People often do that because having a vehicle moving up next to them changes their perception of how fast they are going.
>>past him.
People often do that because having a vehicle moving up next to them changes their perception of how fast they are going.<<
My wife and I joke about that. I can do the speed limit, happy as a clam, when on the open road. But get me into traffic and my mind seems to go into this mode: If I am going the same speed as the rest of the cars around me, I am not moving. I HAVE TO be driving faster than the traffic around me and it is a conscious effort to go with the flow. It’s not quite that dramatic, but it is there. I don’t have to be driving much faster. A mile or two per hour will do it. It’s some weird psychological defect.