I hate being tailgated in a 30, doing 30 and the person behind doesn't have the balls to overtake.

So many places where driving below 30 is appropriate. Cars parked at side of road, through residential area, near a school, anywhere where a person, vehicle or idiot on a bike could pop out. None of us like being stuck behind a slow driver but we need to judge each situation carefully.

I have never once tailgated someone for any reason. Interesting how these these things only affect some people and not others! There is never any excuse for tailgating. If someone is going 20mph under the limit, you stay behind them at a safe distance and overtake when you can. Or if they are in the overtaking lane, you still maintain a safe distance and patiently wait for them to cop on and move over. If they don't move over then you just continue to wait at a safe distance. Zero reason to tailgate. Have some patience. Arriving at your destination 2 minutes late is not the end of the world. And yes, I also drive as close to the speed limit as possible, and get annoyed by people going under the limit just as much as anyone else.

I agree with the general concept of this video but I hope this doesn't make anyone feel pressured to always ride the speed limit of every road. Some national speed limit roads are definitely not safe to travel along at higher speeds and weather conditions should also be a big consideration too

I drive a ‘73 VW bus. I drive slow. Always in the travel lane. I get tailgated constantly. It is only frustrating at night when their old man headlights cast a shadow in front of me. When they finally pass, more often than not, they pass as close as they can and throw rocks. I think you are right, it bothers them that I am going slow and they are trying to get me to speed up. Most people don’t understand that I’m going as fast as I can. I think most people are drowning in life and they have to rush everywhere they go.

1. don't tailgate 2. don't use overtake lane(s) if not actively overtaking 3. don't try to slowly overtake, especially when others want to overtake 4. don't get angry someone is following the speed limit 5. if have issue it's a speed upper limit, not a speed lower limit or speed target, take it up with those that make the laws. 6. if have people behind you, try to make good envifoment to safely and elgally pass when able, like drive near shoulder to allow vision, and release gas when they are passing.

I’ve learned that judging bad drivers is going to take me nowhere. Instead, I focus on how I drive and how I react to situations like tailgating. There is nothing I can do about their risky behavior on the road. All I can do is try my best to remain calm and patient, and be an example to others. Thank you for sharing your tips, Mick!

please *don't* take advice from this video! tailgating is NOT okay. go watch the video by "Conquer Driving" about tailgating. he's an actual driving instructor.

As someone who is learning to be a driving instructor tailgating is something I'm going to be dealing with allot. Although I agree with allot of what you say in the video - ANY form of tailgating/driving closer than 2 seconds to another vehicle (4 seconds in rainy conditions) is extreemly dangerous. Yes on a motorway/dual carageway you will find people who do not understand lane discipline, the problem I find is that many people are often not thought this in the first place as it is not something us driving instructors have to teach. As it is something pupils are not tested on. Only when I did my advanced driving test did I receive a lesson about driving on a motorway. For new drivers being tailgated can cause extreme anxiety and has been the cause of allot of people not continuing to learn to drive. so saying tailgating is "sometimes ok" is just not right. Going slower than the speed limit in town can be for many reasons - if there are parked cars - lots of pedestrians driving slower gives you allot more time to react to any hazard. On the other hand driving too slowly is also a hazard. it can cause people to do dangerous overtakes. Hopefully im not coming across as negative as i agree with many parts of the video as it shows how to do proper lane disapline.

This. This is what a lot of non car people can't seem to understand. Especially here in Brazil, people just seem to be wherever and doing whatever speed they want to do, because this is not taught well enough or maybe even at all in driving schools. And then some of them aggressively refuse to admit that this video is the reality of traffic. It even makes me happy when I do find a good driver who moves over 😅

In my experience, 99% of the time tailgating and flahsing lights has nothing at all to do with people in the wrong lane doing the speed limit, but people who think you should be either doing significantly faster than the speed limit like they are, or dodging in and out of every gap so they can.

Someone once said to me that you should be doing the speed limit unless the road conditions dictate that you should be slower. This has always seemed like common sense; of course, there may be other factors involved, but is generally my mantra.

There is never a situation to be as close as that BMW was. If you'd needed to brake suddenly he'd have gone up the back of you and then he's not getting to wherever he's going no matter how urgent it was. I absolutely don't agree that tailgating is ever excusable. It's one of the stupidest things you can do behind a driver who is may not confident anyway and may act unpredictably. Frustration is not a reason. Is it okay for me to brake check a tailgater to "communicate" that they should back off?

As a Toyota Yaris driver who is constantly tailgated by BMWs, I agree. But it is quite funny when they catch up with the next lorry in the next 100 yards and indeed finds there is no way to safely overtake.

Cool video, it's a different story in Germany where people are glued to your bumper, because you're only going 70 km/h in a 50 zone. 🤣

I think if you're the kind of driver that gets frustrated at a person in front doing 26 in a 30 you're going to be a problem on the road. With 30 years of driving experience and over 10 as a professional driver the best advice I can pass on is to always stay cool and keep a safe distance. Being inconvenienced is never an excuse to tailgate and drive dangerously. Some people prefer to drive slower than I personally would in a given circumstance. But a speed limit is a maximum not a minimum speed, and everyone should drive to their own ability and reaction time. However, the elderly and people with certain medical conditions should hand in their licence if their reaction time and awareness is impaired to a degree that they feel they cannot safely drive at a suitable speed any more.

Also, I think there are better and more safe ways to convey a message. Indicate, flash the high beams, or just wait untill it's safe to overtake, but keep your distance. Tippical human reaction time until they start braking is 1 whole second. Tailgate someone and when something happens, you might not even have a chance to react.

The worst tailgators I get is when i am doing the speed limit to overtake someone doing a bit below the speed limit, and someone behind me wants to go over the speed limit. I wont let that driver pressure me to do more than the speed limit even if I am in the "fast lane". If you are using the fast lane to overtake someone at the speed limit then you are not doing anything wrong.

Please send this to Ashley neal, I’d love to hear to what he has to say in rebuttal

I have M.S and some times i have to drive a bit slower and i don't think its ever ok for someone to tailgate you. Same thing goes for the persone you tailgate! you don't know why they are driving slow! they might have a medical condition or be transporting something that might easily break. It's never ok to tailgate.

When I'm in the BMW's position, usually stuck behind someone in the 3rd lane (importantly, without anyone to their left), I do a 4 step process: 1. Wait, give them a bit of time to realise they're lane hogging, 2. move up, not sitting in their arse, but enough to get in their mirrors to get their attention, maybe dipping into their side mirrors occasionally, 3. flash, they're clearly not paying enough attention to their surroundings, better to make it obvious now, 4. Undertake, usually I'll pull into the left lane, wait a moment to see if they're going to move now, and then accelerate past them to get out of their blind spot.

Stop calling lanes "fast lane" and "slow lane" there is no such thing. You correctly pointed this out early in the video and called them "overtaking lanes" and then switched back to the incorrect description. As an advanced driver we do drive to the speed limit where it is safe to do so, it is called progression. There is never an excuse to tailgate the car in front no matter how frustrating it can be. Have you never heard of the two second rule? If the car in front has to brake suddenly you will rear end it before your reaction times will get you on the brakes, this is the most common type of accident. As for advising people to drive to the speed limit, this has to be followed with " when it is safe to do so". There are plenty of A and B roads with for instance a 60mph limit but because of tight bends, blind summits, mud on road etc. etc. driving at 60mph would be foolish. Your statement makes some people think we'll if it's a 60mph limit it must be safe to do that everywhere. The standard of driving in this country is getting worse with people driving too fast, undertaking and tailgating being the main problem followed by drivers not using headlights and fog lights correctly and when needed. Your intention to educate had good intentions but was poorly executed.

I think gently tailgating is like gently shooting your gun at someone.

The most frustrating situation is you decide to overtake a car going slow in the travel lane.... And then as you are trying to do so, they match speed right when you are next to them... And then someone else comes flying up your bum behind you... And you're already at the speed limit so two cars have boxed you in... 😅

My instructor told me to go 25-30 in a 30 zone. Try keep an average of around 27. It isn't easy to be steady at 30 unless you're on cruise control, in fact you might end up slipping up to 34 at the worst time in front of a camera.

one of the best driving tips i ever came across was from a vintage driving video from australia: if someone is tailgating dangerously close to you in the driving lane, slowly, slowly, slow down so that they are a) finally convinced to pass you, or b) won't crash into you if you have to suddenly brake. thank you to the now defunct nfsa, which did an absolutely stellar job of chronicling twentieth century australia.

I do get the tailgating in the overtake lane. But I am often tailgated in the travel lane. And to those who do tailgate me in the travel lane: don't bother, my cruise control doesn't accelerate just because some a**hat decided to ride my rear bumper. And if I'm not using cruise control, I actually tend to lift off slightly if the car behind comes too close. This seems to annoy some people to no end, using horn and lights as a rebuke rather than using the empty overtake lane to go past. But hey, if you're close enough to my bumper that you think me lifting slightly off of the accelerator in the travel lane is dangerous, then maybe, just maybe, you might be the problem?

For the people who are getting frustrated - they have an expectation that all the other drivers should be good drivers and are considerate human beings who never make mistakes. This is a failure of judgement on their part - their expectation was not matched to reality. You will only really lose that frustration by accepting that the roads are filled with inconsiderate, terrible drivers that make mistakes and people that are totally wrapped up in themselves and care only for their own needs. You can be frustrated about it as much as you like - but it doesn't change the reality and despite all best efforts to educate people to be more considerate and to be better drivers - there will always be a certain ratio of people that are not up to scratch. When you get out on the road - that's just part of the game and you can't change it - no matter how many KZfaq videos you make about the topic.

There is always one single question to ask yourself before any monoevre, change of lane, speed, road, or overtake, untertake, tailgate etc for any reason, that question is "would I do this, in this way, if that other car was a marked police car" If the answer is no, don't do it.

I have to disagree. Even if someone is going incredibly slow, you should not tailgate or flash them - it's rude and incredibly dangerous. What's best is to hold back, take a deep breath and when it's safe to overtake, do so. There is never a time when it's okay to tailgate on public roads. You have to think, if the person in front of you were to stop, can you? Maybe there's a malfunction of the car in front, a dog or child ran in the road or there's a dodgy traffic light? As for driving in the overtaking lane, you ought to return to the lane as soon as it's safe to do so. Do not cut in front of someone that you've just overtaken just because you don't want to annoy the person who's tailgating you. If you cut in front of someone and quickly realise you need to stop (something is now in the road and you didn't notice until you overtook, or your car just stops), then you're not going to have enough distance between you and the person you've just overtaken, and you'll certainly get rear-ended. Similarly, don't get up someone's arse as you begin to overtake. Imagine the person you're overtaking slows down significantly, then what? Bang! To summarise: Do not tailgate. Leave enough distance between you and the vehicle in front of you. Drive with courtesy and a relaxed mind. Simple! We all want to get to places quickly. But let's actually arrive at our destinations in one piece, instead of quickly ending up in hospital.

This is why I decided to do GPS 56 on the motorway instead of 70-77, because the British public reduce the capacity of a 3 lane road to a 2 with their lane discipline. But even when you’re in lane 1 doing 56, you get some donkey joining at 40 mph, or you still get some idiot up your backside as if there aren’t 3 empty overtaking lanes.

on longer moterway jurneys I drive at 60 as its so much more fuel efficient but ill stick to the left lane unless overtaking

You tend to find people that drive at 40 on a national speed limit road when it is safe also drive at 40 in a 50, 40 and 30 speed limit.

Legend. I could never articulate why slow drivers in the right lane were wrong as people would always rebut with "it's a speed limit". But this video and citing lane discipline in the highway code is how to prove the point! I enjoy driving spiritedly, but also intentionally moving back into the left lane doing 70 where possible. Unfortunately, it is rarely possible due to not everyone playing by the same rules and middle and right lane hogging. Great channel, Mick!

With the exception of speed cameras, a wise police officer once told me keep up with the flow of the trafic, if a bunch of cars are all exceeding the speed limit just make sure your not the last one in the queue😊

The issue not addressed here is how well do people know what they are *actually* doing compared to what various instruments *tell them* they are doing. I regularly go through a village that has one of those signs which tells you your speed. It's usually about 3-4mph lower than what my dashboard says. I don't have an issue with anyone doing 26 in a 30 zone; that's not dangerous and it'd a bit petty to let that get under your skin. But that driver may well have reason to think they are are 29 or 30. Doing 45 on a clear motorway... that's a different matter.

The speed you drive should be appropriate to the road, traffic and weather conditions. If you recognise that you’re holding up traffic then speed up if safe. If you don’t realise you are preventing traffic flow then you shouldn’t be driving….

Regardless of what lane you stay in, its always dangerous for both parties when tailgating happens. Its all down to impatience. I saw someone get run over on a crossing when the car broke sharply and the HGV was following close behind. Tailgating is Careless and/or Dangerous driving and the person should be prosecuted for it because its dangerous

I heard a story about my friend rushing to the hospital and that opened my mid that if im not in a hurry, i will try to be as predictible and out-of-the-way as possible. Even giving signals to drivers behind me if its safe to pass.

I like speed driving, but I don't like getting tickets and when I'm with my family I drive on the edge of allowed limits, and every time I see a BMWs they are always the one tailgating me, so as soon as I see him approaching me I free the lane for them, let them go wherever they are rushing to.

If you’re being tailgated in the normal driving lane you should slow down to reduce risk

been loving the videos Mick, the production and the driving has been excellent, also showcasing the lesser known tips of driving has been really beneficial.

I came across your channel by chance and have now watched all the videos. I like the way you communicate the topics in an understandable way and also your (for me as a German) clearly understandable pronunciation. Your videos are very enjoyable to watch. I'm all too familiar with tailgating on the highway. The left lane in Germany is actually there for overtaking. But there are plenty of slow drivers who block the space there, especially on stretches without a speed limit. On the other hand, there are also very impatient people who stick directly to your bumper even though there is no reason to do so. I'm looking forward to new videos. Many thanks for the time and effort you put into this.

what's so frustratingly common in my country is that there are many drivers drive at 80km/h at a 120km/h speed limit road in the passing lane. Their logic is that if they drive at the minimum speed limit they are "safe drivers".

i agree with you on most points however i don’t agree with you re speed limits. Especially country roads at night when raining or snowing - you wouldn’t do 60… to hit a deer it’s no joke..

8:27 the problem is “appropriate speed” is subjective. This is even with speed limit signs to give some guidance on what should be the speed for a lane. Inevitably there will be density increases in a lane.

I think the only reason why people get annoyed if the car in front is going slower is because the car behind will have to concentrate more to leave a suitable gap and slow down earlier etc, if there isn’t a slow car ahead you can drive at a decent speed without thinking too much, rhat said though it won’t make any difference to your journey time so trying to overtake on a single carriageway is usually not worth it in exclusion to bikes and very slow vehicles (when safe) And tailgating also isn’t safe, whilst sometimes accidental it should be avoided, it uses more fuel, more concentration and results in more risk, and sometimes can even make you slower, the point of not being behind a slow car is to get to the destination on time and not to have to concentrate as much on your speed / gap in front , tailgating does the opposite of that slowing you down and making you concentrate more!

Two wrongs don't make a right! If someone is ignorant enough to be cruising in the passing lane, they likely won't understand why you're tailgating anyway, so they won't receive the message you're intending to send. They might even slow down more or brake check you because they assume you're the bad driver and they feel they need to teach you a lesson. Cruising in the passing lane is a big problem even here in the US, but I think the root cause is ignorance. People forget (or don't even know in the first place) that the passing lane is for passing ONLY.

Best video of yours to date! Completely correct! Exactly the same here in Spain on motorways and regular roads. Eventhough some of the lower speed limits here are ridiculously slow... Also trying to get my parents to understand speed limit vs speed target 😂😂

Tailgating in town is never okay. Nor is telling people to always go the speed limit in town. If you're not familiar with the roads in the place you're visiting, or you're not as confident a driver as the spirited drivers around you, then forcing yourself to always drive at the speed limit in order to accommodate them is dangerous. Agree on the motorway tailgating, but the urban advice borders on reckless. Are you suggesting that you'd prefer less confident drivers to make themselves feel unsafe by driving faster than they would like to in urban areas?

It's not the travelling lane. It's the undertaking lane and it's reserved for my use.

basically; you're not a cop, you're allowed to dislike something but don't think it's worth telling people what to do. tho at the same time im not one to blame people doing a little or even a lot under the speed limit. i don't mind getting to my destination 40 seconds later. I'd rather keep my distances and overtaking when it's safe sounds safer than force someone who doesn't feel confident or maybe isn't fully able, to go faster (physical or mental conditions, injuries, or other situations that put them at a much greater risk for going faster). going under the speed limit is going to get people frustrated, and that's dangerous. but remaining calm and approaching any situation safely is what saves lives.

I disagree with this video. Specially at night, tailgating should be a crime.

stop saying "fast lane", that doesn't exist.

sitting in the incorrect lane on a motorway is an offence (driving without due care), the same way speeding is, the argument "its a limit not a target" is invalid

Just like there are reasons why someone might driving a little fast, there are also reasons why somene might be driving a little slow. The car might be old and can't go up to the speed limit, the car might not be running properly and cant safely go up to or can't drive the speed limit at all, someone might be hauling something fragile and could be accelerating slowly to prevent said thing from shifting around too much. Tailgating to "send a message" isn't going to work in some circumstances. People need to be more considerate both ways. Not just people driving slow or people driving fast. Best to slow down until you can safety pass or they turn off the street. (this is assuming that the person isn't just hogging up the overtaking line when the travel line is wide open 🙄)

What a load of crap. Wanting to go faster than the vehicle in front is not a justification for tailgating. And if you want to exceed the speed limit and someone is in front of you in the overtaking lane then undertake.

People are often saying that they are going 5-10 slower than speed limit because thay want to be safe, but what they don't realise is that actually it is more dangerous, because people behind you are more likely to tailgate and do dangerous overtakes.

Why do people tailgate me when I have 10 cars in front of me, and there is no possibility of me going any faster? That's the most common case.

I think people forget it's not the "fast lane" or the "BMW/Audi lane", it's the overtaking lane. So if you're not overtaking, go back to the left lane.

The highway code is quite positive about this. You should travel in the near side lane unless overtaking.

If I'm doing 10 mph below the flow of traffic (for good reason or not) and I get tailgated I tend to find they drop back when I get up to an appropriate speed. To those tailgaters I say fair enough. But special mention to the Tesla driver just before Christmas who got really aggressively on my bumper, flashing and hooting when I was doing a little over 70mph and had an HGV alongside to the left. I have no idea what that guy wanted to me to do.

The worst tailgating experience I have was in summer 2022 when I drove through Hungary. Picture this: intermittent heavy rain and standing water, fully loaded two lane highway, slow lane mostly filled with slow truck traffic and fast lane filled with cars doing 80-120 km/h depending on conditions. I'm keeping a reasonable distance from the car in front of me. Then a tailgater awakes behind me, even though I'm doing about what is appropritate in the conditions and the lane is full of cars in front of me as fas as eye can see anyway. He gets some 2m behind me at times, flashing and eventually even holding his high beams. WTF do you want me to do? Fly away? I'm not going to slow down and get stuck between the trucks for you, especially since there is dense traffic all the way in front of me anyway and you are getting nowhere even if I disappeared. After about 15 minutes, a bigger gap in the slow lane appeared, so I let him pass. He proceeds to do the same wild stuff to the car in front of me. Before I thought he might be triggered by a foreigner, but the other car was a local and he did it to him just the same. Some people are so self-centric they lose sight of all the context and how their dangerous behaviour is futile and has no chance of getting them what they want.

Tip for anyone being tailgated at night - tilt the interior mirror downwards, ignore Chummy and carry on as normal, i.e. pull over into the next lane when it is safe to do so. (Which is what I've been trying to do for ages!) You can still see Chummy in the side mirrors but he won't get the reaction he's hoping for by flashing and almost entering your cargo area. Tailgaters who are stuck behind a long line of cars (where all the lanes are choc a bloc) and try to bully every single one out of the way are pond life. It's pure selfish aggression and totally pointless.

Hello! This is the first video on this channel for me, so I will apologize if there's already a video on it. BUT. While I am agreeing to 93% of this video I had to reflect on my own experiences. Which is; I have a GPS speedometer which tells me exactly how fast I need to go. It means that my gauge/cluster, on MY car*, says usually 5km/h higher than the signs along the road. Even though I am collecting cars behind me, every single day. Which again means that the ones tail-riding me is in fact deliberately speeding. * Worth mentioning is also that I use bigger tires than original, so when I add about 5kmh others could probably be looking at 9-10kmh over the set speed limit. Other than that, great video! You have a new subscriber :)

Perfect example of defensive driving.

It's all about the situation. If it's a built up area and the speed limit is 30, I'm going to do 25-27 just incase someone pops up between the cars. Same if it's a school area and try and do 18 max just incase. 40+ areas are usually safer to go the speed limit.

I hate when you are close enough to see where peoples’ eyes are directed, and it’s anywhere but your vehicle! Today I was slowing for a light in my 2020 Mustang GT and the driver behind me kept closing the gap while her eyes were consistently directed down, presumably at her phone.

agree with everything you said in this video. Great one. Really love these type of videos. Keep it up!

This should be mandatory learning material to any driver. The start of the video made me giggle :)

My personal rule is, if there isn't an overtaking lane, I go the limit where safe to do so. If there is an overtaking lane I can go a little under as long as I don't slow the road. Going 60mph instead of 70 can get me an extra 80 miles of driving per 40L tank so I often drive at around 60 when the motorways are quiet to help with my 60 miles per day round trip driving to university.

its much worse in america. you will get ran off the road of you drag your ass on the highway fast lane here. rules are similar and all but we HATE ass draggers here and most people consider it reckless driving.

why am i even watching this being in india lmao

Yo Mick i became such a better driver at high speeds thanks to your advice ❤️

One thing that annoys me is when someone gets overtaken by a line of cars and then hops into the passing lane because I think the psychology is that they think that they can't be overtaken while in the passing lane but in I believe in America if you try to signal to the guy in front of you to get out of the passing lane by beeping the horn and flashing your lights and they still don't move over then it is permissible to pass in the right lane in an attempt to keep traffic flowing and thank god that American police are actually starting to crack down on these left lane campers that just won't move over due to laziness/an overinflated ego

I get what you're going for, but it's worth reiterating that even very subtle tailgating can be very dangerous. You need to be able to stop without crashing at all times, and you should never tailgate to the extent where this isn't the case. Additionally, if you are someone who gets incredibly frustrated and impatient when driving, you are going to be more of a problem than someone driving slightly too slowly. Letting frustration and impatience affect your driving through dodgy overtakes and close following distances is lethal and cannot be tolerated. Someone driving at 90% of the speed limit is going to have a negligible impact on your journey time, and the extra minutes or sometimes just seconds you would save are not worth other people's lives. You should also contextualise why someone might be travelling more slowly. If they are approaching lights or a queue, it is best for traffic flow to slow early so that you can avoid stopping if possible. Be aware of all the factors that could be causing someone to drive slowly and that tailgating will limit your view, before you make any decisions to overtake. Be a patient, anticipatory, and calm driver before you consider light tailgating as a means of communication. That being said, this video should really be for people who lack skill and drive slowly as a crutch for their lack in ability. You should drive the correct speed for the situation and a lack of awareness of when you can drive faster suggests you have poor observations and anticipation, and that you will drive too quickly as often as you drive too slowly. Driving should never be complacent as complacency will result in actions being made out of habit instead of analysis, which will lead to accidents. "Speed limit, not a speed target" is not a statement that encourages you to drive slower so you don't have to think, it should be encouraging you to constantly analyse your surroundings and determine what is the safe speed, regardless of what the legal limit is. There are times when a national speed limit road will be unsafe to drive at 30mph, and 30mph roads which would be safe to drive at the national limit*. You should understand the conditions, the risks, your car, and all kinds of things to determine a safe, maximum speed, then reduce that if required by the law, then reduce it again if it would aid traffic flow. *Small footnote edit to point out that this situation can be inherently unsafe. You have to consider that other drivers will be making decisions based on the speeds others will be expected to be travelling, and that doing double the speed limit will ensure other drivers will be making decisions based on false expectations. It can be safe to speed, but you have to account for the fact others won't be expecting it.

Well done, great video. I wish people would travel in the left lane.

What are your thoughts on undertaking being legal like is it in the US, NZ and Australia? Traffic flow seems to be better in these countries. Also lane discipline is very poor in the UK, most European countries Especially Germany could teach us many things.

I hate the people doing 50 or less on a national speed limit road. It’s mostly elderly who don’t realise the limit changed years ago from 50 to 60. I even have them flashing me if I overtake them as though I am in the wrong. The others are the ones that just do 40 everywhere, in a 60 zone or a 30 and all these people think they’re safe drivers. It’s these people that cause accidents as people get frustrated and end up overtaking in sometimes bad situations.

Something I don’t understand is why people constantly tailgate someone in the fast lane when other lanes such as the travel lane are wide open. If I’m driving at my comfortable, regular pace (usually using cruise control) and happen to come across a slow driver in the fast lane, I’ll just use the travel lane to pass. He shouldn’t be there, but there usually isn’t any reason for me to sit behind him (at a close distance or not) when a passing opportunity exists in the travel lane.

I was doing 19/20mph in a 20mph zone going to ASDA in Cardiff very last night. The car behind me was so up my chuff that I couldn't see his headlights. I could only see it when it was temporarily lit by a street light. If I had to brake suddenly for someone crossing the road (They always wear black to do this, so you have be on your guard), they would have gone right into me.

3:05 might of been a better idea to say overtaking lane and not fast lane, doesn't help correct peoples logic if you label it with the same ignorance they do XD otherwise great video, 100% agree and people that don't follow best flow infuriate me. Especially when merging in turn and trying to make use of the road space.

in teslas and cutting edge cars, sometimes im behind you in the travel lane because my car is driving itself basically - it keeps the distance I set which is usually the max. It's not that I don't want to overtake you, its just theres no need, it will speed up when you do and slow down when you do and keep itself centred in the lane.

You just forgot the worst type of tailgating: you're doing the speed limit on overtake lane overtaging a row of cars much slower than the speed limit OR you're on the overtaking lane wanting to do the speed limit and keeping a safe distance from the slower traffic ahead that won't disappear and then there he is, a prince on his white horse, a lane owner, a subscriber with sole right to use any lane as he pleases, and he sits on your bumper thinking you should very much brake and squeeze in between slower traffic just to yield his majesty, and then when you finally let him go he doesn't even have enough torque to accelerate and barely moves further when you approach slower traffic on a slow lane OR even worse he overtakes and after a while remembers he didn't scroll through instagram or needs to make a selfie and slows down to half the speed limit just to again sit on your bumper and accelerate once you overtake him.

MY TIME HAS COME ITS CALLED A SUV , not a truck 😅 love your videos tho , taught me to balance things when driving. Definitely would recommend if you drive like you in a race

One correction I will make. There is no fast lane and slow lane as people commonly refer to them as. The left-most lane is lane 1. Additional lanes are 2, 3 etc. depending on how many are present. The highway code indicates traffic should always drive in the left most lane unless overtaking slower traffic, or speed restricted traffic.

I don't often get tailgated, but when I do, it's usually doing 60km/h in a 50km/h, and the guy behind sees the road is too twisty to overtake and there's traffic on the other lane. Those people I don't understand. Like...can you not sit up my ass when you don't have a chance in hell to overtake on such a road?

Hey man great video! How do you set up your POV? is the camera on like a head strap

Conquer driving did it better

🇬🇧 Make up your mind, is it the slow lane or the travel lane? Similarly, is it the fast lane or the overtaking lane? Consistency please!

So glad I found your channel, I have learned so much and feel it making a positive impact on my driving

I’m a new driver, so I feel rather pressured by this video. As I lack extensive driving experience, I do believe that “it is a speed limit, not a speed target.” Feel free to criticise 😃

Preach on brother. I call them the 10 mph brigade. 50 in a national, 30 in a 40. They have no lane discipline on a motorway. Or, as you suggest, 'I'm doing the speed limit, I don't need to get back in the left lane'. When you ride a bike for your full license, you get a royal bollocking from the instructor if you do not accelerate quickly up to the limit. When you do an advanced course, if you're in a national speed limit, they basically want to see you ride as fast as is safe and to hell with 60. I drive and ride. When in the car I just resign myself to the fact that I am going to be impeded at every turn. When I ride my bike, I am going to howl past you. On the motorway, on a big bike, I am starting to hang back, choose my moment and undertake quickly. I'm gone before they know I exist. I know it's bad, but if they have no lane discipline, and if I can do it quick enough that it's safe, why should I adhere to the rules ? It's become a jungle out there and abiding by the law is not going to stop you getting wiped out. End of rant. Sorry! PS - subbed

Doesn’t matter if the person behind me is a “frustrated” little snowflake they need to be safe. Safety comes first not speed

You're required by law in Sweden to stay in the rightmost lane (right-hand traffic) on multi-lane roads with speed limits greater than or equal to 70 km/h or ~45 mph unless you're overtaking someone or otherwise directed by signage. I don't think anyone who is a competent driver complains about being tailgated when they're doing something that unnecessarily hinders other traffic and is also illegal. Even though I'm a relatively new driver, I've already had a couple of experiences where drivers tailgate me in single lane traffic even though I'm going the speed limit. In that case, the argument that "it's a speed limit, not a speed target" holds up, and whatever reasons they have that they want to speed should not be made my problem, because I literally do not have the tools to do anything about it except to break the law and put other road users in unnecessary danger, which I'm not going to do. Finally, primary factor in setting speed limits is not old brakes. It's partially the human factor (reaction time) and partially the fact that energy increases quadratically in relation to velocity. That's why most pedestrians survive a crash at 20 mph but die in a crash at 30 mph, because with a 50% increase in speed, the energy of the impact has increased by 125%. Lowering the speed limit even slightly greatly improves the survivability of any crash on that road, assuming that people respect the speed limit. That's why I refuse to do 35 mph in a 30 zone, because that lowers the energy of a potential impact by 25% in the worst case and decreases my braking distance by around 25% as well, giving me a much greater safety margin to completely avoid potential impacts in the first place.

It is simple. If you travel too closely to other vehicles, routinely, you are not driving your own car. The safety of you and others depends on that vehicle ahead. You are playing trains, not driving.

OH NO, 4MPH SLOWER, HOW DARE THEY!!!!! Do you even flarking hear yourself??? Are you THAT desperate to get somewhere 0.0006 seconds faster than you would have driving normally? If you think that 4MPH is the reason to get frustrated - YOU have problems, not us who drive safe.

No excuse for tail gating , you don't know what you are talking about

I'm Malaysian, in Malaysia, no matter how fast you drive on the fast lane, there will still be many drivers love to tailgating you...

I generally do five mph over the speed limit. But if someone tailgates me, I'll slow down to five mph under the speed limit and flip my rear view mirror out of the way to keep them out of my mind. I leave with twenty minutes to spare just as frequently as I drive five over the speed limit so, it's absolutely no bother to me whatsoever to make you get to where you're going slower if you would rather bully me, a driver who was originally speeding anyway, rather than overtake me. And if you're doing this in a city street where there is no overtake lane, I still don't care. I was probably doing five over and now you have to deal with five under.