A Driving Licence Cull - Post your suggestions

[SilverSixer]

MitchT said:

People who don't move over to the right lane to let others join a dual carriageway. Bus pass.

Here you go Mitch:

https://www.gov.uk/motorways-253-to-273/joining-th...

Now find me the bit that says traffic already on the motorway needs to move over.

[powerstroke]

OpulentBob said:

Yep, that and "I have no concept of what or who is behind me", basically I don't need to be anywhere so fk everyone else. fking annoys me on the commute home. You can see the silver-haired old codgers pootling along on their way back from the garden centre, sod the fact that there's people behind them that want to get home and eat, see the kids before bedtime, get to the post office before it shuts etc. Piss or get off the pot. They do NOT have the right to unneccesarily delay me.

Nor do the idiots who overtake on a blind bend cause a fatality and a road closure while someone is removed from the scene with a shovel and fire hose ..... Hopefully you will be an old bugger one day !!!!

[V8Ford]

V8forweekends said:

Leave in drive, set parking brake (although I know those US style ones are a pain). All autos are engineered to deal with this. On my X350 Jag you needed to put your foot back on the footbrake to disengage the parking brake (unless you wanted to wear out the rear pads in 10 mins) but it was no great hardship.

Bugger that, I'm not stretching my handbrake cable for someone who can't cope with a moderately bright light for 30 seconds!

[Vipers]

V8Ford said:

V8forweekends said:

Leave in drive, set parking brake (although I know those US style ones are a pain). All autos are engineered to deal with this. On my X350 Jag you needed to put your foot back on the footbrake to disengage the parking brake (unless you wanted to wear out the rear pads in 10 mins) but it was no great hardship.

Bugger that, I'm not stretching my handbrake cable for someone who can't cope with a moderately bright light for 30 seconds!

Personally I am not bothered with those like you, it's the buggers with those extremely bright lights who sit through the entire sequence of Green to Red, and back to Green, especially at night time.

[Toltec]

V8Ford said:

Bugger that, I'm not stretching my handbrake cable for someone who can't cope with a moderately bright light for 30 seconds!

I get not wanting to do this for a brief stop, however you may not be aware that letting your car move wears out the tyres. Perhaps you would be better leaving it at home and just enjoy it as garden sculpture.

[Willy Nilly]

vrooom said:

Instant ban and a swift kick to bks to anyone who owns/drive MPV and Vauxhalls.

and

People who don't move to lane 2 on dual carriage way when I or any motorist attempt to join dual carriageway from junction/sliproad.

You know when you get to the end of a slip road as you are about to join the main carriageway and there is painted lines on the road? Well, they mean "Give Way". The people already established on the DC/MW are under no obligation to let you on.

I'll let it go this time, but next you'll be banned.

[Pit Pony]

Can I ask why the lorry driver being overtaken on a dual carriage way, by another lorry, doing 0.25 mph faster than him, shouldn't ease his foot off the accelerator pedal, to let his speed reduce by say 3 or 4 mph, and allow the overtake to take only 1/2 a mile, instead of 3 miles?

I'm not suggesting a cull of a licence, but I don't understand unless it's a game, where you try and ps off all the cars that are following you.

In which case it must cause bad Karma, because no car driver is going to let you pull out if he has a choice.

I'm thinking A50 from stoke to derby at about 6:40 to 7:00 am on a Monday. (You know who you are)

[pingu393]

Vipers said:

Personally I am not bothered with those like you, it's the buggers with those extremely bright lights who sit through the entire sequence of Green to Red, and back to Green, especially at night time.

Not seen the reference to this, but is it folks waiting at traffic lights with brake lights on?

If it is, this annoys me as well - and I'm one of the ones who do it. It is how the car is designed. It is part of the eco-saving stop-start circuit. It is how you switch the engine off without switching everything else off. When the car is out of warranty, I intend to change it so it works off the handbrake switch. Sorry folks.

[carmadgaz]

GadgeS3C said:

fulham911club said:

Dr Jekyll said:

fulham911club said:

Why? It isn't a minimum speed but a maximum speed. On a motorway 40mph is rather foolish but along a country lane I don't see the problem. Maybe they weren't in a hurry / were enjoying the view / some other reason. Doesn't mean they have to drive at 60 the whole way. Just be patient and over-take when safe to do so.

This really winds me up. 'I'm not going fast, so no danger can possibly arise or if it does it won't be my fault, so I can admire the scenery instead of watching the road'.

Errr - maybe the passengers were enjoying the view. I was citing examples of why someone might drive at 40 in a 60.

Enjoying the view is fine, but the driver should be paying attention to what's behind and move over to let it pass as soon as safe to do so.

Sadly, not my experience of many folks bimbling along these days.

My point exactly, I spend alot of time driving slower vehicles (old Landie and trailer, vintage cars and vans) and I make a point of pulling over and make it as easy as possible for other drivers to get past me. It isn't rocket science, it's common courtesy. I know 60 is a limit not a target but 2/3rds of the speed would fail your driving test for not making progress and it's antisocial to hold everyone else up just because you aren't in a hurry!!!

[V8Ford]

Toltec said:

I get not wanting to do this for a brief stop, however you may not be aware that letting your car move wears out the tyres. Perhaps you would be better leaving it at home and just enjoy it as garden sculpture.

I reverse everywhere, so my tyres actually gain rubber as the mileage reduces...

[Vipers]

V8Ford said:

Toltec said:

I get not wanting to do this for a brief stop, however you may not be aware that letting your car move wears out the tyres. Perhaps you would be better leaving it at home and just enjoy it as garden sculpture.

I reverse everywhere, so my tyres actually gain rubber as the mileage reduces...

That's how it's done, I have always wondered why with the zillions of tyres wearing out, you don't see piles of rubber dust everywhere.

[Toltec]

Vipers said:

V8Ford said:

Toltec said:

I get not wanting to do this for a brief stop, however you may not be aware that letting your car move wears out the tyres. Perhaps you would be better leaving it at home and just enjoy it as garden sculpture.

I reverse everywhere, so my tyres actually gain rubber as the mileage reduces...

That's how it's done, I have always wondered why with the zillions of tyres wearing out, you don't see piles of rubber dust everywhere.

This is the useful thing about children, their little lungs are very good at filtering the dust from the air.

There is a company working on a process to extract platinum from road sweeping, I kid you not.

[Censorious]

carmadgaz said:

GadgeS3C said:

fulham911club said:

Dr Jekyll said:

fulham911club said:

Why? It isn't a minimum speed but a maximum speed. On a motorway 40mph is rather foolish but along a country lane I don't see the problem. Maybe they weren't in a hurry / were enjoying the view / some other reason. Doesn't mean they have to drive at 60 the whole way. Just be patient and over-take when safe to do so.

This really winds me up. 'I'm not going fast, so no danger can possibly arise or if it does it won't be my fault, so I can admire the scenery instead of watching the road'.

Errr - maybe the passengers were enjoying the view. I was citing examples of why someone might drive at 40 in a 60.

Enjoying the view is fine, but the driver should be paying attention to what's behind and move over to let it pass as soon as safe to do so.

Sadly, not my experience of many folks bimbling along these days.

My point exactly, I spend alot of time driving slower vehicles (old Landie and trailer, vintage cars and vans) and I make a point of pulling over and make it as easy as possible for other drivers to get past me. It isn't rocket science, it's common courtesy. I know 60 is a limit not a target but 2/3rds of the speed would fail your driving test for not making progress and it's antisocial to hold everyone else up just because you aren't in a hurry!!!

I teach pupils that they should aim to drive at the speed limit all of the time unless there is a reason related to safety that dictates they should be driving more slowly.

"Progress - too slow" is part of the DVSA driving standards test.

[Vipers]

SilverSixer said:

MitchT said:

People who don't move over to the right lane to let others join a dual carriageway. Bus pass.

Here you go Mitch:

https://www.gov.uk/motorways-253-to-273/joining-th...

Now find me the bit that says traffic already on the motorway needs to move over.

And those who think they have gods given right to barge into the dual carriageway in the belief it's they who has the right of way.

Personally I will of course move over to let someone in if I can, and then you have the aholes who are happy to do 60 in L1 on a NSL dual carriageway and decide to move over to let someone join, in doing so causing everyone in L2 doing 70 having to anchore up.

Tis a pity drivers don't read the fking Highway Code.

[Censorious]

Vipers said:

And those who think they have gods given right to barge into the dual carriageway in the belief it's they who has the right of way.

Personally I will of course move over to let someone in if I can, and then you have the aholes who are happy to do 60 in L1 on a NSL dual carriageway and decide to move over to let someone join, in doing so causing everyone in L2 doing 70 having to anchore up.

Tis a pity drivers don't read the fking Highway Code.

Agreed!

Like I keep saying on PH threads concerning driving standards; the Government really need to fund driving awareness public information 30sec clips between adverts on TV.

They could even be low budget and cheesy like the old ones shown in the 70's & 80's.
It would make them memorable!

[Paul O]

Roads that have two lanes going into one. Tier 2 if you try to stop someone from getting in. Its there for a reason - so lets use it and reduce conjestion at the pinch points further back.

Permanent 42mph club - Tier 3.

Joining a motorway with a clear lane one and moving straight into lane 2 - Tier 3.

[Vipers]

Censorious said:

Agreed!

Like I keep saying on PH threads concerning driving standards; the Government really need to fund driving awareness public information 30sec clips between adverts on TV.

They could even be low budget and cheesy like the old ones shown in the 70's & 80's.
It would make them memorable!

Up in Aberdeen, we don't get ITV in HD yet, so we watch it on UTV (Ulster Television - manual retune on Sky box) so we can see many programmes on ITV in HD.

Their ads are different of course, and a lot of them centre on road users, cyclists, motorcyclists and motorists, plus quite a lot on farming accidents.

Would it be too difficult to have some on our channels as you mention, remember, "Think once, think twice, think bike" ad some years ago

For our Scottish readers STV are going to transmit in HD at the end of the month. (Apparantly).

[Mr SFJ]

I'd rather watch something like that rather then the same adverts 38 times a day.

[Challo]

Culling for people who do not use their lights at the correct times.

1) No lights on a dark, gloomy, wet day expecting people to see you
2) No lights or fog lights when it's like pea soup
3) Thinking DRL's mean you do not need headlights on

[Vipers]

Challo said:

Culling for people who do not use their lights at the correct times.

1) No lights on a dark, gloomy, wet day expecting people to see you
2) No lights or fog lights when it's like pea soup
3) Thinking DRL's mean you do not need headlights on

Another foggy wet day in Aberdeen today, and we have had all of those.

Including when it cleared up a bit and 70 was safely achievable, the bloody rear fogs still on morons