People who drive 40 everywhere

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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?

There are roads round here that are NSL (because that’s the default) where driving anywhere close to 60 would be suicidal. Just because a road doesn’t have a lower speed limit doesn’t mean it’s safe to drive faster.

I think it's only you and me who are able to drive properly, and I'm not even sure about you sometimes 🤣🤣🤣

Strange, even the slowest small cars I’ve driven can manage more than 40mph up a motorway slip road if you accelerate hard through the gears.

Everyone knows that. It's obvious. Today is bright, sunny, dry and warm. Would I drive the same way today as I would on a dark, wet and icy day in January? Of course not. Most drivers have common sense and drive to the conditions.

This whole thread is about drivers who do NOT adjust their driving speed to the conditions or speed limits, but just have 35-38 mph as their default setting.

It astounds me as 40mph isn't even an unmanageable speed 🙄 they're not having to drift round corners, burning rubber and leaning on two wheels. It's a straight road with a few large wide bends (that can easily be taken at 60mph, that was the previous limit for the road). My 20 minute journey can take 35 minutes in the morning. I dread it!

Absolutely agree!!!!

Oh, that's nothing, this is a 60mph limit road near me, note the sign helpfully saying "Unsuitable for motor vehicles beyond this point" right before the national speed limit sign.

Haha, oh that is fantastic!

This drives me insane but the worst part for me is not the 40 in the 60 zone (although that can be infuriating) but the 40 in the 30 zone. I just can’t stand people driving past playgrounds in villages etc at that speed.

Oh, and this one, I would have loved to know what the Google maps car driver was thinking when driving up here.

My 2 bugs are drivers doing 30 all the way where we are and people who do not use dual and motorway lanes correctly

Many years ago the local police offered free driving courses, so I duly went along to see if I could unlearn some bad habits. At the time we lived near a dual carriageway with a sliproad to join it.

I wasn't driving fast enough and the policeman told me that you should always join a dual carriageway or motorway at the same spred as the traffic on the inside lane. He said it was much safer to brake than to try and speed up.

It sounds like you are changing gear too early.

Unless you're performing emergency brain surgery, you could just chill out and accept that's the nature of driving on over crowded roads, getting so impatient and angry is dangerous

All sliproads aren’t equal. I regularly use a very short one with very poor visibility - essentially you can’t see a thing until you’re virtually on the road. It’s a road heavily used by huge lorries. Basically you have to stop completely nine times out of ten or you’d get totalled.

I agree with you that getting angry when driving is dangerous. It's natural to get frustrated by bad driving, but actual anger has no place on the road.

That said, I find driving at a speed you fancy, not making effective progress, and then saying everyone else should chill out about it shows an arrogance that shouldn't be on the road either.

But that's because there'll be a 30/40/50 restriction sign on the other side of the pole. ALL restricted roads must have a restriction sign on ALL side roads leading onto it, so where that happens they have to put another sign on the pole facing the other way to show the restriction/NSL. You make it look like someone has purposely decided that road is "fit" for NLS, whereas it's a consequence of imposing a restriction on the main road right behind the photography.

Is the dashed line at the end of the slip road a single line or a double line of dashes? There's a difference, that lots of people don't understand/notice the difference. On motorways it's a single dashed line as it is on some dual carriageways. At junctions on other dual carriageways it's a double dashed line which means "Give Way" so stopping is actually usually the right thing to do if the major road is busy when there's a doubled dashed line as that means give way just as it would at a normal road junction where you stop and wait for a space on the main road.

Oh goodness! I'd probably do 35 on that. I thought you were going to show us something like this

I was going for something more like that, but the one I was thinking of has actually had the limit changed to 30 recently, so I had to find another option.

The one I posted is probably fine at 35 for most of it, aside from one very sharp right hander that comes out of nowhere. I've seen a few people who've ploughed into the gate of the chicken farm because they've not spotted it in time.

that's not quite what @blossomtoes was saying. She was saying that there are many NSL roads where it is unsafe to drive anywhere near the NSL road even on a bright, sunny, dry warm day when the road is dry and the sun is not in your eyes.

What bugs me is people pottering at 45 or less on a wide A road with good visibility, who then see the "Slow" sign at a bend and hit the brakes. "They didn't mean YOU!" I find myself yelling.

Yesterday had this. Behind some moron who went through the 30mph limit village of Tebay at 40mph and then carried on at 40mph on the NSL straight road towards Kirkby Stephen. The road is the trackbed of the old railway line so basically straight with very good visibility for several miles. Oncoming traffic meant it hard to overtake safely. The road is as below. Absolutely no reason for any half competent driver not to do 60mph. But a half competent driver wouldn't have gone through the 30mph at 40, would they?

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.4379359,-2.5905796,3a,75y,25.77h,92.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1spTUG3llXs8tfUYFC-gm0ww!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

I don't think that's normal, I have a 1.0 litre and I still manage to join the motorway at 70, or just under 70 if I have a lot in the boot.

If you're too nervous to drive - don't That's not realistic though. nearly everyone is nervous when they first pass their test and do their first solo trip - the few that aren't are a menace). And between us in this democracy we have created a society where in most of the country a car is all but necessary. So if that's the way we want to play it, we need to make it possible for almost everyone to be able to drive, which means sometimes being delayed by slower drivers, by keeping a good eye on what other drivers are doing. and by being clear and definite in our own driving so other people can understand what we're doing.

@dustyspring the one I am talking about is a short slip road up a hill
I genuinely rev to the limits of my gears and have had the car 10 years so I know it well!
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Yeah, it's a 30 up to there, and then an NSL beyond. It isn't even tarmaced - it's basically foot-deep ruts and boulders and no-one drives up it unless in a tractor or a very serious 4x4. Great on a mountain bike or horse though.