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Flashing in overtaking lane

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  • #62
    CoDy1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,637 ✭✭✭CoDy1


    sesna wrote: »

    Perhaps you think slamming on my brakes is mental, but what if some poor wildlife animal, a rabbit perhaps, was crossing the motorway and I couldnt see it

    So you value bugs bunny's life more than your own or the driver's behind you???

    you have to be takin the piss at this stage...


  • #63
    Martron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭Martron


    sesna wrote: »

    Perhaps you think slamming on my brakes is mental, but what if some poor wildlife animal, a rabbit perhaps, was crossing the motorway and I couldnt see it

    ha ha ha very good. i was thinking you were serious for a moment. i would agree with colm mc on this


  • #64
    sesna
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭sesna


    Jip wrote: »
    Not really, it's not his job to enforce the speed limits. If a car wants to get by at speed in excess of the limit he should. And if he thinks he's doing exactly 120kph from looking at his speedo, in all likelihood he's doing less.

    I have a digital speedo and a GPS system which I use to reference my true speed


  • #65
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    A digital speedo is no more accurate than a analogue one. Doesn't matter either way, it's still not up to you to dictate what speed other drivers drive at.


  • #66
    sesna
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭sesna


    Martron wrote: »
    ha ha ha very good. i was thinking you were serious for a moment. i would agree with colm mc on this

    The point being any obstruction on the road ahead. Perhaps a closed motorway lane, damage to the road, a piece of debris would be more palatable to you. It is wreckless to drive without full visual awareness of the road ahead.


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  • #67
    JohnGone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭JohnGone


    I wouldn't usually partake in these threads, but I feel strongly about this.

    Last year, one morning our toddler started getting sick & dizzy, so we had to rush her to hospital (Newbridge to Tallaght) up the N7 on Wed morning at rush-hour.

    I will admit that I was speeding up the road, and on a couple of occasions, had to flash vehicles to move over - thankfully I didn't meet any lane hoggers - having my hazards on as well may have highlighted an emergency. My wife was in the backseat trying to keep our baby awake, as any parent knows, you cannot let them sleep in the event of an emergency.

    Thankfully we got there in time, and after having her checked out, she came home the next day - very slowly!
    The overtaking lane is for overtaking , not parking in. You just don't know if there is a real emergency behind you


  • #68
    sesna
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭sesna


    Jip wrote: »
    A digital speedo is no more accurate than a analogue one. Doesn't matter either way, it's still not up to you to dictate what speed other drivers drive at.

    If you read my original post you would see I am not enforcing the law, merely completing a legal overtake manouver before moving back to the travelling lane


  • #69
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    So you didn't comment then on drivers exceeding the limit ?


  • #70
    red menace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭red menace


    I was commenting onm the guys, who do this like a you, pull into a gap of ~ 8 to 10 carlengths and then overtake again have seen it done in smaller spaces as well


  • #71
    CoDy1
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    sesna wrote: »
    The point being any obstruction on the road ahead. Perhaps a closed motorway lane, damage to the road, a piece of debris would be more palatable to you. It is wreckless to drive without full visual awareness of the road ahead.

    Its a flash of a high beam not a flippin lighthouse behind you. The flash of light would take less time than it would for you to even process and hit the break. Slamming on the breaks in the fast lane knowing that there is a car travelling at high speed behind you is SUICIDAL.


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  • #72
    Martron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,930 ✭✭✭Martron


    sesna wrote: »
    The point being any obstruction on the road ahead. Perhaps a closed motorway lane, damage to the road, a piece of debris would be more palatable to you. It is wreckless to drive without full visual awareness of the road ahead.

    1. closed motorway lane = advanced warning , ipv ( impact protection vehicle) tapered cones.

    2. damage to the road = unless its a crater you will never see it until you are on top of it. slamming on your brakes in that case will couse more damage than just rolling over it.

    3. debris = again you wont see it at night anyway until you are on top of it.

    slamming on your brakes will cause more of an accident than you hitting a pothole or a plastic bag.

    and for your own futre reference........ if there is a small animal on the road...... its their tough.


  • #73
    we'llallhavetea_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    sometimes i wish real life was like mario kart and i could lob stuff at the idiots infront.


  • #74
    bazzachazza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,132 ✭✭✭bazzachazza


    My opinion on this matter hasn't changed from the first 50 times this subject has been posted here on boards and it won't.:rolleyes:


  • #75
    Berty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,174 ✭✭✭✭Berty


    Wow 5 pages. This topic is nearly as entertaining as a fog light thread.

    I thought the steam was let out of the OP in the first page of the thread and thought the thread was done to death by the 3rd page.

    Yet.....................


  • #76
    red menace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭red menace


    Berty wrote: »
    Wow 5 pages. This topic is nearly as entertaining as a fog light thread.

    I thought the steam was let out of the OP in the first page of the thread and thought the thread was done to death by the 3rd page.

    Yet.....................

    you should set your preferences to 40 posts per page.
    Slims down to a convenient 2 pages ;)


  • #77
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,587 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    corriganalan wrote: »
    In the fast lane - car sitting in front of you doing 80k with nothing in the slow lane
    What were you overtaking if there was nothing in the slow lane? :)


  • #78
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,801 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    Sweet Jesus. This has been done to death, hovering over the lock button here


  • #79
    JimmyCrackCorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭JimmyCrackCorn


    Ill get my tits out at any occasion.:D


    @Onkle
    Did that get the lock


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