Why is everyone driving so SLOWLY?

Dimple said:
Well I'm going out in my car for the first time in 2 weeks, let's see if I fit your stereotype.
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Not old but really old Dimple :p As in it wouldn't surprise me if there was a drip hanging from the rear view mirror.
 
This morning it was the slow idiots pulling out in front of me on motorways causing the issues.

They sit like sheep in a train of slow-moving traffic doing 50 in lane 1 and then just as you're about to come past them in lane 2, they decide that is the best and safest time to move out to lane 2, usually with little or no indication.

5 times it happened to me in the space of my 20 mile journey. I swear the problem is that they're not bothering to gauge what speed traffic is approaching at and just assume we're all doing the same 50mph they are. Believe it or not when you're doing 50 and I'm doing 80, that gap that looked huge to you on your first look in the mirror has vanished once your dawdling arse decides to actually make the manoeuvre :mad:
 
I saw a good one yesterday and I reckon it was because the car in front was going slow.
We have a rat run that goes through busy parked car streets and I came out of the cycle path behind to see two cars in front of me - https://www.google.co.uk/maps/previ...nt+ST4!5m2!1sH8A-GSgDdKxDpWF5Av2c0A!2e0&fid=5

The second car then decides to put his foot down to overtake on this bit of street but 100 yards up the street is a mini roundabout where 99.9% cars turn right.
He realises he isn't going to make it, brakes hard and spins his car a couple of times while coming to a stop and I just cycled past him.
He then starts revving hard, scares me as he overtakes me on the corner then drives down to the main road at full belt before braking hard behind the car he was originally trying to get past.
He's now 4th in line to get out onto the main road which means he's got nowhere and endangered several people.
Dick
 
There also seems to be a new trend on this 60mph long straight that's got a t junction halfway along it... People coming onto the 60mph straight look, see something coming and pull out anyway assuming you're going to slow down for them. How 'king stupid/rude !?
 
Add technology to the list. 10 years ago the difference between enthusiast car and fleet car was just below 9 second to 60 mondeo vs 11 second to 60 mondeo. Today it's 7 second to 60 hatch vs "60 eventually" overweight greenline barge with punny 1 litre, three pot engine trying to push one and a half tones on skinny tyres up the hill with nothing but plastic "eco" badge and streamlined grill to aid it. As more and more companies get the "retuned for low emissions" speed limited vans and mini carriers to fit eco credentials while your mid-range cars get more agile, we will feel the impact more?
 
I'm one of those "eco drivers" on the motorway and I'll quite happily sit behind the nearest HGV all the way to work. 68mpg average woo hoo. :D

However to keep those numbers up I have to do decent speeds on the A and B roads too so momentum is also key.

If I can catch up and overtake someone in a 55bhp naturally aspirated diesel then they are going too bloody slow IMO..

I don't tend to take any prisoners of the daft ******* that try to hold me up either!


White van man **** :mad:
 
The wife has a 50 mile round trip commute across country to get to work every day.

She is having to leave earlier and earlier simply because people will not over take, not pull out of junctions and not do the speed limit.

People just sit and look at empty roads for ages before pulling out of a junction, they don't seem to realise that the odds of there NOT being a car coming decrease every second they sit and look at the car free road they want to pull out on.

The not over taking slow moving traffic annoys me, the road will clear for miles ahead, but people will just behind tractors and lorries with no intent on making progress, causing massive queues and preventing everyone else from getting on.

Oh yes, and letting people out at junctions or stopping to let someone turn across your lane, both are just plain retarded.
 
This may be a separate thread but in Kent this problem is horrendous I'd like to propose a name and shame.

Kent is the worst county for 'slow' drivers. Firstly because they do little more than 40mph everywhere and secondly because they then don't slow down for the 30 limit in villages etc.

On the other hand in my admittedly limited experience in recent years Dorset is probably the best.

Andi.
 
andicole0 said:
This may be a separate thread but in Kent this problem is horrendous I'd like to propose a name and shame.

Kent is the worst county for 'slow' drivers. Firstly because they do little more than 40mph everywhere and secondly because they then don't slow down for the 30 limit in villages etc.

On the other hand in my admittedly limited experience in recent years Dorset is probably the best.

Andi.
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I agree. Especially in north Kent, where every road is busy. Also, Kent has some lovely roads, but massive hedgerows flanking all of them...so none of them can be negotiated at much of a pace :mad:
 
andicole0 said:
This may be a separate thread but in Kent this problem is horrendous I'd like to propose a name and shame.

Kent is the worst county for 'slow' drivers. Firstly because they do little more than 40mph everywhere and secondly because they then don't slow down for the 30 limit in villages etc.

On the other hand in my admittedly limited experience in recent years Dorset is probably the best.

Andi.
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Dorset the best?? No, just no. I'm doing 120 miles a day at the moment, mostly through Dorset and the standard of driving is atrocious. The last couple of weeks have seen a rise in what is new phenomenon to me, people that do 30 down the NSL roads then ACCELERATE to 40 when they reach a 30. I thought the 40 everywhere crew were bad.
 
andicole0 said:
This may be a separate thread but in Kent this problem is horrendous I'd like to propose a name and shame.

Kent is the worst county for 'slow' drivers. Firstly because they do little more than 40mph everywhere and secondly because they then don't slow down for the 30 limit in villages etc.

On the other hand in my admittedly limited experience in recent years Dorset is probably the best.

Andi.
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I agree with you there Andi, however the problem around certain parts of Kent is the roads cant take the traffic volume. I have to admit though, almost every A or B road I get onto these days I find i'm stuck behind someone doing 30 or 40, unless its the early hours of the morning.
 
Haze said:
i dont understand people that drive under the speed limit on the open road and then drive over the limit in built up areas!!! and then there are the people that you overtake because they are so slow, and then 5 mins later you look in your rear view, and they are all over your arse!
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This is possibly the most frustrating thing when driving, I have it most days at work where we go from National Speed Limit down to 30. They just insist on doing 40mph everywhere.
 
Gets harder to drive fast now, u overtake 1 person then 2 seconds it's the same situation all over again. Slow driver after slow driver so u keep speeding up and having to slow down again extremely frustrating.
 
It's even worse when your car only has 110hp so overtaking people sitting at 45 on a NSL is a pita :(
 
ng93 said:
It's even worse when your car only has 110hp so overtaking people sitting at 45 on a NSL is a pita :(
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Mine only has 95 raging stallions, but it is fine for me, just drop down a gear and away your go :D

I also get frustrated by people doing 40 in a 60 zone. On my weekly commute from Bridgwater to Weston, there is a 60 zone and people love to go 30 - 40, no idea why though as it is a mostly straight road. Also, if you go past them in the 60 zone, in the 30 zone about 5 miles down the road, they are right up your backside, and that's with me doing 32!! :mad:
 
Even when people overtake they seem to be terrible at it, like they're accelerating from 20mph in 5th to try and get past a tractor/combine (and there are certainly no shortage of them out here in the fens). Then you get your overtaking spot filled by one guy crawling past when the queue of 10 people should have been able to.

I don't generally drive like a psychopath but I would hate to be seen by a traffic cop having to do one of the all too common 8 cars and a tractor overtake on an NSL road just to carry on my way at the speed limit!
 
ng93 said:
It's even worse when your car only has 110hp so overtaking people sitting at 45 on a NSL is a pita :(
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Nonsense! Unless you're lugging 2tons of metal around with it, that's enough. I have 130bhp, and can take most opportunities that present themselves. There are time when I wish I had more, but more would need to be 300+ to make the difference!

I even managed to pull overtakes fairly often in my old corsa with its 75 raging stallions. Just need to plan ahead, keep momentum and use the gears
 
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