That I’m not going to speed just cos some dickheads are?

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Hello

I drive to work each day, on a mix of motorway and city roads. Shift work so always before 7am and after 8pm.

I drive within 2mph of the speed limit. The area I live and work in has one of the highest amounts of speed cameras, red light cameras and police cars doing speed checks in the UK. I have zero desire to get 3 points.

Yet now and again( often a taxi driver) honks at me, today I was going 51 in a 50, and had this prick up my tail, going on the horn.

AIBU to stick to the bloody speed limit ?

If I was going 35 in a 50 I’d get it but I go the limit.

[quote Caramellatteplease]@Use627

This is bad driving please see the highways agency link above[/quote]
I'm alright but thanks

You're unreasonable to stick to the speed limit if someone is beeping their horn at you. You should halve your speed to teach the twat a lesson

Performance commuting is bollocks as the time you actually save is tiny. The time saved on a 10 mile journey between 40mph and 50 mph is just 3 minutes.

Although 3 minutes is nothing, arriving at 8.58 instead of 9.01 can be the difference between “on time” and “late.” It has more significance in the real world than just a random three minutes.

I live semi rurally so there is a lot of country lanes which are NSL it's dangerous they are bendy and windy low visibility and narrow lanes the safe speed is probably max 30mph doesn't stop some idiots in a BMW Merc or Audi trying to go up your arse the ones in luxury top end cars Ferrari Porsche actually drive safely and tend to stay back!!!

@badpuma

There is a similar 50 mph limit near me and it is very heavily policed - there's a fixed camera and a police van out every week. It's a dual carriageway, but even sticking to the left hand lane I'm constantly tailgated by lorries trying to do their max rather than complying with the speed limit.

It's annoying and pretty scary as they come very close behind and don't always notice immediately when the traffic in front breaks.

They are limited to 90kph (56mph).

They know neither the Poilce nor cameras will nab them for 56.

They set cruise and sit at max limited speed and they are expected to keep that up as much as possible.

Not saying it's right, but for example,when lorries are all doing 56 in average speed monitored roadworks, I tend to keep up - they are not all getting nicked and neither will I.

It's all because the rest of Europe works in Kmh really.

@MasterBeth

Performance commuting is bollocks as the time you actually save is tiny. The time saved on a 10 mile journey between 40mph and 50 mph is just 3 minutes.

Although 3 minutes is nothing, arriving at 8.58 instead of 9.01 can be the difference between “on time” and “late.” It has more significance in the real world than just a random three minutes.

If it has so much significance then why don't people set off earlier instead of inflicting their lack of organisation on others observing legal limits?

The road speed indicators aren't there to be casually broken by Very Important People Trying To Get Places

Maybe if folk got up earlier, did their lunch the night before, planned, whatever.. just get sorted so that you don't feel the need to bully others who are legally driving at the speed limit.

@elsaesmeralda

Currently learning and when doing the speed limit the amount of people that overtake me makes me feel really stupid but I know I'm doing the correct thing and they're just impatient.

As a learner even if you were doing 50 in a 40 limit they'd have to overtake you because you are a learner and they are w^nkers.

Although 3 minutes is nothing, arriving at 8.58 instead of 9.01 can be the difference between “on time” and “late.” It has more significance in the real world than just a random three minutes

Well apologies for stating the obvious, but just leave earlier. And if you have to drop kids at school or whatever, negotiate a later start time.

Speeding is never acceptable unless you're an emergency vehicle.

They know neither the Poilce nor cameras will nab them for 56

Not necessarily. My hairdresser told me she did a speed awareness course recently, after being nabbed doing 33 in a 30 limit.

Oh, I always thought the correct thing to do when being tailgated was to slow down a bit (not ridiculously slow, and not by suddenly braking) especially if there is a car in front of you, as it gives you more reaction time and they’re less likely to go through your back window if you need to stop suddenly

I often see this on MN and I think it's really annoying advice because then the person behind you has to slow down even more than they would have done if you'd given the time to back off. I said this on another thread but you could be doing a perfectly acceptable speed for the road conditions, come around a corner and Mr (or Mrs) "I can only do 40 mph wherever I am" is in front of you. I immediately back off the gas, but if they are MNer, they will touch the brakes to teach me a lesson and so I have to brake too. Whereas, if they'd just continued, my engine braking would have slowed me down and the gap between us would soon widen.

Proper tail-gating is another matter but in that case the safest thing is probably to pull over, let them get by and wrap themselves around a tree away from you.

@PixieKitten

I'd do 45mph if they're blowing the horn at you doing 50mph

That’s sheer stupidity - and the kind of behaviour that causes accidents.

@looptheloopinahulahoop

They know neither the Poilce nor cameras will nab them for 56

Not necessarily. My hairdresser told me she did a speed awareness course recently, after being nabbed doing 33 in a 30 limit.

It works on a percentage - at 33 you are 10%.

Pistonheads (popular morning forum) had a very long running thread where they invited anyone who claimed to have been nabbed for doing 33 in a 30 to post their (suitably redacted) summons. Not one was ever seen.

Think about how many trucks are doing 90kph in the 50 zone roadworks (all of them) are you telling me they are all getting tickets? All the drivers would be banned.

@Constantcrayfish

I don’t condone tailgating in any way but a baby on board sticker doesn’t entitle anyone to special treatment on the road.

It's not about special treatment but surely people might realise you may be driving more cautiously (ie within speed limit) with a small child on board?

It feels incredibly threatening having someone about half a second behind you going at 50mph - especially on country roads where random badgers and pheasants run into the road, or you round a corner and there's a cyclist plus another car coming towards you.

Like a PP I also get to the left as much as poss and really slow down at good overtake points to get rid of the fuckers.

It is INCREDIBLY dangerous to drive up someone's arse - how are you going to have time to react if needed? It's intimidating and shit and yup, I'm going there, pretty much always a man.

Pistonheads (popular morning forum) had a very long running thread where they invited anyone who claimed to have been nabbed for doing 33 in a 30 to post their (suitably redacted) summons. Not one was ever seen.

Pepipoo has also had similar

@PixieDust28

YANBU.

YABU about the taxi driver comment though.

Is it though? 😂

Taxi/white van / some guy in a flash car

Taxi drivers, really? I always find them going 10 or more below the limit to run the clock up.

@Constantcrayfish

I don’t condone tailgating in any way but a baby on board sticker doesn’t entitle anyone to special treatment on the road.

Do people still have those stupid stickers? The worst ones were Little Prince/Princess on board, you knew exactly they type of parent they were!

@looptheloopinahulahoop

They know neither the Poilce nor cameras will nab them for 56

Not necessarily. My hairdresser told me she did a speed awareness course recently, after being nabbed doing 33 in a 30 limit.

As the limit is 10% + 9mph I doubt your hairdresser was doing 33 in a 30 limit, it would be 30 + 3 + 9, ie 42mph! Maybe she was doing 43.

Sorry forget the above, that's for the maximum speed to do the awareness course!

They refuse to confirm the points at which they prosecute (and it may be different in different places) but there''s no confirmed case of anyone being done (points or a course) for 33 in a 30 - just a lot of tall tales.

The fact is that at a real 33 most people's speedos would be showing mid to high 30s so there is no way they didn't know they were well over the limit.

As the limit is 10% + 9mph I doubt your hairdresser was doing 33 in a 30 limit, it would be 30 + 3 + 9, ie 42mph! Maybe she was doing 43.

10% + 9?!

It’s usually 10% + 2.

I feel your pain, OP. Grit teeth & ignore.

Just slow down to ensure you have a 4 second bubble around you. If the car behind is tailgating then increase the distance between you and the car in front. It might piss them off but if they crash in to you, then there is less chance of hitting the vehice in front.
The Highway Code is law not guidance so you are doing the right thing.

@NavigatingAdolescence

As the limit is 10% + 9mph I doubt your hairdresser was doing 33 in a 30 limit, it would be 30 + 3 + 9, ie 42mph! Maybe she was doing 43.

10% + 9?!

It’s usually 10% + 2.

If you were doing 42 in a 30 limit you'd be lucky not to get banned, it wouldn't be a speed awareness course. More than 10 miles over the limit and you'd be in deep trouble.

I have no reason to doubt what the hairdresser said.

And I don't know why MNers are so obsessed with speedometers being wrong. Some might be, but I'd be surprised if the most modern cars weren't pretty accurate.

@DynamoKev

They refuse to confirm the points at which they prosecute (and it may be different in different places) but there''s no confirmed case of anyone being done (points or a course) for 33 in a 30 - just a lot of tall tales.

The fact is that at a real 33 most people's speedos would be showing mid to high 30s so there is no way they didn't know they were well over the limit.

Where does your assertion that here''s no confirmed case of anyone being done (points or a course) for 33 in a 30 - just a lot of tall tales come from?