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just look at the traffic bunching in the outside lane!

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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV Snap Unhappy
“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code

I think this should be done here.

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This partly why I feel limiting vehicles speeds is ridiculous, e.g If someone is driving at 69mph, I prefer to overtake quickly and safely, I would not drive past at 70mph taking a while to over take holding up faster traffic behind, I would pull out accelerate past, pull in and reduce speed to the limit.

I don't get this. Why would you want to overtake a car going 1mph slower than you? You'd have to be going a hell of a distance to get any benefit.

Maybe you're not too impressed with the way they're driving and feel it would be safer to put them behind you rather than you having to stay behind them? Maybe you'd rather be in front so you have a better view of the road ahead - particularly if the vehicle in front is larger than yours and so reduces your field of view. Maybe you're just bored silly of staring at the backside of that vehicle and fancy a change of scenery...


...or maybe in another life you were an HGV driver

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Chris

It is all about vision and seperation. What is safer driving 2 seconds apart or driving 10 seconds apart? after you all get free from a congested area it is better and more relaxing if cars can spread out. Then you can save more of your concentration for the next hazardous section.

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Speed limit sign radio interview. TV Snap Unhappy
“It has never been the rule in this country – I hope it never will be - that suspected criminal offences must automatically be the subject of prosecution” He added that there should be a prosecution: “wherever it appears that the offence or the circumstances of its commission is or are of such a character that a prosecution in respect thereof is required in the public interest”
This approach has been endorsed by Attorney General ever since 1951. CPS Code

also, given how accurate a car speedo is, +-10% that car at 69 ccould be doing 62.1 mph and showing 69 on the speedo, if you come up behind it in a car reading 70 but with an underreading speedo the speed difference is greater than 1mph infact it is 14.9mph (both cars would be driving to their speedos and within the 10% accuracy allowed

It's not about wanting to overtake said car. You may gradually catch up (over several miles) said car and find yourself encroaching on it with other vehicles coming up to pass you - it can then be safer and more efficient to speed up a little, complete the overtake quickly and then return to your previous lane and speed with no-one inconvenienced.

Maybe it's the risk of a 'last straw'. Suppose you catch up with someone going 1mph slower and stay behind. Sooner or later the both of you will catch up with someone going 1 mph slower and so on. Pretty soon we'd all be stopping. Perhaps we know that and manage ourselves accordingly?

Or maybe we get so used to passing someone going, say, 15mph slower that we plan to overtake anything we catch up with.

Whatever the reason, I'm not worried about it.

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Paul Smith
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Getting to sound like a well known recycling ad - just maybe - or just maybe , by not passing the one in front as we catch up, we end up, in what is becoming a national obsession - the Americans started it ,and by golly who better to go one better than the Brits ---"Lets form a convoy, like that American fela"

Or thats how it looks like to me - going slower - i don't know what to do ----the act of overtaking has been bred out of the British driver , and i suspect it's the conveyor belt system of teaching drivers to "PASS THE TEST", NOT "LEARN TO DRIVE " .


Take two welshmen - they start a SCP.
Take two Irish blokes - they start a fight
Take two Scots - they open a distillery.
Take two English men - they form a Queue, ( in America it would be a convoy)

Great link, that was so funny. A little like the rolling roadblocks during the fuel protest.