Drive at the speed limit

[OldSpeclkledHen]

I am sick to bloody death of drivers who refuse to drive upto the speed limit.

Ffs if it's 60mph speed limit - drive at fucking 60 -NOT 30 🤬🤬

Three times I have been out driving since last night, EVERY fucking time on 3 different journeys I have been stuck behind some freaking twat who cannot drive upto the speed limit, or overtake a fucking cyclist (but that's another rant)

I am by no means a girl racer, but FFS get out of my fucking way.

Aaaaaand breathe.

Do the "it's a limit not a target" brigade not realise that you'll fail at your test for driving too slow? I failed mine for driving 48 in a 60, on an unfamiliar, tight back road

As a side note, I hate being the passenger of an impatient driver, someone who’s always chuntering on about what other people are doing or not doing. Concentrate on your own driving.

I'm with you on this! My DH does this constantly, it's the only time I hear him swear.

So what? We aren’t each other’s driving instructors; we share the road and have to compromise. You would fail your test for all sorts of things that people do on the road on a daily basis.

I found a clear indication of impending woeful driving and that is a hat of any kind or a box of tissues on the rear parcel shelf.

A town near where I live has the NSL sign right next to a functioning steam railway and there's nothing more frustrating when the puffer nutters steam enthusiasts miss the NSL sign and continue to do 30 for the next few miles, absolutely rage inducing

If I’m such an underconfident driver that I can’t get anywhere near a speed limit then that’s for me to try to resolve over time (practice and experience usually help) but it’s not for another driver to make that judgement for me.

It would suggest that you need more lessons.

My commute should take about 30 minutes. I tend to expect 45 to allow for traffic. Are you suggesting I should allow potentially an hour or more because someone might not have the confidence to use a 60/70mph dual carriageway properly?

People who go around thinking “Get out of my fucking way” don’t belong behind the wheel of a car
They only don't belong behind the wheel of their car if they act on their frustrations. IMHO it's normal to feel frustrated when being held up. People dawdling and hogging the pavement piss me off but I wouldn't barge them out of the way, just as I may be driving whilst muttering "the accellerator is the pedal on the right you slow git" but I keep a safe distance from them and don't try any dangerous overtaking.

Candida. There are loads of reasons why someone might drive at 45 in a 60 limit. None of them are any of your concern.
Pretty much everything posted on MN is none of anyone else's concern Redcar. I was mearly stating the facts RE being at test standards, which many people (including people who dawdle drive) aren't.

When you have a manual car you cannot just whoosh and go. You stop, neutral if waiting too long. That's what we were taught - to use neutral and I don't use it that often except when waiting at big crossroads with traffic lights because off other drivers being so impatient and intimidating others. You cannot just whoosh with a manual car.

The speed limit is the maximum speed allowed, it is not obligatory. You are supposed to drive within the speed limit, at a speed appropriate for the conditions. That means that you frequently do need to be driving at less than the limit, depending on the conditions.

And yes, I do get fed up with people pootling along when the limit is 60, but nowhere near as pissed off as I get when I am driving at the speed limit or just over and there's some nutter swerving around three feet behind me itching to overtake on a dangerous bend, just because they think they are more important.

Sometimes when I drive and someone is being annoying I wish I had a button to show them - FUCK OFF. I am doing 30 mph and why are you tailgating me and then beeping at a busy junction?
Another day I was doing 50 mph on the 60 mph road. There were other drivers ahead of me and a few cyclists. I overtook a cyclists and then moments later I heard a sound of a biker overtaking me - between my car and an oncoming double decker bus. Distance wasn't great. He was just an impatient idiot who would have put in danger not only himself. We were also on the bridge.

It is not the slow driving that gets me it’s the slamming on suddenly at corners. Or when people drive at 30 and don’t pull over to let people past at passing points. My work commute is 15 minutes normally but when camper van season arrives it can take 45 because they do not seem to realise when there is a trail of 10+ cars behind them it would be polite to either use a passing point or slow down on a straight bit of road to let cars past rather than speeding up

When you have a manual car you cannot just whoosh and go. You stop, neutral if waiting too long. That's what we were taught - to use neutral and I don't use it that often except when waiting at big crossroads with traffic lights because off other drivers being so impatient and intimidating others. You cannot just whoosh with a manual car.

Absolute bollocks. Again, you read the road and prepare. Don’t wait for green to get the car in gear and handbrake off.

Another day I was doing 50 mph on the 60 mph road.

Could have been as low as 45mph.

He was just an impatient idiot who would have put in danger not only himself.

Potentially you caused that impatience, but they sound like an idiot at any speed.

TittyGolightly, of course you prepare but some drivers just go and it doesn't look like they start in gear one.

Potentially you caused that impatience, but they sound like an idiot at any speed.

I didn't. I just past a cyclist and a bus was coming my way. He did it because he was an idiot!

Can someone from the 'it's safer to drive slow' brigade cut up your licence, go and book a driving test and prove that you passed by driving slower than the limit everywhere?

Guaranteed you won't.

I don’t always start in first. If on a decent hill there’s more torque in 2nd.

I didn't.

How long was he behind you doing 75% of the speed limit?

Could have been as low as 45mph.

Could have been even slower. Depends on the traffic and many other things.

Could have been even slower. Depends on the traffic and many other things.

I meant your speed might say 50mph but you could actually be travelling at 45mph.

How long was he behind you doing 75% of the speed limit?

Does it matter? Busy and short 60 mph part of the road, bridge, oncoming traffic, cyclists. 40 mph sign just in a few meters ahead. He was an impatient idiot because for some reason bikers think they can do it.

Many country roads near me have the national speed limit, (60mph), but it would be suicidal to drive a anywhere near that speed. The nearest main road to me is 30mph but some stretches are not safe above 20mph.

That rather begs the question of why the limit has remained at 60, if the road's that dangerous. An NSL road local to me was reduced to 50mph a few years ago because of the incidence of accidents and accidents along there are quite rare now.

Of course, you also get people driving along at 35 and 40, and not slowing down through the village where the limit is 30, and there's a blind junction.

I am so fed up with angry driving behaviour. I live in a residential area so drive at 20 or 30 - which ever is the designated speed limits.
At least once a day, usually more I will be tailgated, lights flashed, sometimes names called out as passing - all for them to join the upcoming queue of traffic in front of me.

I'm fucking sick of it. It is a mix of men and women by the way.

I meant your speed might say 50mph but you could actually be travelling at 45mph.

I could go faster but then I would have to overtake other cars and it wasn't worth doing it because of oncoming traffic. It was too busy.

what kind of.road, op?

straight two lane a road, dry conditions, long way to next junction -yanbu

the lane beyond my.house, single track with high hedges and passing places - no, you would be a dickhead who is best handing in the keys.

There is a minimum speed limit sign in the UK ...