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It veers slightly off the original topic but I have to say, from the background of living in France for two years and travelling there frequently since, that tailgating is a French disease. Even our French friends commented on it.
If you want to ensure that French motorists keep their lights OFF just tell them that it will soon be law to have them turned ON. The French always react to any legislation, current or proposed, by doing the opposite. The Government puts up tax on tobacco - they burn down the local Tax Office. The Motorway companies propose charging camping-cars the same rate as HGV's and the camping-caristes take to the autoroutes in convoys of hundreds at a time, all doing 10mph. The motorway companies quietly drop the plan.
A pity we don't have the same attitude in this country sometimes. We Brits tend to complain and mutter among ourselves but rarely do anything constructive. Mind you - it wouldn't be a bad use of Police time to pull over a few of the diots over here who drive in poor light/driving rain etc with no lights on.
After many years touring France on a motorbike and now by motorhome I have to disagree with Texas on the standards of French driving. As most French start off riding mopeds it gives them a far better grounding than the Brits who just jump straight to cars. Whilst riding through France many times I have come across a line of cars traveling at a slower speed and what usually happens is the driver at the back will see me approach and move over, the next car in line will see the car behind move over and he too will move over and so on, this means that by the time I have caught up with the line of cars all of them have moved over. Same scenario in Britain and Mr average Brit doesn't even look in his mirror so could not possibly know I am there making it much more difficult to overtake.I think labelling everyone due to the actions / inactions of a few is so very wrong
The Chairman of Lufthansa was givin' a speech once, which went somehting along the lines of...
'Ze Germans assume (yes he was German!) that sumzing cannot be done unless zay see a sign saying it can. Ze English assume it can unless somevone telz zem zey cannot. And Ze French.....vell Ze French don't care eider vay'
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