Flash lights to get others to move over?

I've been happily doing 70-75mph (Speedometer reported) in the fast lane on the Motorway and I have been flashed by impatient drivers even though I am doing the speed limit..really ***** me off. I don't lane hog either (before anyone says that).

I know my Speedometer over-reads by 3-4mph (when compared with the Sat Nav reported speed) but what possible gain is acheived in doing this, apart from an increased risk of an accident, or getting caught speeding and an increase in fuel consumption?

I normally safely move into another lane and let the impatient retard through and carry on as normal.

Unfortunately such impatient drivers never seem to get caught for speeding...:rolleyes:

Half the time I can't do 70 anyway, what with traffic, so I'm normally in the slow lane (unless it is safe for me to overtake of course).

Yes I stick to the speed limit..almost regimentally, but it's safer that way.
 
I'm rather shocked that some people don't think flashing is an overly aggressive thing to do. If you come up roaring behind me I'll move over when safe. If you flash me, I'll move over when I've decided I've kept you waiting quite long enough.
 
fini said:
I'm rather shocked that some people don't think flashing is an overly aggressive thing to do. If you come up roaring behind me I'll move over when safe. If you flash me, I'll move over when I've decided I've kept you waiting quite long enough.
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What if it's a rusty old heap that has a visibly high probability of being uninsured? Still want to play chicken with him?
 
fini said:
I'm rather shocked that some people don't think flashing is an overly aggressive thing to do. If you come up roaring behind me I'll move over when safe. If you flash me, I'll move over when I've decided I've kept you waiting quite long enough.
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Thats it though isn't it, its an age thing. in the days of yore flashing was used to make other drivers aware of you (and still is) so people used it to make slower moving traffic aware of them so they could move out of the way, nothing aggressive about it, but today people just assume its being aggressive because they don't know what its for.
 
It's the people who'll flash you the moment you pass the car to your left that get me. No, I'm not going to cut someone up just because you're flashing your lights. Still, it's better than tailgaters.
 
fini said:
I'm rather shocked that some people don't think flashing is an overly aggressive thing to do.
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It depends on circumstances, doesn't it? Flashing someone for no good reason just because you want to get past is one thing; flashing someone who is pootling along in the outside or middle lane when there's plenty of space to their left is another.
 
The way I see it is that there's more than 1 way to "flash" someone.

If I'm cruising along at 70-75ish say, passing other vehicles doing 60-65 that are reasonably spaced apart, I wont move in after each car if no-one else is behind me.

If Mr (or mrs) 100Mph+ merchant arrives in the rear view mirror, holds a sensible distance back and flashes once as if to say "please move over im faster than you" then I'll happily move my heap of junk aside :p

If someone hoons up to my rear end, sits 2ft off my bumper and flashes their lights 10 times then thats immediately got me riled, so I'll match the speed of an inside lane car and sit and wait. Hitting the rear of my car would serve no useful purpose as there's 5ft of boot and a steel plate before you'd even get to damaging the rear seating area ;)

I'll just make a point, check the rear mirror and watch the gesticulations as they gradually disappear up their own rears in rage. :D
 
Someone flashing me in the 2nd overtaking lane of the motorway is just showing that he/she has failed to observe the traffic ahead and to my left. I have never been flashed by a driver who was able to see further than the back of my car, just the "I want to be stuck behind the wall of vehicles ahead of you dammit!" brigade.
Irony is that when I do move across, with a safe gap front and rear of my car, I'll end up undertaking the flashing idiot at a lower speed than when I was in the same lane as them.

I do my utmost to ensure than when I use the 2nd overtaking lane that I will pull across when there is at least 3-4 artic lengths of space so it's not like any approaching nutjob hasn't got a safe distance in which to ease of the throttle for the brief time it takes me to overtake and pull back across, but that's just too sensible for them ain't it ;)


and an edit for those that misread between the lines (deliberately it would seem). I use my mirrors correctly so if there is car approaching at speed I will be out of the way long before they can tailgate me IF there is a safe gap to move across into.
 
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You lot need to stop second guessing other people's intentions, quit trying to teach every other road user a lesson, drop your insecurities and stop giving a **** if another driver dares to drive in a slightly different manner to you.
 
This happened to me on my driving test. I had just entered a dual carriageway and was in the outside lane approaching a lorry which was travelling at about 60mph. I was planning to overtake the lorry but some idiot in a new VW Golf came flying up behind me and starting flashing his lights constantly; not wanting to get into road rage whilst on my driving test I did pull over and let the fool pass.

I don't see a problem with it if it's necessary (IE, somebody is sitting in the outside lane with nothing to overtake), but it was completely unnecessary to flash me as a learner driver when I was about to overtake a lorry, he was a good 100 meters away before he started flashing his lights as well.
 
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