Yesterday afternoon on the motorway. The rain had stopped but considerable standing water remained on the carriageway and the spray off all vehicles was considerable, even at 60mph.
So I'm travelling along minding my own (about 60mph) keeping a look out for potential aqua-planing spots etc... and the usual 80mph+ crew are bombing down the motorway.
Now there is nobody in front in my lane as far as the eye can see but each one of these coffin dodgers wastes no time pulling back into lane one once they have overtaken me. Cue a blizzard of spray, poor visibility and wipers going crazy for me.
Why don't these idiots keep out in lane 2 for a little longer and then pull in? These speeders weren't under any pressure to pull back in it and would appear they just don't think.
Is this just me???
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I see inconsiderate motorway driving every day of the week - sadly there is very little education when it comes to motorway driving, let alone driving in conditions other than bright clear sunny days.
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Sadly, you are hankering after the courtesies of a byegone age.
When I started driving in the sixties there were still traces left.
Thus it was considered bad manners to pull in front of someone on a wet road such as to cause them to have to use their wipers. Headlights were still sometimes extinguished when pulling up behind someone in a traffic queue. Some people still slowed down when passing pedestrians.
But no one ever slowed anymore when passing a hospital and they didn't spread straw on the road to deaden the noise.
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blimey what were you driving a horse and cart?, i know they used to set wooden cobbles around hospital roads to deaden the clatter of horses hooves!!!
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Driving through the first 1980s hurricane - 86 I think or was it 87 - in northern France the day before it flattened southern England, overtaking HGVs on the motorway was really something, literally hundreds of gallons of water hitting the car and visibility in the hope and pray region. Fortunately the car was a Mercedes 280 which seemed not to notice, but I was glad it wasn't a BL Mini.
Still, with reference to the OP, it seems people either have to be lane hoggers or shameless mud sprayers. Funny how people blame the conditions on their fellow drivers.
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Still with reference to the OP it seems people either have to be lane hoggers or shameless mud sprayers. Funny how people blame the conditions on their fellow drivers.
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Am I misunderstanding something here or are you implying that I am blaming other drivers for these conditions??
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are you implying that I am blaming other drivers for these conditions??
Not really Smokey, sorry if it looked like that. Making the point though that at 70mph the spray hangs in the air for a good couple of hundred yards, and in crowded conditions you really have to compromise a bit... OK on an empty motorway of course, except that the plume of spray spreads as it gets longer so that you spray cars that aren't directly behind you.
What I am saying I suppose is that in traffic in the rain you are inevitably going to be sprayed by other vehicles, and you car is going to get dirty.
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This is one of my pet hates (in all weathers actually). These drivers probably pride themselves on their 'excellent lane discipline'.
It's down to poor education - I don't think they are deliberately trying to annoy you but that doesn't help you if you run into the back of them. The trouble is that the law is not going to help us so I think the only option is to drive a big heavy car so that if you do go into the back of them you will come off best.
There was a post last week about people flashing their headlights at people who have just overtaken them. But again, the overtakers are not learning the lessons so that's probably a waste of time. People these days have no concept of safe stopping distances.
I really don't know what the answer is I'm afraid. Somehow they need educating (I was going to say they need teaching a lesson but that sounds a bit negative).
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Tip I was given to be considerate. Don't begin to pull back in until you can see the whole of the vehicle you have overtaken in your rear view mirror.
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Davey, Same rule I was given - and leave a little longer when it is raining hard so as not to blind the overtaken vehicle.
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There seemed to be a job-lot of astonishingly bad lane changing coming back up the M1 from the M25 today - must have been people cutting loose after clearing that 5 mile car park that the approach to Luton has become. I actually became desensitised to the lunacy after an hour or so, tending towards 'that looked close' rather than 'another inch and he'd have had that bumper off, and NOW he's right up that other bloke's backside.. muppet.. I'm keeping well away from that one' etc :)
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Water spray from heavy vehicles on the motorway? This is when Rain-X comes into its own. Water and spray just fly off the windscreen in a stream of droplets you can see through. It's a fascinating effect, but if you focus your eyes on the the other vehicles and the outside, not the screen, it becomes invisible. At motorway speeds the wipers are unnecessary and the visibility is excellent. It's just like the advertisements demonstrate, they aren't faking it.
I'm sure someone will be along shortly telling us how rain repellent is *bad* and dangerous and should be banned. Well, it's still on the market all these years later, so perhaps it's not me and Rain-X that have got it wrong.
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Blimey, here were folk actually exercising proper lane discipline (cf all the past - and no doubt future - posts about middle lane hoggers), and you're compaining!
I agree that overtakers often move back in front of me sooner than I'd wish, but that happens in the dry as well as the wet...
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