One point that I would also like to make...

Someone of my acquaintance (not Little Hawk, I've been a passenger in a car he was driving, and he does not drive like this as far as I know) says he prefers to drive as fast as most of the other cars in traffic. Which is what several people on this thread say is the best thing to do. Well, when this person is "blending with the flow", what I see is that he is choosing to go as fast as the faster (roughly) 50% of the cars on the road, and passing (and weaving in and out of) the slower 50%.

So he's not really blending in with the majority. What he is doing is choosing which 50% of drivers he's going to go the same speed as. He chooses the faster ones.