why do people speed up when you try and pass them?

Xyclone

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Aug 24, 2004
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100% of Porsche, Corvette, Lamborghini, and Ferrari owners are like this. They feel like they penis shrinks every time someone goes faster than them, and try to compensate.
 

Spoooon

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Mar 3, 2000
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They are asses. I hate when people speed up and blow past you, then they move back into your lane and drive the speed limit or slower.
 

Zenmervolt

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Originally posted by: Xyclone
100% of Porsche, Corvette, Lamborghini, and Ferrari owners are like this. They feel like they penis shrinks every time someone goes faster than them, and try to compensate.
Um, no.

ZV
 

spidey07

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Aug 4, 2000
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Originally posted by: Spoooon
They are asses. I hate when people speed up and blow past you, then they move back into your lane and drive the speed limit or slower.

That's because the radar detector went off.

People speed up when you try to pass them because almost all motorists are stupid and don't know the rules of the road.

It's a psychological response - He's going faster than me, therefore I must go faster than him. You can trace it to hunting tribes, if one is racing toward a goal, that goal/reward (food) must be fought after.

 

sisq0kidd

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Apr 27, 2004
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Originally posted by: Xyclone
100% of Porsche, Corvette, Lamborghini, and Ferrari owners are like this. They feel like they penis shrinks every time someone goes faster than them, and try to compensate.

:laugh: I like how you said 100%
 
Feb 19, 2001
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Originally posted by: Howard
Because they notice how slow they're driving.

Ok, yea, that's true. Take an AVERAGE driver who's not out here to race you or out there with major e-penis issues, they still speed up.

It's annoying. I drive on cruise control on the highways a lot because usually when I do that it's for my 1 hr drive home. Well guess what? I pass people, and they get pissed, merge out speed up and pass me. But why can't people drive at the same speed continuously. The highway goes as an overpass over the road, and they slow down. I pass them. After maybe 10 min of this back and forth stuff, I finally pass them for good, and I'm still going the same speed as before (I <3 cruise control), and I wonder why they made it such a big deal to pass me a little and then slow down and speed up again and blah blah...

It's annoying.
 

Captante

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Oct 20, 2003
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Most people that do this seem to simply react unconsiously to you moving by them & speed up to match your pace, then when you move beyond 50ft or so ahead of them they'll slow back down to their normal pace ... the rest are aggressive idiots.

Also for the most part I find that that "the faster the car = the slower the driver" rule applies ... I'm not talking about hot-rod boy in his Mustang/Camaro or Ricers in their misc plastic fart-mobiles btw, but folks in fast & NICE cars like high-end BMW's or Mercedes.
 

SirStev0

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Nov 13, 2003
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Originally posted by: loki8481
if they were going that fast in the first place, I wouldn't have needed to pass them

Some times I don't realize I slowed down. When I see people passing me I start hurrying up.
 

iamwiz82

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Jan 10, 2001
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I have found that you can get pretty much any person to go faster by slowly passing them. I mean, really slowly. Pace them on one side and then slowly start to overtake, ~1mph greater than their speed. Every time they catch up, speed up just a hair. You can get them to do 90mph in no time.

I also like to slowly drift to one side if I am behind someone in either the far left or right lane. If you do it slowly, they will follow you. It works really well at night.
 

Xyclone

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Aug 24, 2004
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Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: Xyclone
100% of Porsche, Corvette, Lamborghini, and Ferrari owners are like this. They feel like they penis shrinks every time someone goes faster than them, and try to compensate.
Um, no.

ZV

Um, yes.

Xyclone

At least in Southern Cali.
 

PeeluckyDuckee

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Feb 21, 2001
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I don't have this problem because when I hit the highway I'm the one passing everyone else, at a good pace. On the rare occasion I do see a vehicle in my rear view mirror coming up fast I do lend way. And to those on the left lane with no vehicle on the right, if I slowly edge up to you and you're still clueless then I have no choice but to pass you on my right.

On occasion I'll be in the right lane approaching the vehicle infront of me, and you on the left hand still trying to pass me going 1km faster than I am I will speed up to pass both you and the vehicle I was in front of, if you're going to take your sweet time. Especially if the vehicle on the right infront of me is a truck. Driving beside a truck on the highway, passing ever so slowly is very dangerous, so I will go out of my way to speed past you and get infront of you on the left lane.

Ricers and street racers are the minority of the issues on the road today, blown out of proportion by the media. The real culprit are everyday people like you and me. Seriously. Just look at how people drive during the morning and afternoon rush hour. Sedans, SUVs, and minivans that drive like they're on the track. Tailgating and thinking physics and the law of gravity does not apply to them. Almost everybody is putting everybody else at risk on the road.


 

Sukhoi

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That pisses me off like nothing else when I drive. ESPECIALLY the retards that pass me going less than 1 MPH faster, practically cut me off to get back over in front of me in the right lane, and then slow down. I WANT TO KILL YOU.

Oh, and semis that cut you off to pull out to pass someone before a long hill that they lose speed going up.
 

Captante

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Oct 20, 2003
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Originally posted by: iamwiz82
I have found that you can get pretty much any person to go faster by slowly passing them. I mean, really slowly. Pace them on one side and then slowly start to overtake, ~1mph greater than their speed. Every time they catch up, speed up just a hair. You can get them to do 90mph in no time.

I also like to slowly drift to one side if I am behind someone in either the far left or right lane. If you do it slowly, they will follow you. It works really well at night.


This is the exact behavior I was talking about ... most people seem to go into some kind of trance behind the wheel & arn't really even in control.

 

aswedc

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I always speed up to block people who try to pass me on the right, if I am already doing at least speed limit + 15. Need to get somewhere that fast, get a damn ambulance or police escort.
 
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