It’s A Limit Not A Target…Apparently

Now I’ve been driving for just over a year it is becoming more and more obvious that no-one pays attention to the speed limit signs, ever. Despite driving a Corsa which has been ‘chavved out’ I don’t drive around the streets of Lincoln with other spruced up hatchback drivers creating havoc and generally going far too fast for no apparent reason.

Like any normal member of society I will drive at the speed limit, if it says 30 I will drive at 30. Not cruising around at 45 and slamming the brakes on when I see a speed camera, you just look an idiot. If you have somewhere to get that urgently you should have left your house 10 minutes earlier.

At the same time though I am not a fan of those drivers who are quite content with driving 10mph below the speed limit, what is the point? I can understand if you really love driving  and want the experience to last forever, but driving down the A15 in the rain is hardly a moment I’d love to relive – especially stuck behind a trail of cars doing 48mph because some old coot won’t put his foot down. The national speed limit is 60mph on a single carriageway, why not get to 60?!

When the car was first invented, 60mph was unimaginable. Nowadays that’s how we measure how quick a car is, the 0-60 time is everything! The ability to travel at a mile a minute in relative comfort doesn’t seem to appeal to quite a lot of drivers though, they’d much rather sit doing 48mph or go screeching past you at 75mph into an oncoming lorry…sadly though, I’m not that cool.

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