I’ve personally not got a problem with driving a speed limited car. I also ride motorbikes as well, and my biggest complaint with it is that super sport 600 is too capable for the road and something half the size would probably be more fun, used to love my 125 as that was a chuck about and not be in danger of breaking many speed limits.
As for the takes me longer to get to places, how much time do you think you actually save? The amount of times overtaken by audi man on a mission, only to pull up behind them at the traffic lights 10 miles further up the road is crazy.
One thing that concerns me is if you deskill the driving process even further will drivers just switch off even more and actually become more dangerous.
JFletch the guy you are thinking of is probably Quintin Wilson.
As for driver training, definitely needed, the amount of peoples driving who is appalling and the amount of people who believe they are above average is ridiculous. Newly qualified drivers regularly say they are safe because they passed the driving test first time, no you just met the minimum standard and therefore scored a pass.
One more thing, I personally would like to see mandatory retests every five years, be fascinated to see what that did for the accident figures, along with you can only take a test three times before you have to a years cooling off period, to stop the people who take 20 tests to get through like maureen or whoever it was on telly.