One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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Drivers, such as this delight from Autoglass, who remain oblivious to the fact that while their shiny bright DRL LEDs are blinding everyone ahead of them, their tail lights are not on.
... And then me, for sending the image to Autoglass themselves.
(screen shot from dashcam, not phone-at-wheel!)
... And then me, for sending the image to Autoglass themselves.
(screen shot from dashcam, not phone-at-wheel!)
Just one of those days where I should have stayed in bed.
1) Dozy git 1 pulls out of a layby on the A3 straight into my path at maybe 150ft with no indication or attempt to get up to NSL speeds. I was doing 70 in L1, cars alongside me in L2. First time I've had to do an emergency stop in 15 years of driving. How I didn't go into him I don't know; he just drove off as if nothing happened. Credit to those in L2 who also slowed down for me; would have been thankful for them had anything happened.
2) Dozy git 2 in a Juke driving with their full beams on, all the way from Esher to Tolworth.
3) Golf and an Astra speeding and swerving in and out of traffic on the 50mph section of the A3 heading into London. Eventually everyone is stopped at some traffic lights, and the two drivers seem to be having a go at each other (alongside one another). Golf floors it and gets in front of the Astra and brake-checks him - Astra hits the kerb trying to avoid him; Golf speeds off, and the rest of us move on.
4) 5 minutes later, just after the A3 goes from 3 lanes to 1, the same Astra comes steaming down the middle of the road forcing others to take avoiding action.
5) Turning left out of a the side road opposite the Royal College of Art, I am immediately met with an Uber driver on my side of the road trying to jump a queue of traffic so he can turn into the road I've just come out of. He stops inches from me (I can't see any of his car, just him, sitting there, on my side of the road, shouting and shaking his fists at me). He refused to move/reverse, and I had traffic behind me. Que EVERYONE honking their horns at this guy as he awkwardly tried to reverse back into the queue of traffic he was trying to jump.
6) Nearly home when yet another on-coming Uber driver pulls across to my side of the road and attempts to park up, only there is zero room for him to do so. Bus driver behind him goes nuts on his horn, and we're left in a stalemate situation as I can't get between the Uber and the bus, and the bus cannot get past either. Credit to the Uber driver, he did move pretty quickly once he realised. But still, knob.
Seriously, f
k London traffic.
1) Dozy git 1 pulls out of a layby on the A3 straight into my path at maybe 150ft with no indication or attempt to get up to NSL speeds. I was doing 70 in L1, cars alongside me in L2. First time I've had to do an emergency stop in 15 years of driving. How I didn't go into him I don't know; he just drove off as if nothing happened. Credit to those in L2 who also slowed down for me; would have been thankful for them had anything happened.
2) Dozy git 2 in a Juke driving with their full beams on, all the way from Esher to Tolworth.
3) Golf and an Astra speeding and swerving in and out of traffic on the 50mph section of the A3 heading into London. Eventually everyone is stopped at some traffic lights, and the two drivers seem to be having a go at each other (alongside one another). Golf floors it and gets in front of the Astra and brake-checks him - Astra hits the kerb trying to avoid him; Golf speeds off, and the rest of us move on.
4) 5 minutes later, just after the A3 goes from 3 lanes to 1, the same Astra comes steaming down the middle of the road forcing others to take avoiding action.
5) Turning left out of a the side road opposite the Royal College of Art, I am immediately met with an Uber driver on my side of the road trying to jump a queue of traffic so he can turn into the road I've just come out of. He stops inches from me (I can't see any of his car, just him, sitting there, on my side of the road, shouting and shaking his fists at me). He refused to move/reverse, and I had traffic behind me. Que EVERYONE honking their horns at this guy as he awkwardly tried to reverse back into the queue of traffic he was trying to jump.
6) Nearly home when yet another on-coming Uber driver pulls across to my side of the road and attempts to park up, only there is zero room for him to do so. Bus driver behind him goes nuts on his horn, and we're left in a stalemate situation as I can't get between the Uber and the bus, and the bus cannot get past either. Credit to the Uber driver, he did move pretty quickly once he realised. But still, knob.
Seriously, f
k London traffic. moleamol said:
It's rather ironic but IMO DRLs are the biggest cause of people not using their lights at night. Even worse now that many dashboards light up.
I see this all the time, even cars in pitch blackness who must wonder why their headlights are so sh*t.Why....just why....if we have to have DRLs, can't the rear lights have a permanent red LED showing?
Now if the dozy gits with their rear foglights on can just look at the tail lights ahead to check if they need to be on at all, we're done.
LuS1fer said:
moleamol said:
It's rather ironic but IMO DRLs are the biggest cause of people not using their lights at night. Even worse now that many dashboards light up.
I see this all the time, even cars in pitch blackness who must wonder why their headlights are so sh*t.Why....just why....if we have to have DRLs, can't the rear lights have a permanent red LED showing?
Now if the dozy gits with their rear foglights on can just look at the tail lights ahead to check if they need to be on at all, we're done.
I fiddle with the lights and often have them in sidelights only so sometimes they're not on Auto mode for when the wife gets in the car. She doesn't realise and drives around on DRL only. The amount of times I tried to tell her to check the lights but she's hopeless at it. Coding them on seemed the safest thing to do.
romeogolf said:
Drivers, such as this delight from Autoglass, who remain oblivious to the fact that while their shiny bright DRL LEDs are blinding everyone ahead of them, their tail lights are not on.
... And then me, for sending the image to Autoglass themselves.
(screen shot from dashcam, not phone-at-wheel!)
Fail to see how DRLs are 'dazzling'! Reminds me of when xenons were still uncommon and people protested, or gave full beam in protest.... And then me, for sending the image to Autoglass themselves.
(screen shot from dashcam, not phone-at-wheel!)
Get your eyes tested!
Pan Pan Pan said:
Also (very) thick fog around today, and many in black or silver cars which don't show very well in these conditions driving with no lights on at all. FFS! Can they really, really be that thick?
And then conversely the other 80% with full front and rear fogs ablaze in well over several hundred metres visibility. Not to mention those in close moving traffic. Muppetry everywhere.playalistic said:
Pan Pan Pan said:
Also (very) thick fog around today, and many in black or silver cars which don't show very well in these conditions driving with no lights on at all. FFS! Can they really, really be that thick?
And then conversely the other 80% with full front and rear fogs ablaze in well over several hundred metres visibility. Not to mention those in close moving traffic. Muppetry everywhere.Pan Pan Pan said:
Also (very) thick fog around today, and many in black or silver cars which don't show very well in these conditions driving with no lights on at all. FFS! Can they really, really be that thick?
I was driving my wife's MINI Cooper S today and was flashed twice in fog for this reason. The lights were on auto, and it was bright in the fog, so they didn't switch on, so I did it manually.Auto lights may be a significant issue...
playalistic said:
Pan Pan Pan said:
Also (very) thick fog around today, and many in black or silver cars which don't show very well in these conditions driving with no lights on at all. FFS! Can they really, really be that thick?
And then conversely the other 80% with full front and rear fogs ablaze in well over several hundred metres visibility. Not to mention those in close moving traffic. Muppetry everywhere.rambo19 said:
playalistic said:
And then conversely the other 80% with full front and rear fogs ablaze in well over several hundred metres visibility. Not to mention those in close moving traffic. Muppetry everywhere.
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