Pull over, I want to go past
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vikingaero said:
Lane 1 is the new "Fast Lane". Very often there is only a few mph speed differential with Lane 3/4. Chill. Let the turkeys in the outer lane queue for Christmas.
The M25 is nuts for this. Long sections of 4 lanes where the first two can be empty and traffic is bunched up in the outer two. Makes for very satisfying progress. Earlier this week I was on the Peterborough by-pass bit of the A1. Four lanes, pretty quiet and I feel like a right prat having to move from lane 1 to lane 4 and all the way back again to lane 1 to overtake a lane 3 enthusiast. Encountered one car who was sat in lane 4 with nothing around. When they eventually noticed me, they moved to lane 3 and then straight back to lane 4 as soon as I'd passed. I'd love to know what the thought process is for driving like this, seems even harder to understand than middle-laning.
When I used to commute on the A1, I'd just stick the cruise control on about 60 and generally just use the inside lane with the odd pass of a lorry. So much more relaxing than the usual outside lane nose-tail rush hour scuffle. And I doubt it made more than a minute or two's difference over my 30 mile commute. Sometimes, when traffic was heavier it was clearly quicker. But either way, it seems better arriving at work not filled with rage!
So everyone is taking the piss out of the OP, but he is right why the f
k do these people sit in the fast lane when not overtaking or sit in the middle lane when there is no traffic in the slow lane? If someone else wants to pass at 80mph surely that's not of your concern? pullover!
Frustration is what causes undertaking and then the ones being undertaken are probably oblivious to what's happening as they were texting anyway.
k do these people sit in the fast lane when not overtaking or sit in the middle lane when there is no traffic in the slow lane? If someone else wants to pass at 80mph surely that's not of your concern? pullover!Frustration is what causes undertaking and then the ones being undertaken are probably oblivious to what's happening as they were texting anyway.
Still astounds me that I can be on an empty motorway with a car sitting in lane 3.
I come up behind and after a bit they notice me and move to lane 2. I pass and move back to lane 1 and whilst looking in my rear view mirror they immediately return to lane 3????
On an empty motorway at 3am!
I come up behind and after a bit they notice me and move to lane 2. I pass and move back to lane 1 and whilst looking in my rear view mirror they immediately return to lane 3????
On an empty motorway at 3am!
cayman-black said:
So everyone is taking the piss out of the OP, but he is right why the fk do these people sit in the fast lane when not overtaking or sit in the middle lane when there is no traffic in the slow lane? If someone else wants to pass at 80mph surely that's not of your concern? pullover!
Frustration is what causes undertaking and then the ones being undertaken are probably oblivious to what's happening as they were texting anyway.
I agree with you and the OP.k do these people sit in the fast lane when not overtaking or sit in the middle lane when there is no traffic in the slow lane? If someone else wants to pass at 80mph surely that's not of your concern? pullover!Frustration is what causes undertaking and then the ones being undertaken are probably oblivious to what's happening as they were texting anyway.
I recall a time when I was dozing in the back seat of a rental being driven by my wife, in the right hand lane of a freeway in the southern US.
My reverie was disturbed when she called, “FRANK! Have I got to to move across two lanes to go round this berk?”
She was doing around 65, and closing gradually on an old Chevy Monte Carlo in the centre lane.
I looked over my shoulder, nothing for a long way, and said, “No, keep to this speed, keep a very close eye on the Chevy, and pass him in this lane.”
She wasn’t happy, kept thinking that a helicopter would film her, but she did it.
Further down the road, 18 wheelers were doing it with impunity, that reassured her.
Roger Irrelevant said:
roadsmash said:
wormus said:
Dear Prick
Better to be 10 minutes late in this life than 10 years too early in the next. You undertake me again I’ll kick your fking teeth in.
Is this you, Stephen?Better to be 10 minutes late in this life than 10 years too early in the next. You undertake me again I’ll kick your f
king teeth in.https://youtu.be/4xdM5JwEHZE
king teeth got kicked in, and I'm sure a hard and scary man like that wouldn't be making empty threats on the internet. A1VDY said:
Esotericstuff said:
Dear Average driver,
I am writing to politely request that when you aren't currently overtaking, that you kindly move left, to make
efficient use of the available road.
I recognise the truck on the horizon will eventually be overtaken given your 2-3mph closing speed, but if everyone follows your example there will be ample space to pull out when the need arises.
As it stands, the congested middle lane and outside lane are reducing traffic flow and ultimately increasing frustration for you and your fellow road users.
Yours Sincerely,
The prick who gave up and undertook you
Leave 5 minutes earlier, no need to overtake slower drivers, less stress and time saved having to post the experience on the Internet.. I am writing to politely request that when you aren't currently overtaking, that you kindly move left, to make
efficient use of the available road.
I recognise the truck on the horizon will eventually be overtaken given your 2-3mph closing speed, but if everyone follows your example there will be ample space to pull out when the need arises.
As it stands, the congested middle lane and outside lane are reducing traffic flow and ultimately increasing frustration for you and your fellow road users.
Yours Sincerely,
The prick who gave up and undertook you
croyde said:
Still astounds me that I can be on an empty motorway with a car sitting in lane 3.
I come up behind and after a bit they notice me and move to lane 2. I pass and move back to lane 1 and whilst looking in my rear view mirror they immediately return to lane 3????
On an empty motorway at 3am!
Reminded me of this...I come up behind and after a bit they notice me and move to lane 2. I pass and move back to lane 1 and whilst looking in my rear view mirror they immediately return to lane 3????
On an empty motorway at 3am!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5dL4DPm-DE
Liamst said:
wormus said:
Dear Prick
Better to be 10 minutes late in this life than 10 years too early in the next. You undertake me again I’ll kick your fking teeth in.
Lol pipe down Ronnie Pickering . Better to be 10 minutes late in this life than 10 years too early in the next. You undertake me again I’ll kick your f
king teeth in.If you don't want to get undertaken move left when it's clear.
I suggest the OP doesn't ever drive on the A34 then.
Miles and miles of:
1) people in the right lane "overtaking" at 0.00001mph faster than the (empty) lh lane
2) people simply sitting in the rh lane in their SPPPOOOOORRRTTTAAA SUVs, because evryone knows that these cars are in fact the fastest vehicles
ever made and nobody, not even richard noble driving Thrust 2 could ever want to go faster than their SPPPPOOOOORRRTTAAA SUV
3) People who i think have died, but havent' actually noticed
4) people who sit, about 3 inches off the back of a at 56 mph truck for miles, then without warning and only when someone is closing in the rh lane, move suddenly, without any indication or observation, into the rh lane forcing said approaching driver to do a ful ABS stop to avoid killing them, and then wonder why they are the subject of ire and abuse, and yet they make absolutely no effort what so ever to perhaps not take the next 15 minutes passing said truck at 0.0001 mph faster
5) arbiters of the national limit (a very specific group of total tts who think they are the police and that certain and total instant death occurs at 70.000001mph....)
;-)
Miles and miles of:
1) people in the right lane "overtaking" at 0.00001mph faster than the (empty) lh lane
2) people simply sitting in the rh lane in their SPPPOOOOORRRTTTAAA SUVs, because evryone knows that these cars are in fact the fastest vehicles
ever made and nobody, not even richard noble driving Thrust 2 could ever want to go faster than their SPPPPOOOOORRRTTAAA SUV
3) People who i think have died, but havent' actually noticed
4) people who sit, about 3 inches off the back of a at 56 mph truck for miles, then without warning and only when someone is closing in the rh lane, move suddenly, without any indication or observation, into the rh lane forcing said approaching driver to do a ful ABS stop to avoid killing them, and then wonder why they are the subject of ire and abuse, and yet they make absolutely no effort what so ever to perhaps not take the next 15 minutes passing said truck at 0.0001 mph faster
5) arbiters of the national limit (a very specific group of total t
ts who think they are the police and that certain and total instant death occurs at 70.000001mph....);-)
croyde said:
Still astounds me that I can be on an empty motorway with a car sitting in lane 3.
I come up behind and after a bit they notice me and move to lane 2. I pass and move back to lane 1 and whilst looking in my rear view mirror they immediately return to lane 3????
On an empty motorway at 3am!
Driving standards in the UK aren't very high, compared to the rest of Europe.I come up behind and after a bit they notice me and move to lane 2. I pass and move back to lane 1 and whilst looking in my rear view mirror they immediately return to lane 3????
On an empty motorway at 3am!
Motorway driving still isn't on the UK driving test.
Is the UK the only country in Europe that is reckless enough to not test an important part of driving skill ?
waremark said:
Flow of traffic on a congested multi-lane road is best if people choose a lane and stick to it. And the traffic in the outer lanes is normally moving at around 70 so I cannot believe you gain a significant advantage by being pushy. Do you?
Traffic in the outer lanes is generally doing 55-60. Lane one is often empty for as far as the eye can see. So yes, you can gain a significant advantage by making use of an empty lane one whilst cruising at an indicated 80.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRt6NHa9-lY&ab...
Had a baldy middle aged man in a golf nearly take my front end off because I had to audacity to undertake him at about 65mph in lane 1.
I came up on cruise and just sailed past him, so he can't have been doing more than 50-55mph in the middle lane. He then put his foot down and veered infront of me with about 3" to spare. I pulled out into lane 2 to give him a wave and a smile and he wouldn't even look at me
I came up on cruise and just sailed past him, so he can't have been doing more than 50-55mph in the middle lane. He then put his foot down and veered infront of me with about 3" to spare. I pulled out into lane 2 to give him a wave and a smile and he wouldn't even look at me
roadsmash said:
MB140 said:
You do realise leaving 5 minutes earlier makes no difference. It just means I meet slow moving muppet 5 minutes earlier on the road and am just further back in the queue to overtake slow moving muppet.
This doesn’t make sense.Gad-Westy said:
When I used to commute on the A1, I'd just stick the cruise control on about 60 and generally just use the inside lane with the odd pass of a lorry. So much more relaxing than the usual outside lane nose-tail rush hour scuffle. And I doubt it made more than a minute or two's difference over my 30 mile commute. Sometimes, when traffic was heavier it was clearly quicker. But either way, it seems better arriving at work not filled with rage!
^^ This is it, and how I used to do it (substituting A34 for A1). It doesn't add much time to the journey. And it uses less fuel.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff