Why is coming up behind someone 'flying up' 'dangerously'? Seems you are taking to generalisations yourself!
What winds you up most when you're driving?
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Yeah, I always let people out in this situation, in the hope they'll do the same in the future as well.
I also hate letting people go and then they don't say thank you.
Tbh, all you have to do is apply the tiniest bit of throttle to increase your overtaking speed to walking pace, and you pass in literally 3 seconds. You won't even have to touch the cruise control. It's what I do if I am cruising and see someone coming up behind.
that made me laugh, but i surge forward sometimes i think thats the best option.
hate it when people dont let you in though when your causing an obstruction.
Always remember an oldish guy in a Mondeo doing it and smiling at me as he blocked me from the dual carriageway i was trying to turn onto.
I do
why bother causing them to rage and flash their headlights and try and make rash undertaking maneuvers that could end up in a nasty 80mph accident that cost you and him your lives when you can ....
Just move over ?
This chicane. I'll be coming up the hill where it's my right of way, but if you're sitting behind someone the other side (Where the camera is pointing), you can't see past them to see if anyone is coming until the person in front has cleared it. So instead of waiting, they just blindly go, and I'm left sitting there every time, without fail, waiting for the last of the muppets to come through when it's my right of way 
My point is that I will move over. The car behind just needs to wait. The car behind is being impatient. I will move over *when it is safe to do so* and not before.
If someone a) gets road rage and/or b) makes a rash manoeuvre because they can't wait the extra few seconds before I find a safe gap in the traffic to pull over into, they cannot blame me. I'll happily lay money on who the police would blame if someone did cause a crash by undertaking, and if you think they're wrong, then fine, we'll not agree.
Please don't call me a moron.
I think the main issue at hand is that while discussing this sort of issue on t'internet, people instantly jump to their own conclusions about lengths of time before someone pulls over, speeds that people are doing etc., and therefore my description of a situation might perhaps always seem inconsiderate to you. I should perhaps clarify: If someone comes up fast behind me, I will endeavour to let them past when I can. I will not simply sit there and let them get angry for the sake of it. However, there are sufficient drivers out there who almost pre-emptively flash their horn, and who never even give me a chance to move anywhere before tail-gating me. If you're tail-gating me because you were driving so fast before coming up behind me that you can't slow down in time... guess what? You shouldn't be driving that fast.
Again, this has happened a number of times when there is traffic ahead of me, in all three lanes, the fastest of which is travelling at the same speed as me, and there are plenty of cars in my lane directly in front of me! I'm at the back of the queue and I have some idiot behind me expecting to be let through as if he's on blues and twos. If there's no-one right in front of me, chances are I'm overtaking, not cruising, as I don't cruise in the 3rd lane if there's not much traffic.
Assumption to all of this is that if I'm overtaking (because there's space) then I'm doing it at or over NSL.
Re: my previous comment about testing my brakes I was only joking: I will tap on the brake lights if you're genuinely too close, but I'm not stupid / rude enough to slow down.
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The silver Dawoo Matiz that crawls along the A3090 in front of me every morning.
Try switching on your brain.
If the overtaker in lane 3 is going pasr someone doing 70mph in lane 2 then they will obviously be going faster. If someone then comes flying up to a few metres behind you doing for example 90+mph ( a good starting figure in this case) then I and many others would no doubt class that as dangerous. Explain how this is safe and appropriate driving?
I remember that you have had certain documented exploits with your speed and comments from others here regarding your driving style, so I suspect your attitude and outlook on driving is somewhat different to the norm.
who cares about "blame" when one of you ends up dead or in a serious accident ?
Its not worth it. It doesn't matter whose right or wrong. Just move out of the way if they want to drive like a tool.
Or they could just chill out and stop getting annoyed about something as unimportant and unstressful as driving. I will move over when i have cleared the overtake and not before. They can rage all they like, its not necessary. If i can manage 25k per annum in a relaxed fashion never getting annoyed, and without breaking any motorway speed limits then i fail to see why others cant.
lol
'Obviously going faster' - this isn't true. I drive a lot, especially on motorways. Often, people are sailing past the inside lanes and move over quickly once finished. However, as often, people are crawling past.. sometimes even slowly slipping back, in a race of snails purring along because nobody feels it appropriate to modify their speed at all. This is stupid and annoying. If I am on a long controlled cruise and I see someone coming up behind me during a snail overtake, I will accelerate a bit and be past before the other car arrives, allowing them to continue their journey and allowing me to continue mine without becoming that annoying person.
I am not the judge and jury of anybody else's speed and don't see why some people feel happy to intentionally cause an obstruction. Would you slowly walk through a door because the person behind you was trying to rush by? Probably not. We all want to get to where we are going so placing yourself in an inconvenient position, when you have the ability to easily move from that inconvenient position, is bad form IMHO.
With regards to driving up behind someone at 90 MPH when they are doing 70 MPH being dangerous.. seriously? It's a 20 MPH speed differential. Usain Bolt jogs to ASDA faster than that. It's perfectly safe and happens every day all over the world without any issues. It's not far off the difference coming up behind a lorry doing 56 MPH at the 70 MPH limit and that is par for the course on British roads. There's no way to justify a few metres behind, but in all likelihood they are further than a few metres behind. Distance perception out the rear of a car is bad. You will clearly be riled as you think it's dangerous and therefore exaggerate someone's closeness to you.
The consideration of something being 'dangerous' is very significant. Most things aren't. Undertaking is not always 'dangerous', very high speed is not always 'dangerous', tailgating is not always 'dangerous' etc. The reason for this is that 'dangerous' requires, like, actual evidence and real danger, unlike the mockery of the rest of our traffic enforcement. Unless someone is literally pushing you forward in the outside lane I'd doubt it'd be classified as dangerous. Careless, at best. However, I hope you realise that there is a reason such careless behaviour has come about, namely your indifference to other road users. It's no excuse on the behalf of the other party.
My driving style is 99% of the time very calm. There are numerous members on here that will attest to the relaxed normality of it. It is only when I occasionally choose to drive fast that I drive fast. My 'documented exploits' were over 50% of my entire driving career in the past. However, I'll grant you that my attitude to speeding is somewhat different, as it's one based on the experience of both doing it and not, rather than just not.
I'm with Jez, if I'm performing an overtake on the motorway, then I have decided to do so because there is a reasonable difference between their speed and mine. If I'm doing this in the outside lane and someone approaches me at 90mph, lets off and follows me at a safe distance before picking their speed back up as I move in then good, fine, everyone's happy. If someone approaches me at 90mph and follows me closely and/or in a hostile fashion, it's not going to make me finish my maneuver any faster. It's just going to make me think "****". I like smooth and stress-free driving, especially on the motorway. I'm not going to waste fuel by mashing the throttle to get the overtake completed 2 seconds faster. I'll overtake safely, smoothly and swiftly before moving left and continuing to cruise at 65-75mph.
So in the spirit of the thread title, this is what winds me up.
Edit: I've just seen this:
You really do live up to your name at times.
So in the spirit of the thread title, this is what winds me up.
Edit: I've just seen this:
stop hogging the outside lane then moron.
You really do live up to your name at times.
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That's your opinion, and you're entitled to it. My issues however are:
1) I like my license
2) I'm never usually in such a hurry I wish to **** away fuel and make the drive a more stressful experience by doing 90+
3) Doing speeds "in excess of 100" is just silly unless the motorway is completely empty.
More stressful? More fun, going slow is boring.
How is it silly, if you keep safe distances and your car is able to handle it ... there is no issue