People who drive 40 everywhere

[PeRiO]

Sorry this subject has probably been done to death but I let it really annoy me today so just want to get it off my chest 🤣
AIBU to be annoyed at people who drive 40mph everywhere? Following a car home today, I live in a small village of which the road to it varies between 30/60. It isn't a bad road, fairly straight on the 60 bits but I appreciate 60 isn't a target speed but it riles me up when said car is happy to speed in the 30 bits but not willing to go a little faster in the 60 bits.

Anyone else?

These are the same people who will slam on the brakes at roundabouts despite it being clear.

The people who fucking faff and dawdle are the ones who cause accidents, not those quick off the mark.

If it's straight enough for 60 to be appropriate, then you should safely be able to over take a vehicle doing 40. If it's too twisty to overtake, maybe 40 is an appropriate speed? I don't see the problem

This drives me insane.
Who are these people who are so cavalier on urban roads yet drive like snails in the countryside? It's madness.

Wasn't about middle lane hoggers either but people are still talking about that.

I was putting a different perspective on the driving slower part, which I've done and the reasons why.

I'm allowed to do that and you're allowed to disagree, it's kind of how discussions happen.

I'm sorry if me contributing to the thread has in some way upset you, can't think for the life of me why but there you go, takes all sorts!

Yep. Coming at you on your side of the road because they’ve taken a bend too fast. This happens every single day on my commute, bloody dangerous.

If someone is too close behind me trying to intimidate me to drive faster, I slow down. My thought process is if they are not controlling the stopping distance, I’ll do it by lowering speed then. Plus, I have a better chance of avoiding the aforementioned idiots who think they can handle speed on all roads.

Or, and this happens also every day, the utter twats who overtake dangerously who you then roll up behind at the next junction or set of lights anyway! What’s the point?! I sometimes give them a little wave.

We call them the 37 club. Theyre infuriating. They are so unsafe! It's not that they need to hit 60 on every straight stretch ( not always appropriate for conditions of road), but their complete inability to read or adjust to the conditions of the road is dreadful. Speeding through villages and 20 zones, and crawling along straight dual carage ways.

Hesitation is dangerous to other road users.

I'm not judging you making what you thought was a safe decision. But clearly you didn't feel safe on the road after passing, so it does sound like you should have been failed.

I'll be honest, I failed one of my driving tests for hesitation. I was really annoyed at the time, but I'm grateful for it now. I thought I was driving carefully, but actually I was making myself into a hazard. It was definitely the boot up the arse I needed to stop fannying around. I've certainly never done it since!

and hard braking for any speed camera to drop an extra 10mph below, just to be on the safe side

But why would you drive at 33.33% below the speed limit on a straight road on a dry day with excellent visibility?

I know it is a speed limit not a target, but driving excessively slowly creates frustration and causes accidents.

There are signs on some of the roads in Scotland asking slower drivers to pull over and let faster drivers overtake.

Then these same drivers still drive at 40 through our village which has a 30mph speed limit. You would think that they don't know how to change gear.

You seem determined that I shouldn't have passed because I was aware of my own limitations and lack of experience and took that into account.

There's a reason people are more likely to have an accident in the first two years - lack of experience.

Maybe if more people were aware of their own limitations and taking it into account, there'd be less accidents all round?

They obviously don't use their mirrors either to see the queue of traffic stacked behind them!

Given that you've given a description of driving dangerously immediately after passing your test, yes I do think it would have been better for you to have been failed. It's perfectly possible to cause accidents by driving too slowly and cautiously, which is why you'll fail your test for it.

If you didn't even feel confident enough to do 30, that's very telling.

I'm not trying to offend you, but it's factual that you would be failed for not getting up to an appropriate speed if you'd done that on your test. It's not safe to dither.

It's not about being in a rush. Driving at 40 in a 60 zone is dangerous too.

I agree with this. Especially if you don't know the road, 60 just isn't appropriate for many B roads, especially given the state of many now - a lot have a long extended pothole along the outside edge. And like fuck am I going to be bombing along at 60 through the Howardian Hills, or on a dark road with no markings shaped like an elbow.

Except there isn't such a thing as a 60mph road. There's roads that have a speed limit applied, and then the rest, which haven't been assessed, and therefore come under the national speed limit of 60mph (previously they were "derestricted" - that's why the sign is as it is, and not a "60" in a red circle)

Im probs one of those people who are going too slow.

Thing is I learned in a big city and I only really drive in a big city. So when im in the countryside about once a year im really not used to it. I feel like I do hold people up. But I’m just not used to the bendy roads.

If someone came round a corner and wasn't able to stop in time, then that was entirely their own fault.

Highway Code Rule 126. Stopping distances. Drive at a speed that will allow you to stop well within the distance you can see to be clear.

No it isn't ok, I'm guessing you've realised that by now.

Hate the 40 in a 30 a lot more though, twats.

This is so irritating and the worst ones are the ones who do 40 on motorway slip roads. WTF is that all about?? Presumably thinking the motorway is dangerous but they're the ones creating the danger!

This is it, it goes with no indicating, not understanding how roundabouts work, and not putting their lights on when it’s dark. On our local roads (we are rural) it’s guaranteed to be an elderly driver.

What about the speeding in the 30 zone then?

Other than DCs which would otherwise be NSL.

The sign is as it is because the NSL is different for single and dual carriageways and for different classes of vehicle. A 60 (or 70 on a dual carriageway) would be incorrect as the NSL is not 60 (or 70) for all vehicles.

Same. Also , the city I learned in was flat. I'm grand in cities, I'm grand on motorways. But eeny weenie cart tracks that double back on themselves, have dark edges that may or may not rip my tyres (I dunno, I'm not a fucking farmer, this isn't my commute) and swoop and loop around all over the shop so that Peahead Farton-Blarton doesn't lose a centimetre of his grouse shooting land to the infernal tarmac, that haven't had a government inspector near them since good old Binky waved his dear little flag and set the Rolls off ... I haven't a clue what's round the next blind corner, so I go slower.

Do you drive in south Devon?