why are people still driving too fast?

Gene_Hunt_2

Graham29 wrote: »

I do it a couple of time a week, and most of the time I do 70mph, or more. I don't get stressed as soon as I get to 70mph though.

Please tell us what motorway always runs freely.

Graham29

Gene_Hunt wrote: »

Please tell us what motorway always runs freely.

Plenty do at 6.00am in the morning. I'm not on the motorway for a a great deal of time, but most time I have no problem getting up to 70mph. I don't know what that has got to do with my question about drivers getting stressed driving at the speed limit. What else stresses these drivers out?

Gene_Hunt_2

Graham29 wrote: »

Plenty do at 6.00am in the morning. I'm not on the motorway for a a great deal of time, but most time I have no problem getting up to 70mph. I don't know what that has got to do with my question about drivers getting stressed driving at the speed limit. What else stresses these drivers out?

So you can't?

jeferey

Graham29 wrote: »

Why does driving at the speed limit make you stressed?

It's nothing to do with the speed limit, it's the constant speeding up slowing down, people chopping and changing lanes moving into the safe zone you have left in front of you, the increased concentration, do I need to go on?
I think it must be a sign of age :rotfl:
Anyway, I'm lucky if I get to 40 at J33 of the M1 in an evening, slow, slow, slow - frustrating

Trebor16

Inactive wrote: »

Do you resort to calling all posters " trolls " because they know more than you?

Very shallow.

No, I only label those as a troll who are deserving of it such as posters who make destructive comments and when challenged hide behind "I don't reveal my job on the internet". You have yet to demonstrate more knowledge on this subject than me, but if you think you do know more then it might be time to up your medication.

Gene_Hunt_2

Trebor16 wrote: »

No, I only label those as a troll who are deserving of it such as posters who make destructive comments and when challenged hide behind "I don't reveal my job on the internet". You have yet to demonstrate more knowledge on this subject than me, but if you think you do know more then it might be time to up your medication.

Calm down, you were told yesterday to stop biting.;)

Flyboy152

mistressg wrote: »

OP, I would say that driving at 50 on a dual carriageway or motorway is almost as dangerous as driving at 90. One of the main issues is speed differentiation. If people all drive at the same speed, there's no need to overtake or make sweeping manoeuvres.

This is why they have minimum speed limits in the States...

Why on Earth would anyone, who is paying sufficient attention, need to, "make sweeping manoeuvres?" Driving at fifty miles per hour, on a dual carriageway or motorway, has never harmed anyone.

property.advert

When a small child my father used to drive us to holiday destinations which required getting up in the middle of the night, driving all night and most of the day to reach and then return back from a week or two later. I presumed we drove to the end of the known universe but the truth was that he just drove far too slowly. As I grew up I realised that he caused problems and accidents on the highway because of his inability to drive at the correct speed. This did not improve with age !

There should be a motorway driving test, with lessons prior to being allowed to drive on the motorway. People should also have to renew their license through a test every 3 to 5 years.

People used to take risks and have problems when in the vicinity of my father when driving. He should have been retrained or banned from the road for the safety of others.

Flyboy152

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

No problem at all when someone has room to overtake. But it's still frustrating when I'm doing 70mph and a car pulls out to overtake a 56mph lorry at 58mph.

Then that is the fault of the person pulling out, not the driver who is driving at a safe speed.

But that's nothing compared with those doing 40mph on a single carriageway, often when the single carriageway as a better alignment than some motorways!

Totally agree with you, that behaviour is totally unnecessary.

Flyboy152

property.advert wrote: »

When a small child my father used to drive us to holiday destinations which required getting up in the middle of the night, driving all night and most of the day to reach and then return back from a week or two later. I presumed we drove to the end of the known universe but the truth was that he just drove far too slowly. As I grew up I realised that he caused problems and accidents on the highway because of his inability to drive at the correct speed. This did not improve with age !

There should be a motorway driving test, with lessons prior to being allowed to drive on the motorway. People should also have to renew their license through a test every 3 to 5 years.

People used to take risks and have problems when in the vicinity of my father when driving. He should have been retrained or banned from the road for the safety of others.

How did these accidents occur and why were they attributed to him?