What sort of motorway driver are you?

I stay left so people with more powerful cars can overtake with ease, unless of course I'm coming up on a slip road joining with a lot of traffic in which case I'll move over to the middle then filter back in to the left lane.
 
Imy said:
Not had a CC equipped car for long but on a recent motorway trip I found it near impossible to be a CCJ in the inside lane with the constant changing of speed of cars in front.

So I upped my speed and switched to the middle lane only to occasionally come across people doing slow overtakes. Using the +/- keys to adjust speed was ok for speeding up but speed reduction was not quick enough when wanting to slow down so had to use the brakes more often than if I wasn't using CC.

Then I got bored of the fiddling about with the settings and just blasted down the outside lane.
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Sounds like quite a tiring way of using cruise. Just try to read ahead a bit more and if you do need to drop speed knock the cruise off early, coast down until you have a gap to overtake and hit resume.

I only ever set the cruise once for a set speed limit then just toggle off and resume if I need. Well... In the Octavia anyway. Annoyingly the Punto loses its set speed when deactivated so the resume button is only any use if you touch the brakes.
 
Depends. If i'm in a hurry it's PMT (and a bit more) and I make progress as quickly as I can.

If i'm not in a hurry it's CCJ, sit back and relax.

I don't tend to do KLC too much as I find people just box you in behind the trucks.
 
Guess I'm a KLC but as I now do night shift and drive between 2200 and 0600 it's not really a problem to manage.

Most common thing I see round here at night time is people sitting in lane 3 of the 4 lane section of the A1(M) doing about 60mph with nothing anywhere near them for miles (with the obligatory day mode sat nav as a HUD of course). I tend to assume they've been asleep from somewhere just past Hatfield and stick to Lane 1 :p
 
A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding the PMT - saying they do it if they are in a hurry... why would you drive 10mph less than the speed limit if you're in a hurry :confused:
 
CCJ at around 75mph, keep to the left when ever possible. I've managed a run down the A34 between the M1 and M3 (about 80 miles) without having to adjust the cruise control at all, amazing.
 
KLC , but then to the right.
not a PMT but more of a PT (plus twenty), on the motorway anyhow :).

When possible move left (or right over here) to keep the other lanes free for faster traffic.
 
Johnnytoxic said:
Theres no option for accelerate until a car appears in front of you
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Then make one up :p Its all in jest.

Had to do the M40 corridor many a time in my student days and, thereafter visiting the parentals. Its just meaningless jargon from your experiences of your own/others driving. You start to notice 'patterns' when you do it enough, like back in the day when i took the motorways a bit-to-fast, finding the Perfect Lane Partner who is driving at the perfect speed you are comfortable with, who you can sit behind and 'follow' because its easier mentally to zone out and follow another vehicle than navigating yourself.
 
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Duke said:
I drive down the wrong way. Keeps me on my toes.
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You must be mad, I tried that once, it was frightening. Since then, I've only ever driven the right way. It's all the other hundreds of people that I encounter driving the wrong way that I don't understand :confused:
 
rG-tom said:
I do wish my car had dynamic cruise. The 335i I had for a few months had this, was incredible, just set it to 3 car chevrons and relax, let the radar do the rest.

Was confusing when you forgot it was set to 85 though and the car infront that was doing 45 moves out of the way...car kicks down a few gears and engages warp drive lol.
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My XFR has active cruise and it's utterly brilliant just set and forget, let the car deal with it. Think it ****es some people off thou as it brakes to keep the distance constant.
 
I admit i tend to do the middle lane thing, but doing 85ish.
I can't drive in the left lane comfortably as my minibus seems to be just the wrong size for the ruts the hgv's make, pulls me from side to side :/
 
Cruise Control Jockey.
I can only use it on certain motorways and Dual carriageways. The M6 is way too busy at certain times of the day for it.
 
Pah m25 m23 m4 m3 none of those apply

Where sitting in the outside lane indicating and flashing as no one has any motorway skills
 
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