A spastic? Nice work there.
If I'm driving at 80mph instead of 70mph then I'm going to get to the junction earlier, aren't I? It then follows that I will get through it earlier, doesn't it?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:03, 4 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Once again you're oversimplifying things.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:06, Reply)

Once again you're posting about stuff you know nothing about & have no direct experience of.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:08, Reply)

^driver getting wound up by stupid things.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:17, Reply)

^ non driver getting wound up about stuff that he doesn't understand

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:31, Reply)

^typical flid

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:08, Reply)

*Belms*

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:24, Reply)

Unless you're travelling a real distance, the amount of time you save
will usually be measured as minutes in the single digits.

That said, if somebody wants to speed, then it's up to them. It's up to the Police to police them and not some jumped up rules lawyer.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:09, Reply)

I prefer to travel made-up distances myself.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:14, Reply)

Time which can be totally wiped out by parking or traffic lights or whatever when you reach your destination.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:19, Reply)

Yes.
I'm not really sure what point you're making as the time saved when speeding over the entirety of a journey vs the traffic flow on a motorway arguments are not only independant of each other, but utterly unrelated.

Kind of straw-mannish, actually.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:25, Reply)

The relationship is the "I hate middle laners, they get in my way and slow me down" isn't more than a rounding error in journey time, so you drivers should chillax

(PsychoChomp, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:26, Reply)

Middle laners are a far bigger problem than
"they're stopping me from getting to my girlfriend's ten minutes earlier", as I've been trying to explain.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:27, Reply)

Bearing in mind that we were talking about people hogging the middle lane
this tends to suggest motorway driving, i.e. significant distances, rather than nipping down the shop for a packet of fags FFS.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:26, Reply)

Assuming no traffic on the motorway, yes.
However in practice as those in the outside lane drive too close together, traffic slows approaching the junction, one brakes, all behind brake, and that lane comes to a halt.
Last time I drove up the M5/6 I used the inside lane as much as possible, avoided the outside lane dickheads, and it was a lot less stressful. At one point I passed a queue of cars at a junction, and it was way over half an hour before they caught up with me.

Speed itself isn't the issue, it's people driving too close together and not reading the road ahead of them. If you have to use the brakes on a motorway other than to stop as you come off the slip road then you're not anticipating enough and/or driving too close, a lift of the throttle should be all you ever need, unless some other driver has done something really stupid.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:13, Reply)

people driving too close together and not reading the road ahead of them. If you have to use the brakes on a motorway other than to stop as you come off the slip road then you're not anticipating enough and/or driving too close, a lift of the throttle should be all you ever need, unless some other driver has done something really stupid unregulated immigration and asylum seekers clogging up our roads in their Dacias and Trabants.

And yet there's only one person with the bottle to talk about these isses. Only one REAL alternative to those Brussells sprouts - that's right, that Nigel Lawson chap.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:17, Reply)

Driving in London enforces a lot of cultural stereotypes.
One of which is that most of the aggressive tail-gating cunts on the road are white.
( Kroney, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:21, Reply)

Rubbish.
It's like fucking downtown Abuja where I live.

Coming over here. Playing with the white man's magic.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Thu 13 Jun 2013, 10:24, Reply)