One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 4

[Jim AK]

Dagnir said:

No of course I don't. I travel either on or above the limit by a few MPHs and this requires almost no concentartion.

Are you really asking what I gain? I would have thought that would be obvious?!?

Yes. It`s exactly what i`m asking.

[langtounlad]

You fail your test by driving too slowly as the examiner concludes that you are unable, unwilling or incompetent at driving at the higher speed and perhaps have also failed to observe the posted limit sign.
After passing your test you are free to travel at whatever speed you choose. Drive too fast and you may get a speeding fine.
Drive slower than the posted limit and there is no legal consequence (motorways excepted).
Good drivers however will drive considerately regarding other motorists and if making progress, adjust their speed to the prevailing weather and surface conditions.
The speed limit is not a target nor is it the 'advised' speed for everyone to adhere to.

[Flibble]

langtounlad said:

You fail your test by driving too slowly as the examiner concludes that you are unable, unwilling or incompetent at driving at the higher speed and perhaps have also failed to observe the posted limit sign.
After passing your test you are free to travel at whatever speed you choose. Drive too fast and you may get a speeding fine.
Drive slower than the posted limit and there is no legal consequence (motorways excepted).
Good drivers however will drive considerately regarding other motorists and if making progress, adjust their speed to the prevailing weather and surface conditions.
The speed limit is not a target nor is it the 'advised' speed for everyone to adhere to.

People can and have been prosecuted for driving too slowly on non-motorway roads too you know. Causing an obstruction is the relevant charge I think, or maybe just a straight up careless driving.

[Dagnir]

Jim AK said:

Dagnir said:

No of course I don't. I travel either on or above the limit by a few MPHs and this requires almost no concentartion.

Are you really asking what I gain? I would have thought that would be obvious?!?

Yes. It`s exactly what i`m asking.

OK, I'll bite...

I get to my destination quicker.

[Dagnir]

nonsequitur said:

...and if that traffic flow is exceeding the posted speed limit, and one is reluctant to follow suit?

Are you going to respond? I'm genuinely curious



Yes yes not a target. Very good, that's a new one to me -_-

Any response to my question? Why do you do it? What do you gain?

It takes no more concentration to drive a small % faster, actually at the limit....so why not do it?

[Pica-Pica]

Boring. Move on.

[Dagnir]

True....I just wanted an answer :*(

[Krikkit]

nonsequitur said:

problemchild1976 said:

nonsequitur said:

Your first paragraph probably concerns me. As I am rarely in a hurry these days I tend to drive at a sedate pace. Not tortoise speed but within the speed limit or just below and always leave a gap for overtakers. IMO there are far too many serial speeders on the roads today and they can be a menace to other road users. Yes, it's annoying to be behind a very slow driver but sometimes you just have to bite your lip, count to ten and be patient.

taking your time is different to keeping flow with the traffic

a lost art - its easy if you are looking and paying attention and planning ahead

JJ

...and if that traffic flow is exceeding the posted speed limit, and one is reluctant to follow suit?

Interestingly one of the final pieces of advice from my driving instructor (after passing) was that if you're in a blob of traffic and everyone's exceeding the speed limit you're better off following than enduring aggressive driving/risky overtakes from those stuck behind you.

Not often needed, but an interesting viewpoint.

[InitialDave]

Nanook said:

The fud riding down Gt Western Rd in the 50mph area, where there are no streetlights, on his push bike, dressed in dark clothes, with no lights, only a single red reflector, on the back of his bike at half 6 last night.

Absolutely not an anti-cyclist thing, I think we can all agree, drivers, cyclists, and everyone inbetween, that that is a chronically fking stupid thing to be doing.

Yuuuuup.

Had a pack of joggers doing the same thing down my road last week. Wide pavement on one side, wide grass verge on the other, nope, we're going to jog down the middle of the road, at night, dressed in dark clothing.

[66mpg]

I would like to nominate the lady driving the black Hyundai i20 on the A3 between Guildford and the M25 at about 12:30 today. The sudden swerve almost into lane two and back again told me all was not well: as I passed I saw she had her iPhone in her right hand and was steering with her fingertips. In her left hand was a spoon full with some beige food (porridge?) just about to be fed into her open mouth. The profile view was quite striking. I nearly dropped my newspaper.

[nonsequitur]

Pica-Pica said:

Boring. Move on.

Good idea. Nothing more from me.

[Blown2CV]

the speed limit absolutely is a target, because if you are specifically aiming to always be however many MPH below the limit then you are extremely likely to be holding up traffic nearly all the time.

[AppleJuice]

Cycling home yesterday (dark and raining with my bicycle well-lit) through a housing development; approaching an open, sweeping right-hand bend with a junction. I'm positioned a reasonable distance from the kerb, avoiding the grates and puncture-inducing detritus. I have a Sprinter luton behind me, a car coming the other way and a rapidly closing gap. Rather than wait until after the bend and junction, the Sprinter driver decides that the best time to overtake me was on the bend/junction into the closing gap, making the car and me stop rather rapidly and him braking sharpishly to squeeze through the tiny gap that remained and carrying on as if nothing had happened. I caught up with him a minute later when he turned in to another housing development and parking up. Time gained = <10 seconds.

Knob of the highest order.

Edited by AppleJuice on Wednesday 8th November 20:37

Edited by AppleJuice on Wednesday 8th November 21:10

[Flibble]

Correct use of headlights seems to be a dying art. Two last night on main beams in traffic, one with no lights at all.

[Europa1]

Related to Flibble's point above: people who think that a central reservation magically means that their headlights on main beam are no longer dazzling to traffic on the other carriageway. Utter fktards.

[Bobberoo99]

I've posted before about a bellend in a 3 series BMW tintop who insists on arriving at the end of the slip road to the M27 at no more than 50MPH, well today I came up behind him at the traffic lights onto the Windhover round about, they were red, he was creeping through them whilst still red until his whole car was across the line as they turned green, he then proceeds to crawl around the round about at 20mph, exit onto the link road to the M/WAY which is a 40 mph limit at just over 30, crawls around the round about to the slip road at around 20, at which point a van has come from the exit before the slip road and is now on the slip road where they both CRAWL up the slip road side by side at about 45MPH!!!!! BUNCH OF USELESS FKING MINDLESS CRETINS!!!!!

[LG9k]

Red RX-8 with chavzorst fitted.

This morning, speeding along a residential street where lots of schoolkids are walking to the bus stop, on and off the throttle constantly for some reason.

I overtook him 400 yards later as he sat in the traffic jam that occurs every single day.

I was walking.

Utter knob.

[problemchild1976]

Followed an Astra GTC last night..

down a narrow but 2 lane road, the driver (sat 1" from the wheel) drove at 15mph in a 30, constantly dabbing the brakes, almost stopping and when a car came the other way forced them to stop before he pulled fully into his lane to get past and then returned to the middle of the lane.

he then came to a total standstill at the top of the brow of the hill (not a give way) before moving away.

at the T-junction he stopped, looked and then very slowly pulled out in front of an volvo XC60 which was almost sat on its nose by the time it stopped in time.

the guy just drove off slow and like nothing happened!

JJ

[carlove]

People who at a T junction position. Their car so the middle of their car lines up with the centre line. I don’t know if they’re stupid or they do it so people turning in have to let them out.

[Muddle238]

carlove said:

People who at a T junction position. Their car so the middle of their car lines up with the centre line. I don’t know if they’re stupid or they do it so people turning in have to let them out.

Conversely you get people waiting to turn right but position themselves centrally/to the left, blocking people from pulling up alongside and turning left.

However on the other hand, I've often been waiting to turn left when a large SUV or van pulls up on my right, completely blocking my view of oncoming traffic. Especially valid at the entry to multi-lane roundabouts.