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

alastairq

of course, since there are many different mandatory speed limits for various types of vehicle, ....and it really doesn't matter what shape the vehicle is...it 's there, fact f life, then there is no excuse for thinking that everybody should 'drive to the limit' under every occasion.


Consider this?

Perhaps the driver in front is going slower than you would like, because they have seen something, or know something, you don't?


There are a million-and-one valid reasons for driving at a speed less than the limit, before we get to the 'incompetence' level?

Heck, we've got a thread on here about 'driving economically'....which may well involve driving at a speed lower than the prevailing limit? Yet another reason?


It's a public highway we drive on.

Whilst one individual may feel they have a 'right' to press on [they don't], so another may feel they have a right to drive more slowly.
Swap the slow car in front for a lorry, and immediately one has a vehicle which, by law, has a lower speed limit.


Swap that for a white van, and there's yet another speed limit.

Bus?...yet another, and so on.


The danger on the roads is primarily ignorance.

Consider this?

If you lot want to 'press on', why should I have to delay my journey time to allow you do so ?

If one is tolerant of others when walking down the pavement, why not so when driving down the road?

fivetide

Lum wrote: »

In their little world doing anything other than 40mph is a cardinal sin.

Changed that a bit. The 40mph brigade are the real pains in the backside. those that want to do 40 all the time.

You know the type, dawdling along on a single carriageway at 40 in a 60 and then,,, ooh, village, might be kids 30mph limit comes into force and yep, off they speed at 40.

Presumably they think it all balances out somewhere???

5t.

giraffe69

The most obvious wind up thread I've seen since I started looking at this board. Ignore, ignore.

reeac

Lum wrote: »

So you need to learn the "stealth overtake". Do not tailgate (this is true even if you don't intend to overtake), hang well back and keep an eye on the upcoming road layout, road markings and oncoming traffic. Do not indicate unless there is a vehicle behind, such as a motorbike, who you think may also try to overtake at the same point.

Once you have decided you can overtake, stay in lane and accelerate until you are nearing the point of no return, this is the point where you must either pull out and actually overtake or brake to avoid hitting them. At this point you must reassess whether it's still safe to overtake and either brake or pull out. You should be going around 20mph faster at this point.

Once you pull out, the person may actually wake up and realise what's happening (unlikely as these people usually think their mirrors are decorations, but it does happen) and they will accelerate, others will wait until you are alongside before they accelerate. Either way as you're already 20mph faster they will be unable to block you and you can complete your manoeuvre in a smooth and safe manner.

If this style of overtaking sounds silly and unnecessary, I actually sort-of agree, it should not be necessary to overtake like this. Unfortunately it is.

The stealth overtake sounds like a dangerous maneouvre to me - disguise your move until the last possible moment having assumed that the driver in front doesn't use his mirrors ... and all based on the assumption that they are deliberately obstructing you. Have you heard of paranoia?

Raksha

Stealth overtake? That must be what the guy in the sports car who overtook me on a single lane entry single lane exit roundabout was doing when I found him on the inside of me and planning on taking the same exit as me....... He was lucky I saw him and didn't let him put his nice shine car in the side of my ancient estate......

Strider590

Lum wrote: »

Yes it's still legal to overtake on a single carriageway, providing you obey the relevant road markings, eg. don't do it on a double white line, but it's ok to use a hatched area to overtake providing that hatched area has a broken white line bordering it on your side.

Problem is, many of these people get offended by being overtaken and will speed up to prevent you from pulling in. In their little world going above 40mph is a cardinal sin so you must be punished by being held out on the wrong side of the road until you collide with an oncoming car. Apparently attempted murder is less serious than wanting to drive at 55mph in a 60 limit.

I managed to upset a truck driver this morning, he was doing 35 in a 60, I wasn't even bothered by this as I appreciate he may be carrying a heavy load (but I later realise he's on his mobile phone). All I did was overtake when I had a safe opportunity and next thing I know 2 minutes later ive got this 7.5t truck inches off my rear bumper (strangely enough now doing 55mph), flashing his lights and waving his arms about, he follows me all the way to a roundabout, takes the wrong lane in attempt to overtake me, then ends up in a queue behind me shouting obscenities before heading off down the M5!!
God help the hundreds of cars that overtake him this morning when he's stuck at 57mph!!

Sometimes it's really hard to give "benefit of the doubt" to ANY driver, far easier and safer to assume that every driver around you will try to kill you, if given half a chance.

Stealth overtaking FTW

Mrs_Imp

tod123 wrote: »

Thats all very well for you to say , but I had to be somewhere for dinner,

Surely in this case it was a blessing in disguise, as it meant that you spent less time with the screaming children in the restaurant.

If they're driving slowly enough then you'll probably have time to get the G+T out en route. That should help.

fivetide

Mrs_Imp wrote: »

If they're driving slowly enough then you'll probably have time to get the G+T out en route. That should help.

You should never drink and drive!

There is a real danger of spilling it and marking the seats.

:beer:

5t.

[Deleted User]

Undertake them if it is a duel carriageway you are talking about. Many a time I have been stuck behind someone in the 2nd lane when there is nothing in the 1st lane for as far as the eye can see.

SailorSam

Have you ever noticed that sometimes when you're driving that you get the impatient driver behind you flashing his lights and making hand gestures wanting to speed off. Only minutes after he/she has passed you get to the next set of traffic lights, and there he is.