driving slow : your views ?

skitler

im a slow driver when im in the van/camper as indicated by the op. when im on the motorbike I ride like being chased by the devil.


im sure both styles wind up/upset others and I really don't give a shlt, its my choice to do as I please, if your not happy with other folks driving then get the buss or stay home.

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redmike123 wrote: »

And, like an earlier poster, if they tailgate me I slow down.

Why don't you either ignore them completely, or if you feel intimidated (or even considerate of their desire to go faster), let them pass?

Doing things that make them more likely to run into the back of you, or overtake dangerously and push you off the road strikes me as something of a phyrric victory.

Ebe_Scrooge

skitler wrote: »

im a slow driver when im in the van/camper as indicated by the op. when im on the motorbike I ride like being chased by the devil.

Last week I was driving on a road I know very, very well. Back of the hand job. NSL, clear, dry, no traffic. Normally I do < ahem > slightly more than 60. Police car pulls out of a side road in front of me about 1/2 a mile up ahead ( yes, I can see that far ahead ). I think "oh no, gonna be stuck at 60 here for the next 30 miles". But no, he does 90. No blue lights or sirens, he's on his way back to the nick to clock off. So I tuck in behind him ( leaving a more than safe gap ). So the limit is officially 60, but 80 - 90 is actually quite safe here. He can hardly pull me for speeding when he's doing 90 on a NSL !

Conversely, the village where I live, the road going through it is 30 mph. But I know there's a school, and residential area, and my kids and their friends are playing out on their bikes. 30 is far too fast, I do about 15.

Speed doesn't kill - inappropriate speed does.

< rant over >

buglawton

I use a similar sounding road. I stick to about 55 on it. Every so often a BMW or a black Focus will, with a show of impatience, fly past and continue at about 80. Oh, did I forget to mention I previously had a near miss on this road when a deer leapt across out of the heavily foliaged border?

Bonniepurple

Ebe_Scrooge wrote: »

Speed doesn't kill - inappropriate speed does.

< rant over >

Sounds like the time I got stuck behind a bus with the slogan "speed kills". While I was behind that bus:
2 drivers pulled out behind me (bus was stopped at the top of a blind hill on a busy road)
Pedestrians walked out into the road using the speed camera markings as a zebra crossing

But of course, it wasn't liable to result in a crash as nobody was speeding :rotfl:.

Speed doesn't kill. Stupidity kills.

almillar

The notion that faster drivers have any kind of right to overtake is a nonsense.

We all have a right to overtake if it's safe to do so, that's in the Highway Code. If we ALL understand that people may want to drive at different speeds from us (faster or slower) and that we may not get to drive at exactly the speed we want, we would all have happier lives...

GabbaGabbaHey

redmike123 wrote: »

And, like an earlier poster, if they tailgate me I slow down.

That's fine, providing that you are doing so in order to open up a gap between you and the vehicle in front, so that the car which is tailgating you has a space to pull in to when they overtake you.

Any other reason would be purely childish, dangerous and anti-social.

skitler

Bonniepurple wrote: »

Speed doesn't kill. Stupidity kills.

speed, although can kill, can also make any accident injuries worse, granted, and as bonniepurple says stupidity kills as does inadequate driving skills and lack of attention to the road and surroundings due to ignorance.


you only have to read this thread to see that some folk are ignorant of the hwc, and have a selfish attitude to driving.


ive driven everything from push bikes and horses to hgv class 1, in many countries, over the years, and ive seen it all, its always the person in the wrong that shouts loudest.

skitler

GabbaGabbaHey wrote: »

That's fine, providing that you are doing so in order to open up a gap between you and the vehicle in front, so that the car which is tailgating you has a space to pull in to when they overtake you.

Any other reason would be purely childish, dangerous and anti-social.

no, that is not the reason why you slow down when being tail gated.


the reason to slow down is, if the vehicle in front of you brakes suddenly you can brake at a slower rate to avoid a rear ending.


re read the hwc.

buglawton

GabbaGabbaHey wrote: »

That's fine, providing that you are doing so in order to open up a gap between you and the vehicle in front, so that the car which is tailgating you has a space to pull in to when they overtake you.

Any other reason would be purely childish, dangerous and anti-social.

Like tailgating, then?