Collision detection

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Prick.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Do you never drive the other direction?

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Prick.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Lack of intelligent reply noted.

[Mr Pounder Esquire]

Prick.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Lack of intelligent reply noted.

[boltar]

Here's an idea, why not just move over instead of being a prick? Your little game will eventually backfire as one day you'll have some drugged up kevin on your tail whose reaction times are too slow and he'll take the both of you out.

[Robin]

Why should I break the law - and risk a collision - by moving across a solid white line in order to make way for selfish little pricks who thinks it's clever to drive at 40+ mph a meter or so from the car in front?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Who said anything about a solid white line? We're talking about slow buggers hogging the fast lane on a motorway.

[boltar]

Wtf are you talking about? We're talking about motorways and idiots hogging a lane when they can move over and let traffic past.

[Robin]

*My* first comment was with the Blackwall tunnel northern approach road (which used to a motorway) in mind:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5422226,-0.0275415,3a,75y,127.7h,76.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sILRN244CFR2cijS3OdGeHg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

So do you agree that tailgating on such roads - where the driver in front cannot lawfully move over - is the sign of selfish little prick?

And then of course there are the times when the driver in front judges it's not safe to move to an inside lane as quickly as the little prick behind would wish. Or do you hold that anyone in front who is not going as fast as you wish to *must* move across without regard to whether it is safe to do so - on the basis that any carnage which ensues will be behind you?

[James Wilkinson Sword]

The only moving over we're after is more like here (100 yards forwards from your image):

Imagine you are where the camera car is. You're trying to join the main lanes, and the silver car is directly to your left. All the silver car has to do is slow a little or change lane to his left.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

He could speed up so he doesn't impede your progress. Driving under the speed limit should be a capital offence.

[Ed Pawlowski]

A fellow I work with can be arrogant like that. He called to say he was going to be late to work because of an accident. He braked hard and got $3500 worth of damage to his 1 year old car. Yeah, he showed him!

What's worse, he smugly thinks he did good.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

Who did the insurance side with?

How many people did he inconvenience by blocking the road?

His boss should have put that down as an unauthorised absence, since he did it deliberately.

[boltar]

No, don't think so. I think it was based on the speed limits of most european countries which were 90/100 kmh for trucks/buses. Trust me, with a loaded truck you can go a shed load faster than 60mph down even a slight incline if you've already got it on the limiter and the incline is a reasonable length.

Dodgy, he can not only lose his job but lose his license too. Its probably an older limiter because the new ones are built into the engine management and need a bit of computer hackery to disable.

[boltar]

I wouldn't tailgate a driver on a single lane carraigeway, not unless they were going really slow and I was about to overtake.

Don't be an ass. Nobody is irritated by drivers who DO move over when its safe to do so, its the ones who DON'T that piss people off. I see it all the fecking time and tbh there's no one type of person, the only thing they have in common is they're idiots who shouldn't be behind the wheel or at least not allowed on the motorway. IMO motorways and some A roads should only be open to drivers who've passed an advanced test.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

So they're badly designed then? You'd think it'd drop a gear or apply the brakes.

Nah, the limiter "must have broken officer".

Must be older, he ain't clever enough to do computery stuff to it.

[James Wilkinson Sword]

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It's the people with advanced tests that are the worst, they stick more = rigidly to rules and don't bother with being courteous.

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[James Wilkinson Sword]

I know one. An ex colleague. He will never flash his lights to let someone out because he takes the highway code too literally and thinks it's a warning of danger.