People not knowing how to use motorways properly.

mttylad

Has anyone mentioned those with broken indicator stalks yet?

Or the wink, wink and I'm out of here brigade?

Sharon87

mttylad wrote: »

Has anyone mentioned those with broken indicator stalks yet?

Or the wink, wink and I'm out of here brigade?

Well I had someone today, in a slow moving traffic queue at a junction and I went to go around and the car in front tried to move at the same time as me, but his indicators obviously didn't work!

There I've mentioned it

chewynut

Sharon87 wrote: »

On my driving lesson today I had a middle lane hog on the A1. I knew I was going to need to go into the left hand lane a mile or so ahead so I stayed behind and did 55mph on a national speed limit road so not to undertake him! As a learner I didn't feel confident in going to the middle, then right, back to the left lane within the time I needed. It's amazing the rubbish driving you witness during driving lessons, I guess because I'm being taught to do everything safe and legal and get told of any mistakes I make, then I see others driving worse lol. I guess that's what driving is all about though, avoiding other people's mistakes

The stuff you see on lessons can be astonishing sometimes. Considering many of these people will have been driving longer than I've been alive, surely they should do better than me. But they'll do 50mph in a 30mph zone to overtake, cut me up, overtake me on corners, stop a foot behind me on hills, forget their indicators, honk at me if I stall which usually serves to fluster me and make me stall again, swear at me...and that's just the stuff I can remember!

Voyager2002

moneypooh wrote: »

The proiblem is caused when they travel at 55mph and still sit there! The M40 was blocked for miles by people driving slowly in the middle lane and mad maniacs travelling at 90+ in the outer lane. What do you suggest then, because you can't undertake either?

I have to say, 55mph sounds like a perfectly reasonable speed for long-distance driving. That is the level of the speed limit in the USA, because cars travelling at that speed use petrol most efficiently. Going any faster is wasteful: if anyone is in such a hurry that they need to go at a higher speed, they should take a train or an air taxi.

shaun_from_Africa

I have to say, 55mph sounds like a perfectly reasonable speed for long-distance driving. That is the level of the speed limit in the USA,

The countrywide 55mph limit in the USA hasn't been in place for well over 20 years. The majority of interstates now have a 70mph limit, and some states are in excess of this and no state has a 55mph limit except in places where the roads may be known to suffer from congestion or pass through heavily built up areas where there are lots of on and off ramps.
Many states also impose minimum speed limits as drivers travelling well below the speed of the majority of other vehicles can be as dangerous as those moving too fast.

55mph may be okay on a motorway, but only if the vehicles moving at this speed stay in the left hand lane so that they don't impede other vehicles that are going much faster.

theesel1994

ludovico wrote: »

The main issue is you spend 20-30 hours driving around local streets at 28mph learning how to drive and are then let loose on a motorway without any training.

You do some hours on dual carriageways as well before your test. But I get the point about then going straight onto the motorways. After I'd sat my test and bought a car I then booked another couple of lessons in darkness hours for motorway experience.

Rarely drive many miles these days. Been a couple of years since I was on a motorway. What I'd hate back then would be two lorries driving parallel to each other for miles at whatever the maximum speed is they are allowed to drive at. And the right lane is packed with drivers doing 90+.

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Honeydog wrote: »

Nope. It is bullying.

It doesn't happen to me often but when it does I NEVER move over. if I do then I am encouraging that person to bully the next person and the next and the next.

You are obviously a bully as well. Another one.

yes it is bullying. Lol, I just tap my brakes if I get a tailgater

Honeydog

kittie wrote: »

yes it is bullying. Lol, I just tap my brakes if I get a tailgater

If I'm not in a hurry I sometimes slow down as well. They always get the message. Sometimes I wave cheerfully and give a huge soppy grin as they go past. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

millwall34

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

The amount of idiots pottering along in the middle lane today is unbelievable, and when they're 'flashed' out of the way they seem to take offense as if I'm in the wrong.

I wait behind a lane 2 hog until someone in lane 3 is going to overtake us, I slide into lane 1 and overtake him at the same time as the car in lane 3.

Once we are both passed, lane 2 hog moves into lane 1.

lisawood78

millwall34 wrote: »

I wait behind a lane 2 hog until someone in lane 3 is going to overtake us, I slide into lane 1 and overtake him at the same time as the car in lane 3.

Once we are both passed, lane 2 hog moves into lane 1.

Am I reading that wrong, or are you saying you deliberatley move lanes to undertake?