Cool. Nice to know.

That’s funny about the other drivers. There’s probably something to that. In some areas in Michigan, using your signal for a lane change will cause other drivers to speed up to block you out. Just competetiveness. I sometimes catch myself creeping up over speed limit just because cars are speeding passed me when we are approaching a stoplight. I expect them to cut infront of and then hold up traffic at the light. I guess that’s also due to competitiveness, I get way more frustrated than it’s worth (I know it doesn’t really doesn’t matter whether one or another asshole is infront or behind me).

Another plausible explanation is that they figured you knew the cops were about.

For me, it’s nice to sometimes pick a car moving a reasonable pace, follow, and not think about speed. Just one less thing on the mind (day dreaming while driving probably isn’t very safe though).