Bloody drivers!!!

[SharronNeedles]

Okay so please tell me if IABU but I'm absolutely fed up of drivers not driving at the speed limit. I was taught that the limit is how fast you should be driving so when im driving down a 70 I drive at 70 unless there is obvious traffic etc.
On my morning commute there is now someone I've seen most days who insists on driving at 45/50. In the outside lane. I'm not going to lie, I have undertook them on a couple of occasions which I know I shouldn't but id be very late if I stayed behind them!

Today on a stretch of 30, someone was doing 18, then when it changed to 50, they did 30.

I can't understand it!! It's causing traffic for the sake of traffic!
Is this just me? Am I missing something??

IMO it's just as dangerous to go to slow as it is to go to fast, YANBU

if you were really taught that then your instructor should be shot.

many on mn are really stupid and can ony cope with absolutes , hence the chorus of agreement. As an example it is a 60 limit outside my house - 90 degree bend after a narrow bridge. clearly an mn- free zone as no one goes that fast. the main road is also 60, there is a dickhead trap which sometimes has a car upside down in the adjacent field. must be on mn.

if it is raining, foggy or you cant see far enough ahead to stop it might be wise to slow down.

Undertaking is not strictly illegal if you look at Highway Code. If you are in the inside lane of a dual carriage way doing 70 and an ignorant twat is sitting in the outside lane doing 60 and you undertake that is not illegal. It is illegal if you are behind them in the same lane and undertake then come back in front of them that is illegal.

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In all honestly I didn't think I needed to specify that you would obviously slow down when approaching a sharp bend in the road and other obvious hazards...

I was also taught going too slow is dangerous mainly as other drivers anticipate that you are going at a certain minimum speed when doing their own manoeuvres. This is one reason when there is a convoy of large slow vehicles on motorways and a few dual carriageways the overhead signs warn you.

There's a road I travel very frequently which goes 30-50-60-50-30 the 60 stretch is long, straight as an arrow, perfect visibility, etc.

The amount of people who do all of it at 40! It boggles my brain.

I do wish that we could have more speed signs, the way some European countries do it.

There are a few dual carriageways around me, national speed limit, crossing a few slower zones. The problem is that many people do not dare going at 70, because there are strictly no sign. I was reading a discussion about it on a local facebook group, and many drivers admitted they are pretty sure it's 70 - and it is - but they'd rather not take the risk and get a huge fine if they got it wrong.

It's not even about ability to drive at speed limits. It's about fuel efficiency and keeping calm too. I can easy drive 120mph but (as well as being illegal) I would get about 2 days commute from a tank and I would start getting upset about people going slower in front of me and end up doing dangerous manoeuvres and arriving at work with a headache.

I undertook a line of traffic on a sliproad joining a motorway recently because there were about 3 cars/trucks in front of me doing about 45mph joining a motorway of heavy traffic doing 70. I could see I was going to end up in a crunch zone of trucks and heavy traffic so I got round and got up to speed to join it safely. Not proud, but I felt safer doing that than following behind.

I get your frustration in this instance but just for perspective, my car has developed a problem that has cost me £100 but not been fixed. Won't bore you with the details but I set off in the morning and it's fine, the more driving I do the more I lose power so if I have to slow down it takes a few hundred yards to be able to gain speed.

I've taken it to a garage about five times and each time it's got worse! Won't go back there I can say.

Not relevant to your problem I know but I felt awkward and stressed when I put my foot on the accelerator and nothing happened. ☹️