Bad Drivers – Why do drivers speed up when being overtaken

Bad drivers – Today on Motoring Minute we are chatting about three driver behaviours that almost everyone can relate to.

The first is when you go to overtake a slower moving car they speed up.

I drive a lot on motorways and almost always on cruise control. So im driving at a constant speed. Often, I will come up behind a slower moving vehicle, pull out to overtake in the passing lane and – yep, they speed up.

But I just stay on cruise control and inevitably when I start to pull ahead, they go back to their previous speed and fade away.

The question is why? I don’t know if it’s because they realise they were going slow. Or it’s a fear of something in their peripheral vision. Or they are just bad drivers .

It’s the same when you are on a single lane road and there is a passing lane ahead. All of a sudden, the car that’s doing 20km under the limit will speed up to 5 km over the limit simply because they don’t want to be passed, only to slow again to 20 km below the limit again when it returns to single lanes.

And the third scenario is the right hand lane hugger. They refuse to move over even when there is no car they are passing.

Yep, compulsory standardised driver education can’t come soon enough

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Im Rob Fraser

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