Your opinion on extreme lorry "overtaking"
Discussion
Pothole said:
bigothunter said:
Until they slow down again below the speed limit. My van has a hard 70mph limiter. Trying to overtake cars cruising at 65mph in the centre lane but playing this accelerate/decelerate game, becomes a nightmare. Happened twice last night on motorways.
Welcome to the future...
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bigothunter said:
AudiMan9000 said:
bigothunter said:
AudiMan9000 said:
I have no problem with my car being limited to the legal speed limit. All it will do is prevent me from speeding. But it does seem rather inconsiderate for lorries to overtake each other at such comparably low speeds.
So how would you cope with someone who accelerates to 70mph when you are overtaking them on a motorway, or to 60mph on a single carriageway road? Would you be happy to just fall in behind them? Or sit beside them causing a road block? Welcome to the future...
I briefly drove a Sprinter for a supermarket chain that had a 56 mph limiter and it was hateful!
But my current cars have 155 mph limiters, so just give it the beans - allowing for cameras like the average speed ones on the M3 where I live by J4.
What happens far more is that the fool speeds up, the HGV pulls back in and then the fool speeds down again. There are a lot of things that car drivers do in ignorance, including the majority of PH members no doubt, that would earn them a punch in the mouth if the HGV drivers could get to them.
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