Just don’t fall for any of that bobbins they will try to preach to you about going fast won’t get you there quicker
Open road, fair enough, but that doesn’t happen that often.
How often do people complain on here about pointless overtakes from cars in traffic? “You just get to the next red light quicker.”
One thing I found useful from my course was the maths of allowing more space in front – most people concertina into less than a second spacing, because they say people will cut into a 2 second gap. Chappy invited us to consider an hour on the motorway, every minute someone cuts in front into your 2 second gap, and you drop back to open up a new 2 second gap to new car in front.
This will destroy your journey time to the tune of 60 seconds. Cue a wave of realisation across the room that the penalty for calm driving is negligible, the rewards for aggressive, entitled, wound-up driving are so slender.
More of this kind of understanding would be great: traffic happens, allow enough time for your journey, get there relaxed and safe. Fewer accidents, fewer deaths, fewer fights, fewer road-rage threads on here, less bandwidth on youtube…