Generally I don't care about being overtaken, but I do find it mildly annoying when someone overtakes seemingly from out of nowhere at considerable speed. I wouldn't ever do anything to stop them mind, it just a bit of a shock when you're doing the speed limit or over yourself, then someone a car or two back decides to flys past at blink and you miss it speeds.
Morons who dislike being overtaken
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Although they might seem to have come out of nowhere, I can assure you they have come from somewhere. More specifically, somewhere that would be visible in your mirrors.
...if you bothered looking, but your too busy lighting up a cigarette or messing with your iPod
And that hits the nail on the head
Over the years I've had the usual driver doodling along at 35 in a NSL until you overtake, then they decide to speed up and make life as difficult/dangerous for you as possible. Always fun.
I have to say that I'm just as annoyed with the groups in charge of the roads now. When I visit my hometown (not that regularly now), I sometimes use some of the roads that I drove when in my early 20s. Back then, they were more NSL and quite fun. Now they're covered in 40mph limits, masses of white lines, and kerbing in the central reservation area. The result is that a road that used to be safe to overtake on, is now festooned with stuff that will assist killing you if you're mad enough to overtake the people still doodling at 35mph.
Frankly, I'm a bit tired of it all, which is why the next car will definitely be a motorised automatic armchair of some sorts, and the Bimmer 330i is up for sale.
I have to say that I'm just as annoyed with the groups in charge of the roads now. When I visit my hometown (not that regularly now), I sometimes use some of the roads that I drove when in my early 20s. Back then, they were more NSL and quite fun. Now they're covered in 40mph limits, masses of white lines, and kerbing in the central reservation area. The result is that a road that used to be safe to overtake on, is now festooned with stuff that will assist killing you if you're mad enough to overtake the people still doodling at 35mph.
Frankly, I'm a bit tired of it all, which is why the next car will definitely be a motorised automatic armchair of some sorts, and the Bimmer 330i is up for sale.
I've had similar where I overtook someone doing a 25-30 in a 40. Ok, only a small difference, but adds up in my eyes lol.
Anyway, as I overtake him, he decides to speed up, get up to the speed limit, then travel right up my ****. which is a bit disconcerting when he's in a big 4x4, and I'm on a motorbike, and there are speed cameras everywhere, so I can't exactly pull away much. We eventually get to the end of the road with traffic lights, where the road splits and there's a left turn lane and a right turn lane. He pulls in the left lane next to me and show off his nice collection of gestures towards me, and as soon as the lights change he accelerates hard and pulls a right, nearly knocking me off.
Needless to say, I wasn't best pleased, but the road we went on to didn't have any speed cameras and quickly went on to a dual carriage way, so I showed him my fingers and accelerated away nicely. I was just rather annoyed at him, even more so he had his entire family in the car heh.
Anyway, as I overtake him, he decides to speed up, get up to the speed limit, then travel right up my ****. which is a bit disconcerting when he's in a big 4x4, and I'm on a motorbike, and there are speed cameras everywhere, so I can't exactly pull away much. We eventually get to the end of the road with traffic lights, where the road splits and there's a left turn lane and a right turn lane. He pulls in the left lane next to me and show off his nice collection of gestures towards me, and as soon as the lights change he accelerates hard and pulls a right, nearly knocking me off.
Needless to say, I wasn't best pleased, but the road we went on to didn't have any speed cameras and quickly went on to a dual carriage way, so I showed him my fingers and accelerated away nicely. I was just rather annoyed at him, even more so he had his entire family in the car heh.
You're argument is only valid if the overtaking car is traveling at a certain speeds. While I'm generally aware of what's on either side of me and in my mirrors I'm primarily looking infront of me. Now if someone decides to overtake and they do it at serious speed then it's entirely possible that I haven't been given enough time to see what they're doing until their engine roars past my window. This is especially true if their doing it from two cars back.
I used to think it was the done thing to pull out slightly while indicating if you were going to overtake another vehicle, before you actually start overtaking. That way you're alerting the driver infront of what's going on and getting a good look at what's ahead. a lot of the time these days people shoot past without any forewarning.
I'm hardly the first person who should be lecturing how people should drive, I just think the above makes sense.
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Cant go with that
You should always be aware of whats around you.
You only overtake when its safe to do so.
Look, indicate, look, look again then move.
If you can see the muppet booting it, get off the road
This has happened to me on the country lanes near work. There are 2 marked lanes (I.e. a dotted line down the middle of the road) so it's a wide enough road for 2 lanes of traffic to comfortably travel on at speed.
It's marked NSL and I've followed cars doing 25-30 before, on both occasions I've waited for a decent straight, flashed as I've pulled out to make them aware of what I'm doing and completed the overtake as quickly as possible. I've been beeped and flashed for doing this on several occasions! I really don't mind too much if people do feel uncomfortable doing 60 on the lanes, but at least let me do what I want - I'm not going to sit behind you for another 5 miles because of your incompetancy.
Paradigm - I hope you gave him a bit of full throttle after your overtake
ETA: Although it's rare that I'm overtaken, I will pull over to the left as much as possible, indicate left for a flash or two and reduce my speed a little. Makes it a lot easier for the overtaking driver to get past knowing that the driver in front is aware of his intentions, and not going to be a **** about them.
It's marked NSL and I've followed cars doing 25-30 before, on both occasions I've waited for a decent straight, flashed as I've pulled out to make them aware of what I'm doing and completed the overtake as quickly as possible. I've been beeped and flashed for doing this on several occasions! I really don't mind too much if people do feel uncomfortable doing 60 on the lanes, but at least let me do what I want - I'm not going to sit behind you for another 5 miles because of your incompetancy.
Paradigm - I hope you gave him a bit of full throttle after your overtake
ETA: Although it's rare that I'm overtaken, I will pull over to the left as much as possible, indicate left for a flash or two and reduce my speed a little. Makes it a lot easier for the overtaking driver to get past knowing that the driver in front is aware of his intentions, and not going to be a **** about them.
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I am aware of what's around me, but if some muppet decided to punt it past at blink and you miss it speeds that it's his risk and not my fault if I don't see him.
You quite obviously aren't aware of what's around you then.
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Why do you need to see him?
I guess I don't really, my point was that it can be a shock if someone shoots by you at something that seems like a dangerous speed.
What i do now is use my indicator about 3-4 seconds before i pull out. This lets the person in front what i'm about to do, so they don't do panic and do something stupid.
And the thing i hate is when someone is following you 0.45423cm from your bumper. Why can't they stay 3 car lengths back, until they're ready to overtake?
And the thing i hate is when someone is following you 0.45423cm from your bumper. Why can't they stay 3 car lengths back, until they're ready to overtake?
Well then my original point still stands; it's an annoyance.
The point I went onto from that is that the reason I might not be aware of them is their speed which, if considerable, I think is a fair enough point.
The reason I'm on about this at the moment is that I turned off a country road mid evening yesterday, with two cars behind me doing the same, and just as I had cleared the bend the car at the back shot past both of us. Now I hadn't seen him till he was on me and I know this was because of where he'd started the maneuver and the speed he had done it at.
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