There are several very good reasons for traffic moving at different speeds.
Drivers speeding isn't one of them.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 9:51, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Whenever I've been on a motorway with someone moaning about middle laners
they were always going 80+
(PsychoChomp, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 9:52, Reply)

go read
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 9:56, Reply)

FANNIES

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 9:59, Reply)

Traffic flows better when lanes are moving at different speeds.
There's a pretty simple practical requirement, too. Speedometers are not created equal. All a speedo tells you is that you're definitely going no faster than, say, 70mph. Each speedo could be under-reading by anything up to 10% which, at 70, is potentially a considerable difference in speed.

Traffic cameras account for this by applying a further 10% leeway before they go off, if they're even set to the actual speed limit and not, say, 10mph above. This means that traffic can be moving at anywhere from 63mph to 70mph whilst their speedo reports 70 and from 63mph to 77mph within the framework of enforceable law.

If you then get some cunt sat in the middle lane whilst their speedometer registers 70mph (I'm doing the speed limit why would anybody need to overtake me?) and you get people trying to overtake (because undertaking's illegal under most circumstances) on a busy motorway you quickly get a long tailback for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 9:58, Reply)

LAWYERED

( Kroney, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:00, Reply)

Precisely this.
Plus also, if someone wants to tank down the outside lane at 90mph then that's up to them isn't it?

If they kill themselves then it's their own fault.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:00, Reply)

Sure, what they do on a road with other drivers on it is bound to have no affect on anyone else at all ever

( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:02, Reply)

Precisely.
Up to them. The paramedics and hospitals and police and that have fuck all to do most days anyway, prolly glad of the exercise, and, like, informing families etc is well lol.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:07, Reply)

Driving at excessive speed is a bit like doing MDs, don't you think?
Potential dangers, but it's essentially your own choice.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:10, Reply)

Watch out Mon
He's cracked out the "this thing over here" is similar to "some other thing that relates to you" therefore I WIN argument. There's LITERALLY no difference between these things, hoist by your own picard etc
( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:13, Reply)

He's "driving" me mad here!!!!!!
Plus, "speed" can mean drugs as well as "going fast"!!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:22, Reply)

You're on the 'road' to ruin Monters!

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:23, Reply)

If it hasn't been covered in a Chris Rea song I find driving opinions to be a bit dubious

( Reginald Donkeyfuck, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:24, Reply)

Is this how you manage to get off all your traffic convictions?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:01, Reply)

Knowledge is power, Harters, old chap.

( Kroney, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:04, Reply)

*takes notes*

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:08, Reply)