People who drive slow...

bonnyrigger

The main time I worry about "slow" drivers is on motorway or dual carriageway slip roads. Failure to speed up to match the traffic on the road you are joining is a real menace.
If I am on the slip behind one of nature's sloths I will slow right down to open up a massive gap, let them cause chaos - (some of the muppets end up stopped at the end of the slip :eek:), and then do a normal acceleration and join the main road safely.
When you pass them a little later as they sit at 50 mph in the inside lane, inevitably they will be gripping the wheel tightly in the 10 to 2 position and stressed to the eyeballs by the speed required.

worried_jim

bonnyrigger wrote: »

The main time I worry about "slow" drivers is on motorway or dual carriageway slip roads. Failure to speed up to match the traffic on the road you are joining is a real menace.
If I am on the slip behind one of nature's sloths I will slow right down to open up a massive gap, let them cause chaos - (some of the muppets end up stopped at the end of the slip :eek:), and then do a normal acceleration and join the main road safely.
When you pass them a little later as they sit at 50 mph in the inside lane, inevitably they will be gripping the wheel tightly in the 10 to 2 position and stressed to the eyeballs by the speed required.

I work with this person!

brat

PsiDOC wrote: »

It's a speed limit, not a target.

Theoretically correct, but practically naive.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

brat wrote: »

Theoretically correct, but practically naive.

I would like to think I haven't exceeded a speed limit for the last 4 or 5 years, and I don't get pressured if I decide that a stretch of road is not suitable for the speed limit and the person behind tries to suggest otherwise - my choice not theirs.

So nothing impractical - and if you drive smoothly and predictably then the vast majority of drivers don't react badly. However, there are limits and drivers incapable of driving at more than 25mph on a main road should be considering whether they should be driving (he says thinking back to this Sunday on the Warwick Road from Warwick going north).