To ask that you speed up a little.

[Dawndonna]

I live in a rural area. I have to go about my daily business, appointments, shopping etc. So, if you're visiting and admiring the scenery, please pull over. Do not drive at 20mph on a sixty mile an hour road upon which overtaking is either bloody dangerous or impossible.
Drives me fucking mental

Yep, that makes sense jenai.

One thing I wish people would remember - not all cars have the same brakes/acceleration/stability. If you can whip round tight bends in your nice, huge, stable estate car, don't assume I can too! And don't assume tractors can 'just put their foot down'.

I agree entirely, OP. If you have a tractor or a horse box you can go slow, but if you have a rover there is no excuse. The worst ones drive at a steady 40-45mph, along both 60mph rural roads and 30mph villages. If they are in such a hurry that they require to drive at 45mph through a small village then they can go a bit bloody faster than 40mph on the open road. This drives me completely batty.

Well said OP. I get road rage every day because of slow drivers. If they need to drive at 20mph where the limit is 60mph then they shouldn't be on the roads. They are a danger to others

And there is almost always a flatcap on the parcel shelf.

I believe it is the coming down hill person that backs up ? And people who use passing placers as lay bys

I stand corrected.

I think some people who're elderly don't realize that driving slowly is dangerous. People my age were taught to do the speed limit if it's safe to do so because being much slower can cause accidents. But my dad's generation seem to have all been taught that if they're in any doubt, they should slow down to 20 or so - especially if they're tired or have had a pint. I can't think of many things more annoying than being behind someone wavering all over the road at 20mph while they try to remember the way home from the pub.

And there is almost always a flatcap on the parcel shelf

Read that as 'cat flap' and thought .

Dh frequently rants about the steady 50mph driver, we get lots of them round these parts too.

Actually, I get really, deeply irritated by drivers who think our country village is part of some F1 race track and accelerate as fast and loudly as possible!!

They seem to forget that actual people live in these houses....

YANBU

60mph safe wide roads all the way to work, every day someone seems to assume that 40mph is a safe speed and the huuuge queue of traffic behind them making risky attempts to overtake is fine.

I hate having someone driving too close behind me, I find it quite unnerving but if I'm doing the speed limit ignore them. Not sure how people driving too slow can stand it.

YANBU

I used to drive round nice windy country lanes on my way to work and used to get really frustrated by one guy who insisted on driving at 35-40 in the national speed limit zone. In a fucking Porsche. Of all people who drive down that road, he was the one whose vehicle would have been able to handle it best and had a bit of fun whilst doing it and he was holding up the traffic.

You'd be a nutter to do 60 in a Porsche along "windy country lanes". Do it a Chelsea tractor by all means (as long as you're happy to mow down any other road users) - you'll probably be fine unless you meet the milk tanker or an actual tractor.

But in a low-down sports car it's suicidal.

Sirzy

Then my comment is perfectly valid.

can i go against the grain and say YABU

(even though i actually agree a little bit)

if the road is "too dangerous and impossible to overtake" then it's safer for a car to go slower - if you can't overtake him, then he can't overtake a pedestrian or cyclist or horse. (and probably wouldn't see it in time either)

ps: in the countryside, the roads are actually derestricted - not deemed 60mph, but deemed not in need of a set speed limit because of volume of traffic. that's why they're national speed limit, not because the road is safe for 60mph.

What bugs me is the driver who does dead on 40 on perfectly good roads (and no, I can't overtake, they're not usually that clear and I have a shit car) but then reaches a village with a 20 or 30mph speed limit and continues to drive at 40mph. Like they're stuck.
Lots of them about.

YANBU

and DSF there is no need to tap your accelerator after you have stopped, why why do you do that?, simply remove the key, thank you

Mildred,

Lots of older drivers (like my DF) do this usually because years of driving cars fitted with carburetors taught them to 'prime' the carburetor ready for an easier re-start. Drivers of classic cars do this often.

Not at all necessary on modern cars, but ingrained habits die hard.

Ask your DSF if this is the reason he does?

I love slow drivers. They remind us that we are people are not machines. There are worst things in life to get angry about. The main problem on the roads is fast, aggressive drivers who have no respect for others who do not drive like them. Those same fast drivers are in the main are the people that cause accidents and death.

JollyHockeyStick - I make it a rule to distrust anyone who is driving in a hat. Flat cap or baseball cap, either is a sign that I'm not going to like the way they drive.

And we get loads of the "40mph everywhere" drivers here too - all through the 60 zone, then into the 30 zone, then past the 20 zone for the school... as if their foot has only one position on the floor and they just aren't going to change it to suit the road conditions

Ah yes, the alternative to "pumping the accelerator vigorously before starting the engine" that some people insist on doing on first getting into the car.

I confess to not necessarily doing 60 on country lanes - if they're twisty with high hedges, I want to be able to stop/slow down safely if I round a bend to find a horse being ridden. The key is driving to the conditions, and pootling along at 40 regardless of the actual speed limit, state of the road, visibility, weather etc is NOT driving to the conditions.

Nickel you and I are the sensible, driving glove wearing road safety squirrels. We are gentlemen drivers :)

THe continual 40 thing is weird. I don't understand it at all; my best guess is that it's a speed the driver feels comfortable with and it suits their car efficiency wise, but they're shit drivers because they take no account of the actual road they're driving on.

Fireandashes

You must know some people with very long legs.

If you think it's ok to do 60 mph round 'windy country lanes' then you are mental.

Fast aggressive drivers cause untold hurt, pain and harm to the people they inevitably crash into or run over.

Of course drivers need to drive to the road conditions but personally I never drive over 50 unless on a motorway.

What's the rush unless you are a 999 driver.

Chill, noone needs to rush.. Leave house earlier.

It depends on the "windy country lanes" - heading one direction from where I live, I never do more than 50mph, the other direction I can safely do 60mph apart from one bend. Both roads are "windy country lanes", but one has tighter bends and less visibility than the other.

The thing is, you may know the road. You know where the farm gates are, that you've never seen a horse on it in 30 years, that no footpaths cross it etc. A driver that's never driven it before doesn't know that and so has to drive at a speed that allows him to look out for hazards which you know aren't there.

But the driver that drives at 40 past the school 20 limit. He's a nob.