driving slow : your views ?

nobbysn*ts

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

Just plain discourteous and selfish then.

Nope, just I really don't give a sh*t about an idiot behind me.

UsernameAlreadyExists

You give enough of a sh*t to prevent him from overtaking.
So plain discourteous and selfish then.

nobbysn*ts

Sometimes you're hard work. No, I really, really, don't care. He's there, if he wants to speed, he can, if he wants to potter along he can, If he wants to drive on the right, he can. He's an idiot, he doesn't deserve more of my attention than I need to give him. Otherwise, it's just one more stranger driving badly who I genuinely have no feelings for either way.

Cornucopia

It's one of those fundamental dilemmas of driving - how much effort to take to save someone else from the consequences of their own stupidity.

And for an experienced driver, there can actually be substantial leeway between overly courteous and downright dangerous.

I wouldn't want to "call" this scenario - I wasn't there and cannot possibly judge based on the limited info provided.

UsernameAlreadyExists

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

Sometimes you're hard work. No, I really, really, don't care. He's there, if he wants to speed, he can, if he wants to potter along he can, If he wants to drive on the right, he can. He's an idiot, he doesn't deserve more of my attention than I need to give him. Otherwise, it's just one more stranger driving badly who I genuinely have no feelings for either way.

And I quote again

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

, if he decided to illegally attempt an overtake by speeding in the end of the lower limit, I am not going to be slowed down by every poor driver behind me.

You feel strongly enough to prevent him from overtaking you ... even though you seem to think that by him overtaking you, he's going to hold you up?
So plain discourteous and selfish then.


"Otherwise, it's just one more stranger driving badly who I genuinely have no feelings for either way"
So long as they're behind you ... right?

nobbysn*ts

UsernameAlreadyExists wrote: »

And I quote again



You feel strongly enough to prevent him from overtaking you ... even though you seem to think that by him overtaking you, he's going to hold you up?
So plain discourteous and selfish then.


"Otherwise, it's just one more stranger driving badly who I genuinely have no feelings for either way"
So long as they're behind you ... right?

Jeez, I really don't care where you are. So long as you don't drop your moped on the road in front of me, and go bouncing down the tarmac on your backside, 'cos then I will be obliged to stop to get you an ambulance, I really don't give a rat's !!!! what you do. Just don't expect me to do your driving for you, and I won't expect you to do mine.

UsernameAlreadyExists

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

Jeez, I really don't care where you are.

Yes you do ... because you prevented him from overtaking.

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

So long as you don't drop your moped on the road in front of me, and go bouncing down the tarmac on your backside, 'cos then I will be obliged to stop to get you an ambulance,

What moped?

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

I really don't give a rat's !!!! what you do.

Yes you do ... because you prevented him from overtaking.

nobbysn*ts wrote: »

Just don't expect me to do your driving for you, and I won't expect you to do mine.

You did his driving for him ... because you prevented him from overtaking.

So plain discourteous and selfish then.

nobbysn*ts

There's an echo around here.

almillar

nobbysn*ts - I did read your post properly, and I gave you a hypothetical, similar, situation.
You're giving yourself an allowance of being a few MPH below the speed limit whilst he follows you (that's perfectly fine of course) but you're not giving him a few metre's grace when he attempts to overtake you in what you say is his slow car. I am now more strongly of the opinion that it would be better for you to let him go. Let's say he started those few metres later, and DID NOT break the speed limit - would you still race away leaving him with a cancelled overtake? This would be discourteous of you *IF* *IF* *IF* you had been holding him up previously.

Don't really give a sh*t either way about him tbh

Ah, now you see, that's what I'm getting at... You don't give a **** about him until he wants past. You insist that you're not changing your behaviour due to his presence, that you'd be accelerating strongly on leaving that speed limit - fair enough, I believe you, and that's good driving, but I think you should consider changing your behaviour due to him. Let him go, accelerate that little bit more gently to let him past, save yourself a little bit of fuel, and the road should be a happier place. You're not there to punish people in slow cars who accelerate a little too soon. Tell you what, there's much worse going on on the roads than this!

nobbysn*ts

almillar wrote: »

nobbysn*ts - I did read your post properly, and I gave you a hypothetical, similar, situation.
You're giving yourself an allowance of being a few MPH below the speed limit whilst he follows you (that's perfectly fine of course) but you're not giving him a few metre's grace when he attempts to overtake you in what you say is his slow car. I am now more strongly of the opinion that it would be better for you to let him go. Let's say he started those few metres later, and DID NOT break the speed limit - would you still race away leaving him with a cancelled overtake? This would be discourteous of you *IF* *IF* *IF* you had been holding him up previously.



Ah, now you see, that's what I'm getting at... You don't give a **** about him until he wants past. You insist that you're not changing your behaviour due to his presence, that you'd be accelerating strongly on leaving that speed limit - fair enough, I believe you, and that's good driving, but I think you should consider changing your behaviour due to him. Let him go, accelerate that little bit more gently to let him past, save yourself a little bit of fuel, and the road should be a happier place. You're not there to punish people in slow cars who accelerate a little too soon. Tell you what, there's much worse going on on the roads than this!

No, didn't care about him when he was behind me, didn't care when he moved out, wouldn't care if he had got past, safely, by himself.
Don't care he was an idiot to try in the first place.