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@chainwhip
One thing really being slow and other thing forcing youself to go slow because squeezing yourself to the space left over from motorists. Most slow people will be able to go much faster if they learn to manage their space and spread their wings and fly, and get that bike maintained and configured properly. But many don't have even that level of commintment.
FUCK'EM!
If someone is interested only using a bike as a walking stick to save his ass a little energy by not walking sans wheels, he is not going to do the society any good with his bike use. Everybody has potential, but without some base level of commintment they are lost cause.
As for proper cycling slow speed, I've done it with 3-speeds etc and it works. You just have to think ahead and do ahead even more cause speed differential mostly hits negoation ability.
Infact being slow is more consistent with bad driver's view of cyclists as almost stationary obstructions and thus a slow cyclist encouters less short passes.