why are people still driving too fast?

Flyboy152

Inactive wrote: »

Nope, that is 100% down to the " otherwise calm and careful drivers ".

Anybody that gets to that stage really should seek help.

I do have to agree somewhat with what Strider has pointed out there. There are several occasions when this can be the case. Near our village, there are several dual carriageways, one, where there is a steep hill, with a right turn almost two miles after a set of traffic lights.

The speed limit is seventy miles per hour, but many, particularly elderly drivers, will drive in the outside lane, travelling at between forty and fifty miles per hour, or sometimes even less, so that they don't have to move across the traffic later on. Some will actually turn on their indicators, with more than a mile to go, as if that is somehow justification for what they are doing. Many times the police have actually stopped drivers on the road and warned them of their obstruction. I have been told, by our local bobby, that some have actually been given tickets.

This is together with some drivers (again I have noticed it is mainly elderly ones), driving at thirty miles per hour on NMSL single carriageways, with a clear and empty road ahead, holding up a very long line of cars, driven by some very irate drivers.

Flyboy152

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

If anyone gets rage it's their own problem, not that of the slower driver.

But you have to concede, that under certain circumstances, they are a contributing factor.

Flyboy152

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

Road rage is your own problem. Not the problem of other road users.

You choose to get mad and react to bad drivers. Or, you choose not to let the muppets phase you. Either way you are responsible for your own actions and feelings.

But that is simply not true. Road rage is a two sided re-action. If one driver is not courteous to another, it will cause a re-action in the other driver. You may not like that, but it will happen. If were tell you that you are (insert appropriately derogatory epithet) enough times and with greater emphasis on each occassion, surely you may feel justified in reacting out of character, with forceful vigour.

Inactive

Flyboy152 wrote: »

I do have to agree somewhat with what Strider has pointed out there. There are several occasions when this can be the case. Near our village, there are several dual carriageways, one, where there is a steep hill, with a right turn almost two miles after a set of traffic lights.

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Sorry, any driver that gets in to a rage by the action of others is not fit to be on the road.

We have to share our road space with others, getting in to a rage helps nobody.

mikey72

You do suffer from road rage badly.

Strider590 wrote: »

Let's face it, many slow drivers are "passive aggressive". They drive in such a way as to cause maximum irritation to other road users, purely so they can sit their feeling all high and mighty when someone reacts to them.

From experience, the calmer you behave when you overtake, the more likely they are to attempt to instigate further irritation by flashing their lights at you or sounding their horn.

It has sweet FA to do with fuel consumption and everything to do with them wanting to feel like they're the best driver on the road by turning otherwise calm and careful drivers into angry rage filled monsters.

Good example here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdwdGDmBLwQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Strider590 wrote: »

^^ And that is the attitude of the people I speak of...


Their favourite trick around here is to hog the right hand lane of a dual carriageway doing 50mph and then only move over as they approach a speed camera..... BUT the funny thing is they think the limit is 60, so I just sail on past doing 70 and they sit there cursing the faulty speed camera

And here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bikD0gZlItE&feature=BF&list=ULUEg450H1T-4&index=2


Another couple worth watching on there as well

Gordon_Hose

Flyboy152 wrote: »

But that is simply not true. Road rage is a two sided re-action. If one driver is not courteous to another, it will cause a re-action in the other driver. You may not like that, but it will happen. If were tell you that you are (insert appropriately derogatory epithet) enough times and with greater emphasis on each occassion, surely you may feel justified in reacting out of character, with forceful vigour.

Yes it is. How you react to a situation is a choice YOU make. Yes people drive badly, but how you react is up to you.

Someone blatently cuts you up, what do you do? Do you start flashing your lights, beeping your horn, getting mad and trying everything to cut them up in return, endangering yourself and other road users in the process. Or do you simply shake your head, tut, and let them get on their way because at the end of the day, no-one got hurt?

It's YOUR choice. Contributing factor or not.

Strider590

"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction"

Inactive

Strider590 wrote: »

"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction"

Says who??????????????

foofi22

Strider590 wrote: »

"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction"

That's physics and has nothing to do with how you drive your car.

Gordon_Hose

Strider590 wrote: »

"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction"

Right, so someone cuts me up I am within my rights to punch them in the face?

I'd love to see that stand up in court.