An epidemic of insanely slow drivers

[Gordon Hill]

I've had the space saver on for the last 3 weeks as I've been laid up with the dreaded norovirus but still had to take the wife to work. I live in a quite rural area so progress can be made and being aware of keeping my speed below 50 I thought that I'd be holding people up. Not a bit of it, in fact the cars in front have been proceeding so slowly that I've not inconvenienced anybody. It's insane, 35 mph on 60 roads with nothing in the way of traffic. I don't usually take that much notice on 4 normal tyres as it's quite easy to get past around here and I've more than enough power to overtake fairly quickly but I've noticed that it's not the minority who are dawdling, it's the majority, has everybody been lobotomized?

[740EVTORQUES]

Lighting the blue touchpaper but overtaking any virtually any EV is massively safer due to the immense immediate torque.

My current EV has easily the fastest 30-70 (2.5 secs apparently) of any car I’ve owned

[Terminator X]

740EVTORQUES said:

Lighting the blue touchpaper but overtaking any virtually any EV is massively safer due to the immense immediate torque.

My current EV has easily the fastest 30-70 (2.5 secs apparently) of any car I’ve owned

EVs are the slowest cars on the road in my experience.

TX.

[Gordon Hill]

Terminator X said:

740EVTORQUES said:

Lighting the blue touchpaper but overtaking any virtually any EV is massively safer due to the immense immediate torque.

My current EV has easily the fastest 30-70 (2.5 secs apparently) of any car I’ve owned

EVs are the slowest cars on the road in my experience.

TX.

Preservation of a very limited range, 30-70 acceleration is irrelevant when you've only got 5 miles before needing to plug it in again.

[popeyewhite]

Pit Pony said:

Overtaking in a slow car is an art.

No it's absolutely not. It's a fairly basic skill and if you think giving yourself a pat on the back for accomplishing it is appropriate you should rethink your level of driving ability.

Unless you're over 90 years of age?

[popeyewhite]

Terminator X said:

EVs are the slowest cars on the road in my experience.

TX.

I don't know about that, I've seen a few Teslas around here nailing it up to the NSL. Quick off the mark! South Cheshire, roads here may be less clogged so more opportunity for foot down moments.

[croyde]

Lobotomized!

That's a good description. Thanks to the earlier poster.

I'm truly befuddled because it just seems that this mass hysteria event came about suddenly at the beginning of the 2020s.

I drove to work today as it's free parking in the London Boro's (Good Friday) and not far from my flat I joined the car train to Twickenham.

But everyone was doing 26mph, oh the joy! Sensible driving at last

The van in front of me even hit 30mph when a space opened up.

Such a relief in the leafy London Borough of 20mph limits.

I was in such a good mood that I let a BMW 330e out into the flow of traffic.

Big mistake as he crawled along at 17mph whilst that van disappeared into the distance.

I saw 330 so thought a man that likes performance but then there's that little 'e'.

Luckily no one seems to understand bus lanes so I had my own personal VIP lane to speed up my commute.

[Zarco]

popeyewhite said:

Pit Pony said:

Overtaking in a slow car is an art.

No it's absolutely not. It's a fairly basic skill and if you think giving yourself a pat on the back for accomplishing it is appropriate you should rethink your level of driving ability.

Unless you're over 90 years of age?

This is rich coming from the guy who has to tail gate

[valiant]

Had a good one last night.

Had to do a late night dash to pick up my son after all the trains has fallen over. Weather was atrocious and visibility pretty poor.

Going down the A12 and come across a Panda doing 55 in lane 2 with absolutely nothing in lane 1 for miles. Car was wearing a 'P' plate as well so can only guess the quality of tuition received.

Couldn't be arsed changing from lane 1 to 2 and then the internable wait for them to realise there's a car behind her so just swifty undertook. Naughty I know but the driver was clueless and even the unsubtle hint by undertaking didn't make her move as she disappeared in my rear mirror.

Grrrrr...

[popeyewhite]

Zarco said:

popeyewhite said:

Pit Pony said:

Overtaking in a slow car is an art.

No it's absolutely not. It's a fairly basic skill and if you think giving yourself a pat on the back for accomplishing it is appropriate you should rethink your level of driving ability.

Unless you're over 90 years of age?

This is rich coming from the guy who has to tail gate

Reread my post. I shorten TED. I'm sure you try to as well. HC says move quickly past the vehicle you're overtaking.
If you can't do that then either get a quicker car/bike or don't bother and leave other road users following enough room to get past you.

[Zarco]

popeyewhite said:

Zarco said:

popeyewhite said:

Pit Pony said:

Overtaking in a slow car is an art.

No it's absolutely not. It's a fairly basic skill and if you think giving yourself a pat on the back for accomplishing it is appropriate you should rethink your level of driving ability.

Unless you're over 90 years of age?

This is rich coming from the guy who has to tail gate

Reread my post. I shorten TED. I'm sure you try to as well. HC says move quickly past the vehicle you're overtaking.
If you can't do that then either get a quicker car/bike or don't bother and leave other road users following enough room to get past you.

Oh.

[popeyewhite]

Zarco said:

popeyewhite said:

Zarco said:

popeyewhite said:

Pit Pony said:

Overtaking in a slow car is an art.

No it's absolutely not. It's a fairly basic skill and if you think giving yourself a pat on the back for accomplishing it is appropriate you should rethink your level of driving ability.

Unless you're over 90 years of age?

This is rich coming from the guy who has to tail gate

Reread my post. I shorten TED. I'm sure you try to as well. HC says move quickly past the vehicle you're overtaking.
If you can't do that then either get a quicker car/bike or don't bother and leave other road users following enough room to get past you.

Oh.

Happy to help

[Pit Pony]

popeyewhite said:

Pit Pony said:

Overtaking in a slow car is an art.

No it's absolutely not. It's a fairly basic skill and if you think giving yourself a pat on the back for accomplishing it is appropriate you should rethink your level of driving ability.

Unless you're over 90 years of age?
[/quote

I'm not 90.

I've since owned cars with better acceleration, and on short straights, it's easier.

[Dan-k]

I read all 30 pages of the post and been holding back commenting but…….

farking hell it’s taking the piss I drive a hgv and the amount of fkwit people I overtake on the fking motorway at 54mph is unreal!!!

Tbh I rarely see cars doing 70 any more only the odd Audi or bmw the rest are getting in the fking way doing 48 and only speeding up when I get along side them and when I have to pull in behind they fking slow down again!! fking infuriating!

And people doing 40 in a 60! I’ve got the company number written on the back of the truck so if I over take they’re straight on the phone because it’s normally in their fking hand!

I’m on a fking tacho I don’t have time to fking waste on these morons!

I had some woman driving through a car park with puddles ask me if I was in hurry cos I just drove through them in a normal manner - i replied “yes I have a job to do in a limited time” she said “only my disabled husband washed the car yesterday and I had splashed it with dirty water” I just said okay then.

As previously said many times in this thread in the any of the driving/riding tests if you don’t do the speed limit - you fail!

Even in the hgv test on small lanes you have to get up to the speed limit if appropriate if you faff about you fail!

Sorry but all this bks about it not being a target is pathetic and inconsiderate.

[swisstoni]

Autonomous cars can’t come soon enough for many. Then they can totally give up like they clearly want to.

[Magikarp]

“Dangerously slow”.


The dangerous thing is impatience I’d suggest.

[LunarOne]

Magikarp said:

“Dangerously slow”.


The dangerous thing is impatience I’d suggest.

Your daughter has fallen off her bike and she's been taken to hospital injured and unconscious. You want to get to her bedside as quickly as you can, but your journey is made twice as long as it needs to be because there's a queue of idiots happy to do 37 in a 60 and you can't get past. Doesn't matter whether they're driving slowly because they're too busy fiddling with their phone. Or they want to avoid splashing the car with dirty water because the husband just washed the car yesterday. Or because they are happy pottering along blissfully unaware what that white circle with the diagonal black line means.

But you're the one at fault for being impatient. Slowcoaches can screw themselves.

[the-norseman]

Dan-k said:

Even in the hgv test on small lanes you have to get up to the speed limit if appropriate if you faff about you fail!

Yep having just done my HGV.

[croyde]

I'm glad the majority of drivers don't use them but a friend who was having driving lessons was told to keep left and use the bus lanes when allowed as it was a fail if you didn't.

[the-norseman]

When I was going my HGV test a few months ago, There was me and another lad, we both went out on our test at the same time, he set off about 30 seconds ahead of me, we went from Leighton Buzzard into Luton both did the same route. He failed because he went into bus lanes.