To be annoyed at cars flashing to overtake?

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I was on a dual-carriage way, traffic in the inside lane going about 65mph, me in the outside lane overtaking several cars steadily at about 70mph (okay, maybe it was a couple over that...). And then someone comes up behind me at 80+mph and starts flashing me, presumably to get in so he can continue to speed.

AIBU to think the overtaking lane is for overtaking and as long as I'm doing that, I've every right to be there? And that there's no god-given right to travel at 80mph even if that's your thing?

I never get this too, I just sit there!

If they undertake I then take great pleasure in flashing my lights when I am inevitability sat behind them at the next round about/set of traffic lights..

You need to get off the roads and retake your test. You are unsafe.

It is also not your job to enforce the speed limit. That's for the police and speed cameras. Do not apologise for your existence but get out of the way when you can

My car. I was doing 70 or possibly a little over.

I do in fact believe my speedometer to be accurate because as a pp said it seems to match the speed signs that flash and my sat nav. How odd to expect it to do what it is there for.

You seem intent on making me out to be in the wrong here when you were not present. Were you the guy in the black car that wanted to continue driving at 100mph or something ?

That's how I feel about them!

I'm not driving something that does 12mpg to sit behind folk that think they're doing 70, in the wrong lane because they might need to overtake something or turn right in the next 10 miles. (Encounter them every day. They absolutely ruin the joy that driving can give.)

You seem intent on making me out to be in the wrong here when you were not present. Were you the guy in the black car that wanted to continue driving at 100mph or something ?

I do drive a black car, but I'm no guy!

I save 100mph for the track.

I have flashed a few drivers out of the way.

However, it has always been because they are sitting in the overtaking lane, under the speed limit, with no cars in the lane they are legally meant to be driving in, and I have waited half a minute to give them the benefit of the doubt. I would rather do that than undertake (which in all these instances I could do without exceeding the speed limit).

When the law changed a year or so ago about using the inner-most lane whenever possible, and I was sitting in the middle lane (it was a very empty motorway at the time), a police car did the same - came up behind me and flashed me to pull over. My bad. I understood completely.

I do in fact believe my speedometer to be accurate because as a pp said it seems to match the speed signs that flash and my sat nav. How odd to expect it to do what it is there for

Fair enough. The vast majority don't though.

Yanbu op. I never move over so some disk can have a lane to themselves to speed. They can wait, why should your day be held up?

You are an unsafe driver. You should be concentrating on your driving not jobsworth judging what other drivers are doing.

When the law changed a year or so ago about using the inner-most lane whenever possible,

That's always been the law.

The speed limit in a dual carriage way is 40 unless there is a national speed limit sign in which case it is 60 it's only on motorways that you can do 70

I can't believe how many people don't know the bloody speed limits

Ah, yes, you're right, Titty. It's only recently that drivers are now subject to prosecution. Thanks for pointing that out.

The roadworks also have reduced speed limits because of narrower lanes. Just because there seems to be no one working doesn't mean it's ok to do 70+

If someone feels the need to race along the road and I am overtaking, I will pull back in ONLY if it is safe to do so and if there is a a safe gap in the traffic in front and behind me and the speed is safe.

Some people's idea of a safe gap seems to differ to mine.

What speed will the person's behind speedo be reading?

Completely dependent on the car... my sat nav shows my car speedo over estimates at 10% past 50.... so if someone is impatient I let them get on with their journey

Exactly what limited said.

Speed limit on a duel is 70!!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_speed_limits_in_the_United_Kingdom
Wtf thinks it's 40?!!!!

I do understand your point.

I drive a smaller car and I think there's something about that that makes people behave differently regardless of speed and behaviour.

I've noticed quite different attitudes from other road users in the much larger sleeker work cars. BMW or Vauxhall insignia usually. One reaction was real surprise when I allowed someone to move in front when they were presumably in the wrong lane.

The speed limit in a dual carriage way is 40 unless there is a national speed limit sign in which case it is 60 it's only on motorways that you can do 70

Are you sure?

www.gov.uk/speed-limits

I hate this too. People who zoom right up to your tailgate and then flash you when I'm overtaking. They always seem to do it without looking at the road ahead - so either i can't move over because I'm about to get to a junction and there's loads of traffic about to merge, or there's a long line of cars also overtaking in the lane ahead of me so no point as we'd all like to go faster if we could.

I passed my test 6 years ago and there was a question on the theory about where to be on a motorway/dual carriageway when it is empty. The correct answer is of course the left lane. The answer is not whatever lane you fucking fancy.

It's also moronic to move out several days in advance because you can see something in the distance going slower than you. Move over when you actually need to go around them.

I highly second everything @TittyGolightly has said here.

Car speedos are known to be inaccurate. I am amazed we have not one but two posters here who have to the mile bob-on ones though.

The correct answer is of course the left lane. The answer is not whatever lane you fucking fancy

That's not the OP though. When you are overtaking a vehicle, what speed should you go at and what do you do if someone comes up behind you and flashes at you to go faster?

Was that on the theory test?

I highly second everything @TittyGolightly has said here

So you would tailgate someone who you thinks is not going fast enough for you when they are overtaking a car?

What do you think the safe gap is at 70mph? I think that's on the driving test.

Clue - it's not 10m.

I was responding to the poster saying the law only changed a year or two ago.

I posted previously saying that I continue at my speed until it is safe to move over. Not faster to accommodate their speeding or slower to hack them off.

The speed limit in a dual carriage way is 40 unless there is a national speed limit sign in which case it is 60 it's only on motorways that you can do 70.I can't believe how many people don't know the bloody speed limits shock

Which is ironic, as you are completely fucking wrong, and you are probably one of the unsafe drivers who drive dangerously slowly and cause accidents.