Not me.
I often write "Your skid stops here" on the back of my trailer.....
M40 fun last night - anyone else get stuck in it?
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Problem is, when you leave a gap as suggested in the highway code, you get ****s sliding into the gaps.
So you just pull back a bit to restore a proper distance.
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And then someone else pulls into the gap and so on and so on and traffic slows to a crawl
And then someone else pulls into the gap and so on and so on and traffic slows to a crawl
Yes, but that is because the road has reached capacity, not because of people pulling into gaps.
But it does feel like you are just going backwards, if car after car after car after car just slips into the gaps that you're creating.
I must admit to conciously driving a little closer to the car in front than I feel 100% comfortable with in busy situations on motorways.
I only do that when I get the feeling that a car to my left is going to try and cut into my stopping distance anyway, there's usually little signs like the driver looking over their shoulder or a change in road position (a particularly easy one is for them to start behind you, change lanes to the left and accelerate, those buggers get no mercy)
I used to just drop back when someone did that, but after every single car behind me decided to do the same thing (and I do mean that literally) I gave up and haven't done it since.
Well this brings up the whole "what lane should I be in" debate again. One could argue that if the guy can pull in and go past with no problem (generally) then why isn't the car in front doing this. But of course there could just be a solid/soiled queue in the outside lane, where nobody will go in as they won't be let back out (well, down in the south-lands where more people seem like... naughty types). Or it could be the driver pulling in is just trying his luck. OR it could be that the car he's overtaking on the left of is half asleep/ignorant and sticking in't outside lane.
Also it depends which one is in the Ka
Disclaimer: None of that was meant as an attack, apart from the bit about the Ka, and obviously the bit about archers.
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Can you play with yourself in a traffic jam?
You might get done for driving without due care and attention, but I dunno
I have 30GB of music attached to my head unit, my Smartphone does the rest, with a car charger
I'll just sign in to MSN and chat to people in the event of a serious traffic jam!Couldn't do this the last time I was stuck on the M3 for 3 hours, a couple of years ago though. I just got out and chatted to others and helped a woman jump-start her 7-series instead
Traffic jams can be fun, lol (not for those right at the front though )
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Well the situation where it normally happens is on the M4 where L1 is solid nose to tail trucks and L2 is intermittent trucks with maybe 2 or 3 car lengths between them (and sometimes the odd Micra or caravan), and L3 is nose to tail commuter cars moving at 70+ mph.
Some idiot will decide that L3 isn't moving fast enough and will try to undertake one car at a time every time there is a sufficient gap in the trucks, however the locals are wise to it and whenever someone tries this everyone bunches up and leaves them stuck in L2 doing 56mph
The time where I had all those people undertaking was similar only on the M6 with L3 moving at a lower speed and slightly larger gaps between the trucks, if you move to L2 you aren't getting out again and I would have been quite happy to drive faster were it not for the queue of cars in front of me.