Why to people find it difficult to use indicators on roundabout and when lane changing on dual carrageways / motorways :bang: 
Bad driving habits in your area
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People find it hard because they struggled to setup in there mind how to use them
Scrape through there test - and revert to a "crap" driving style
I admit, i dont always indicate, But it depends
Late at night - no1 around? Is there any point?
However - in Busy built up areas - I'm on the indicators a lil early, i dont like city driving as the lanes are close, tooo many traffic lights and red light camera's
Driving is about the state of mind - Good Stable and on the ball Mind
Not - argue with the wife - Road rage as thats when you not on the ball - and BAM
Yes BAM
You've run into sum1 or something
Ziggy
Scrape through there test - and revert to a "crap" driving style
I admit, i dont always indicate, But it depends
Late at night - no1 around? Is there any point?
However - in Busy built up areas - I'm on the indicators a lil early, i dont like city driving as the lanes are close, tooo many traffic lights and red light camera's
Driving is about the state of mind - Good Stable and on the ball Mind
Not - argue with the wife - Road rage as thats when you not on the ball - and BAM
Yes BAM
You've run into sum1 or something
Ziggy
Did anyone watch that driving school program on C5? I had to turn it off otherwise I'd have thrown my TV outside due to severe rage.
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Theres a thread on a Police forum that I go to, you're not the only one who had to turn it off. I've not watched it yet lol.
Don't. If you value either you TV or your hair don't watch it.
The one I watched had people in it who could barely pull off from a standing start, who were scared to change lane so would only take single carriageway roads to avoid them, people who just didn't know what they were doing and almost cause accidents at every junction.
HOW DO THESE IDIOTS PASS THEIR TESTS?!?!
The one I watched had people in it who could barely pull off from a standing start, who were scared to change lane so would only take single carriageway roads to avoid them, people who just didn't know what they were doing and almost cause accidents at every junction.
HOW DO THESE IDIOTS PASS THEIR TESTS?!?!
Yes... and no.
No, because there is no-one around so who cares?
Yes, because if you do it often enough it becomes automatic behaviour.
I think the more stuff you do automatically, the more brain power you have to put towards lookig out for the morons on the roads - like my youngest learning to drive, gear change still isn't an automatic thing so the car wanders a little as he has to think about where the stick is going & how his feet are working etc.
They don't, they all rely on a forgery then they all go on to drive taxis round here.
You guys have got it good - you should see the driving out here.
My number 1 hate is that no one uses indicators, nor do they look when pulling out. The amount of times I've nearly gone into the side of a car or van when on my scooter is unreal. People swerve all over the place!
Still, it's much safer than Bangkok ...
However, I'm not a saint either. I'll go through a red if nothing is coming, turn right on reds if ever I get stuck at one, go down a one way street the wrong way - and - one which I'm sure you'll all want to kill me for - drive down the pavement if the road is congested.... hehe
Ben is spot on, you havn't witnessed bad driving till you have been to south east asia. Anyone ever been to Manilla? Its exactly the sam as Ben described if not worse!!! As for the cars... What emissions, what roadworthy condition?!
Italy is madness too, they must like trying to run down pedestrians :spin:
In Northern Ireland ( :slayer: ) people drive like theyre pants are on fire
Down here, people drive like theyre hungover. Oh wait...
between bullies in jeeps and vans, clueless idiots in mumsy wagons and small hatches or the young people (either the "boxy starlet, serious civic" culchie crowd or idiots in tarted up french rotboxes) driving down here is very stressfull at times. I'm not perfect myself but how can some people be so consistently bad and get away with it? :shakehead:I don't know if it's still the same, but the IAM driving course used to teach that if you are coming to a left hand curve you position yourself close to the centre line to give an earlier view around the bend, and on a right hand bend you get close in to the left for the same reason. Does anybody know if they still teach this, because I have stopped doing that on left handers because there is always somebody coming the other way who seems to need to "borrow" a foot of my side of the road because they are too bad a driver to stay on their own side!
ot my revenge though, as he tried to turn around in the surgery car park, he hit a couple of cars. I took his number & those of the two he hit & left a note under the wipers of the two cars offering my expert witness services
With any luck, his insurance will make sure he has to retake his test because he sure as hell sees nothing wrong with his driving.
I wonder if the surgery had a nice open plan waiting room? You could have gone in and announced:
Drivers of cars xyz and abc ? Your cars have just been hit by the driver of old fartmobile - o'h there you are sir!
With any luck, his insurance will make sure he has to retake his test because he sure as hell sees nothing wrong with his driving.
I wonder if the surgery had a nice open plan waiting room? You could have gone in and announced:
Drivers of cars xyz and abc ? Your cars have just been hit by the driver of old fartmobile - o'h there you are sir!
It seems to have become the norm for people to drive in the outside lane of dual carriageways because they want to turn right at a roundabout in 2 miles time.
It's not uncommon to see the inside lane empty due to all the traffic being in the outside lane.
The worst part is that is often includes Police cars who you like to hope would know better, more worrying is that if a majority of drivers and the police think it is ok there's a fair chance that magistrates also believe it to be acceptable, so if a driver, quite correctly, drives along the inside lane and, again correctly, joins the outside lane on approaching the RAB, two things may happen.
1. the Police wrongly believe the driver has overtaken on the inside & stick them on for driving without due care.
2. The magistrates agree
Result points & a fine for driving correctly
It's not uncommon to see the inside lane empty due to all the traffic being in the outside lane.
The worst part is that is often includes Police cars who you like to hope would know better, more worrying is that if a majority of drivers and the police think it is ok there's a fair chance that magistrates also believe it to be acceptable, so if a driver, quite correctly, drives along the inside lane and, again correctly, joins the outside lane on approaching the RAB, two things may happen.
1. the Police wrongly believe the driver has overtaken on the inside & stick them on for driving without due care.
2. The magistrates agree
Result points & a fine for driving correctly
Oh, I forgot to mention pretty much everything done by BMW, Merc and AUDI drivers.
I don't believe in psycho-babble very much but someone really should look at why people turn into total as***les as soon as they get behind the wheel of an expensive German car.
I don't believe in psycho-babble very much but someone really should look at why people turn into total as***les as soon as they get behind the wheel of an expensive German car.
But you don't know it is not safe to do so until the other car comes round the corner with their off-side wheels on your side of the white line, so you have to change your corner line to avoid them. It never used to be a problem but it is much more of one now. Maybe it's because roads are still the same width but cars are getting wider? Or maybe it's just that drivers get lazy and sloppy?
I have seen plenty of police drivers that are disappointing to say the least. I saw one not long ago, a police transit van, and the driver (in police uniform) went across a busy traffic light junction holding the wheel with one hand and a Starbucks in the other!
Exactly that really, cars are getting wider but drivers don't realise that going to the outside of the bend is better than the inside.
Dom
Not a bad driving habit as such, but I just thought I'd share because it made me cry with laughter for quite some time.
I live half way up a long, steep hill, and as I was looking out of my office window earlier this evening, I saw a 'yoof' on a motorbike with no helmet riding up the hill. OK, not very wise but hardly worth mentioning. But, he was hanging on to the handlebars of a mountain bike with another 'yoof' sat on it, towing it to the top of the hill. That was quite strange - never actually seen it done before. Then he came back down the hill lone, and apparently collected another yoof on a mountain bike and proceeded to tow him up the hill in the same way. I was just thinking to myself "this isn't going to end well" when the cyclist started to wobble (they were doing a fair old speed) and he clearly panicked and grabbed the kid on the motorbike. They both swerved across the road, still attached, and disappeared down someone's driveway.
Now I may be a bad person, but I started to laugh at this point. I just couldn't help it. However, it didn't end there. After a couple of minutes, they limped back into the road and had a very loud argument over who's fault it was. That was funny enough, but then they started to knock lumps out of each other. Now I was literally crying.
Then an old feller came out of his bungalow wielding a sweeping brush and shouting about the damage they'd done to his car and his garage door. They started to limp off up the hill and were almost round the corner at the top when a cop car emerged and the cops nabbed them. By this point I really could not breathe. I am still aching. I sooooo wish I had it on video.
I live half way up a long, steep hill, and as I was looking out of my office window earlier this evening, I saw a 'yoof' on a motorbike with no helmet riding up the hill. OK, not very wise but hardly worth mentioning. But, he was hanging on to the handlebars of a mountain bike with another 'yoof' sat on it, towing it to the top of the hill. That was quite strange - never actually seen it done before. Then he came back down the hill lone, and apparently collected another yoof on a mountain bike and proceeded to tow him up the hill in the same way. I was just thinking to myself "this isn't going to end well" when the cyclist started to wobble (they were doing a fair old speed) and he clearly panicked and grabbed the kid on the motorbike. They both swerved across the road, still attached, and disappeared down someone's driveway.
Now I may be a bad person, but I started to laugh at this point. I just couldn't help it. However, it didn't end there. After a couple of minutes, they limped back into the road and had a very loud argument over who's fault it was. That was funny enough, but then they started to knock lumps out of each other. Now I was literally crying.
Then an old feller came out of his bungalow wielding a sweeping brush and shouting about the damage they'd done to his car and his garage door. They started to limp off up the hill and were almost round the corner at the top when a cop car emerged and the cops nabbed them. By this point I really could not breathe. I am still aching. I sooooo wish I had it on video.
^^ Dominion, just wish I had seen it
As I am one of the many "daily commuters" doing about 400 miles a week too and from work on the longest straigtest road in the UK (the A15) I see plenty of bad and sometimes scary driving habits!
People overtaking into oncoming trafic and clipping wing mirrors, Youths on "angry wasps" (2 stroke 50cc mopeds) doing 30 in a 60 and sitting in the middle of the road and the usual executive W**kers in big bmw's and range rovers tailgating.
Also you get my favorite type of drivers; Angry business men in big family cars thinking they are executive's and trying to drive like one.
About a month ago on one of my daily commutes, I came across a queue of traffic following a tractor (scurge of the commuter) doing 30 on a long clear straight. about 3 cars from the front was a car towing a carvan and obviously he woulnt overtake. I decided to make the bold move of nipping out past the 2 cars in front of me and the caravan and squeezed in behind the 1 car following the tractor. As a nipped in behind this car, I may have got within "tailgating distance". The wannabe exec didnt like this....
After me and the "family man" got past the tractor, he kept trying to get me to pull over. Swerving, slowing down the 10mph and sticking his arm out the window. At this point I was fed up. So I decided to be a bit of a crafty bugger. I knew there was a layby coming up so I full beamed him and indicated to pull in. He shot into the layby and I slowed down to do the same. Just as he pulled in, i dropped a gear and shot off down the road thinking I had solved the problem.
How wrong was I....
After 5-10 mins of pootling along, I saw him come flying up behind me with full beams on and a angry look on his chops. After 2 or 3 miles of him sitting in the back of my car, I got into the town I live in. He was following me.
I decided to take a detour that didnt really prevail and as I pulled into my drive, he slowed down and took a mental note of where I lived.
Needless to say, he was at my front door that night with many a bone to pick.
Im not going to go into details of what he was saying but after sarcasticly proving to him that he had no standing arguement he left.
Thats the worst case of bad driving Ive come across in my first year of driving and I reckon its gonna be one to remember for a while.
I still keep an eye out for him to make sure he doesnt try a revenge assualt.
Sorry for the essay but work is slow today
Cheers
Tom
As I am one of the many "daily commuters" doing about 400 miles a week too and from work on the longest straigtest road in the UK (the A15) I see plenty of bad and sometimes scary driving habits!
People overtaking into oncoming trafic and clipping wing mirrors, Youths on "angry wasps" (2 stroke 50cc mopeds) doing 30 in a 60 and sitting in the middle of the road and the usual executive W**kers in big bmw's and range rovers tailgating.
Also you get my favorite type of drivers; Angry business men in big family cars thinking they are executive's and trying to drive like one.
About a month ago on one of my daily commutes, I came across a queue of traffic following a tractor (scurge of the commuter) doing 30 on a long clear straight. about 3 cars from the front was a car towing a carvan and obviously he woulnt overtake. I decided to make the bold move of nipping out past the 2 cars in front of me and the caravan and squeezed in behind the 1 car following the tractor. As a nipped in behind this car, I may have got within "tailgating distance". The wannabe exec didnt like this....
After me and the "family man" got past the tractor, he kept trying to get me to pull over. Swerving, slowing down the 10mph and sticking his arm out the window. At this point I was fed up. So I decided to be a bit of a crafty bugger. I knew there was a layby coming up so I full beamed him and indicated to pull in. He shot into the layby and I slowed down to do the same. Just as he pulled in, i dropped a gear and shot off down the road thinking I had solved the problem.
How wrong was I....
After 5-10 mins of pootling along, I saw him come flying up behind me with full beams on and a angry look on his chops. After 2 or 3 miles of him sitting in the back of my car, I got into the town I live in. He was following me
.I decided to take a detour that didnt really prevail and as I pulled into my drive, he slowed down and took a mental note of where I lived.
Needless to say, he was at my front door that night with many a bone to pick.
Im not going to go into details of what he was saying but after sarcasticly proving to him that he had no standing arguement he left.
Thats the worst case of bad driving Ive come across in my first year of driving and I reckon its gonna be one to remember for a while.
I still keep an eye out for him to make sure he doesnt try a revenge assualt.
Sorry for the essay but work is slow today
Cheers
Tom
He obviously thought that your overtake wasn't safe I suppose, and then let the red mist set in.
Nothing changes. When I was a young driver I was going through a 30mph zone at 30, when I saw a middle-aged fat guy walking out of the newsagents reading the paper (probably looking at the pictures really, but who knows). He was so engrossed he just jept walking towards the road. I started to think he might just walk stright out in front of me, so I just gave a very short tap on the horn (not a blast, a tap) to make sure he didn't.
A full 4 or 5 miles later, by now on a dual carriageway with a 40 limit, I saw a car in the mirror arriving at massive speed. Being on a dual carriageway I just watched for him pulling out to overtake me, but he didn't. he stayed right on my boot lid. I looked again and guess who it was? Fat newspaper reader of course! Flashing his lights and waving his fist.
I thought, I've got to hear this, so I let him get in front of me and he stopped, so I did, (but left a good space). He got out, hoisted his trousers over his beer gut and said something like:
"why the f*** did you blow your horn at me?"
So I said - "I thought it was easier than letting you walk in to the road and running you over"
"Clever c*** aren't you?"
"No , you just have to press this thing here and the horn works all on its own. So you have followed me for 5 miles at god knows what speed to say that?"
At that point I shot off leaving him standing in the road.
He got back in his car and started following me again. So I turned off and started heading to where I knew there was a police station, but thankfully before we got there he had a change of heart.
A few months later I went in a pub near where the original incident started, and he was in there.
I clocked him immediately, but the old git just looked a bit vague as though he thought he'd seen me somewhere but couldn't work out where.
Why do people get so angry about nothing? And that was a long time ago.
Nothing changes. When I was a young driver I was going through a 30mph zone at 30, when I saw a middle-aged fat guy walking out of the newsagents reading the paper (probably looking at the pictures really, but who knows). He was so engrossed he just jept walking towards the road. I started to think he might just walk stright out in front of me, so I just gave a very short tap on the horn (not a blast, a tap) to make sure he didn't.
A full 4 or 5 miles later, by now on a dual carriageway with a 40 limit, I saw a car in the mirror arriving at massive speed. Being on a dual carriageway I just watched for him pulling out to overtake me, but he didn't. he stayed right on my boot lid. I looked again and guess who it was? Fat newspaper reader of course! Flashing his lights and waving his fist.
I thought, I've got to hear this, so I let him get in front of me and he stopped, so I did, (but left a good space). He got out, hoisted his trousers over his beer gut and said something like:
"why the f*** did you blow your horn at me?"
So I said - "I thought it was easier than letting you walk in to the road and running you over"
"Clever c*** aren't you?"
"No , you just have to press this thing here and the horn works all on its own. So you have followed me for 5 miles at god knows what speed to say that?"
At that point I shot off leaving him standing in the road.
He got back in his car and started following me again. So I turned off and started heading to where I knew there was a police station, but thankfully before we got there he had a change of heart.
A few months later I went in a pub near where the original incident started, and he was in there.
I clocked him immediately, but the old git just looked a bit vague as though he thought he'd seen me somewhere but couldn't work out where.
Why do people get so angry about nothing? And that was a long time ago.
