Why do you drive everywhere at 40mph?

Mercdriver

Strider590 wrote: »

The problem isn't the slow driver up front, it's the driver behind them that won't overtake because it's "anti-social".

How do you work that out? If the driver up front hadn't been driving unnecessarily slow there wouldn't be a need to overtake. The slow driver upfront is first cause a driver behind being hesitant to overtake (and there may be a good reason for so being) is contributing but isn't the one causing a problem.

You have very strange logic.

Strider590

Mercdriver wrote: »

How do you work that out? If the driver up front hadn't been driving unnecessarily slow there wouldn't be a need to overtake. The slow driver upfront is first cause a driver behind being hesitant to overtake (and there may be a good reason for so being) is contributing but isn't the one causing a problem.

You have very strange logic.

It's the 2nd driver that makes it impossible to overtake, turning a simple 1 car hop, into the equivalent of overtaking a HGV (and that is assuming the driver up front doesn't accelerate when being overtaken, which we all know is very likely).

Car_54

photome wrote: »

wrong, doing 40 in a 60 would fail the driving test.

Not necessarily. There are lots of places where the NSL applies but doing 60 would be unsafe - and could lead to failure

waamo

Car_54 wrote: »

Not necessarily. There are lots of places where the NSL applies but doing 60 would be unsafe - and could lead to failure

Indeed. Many roads by me are single track and very twisty. Doing 60 down them would be idiotic.

Strider590

Car_54 wrote: »

Not necessarily. There are lots of places where the NSL applies but doing 60 would be unsafe - and could lead to failure

waamo wrote: »

Indeed. Many roads by me are single track and very twisty. Doing 60 down them would be idiotic.

I think we all know this goes without saying, other than the usual "it's a limit not a target", "it's not a race", etc etc one liner excuse/putdowns, why mention it?

deaston

Today I had an HGV drive as close to my bumper as he possibly could because I was doing 30mph through villages. Once in the NSL zones he'd disappear behind me only to reappear once I was in the next village.

He then got very annoyed that, when a 40 sign became visible in the far distance, I kept at 30. He tried to overtake and then beeped at me when he couldn't do so. Even when I increased to 40 once in the 40 zone, he continued to try to make love to my rear bumper.

Thankfully, aggressive drivers don't wind me up. And the fact that his reg was B19 C U M said it all. Having "Hemel Grab Services" all over his truck also made me surprised he chose to drive so aggressively.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

I've concluded that generally there is a set of drivers who simply don't believe that driving requires skill and attention. They think that all that is required is to point the car in the right direction with the minimum of thought. They don't really understand how gears work, they simply have a routine that seems to make the car go - woe betide them if they hit a steep hill and their momentum will not take them over the top.

They have no awareness.

They are a subset of drivers who get extremely upset with cyclists (the other being the vicious "educators" who think that driving dangerously close or hurling abuse is a sensible way to get cyclists to see sense and never darken their doors again). I see it all the time, a cyclist is in the road and they panic as cyclists are a moving target that require thought. They normally can cope with parked cars, they are oblivious to dangerous junctions, crossings and most road hazards, but as generally a cycle might scratch their paint if they get overly intimate, it causes the 40mph cruiser to get all in a tizz. They'll crawl behind a cyclist for miles with a clear view and a dual carriageway worth of width, and then on a blind bend they'll suddenly decide to overtake.

My theory on the last point is that is like the notoriously stupid Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal who covers his head with a towel on the principle that if he can't see you, you can't see him - so as a driver, a blind bend is the perfect place to overtake as there cannot be anything there as it cannot be seen whereas on a straight road with 2 miles of visibility you can see where a car might suddenly appear out of thin air (which to these drivers, is probably how they perceive traffic anyway as they pay no attention whatsoever.

boliston

deaston wrote: »

Today I had an HGV drive as close to my bumper as he possibly could because I was doing 30mph through villages. Once in the NSL zones he'd disappear behind me only to reappear once I was in the next village.

He then got very annoyed that, when a 40 sign became visible in the far distance, I kept at 30........

I normally just go into "go slow" mode when someone tries to make me hurry - not just driving, even walking I sometimes hear annoying people tap tap tap very close behind me so the best tactic is to start walking at half your normal pace. Even at a supermarket checkout you get pushy people who try and speed you up and this is a good chance to have great difficulty remembering your pin lol

Car_54

Strider590 wrote: »

I think we all know this goes without saying

If only .....

Strider590

All these excuses for these substandard drivers.............

I used to make excuses for them, but i've come to realise that 90% of time they're being passive-aggressive, they know they are bad drivers and they're trying to p*ss people off, so that they do something "stupid" so that Mr smug faced git can sit there having "proven" that another driver is worse than they are.
Typically they are driving to their own highway code and they're trying to enforce this onto other drivers.

They're just looking for a fight, looking to control other people in a passive-aggressive manner. Usually deep down they suspect they're wrong, but they believe that others are not intelligent enough to have a valid argument, typically because they can sit their in their cars blocking you and infuriating you and IF you ever get chance to "have a word" they throw out a bunch of one liners ("limit not a target", "not a race" etc) and it requires substantially more effort to "come back" than it did for them to say that in the first place, they arrogantly refuse to listen, this causes more anger and therefore they "win".