UK - New 80MPH speed limit

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UK - New 80MPH speed limit

Tbh I think 2 seconds is not enough. How often have you been distracted for 2 seconds?
I am sure somebody with time on their hands will tell us how far you travel in 2 seconds at 70mph, so nobody can afford to be distracted for 2 seconds on the motorway. To be honest that's part of the problem. We get to feel far too comfy and safe we get lulled into a false sense of security.Until you have been in that horrible situation where you think you are in control of everything and there is that sudden realisation that everything in front is stopping/ stopped and you jump on the middle pedal and the car squirms around and you think, can I stop? If I do stop what's coming up behind? O'h ****...

It used to be that you could drive on the motorway, and you would get the occasional lane wanderer who was either reading a map, eating his sanwiches/putting eye make up on. But now, it happens every few minutes. Why? Mobile phones and text messaging. Am I wrong?
 
I am sure somebody with time on their hands will tell us how far you travel in 2 seconds at 70mph, so nobody can afford to be distracted for 2 seconds on the motorway. To be honest that's part of the problem. We get to feel far too comfy and safe we get lulled into a false sense of security.Until you have been in that horrible situation where you think you are in control of everything and there is that sudden realisation that everything in front is stopping/ stopped and you jump on the middle pedal and the car squirms around and you think, can I stop? If I do stop what's coming up behind? O'h ****...

It used to be that you could drive on the motorway, and you would get the occasional lane wanderer who was either reading a map, eating his sanwiches/putting eye make up on. But now, it happens every few minutes. Why? Mobile phones and text messaging. Am I wrong?

That's why i leave a far bigger gap in front of me, so I can give the other idiot behind me more space to brake.......
 
Why would they do that unless you were middle lane hogging?
I don't know where you live MEP, but on the M6 for example it is very common for there to be 3 or even 4 lanes of traffic all moving at anything from 40-70mph. Like a rolling traffic jam in effect.The idea of the traffic being free- flowing and everybody moving out to overtake and then returning to the inside lane is simply not an option under those circumstances.
If the motorway is free-flowing then I agree that situation wouldn't arise because you would be in the inside lane anyway.
 
I don't know where you live MEP, but on the M6 for example it is very common for there to be 3 or even 4 lanes of traffic all moving at anything from 40-70mph. Like a rolling traffic jam in effect.The idea of the traffic being free- flowing and everybody moving out to overtake and then returning to the inside lane is simply not an option under those circumstances.
If the motorway is free-flowing then I agree that situation wouldn't arise because you would be in the inside lane anyway.

Having used the M6 and other motorways on different ocasions I've come across this issue a lot, and unfortunately it seems to more often than not be a problem exasibated by those who refuse to move into the lane to their left when not overtaking (n)
 
Having used the M6 and other motorways on different ocasions I've come across this issue a lot, and unfortunately it seems to more often than not be a problem exasibated by those who refuse to move into the lane to their left when not overtaking (n)

Sadly a lot of people just expect you to move into the left lane and become a tailgater. I move into the left lane when it's safe to do so :)
 
Having used the M6 and other motorways on different ocasions I've come across this issue a lot, and unfortunately it seems to more often than not be a problem exasibated by those who refuse to move into the lane to their left when not overtaking (n)
Try the M6, junction 19 to 17, southbound, about 7am on weekday. You will typically have lanes 1+2 solid with artics supposedly limited to 56, and in the middle lane and outside lane mainly cars and white vans. You can often be in the outside lane going at the same speed as the flowing traffic, and you have to wait to get over to the inside lane when there is a gap. If you haven't been there you won't know what I mean I guess.
 
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