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Speeding.....when do you do it?.....is it ever 'OK'?
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Strider590 wrote: »^^ Sometimes when your stuck on a long B road behind 8 cars doing 30mph, you know full well that you'll NEVER get chance to overtake all of them at once. But it's the people that accelerate and close the gaps who are a nuisance.... I would do the opposite, I would actually brake to let someone in!!
This morning, on a dual carriageway, woman in old Vectra doing maybe 40 in a 50...... I'm in the right hand lane anyway and I cruise past her doing 50, I know the road is about to merge but I stay in lane to follow the arrows back as it merges, I look in my mirror and there she is accelerating up the inside about a cars length behind me (doing maybe 55-60mph) just as the road merges. She then comes right up 2 inches behind, leans on the horn and flashes her headlights!?!? I don't understand the mentality! im sure she had no intention of actually undertaking me.... I think she was just looking for a confrontation!!
People like this need removing from our roads! this was nothing to do with speed, yet the authorities would claim this was a safe way to drive?
Oh and before this thread becomes a warzone, the "overtaking or using both lanes is illegal" brigade can f*ck right off
YES! yesterday afternoon, A38 southbound, come to the roundabout in Derby where McDonalds is, 3 lanes for going straight on, the outside line cuts into the second lane 100 yards after the roundabout. I was in the outside lane, and a blue Zafira inside me, I wasnt gonna race, and if i have to slow to get behind someone alongside in lane 2 who's alongside, i will do.
But NOOB in the zafira decided he was mr matcho, and right across the front of me on the roundabout, so i just got in behind him off the roundabout to show i wasnt even going to try racing him, so he then slammed the brakes on to try and cause me some problems... he didnt see that no-one was in lane 1, so undertook i did, only to see his wife hitting him and having a go at him...0 -
I would let you in! in my older faster cars i would have been following you round people, in my more economical, slower, wife friendly car, i cant overtake as well, but I'd respect that you wanna come past so i'd try to make it easy as i can for you if i cannot overtake myself...
I do this too. Also on the few occasions when I'm stuck having to drive at an annoyingly low speed* I'll be sure to pull into laybys and let people past from time to time because I know how annoying it is.
We're definitely in the minority on this one though.
* Last time was when I was driving a manky old Passat and had a car engine in the back. One of the ropes had failed and I wasn't able to get it properly stable. Had to take corners really slowly as a result.0 -
I tend to remain at the old speed limits on non-urban roads that have been reduced for no conceivable reason.
The number of 60 roads that are now 40 is absurd.
The worst one is the A56 between Accrington and Haslingden. It's a 70mph dual carriageway that now has two short 50mph stretches for no reason whatsoever. Nobody pays any attention and continue to drive at 70+.0 -
Hmmm, if your having someone pull infront of you because they as you put it misjudged there overtake, then that means you could have done the overtake? No?
Thats what I find most annoying some guy going along at 35-40 in a 60 zone and then there is like 4 cars all just following not overtaking when there is a chance to.
Then if I go and hop past 1-2 at a time it upsets people, but if they would overtake in the first place then it would not be a problem would it?
A lot of people don't understand their cars only have maximum hp at about 6000RPM. They don't like overtaking because they instinctively change up at about 3000 and so think their car can't go as fast as it actually can.0 -
The speedlimit is the maximum safe speed for that section of road.
To those that speed can you honestly say that you can stop in time if something unexpected happens? I drive as fast as I can see to stop (within the limit) & never had an accident.0 -
I do this too. Also on the few occasions when I'm stuck having to drive at an annoyingly low speed* I'll be sure to pull into laybys and let people past from time to time because I know how annoying it is.
We're definitely in the minority on this one though.
* Last time was when I was driving a manky old Passat and had a car engine in the back. One of the ropes had failed and I wasn't able to get it properly stable. Had to take corners really slowly as a result.
It's called considerate driving! I'm not perfect at it, but i try my hardest to annoy as few people around me as possible. E.g. on motorways, if overtaking a number of vehicles and someone behind me is faster, ill pull in between cars to let them go and then continue my overtaking...
If anyone is that considerate to me in future ill know it's you Lum!0 -
A lot of people don't understand their cars only have maximum hp at about 6000RPM. They don't like overtaking because they instinctively change up at about 3000 and so think their car can't go as fast as it actually can.
Oh god I used to work with somebody like that. One time when I had to pick up a new car from a dealership some distance away, and near his house, he offered to give me a lift on that day. In reality this meant I had to drive his company car, pick him up from the airport and drive him to his house, then walk to the dealership.
It was a Golf GT TDi 140bhp on a mostly single carriageway run and literally every time he saw the rev gauge go above 2500 RPM he'd start shouting about how I'm going to knacker his car. From that day on anytime anything went wrong with his car, including when the electric window motor failed, he blamed how I'd treated his car.
To my mind I was being gentle. I was changing up at around 3700 RPMcrazylegsr65 wrote: »The speedlimit is the maximum safe speed for that section of road.
This is quite simply not true. It may have been 10 years ago, but not any more.To those that speed can you honestly say that you can stop in time if something unexpected happens? I drive as fast as I can see to stop (within the limit) & never had an accident.
Yes. Drive such that you know you can stop within the distance you can guarantee to be clear is one of the basic principles of safe driving.0 -
crazylegsr65 wrote: »The speedlimit is the maximum safe speed for that section of road.
To those that speed can you honestly say that you can stop in time if something unexpected happens? I drive as fast as I can see to stop (within the limit) & never had an accident.
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO, The majority of speed limits where set when cars had drum brakes all round, no disc brakes, no abs, you could easily increase speed limits 20% and a modern car would easily stop quicker than a car of the age when speed limits where setANURADHA KOIRALA ??? go on throw it in google.0 -
Edit: ^^^^^ This. Oh god this. For example a modern Aston Martin can stop in literally half the "shortest stopping distance" specified in the highway code. Even a 10 year old Corsa can stop in a shorter distance, providing the driver doesn't have the reaction times of an oak tree.It's called considerate driving!
As I said, we're in the minority here!
To be honest it's pretty rare that I'll be holding someone up an an SC, unless they're wanting to travel above the speed limit.If anyone is that considerate to me in future ill know it's you Lum!
I'll still hang left and give a left signal when it's a safe overtaking spot though. The aim is to say "Go ahead, overtake, I'm not going to be a !!!! about it and speed up on you".
Not my job to enforce the law (my speedo could be wrong), and I improve safety by getting them off my backside
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NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO, The majority of speed limits where set when cars had drum brakes all round, no disc brakes, no abs, you could easily increase speed limits 20% and a modern car would easily stop quicker than a car of the age when speed limits where set
Fair comment, but, there is now far more traffic on our roads which kind of puts things back to where they were.0
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