Thats the unwritten rule of motorcycling. I get to filter past you in traffic, you get laugh at me when its starts raining 🤣🤣

I’d rather have a speeding driver in front of me than behind, if they want to break the law it’s not my job to punish them, it’s my job as a driver to get my passengers home safely. Another great video Ashley I’ve definitely improved as a driver since watching your channel.

When another driver passes me without due care I always imagine that it's an emergency and they are on their way to hospital. It probably never is but it allows me not to get annoyed. People treat driving as a competitive sport and it's not. It's a waltz! Everyone moving around in a crowded situation and keeping the rhythm so as not to bang into each other. If you ever start to feel frustrated, next time just try humming a waltz. Works for me!! Love your channel, always on the lookout to improve my driving and you defiantly help. Great Job.

I loved your comment about not being judge or jury. We can only change our own driving habits. Others will do as they do. Just drive with safety in mind.

The overtake is a dying art, and this curates the fear or animosity against them. I'd like to see you do a series on effective and safe overtakes.

My rule is simple: it's better to have the bad driver in front of you where it is so much easier to avoid entanglements, even if that means pulling over or turning off (once round a roundabout is a good way to increase the gap). At least they would struggle to follow you. They're also feeling some marginal sense of achievement when they've got ahead so are less likely to want to tango. Sadly, it'll all come to a conclusion one day with some other innocent person but it's not within my power to influence that in any way. When you spend your day working with antisocial and criminal behaviour that goes completely unsanctioned, some knob in a Beemer displaying the same immature sense of entitlement is of no consequence. I'm not going to allow them to take up my brain bandwidth by allowing them to occupy my thoughts. As far as I am concerned just being them is punishment enough.

I get a bit hacked off when I'm overtaken doing 30 in a 30 limit, but I don't react to it. The overtake that really annoys is when someone comes past because they've seen the nation speed limit signs in the distance, and don't like me keeping to the 30 limit, so they go past long before the 30 limit ends, and then pootle along at 45 until the next 30 limit, when they don't slow down at all. As Ashley says, just let it go. Life's too short to get wound up about it in my book.

Sadly, it's the 'ME ME ME' scenario that we witness every day, everywhere, and yes, it DOES rile you, even though we know it shouldn't. It's simply, frustration and can be extremelly difficult not to show it.

Gonna play devil's advocate and say that if you'd made the overtake at 05:00 then you'd have taken up the other car's safety space and potentially forced them to brake sharply if they didn't see you in time. If I were driving your vehicle in that situation I would only be overtaking if I didn't know the road or made a mistake, otherwise I think the best course of action was to hold back and merge behind instead of trying to complete the overtake, and I could forgive the other driver for trying to prevent you from passing.

I think at the case of traffic lights where the light is green and there's only a very small splitting and merging point, it's probably safer to keep single file as it won't make any difference to traffic flow 4:53 . If the light was red in this small junction, It however makes perfect sense to use the extra space as it means queues are cut in half. I personally see this clip similarly to how cyclists should take the dominant position in the lane to protect themselves and following traffic when there is a place in the road where it would be dangerous to perform an overtake.

1:27 in & agree. I hate the ones doing under the limit on motorways/dual carriageways that speed up when you try to pass. I often cruise @ 63mph, and have on occasions slowly approached a car in front, slipped out a lane, clicked up to 65, to have my speed matched, 67, 70, 72, 74, 76, given up, pulled back in, beck to 63, only to catch them again less than a minute later!

Recently drove a few days in Turkey, everyone I told said "Ooh you're brave, would never drive on these roads". It was fine, just drive safely always looking out for other drivers. My best advice would be when someone is right up your backside wanting to overtake (happens a lot, nobody seems to keep to speed limits), find somewhere safe to slow down or even pull over and let them past, wasn't stressful at all. Would be nice if slow drivers here would do that rather than deliberately speed up when being overtaken which happens all too often in my experience.

At around 3:47 re "I think they're a little slow getting back to Lane 1". This may very well be the case but one very common issue I find with this type of overtake situation: Drivers all have their own differing opinions as to how early you should pull back in. And it's often this difference of opinion that I feel can lead to the type of situation we see here. I find many drivers pull back in too early, cutting up the vehicle they've just overtaken. (Sidenote: I've ended up with a windscreen chip due to this). If you are one of those drivers that habitually pulls back in to the left very early and you are behind another overtaker who is doing it properly by waiting to be fully clear before pulling back in - this can appear as though the overtaker in front of you is lane hogging. With the kind of result we see in this video. Namely a dive into the left lane to undertake. Whereas waiting a little longer would have likely seen the overtaker in front pull back in and everyone would have continued on their merry way without incident or drama. Unfortunately some drivers are hell bent on making something out of nothing.

Arrogance is often the biggest enemy of driving

Really clear, eloquent and smooth commentary. Also really do appreciate and agree with your general judgment and assessment of the situations. Especially relating to motorcycles, can only wish all motorists shared your views. Thank you Ashley 👍

I see myself in some of these situations, it’s hard to re-educate myself. It’s not easy to let things go sometimes.

The one comment I'd like to add to Ashley's attempt to overtake at the traffic lights (5:00) from the other car's perspective is 'Why are you in such a rush to get in front of that car? They aren't exactly going slowly, it's not as though there's an open road beyond where you can make use of any extra speed. You're just wasting petrol / diesel / electricity having to accelerate to get fast enough to make the overtake in the limited space and then brake to not hit the car in front to gain 5 metres of road distance (~the length of a car).'

I don’t think 4:50 was problematic (Ashley’s driving, not the Polo), however is there actually any benefit in moving to the other lane when traffic is relatively light and already flowing well? In this example, no additional traffic would make it through the lights by being in lane 2.

That Audi in the first clip was absolutely fine. Spotted where he needed to go, cleared the cammer, indicated correctly and didn't affect anyone

4:57 not seeing much wrong with the silver car. Where were you going if you overtook? Only into his braking zone. "Always drive so as not to cause others to change speed or direction" that's the mantra I was told to follow if I wanted to pass my HGV test.

Often see this on motorways. Overtake a slow moving vehicle only for them to suddenly speed up either to stop you completing the overtake or to re-overtake you soon after, only for them to slow down again. What is it with these people? Are they doing it deliberately in their little fantasy world? Or are they in their little fantasy world and just unaware of everything going on around them and can't keep a consistent speed? If they do it to me a couple of times then I just hang back for a while until something else occupies their tiny minds.

I do a lot of motorway driving and the most infuriating habit people have is speeding up when you attempt to overtake them safely and legally. You sometimes even get into an odd situation where you play leapfrog with another car that wants to cruise slower than you, but will go faster than you to overtake you. I travel with the cruise control on at 70mph and am sure to try and maintain a constant speed. Why do so many seem incapable of this? Or am I doing something wrong?

I've had a couple of instances on the motorway where I've overtaken a car doing say 55-60mph, and when I've passed they've suddenly matched my speed. I'm pretty sure they are baiting for someone to overtake in a small car so they can try and have a race. I don't give them what they want, but it's incredibly irritating! Difficult not get raged by it.

5:44 I've always said I want the idiots in front of me, not behind me. With this mindset you both 'win' as they feel victorious for getting in front but you feel like you put them right where you want them. The first one on the motorway is a bit rude and can be a left hook if done incorrectly, but I often think it's the result of poor planning anyway. That said they didn't affect the cammer so I see your point, Ashley.

Great video Ashley. One thing my instructor always told me was that you can’t change how other people react to situations on the road, you can only alter your own driving to mitigate the risk and make it safer.

Each of us has our trigger points,. And it's important we get a grip on them. As they can distract our attention. They can also take us out of the calm alert mood (sometimes for the rest of the journey) that is best for driving/cycling/motorcycling.

I confess to being guilty of this myself. I'm just a competitive person and sometimes, I'm ashamed to say, this competitive instinct can be too powerful. Only when I'm alone though, never with passengers. Anyhow, I know it's childish, wrong and potentially dangerous and it's something I'm trying hard to correct in my driving. I'm finding your videos very helpful. Thank you.

The main issue with people using the Right/Left Only lane to go straight on is that when you're sitting next to them, you can't see whether or not they are indicating as they should be turning away from you. They also don't necessarily need to indicate as they 'have' to turn anyway. And when it becomes clear that they are not turning, there's often not a lot of scope for giving way depending on the traffic situation. If you both move away and then they try to cut in, there's traffic behind you not expecting you to break/closing the space to stop the person cutting in front of them, there might be oncoming traffic heading straight for the 'should be turning' car, there might be literally no road in front of them so they have to cut in really sharply.

Your comment saying we are not " judge and jury " is definitely accurate for these scenarios. I believe in intervening in disputes / injustice but getting involved in any of these incidents would make the situation worse and more dangerous for everyone.

I was bought up that transit size vans speed limit was 60mph on dual carriageways (70 mph on motorways). I used to drive one. Perhaps I need to read up more to see if that's changed

At around 1:40 I think the other thing that happened is that on seeing the temporary lights change to red, the cammer thought that the correct place to stop was at the white stop line. Although this would have been correct when the regular crossing lights were in operation, those were covered up and now the temporary lights took over. The cammer missed the temporary sign further back for "When red light shows wait here" likely as Ash said due to focussing on the overtaking motorbike. And since they were so near to that sign when the lights changed, plus the motorbike close behind, I reckon the cammer should have just continued even if they did notice the sign. Also, the issue with stopping at the stop line is that it doesn't give oncoming vehicles much room to swing back over to their side, which was the very reason for the sign further back in the first place.

Hi Ashley, I've just found your videos on youtube and am delighted that at last someone is highlighting bringing sensible driving to the fore. I watched 5 of your videos initially and have to say I wish every driver in the UK (too late for USA and rest of europe) would take the time to watch them. We need to stop competitive driving, unless on the track of course, and make drivers understand they are not the only ones on the road. I'm no angel but following a police driving course in 1980's improved my own driving by 100%. I worked as a sales rep (worst drivers in the world) so has driven hundreds of thousands of miles in the 50 years since I got my license. I enjoy driving quickly, my previous car was a Focus ST with 240 bhp, but experience meant I would only drive fast when the conditions allowed it. Keep up the good work and I wish there was someway your clear and sensible approach could be marketed. Best wishes Del

Thank you for another excellent video. I have been driving for 35 years but watch your videos to try to improve as I still find myself making many of the mistakes you highlight.

The Tesla overtaking at 06:38 is on the Chew Road south of Bristol. Although it is 50mph and 20mph further on in each direction, with occasional double white lines and sharp bends, at that point it is a National Speed Limit road with long dashed white lines and fairly straight. The cammer is doing 31mph according to the display.

Plenty of people don't like being overtaken, but one of the *WORST* culprits are those who drive slower than the speed limit, driving at 40mph on a 50mph road for example, other drivers pull out to overtake and the slower driver speeds up, the overtaking driver can't get past, so they drop back in behind, and the slower driver drops back down to 40mph - *WHY?* I _NEVER_ did understand that "Gandalf" logic, and had several instances of it as a lorry driver *_THEY SHALL NOT PASS_* And I am sure many others could tell a similar story of such stupid petty behaviour over nothing

Love the fact that the first of the bikes in the clip at 7:20 is one of the Blood Bikes! They perform a wonderful service - and are ALL VOLUNTEER! Cheers and be safe from Canada!

I've never been bothered by people overtaking me, people not following the rules or doing something dangerous has frustrated me in the past, in some instances enough for me to react i'm ashamed to say. It's something I've worked on letting go in the last few years, with success, because as you it's just not worth it.

“We’re not judge or jurors over anyone else” Best quote to live by. Love it.

Your content is so great mate. I am a busdriver in Germany and it's quite literally the same in so many fields. People here aren't behaving much diffrent. I can still learn and improve my driving from your videos.

The old 'speed up to stop this person over-taking me' is something I encounter a lot - I often wonder if it's because I'm driving a wee 1.2 Corsa I also hate it when people don't overtake me - if you're driving that much faster than me, why stick behind me getting more annoyed when you could simply go around? Especially when I've dropped off in speed to allow you to do that, and even more especially when it's a three lane motorway!?

5:52 if someone is lost this helps a lot for the nerves for a driver who may have gotten the wrong turning or lane. Keep calm and give space to make sure your safe first, if you get angry, you aren't looking out for yourself.

Looks like I may be first....though I don't mind being overtaken. 😀

I overtook someone recently who was driving slow and leaving a massive - in my opinion - unreasonable gap, which apparently triggered him! How dare I over take him! I overtook him in a safe area, he went and overtook me to regain his space in a dangerous fashion, he gave me lots of verbal abuse, brake checking, swerving into me etc.. Could see his presumably girl friend cowering in the front seat thinking not again!!

Page 46 of the highway code does say BMWs have priority.

The clip at 6:28 I see drivers like this all the time. Drive at 35-40mph everywhere and then start flashing, honking and the other day saw someone speeding up to block a perfectly safe and legal overtake.

After watching Ashley's videos, I remember going slowly because there was traffic ahead and the person behind me started to tailgate me, he then overtook me and started to drive slowly in front of me thinking it would annoy me but I just drove slower to maintain the distance, which made his actions worthless. After nearly 3/4 minutes of this, we both got stuck in the traffic. I think he realised then, it was all pointless and the rage just fazed out. It was the day that changed the whole dynamics of my driving attitude, hopefully forever.

When you’re watching a clip and suddenly realise it’s a road you drive on almost every day 😂 Great stuff Ashley!

Great analysis on the first clip @Ashley. I would add that the Audi was in a ‘staggered’ road position prior to the overtake. They then used excellent acceleration/throttle sense (no show brake lights having moved into the lane of your cammer). Then maintained a road position where they were not The Meat in the Middle as they waited for the exit. All Advanced Motoring (common sense) practices. Great detective work with the scooter overtake at 1min 30secs!

Devon Pensioner Syndrome! (I'm one myself ;-) ) I do a lot of my driving on long bypassed ex Trunk roads here, and often trigger people by overtaking them entirely safely and properly. This is usually displayed by lots of headlight flashing and sometimes by them increasing their speed very substantially from the 45 they were doing when I caught up with them while I'm ambling along at below 60! Very strange.

Not a problem to me if someone wants to get passed, easier to keep an eye on their next trick… but one of those situations was the 2 in 1 lane melarky, town where I work they get grumbles from visitors, I always see near misses. This town has 2 lanes before then the merge is immediately after lights usually the right laners are travelling at twice the speed of everyone else with that “attitude” head and just push in front of normal traffic and so the junction gets snarled up not a flow … if only the minority of people drove with sense like most …. 🙄

Since I started watching your videos I just let it go, and I avoid to get involved in things like this. Changed the way I drive by a lot.

These videos have helped me, even as a driver of 35 years, to understand that a space is not worth fighting over, particularly when on my motorcycle, I will come off second best in an incident. But as someone who can use transit lane and bus lanes I know that even though I have let the driver have the space initially I will, in the end get past them and reach my destination ahead of them. I do see drivers deliberately moving across to block the gap to prevent filtering and, stick two wheels over into the bus lane as I pass them, if they are so jealous of the motorcyclists ability to make progress why do they themselves not learn to ride?

I think life is much easier if you just think; people are always just doing the best they can, and alright, they might not always live up to our expectations but that's ok too. We can lower our expectations, increase our acceptance and balance out in the middle. 😂 people get in the wrong lane sometimes. It's not like I've never found myself in the wrong place. Just doing my best at the time.

From overseas: not to mention that denying an overtake increases risk all around. I can't stand it when I get a chance to pass a lorry, it accelerates over the limit just because eff me. This puts me at an even bigger risk - my car is not a hundred-horse powerhouse, so if all comes to the worst, I need to interrupt the overtake and fall back - probably to the dismay of the one following me, closing space up. This would be a sad moment, for I plan my moves carefully, and even then there is an element that is dependent on the other drivers; will they oblige the road rule to aid an overtake (reduce speed, clear space - reduce risk whenever, however, wherever). All because some take it as derogatory - to yield to an overtake, that is.

Thanks for this Ashley. There is a stretch of road where the M23 becomes the A23 (all the way into Croydon) - it’s a single carriage road, but there are so many moments where it briefly becomes two lanes (traffic lights, roundabouts) and it gives motorists an opportunity to get a couple of cars ahead. It’s such a frustrating strip of road to drive down as you feel as though you have to be competitive to not be overtaken constantly.

If someone overtakes me, I prefer they do it safely, but I don't prevent it either way. If it's not particularly safe, I'll ease back because there's no way in the world I want to be involved in an accident because someone's being stupid in front of me. There was one I had recently who overtook me, seemingly because I didn't let them come out of a junction in front of me based on how it was done. It was still done safely though but still felt like retribution. I let them go regardless but met them up at a set of traffic lights shortly up ahead anyway so it really saved them absolutely nothing 😅

if someone catches up to me, then I generally let them around when it is safe to do so since I don't expect I'll see them again, afterwards. but here in the states, the common trend is as soon as an opportunity to overtake comes up, it is off to the races, and as soon as the opportunity closes, the brake lights come on. case in point; there is a junction about a mile from the road home with a traffic light, and there is a passing lane at the last quarter mile. the speed limit increases from 50 to 55 just past the junction. the "normal" traffic speed out of the light is to slowly creep up from 30 MPH leaving the light to 45-50 MPH coming into the passing lane, then bang up to 70 MPH for the passing lane, and on the brakes back down to 50 after the passing lane.

The motorists that leave a space in front and avoid stopping in pinch points are super helpful for me in filtering. If I'm slowed up by someone because of how they've positioned, it's more likely they'll have the bother of having to overtake me when traffic is flowing again.

When I get into these situations, I usually tell myself, let it go, if they are the problem, they will probably face karma in the road ahead, sooner they will learn their lessons. Best to ignore, enjoy the ride and drive safely.

As always a great video. Though with both a BMW and an Audi in the last video I expected that to go on for hours of overtaking slowing down and the obligatory no signalling. Though I use to drive a BMW X5 as a company car. I didn’t usually get overtaken. People use to drive like they were on their driving test, and suddenly everyone’s indicators worked regardless of their make of vehicle. Though it might have had something to do with the company logo “POLICE” and blue lights 😂. I have to say to be honest the amount on their phones who wouldn’t see the vehicle. Even if it was lit up like a Christmas tree. Great content yet again.

Another excellent video Ashley, keep them coming

to answer the 5:50 question, yes, i think they feel like they are getting away with it. To me, they will just keep on doing it until one day they either hit someone, or the wrong person wont yield and a nasty road rage incident will occur. Seen it myself on a one-way road. Left lane for left only, right lane for straight and right turn. The amount of cars who go left lane straight and either end up forcing the cars to stop, or carrying on and mounting the pavement is worrying.

3:09 "try and pick up on the clues early" - the other car is a Golf? 😅

I used to be an aggressive driver, took a few risks, treated every drive like the Le Mans 24 heur. Then I went to live and work in Saudi, where the worlds most dangerous drivers ply their trade, where speed cameras are everywhere (its not unusual to see cars with number plates covered up, even ones driven by Police or Soldiers), if you get a speeding fine, it pings on your phone and you cannot leave the Kingdom with any unpaid fines, even for a vacation. ,and if you have an accident, you have to wait for the Police to come and apportion blame, you cant get a car body repaired without a certificate from the Police. And they tend to apportion blame according to who was driving, Saudis least likely to get blamed, following by Westerners, then non saudis. It changed me as a driver, I am less aggressive, drive very defensively (Remember, Undertakers, love overtakers) and am enjoying watching your videos for the extra tips. As we say in Saudi, "Shukran".

A good bit of advice my dad once told me, 'Let the idiots get past you, keep them where you can see them easily'. I don't care about being overtaken, I intentionally leave home early enough to get where I'm going with time to spare. That way I'm not going to feel the need to rush and get aggravated.

I solved this problem for myself some years ago: I switched to a small-engined car with limited performance that doesn't enjoy being hustled at over 60 mph. It's amazing how much calmer one becomes as a driver when you know you simply don't have the horsepower to compete in the traffic light grand prix. Let 'em go!

As always, a nice balanced analysis. On clip on first view I disagreed, but went back, & yes they Did close the gap

I drove a 1955 Land Rover for many year so being over taken was pretty common, top speed was about 50mph but 40mph was more comfortable, when ever I could I would pull in tight to the left and wave cars past so they knew what I was doing. No point in having them sit behind for no reason so helping them pass safely is good for all. There is a roundabout near me with a right turn only lane on the approach which is quite commonly used to over take and then go straight ahead, its clearly signed and you can see by the driving it is deliberate overtaking and not accidently being in the wrong lane. I had a new Lotus Elise over take me there once which cut it way to fine when he swerved in to the gap in front of me at the last second and stood on his brakes to avoid the car in front, I had seen him coming but assumed he would slow in the right turn lane and drop in behind, at that point he discovered that his modern disc brakes where way better than my drum brakes (LR brakes weren't considered good when the car was new in the 1950 and by modern standards a pretty bad, the gap was there for a reason). No one was injured but his car was a total right off and he ended up pleading guilty to due care and attention (I believe on the warning it would a dangerous driving charge if it went to court). All I had to do was pick bits of fibreglass off the winch and front bumper.

Sometimes people in a dedicated turn lane who go straight ahead very fast before the correct lane starts do it because of very poor road markings where a dedicated lane pretty much ambushes even the best driver and they would not have been there had the road markings been good . Theres one near me which I'm very familiar with and recently had extra left turn markings added much earlier probably in recognition of the fact it was causing accidents (guess) or enough locals had complained. Before that you essentially could turn up and find you were in a dedicated left turn lane with pretty much no warning / notice at all.

I can remember rear-window stickers a good many years ago, saying "SEE YOU LATER OVERTAKER, I'M AN UNDERTAKER"

As usual, very educative. Thanks

I've become increasingly used to others behaving badly on the road - and elsewhere. Although it can be somewhat annoying, I prefer to get to my destination; calm and alive. Apart from anything else; better to have somebody else featured on a dodgy dashcam channel instead of being the "🔔🔚 of the week" lol. Stay safe out there.

I've stopped it after the intro to say, the Audi wasn't an issue, for me, only for you to say the same. I don't have an issue with faster vehicles using the space I leave as I am a slower driver and expect faster vehicles to use the space if safe. If someone wants to come past, I will try and increase the gap to give them space and time. Nice video and analysis

Not sure if I'm imagining this, but when I am on my motorbike I notice some drivers will pull out on a dual carriageway and then run alongside the vehicle they were supposed to be overtaking, occasionally they will reduce their speed further until we end up in the outside lane doing less than the traffic in the inside lane. I assume they are trying to get me to go up the inside. On one occasion I moved into the inside lane and just rode behind them, (behind, not in their blind spot). They then put on their left indicator, kept it on and stayed in the outside lane. This carried on for more than a mile. Mind you I have seen the same thing done to police cars with blue lights on. It's pretty odd behaviour. When I went on a police bikesafe training course they told me off for taking too long to overtake - their view was decide if it is on and then go, don't hang about.

The only triggering I do now when I've been overtaken, is triggering myself if I didn't see it coming. It means my observations weren't up to scratch and I wasn't at full concentration. Give myself a mental telling off!

The national speed limit (on dual carriageways) for the van shown in the clip is 60mph, assuming the cammer is driving a car - then yes the limit is 70mph.

There will always be a-holes on the road, and nothing you do will stop them or change them, no point trying. However if you drive with care and courtesy you'll get a lot of friendly waves and thanks which makes up for all the bell ends. I used to ride motorbikes a lot in Australia so am hyper aware of their presence, always checking on the motorway for them coming and make it obvious I've moved for them so they know to pass safely. The drop down wave off the bar is always so damn satisfying, and having a generally happy experience with 99% of drivers is far more relaxing than trying to be judge and executioner out on the roads.

in all my 11 years driving a car on the road ive only ever had 1 situation of road rage, as the song in Frozen.., let it go. You are at a higher risk of crashing, higher risk of having your insurance go through the roof and higher risk of payout out dearly for it, these situations aint worth it. just to prove you are in the right or just to punish someone.., do you really want to pay for the consequences of your actions? let it go.

When I was riding bikes I would always put my left hand out as a thanks if a driver made it obvious they were providing room for me to filter, even that seems to have been forgotten now.

The only frustration I have with being overtaken is when I’m in my van on a dual carriageway or motorway, my van is restricted to 60-61mph (GPS) because I have a trailer on 95% of the time.. Only for the person who overtakes to do under 60mph in front of me instead of behind me. It baffles me because do I resign to 55-56mph or do I risk overtaking for the next 2 miles only for them to decide they don’t want to be overtaken and hold me in the awkward predicament of dropping back after making “some” progress or holding out for the eventuality the drive to drop back to 55mph? I can guarantee if I drop back and pull in behind them, they tend to slow down again. But to what end? I don’t care about being overtaken, I’m slow, heavy, nearly 35ft long and nearly 7 ton but I can still do 60mph comfortably, safely, efficiently but if I’m clearly making progress into my stopping distance I’m going to overtake, as would (and do) any HGV..

Really enjoy the lessons i take away from watching Ashleys videos Have long thought many aspects of driving presented good metaphors for life and human nature e.g. when roads are clear and there is plenty of space [resources] for everyone we generally see courteous behaviour. When traffic builds up, we experience and get influenced by selfish behaviour patterns which may appear to benefit the individual but overall cause more congestion and hazards

I used to be a speed racer back in my own country, quite vocal & aggressive. Lost my licence twice and received around 6 speeding tickets in 5 years. I arrived in the UK 7 years ago and I learned my approach was not good. Been driving here for 7 years, not one incident, speeding or a ticket. Think age & experience plays a massive role, I now am just amused by other drivers such as I was, I slow down, allow them to join and very rarely beep or get upset.

The people who send in clips: I like it when you calmly destroy their illusion that they are the greatest driver in the world.

Following on from the previous vid on autopilot, this one is reaffirms my yearning for the truly autonomous vehicle. We will sit back and have forty winks or a giggle about what people got up to in the old days.

I was behind a car doing 50mph in a NSL. I waited for a safe overtake & committed but then found the driver sped up to prevent me - I went up to 70mph to try & get past. In the end, I had to pull back behind because of oncoming traffic. He had a young child with him & I just couldn't understand the mentality!

I feel great whenever others want to rage at me and I don't react at all. Anything that happens is immediately in my past so nothing to worry about. I don't have to police the roads so I can just let go. I spend 6-8 hours in my car most days, and the day I decided to just chill, whatever happens, was the day that set me free from all frustrations. There's no need to carry other people's behaviour around with you

When I have a bike behind wanting to pass I always leave a good gap in front and move over to the left side of the carriageway to make it as easy and safe as poss for them to pass. They nearly always wave in gratitude which makes me feel much better than trying to keep them behind.

My concern when those two are pratting about in the last scene is the kids on bikes - you've got someone like that Audi driver who's happy enough to contravene safe driving guidelines by making surging overtakes without looking and even contravene the give-way sign specifically to cause the traffic behind to have to wait so he can drive away - he's not looking for nor does he give a shit about those kids on BMX bikes coming home from school, and if he keeps getting away with generally dangerous shit like that one day it'll be the vulnerable road users who pay the price. I think that's why people get aggrieved at people like this just being "let off" with it - they'll take that as a sign they can keep doing it and won't be the ones to pay the price in the end.

So, I had a situation when on a motorway, passing a very long line of lorries all driving pretty close together. I passed the sign showing my exit was next in a mile or so, so started looking to try and move back to the left hand lane. Slowed to the speed of the lorries and indicated to show I wished to move in the left hand lane, but absolutely none of them remotely interested in letting me have a safe space to move across into. Slowed down even more, annoying the vehicles behind me, at least one lorry passed me on the left hand side and I finally ended up with a gap just about big enough to move into behind a lorry that had undertaken. Having negotiated my way into that lane I gently slowed to open up a slightly safer gap between me and that lorry in front. Cue the lorry behind using his horn then accelerating up till he was about 3ft behind me. (Still travelling at about 55mph at this point.) Not satisfied with that he then pulled into the middle lane, started overtaking me, and as his cab wheels drew level with me he just pulled back across into the left lane forcing me onto the hard shoulder to avoid a collision. Honestly fail to see what particularly I should have done differently except maybe miss my turning completely and have to go another 15 miles up the motorway before turning around.

one thing that has caught me out a few times is that the arrows on the lane priorities are only near the end of the lane to the junction and /or they are obfuscated either by que of cars or worn out, leaving you in a right turn lane wanting to go straight on

04:57 - Sorry Ashley, I feel you are driving like a typical Audi or BMW driver here. There is no particularly good reason for choosing the overtake lane whilst the lights are green unless 1) you want to get ahead of the car in front or 2) you want a clip to make a point in this video.

Thank you great video 👍

I am always on my guard when coming alongside an on, off-slip road. There is always the danger that some idiot will, overtake you to getting off the m/way or dual track, cutting you up.

It's amazing how many drivers who were perfectly content to sit at 45 in NSL areas suddenly decide they want to do 60 when you move out for an overtake.

The 4 circles and the south German. Two natural enemies caught on camera in the wild.🤣🤣

In the 'car vs van dual carriageway' clip, it might be NSL, but that's 60 for the van, not the 70+ it was doing.

I've been a professional drivester for over 20 years and you can tell by the bend in those axle bearings this was waiting to happen. Lucky nobody was injured.

At around 3.40 minutes, the incident with the van driver, Mr Neal mentions the dual carriageway - national speed limit- and 70mph . Well, only for the car in this sequence is the speed limit 70mph, the van is restricted by law to 60mph. Vans based on a car model, ie Escort, combo etc, can drive at 70mph on a dual carriageway due to a small load capacity unless, there is a lesser limit posted. The Transit, Vivaros etc, have a much higher load capacity, hence the lower limit due to longer stopping times. On motorways larger vans can legally drive at 70mph, as there is proper slip roads on and off and no T junctions etc. So Mr Neal's comment, that the viewer was a little slow returning to lane 1 is irrelevant, as the viewer was driving at 63mph, which by law the van driver is not allowed to attain in this scenario. There is also some sort of junction on the left. Returning to lane 1 before the junction at the distance in the clip, would not be good roadcraft Drivers should return to lane 1 at the earliest opportunity when safe to do so, even on a road devoid of any other drivers.

The clip at 3:44, the center line displays hazard markings so changing lanes is unwise until the hazard lines clear at 4:05. Doesn't excuse the brake-test, but apart from this the cammer has every reason to remain in the outside lane until the centreline markings show the hazard area has ended.

It has just occurred to me that, in New Zealand at least, the lanes on a motoway or dual carriage way are legally considered distinct roadways, so on such stretches of road no one "overtakes". You are merely driving at a different speed on a different roadway. We do not have any rules about "undertaking" on such roads, and no other rules are bent to make it appear that we do. If I happen to pass someone on the left and I am travelling at legal speed I am merely using the road as designed, not overtaking. If someone is driving slower than me in a lane to my right it should be obvious that they are in the wrong lane, unless they are turning, shifting, or veering right in the near future. There are blindspots on both sides of a car.