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Most annoying things other drivers do?
ChateauMarmont
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I just wanted to see if mine matches anyone else, and to find out what everyone else hates on the road.
For me it's drivers coming right up behind me in their car to force me to move to the left hand lane, when they can clearly see I'm overtaking another car. And I always find the absolute idiots are in VW Passat's or Vauxhall Insignias...sometimes an Audi too.
No offence to anyone that drives those, I'm sure you're not as bad as the ones I encounter
For me it's drivers coming right up behind me in their car to force me to move to the left hand lane, when they can clearly see I'm overtaking another car. And I always find the absolute idiots are in VW Passat's or Vauxhall Insignias...sometimes an Audi too.
No offence to anyone that drives those, I'm sure you're not as bad as the ones I encounter
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Don't follow cars, people, watch them but watch everything else too
Drivers that are talking to a passsenger and totally forgetting the car behind them going about 15 in a 30. Even worse if the car in front is lost.....
Drivers that slow down for you to pull out but don't flash you - You have to be a mind reader.
Drivers that don't understand average speed cameras and still come up your bum flashing you.
I wouldn't do that these days as I'd probably get some crazy guy with a knife or a gun or something .
Other things that irritate me are the numpty young women who have to text whilst they are behind me in slow moving traffic . I see them in my mirror tapping away and giggling at the replies they receive . One day I'm gonna get shunted in the rear by one of these retards . Finally the idiots who overtake me on the inside on motorways ! When has this ever been a good idea ? Why not overtake on the right side ( rather than the unexpected inside lane ) ???
Aghhhhhh !!
There's some set up on the A1 at Scotch Corner at the moment, it's been heavily publicised on the local news that police will prosecute and the amount of drivers they already have with the average speed cameras. Yet you get idiot after idiot swerving in and out of lanes thinking they'll beat the 50mph limit, or flashing their lights at you to hurry up. No way am I losing my license because they can't slow down for 12 miles!
I had to make an emergency stop as somebody was exiting this road thinking they were then going out onto the mini roundabout (whoever decided a junction wasn't enough, mini roundabouts are the most stupid creation) and, of course, Mr Moped went straight into the back of my car but, because I had refused to go faster, all he did was bounce in his seat. He swore a lot and I ignored him, as he was fine
Or flash the indicator once usually as they are completing a manoeuvre.
Aww a Local - seems funny seeing Limehouse on Digital Spy
I know where you mean! drives me mad
Now, when I was learning to drive, traffic from the right has right of way (clue there then),yet he was beeping the horn and generally being an idiot. .
Ah, a fellow sufferer ...
Apart from the terrible road system, I love the whole area. :cool:
When you see my Insignia up your arse, TRY MOVING QUICKER! :mad:
Tailgaters, everyone hates it, yet so many people do it. I'm driving to the limit whether we think it's a sensible limit or not, if you want to get past, overtake. Oddly they never even try though? Occasionally get numpties that sit right up your chuff on dual carriageways when there is an empty 2nd lane they can use.
45 MPH everywhere drivers. Right up your backside in 30 zones, or speeding through them if they're in front. 45 MPH joining a dual carriageway. 45 MPH in NSL roads. By extension, people who can't drive on country roads, braking like hell to 20 MPH at every corner and flooring it on a straight so it's treacherous overtaking. If you do try and overtake, they floor it, probably saying to their passenger "look at that tosser, not a safe driver like me!"
People who don't indicate, I often wonder if they get annoyed when they're sitting waiting to pull out of a junction or roundabout and some inconsiderate person has turned in/off without indicating? Total laziness.
People who have misaligned headlights pointing at the moon, or one out and use fog lights to compensate.
People who park in laybys outside of shops pointing the wrong way. Usually wait until you're RIGHT up to them, then they cut across the road front of you (leaving dipped HID 1000000 lumens headlights pointing right into your eyes at night), forcing you to brake and be blinded whilst they get parked. They then cause havoc pulling away again as they can't see oncoming traffic so then pull out into your path or just block the lane off if there's someone coming the other way. As long as they save themselves a five metre walk, it's all good.
People who sit on the wrong side of the road with dipped beams on, thanks, I can now see nothing at all. If they genuinely don't know that lights are dipped depending on what side of the road you drive on to avoid dazzle, do they not realise they too get blinded when other people do it?
People who are turning right out of a busy junction, so they pull across the lane of traffic coming from their right until the left lane is clear. Great, you're too important to wait, so now I've got to wait too.
People who park over two spaces, either through "my car is posh and I don't want it bashed" or being inept. I don't want my car bashed either, but it's a fact of life, usually done by the inept people who park over two spaces.
People who park on corners, opposite junctions, and right on top of junctions. I and everyone else has to pull out blind/drive on the wrong side of the road blind now, thanks, as long as you saved yourself five yards of walking. Do they not hate pulling out blind too?
(As a pedestrian) People who park so far over the path that it's hard to walk on, never mind having a pushchair or wheelchair.
People who see you're turning right at a roundabout, but then pull out and drive in the left lane when you get up to them. Gives you a fright as it looks like they're going to drive into you, but they tend to drive parallel with you in the left lane, stopping you from taking your exit.
I hate it when people sit at traffic lights with their foot on the brake. USE THE HANDBRAKE! 10 times worse when it's a new fauxX4 with eye level LED lights. Burns your eyes out.
I all of this selfishness happen every single day.
Fair enough if you're in front of me but if I'm stopping, please don't make me have to jump forward to avoid you going into the back of me. I've lost count of the number of times this has happened.
That's normal practice for me as I drive an automatic. If I were stopped for a longer period of time I would shift to netural and apply the handbrake tho. But for short stops, it stays in Drive with the foot brake active (the handbrake wouldn't be strong enough to prevent the car creeping in Drive, & lots of "handbrake on" alarms would start going off as well.
Tailgating.
Not bothering to use their indicators.
General all round aggression and lack of patience.
Using their phones to text or even watch video.. I see lots of this when I am on my bike. They sit with the phone in their laps and alternate between looking down and a quick glance up to check that they aren't about to kill some poor bugger.
I have noticed two things, firstly, this become far mor common since the cuts in police numbers came in. They are much less likely to be caught.
Secondly women a by far the worst offenders.
You are sitting at a junction on a busy road and a space in traffic appears. Unfortunately there is one car coming the other way. He isn't indicating but at the last second he turns into your street meaning you could have come out the junction had you known he was going to turn. So you get stuck waiting for another few minutes before you can come out.
And generally aggressive drivers. Those who speed around, don't indicate, drive very close to other cars, sit at traffic lights and look over then take off when the lights change as though they are at the Monaco GP. They are all just accidents waiting to happen.