Experience in overtaking vehicles in the same direction correctly, ensuring safety

Do not drive too close to the vehicle in front when preparing to overtake.

Drivers need to ensure a safe driving distance, avoid moving too close to the vehicle in front because it can limit visibility, reducing the ability to handle unexpected situations. In addition, when obstacles or oncoming vehicles suddenly appear, driving too close to the vehicle in front will potentially cause an accident.

Do not overtake immediately after signaling to overtake.

Drivers need to turn on their turn signals, honk their horns or flash their headlights to signal the vehicle in front when they want to pass. After signaling, drivers should wait a few seconds to ensure the vehicle in front receives the signal and responds. In case the vehicle in front turns on its turn signals in the direction it wants to pass or gives out emergency lights, drivers should avoid passing because the vehicle above may not allow passing.

Overcome decisively

When overtaking a car, the driver needs to accelerate decisively, avoiding maintaining the state of running parallel with the vehicle moving next to it for too long. In case the driver reaches a position level with the front of the car, the driver can hold the rhythm for 1-2 seconds to observe the situation and accelerate to overtake if it is safe and clear.

Merge safely and maintain speed

After passing another vehicle, the driver should avoid entering the lane immediately; at the same time, observe the rearview mirror to ensure there is enough safe distance and avoid cutting in front of the vehicle just passed. In addition, if the overtaking is successful, the driver should maintain speed, avoid the situation of suddenly slowing down after passing, causing unexpected situations that the vehicle behind cannot handle in time. This can lead to dangerous collisions on the road.

Do not pass many vehicles at once

Do not overtake many vehicles at the same time because it is very dangerous. At this time, the driver will have difficulty observing the situation ahead, controlling the vehicle speed, and signaling to the vehicles in front in time. In the case of vehicles moving in a group at a stable speed and close to the right, you can consider overtaking if you ensure sufficient safety conditions.

No tailgating

If you are about to overtake and see the car in front also starting to overtake, the driver should brake and reduce speed immediately. Wait until the car in front has finished overtaking, the situation is clear and stable, then overtake. Absolutely do not follow the car that is overtaking to overtake. Because at this time, the driver will be completely passive, unable to observe the situation ahead. If you encounter a car coming from the opposite direction, it will be very dangerous.

Regulations on overtaking in Article 14 of the 2008 Road Traffic Law are specifically as follows:

For vehicles requesting to overtake, they are only allowed to overtake when they observe that there are no obstacles ahead, observe that there are no vehicles traveling in the opposite direction on the road section where the driver wants to overtake the vehicle in front, observe that the vehicle in front is not signaling and also wants to overtake the vehicle in front, and that vehicle has moved to the right side enough to ensure the vehicle requesting to overtake.

Vehicles wishing to overtake must signal with horn or light. In densely populated areas or urban areas, from 10pm to 5am, they are only allowed to signal with lights.

For the vehicle in front that receives an overtaking signal from the vehicle behind, if observing that the conditions are safe, the driver of the vehicle in front must reduce speed, then move close to the right curb until the vehicle requesting overtake has passed safely. It is strictly forbidden to cause difficulties or obstruct the vehicle behind from overtaking even though the conditions are sufficient.