To think it's ok to want to travel at 70mph on the motorway...

The reason she was sent a notice of intended prosecution was because the course is offered as an alternative to prosecution. If you don’t accept that you did anything wrong then you can refuse the course and the matter will go to court. Do you not accept that apart from the journalistic reasons you have stated in some circumstances education is better than a fine and points?

She wasn't prosecuted or punished. She was issued with a "notice of intended prosecution" but opted to take an education course which is not a punishment and shouldn't be regarded as one, so she was never prosecuted.

LBC are misogynistic arseholes. The word "woman" in the headline was only there to attract the attention of misogynistic arseholes to help feed their confirmation bias. And the writer of the article needs to go on a driver education course too because they used the words "fast lane" to describe the 3rd lane which is only a term used by people who don't understand the rules of the motorway.

Glad they prosecuted her too but will she be educated enough to get in the right lane? That was an empty road at night. Wonder what her reasoning was for being in the rightmost lane?

I remember this driver.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/woman-driver-who-shared-dashcam-of-man-swerving-into-her-is-also-punished-for-la/

I find the best ones are the ones that light up the mph you are going at. Usually the 20 or 30 mph sensors in towns

There is some lag with gps data.

Yes, that's why I don't think it should be used instead of the speedo but there might be a way to used it for calibration.

Yes... lane 2 is often a long line of people overtaking hgvs etc.

One of the main problems is too many people don't leave an appropriate gap, both for their own stopping distance and for people wanting to merge from slip roads or to move over into for overtaking.

There is some lag with gps data. However, I have wondered if the speedo in my car is linked to the GPS as it seems to be very accurate.

I do understand that but people also pull out ages before they are actually going to overtake the car. This can be because everyone else is already in the outside lane - wrongly and people think they won't be able to get out. Along with those that won't let you pull out when you would genuinely be overtaking.

Noted, I’ll get back in my lane 😉
Sometimes it just seems a bit pointless getting into lane 1 or 2 for about 30 seconds to get right back out again on an empty motorway, if I’m driving fast and not below speed limit.

If someone else can "undertake" you, then you WERE in the wrong line, half a mile or not, you shouldn't be in an overtaking lane if you're not actively overtaking. Speed is irrelevant, both for yourself and others. It's not your job to police the speed of others.

I didn't do pass plus, but only because my Dad was a driving instructor! (Not MY driving instructor, I hasten to add - he refused!). He did, however, go out with me on supervised drives when I was learning and on the motorway with me after I passed my test.

Only a couple of weeks after my driving test I was driving on the motorway with my mum and grandmother in the car and a little old lady doing about 20 mph pulled straight out in front of me, causing me to have to do practically an emergency stop. Both my mum and grandmother were super impressed that I'd reacted so quickly!

I also did pass plus and that was before 20 mph in Wales came in. It helped loads. Also think all new drivers should have a black box fitted as standard. Stops you getting bad habits too quickly and over a decade later, still gives me discounts on my car insurance!
Lots of 60 mph - speeding in the 50 and then too slow when it briefly goes up to 70. Utter arses and CC should be taken out along with lights that are too bright.
Have seen learners recently indicating wrongly off a roundabout. Dunno what's so hard about it as a roundabout should be treated like a junction. Saying that I've also seen people indicating wrongly at a normal junction. I despair.

I did the pass plus too! 6 hours of motorway driving to build my confidence, night driving, driving in country lanes and deeper hazard perceptions because I was able to drive in the motorway with a qualified instructor. This was in 1998, but feel strongly that you shouldn’t be allowed to drive in the motorway until you have had motorway lessons either before or after passing your test.

I don’t think I said I was in the correct lane! 😉
I might stay in lane 3 if there’s a lorry say 0.5 miles ahead instead of dropping to lane 2 for a very short time. I’d be doing 70, person in lane 4 also doing 70, and we get undertaken by someone that wishes to drive at 80 🤷‍♀️

Technically doing 70 one shouldn’t get undertaken or overtaken but that’s not how motorways work around here, tends to be 75 usual speed but 80 isn’t unusual.

Lane hogging at 60 I rarely see, these people are genuinely in lane 1 in this part of the country.

I guess that poster's speedo is out by closer to the full permissible 10% than yours and she's set it at what the speedo says when a satnav reads near 70.

I don't know why by now car speedos can't be regularly recalibrated using gps data so they read more accurately though.

@Uglyandgrumpy
I use CC constantly, set at 77

That's a neither here nor there speed. My CC which I use a lot slightly over estimates my speed by 2 or three MPH so I set it at 74 or 75. Although technically I will be speeding it’s only by a couple of MPH. If I had my CC set at 77MPH I could still get done. When I did a speed awareness course there were a few people there who had be caught doing 74 MPH on the motorway.
So, if your CC is like mine, I’d suggest you either speed up a bit and then if you get caught it’s fair enough or I’d suggest slowing just a teeny bit so you won’t get caught at all.

I sort of disagree, the problem is stupid drivers, and you can't fix stupid. I use CC constantly, set at 77 and the amount of jerks that you start overtaking and they start speeding up so you pull in behind and they slow down again - repeat. When i am travelling at my 77 and someone approaches behind I courteously speed up to get out of the way, pull over and then slow back to my 77.
Middle lane drivers and including those driving in lane 3 of 4 when not overtaking deserve no less than to be held up in a JSO protest, eternally.

You can undertake if the lane to your right is traveling slower than your lane.
what you can’t do is swap from lane 2 into lane 1 to overtake.
ive come across a lot of numpties traveling at 40mph in the middle lane of the M25.

It doesn't matter what speed they are going. If they aren't overtaking then they are in the WRONG lane

I think a lot of problems these days are caused by cruise control. People just want to carry on pootling along at 60 or 70 or whatever, set their cruise control, so can't be bothered to adapt by slighting speeding up or slowing down as that takes a bit more effort to reset the CC afterwards and they'd rather just lazily carry on at the same speed, causing potential problems for other drivers by preventing them changing lanes etc. Personally, I'm sure CC has really contributed to the clear and obvious increase in middle lane hogging as it just makes the driver lazy.

so he stays in the left hand lane then, is what you're saying

No, of course not. If he wants to overtake something going slower then he speeds up while he's doing it so he's not slowing anyone down. And he doesn't plod along in lane 1 past junctions with loads of traffic trying to merge - again adapts speed and lane as appropriate.

so he stays in the left hand lane then, is what you're saying

The person joining is essentially at a junction. If they have to stop due to no spaces, then they have to stop. They do not have a right to force in between traffic if there is no space . They must slow down until they can join.

Yes!! So many people don’t know how to drive on the motorway! Or are too scared to move once they’re on. Bad driving and very frustrating, I don’t speed but like to travel at the limit when safe to do so.