To wonder how so many people are comfortable breaking the speed limit?

[AngeloMysterioso]

Is it just me? I’m pretty vigilant about sticking to the speed limit but more and more I’ve noticed recently that I’ll be doing 70 or just below on a dual carriageway or the motorway and someone will go flying past. God forbid I be driving at the limit on the outside lane, even if I’m going faster than everyone in the middle lane it’s only a matter of time before some knob is either flashing their headlights at me or driving up my arse (or both) while I wait for a big enough gap to move across so they can shoot off before doing the same to the next car in front.

It tends to be most often 4x4 drivers or Mercedes/BMW/Jaguar etc types. Maybe they just don’t think they should have to see the back of a 16 year old Fiesta!

And maybe start a discussion in an open forum about whether this behaviour being seen as “normal” Is a good thing for society?

i did get out of the way the moment it didn’t mean moving into a narrow gap in a long chain of lorries (where by narrow I mean 15-20m - also not a safe stopping distance and then it would be a 40 ton truck rather than a bmw that was threateningly close). That doesn’t mean I can’t talk about how they are there dangerous drivers, not the stream of people overtaking two lanes of lorries at 70mph

You don't drive around the M25 during peak hours a whole lot do you

All lanes full

You don't drive around the M25 during peak hours a whole lot do you

Or long sections of the M6.

When I was an Institute of Advanced Motorists observer, we had a fundamental rule that you should never do anything at all that makes any other road user change speed or course, and that would include changing lanes on motorways, regardless of whether the other driver was doing something illegal like speeding or using the wrong lane.

The latter wasn't what the OP was describing doing.
However, doing 'anything at all that makes any other road user change speed or course' absolutely describes what is being attempted by some knob is either flashing their headlights at me or driving up my arse (or both) while I wait for a big enough gap to move across

So, hopefully everyone is 100% agreed with her on that?

You clearly don't drive the dual carriageways or motorways near me.

Your lucky if anyone in lane 1/2 (and 3 if it's 4 lanes) is comfortable doing above 50!

It's actually pretty dangerous - probably more so than it's annoying!

No idea! I suppose there's some dual carriageways with junctions and unavoidably slower traffic which increase the tendency for right lane cruising - it's wrong of course, that's just the why of it. But why they don't see lights coming up behind without a flash... IDK. Perhaps some have flipped their mirrors down because of the unfortunate increase in overly bright and/or misadjusted headlamps? (I'm not trying to excuse, just wondering why!)

4x4 drivers or Mercedes/BMW/Jaguar etc types you forgot Audis, who were the subject of a v funny Clarkson jibe about people driving too close to your bumper.
It's a limit not a target etcetcetc is my POV and cruise control is your friend. I'll be glad (long dead) when cars are automatically restricted to the speed limit by internal technology.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

If you want to drive through Brum on the A38 through the tunnels, then you need to stay in the right hand lane all the way through at 30mph for about 3 miles.

Red lights, signalling and stopping back from the cycle box appear to be optionals where I live, why should speeding be any different?

Try living in Australia with our huge distances between cities and the max you can go for most of the country is 110km/hr. On top of that speeding is pretty heavily policed with small margins and large fines.

No wonder most people fly between cities here.