Driving behaviour
Why is it, that when some people are driving along a two lane motorway or dual carriageway, they slow down when they move into the right hand lane? I was proceeding along the A90 the other day at 70(ish) on cruise control when someone pulled out to pass a lorry. Fair enough. I dropped back to a respectful distance. but while the car in front was passing the lorry it slowed from about 70 to 60mph.

Then after it indicated and pulled in, I resumed my previous cruising speed, assuming I would overtake the car. Did I hell. It accelerated away from me, until it came to the next lorry, at which point I had to brake again as the cycle repeated.

WTF, surely it would be sensible to speed up to overtake, not slow down!

/endrant
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 14:05, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I hate people who drive ridiculously slowly
but then actively speed up when you try and overtake them. This used to happen when I lived in the countryside, stupid Sunday drivers would drive really slowly around all the corners and then get right up to 60 on the only places I could overtake them.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Tue 20 Jul 2010, 14:22, Reply)