driving slow : your views ?

nobbysn*ts

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

See post #677

Right, so you DO believe a speeding car driver ran into someone going at the legal limit, so the slower driver should break the law to avoid them.

UsernameAlreadyExists

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

Right, so you DO believe a speeding car driver ran into someone going at the legal limit, so the slower driver should break the law to avoid them.

What on earth are you talking about now?
My post #677 was in response to

Quick poll: should the driver speed up above the limit to account for the speed of other traffic around them given there were no speed camera warning signs, works or obvious cameras? Yes or no.

What has that got to do with the accident?

nobbysn*ts

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

What on earth are you talking about now?
My post #677 was in response to

What has that got to do with the accident?

Indeed. Enough said.

UsernameAlreadyExists

Really? Well you've lost me completely (and I appreciate the irony of that statement, because if it was on the road, that clearly wouldn't happen ... you'd be on the brakes)
You're obviously on a whole different planet from me

nobbysn*ts

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

Really? Well you've lost me completely (and I appreciate the irony of that statement, because if it was on the road, that clearly wouldn't happen ... you'd be on the brakes)
You're obviously on a whole different planet from me

Again. Indeed, enough said.

UsernameAlreadyExists

Enough said

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

What I see is a perverse situation where you are suggesting that herd instinct determines the correct speed.

If I go at 50 and other people follow suit, then the flow will be 50 and that becomes the correct speed and it would be inappropriate to force the pace. Because someone drives at a speed that could get me banned from driving if I was stopped, you expect me to risk my licence to satisfy the impatience of those who want to save a few seconds by not following the limit and consider that they have no duty of care to law abiding citizens making due progress.

I wonder how a person is supposed to know these unwritten rules to drive like a Brit?

(PS no points on my licence in case anyone was confused by my hypothetical)

UsernameAlreadyExists

So you really don't understand herd mentality or "the wisdom of crowds"? Google it.
Wow ...

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

So you really don't understand herd mentality or "the wisdom of crowds"? Google it.
Wow ...

Oh, I understand it, I just don't see it as a viable system for implementing an enforceable variable speed limit.

Systems like VSL on the M42 and the M25 are a result of the problems of herd instincts producing dangerous effects. The use of average speed cameras has made road works free flowing and uneventful where before the herd demonstrated the dangerous side effects of allowing people to charge around as they saw fit.

UsernameAlreadyExists

If you break from the herd, you are the outsider, and you are in the wrong! Who decides what the speed limit should be?