slow drivers

arcon5

Or option 8 - he drives an Audi

brat

What are you planning to do with the results of your 'poll' Martin? Do you plan using it to change your own attitude as a result of the edification?

Joe_Horner

arcon5 wrote: »

Option 1 then, thanks

I'll have a Number 5 please - sweet & sour cabbage

mgdavid

Norman_Castle wrote: »

Because they can and they want to be inconsiderate drivers. Don't take it personally.

fixed that for you...

brat

mgdavid wrote: »

fixed that for you...

I think you're almost completely wrong.

alastairq

When everybody on here who claims to be blatantly ageist, is prepared to surrender their driving licences when they reach the age of 56....then, old scrotes like me will pay them some heed.

Until then, learn to live with age on the roads.

As for tailgaters?

Well, I freely admit to being a bit naughty here...I totally ignore them!

[Not the advice I'd give professionally, but hey ho]....

In fact, I have pretty much zero interest in those right behind me.

I know they are there, and that's it.

What I DO pay attention to, at the appropriate time, are those to my left and right rear.

In the past 25 years or so I've had three no-fault, but highly lucrative, claims against those who have tailgated me, and discovered that the vehicle in front will inevitably..at some point, stop quicker than the vehicle behind..regardless of technology.[the weakest link is the human brain behind the steering wheel of the following vehicle....technology hasn't done very much to enhance that particular item, has it?]

Let's face it, few lorry drivers in their 44-tonne wagons are really going to be concerned about the BMW tailgating their trailer, are they?

The problem with tailgaters is, they get away with it all the time....the collisions really rarely happen on a day-to-day basis.

Not because they can stop quicker than the vehicle in front...but purely because circumstances have been favourable to all the drivers concerned.

The threat is only seen by the driver in front [intimidation?]

However, I do note that, given most drivers consider themselves to be reasonable folk when not behind the wheel...there could be a mechanical reason why folk tailgate?

My thoughts centre on the predominance these days, of cars which are actually quite high off the ground.

Raising a drivers' seated height plays around with that driver's perception of width, and distance in front.

They think they are further away from the vehicle in front, than what they actually are?

[hey folks, I'm trying to be charitable here.........]

custardy

were classing 56 as old? :eek:

martinthebandit

custardy wrote: »

were classing 56 as old? :eek:

Appears so, and yes :eek:

I still haven't figured out why someone thought that was relevant.

brat wrote: »

What are you planning to do with the results of your 'poll' Martin? Do you plan using it to change your own attitude as a result of the edification?

Well now I have realised just how aggressive and intolerant some of them can be I will take that into account while driving, so yes in a way.

Although, probably I will just smile to myself and sit in the queue behind them as usual.

arcon5

martinthebandit wrote: »

Appears so, and yes :eek:

I still haven't figured out why someone thought that was relevant.




Well now I have realised just how aggressive and intolerant some of them can be I will take that into account while driving, so yes in a way.

Although, probably I will just smile to myself and sit in the queue behind them as usual.

I was trying to determine whether you was an 18 year old boy racer with no sense of danger and too much confidence - but that's that theory out the window.

martinthebandit

arcon5 wrote: »

I was trying to determine whether you was an 18 year old boy racer with no sense of danger and too much confidence - but that's that theory out the window.

Ah, fair enough, the good old ignore the question, have a pop at the questioner technique.

The current theory appears to be that I am an irresponsible old fogey who should hand his licence back, which, from reading the posts on here by the people who appear to think that, I find strangely amusing.