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[Troll]

Yes - I do that all the time in heavy traffic. The length of some slip roads means that you can do a good half a mile when you look at the distance between getting off and back on again. Before the toll road was opened on the M6 I used to go round the back of the services at the bottom of the old M6. Thatused to bypass a chunk of traffic also.

It actually adds to the problem by creating more joining traffic which means everyone (except me of course) has to shunt right to accomodate or slow down to let in.
I used to watch the lorries do this on the approaches to the Blackwall tunnel - never saw any real benefit in terms of their position prior to leaving to re-joining.... just a bunch of selfish cants.

[BoredBloke]

It actually adds to the problem by creating more joining traffic which means everyone (except me of course) has to shunt right to accomodate or slow down to let in.
I used to watch the lorries do this on the approaches to the Blackwall tunnel - never saw any real benefit in terms of their position prior to leaving to re-joining.... just a bunch of selfish cants.

I know what it causes - but that's behind me - in a purely selfish way!

[BoredBloke]

Not sure about the wet bit but that's how I drive - keeps the licence clean and increases mpg.
Also trains you to think ahead and anticipate.

Downside is the amount of people who overtake you and then slow down... shows how hard it is to keep to a constant speed with foot pressure

There was an urban myth which did the rounds a while back. Basically t stated that if you hit standing water and you aquaplaned, the cruise control would speed you up and you'd crash - it's supposed to be a load of old cr@p but I tend not to use it in the wet incase I find out that it's true!

[milanbenes]

hat off,

Tone is unashamedly the man

Milan.