Going well under the speed limit

Skeeter said:
Do you know how taxis work?

You are billed on distance unless the car is stationary, and even then the meter has to be set to 'hired' to allow it to increase at one unit (roughly 10-15p depending on where you are) for every minuite stationary. So as long as you are moving, the speed doesnt affect the bill.
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I realise the price doesnt change, but if i am paying £25 to travel 8 miles i at least want to get there a bit quicker than pootling along at 20mph :(

Surely the driver could fit more fares into his shift if he drove faster anyway?
 
markyp23 said:
Now I will happily be corrected but you have got to be joking if you are telling me that a Daewoo Matiz and Lambo Gallardo are the most economical at 56mph?
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I'm talking about the average motor, Matiz's and Gallardo's aren't exactly going to be part of the majority of models on the road. And when is a Lambo owner going to care about what mpg they are achieving.
 
Jez said:
I realise the price doesnt change, but if i am paying £25 to travel 8 miles i at least want to get there a bit quicker than pootling along at 20mph :(

Surely the driver could fit more fares into his shift if he drove faster anyway?
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Im going to assume you dont fully understand taxi driving and save myself an argument.
 
My most hated is people joining motorways/slip roads at 50 or even less. Its plain dangerous especially if there are a fair few cars in the 'train' joining the road.

Just the other day i was joining the M4 at Bristol junction at about 6pm (busy!) and the lass at the front pootled onto it at about 45/50, took a lot of timing and farting about eventually getting on the motorway and then safely speeding up!
 
I came up behind a bus tonight and usually they sit at 60mph on the road i was on as i've regularly came upon them doing 60 before... tonight however it sat at 45 on the straights and the corners, perhaps they have been told to slow down too? surely not tho since that'd mess with their times a bit. And I know you're thinking, maybe it was early, but it had just left the bus station at the time it was supposed to. (Fraserburgh - Aberdeen) for reference.
 
They. Drive. Me. Mad. Really. Really. Mad.

I am torn between the idea of them being tightarses with their fuel and being rubbish drivers. Most of them are driving standard cars that practically sip fuel in comparison to what a lot of us run.

I just find that the vast majority of drivers are idiots. Incapable of driving at a normal pace, incapable of using their mirrors, incapable of not pulling out in front of oncoming traffic on roundabouts causing them to slam on the anchors then doing 10mph avg until they get to their turnoff, incapable of keeping their car naturally between the lines of their lane, incapable of naturally knowing how big their car is and how to manouvre it accordingly.

The speed thing really, really makes my blood boil where people regularly go well below the already 'not very high' speed limit. Use your mirrors, appreciate the fact a fair few of the people stuck behind you actually do know how to drive and at least pull over every so often you complete and utter nugget.

Example. Coming of a large roundabout at 30 if I am lucky (Fluffy quite happily takes it at the national speed limit that you can legally do on it)....,on to a dual carriageway, It doesn't take 1 minute/1000 yards to still not quite get your car up to 70 in the fast lane, yet I am faced with this every single day on my way to work due to droves of utter drongos on a mission to make my drive in as mundane as possible. For god's sake, half the time I am driving this D5 contraption in, that is bad enough without slowing me down even more.....

I honestly cannot remember a single day in the last 5 years where I have not had to use my horn at least once on my trip to/from work, really not a good sign of the drongos to come........

I really am 'this' close to buying a motorbike but I know it will be the death of me with my love for speed and zero tolerance for idiots. :(

Sorry for the waffle,

Nick.
 
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There is a curve of fuel economy in all cars. The peak of the curve will depend on how your car is geared and your engine characteristics. Generally speaking though, you will get peak economy with your car driving along in such a way that it is travelling at the maximum speed without being laboured. For me in my 325, thats about 2000rpm in 5th which equates to late 60s indicated. 2500rpm in mine is just shy of 80mph. At 2k rpm over a distance of 100 miles I get about 40mpg, at 2500rpm I get about 36mpg. Those who choose to travel at 50mph probably return a similar economy as I do at 80

I generally prefer to flow in the traffic that is travelling at 80mph than slog it out in the traffic that is travelling below that speed, so I make a conscious choice to sit there because its just a nicer way to travel. Those who drive slower than that are crackers, IMO.
 
Chris1712 said:
My most hated is people joining motorways/slip roads at 50 or even less. Its plain dangerous especially if there are a fair few cars in the 'train' joining the road.
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Funny you should say that. I have had that every single day on the way home this week at the same long slip road, 1 bloke actually got all the way to the end and had to stop as the muppet was going so slowly that he couldn't filter......
 
Mr Footlong, I feel your pain.

Plymouth, Marsh Mills Roundabout exit onto A38 Eastbound. Its dual lane up hill to join a dual carrageway, and people pootle up it in both lanes side by side at 30!

ARRRGHGHH!!!
 
Jez said:
I guess i dont, i fail to see how the driver couldnt make more money if he took more fares, even if it is at the expense of economy.
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If it is busy, they wont hang around, trust me, but they will not do it while your in the car. A complaint about inapropriate speed will loose them their license. So if its busy, they will drive at the speed limit, if its not, they will drive very economically.
 
The way the taxi's seem to work in newbury you'd think they are paid by the hour (maybe they are)

Seriously its a joke :)
 
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