People driving at 50mph on a 60mph road

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I have to use an A road most days which has a national speed limit (60mph). It seems like I’m always stuck behind some idiot driving along at 50mph. I find it so hard not to get wound up. It just results in people trying to overtake (sometimes taking risks so I think it increases a chance of accidents) and generally increasing levels of stress. Why do people do this? AIBU to find it rude and annoying?

Finally some one who gets it.

A few weeks ago I drove 300miles ate mostly at the speed limit . I'm not going around do 100mph everywhere. In fact it's rare I go above 85mph (indicated)

You are the only idiot

What about someone who has just passed their test, who lacks the confidence to drive at the speed limit?

And it telling that people dont feel safe to drive at the limit

Has anyone said that? Most people drive in a way they consider safe and appropriate to the road conditions. I rarely drive under the limit other than on twisting country lanes which default to 60 but where it would be madness to do it. Anyone who thinks I’m doing 60 on those needs their head testing.

My car is a bit shit and won’t really do sixty comfortably so i try not to drive where I need to go faster than that and I don’t take it on the motorway but I’ll do 50 in a 60 because that’s what feels safe for my car

Also, it isn't about 'ability' it is about stopping distance and severity of accident.If a deer jumps out in front of you, or a pedestrian steps out, you are more likely to be able to stop, and the severity of the damage increases exponentially with speed

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

This takes it to the extreme - but there are people who feel that way about driving their cars over a limit they feel is insufficient.

Ethically, we all have the right to break any law we feel is ‘unjust’. Provided we are prepared to deal with the consequence of doing so.

Now - I suspect being convicted for speeding is not going to ‘arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice’ even if it was on a clear road at 4am, but an individual should always have the right to express themselves in this manner.

With the caveat that there are obvious crimes one could commit that could never be described as ‘justified’ by anyone sane. Doing 100 on the motorway isn’t one of those, imho, but I get that people differ on that 👍

Reading this thread makes me think there’s people who drive at 70 and say to themselves

‘I’m fine, I’m safe’,

then their foot twinges momentarily, they hit 71 and think

‘oh fuck I’m gonna die!!’

Most people drive in a way they consider safe and appropriate to the road conditions.

And sometimes it's safe to do above the limit

Or hand themselves into the nearest police station to confess lol

Nimbies

😂 exactly.

Mansplainer alert

And sometimes it's safe to do above the limit

It no doubt is safe to drive above the limit. Like I said, I have driven on German autobahn at 100 mph and it felt safe. Except when there were a lot of cars.

Of course, 100 mph is going to make distances to brake and impact forces much greater.

But it is illegal to drive at that speed in the UK. And I quite like having no points on my license.

😂

True.

As others have suggested, it's the ones driving sub-40 on those roads who wind me up. And then, when the speed limit drops to 40, they drop to 25...

Whos "mansplaining" ?

Odd comment

I've not got a problem with people bumbling along as long as they are not hugely under the limit on roads where overtaking is difficult - in which case please pull the fuck over yes you the people who don't understand the concept of passing places on single lane roads.

I really hate the types that bumble round corners but put their foot down on straights, or types that sit at 40 everywhere regardless of the speed limit as well.

50 rather than 60? They probably know something about their car or their own dkill / just dont know the road well. YABU and why are you in such a rush?

Most days I get stuck behind a cyclist on a twisty turny uphill hilly section of a national speed limit section of road, I dream of 50mph sorry you have to suck it up, it's a maximum not an aim (alas can we lease ban bikes on steep hills, please)

If you're in a hurry or rush your inability to plan or drive properly isn't everyone else's problem. You pull the fuck over and drive again when you are calm. Don't need irritable fuckers making basic errors.

But today I was on the m4 and people were doing 50 mph in the middle lane of a fairly empty motorway. Please return to the left hand land after you overtake unless the theres a slower moving vehicle just ahead

@catgirl1976

If your car can't do 60 safely I would question if its really suitable to drive on public roads? I'm guessing it's a classic car because all more modern cars are fine at 70

Well that's a completely different situation.

If your car can't do 60 safely I would question if its really suitable to drive on public roads? I'm guessing it's a classic car because all more modern cars are fine at 70

We have a car that will only do 60 tops, but it doesn’t really like it. 70 if you fold the windscreen flat.

I agree.
Despite my earlier post joking about 100mph.
I experimented to find out what speed was the most fuel-efficient for the VW I had at the time.
57mph gave me over 70-80mpg.😇😂