To find it funny when someone overtakes you?

[SydneyJones]

Going at a ridiculous speed and then you end up at the traffic lights together?

*accident.

Yep, I usually applaud at the next set of traffic lights.

If you are doing 50 in a 70... can you blame someone for wanting to overtake you?

I'll try again...

If someone is doing 30 on a 60 road then they are the dangerous driver and yes I'd overtake them as they're likely to cause an accident.

I overtake quite often (only if it's safe to do so, obviously), and I don't care if we end up at traffic lights lights together. The point of overtaking is that I'm no longer stuck behind someone driving differently to me, or erratically, or who slows right down at every corner, or is driving consistently under the speed limit, or whatever. I find it annoying, whereas I actively enjoy driving when I've got a clear road in front of me. So if you waved cheerily at me at the lights, I'd wave cheerily (if rather confusedly) back.

Does no one else enjoy ever taking for the sake of it? I find it fun to plan my manoeuvre, find the right bit of road, drop a gear and put my foot down. I don't mind if you catch me up at some lights, I just enjoy a good overtake!

I think it's being the daughter of a racing driver 😂😂

Oh, and yes - if someone is regularly undertaking you, then you are probably the problem!

Meltor yes, absolutley! (Daughter of a police driving instructor).

occasionally I've done this. It's usually not because of speed per se but because of stopping distance. If someone is going very slowly it can be hard to be a safe distance behind them

Just slow down yourself and you will be further away from the car in front.

@ChicRock I agree - I live in a rural village with two large attractions that attract pensioners.

It's become a standing joke in our family that anyone driving at 25mph in the 60 zone (which happens painfully often) will ALWAYS pull into said attraction

Personally I don't think they should be on the road if the aren't capable of driving at even 50% of the speed limit on a clear, dry, sunny day!

The funniest one was a chap who was driving at 25mph and overtook by three cars in a row, he beeped and looked angry at all of them and couldn't seem to understand that HE was the problem!

IfYou - I do think trailing along at 38 mph in a national speed limit area gets a bit ridiculous.

I think it's funny too but so does my friend and loads of people overtake her, which I'm surprised she doesn't find unusual. She's a bloody awful dangerously erratic, slow reacting driver so I'm not surprised they ate desperate too.

I once was doing the speed limit on a rural A road only to be overtaken by Mr Smallcock who did not spot the police speed check. Bloody loved it when he was pulled up further up and I sailed past.
Made my day!

The point is, if you hadn't been going so f'ing slowly in the first place, they wouldn't be stuck at those lights.

It did make me laugh when an arsehole who'd tailgated me in a 40 gm for five minutes, finally managed to overtake me to be stuck behind another car. I didn't laugh when he overtook that one and almost hit the car coming the other way!

Or you end up crawling behind them for miles along a winding country road because the numpty has overtaken you

But if they hadn't overtaken you, they'd have been stuck behind you stuck behind the tractor - and it's more difficult to safely overtake two vehicles than one. So I don't see your point?

I don't understand why people get so arsey about being overtaken? As long as it's done safely, what on earth is the issue? As long as they don't endanger me or hold me up, I couldn't give a toss if someone wants to be in front of me. Maybe they're in a hurry, maybe they know the road better than me, maybe they just like overtaking in their higher powered car...

As long as the overtake is safe and legal, I don't care. Nothing wrong with a safe and legal manoeuvre.

I hardly ever overtake. I am never in that much of a hurry TBH.

TatterdemalionAspie Im find bring overtaken. What I don't like and I do laugh at is when the idiots can't safely overtake, tailgate me and speed off. I'm glad they aren't behind me anymore though.

Normal people doing it are fine.

I tend to pull up behind them and applaud them when this happens. Sometimes they see sometimes they don't, makes me laugh anyway

It's even better on a bike!
There's a road near me that's narrow and one way, but widens at the end, so I always get a car right up my bum revving away... Then the road widens and they overtake, only to be stopped in the long queue at the end (it joins a busy road), while I whizz past again!

I often overtake people and find them behind me at a particular junction which can sometimes take several minutes to pull out from. They're probably thinking along the lines of some of some of you here in that I've only gained a car length but in reality I've saved several minutes with what is a perfectly safe overtake.

It is funny, as long as they don't do something dangerous.

Some people take driving much too seriously when it comes to speed, and not seriously enough when it comes to safety.

It's never bothered me if people overtake me.

It's no harder to drive safely behind someone doing 30 in an 60 than it is to drive behind someone doing 30 in a 30, I don't understand that justification at all.

It might not be harder, but it's a damn sight more irritating. You can fail your driving test for driving at an inappropriate speed. I would say that includes driving at 30 when the limit is 60 (providing no hazards ahead, obv.).