>> My girlfriend says that I should flash them and not overtake on the
>> right, but IME this is easily interpretted as quite aggressive behaviour
>> and could lead to more problems (eg them still not moving over or even
>> worse deliberate braking or other aggressive behaviour).
>>
>> What do you do?
>
> IMO your girlfriend is right, undertaking is wrong. It seems the fashion 
> ATM is to indicate you are going to overtake and if the driver is nor 
> paying attention a short flash of your headlights generally does the 
> trick.

Yes, I went through a phase of doing this, and most of the time it does 
work.  I put this down to the fact that most of the drivers doing this are 
just not thinking and totally unaware of what is going on around them, a 
quick flash lets them know you are there, and then they know the correct 
thing is to pull over.

But, I had a couple of occasions where my flash was interpreted as an 
aggressive gesture, and the driver ahead reacted accordingly.  In one case 
he didn't move over but gradually slowed down, in the other case he moved 
over, but just as I was about to pass he swerved back in front of me causing 
me to brake hard.  Since then I stopped flashing people to avoid risking 
something like that happening again.

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