05-17-2011, 06:12 PM
It was probably fine. I often see more extreme examples of this. You may only be driving 2-3 mph, but when every few minutes, they speed up to 15mph and 5 cars get in front of you, that would irritate me if I was behind you. In my last car I would have driven the same as you simply because its turbos didn't not handle stop and go very well. It was hard to go from 3-10mph, it wanted to go from 3-20.
The other day I had a driver get very irate with me. Apparently they passed me and were through their hands and various birdy symbols flown at me, as they leaned from the driver's seat over the passenger seat of their SUV to try and make sure I saw (I didn't watch them.) Then they got in front of me, slowed down, so I went around and they repeated as I went past.
Previously, there were two lanes stopped at a light to get on a freeway onramp. They were in the left lane, I was in the right lane. It was a two lane ramp. As we went down the ramp, the right lane was coming to an end ahead. I noticed there was no gap to my left, and I was behind the SUV, but there was a good sized gap in front of the SUV. The SUV was going fairly slow so I pushed on the gas just a little - probably got up to about 2500 RPMs so really not much - then pulled in front of the SUV with plenty of room between us and the vehicle that was now in front of us. I started merging before the dashed line between the lanes ended, but likely finished merging after that line had ended. I never came close to the SUV nor was I even close to driving on the shoulder.
I'm guessing the SUV driver thought I was being aggressive or something by passing on the ramp. The ramp curved some and I did take advantage of the fact my suspension was in its lowest setting, I have my summer tires on and that I knew the SUV couldn't go around the curve very fast.
The other day I had a driver get very irate with me. Apparently they passed me and were through their hands and various birdy symbols flown at me, as they leaned from the driver's seat over the passenger seat of their SUV to try and make sure I saw (I didn't watch them.) Then they got in front of me, slowed down, so I went around and they repeated as I went past.
Previously, there were two lanes stopped at a light to get on a freeway onramp. They were in the left lane, I was in the right lane. It was a two lane ramp. As we went down the ramp, the right lane was coming to an end ahead. I noticed there was no gap to my left, and I was behind the SUV, but there was a good sized gap in front of the SUV. The SUV was going fairly slow so I pushed on the gas just a little - probably got up to about 2500 RPMs so really not much - then pulled in front of the SUV with plenty of room between us and the vehicle that was now in front of us. I started merging before the dashed line between the lanes ended, but likely finished merging after that line had ended. I never came close to the SUV nor was I even close to driving on the shoulder.
I'm guessing the SUV driver thought I was being aggressive or something by passing on the ramp. The ramp curved some and I did take advantage of the fact my suspension was in its lowest setting, I have my summer tires on and that I knew the SUV couldn't go around the curve very fast.