whats the best way to make a slow driver go faster?

mikey72

Strider, you really need to chill out when driving, with this constant urge to be at the front, and panicing when you imagine everyone else out there wants to stop you. Blood pressure will get you even if your own driving doen't.

alastairq

Blood pressure will get you even if your own driving doen't.

It's nice to know one actually has some?

mattyprice4004

Sgt_Pepper wrote: »

Makes you as bad as them really.

How is that bad? It's another of my favourite past times, around here we're plagued with 'boy racers' in tarted up Saxos and Corsas.

There's also a great, long road where the limit goes from 30 to NSL, and you usually get the numpties having a go.

I always plant my foot in 4th at 1500rpm when going through the 30 sign, and at 1800rpm the turbo wakes up and hits full boost pretty quickly... bye bye. I'm not bothered if someone is overtaking - they should plan their overtakes.

Saying that, you don't expect a granddad car to shift quite the way mine does. :rotfl:

alastairq

How is that bad? Etc, etc

Well, in 'attitude' terms, it's much the same thing.

However, perhaps you should view it as 'naughty' rather than 'bad?'

Maybe because you are aware of them [and what they may try to do....but simply choose to ignore them?]

Perhaps you could argue, the difference between you and them is.....you heightened level of awareness?


I still say, there is no external visual difference between a 18 y.o. youth in a baseball cap driving a blacked-out Saxo, and a traffic copper in a baseball cap driving a blacked out Saxo, if both doing 60mph down a road.

The difference is, what's going on inside the head?

Mr_Thrifty

I keep a fluorescent jacket on the parcel shelf. I have to have one because it's a legal requirement for going over to France. Anyway, it makes the tailgaters think twice. Makes me look "official" I guess. I wonder if one would be committing an offence by putting a policeman's hat on the shelf next to it, of the sort that you can buy in fancy-dress shops.

With regard to getting people to move out of your way, I've always wondered whether it's lawful to have flasing blue lights installed in one's car. You see tow trucks and the like with all sorts of flashing lights, but they're not blue I guess. Or even perhaps to have a siren - would that be allowed? A quick blip of a siren could probably get someone to move out of your way?

Funny, isn't it, how people will move out of the way when they hear a siren, yet when they hear a horn their immediate reaction is almost always to wave their fist and get in your way even more.

Rolandtheroadie

Mr_Thrifty wrote: »

I keep a fluorescent jacket on the parcel shelf. I have to have one because it's a legal requirement for going over to France. Anyway, it makes the tailgaters think twice. Makes me look "official" I guess. I wonder if one would be committing an offence by putting a policeman's hat on the shelf next to it, of the sort that you can buy in fancy-dress shops.

It makes you look like you work for the roads department and may pull over at any time.

rev_henry

Mr_Thrifty wrote: »

I keep a fluorescent jacket on the parcel shelf. I have to have one because it's a legal requirement for going over to France. Anyway, it makes the tailgaters think twice. Makes me look "official" I guess. I wonder if one would be committing an offence by putting a policeman's hat on the shelf next to it, of the sort that you can buy in fancy-dress shops.

With regard to getting people to move out of your way, I've always wondered whether it's lawful to have flasing blue lights installed in one's car. You see tow trucks and the like with all sorts of flashing lights, but they're not blue I guess. Or even perhaps to have a siren - would that be allowed? A quick blip of a siren could probably get someone to move out of your way?

Funny, isn't it, how people will move out of the way when they hear a siren, yet when they hear a horn their immediate reaction is almost always to wave their fist and get in your way even more.

No of course its not legal! Tow trucks and the like use amber lights.

Sgt_Pepper_2

Mr_Thrifty wrote: »

I keep a fluorescent jacket on the parcel shelf. I have to have one because it's a legal requirement for going over to France. Anyway, it makes the tailgaters think twice. Makes me look "official" I guess. I wonder if one would be committing an offence by putting a policeman's hat on the shelf next to it, of the sort that you can buy in fancy-dress shops.

With regard to getting people to move out of your way, I've always wondered whether it's lawful to have flasing blue lights installed in one's car. You see tow trucks and the like with all sorts of flashing lights, but they're not blue I guess. Or even perhaps to have a siren - would that be allowed? A quick blip of a siren could probably get someone to move out of your way?

Funny, isn't it, how people will move out of the way when they hear a siren, yet when they hear a horn their immediate reaction is almost always to wave their fist and get in your way even more.

I take it you let your carer drive you.

ffacoffipawb

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

I do find slow drivers to be extremely inconsiderate. Just because their journey isn't essential, doesn't mean those in the the convoy behind them aren't either.

Perhaps if the Government introduced a tax for the amount of time drivers spent on the road, rather then the distance, drivers might suddenly remember what the pedal on the right does.

Suggestion: A windfall tax on Vauxhall Corsa "drivers". Tax the pootlers off the road.

thanku1

30 Miles speed limit mean it is the maximum you can do if safe to do so.

tod123 wrote: »

hang on guys, if you are on a schedule , and the person in front is doing 20 in a 30 , then thats really annoying, and you need to get them to go faster!