Good article on speed in the Age! Nice to see they arent pandering to the Govt!!

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Originally Posted by XXX747

You can be fined for going slower than the speed limit. If it is considered dangerous you can be fined as you said. If what he was doing was Dangerous then consider it illegal

I'd like to see where in the Road Rules of any state it says that.

With driving slower than the speed limit, the only necessary governing rule of human nature is:

COURTESY

That's the way it works in Europe. If you see you're holding up somebody behind or causing a tailback, you pull to the left at the first available wide sealed shoulder and let others overtake. I've seen truckies do it here but not much else. I've heard that Australians are a very courteous race, so should be no problem to start the ball rolling on this one.

As for coming over the blind brow of a hill at 110 without foot over the brake pedal, nah, I wouldn't do it. Comes under the defensive driving head. It's not the fault of the person driving slowly on the other side. Won't be too critical though, I'm sure I've done it once or twice myself (at 100) - according to the braking capabilities of what I'm driving!