There’s a third, at least on motorways: because while the middle lane is empty, the inside lane is completely full of twats who pretend they can’t see you and refuse to move out. There’s a few bits going onto the M8 like that.

A lot of the time, yeah. What makes me weep hot salty tears is when the vehicle in question is something nice, like an Audi quattro. That’s just rubbing salt into the wound.

They teach this in some countries. Not Britain, though, for some reason.

I agree that they should be trying to speed up to join the traffic, but at the end of the day, if they have to stop then that’s fair enough. A slip road is a give-way.

That would be the Toyota Yaris. Those things must be fitted with limiters to stop the car going over 40mph. Actually, I think the limiter might be called “the engine”.

And people who can’t use slip roads. In an attempt to join fast-moving traffic, they slow down. Sometimes, they stop.

> if they’re that scared of driving, they’re not safe drivers.

Absolutely. I think you should have to sit a driving test every ten years to keep your license, and excessive nervousness should be a reason for a fail on all but your first one.

I was behind *several* of them yesterday. I really think such people shouldn’t be allowed on the roads – not because they annoy me (of course they do) but because if they’re that scared of driving, they’re not safe drivers.

I’m convinced I’m a much safer driver since I got my first copy of Burnout 3. I have nothing to prove on the real roads.

My person favorite bad drivers are those rare, but stunning people who insist on slowing down *every time a vehicle approaches from the opposite direction*. Didn’t they expect that? I generally assume anyone I see like that is drunk or whacked on something.

Oh and I keep seeing this one large black SUV driving down the same (streetlit) section of the M8 in the dark with it’s headlights off. I assume it’s always the same one I’m seeing – instead of their being three or four idiots with the same car making the same mistake at the same place.

I usually come across the 40/50mph idiots in the Clyde Tunnel. The tunnel is a 30, but they’ll drive up your rear end the whole way through, then overtake you and speed off at 50mph towards the motorway. Then, a few minutes later, you pass by them on the motoroway. They’ll be sitting in the middle lane doing 50mph and you have to go all the way out to pass them at 70mph. They effectively turn a 3 lane motorway into a 2 lane dual carriageway.