Annoying things other drivers do

Ye do realise that some of it is the "I'm doin 120, Feck off" mentality. Trouble is, most of them are probably only doing 105, maybe 110, as the modern speedo is designed to over read by up to 10%, supposedly to keep people out of trouble in speed limit zones.

Put it this way, if I have a choice of believing a GPS, or the speedo, I know which one I take as being more accurate, given the way that the GPS has to operate to work in the first place. My wife's car, a FIAT, is doing about 108 on an indicated 120, and getting it to actually do a true 120 is a challenge, but that's another story.

The Isuzu I have is remarkably accurate, at 120 indicated, the GPS is usually 117, so that one can be relied on, and I know from experience that I end up passing a lot of people that probably think they're doing 120, but are in reality not.

Most other cars I travel in, with GPS active, are usually somewhere between 8 and 10 Kph over reading at the motorway limit.

There is another solution, do away with speed limits on the rural motorways, like Germany, so there is no competition to "keep the others at the limit", and if there are people wanting to overtake, then it's a requirement to get the fcuk out of the way and let them get on with it, and who knows, maybe over time, people might even remember to look in the mirror occasionally to see if there's someone coming up behind them. No harm in hoping.

That won't work on the M50, that needs variable limits on overhead gantries, like the M25 in the UK, with average speed cameras to sort out the ar*eholes that insist on doing 130 in the exit lane until 50 metres before the slip, regardless of what's happening in the other 3 lanes. 2 Points for speeding, 2 more for incorrect lane use, and 2 more for passing on the wrong side, 2 offences and they'd be taking a break from the M50 for a while. wouldn't take long for the message to spread, some drivers would collect their quota of 12 in one trip on the M50 in one day.

The American concept of a barrier to positively block off the outer 2 lanes for half a mile before and after a junction has a lot to recommend it as well, the number of near misses I see where someone jumps from Lane 4 to Lane 1 at high speed just before the exit, or crawls in lane 2 so that they can jump into the queue when there's half a gap, the barrier would prevent those aggravations, and also stop people jumping from the slip to lane 3 at 60 Kph.

And yes, I DO know a bit about what I'm talking about, over 40 years driving in a number of countries, some RHS, some LHS, and on occasions driving a RHD in a LHS country, or even more challenging, driving a left hand drive manual, in deep snow, on untreated roads in temperatures of -20, (C or F, take your pick, it's effectively pretty much the same, DAMN cold). In those 40 plus years, I've had one mishap for which I will accept responsibility, after that, all the other (3) incidents, 2 in this country, I've been rear ended, which is not down to me if I'm at a standstill.