Has anyone else noticed how braking distances have miraculously shortened in this icy weather we're having?
You sit well back from the vehicle in front giving yourself plenty of room to brake if needs be and you are taking it easy as its really slippy and then the guy behind then sits 10ft off your back end...
Edited by b308 on 11/02/2009 at 08:22
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I suspect that, regardless of the conditions, there'll always be someone who thinks that if he (and it's usually a he) can see clear road in front of your car, then you're going too slowly and getting in his way.
I remember a few weeks ago, I was trundling along in lane 1 of the morning crawl south from J10 of the M40. The consensus speed was varying from maybe 5 to about 20, so rather than wear out brakes and nerves by playing fridge-magnets with the car in front, I let the gap open up a little and then close gradually as the flow slowed again. This drove the truck driver behind me nuts, to judge from the tunes he was playing on his horn. I was keeping him from, at most, 50 metres of road up to the next slow-moving car, and of course I left him for dead once lanes 2 and 3 opened up as we came to J9.
So, was he just a pfd who'd had a row with his wife or left home without his Imodium, or had I unwittingly infringed some trucker's rule of the road? Perhaps GB or PDA or one of the others here familiar with the heavy stuff can enlighten me!
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Car drivers...truck drivers...
I think its the ape based organics behind the wheel of both that`s the problem. It might have been better (from a harmonious perspective) if another life form such as ants or bees had risen to prominence.
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had I unwittingly infringed some trucker's rule of the road?
Some trucks can stop dead from any speed on any surface....or you'd think so judging by the antics we see.
I understand what you were doing WDB and i try to do the same, i don't like lemming like blast and brake progress either.
And i would rather be behind someone who leaves a decent gap as they're not likely to have to jam the brakes on every few minutes.
In some situations though, for example approaching a junction/off slip if the driver in front leaves too long a gap, the world and his wife continually slot in front of said vehicle and it can be frustrating.
I daresay you just found one ill tempered plonker who gets us all tarred with the same brush.
Plenty of them out there driving all sorts, even supermarket trolleys.
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I understand what you were doing WDB and i try to do the same i don't like lemming like blast and brake progress either.
Exactly waht I was doing... but it was a car/mpv thing not a truck, thank goodness, at least i'd have had some chance of surviving if the worst had happenned....
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but it was a car/mpv thing not a truck
When the weathers warmer i try and get rid of people like that by slowing to the nearside and letting them by where i can keep an eye on them, very difficult to do with iced up verges and possibly road centre too.
Bit extreme know, but that is a big advantage of driving something strong and heavy (pickup/4x4 etc), for one thing you tend not to get tailgated and secondly you don't really take any notice of them.
I've noticed increasingly that this close tailgating/bullying is done mainly to small/medium cars and not to something hefty, i'm sure others will have seen this too, quite why this i so i can't fathom.
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Has anyone else noticed how braking distances have miraculously shortened in this icy weather we're having?
Yes - I have, a couple of wimes waved back and mouthed "Back OFF" at the person following. It generally works. If it doesn't slow down.
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Yes, I had a taxi driver sat on my towbar the other night - snow and ice on the roads, below freezing, fog as well. I pulled over and let him past first chance I had, and I had a job on to get back onto the road.
He must have been aware of the fog at least, as his front and rear fog lamps were on....
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Come off it you lot.
These people obviously have ABS, which any as fool knows enables you to stop in the length of your vehicle no matter what the conditions.
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These people obviously have ABS which any as fool knows enables you to stop in the length of your vehicle no matter what the conditions.
I wish you could turn the ABS off. It's a good safety feature if the road conditions take you by surprise but I'm sure I could stop quicker on the snowy roads we've had without it. In another post I described how the ASR [Audi A6] wouldn't allow enough revs to get up a hill - and that can be turned off. Why not ABS?
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Not only does it shorten braking distances makes overtaking possible in places where only a total pfd would pass on a dry sunny day.
Edited by Bromptonaut on 11/02/2009 at 19:11
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