Is there a new movement that is causing people to drive.....

Remember when we took our driving lessons as teenagers? We had “look at the big picture” rammed into our brains? I don’t think that’s being taught anymore given what I’m seeing on the roads these days.

I have a fairly short commute but I see multiple instances of this kind of stuff daily.

Being overly cautious is almost as bad as being reckless, IMO.

 

Hard to drive at speed when your face is buried in your phone.

 

I live in Massachusetts. I have not seen this trend.

 

Any possibility they have speed limiters fitted, maybe to get a reduction on car insurance?
Or they have a speed reduction imposed as a result of a driving offence?
Or they've just passed their test and are limited for their first year?

These are all possibilities here in Ireland, no idea if any of them would apply in North Carolina.

Of course, maybe they're all just idiots.

 

Smartphones. Nuff said.

 

Maybe some report has gone viral that driving slow helps save fuel, or the environment?
You know what folks are like with fake news these days.

 

I've recently started driving! I passed my test nine years ago but had no need for a car until fairly recently. Go me and my Skoda Citigo, right?

I see crap driving every time I'm on the road. Generally drivers don't seem to plan ahead. The one that pisses me off the most is drivers who blip the brakes on the motorway (highway) for no reason. Some of this is comfort braking I think, perhaps because the drivers zone out and end up 'behind' what the car is doing. Driving into a knot of drivers all sluggishly braking because the car in front did the same really annoys me.

In the UK we have 'National Speed Limit' roads that are dictated by the type of road when a stated speed limit (20 mph, 40 mph, whatever) isn't specifically signposted. In theory you could blitz around twisty single-carriageway roads at 60 mph, but it isn't always advisable.

Slow drivers are probably of the mentality that they are being safer. The best/worst are those who speed up when you try and overtake them. Slow drivers might also simply be distracted by other things. Check to see if they have a phone on the wheel with them.

 

Usually when I see this happening they are talking on a phone. Both hands-on and hands free alike.

 

Drugs? The devil's lettuce has been quite popular as of late.

 

My daily commute across the Phoenix metro area is 63 miles round trip. Every single day there are left lane campers...those morons who zip across the other three lanes so they can get nice and comfy in the left lane...and then go slower than everyone else on the road.

Now relax...I'm not painting everybody who owns a Prius, but there is an abnormally higher percentage of Prius drivers who seem to think that left lane was made just for them, to go as slow as they want, while remaining oblivious to the line of 20 vehicles behind them. (Not just them, but also no shortage of landscapers and dump-truck drivers are often just as clueless, based on my daily experiences.)

 

Well, 50% of the drivers out there ARE below average!

 

How fast are you driving that someone going 5 mph below the LIMIT is a dipstick? I drive 5-10 above, typically, but I don't get mad at someone that close to the speed limit.

 

Welp, excuse me for being European, but I'd rather people drive below the speed limit than above it.

 

Yeah, fake news. I heard this thing about slower speeds and safety. Who falls for that?