Kimosabe wrote:akirk wrote:.....and then look to increase speed at a less hazardous moment - reality is it will make virtually no difference to your journey other than to make it more relaxed!
Alasdair
And there's the key for me, the purpose of the drive. If it's about time, sometimes A-B could take minutes longer, sometimes hey ho. IF you didn't get past that slow driver on the slip, when you did pass them, how much time did you lose vs how much are you now gaining? Generally the answer to both is 'not a lot', unless you have a very fast car and clear road ahead. I generally have neither.
Even with a fast car and a clear road it doesn't really make a lot of difference... I remember some years back overtaking an elderly chap who was bimbling along on his way into Cirencester - long empty road ahead, safe easy overtake I was driving an XJS which wasn't slow... yet he pulled into the next space in the car park - and commented that it hadn't done me much good in overtaking him - as I pointed out, if it was done to get there faster I wouldn't have bothered - instead I was enjoying a lovely car, great weather, a good road and a nice overtake - nothing to do with being first / fastest...
similarly today I passed a string of cars on another long empty road, with the lead car going slowly and no-one bothering to overtake, I then came up behind a lovely 1931 Model A - I enjoyed a slow progress with no ability to overtake the rest of the way - I enjoyed both the overtake and the bimble equally...
Alasdair