtown Abuja where I live.

Coming over here. Playing with the white man's magic.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:24, Reply)