Soldato
I want adaptive cruise control.
Tis called right foot bro
What sort of motorway driver are you?
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Tis called right foot bro
Soldato
Since when does driving the motorways properly make you a KLC?
Soldato
no idea , that's the correct place to be until overtaking is required and using the necessary indication
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I think too many people are appropriating the C part unnecessarily. A KLC takes KL to an extreme standard, always keeping left even if the road is busy.
CCJ usually but I coast (or see below) then resume/reset to overtake/cruise as necessary. Feels strange at first controlling the car solely using buttons but it works 
I use the fact that my car doesn't illuminate the brake lights for the first 2% of brake power (I can feel it, very slightly more than engine braking) to slow very slightly faster than usual without worrying the drivers behind into stamping on their own brakes.
I use the fact that my car doesn't illuminate the brake lights for the first 2% of brake power (I can feel it, very slightly more than engine braking) to slow very slightly faster than usual without worrying the drivers behind into stamping on their own brakes.
I do between 70-90 (although most of the time sit at 80, so that makes me a PMT?) depending on the situation and if I think there are cameras or police around. Generally in the middle or right hand lanes at all times. The only time I really shift out of the right hand lane is if there's some **** doing 90+.
Pmt
I have no interest in motorway driving, I find it pretty dull, I tend to drive at 60 in the seat or if I'm in a hurry 80, don't tend to go 70.
If I have the Honda out I will probably be going 70, but I'd much rather be on country roads where in either car I go fast as the car/road/my ability allows
My friend is completely opposite, loves motorway racing, soo much he lost his licence
I have no interest in motorway driving, I find it pretty dull, I tend to drive at 60 in the seat or if I'm in a hurry 80, don't tend to go 70.
If I have the Honda out I will probably be going 70, but I'd much rather be on country roads where in either car I go fast as the car/road/my ability allows
My friend is completely opposite, loves motorway racing, soo much he lost his licence
I keep left unless overtaking.
Except on my commute. The A2 in north kent seems to attract more than it's fair share of poor driving. Every morning and evening it is rammed full of idiots cruising along, nose to tail, in the middle lanes. The only way to make progress is to get in the right hand lane with all the 2.0 litre diesel kru and just sit there, but even then you aren't moving much faster. If you try and keep left, you get caught behind a lorry doing 56MPH, and cant pull out to overtake because the other lanes are full of the aforementioned morons doing 58MPH and leaving no room to move right. It's awful.
Last night this happened to me on the way home. The guy I was overtaking just started pulling into my lane as his indicator came on. Came within a few inches of caving my passenger door in before he realised. Brown trousers moment for me :/
Except on my commute. The A2 in north kent seems to attract more than it's fair share of poor driving. Every morning and evening it is rammed full of idiots cruising along, nose to tail, in the middle lanes. The only way to make progress is to get in the right hand lane with all the 2.0 litre diesel kru and just sit there, but even then you aren't moving much faster. If you try and keep left, you get caught behind a lorry doing 56MPH, and cant pull out to overtake because the other lanes are full of the aforementioned morons doing 58MPH and leaving no room to move right. It's awful.
Last night this happened to me on the way home. The guy I was overtaking just started pulling into my lane as his indicator came on. Came within a few inches of caving my passenger door in before he realised. Brown trousers moment for me :/
Soldato
I find it's usually (sweeping generalisation alert!) young girls (low twenties) in small cars - Yaris, pug 206, clio etc. that do it. Complete lack of awareness of their surroundings. In fact I got a lift from a girl at work the other day, she drives a KA and her driving was shocking. The inability to judge distances/speeds of cars when pulling out of junctions, and the apparent blind spot in the middle of the windscreen, obscuring the glaringly obvious car coming from straight ahead at a cross-roads when she was turning right. The only reason she didn't hit that one was because I couldn't help but shout "watch it" and her slamming on the brakes!
I've got something of a mixed opinion of this, I dislike the people who treat indicating and pulling out as the same action, obviously if you just turn on the indicator and pull straight out that pretty dumb, but I also dislike the muppets who insist on trying to overtake a car that is already indicating instead of dropping their speed to let them pull out, I have lost count of the times I have been sat there indicating to pull into the lane to the right and car after car feels justified in overtaking me because their journey is so much more important >.>
Hmm I think I differ... The indicator should indicate the action you are about to perform, not one you want to perform. Mirror - Signal - Manoeuvre. I find it quite annoying when someone is being overtaken by a long stream of cars but sticks on his indicator anyway - Ok, granted, they want to pull out but who needs to know? It's certainly not the overtaking cars that need to give way or let him out, one might do out of politeness but I'd say mostly it's due to the fact that they're worried about overtaking a car that is indicating because they might not have seen them.
I only signal once I've seen a clear spot in the overtaking lane and no-one could misinterpret it and fear I would pull in front of them.
Same here
I have also nearly been taken out by people indicating when actually already mid manoeuvre
I always hang back in the s2000 just incase the indicator means 'I'm about to move and I haven't seen you.' Just because the car is so low
I'm always cautious of lorries, always put my foot down going past, once saw a bus move over while an mx5 was going past, he was very close to the central reservation due to the bus forcing him there, that bus indicated during the manoeuvre
I'm sure other drivers of similar cars will agree.. You can never predict a tard
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Soldato
Agreed. While it may be polite/courteous to allow someone who is indicating to pull out, (and I do so wherever possible if circumstances allow) the car already in that lane has right of way and is under no obligation to let you out. Too many people seem to think that indicating gives them the right to perform their manoeuvre, regardless of whether it's safe to do so. With regards your phrase "car after car feels justified in overtaking me because their journey is so much more important" how about from their perspective, should they feel obliged to let you out "because your journey is so much more important"?
Anyway, aside from all of that, I don't mind the people who indicate their intention to pull out, but don't do so until it's safe (and as already mentioned, I'll usually either drop back to allow it, or switch lanes if it's clear), my issue is with the drivers who indicate and then pull out within the space of a second, ignoring any traffic which may be coming up behind them.
I drive an MX5 so I can sympathise - it's low enough to be easily obscured by other cars.
I have to admit though, I'm one for putting my indicator on and waiting for someone to let me out - but, as I commute on the aforementioned A2, if waited for a space before indicating, I would never get anywhere. Everyone bunches up and doesn't leave enough room for safe lane changing.
If I see someone indicating and Im not already about to pass them quickly, I will either wait for them or move over to the right (if there's room) so they can pull out.
[TW]Fox;21708421 said:
1) Driving faster is inherently less boring - it forces you to keep a higher level of attention. Probably explains why HGV drivers regularly veer into adjacent lanes/hard shoulder as the monotony of doing 55mph all day must be ridiculous.
2) If you can keep up an extra 10mph for most of the time on a long motorway journey then you get the boring stuff over with about 14% sooner. Probably not possible on e.g. the M25 during the day, but quite possible well out of peak hours on many roads.
Actually that's exactly who needs to know, in that situation they are supposed to give way, politeness has nothing to do with it...
Caporegime
Thats usually down to being shagged out behind the wheel - 4.5hours driving is legal, in one stint. Try it - you'd be wandering too by 3hrs 50min....
It always "amuses" me how the law allows 44tonners be driven for upto 4.5hours without any need for a rest.......
As daft as this may sound to some, I would far rather a long drive in my speed limited Scania over my e39 528i !!
No they should feel obliged to do it because the highway code tells them to (technically it doesn't say to let the person indicating out it tells them not to overtake the person indicating, but its basically the same concept).
Soldato
Thats usually down to being shagged out behind the wheel - 4.5hours driving is legal, in one stint. Try it - you'd be wandering too by 3hrs 50min....
It always "amuses" me how the law allows 44tonners be driven for upto 4.5hours without any need for a rest.......
As daft as this may sound to some, I would far rather a long drive in my speed limited Scania over my e39 528i !!
LOL reminds of when I drove the mini down from west yorkshire to the Ocuk Rolling road day @ Guildford and back again in one day. Was a long day with probably 6 or so stops to refuel.
Soldato
I assume you're talking about:
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DO NOT overtake where you might come into conflict with other road users. For example
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when a road user is indicating right, even if you believe the signal should have been cancelled. Do not take a risk; wait for the signal to be cancelled
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Which, I suppose could be vaguely interpreted in that way, but I doubt that was it's intention.