Have I become old and impatient....

blueboy2001 said:
Or are there more people dawdling around at inappropriately low speeds on the roads these days?
Click to expand...

Yes, it's very noticeable. Even though my driving has mellowed significantly in recent years, I find myself held up by dawdling pillocks more than ever. The worst bit it that almost no-one has the ability or confidence to overtake these days, so you end up at the back of a queue of cars with a dawdler or even a tractor or horsebox in front and no-one will overtake even when it's perfectly safe, making it very difficult or impossible to get past the lot of them. Also an increase in the 40mph everywhere brigade; if you get past them in an unrestricted part they will drive inches from your bumper through a 30 or 20mph zone.
 
I dont mind people who want to drive slowly but why do they all sit 1 inch from the car in front on country roads? It means if you want to get past them, you need to do 10 cars not one. Grrr.
 
I had the pleasure of taking an F Type prototype out yesterday....

Somewhat spoiled by the foreign VW T4 van doing 30mph in the rurul Warwickshire lanes with a precession of morons bumper to bumper meaning I needed an 8 car overtake and anything that you do that would remotely cause the locals to get upset is frowned on. :confused: Soon pulled off to take a different route back.

Its bad enough being held up like that in the Insight let alone when you want to drive a car.
 
Draeger said:
It's not just people not driving at a reasonable pace nowadays, there are literally thousands out there behind the wheel who have no concept of "making progress". Many of us will have seen them - they are the ones who insist on coming to a complete stop at every roundabout whilst looking straight ahead. Only when their vehicle has come to a complete halt do they think of looking right to see if it's clear and then move off. Rinse and repeat at the next roundabout or junction.
Click to expand...

This drives me nuts, Have a dual carriage way with 4 roundabouts right next to mine and use it every morning on the way to work. Get the above all the time.
 
[TW]Fox;22152111 said:
I dont mind people who want to drive slowly but why do they all sit 1 inch from the car in front on country roads? It means if you want to get past them, you need to do 10 cars not one. Grrr.
Click to expand...

If i'm not intending to overtake I do sit a fair way back from a train like that but more because being right up the **** of the car in front is a recipe for a bumper and bonnet combo that looks like it has dandruff from all the stone chips :p

It allows me to keep my fuel economy up a bit by being able to take more gentle actions rather than being constantly on the brakes and throttle because the cars in front panic every time they see a bend.

ZG002 said:
This drives me nuts, Have a dual carriage way with 4 roundabouts right next to mine and use it every morning on the way to work. Get the above all the time.
Click to expand...

Just wait until the latest craze from around here gets to you - erecting massive fences on the approaches to roundabouts so you have to come to an almost complete stop because they've deliberately removed the ability to view the traffic in advance.
 
Last edited:
Kenai said:
Just wait until the latest craze from around here gets to you - erecting massive fences on the approaches to roundabouts so you have to come to an almost complete stop because they've deliberately removed the ability to view the traffic in advance.
Click to expand...

This is absolutely driving me up the wall lately. The worst is on the M50 - at the end of the M50 it joins the M5 on a roundabout. Because of the way its set up 1 car in 100 will go right around the roundabout and 99 out of 100 will take the first exit onto the M50 from the M5. This means if you approach the M5 from the M50 you must now brake to a halt from 70mph only to see that suprise suprise its clear and then you can move off again back to Motorway speeds.

Honestly, if they want to reduce C02 emissions they can stop doing **** like this!
 
[TW]Fox;22153158 said:
This is absolutely driving me up the wall lately. The worst is on the M50 - at the end of the M50 it joins the M5 on a roundabout. Because of the way its set up 1 car in 100 will go right around the roundabout and 99 out of 100 will take the first exit onto the M50 from the M5. This means if you approach the M5 from the M50 you must now brake to a halt from 70mph only to see that suprise suprise its clear and then you can move off again back to Motorway speeds.

Honestly, if they want to reduce C02 emissions they can stop doing **** like this!
Click to expand...

http://www.cbrd.co.uk/badjunctions/5-50/
 
Kenai said:
Just wait until the latest craze from around here gets to you - erecting massive fences on the approaches to roundabouts so you have to come to an almost complete stop because they've deliberately removed the ability to view the traffic in advance.
Click to expand...

Yup we've got that at quite a few roundabouts here in Basingstoke. Considering Basingstoke is known for an excessive amount of roundabouts as it is, this is getting extremely irritating. It's either a case of fences starting to appear at junctions or newly planted large bushes/trees deliberately placed to block your view. I just don't understand it. Forcing people to stop for no reason is not logical in my opinion. Traffic calming my ****.
 
Last edited:
I completely agree with the motorway speed you were complaining about, that's simply dangerous when lorries are doing circa 56mph.

However, with regards to doing 25mph in a 30mph zone, that is being plain fussy. It's a speed limit, not a target.
 
I had the opposite problem today. It was very, very wet (and also quite foggy in places) on the A720 and many of us were doing between 50-60 in the driving lane. I myself was trundling along behind a lovely new F10 M5, which my first thought was of course "Oh, a sensible BMW driver. What a surprise!"

Only to then have not one, but three 320d's fly past at a good 80-90mph. Do rep mobile drivers suddenly get a bit of power and think their car can defy the laws of physics!? (To be fair, I also counted a number of chav mobiles doing the same thing).
 
Ultimately though, if you don't even feel confident enough to maintain 30mph, then you should probably be questioning whether you are confident enough to be driving at all.

Barring exceptional circumstances such as poor weather or approaching particularly badly laid out junctions etc. there really isn't much reason not to maintain the speed of the posted limit, however much it may just be a 'limit not a target'

When you do your test you are expected to drive to those limits unless road, weather or traffic conditions do not permit you to do so.
 
I keep saying it, there are a huge, vast in fact, majority of people for which driving is still a "big thing" in some shape or form.

These are the people who get in the way of the rest of us, those for whom driving is no big deal, we just do it.
 
I've only been driving a year but I concur with all the above!!!

My absolute pet hate is people doing speed that is much much lower than the NSL when the condition is dry, road is NOT bendy and it is a clear way ahead. It annoys the hell out of me and make me question how they pass their test! If I were to drive 40 in a 60 and holding up traffic behind me, isn't that a major fail on the test?

I can tolerate it if they are doing 10% under the NSL, going too slow for no reason makes me want to beep my horn and flash my lights at them.

Although, there was a BWM flashing me on the motorway last week when I was in the middle land, doing about 75, overtaking a lorry after lorry, camper van after camper van. Obviously it looks like i am hogging the middle lane but i was overtaking vehicle after vehicle on the inside lane.I ignored him obviously, I couldn't understand why he can't go on the outside lane, which was free. May be he didn't want to go above 75mph?
 
Last edited:
I get very angry when driving on motorways these days, morons everywhere! On the M6 yesterday and at the point it was at 4 lanes, we had a slow car in the far left lane with a lorry overtaking it (Which imo should never happen), then a caravan in the next lane overtaking the lorry.

Cue most traffic having the go into the far right lane causing it to slow down. Fail.

Mandatory minimum speed on the motorway, HGVs should NEVER have to overtake a car.

Don't get me started on people driving in the middle lane, but worst still has anyone tried using cruise control for more than a few miles? I was constantly overtaking cars going up an incline but then they'd pass me going down. Madness!! Learn how to drive at a constant speed idiots.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom