Idiots and merge in turn

I'm surprised you really need to start this up again, this was all covered only a few pages ago.

At the time I started the manoeuvre the "overtakee" was not driving unpredictably, just slow, so I opted to overtake him. It was not until I was pretty much already past him (overtaking casually, not gunning it) that he decided to boot it.

There is no way to foresee someone deciding to do this, you just can't expect anyone to see this happening, otherwise you're suggesting that no one should overtake, ever.

The only possible argument was how I decided to handle the situation. With cars behind me and him, and my acceleration advantage, I decided to go past rather than to hang back.

It was a split second decision, but one that in hindsight I do not regret - better a speeding ticket than potentially being rear-ended.
 
Sorry for bringing it up again. It just annoys me when somebody is so convinced they are in the right, when in point of fact they were actually being rather foolish.

People can normally overtake with my blessing (:p) but perhaps not at 20mph over the speed limit approaching a change in road layout. That's all :).
 
MikeHiow said:
At the time I started the manoeuvre the "overtakee" was not driving unpredictably, just slow, so I opted to overtake him. It was not until I was pretty much already past him (overtaking casually, not gunning it) that he decided to boot it.
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At 70mph you are travelling at 31.29 metres per second. At 4 metres in length for the average car travelling at 55mph (You said he was slow), you would have got from level with him to 'completely past him' in perhaps 1-1.5 seconds.


Yet he managed to not only boot it only once you were level, but gain enough speed that you had to nail it.

What was he driving, a Porsche 911 Turbo?
 
Foxtrot26 said:
lesson to be learnt here Mike,

buy something bigger and run the muppets off the road :)

i bet our resident trucker doesnt get this problem and merge and turns :) :)
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No, I don't......

Something to do with anticipation, judgement, allowance & a ****ing huge Scania. :o;):D

ubersonic said:
Oh come on, he had overtaken the guy and the dude floored it to try and undertake him back and mike almost ran out of road getting in front of him, its not that foreseeable and its not the type of thing you can take a minute to weigh your options on either. When you driving down a single carriageway road in your truck do you do an emergency stop every time something comes the other way? the other driver should drive straight and not drift into your lane, but what if he does? (yeah I know im being silly but its kinda my point)
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Its completely foreseeable.

As Fox points out above, there's more to this than meets the eye.
 
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griffo_001 said:
I'd rather they overtook with a 20mph delta than a 1mph delta. (Where safe obviously)
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Yep I agree. But not when approaching a hazzard and with limited space for the manoeuvre (what happens when he completes the overtake at 80mph and is confronted with the car in front still doing ~50mph on the now single carriageway...).

The 20mph over the limit comment I made was in relation to the change in road layout ahead and therefore potential hazzards. On a safe section of road he can overtake at 300mph for all I care :p
 
[TW]Fox;19072865 said:
At 70mph you are travelling at 31.29 metres per second. At 4 metres in length for the average car travelling at 55mph (You said he was slow), you would have got from level with him to 'completely past him' in perhaps 1-1.5 seconds.


Yet he managed to not only boot it only once you were level, but gain enough speed that you had to nail it.

What was he driving, a Porsche 911 Turbo?
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I did not boot it past him initially. I cannot speculate on exact speeds, only relay events as I recall them. Perhaps he booted it earlier and it only became apparent as I came past him, perhaps he was going faster than I thought, who knows.

I don't really know why you're trying to pick holes in this, but your argument holds no weight or point - I've explained this from pretty much every angle already.
 
Perhaps he maintained speed, you were flying past him in a rush to get one last slowcoach behind before the single carriageway bit, thought oops camera, didnt brake in time?
 
It perplexes me how you've come to the conclusion that I came on here to rant about a completely fabricated story.

I think you're upset because there are no indiscretions in my account to pick at, so you're now trying to pick holes in thin air.
 
You should have let the guy block your overtake and then slot in behind him.

If he was accelerating faster than you, you wouldn't have to slow down at all, just maintain a constant speed so that you don't impede the people behind you (who presumably will have to merge in as well).

If some idiot decided to not let me overtake, I'm not going to compound his idiocy by effectively having a race.

Pity about the camera, is this a road you use a lot? If so you should really know the variable speed limits and camera positions. If not, then you shouldn't have been driving as fast coming up to a reduced number of lanes.

*shrugs*
 
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