I’ve just done a holiday trip to North Devon in my MiL’s motorhome. I don’t drive it very often, but when I do it really highlights the bad driving that’s become the norm.
Motorways are frightening, the amount of lane swapping in traffic jams, the stop / start of the phantom queues, and the amount of “overtakes” that pull in to my braking distance gap. The “van” is about 4tonnes loaded up, it takes a bit to stop it from 65 mph-ish. It doesn’t have the brakes of the observation bias BMW or Range Rover without functioning indicators.
In town it’s invisible. Or it must be due to the amount of drivers who will pull out in front of you or again jump in the braking gap.
If anything it’s a quick lesson in how not to be a dick on the road. It certainly changes my thinking in the car and how easily accidents can happen, especially on the motorway. The overturned caravan on the M5 just north of Gordano services on Saturday evening, caused by someone deciding to exit the motorway from the outside lane within 50m of the junction, is the all too inevitable consequence.