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On Feb 8, 8:16=A0am, "AndyC"  wrote: > > But, some drivers don't like it. It's kinda like jumping their queue :-)

No doubt they're the same drivers who flash and/or hoot when overtaken perfectly legitimately and legally, block people who wish to pass on the motorway by sitting in the wrong lane, etc. There's only a small number of such idiots, but they cause a huge amount of delay, and also frustration and bad feeling, both of which ultimately lead to crashes.

If the government were really serious about improving road safety, it would attempt to educate these people, and have the police deal robustly with those who insisted on continuing to impede others unnecessarily. But the government does nothing about them, because that might actually improve things for normal motorists, and we couldn't have that. (And, of course, that's why the car-haters in this group condone the actions of such idiots, and probably *are* such idiots whenever they hypocritically drive themselves.)