21 December

I worked with somebody who told me it didn’t matter how far off in the distance a car was, they had to speed up to catch them, because they couldn’t bear anybody being in front of them on the road. That’s probably about 80% of all overtaking, a status pissing game. Also why people being overtaken so often speed up. They see somebody going past as a loss of status on the road. Top dog is being in front of people. Just one more way humans are hopeless drivers. Traffic would flow beautifully if everybody did the speed limit, that’s what speed limits are mostly designed to do, space out traffic. It will never happen with humans in charge behind the wheel.