People flashing on motorways

krank

I don't do a huge amount of motorway driving so I don't know how common this is but a couple of cars have done this to me on different occassions. I'm not one of these people that weaves in and out or speeds and I only feel the need to overtake if someone is hogging a lane. I would go into the right hand lane to overtake a car that was going under the speed limit. When I go back into the left lane, indicating and making sure that I am quite a bit ahead of them they start flashing. I can't understand why. At first I thought that my boot was opening itself or something but no.

colm_mcm

what are you driving? does this just happen at night?

Al Capwned

rear fog light on perhaps???

EPM

Poorly focused headlights?

Voodoomelon

If it only happens on the motorway, you're using it wrong by the sounds of things.

650Ginge

Passed by a 5 series with the reg M7 EPM this afternoon, M1 near Dundalk.

Sorry off topic and pointless...

colm_mcm

unless you flashed your headlights

PARKHEAD67

650Ginge wrote: »

Passed by a 5 series with the reg M7 EPM this afternoon, M1 near Dundalk.

Sorry off topic and pointless...

What does this mean? Seriously

EPM

650Ginge wrote: »

Passed by a 5 series with the reg M7 EPM this afternoon, M1 near Dundalk.

Sorry off topic and pointless...

That was me

krank

This isn't as regular an occurrence as I think I made it sound like in my OP. It happened twice but I can't figure out why. The first time I was in an Auris, the second time a Mondeo. It's only ever happened during the day and not in heavy traffic. Lights weren't on.

Voodoomelon wrote: »

If it only happens on the motorway, you're using it wrong by the sounds of things.

I can't see what I'm doing wrong but I could easily be one of the many Irish drivers that hasn't a clue how to drive on the motorway? Good driving conditions, car in my lane doing approx 70-80kph, I indicate, go into right hand lane, wait until I am a good distance ahead of the car I am overtaking, indicate left and go back into the left lane.

PARKHEAD67

krank wrote: »

This isn't as regular an occurrence as I think I made it sound like in my OP. It happened twice but I can't figure out why. The first time I was in an Auris, the second time a Mondeo. It's only ever happened during the day and not in heavy traffic. Lights weren't on.




I can't see what I'm doing wrong but I could easily be one of the many Irish drivers that hasn't a clue how to drive on the motorway? Good driving conditions, car in my lane doing approx 70-80kph, I indicate, go into right hand lane, wait until I am a good distance ahead of the car I am overtaking, indicate left and go back into the left lane.

On a motorway? Ive seen people drive really slow on a motorway, but thats a bit extreme.

Voodoomelon

What speed do you do when you're overtaking? If you're doing 30-40kph below the limit in the overtaking lane, even if you are still overtaking, you're gonna pee off a lot of people.

no1beemerfan

Mabey you are taking too long to pull back in? And the driver behind gets a bit impatient.

-Corkie-

no1beemerfan wrote: »

Mabey you are taking too long to pull back in? And the driver behind gets a bit impatient.

The way I read it was that the driver he overtook flashed???

krank

Voodoomelon wrote: »

What speed do you do when you're overtaking? If you're doing 30-40kph below the limit in the overtaking lane, even if you are still overtaking, you're gonna pee off a lot of people.

No, the people I'm overtaking would be going very slowly. I always do as close to the limit as safety allows. The last time this happened I was Southbound on the M50 and the car in front of me was doing about 80kph so I overtook them. when I pulled back into the left lane they flashed me. The time before that a car was merging. Once they had merged they wouldn't accelerate and stayed at around 70kph. I was not tailgating them and as it became clear that they weren't going to adjust their speed I overtook them. When I got back into the left lane they flashed me.

I'm wondering are these people just odd or am I doing something wrong that needs to be corrected?

no1beemerfan wrote: »

Mabey you are taking too long to pull back in? And the driver behind gets a bit impatient.

It's the car I'm overtaking that flashed me and not any other vehicles in the right hand lane.

dermiek

I thought this was about girls getting their baps out.

BostonB

Maybe you pull back in too early

HeidiHeidi

I know a lot of trucks (and some cars) will usually flash an overtaking truck to let it know when it's gone far enough to pull in again..... could it be someone letting you know that it's safe to pull back left? Seems a bit daft for cars to be doing it to cars, though....

PARKHEAD67

krank wrote: »

No, the people I'm overtaking would be going very slowly. I always do as close to the limit as safety allows. The last time this happened I was Southbound on the M50 and the car in front of me was doing about 80kph so I overtook them. when I pulled back into the left lane they flashed me. The time before that a car was merging. Once they had merged they wouldn't accelerate and stayed at around 70kph. I was not tailgating them and as it became clear that they weren't going to adjust their speed I overtook them. When I got back into the left lane they flashed me.

I'm wondering are these people just odd or am I doing something wrong that needs to be corrected?

The speed limit on a motorway is 120KM/HR.I often overdo this limit.If your driving at 80-90km/hr on a motorway you are driving dangerously.This has to be a wum.

no1beemerfan

-Corkie- wrote: »

The way I read it was that the driver he overtook flashed???

Ya I see now after OP's post after yours.

Mabey the op stays behind them too long or something? Hard to know without being there and seeing it for myself. If its only happened twice I wouldn't worry about it too much. I've met some idiots who do things even the man above wouldn't understand!

PARKHEAD67

no1beemerfan wrote: »

Ya I see now after OP's post after yours.

Mabey the op stays behind them too long or something? Hard to know without being there and seeing it for myself. If its only happened twice I wouldn't worry about it too much. I've met some idiots who do things even the man above wouldn't understand!

The man above- As in Uncle Gaybo??:D

-Corkie-

no1beemerfan wrote: »

Ya I see now after OP's post after yours.

Mabey the op stays behind them too long or something? Hard to know without being there and seeing it for myself. If its only happened twice I wouldn't worry about it too much. I've met some idiots who do things even the man above wouldn't understand!

I have often being flashed by people I have overtaken on the Motorway including last week..:)

urajoke

You sure you are being flashed and it's not just the car behind hitting a small bump in the road causing its lights to lift and drop making you think its flashing you ?!

Some OLD fuddy duddies sometimes flash others whom they think are SPEEDING !

Maybe check your rear lights all work and work correctly, I have noticed a large number of rear taillights will all flash instead of the indicator the brake light and taillights all dim and flash.

Al Capwned

PARKHEAD67 wrote: »

The speed limit on a motorway is 120KM/HR.I often overdo this limit.If your driving at 80-90km/hr on a motorway you are driving dangerously.This has to be a wum.

80-90 kph dangerous???? :rolleyes:
ridiculous.

PARKHEAD67

-Corkie- wrote: »

I have often being flashed by people I have overtaken on the Motorway including last week..:)

Happens to me all the time.They seem to think that everyone should drive at carolla speed(10 miles a day). Nice and sensible goes you.:D

Gran Hermano

PARKHEAD67 wrote: »

The speed limit on a motorway is 120KM/HR.I often overdo this limit.If your driving at 80-90km/hr on a motorway you are driving dangerously.This has to be a wum.

Majority of M50 is limited to 100 kph.

Tigerbaby

I cannot see how 80 KPH is dangerous. above 120 KPH certainly is, however.

PARKHEAD67

alproctor wrote: »

80-90 kph dangerous???? :rolleyes:
ridiculous.

On a motorway its extremely dangerous.I presume your wumming.

PARKHEAD67

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Majority of M50 is limited to 100 kph.

My motorway road is 120 limit. I dont drive the M50.

Gran Hermano

PARKHEAD67 wrote: »

My motorway road is 120 limit. I dont drive the M50.

The OP does

EPM

PARKHEAD67 wrote: »

On a motorway its extremely dangerous.I presume your wumming.

You're pushing it with sexist comments/personal abuse. Leave it out ffs.

CiniO

PARKHEAD67 wrote: »

The speed limit on a motorway is 120KM/HR.I often overdo this limit.If your driving at 80-90km/hr on a motorway you are driving dangerously.This has to be a wum.

:eek:???????????????????????

There is plenty of vehicles which are limited by law to be driving at 80km/h on motorway.
These are all trucks above 3.5tonnes and any vehicle towing trailer. (and maybe something else I can't think of at the moment).

Most trucks are limited to 90 by speed limiter and they are acutally unable to do any more physically, so I can't see how anyone else driving at 80 - 90 km/h on motorway be doing anything dangerous?

staker

alproctor wrote: »

80-90 kph dangerous???? :rolleyes:
ridiculous.

I wouldn't mind anyone doing that speed in the left lane, even though I wouldn't do it myself on a motorway.
Except in 2 instances(that I can think of)-Accessing a motorway from a slip-road or holding some poor beggar in an artic who's forced onto the overtaking lane to get around him.
OP are you coming up really close to the rear of the "flasher-car" before you perform the overtake maybe?

CiniO

Tigerbaby wrote: »

above 120 KPH certainly is, however.

Why?

PARKHEAD67

Tigerbaby wrote: »

I cannot see how 80 KPH is dangerous. above 120 KPH certainly is, however.

Is that you Gay Byrne.Dont patronise me with that crap. Are you telling me that someone doing 120KPH on the inside lane coming up to some ape ahead of him/her doing 80KPH isnt dangerous. Anyone who does 80KPH on a motorway shouldnt be allowed to drive on a motorway.End of.

HeidiHeidi

Rear (and/or front) foglights on is a good guess. One of the most irritating things on the road!

Mind you, OP said this happened in daylight.....

Overature

I was flashed there on the moterway by some guy, had a very small penis:cool:

CiniO

PARKHEAD67 wrote: »

Is that you Gay Byrne.Dont patronise me with that crap. Are you telling me that someone doing 120KPH on the inside lane coming up to some ape ahead of him/her doing 80KPH isnt dangerous. Anyone who does 80KPH on a motorway shouldnt be allowed to drive on a motorway.End of.

Nonsense.
40 km/h difference in speed is nothing.
Safe motorway driving is not about everyone keeping the same speed, as it's impossible, but about good lane discipline.
If you ever had a chance to drive in Germany you would know there is nothing dangerous with vehicles doing 80km/h on one lane, and 250km/h on next lane. All fully safe thanks to good lane discipline.

krank

staker wrote: »

OP are you coming up really close to the rear of the "flasher-car" before you perform the overtake maybe?

Nope, as I said in a previous post I definitaly wasn't tailgating or too close to them. I most certainly didn't go back into the left lane until I was a good distance ahead of them. I think as another poster pointed out that they were flashing me because they considered my overtaking them as speeding.......I won't generalize about age/sex by giving the driver profiles in each case

HeidiHeidi

PARKHEAD67 wrote: »

Is that you Gay Byrne.Dont patronise me with that crap. Are you telling me that someone doing 120KPH on the inside lane coming up to some ape ahead of him/her doing 80KPH isnt dangerous. Anyone who does 80KPH on a motorway shouldnt be allowed to drive on a motorway.End of.

As someone else pointed out, most of the M50 is limited to 100kph. Can't see how doing 20kph under the max limit could possibly be seen as dangerous. Someone rocketing up behind them at 120kph trying to force them to speed up, however, most certainly is.

If you insist on doing 120kph or more, you should be prepared to do a LOT of zigzagging in and out of lanes (in a controlled manner, naturally), not give out about someone doing a perfectly acceptable (and possibly their maximum, as also pointed out) speed.

Voodoomelon

What kind of car do you drive OP?

Al Capwned

PARKHEAD67 wrote: »

The speed limit on a motorway is 120KM/HR.I often overdo this limit.If your driving at 80-90km/hr on a motorway you are driving dangerously.This has to be a wum.

Often overdo this limit - and you call someone else dangerous???

Tigerbaby wrote: »

I cannot see how 80 KPH is dangerous. above 120 KPH certainly is, however.

correct

PARKHEAD67 wrote: »

On a motorway its extremely dangerous.I presume your wumming.

PARKHEAD67 wrote: »

Is that you Gay Byrne.Dont patronise me with that crap. Are you telling me that someone doing 120KPH on the inside lane coming up to some ape ahead of him/her doing 80KPH isnt dangerous. Anyone who does 80KPH on a motorway shouldnt be allowed to drive on a motorway.End of.

Total and utter nonsense - it is perfectly legal to drive on a motorway at anything over 50kph (see pic) - one of the reasons there's a bloody speed limit is so that you have adequate reaction time if you do come up behind a slower vehicle - it gives you the opportunity to adjust speed, maneuver if necessary, overtake, whatever. If youre dong 150kph and you come up behind for example, a truck doing 60/80kph then YOU are wrong, not the truck driver.

Could never understand this logic. Ever.

leptonite

That sonds like you're moving back into the left lane too soon. i.e. you're too close then to the car you just overtook forcing them to brake to keep a safe distance from your rear.

HeidiHeidi

Voodoomelon wrote: »

What kind of car do you drive OP?

Auris on one occasion, Mondeo on the other IIRC

-Corkie-

leptonite wrote: »

That sonds like you're moving back into the left lane too soon. i.e. you're too close then to the car you just overtook forcing them to brake to keep a safe distance from your rear.

Nope OP said they leave a good gap.

Xenophile

Just be sure that you are not getting back into to the "slow" too soon. Get a bit ahead of the car you have overtaken. Stay calm and relaxed... important.

Tigerbaby

PARKHEAD67 wrote: »

Is that you Gay Byrne.Dont patronise me with that crap. Are you telling me that someone doing 120KPH on the inside lane coming up to some ape ahead of him/her doing 80KPH isnt dangerous. Anyone who does 80KPH on a motorway shouldnt be allowed to drive on a motorway.End of.

Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.

where do I begin?

I genuinely hope you learn to drive with courtesy, patience and understanding. For your own sake and the others who may have the misfortune to suffer as a result of your magnificent driving abilities.

I suspect there may be a slight gap in both mentality and age between us.

Voodoomelon

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Auris on one occasion, Mondeo on the other IIRC

Well that's me stumped, probably just some random, coincidental flashes that you'll never see again.

Mycroft H

krank wrote: »

Nope, as I said in a previous post I definitaly wasn't tailgating or too close to them. I most certainly didn't go back into the left lane until I was a good distance ahead of them. I think as another poster pointed out that they were flashing me because they considered my overtaking them as speeding.......I won't generalize about age/sex by giving the driver profiles in each case

Were you too close to the said driver and annoyed them before overtaking.


And at the people who think that 80kph is too slow on the motorway? Ha, that an idiotic idea. Firstly plenty of vehicles are limited to 80kph and secondly with the price of petrol/diesel many people are slowing down to that speed and they are entitled to. I see no problem in doing so and frequently do so myself.

And for the people that think >120kph is too fast, well there is an arguement to it. Greatly exceeding it in busy morning traffic for example is probably a bit silly, too many people here have poor observation and lane discipline and are likely to pull out in front of you. On an empty road? A great deal safer and I don't see very much wrong with it.

PARKHEAD67

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

As someone else pointed out, most of the M50 is limited to 100kph. Can't see how doing 20kph under the max limit could possibly be seen as dangerous. Someone rocketing up behind them at 120kph trying to force them to speed up, however, most certainly is.

If you insist on doing 120kph or more, you should be prepared to do a LOT of zigzagging in and out of lanes (in a controlled manner, naturally), not give out about someone doing a perfectly acceptable (and possibly their maximum, as also pointed out) speed.

I do 120(sometimes above when its quiet coz thats the limit on the motorway I drive on.)Were not all subject to the ridiculous 100K/hr M50.Doing 80k/hr on A MOTORWAY IS A JOKE.

Cedrus

Krank, Given that you're driving 2 different cars it's unlikely but not impossible that they're trying to tell you something about your car (foglights on, bits hanging off etc). If it's happening at the same place maybe it's that they think there's a regular checkpoint or a speed limit change to warn you about.

But your original question was on the lines of "is it my driving". What do you mean by "quite a bit ahead of them"? You're doing motorway speeds are you allowing them 120kmph braking distances? Can you see the vehicle clearly in your centre mirror, not just your side mirror? Do you hit the brakes as soon as you pull in? I'd flash someone who sped up to pass, then immediately slowed down and I've seen loads of people who pull in as soon as their headrest is past me forgetting that there's still loads of metal hauling behind them.

Congratulations and Thank You for for bringing your driving doubts up for discussion, this indicates that you ARE a good driver.