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Can anything be done to encourage drivers not to hog motorway lanes?

I'm becoming more frustrated by the lack of skills exhibited by some motorway drivers, who never leave their lane and make it difficult for others to overtake. If I undertake, it never fazes them, nor makes these people think they might be in the wrong. Whatever can be done to improve standards?

Also, on the subject of reducing country roads to 40mph, I shall protest most strongly, as it is eminently safe to do 60mph on the straight stretches where I live. Obviously one alters one's speed to suit conditions, as one ought to in any situation.

Asked on 29 September 2012 by Mrs PF, Tamworth

Answered by Honest John
The 40mph limit will not be applied to all A- and B-roads and white roads, only those where it is genuinely dangerous to drive at 60mph. You see the anomaly all the time, such as a wide, straight stretch limited to 40mph and then de-restriction signs on the narrow, winding lanes leading off from it.

I think motorway driving is getting a bit better. The greatest danger remains drivers in lane three failing to anticipate the need of drivers in lane one to overtake vehicles they are closing on. Then the driver in lane three turns into lane two at the same moment driver in lane one turns into lane two to overtake. Driver in lane one often cannot see driver in lane three doing this because the angle of his car puts the car in lane three in his blind spot.
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