A Driving Licence Cull - Post your suggestions

A Driving Licence Cull - Post your suggestions

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Steffan

10,362 posts

227 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Matt UK said:
Coming to a standstill at an empty roundabout, checking, waiting and then driving off into the path of a car which ha just entered the roundabout. Straight to Tier 3.
Amazing the number of Sunday drivers that do just that. Picking bits from the road only this weekend when I witnessed just that process locally and perhaps the saddest part was the passenger commenting as details were being exhanged "She did the same thing last weekend" which went down really well with the driver they had hit. No great damage but twice in two weekends??

There are seriously unsafe drivers about who ought not to drive at all. Sadly if such dangerous drivers were banned I fear many would simply ignore the bans. There is an underclass who fiddle everything they can and I doubt that prosecution will cure them. Big problem but no obvious solution. True of a lot of life nowadays.


walm

10,609 posts

201 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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fulham911club said:
kambites said:
I'd add people who sit on the foot brake in queues of traffic at night when there's someone stopped behind them to the list. It completely destroys the night vision of the driver behind you, not to mention being thoroughly unpleasant.
errrm - they are probably in an automatic

And btw "it completely destroys the night vision..." sounds like you are on a top gun mission of some sorts - you aren't ...
I have to admit that I am confused what the correct procedure is here.
Should I shift into park? Won't the brief flash of reversing lights alarm the person behind you?
Or just neutral and use the hand brake (which is a weird foot brake to the right of the accelerator in my case)?

G0ldfysh

3,304 posts

256 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Pixelpeep said:
VictoriaYorks said:
People who pull up in a queue of traffic leaving a big gap in front of them, then slowly creep forward once you've stopped behind them - why?
I thought it was just me. THIS boils my piss!!!

you leave it, you leave it, you leave it and think no, i aint taking the handbrake off, putting it into gear just to move 3 inches just because you couldn't judge the gap/couldn't be bothered/are an ass.

Then the gap gets big enough for a car so you have to play their evil and selfish game.
They might be feeling you have been sitting too close.
Having had some one decide to hug my bumper I have been guilty of this in the past just to get a wind up.
Is fascinating how many times people are prepared to take off handbrake and creep up a couple of feet when the lights are still red.
My old driving instructor said 'Should stop with enough space to see the tyres of the car in front'.

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Addison Lee drivers.

Tier 5......redcard

MitchT

15,788 posts

208 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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People who don't move over to the right lane to let others join a dual carriageway. Bus pass.

MitchT

15,788 posts

208 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Police who drive in the exact manner that they're told to throw the book at us for. Bus pass. And the sack.

Pixelpeep

8,600 posts

141 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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G0ldfysh said:
Pixelpeep said:
VictoriaYorks said:
People who pull up in a queue of traffic leaving a big gap in front of them, then slowly creep forward once you've stopped behind them - why?
I thought it was just me. THIS boils my piss!!!

you leave it, you leave it, you leave it and think no, i aint taking the handbrake off, putting it into gear just to move 3 inches just because you couldn't judge the gap/couldn't be bothered/are an ass.

Then the gap gets big enough for a car so you have to play their evil and selfish game.
They might be feeling you have been sitting too close.
Having had some one decide to hug my bumper I have been guilty of this in the past just to get a wind up.
Is fascinating how many times people are prepared to take off handbrake and creep up a couple of feet when the lights are still red.
My old driving instructor said 'Should stop with enough space to see the tyres of the car in front'.
My driving instructor taught me to always leave enough gap so you could get round them incase they break down - a very useful tip and the very reason i know i never sit 'right up someones backside'

they just pull up wherever the car stops moving, no thought, planning or skill. once everyone else has become still they then practice their clutch control/move a car length (i mean really? who in a queue of stationary traffic suddenly has 12 feet of gap in front of them?)

JUST PULL UP TO THE LINE/CAR IN FRONT WITH A REASONABLE GAP AND PULL AWAY ONCE THE CAR IN FRONT MOVES!!!!

it's not rocket science frown

funkyrobot

18,789 posts

227 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Matt UK said:
Coming to a standstill at an empty roundabout, checking, waiting and then driving off into the path of a car which ha just entered the roundabout. Straight to Tier 3.
Witnessed that yesterday. hehe

V8forweekends

2,481 posts

123 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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walm said:
I have to admit that I am confused what the correct procedure is here.
Should I shift into park? Won't the brief flash of reversing lights alarm the person behind you?
Or just neutral and use the hand brake (which is a weird foot brake to the right of the accelerator in my case)?
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.

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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MitchT said:
People who don't move over to the right lane to let others join a dual carriageway. Bus pass.
Oh dear,here we go.

People joining dual carriageways who think they have a right to barge into lane 1.

Tier7.

jamieduff1981

8,022 posts

139 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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V8forweekends said:
walm said:
I have to admit that I am confused what the correct procedure is here.
Should I shift into park? Won't the brief flash of reversing lights alarm the person behind you?
Or just neutral and use the hand brake (which is a weird foot brake to the right of the accelerator in my case)?
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.
The X350 uses the same control module as my car. If the gearbox is in Drive, Reverse or any of the J-Gate hold points and the park brake is engaged, you simply press the accelerator to drive away and the control module immediately releases the park brake. If in Park or Neutral it doesn't.

LuS1fer

41,082 posts

244 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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What we need are mass attacks on texting and mobile phone abusers - a crack team of PCSOs walking through traffic, tapping windows. All that would be required is the imposition of a time penalty where you had to pull over and park for 15 minutes before being allowed to go on your way. This inconvenience would soon put paid to the texters and phone abusers.

CO2000

3,177 posts

208 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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Straight to tier 3 for me,

Tier 3 - People that leave several car lengths maybe even 100yds + in slowly moving traffic, funny though when they get overtaken and try and speed up to block (long time ago, 100ish bhp Vrs 350 bhp will only be one winner haha)

Tier 3 - Buses that are early and go at 20mph if that to get back on time, just wait at a bus stop

Tier 3 - Stopping at roundabouts when no one else around, such people coincidentally normally have a dented rear end……

thehype

140 posts

220 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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People who point-blank refuse to let you in where two lanes merge. This has to be one of the worst places in the country for this...

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.915351,-1.176888...

MitchT

15,788 posts

208 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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iva cosworth said:
Oh dear,here we go.

People joining dual carriageways who think they have a right to barge into lane 1.

Tier7.
So, given the absence of a hard shoulder on dual carriageways you're supposed to levitate if no one moves over then? Or perhaps legislate against the risk of no one moving over by going so slowly that you can stop, angering those behind you on the slip road and almost causing a pile up when you do finally move out when a gap appears because your speed isn't matched with that of the traffic? Bit if courtesy and common sense on the part of those passing never goes amiss rolleyes

wombat172a

1,455 posts

182 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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People who are unable to drive at a constant speed/use cruise control on the motorway, so that they keep passing you and then going slower etc.

Tier 3

walm

10,609 posts

201 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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MitchT said:
So, given the absence of a hard shoulder on dual carriageways you're supposed to levitate if no one moves over then?
No you move into the gaps.
You know, where there aren't cars or other vehicles.
The bits in between them; that's where you go.

This sometimes requires coordinating both the accelerator and the steering wheel at the same time, so many people struggle.

kambites

67,460 posts

220 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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fulham911club said:
kambites said:
I'd add people who sit on the foot brake in queues of traffic at night when there's someone stopped behind them to the list. It completely destroys the night vision of the driver behind you, not to mention being thoroughly unpleasant.
errrm - they are probably in an automatic
So automatics don't have hand-brakes these days?

It's utterly selfish behaviour to sit on the foot brake for any significant period of time in the middle of a queue of stationary traffic.

TangerinePool

1,385 posts

189 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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MitchT said:
iva cosworth said:
Oh dear,here we go.

People joining dual carriageways who think they have a right to barge into lane 1.

Tier7.
So, given the absence of a hard shoulder on dual carriageways you're supposed to levitate if no one moves over then? Or perhaps legislate against the risk of no one moving over by going so slowly that you can stop, angering those behind you on the slip road and almost causing a pile up when you do finally move out when a gap appears because your speed isn't matched with that of the traffic? Bit if courtesy and common sense on the part of those passing never goes amiss rolleyes
The onus is on the person joining but in our lovely, polite world of happy people those already on the carriageway will be doing all they can to ensure smooth and painless entry (f'naar) for the er... 'joiner' nuts

big_boz

1,684 posts

206 months

Wednesday 23rd April 2014
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kambites said:
fulham911club said:
kambites said:
I'd add people who sit on the foot brake in queues of traffic at night when there's someone stopped behind them to the list. It completely destroys the night vision of the driver behind you, not to mention being thoroughly unpleasant.
errrm - they are probably in an automatic
So automatics don't have hand-brakes these days?
So you are saying that in an auto you would knock it out of drive and pull the hand brake on?

REALLY......i don't think so