I've had it happen to me on so many occasions that I've lost count. Its an odd trait of the human mind, e.g. I'll sit here at 40mph in this NSL road quite safe, oh wait someones overtaking me, I cant let them do that, I'm going to speed up......
It happens on Motorways and dual carriage ways to. Just two nights ago I had a run in with a new shape Accord, everyone sitting comfortably:
New Accord sitting at 65mph on a dual carriage way, I overtake doing 70mph, I notice the car has now speeded up to match my speed. Ok I think, quick blip of the throttle and I'm by and in the inside lane again, they pull out and roar by at 80 odd mph for a minute or two and then slow down to 65mph again.
I catch them up, get to a roundabout and they slowly accelerate at the exit, so again I overtake. I overtake with ease this time and sit at 70mph again, said Accord driver was rather unimpressed and this time accelerated to well past 90 odd mph (eventually, the new Accords aint that quick
). Then they settle back to 65mph and I slowly catch them again, aarrrrggghhhh.
Get to another roundabout, again they start playing games (single lane exit this time as its a slip road leading to another dual carriageway). They slowly accelerate, I'm sitting behind at a safe distance as I really cant be bothered with this now. Then for no reason they floor it, now about half way down the slip road (I didnt have any trouble keeping up
). I decided that I valued my life more than these muppets so sat back on purpose now, caught up with them again though, god do these people have any comon sense?
Lopéz said:
What I
do get is this:
- People blaring their full beam at me. Sometimes it's the person I'm overtaking. They give long, furious blasts of the main beam in an attempt to do what exactly?
Sometimes this is done by cars coming towards me - cars a LONG way away. Sure, if I was 50 metres from them and still well committed on the wrong side of the road I would understand. But when they start flashing like crazy when I'm over 200metres away? What's that all about!?
Get a car with some Xenon headlights. Its amazing how quickly, those that flash for the reason above, stop flashing when you give them a flash of full Xenon artificial sunlight
. To borrow a quote "thezzz gogglezzzz theyzzzz do novvving". Driving with full beam on like that to intentionally blind another driver isnt funny, so a return flash of a few million watts is the best way to sort it out.
There we go, rant over, things like that drive me nuts
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