@Blackberry Yeah, they just don’t know what to do, and don’t trust you being the speed demon. There is room for faster and slower drivers on the highways, both just need to not be extreme and stick to the rules of the road, like slower drivers stay right. My husband once cut someone off, well I feel he cut them off, he did have room to go over though, and the other driver swerved to the right hit the curb and crashed. My husband didn’t care, this is years ago, saying the other driver did not need to brake or swerve. It was true, he did not need to brake or swerve, but he was startled and crashed. In your case letting up on the gas a little so you did not appraoch the other car so fast would have avoided him going off to the side. In my opinion all of us need to “share” the road reasonable, understanding not everyone drives at the same level, but agressive drivers tend to drive like they own the road.
Yesterday I had a woman practically on top of my car at a stop sign. She was behind me, so close to the back of my car that if I moved a few inches backwards we would have hit. If I had been in my Porsche, there is a good chance I would have touched her bumper, but luckily in my VW the car holds for a second before rolling backwards. I turned around kind of waving her back, and she slammed on her horn, gave me the finger, yelled something I could not hear, all while her phone was to one ear in one hand. She is completely clueless that some of us still drive manual cars, we were on a hill, and she doesn’t give a shit about keeping a safe distance when stopping. She probably is an agressive angry driver in general. She doesn’t care about the rules or advise for the road, that I find bothersome.
I say drive fast when it is safe and you don’t rely heavily on the responsible reactions of others. Americans are often way too distracted while driving, we can’t trust the other drivers. Also, generally, slower drivers tend to be less aware of the traffic around them (sometimes I am that driver). Fast drivers know where traffic is, first of all they just pases the traffic, they probably are not sipping coffee while driving 80 miles an hour, while weaving in and out of traffic, the mindset is very different.