Tailgating or Speeding

[kveysey]

Tailgating is just giving control of your car to the driver in front, not the best idea.

I'd need clarification on weaving in and out of lanes, after all we should be in the nearside lane unless overtaking. Weaving in & out could just be correct driving on the moterway.

 

[crockers]

Tailgating is just giving control of your car to the driver in front, not the best idea.

I'd need clarification on weaving in and out of lanes, after all we should be in the nearside lane unless overtaking. Weaving in & out could just be correct driving on the moterway.

Weaving in and out of lanes is changing lanes to overtake / undertake...IMHO

 

[kveysey]

Weaving in and out of lanes is changing lanes to overtake / undertake...IMHO

If you're driving correctly on the motorway you should always return to the nearside lane when convienient to do so. Therefore you have to change lanes to overtake, then you return to the nearside lane.

Idiots sitting in the middle lane speeding up and slowing down whatever the speed of the lane make this difficult to achieve but it is how you should drive on the motorway.

 

[kveysey]

Though I hate to say it - speeding

If you couldn't or daren't speed there would be no tailgating, weaving or lane hogging. We'd all be doing the same speed. Ever driven a really slow car? You just let everyone past.

 

[DieselE]

Though I hate to say it - speeding

If you couldn't or daren't speed there would be no tailgating, weaving or lane hogging. We'd all be doing the same speed. Ever driven a really slow car? You just let everyone past.

You can and do get both lane hogging and tailgaiting within the speed limit.

When driving a car really slowly, you may let everyone past but there are lots who don't. Usually because they haven't the slightest clue about what is going on around them. The "I'm obeying the speed limit therefore I must be driving safely" mindset can cause frustration and accidents. IMHO of course.

 

[DieselE]

Like a number of others, I voted for tailgating. Lane hogging is inconsiderate and can cause frustration. Tailgating is always dangerous.

 

[kveysey]

The "I'm obeying the speed limit therefore I must be driving safely" mindset can cause frustration and accidents. IMHO of course.

That's because the average speed on the motorway is 10 mph above the speed limit. If you couldn't go faster than 70 then there is no frustration.

 

[eurico]

Over here in Portugal there is a very annoying sort of driver (and very common) that comes behind you when you are allready overtaking on a highway and flashes the lights and tailgates you as if to push you out of his way. Before I used to be quite upset with this attitude. Most of the time I was at or above the speed limit and this guy comes from nowhere at light speed. Now I gently decelerate till I can get back behind the car/lorry that was overtaking and let him pass. They get very p!$$€d I can tell you. Also this tries to teach them that if they where a little more civilized and patient, they would get further. It's also very therapeutical for me - you should see their faces...

 

[Silestanix]

Bit harsh...oh I see what you drive

LOL Oi!

The BMW's been of the road for a few weeks now, I was driving the Vito...!

Lane hoggers...arghhh!!!

 

[Brian WH]

Over here in Portugal there is a very annoying sort of driver (and very common) that comes behind you when you are allready overtaking on a highway and flashes the lights and tailgates you as if to push you out of his way.

That is very common in France too and throughout the continent. The French drivers have their left indicators on too, to show you they want to overtake even when they can see you are behind something slower that you are trying to overtake. My answer is to ignore them and when the road is clear ahead is to accelerate out of their way, then pull over.

 

[DieselE]

That's because the average speed on the motorway is 10 mph above the speed limit. If you couldn't go faster than 70 then there is no frustration.

Where the northbound M42 parts company with the lead in to the M6 Toll you can join the M42 in either Lane 1 or 2. Yesterday I came across a 4x4 doing a steady 55 and just preparing to join Lane 2 of the M42 with nothing in Lane 1. Fortunately, I was able to complete a safe overtaking manoeuvre and join the M42 just in time, all at 70. You will not convince me that idiots like that would not cause frustration even if nobody ever exceeded the speed limit.

Just before joining the motorway I'd spent an enjoyable two miles on a 60 mile/h single carriageway road following one of the 43 mile/h everywhere drivers. Isn't Sunday motoring great?

 

[mossgreen123]

I voted for other, for example pricks in BMW X5s with xenon headlamps. Have you ever driven on the slow lane of a motorway at night at 70mph, with a headache with one of these monstrosities tailgating you? Its not the tailgating that gets me, but the way the headlamps flood the car with blue light and the way you cannot use your wing mirrors at all. It makes night driving on a motorway very dangerous in this respect.

 

[BonzoDog]

That is very common in France too and throughout the continent. The French drivers have their left indicators on too, to show you they want to overtake even when they can see you are behind something slower that you are trying to overtake. My answer is to ignore them and when the road is clear ahead is to accelerate out of their way, then pull over.

Job give us strength. Aggresive tailgating, I agree, is common practice in many parts of the continent. It appears to be done with no particular malice and I can only assume it is the way that people are taught. My reaction is tonot panic, but drive sensibly out of the way when i have completed my move.
The other component of this is the sweep onto the motorway straight into the overtaking lane whether or not there is a suitable gap. This is followed by the similar sweep off from teh outside lane at the last possible moment across the path of a lorry hoping that nothing else is in the exit lane.
Make that Job give me patience.

 

[crockers]

Your working hard .. that's a lot of Jobing you're doing..

 

[kveysey]

Where the northbound M42 parts company with the lead in to the M6 Toll you can join the M42 in either Lane 1 or 2. Yesterday I came across a 4x4 doing a steady 55 and just preparing to join Lane 2 of the M42 with nothing in Lane 1. Fortunately, I was able to complete a safe overtaking manoeuvre and join the M42 just in time, all at 70. You will not convince me that idiots like that would not cause frustration even if nobody ever exceeded the speed limit.

Just before joining the motorway I'd spent an enjoyable two miles on a 60 mile/h single carriageway road following one of the 43 mile/h everywhere drivers. Isn't Sunday motoring great?

I guess you're right. I was nearly side swiped by a vectra the other day, joined the motorway straight to the busy middle lane, even though he had about 1/2 mile free on the inside

 

[robert.saunders]

I was nearly side swiped by a vectra the other day, joined the motorway straight to the busy middle lane, even though he had about 1/2 mile free on the inside

That's 'cos the middle lane is the safe lane

 

[kveysey]

Was it the AA or the RAC that tried to have the undertaking laws revoked in a bid to stop this sort of thing?

 

[crockers]

Thank goodness they didnt achieve it