Certainly was not my comment. I would only slow gently on a motorway unless something unforeseen is happening ahead, but then my 3-5 second gap buffers a fair bit from sudden changes in speed of traffic.
Hmm? So would you suggest lowering speed when pbutting every slip road just in case there are cars joining?
Lets just clarify something here. I am not in the habit of moving to lane 2 often, only when its needed. Most of the time its not even possible to drive in lane 1 for very long due to slow heavy traffic. However, if there is a stream of cars joining the motorway I am not going to slow down and sit behind them while they all sort themselves out over the next mile. Apart from anything else, all traffic behind me will overtake me and the slip road traffic. I will overtake them all in lane 2 as I am going much faster than joining traffic. If someone joining wants to put their foot down, then wait until fast motorway traffic has pbutted. That is what I do if joining a motorway, even though I may have been going faster on the road feeding the slip (another motorway I'm thinking of here). Traffic already on motorway, ultimately has priority, so joining traffic should take a slight backseat while they adjust speed to motorway and not instantly try and overtake-undertake traffic on motorway.
Yep they should, but THEY DON'T. Real world, not theory.
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Adjustment of speed, road position all sorts. You seem obsessed with observation and as vital as it is, its no good observing alone. Thinking ahead and ability to read road correctly is just as important.
YES Forcing. If I stay in lane one while slow traffic is joining I will either be forced to slow-speedup or if too many vehicles coming down slip at one then move to lane 2. I'm sorry if that is contrary to your mantra, but in the real world that sometimes happens. If I was in a van of lorry doing 55-60, then I'd stay in lane 1 at constant speed as slip traffic won't be slower than me and let the more agile vehicles sort it out around me, but different when travelling at average car speeds.
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