driving slow : your views ?

matttye

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

Exactly the same as the attitude of the driver you undertook then?

I was the only car anywhere near her.. I would move out early if there was a risk of being stuck behind a slow vehicle when a queue of traffic is about to overtake. If it's just one or two cars I'd let them go past first.

nobbysn*ts

You undertook rather than slow down, touching the brakes disengages the cruise control, so two birds with one stone. You didn't want to do that. They probably didn't want to pull back in, then pull out again. If you'd been doing the speed limit, you wouldn't have been closing as quickly either, so they probably assumed you weren't speeding when they made their choice.

matttye

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

You undertook rather than slow down, touching the brakes disengages the cruise control, so two birds with one stone. You didn't want to do that. They probably didn't want to pull back in, then pull out again. If you'd been doing the speed limit, you wouldn't have been closing as quickly either, so they probably assumed you weren't speeding when they made their choice.

Everyone's a winner with the way I dealt with it then.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

roonaldo wrote: »

Wow, the World Wide Web started in 1991, not commonly available until mid 1990's.

Forums predate the Internet - BBS and Compu$erve. I was a sysop (forum moderator) for Borland in about 1993. That was in my computer days.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teach-Yourself-Programming-Days-Book/dp/067230600X

Got that writing job through my time on Compu$erve - C++.

(Just to add a bit more personal information!)

nobbysn*ts

matttye wrote: »

Everyone's a winner with the way I dealt with it then.

I don't have any problem with it. Oddly I've also had quite a few decide, in the same circumstances, myself in the second lane, but on a three lane motorway, they'll undertake rather than overtake. Also, they never make it. I don't vary my speed, I don't speed up, they just realise I'm out their because I am overtaking, and the "huge" distance they can see from behind me, suddenly isn't that big when they're heading towards the truck without someone in front on them. So they brake, then overtake in the third lane. Very odd driving, and hopefully the point they were trying to make is made to them.

matttye

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

I don't have any problem with it. Oddly I've also had quite a few decide, in the same circumstances, myself in the second lane, but on a three lane motorway, they'll undertake rather than overtake. Also, they never make it. I don't vary my speed, I don't speed up, they just realise I'm out their because I am overtaking, and the "huge" distance they can see from behind me, suddenly isn't that big when they're heading towards the truck without someone in front on them. So they brake, then overtake in the third lane. Very odd driving, and hopefully the point they were trying to make is made to them.

I would never undertake in such circumstances. If the third lane is available then I'll use that. I only undertook this time as no third lane was available for me to use.

I do undertake if people are in an overtaking lane when they're not overtaking. Some people drive in overtaking lanes when there's absolutely nothing in front of them in the normal driving lane.. they're just completely oblivious as to how to correctly drive on the motorway.

nobbysn*ts

IanMSpencer wrote: »

Forums predate the Internet - BBS and Compu$erve. I was a sysop (forum moderator) for Borland in about 1993. That was in my computer days.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teach-Yourself-Programming-Days-Book/dp/067230600X

Got that writing job through my time on Compu$erve - C++.

(Just to add a bit more personal information!)

That takes me back. Life before the internet. Although I pre date even that, mid 80's, - and a teleprinter, or even a monochrome vdu if you were lucky.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

That takes me back. Life before the internet. Although I pre date even that, mid 80's, - and a teleprinter, or even a monochrome vdu if you were lucky.

Oh, I pre-date that too, I was using modems at school in the 70s. All we ever did was play Star Trek on a teleprinter though.

nobbysn*ts

IanMSpencer wrote: »

Oh, I pre-date that too, I was using modems at school in the 70s. All we ever did was play Star Trek on a teleprinter though.

Writing programs in fortran and cobol for my sins if I can remember correctly.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

Fortran and cobol if I can remember correctly.

That game ran on the London City University Timesharing Service in BASIC. I didn't believe it was possible to have a career in computing then. Swapped to computing at Uni after a year doing something else.