155MPH in a Mercedes C200?

[Pete-M]

I'd rather be in a car with someone who knows how to drive that's doing 170 mph than some dithering arsehole who doesn't think lane discipline is important that's doing 65.

 

Honestly. Next time you're on a motorway look at what's causing ALL the problems.

 

Poor lane discipline is #1

Tailgating is a very close #2

People who drive on the brakes #3

 

That's it. They're the main issues on our motorways. Not speed, but people who don't have the faintest idea how to drive on the motorway sitting in L2 and L3 at 65 mph flashing their brake lights constantly. Wankers the lot of 'em. Tailgaters are just as bad because they drive too close which means they're on the fucking brakes half the time.

 

If the ditherers stayed over on the left and the tailgaters were prosecuted our motorway system would work. The problem is, the ditherers think that driving slowly equals driving well and they get offended if anyone says otherwise.

[MarvinsMom]

155 on a public road at any time should be punished with a spell of porridge and a lifetime ban,

 

simple,

 

doing a stunt like that at any time is reckless beyond the ext ream, and any young bloods on here who thinks otherwise, just have a good look at what is left of Bub's van, cos at that speed no matter what it is you are in will end up like that should anything break.

 

and then some poor fucker will have to hose the wanker doing such speed off of the road while some other poor sod gets the lovely* job of going and telling the next of kin what has happened.

[Pillock]

Most dangerous things I saw on the motorway this week (only 400-odd miles or so for a change)

 

A Golf, doing no more than 70mph, diving across three lanes to take a last minute exit.

A Mk3 Fiesta, fully giffered, doing 50mph in the inside lane and forcing trucks into the middle lane, forcing everyone doing the NSL into one lane.

People rubbernecking a low speed shunt on the M42 and dancing around on their brake pedals to avoid the car in front, but get a jolly good view of the dented van

A Focus about an hour ago failing to use an entire slip road to get to 70mph and trying to merge at 55 onto the M1, forcing a Juke into the middle lane.

 

Excess speed hasn't been an issue, people not looking beyond their car bonnet and not having a clue what's happening outside their bubble has.

Planning ahead is very hard to measure though, hence a focus on speeding fines. You can't really drag someone out of their car and hit them with a fixed penalty for not managing to build up to a sensible speed on a slip road, it's too hard to prove. You can wave a laser gun at someone doing 80mph in a 70mph limit though.

[Vin]

Erhmm..

 

  On 07/11/2015 at 10:48, chompy_snake said:

Well at least he has proof  he has done it (age old thing of no pics no proof)! So what he did nearly 200 mph in  whatever car it was he managed it in! Good on him, he paid for the car and the petrol to do it (I hope) ... if he can control the car at that speed then the only problem would be the tosser that decides to pull out on him at 50 mph when he is doing that  speed!

 

I have personally managed 165 mph in a Lexus LS430 (I'm not saying where), and Oh look, no kittens are dead, no children are decapitated and the world didn't suddenly stop and all the people explode! 

 

I wish people on here would stop frikking complaining so loudly about speeding, some of you are hypocrites anyway. Flaming others about speeding and then posting comedically about doing it yourself! ROFL

 

Everyone speed at some point in their life, it's to what degree and how often that makes the difference, I mean look at all those traffic officers racing around on the A roads and motorways at above 100 mph stupid maniacs?? No they get praised for "enforcing" the law, and the way they speed around most of the time when not on call outs makes them more of a risk than any of us are!

[HH-R]

I don't think Pete meant that Chompy, I'd imagine he means the fuckwits in cars that can easily reach the speed the traffic is already going on the carriageway but decide to join at 45 MPH and are oblivious to the HGV they've forced into the outside lane or the ones who want to go right at a roundabout 3/4s of a mile away so cut someone up going into the outside lane and go no more than 60 with a massive tailback, that sort of thing.(I had that today, went to overtake someone on a dual carriageway whose speed then crept up, then they nearly took my front end off going into the outside lane to slow right down to take the roundabout that was still about 800 yards away - they had pulled in front of an HGV and braked like hell at the last minute at the roundabout before).

 

The problem I would have with the speed limit going up is that unless someone is caught by a speed camera or causes a bad crash, anyone can literally drive how they like with no consequence. There is no Police presence on the road, at least not round here. I've resorted to a back facing dash cam and massive sign in the window for the tailgaters, and a forward facing cam for the cocks that pull out as if you're not there. The council try to punish bad driving by using traffic light timing to annoy, chicanes to cause congestion and speed humps but people it's meant to affect don't understand what "give way to oncoming traffic" means, that a red light means to stop or do 50 over the humps anyway.

[Squire_Dawson]

  On 25/02/2016 at 17:01, Pete-M said:

I'm currently on a train and have just had the misfortune to be sitting opposite a RoSPA spokesman - I discovered this as his phone went as someone wanted an interview with him.

 

"There's no excuse for traveling at 100 mph. It's just thrill seekers and businessmen on phones. "

 

So I grabbed my phone, fired up the GPS speedo and showed him the 125 mph current reading. Gave him a bit of grief when he got off the phone. "If you campaigned for better driving standards instead of trying to drag journey times back to the 17th century, you'd do a load more good"

 

Cue dirty look from RoSPA bloke.

 

Was he referring to this speed on roads, or more generally?

[Pete-M]

  On 25/02/2016 at 18:37, chompy_snake said:

So by your logic, and forgive me if this comes across a little funny!

 

My friend and i are (and I quote) "Wankers"? Simply because the terminal velocity of our vehicle was 70mph, we were on a long slight incline so couldn't get above 65mph! We had overtaken other vehicles surprisingly but were kept to the left! However we were dawdling along merrily having a laugh and making good progress.... The way you put it, the guy that ran into the back of us at between 120 and 140 mph was fine because we just got in his way and were dawdling along ... Therefore making us "wankers"???

If you were keeping to the left and staying out of the way then you were in the right.

 

I've done 200 motorway miles today and only seen one idiot, a blue 65 plate 4 series BMW that was doing considerably over a ton and weaving through traffic, including undertaking cars by using the hard shoulder. If Dibble had seen him he'd have been banned.

 

Traveling down the M5 earlier I stuck to my usual motorway pace, kept to the left and kept cruise engaged from the M6 to J11A. Because I was keeping to the left and only leaving the left lane to overtake slower moving traffic in L1 or L2, then indicating and moving back into L1 other people started to do the same - after a few miles L3 was completely clear behind me. People CAN drive correctly, they just can't be arsed. Which is why we need better training instead of just lowering speed limits and letting people drive badly instead.

[Pete-M]

  On 25/02/2016 at 19:25, Squire_Dawson said:

Was he referring to this speed on roads, or more generally?

On roads I imagine. His phone was going nuts as I suspect lots of press were looking for a quote. Same spiel to all "People should be banned for 100 mph", "It's boy racers after the thrill and businessmen in big German cars who do lots of motorway miles who do 100 and it's unacceptable".

 

As it's an automatic ban for 100 anyway I suspect he just liked the sound of his own voice.

[sierraman]

I stick to 70-80. The prospect of a ban coupled with killing someone prevents me from driving at 100mph. Anyway how fast do you need to go and for what?

[Pete-M]

I tend to sit with the reps and drive according to the conditions. I'm not someone who sits at 90+ tailgating and being a twat, but I don't dawdle.

[rantingYoof]

Everyone who has a clear slip-road and is joining a free-flowing motorway should be instantly vapourised if they cross the dashed line between the slip-road and carriageway at less than 45mph.

[robinmasters]

  On 25/02/2016 at 18:33, Pillock said:

A Focus about an hour ago failing to use an entire slip road to get to 70mph...

I rarely get up to seventy before I get to the end of the slip road. And it's downhill. It's not for want of trying though!

[martybabes]

  On 26/02/2016 at 00:23, robinmasters said:

I rarely get up to seventy before I get to the end of the slip road. And it's downhill. It's not for want of trying though!

 

You are allowed to use the hard-shoulder to continue building up your speed.

[matty879]

it doesn't matter what you drive,its what you do with it,its great blaming bmw drivers or the like,or the speeding biker that just appeared,the way I see it is the roads are there to be used by all safely,i darnt take my bike out these days,if your gonna drive like a prick you should be banned.after all we passed a test to say were compentent/safe.i think we should set up an autoshite trackday.

[warren t claim]

This site is slowly turning into Mumsnet.

[matty879]

mumsnet nah,im a grandad now so I want my thrill,get gone from her for a bit.

[hauserplenty]

ALL VOXLZ R SHIT.

[Jim Bell]

  On 26/02/2016 at 01:28, warren t claim said:

This site is slowly turning into Mumsnet.

Not slowly, unfortunately.

[r.welfare]

Needs more powerfully-built company directors and 335ds.

[dieselnutjob]

The thing that regularly worries me is being on the M25 late at night when the road is near empty when some numpty in highways decides on the slightest excuse to but the variable speed limit down to 40.

 

The fastest that I dare to go is then 43 because I really do not want to set off a camera.

 

However being even in lane 1 doing 43 when the artics still seem to be doing 56 feels extremely dangerous to me.

 

I travel on the M25 evey day and I do find at peak hours that most people seem to know exactly what they are doing and are mostly in the correct lane for what they want to do.  I suppose using a busy motorway every day makes most people reasonably good at it.

 

The driving standards on the M25 at the weekends do really drop quite dramatically.