driving slow : your views ?

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

Cornucopia wrote: »

People were maintaining a steady speed using their right foot well before CC become more common. indeed, that's exactly how I drove prior to having cars equipped with it.

It sounds as though you've had some bad experiences, and presumed that the perpetrators were CC users, when that very possibly wasn't the case.

If anything, the problem motorway hill drivers are the ones that compensate on the way up and then don't compensate on the way down. The M42 J1 - J2 is the place to see every different tactic under the sun, and the M40 near Oxford too.

brat

Cornucopia wrote: »

People were maintaining a steady speed using their right foot well before CC become more common. indeed, that's exactly how I drove prior to having cars equipped with it.

You probably didn't realise that everyone slowed down a bit going up a hill, because you were doing it too.

Cornucopia wrote: »

It sounds as though you've had some bad experiences, and presumed that the perpetrators were CC users, when that very possibly wasn't the case.

I've attended many dreadful incidents. It is also my job to look for poor driving, and ask drivers their reason for doing it. While cc doesn't come up as an excuse for poor driving very often, it does feature from time to time.

If someone tailgates me for whatever reason, I'll let them pass at the earliest opportunity. If that opportunity doesn't present itself, I'll increase the gap between me and the car in front to create the space for the tailgater to stop too if need be.

nobbysn*ts

almillar wrote: »

......................nobbysn*ts</b> - nothing wrong with what you did in my book. If you didn't want him hassling you, or didn't want to hold him up, perhaps you should have just not accelerated immediately upon passing the NSL sign, and let him be on his way. If you actively deny him the overtake, like you did, you'd better be driving at the limit and not slightly under it otherwise you're being discourteous.
Remember - you shouldn't change speed if you're being overtaken. I'll leave it to you to interpret when he started his overtake, but you can't just drive as if he's not there.

That's the thing with overtaking. If it's not safe, and you expect the car in front to alter speed to let you pass, or in my case not accelerate when I enter a NSL zone, because he can't actually manage the overtake on his own, I wouldn't think it's discourteous by me. It's discourteous, and stupid on his part though, as only a complete idiot wouldn't expect a vehicle to accelerate when they pass into a NSL. His "right to overtake regardless of any other road user" isn't my problem, and I'll happily do the same again. If he decided to wait, and see what I did when I got to the NSL zone, then make an intelligent decision, fine. Trying to nip out a few yards early, and claiming, "I'm overtaking, everyone has to move out of my way, it's in the highway code" won't be a winner.

Buellguy

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

That's the thing with overtaking. If it's not safe, and you expect the car in front to alter speed to let you pass, or in my case not accelerate when I enter a NSL zone, because he can't actually manage the overtake on his own, I wouldn't think it's discourteous by me. It's discourteous, and stupid on his part though, as only a complete idiot wouldn't expect a vehicle to accelerate when they pass into a NSL. His "right to overtake regardless of any other road user" isn't my problem, and I'll happily do the same again. If he decided to wait, and see what I did when I got to the NSL zone, then make an intelligent decision, fine. Trying to nip out a few yards early, and claiming, "I'm overtaking, everyone has to move out of my way, it's in the highway code" won't be a winner.

Although you didn't exactly act legally


168

Being overtaken. If a driver is trying to overtake you, maintain a steady course and speed, slowing down if necessary to let the vehicle pass. Never obstruct drivers who wish to pass. Speeding up or driving unpredictably while someone is overtaking you is dangerous. Drop back to maintain a two-second gap if someone overtakes and pulls into the gap in front of you.

UsernameAlreadyExists

Buellguy wrote: »

Although you didn't exactly act legally

I don't think "illegal" suffices, it's outright dangerous. Who knows what was coming the other way or could have pulled out from a side road ... bearing in mind the asthmatic slug Nobby drives ... this "epic road battle" could have been going on for some distance.

matttye

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

I don't think "illegal" suffices, it's outright dangerous. Who knows what was coming the other way or could have pulled out from a side road ... bearing in mind the asthmatic slug Nobby drives ... this "epic road battle" could have been going on for some distance.

Behaving like that and then having the audacity to lecture us on overtaking trucks on a dual carriageway... :undecided

nobbysn*ts

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

I don't think "illegal" suffices, it's outright dangerous. Who knows what was coming the other way or could have pulled out from a side road ... bearing in mind the asthmatic slug Nobby drives ... this "epic road battle" could have been going on for some distance.

You own one car. You know one of the several cars I own. If you can't pass me safely, you have plenty of room to drop back in behind. If you decide to keep going, because the highway code says you must be given the right of way because you're so dumb you're on the wrong side of the road watching the car in front vanish, tough. It doesn't. As for this "Who knows what was coming the other way or could have pulled out from a side road " drivel, if you don't know, don't even attempt the overtake. Do you have any idea how to drive safely?

nobbysn*ts

Buellguy wrote: »

Although you didn't exactly act legally


168

Being overtaken. If a driver is trying to overtake you, maintain a steady course and speed, slowing down if necessary to let the vehicle pass. Never obstruct drivers who wish to pass. Speeding up or driving unpredictably while someone is overtaking you is dangerous. Drop back to maintain a two-second gap if someone overtakes and pulls into the gap in front of you.

So you don't think speeding up in a NSL is predictable? Admittedly the idiot behind assumed not, so I guess not all of us can predict other drivers, but expect us to drive to suit you.

nobbysn*ts

matttye wrote: »

Behaving like that and then having the audacity to lecture us on overtaking trucks on a dual carriageway... :undecided

Still the same advice. Don't try to push everyone out of the way, when it's not safe or sensible, claiming we all have to move out of your way, you're overtaking. Sometimes you're just behind, driving badly, on the wrong side of the road.

nobbysn*ts

Buellguy wrote: »

Although you didn't exactly act legally


168

Being overtaken. If a driver is trying to overtake you, maintain a steady course and speed, slowing down if necessary to let the vehicle pass. Never obstruct drivers who wish to pass. Speeding up or driving unpredictably while someone is overtaking you is dangerous. Drop back to maintain a two-second gap if someone overtakes and pulls into the gap in front of you.

You missed the first bit '163 Overtake only when it is safe and legal to do so' Certainly wasn't safe, at the start of a NSL, and as he tried to start when I was doing 40 in a 40 limit, it certainly wasn't legal. And as all he managed was to follow a bit, but on the wrong side of the road, I know who the police would be talking to first.