The "Sh*t Driving Caught On Cam" Thread Vol II
Discussion
AJXX1 said:
FreeLitres said:
4:28 - probably needs some context but blue car seems to be on a go slow, Audi safely overtakes out of frustration then blue car decides to put their foot down?4:51 - lack of foresight from the car on the slip road, although multiple people should have helped the situation by moving and allowing the car to merge. People stopping on slip roads is not ideal.
6:12 - Same biker appears multiple times in this compilation (which in itself tells you he's a bit of a knob). Enjoys doing the "no no" head shakey shakey for none issues.
6:25 - I'm of the opinion that if you can be undertaken then you're in the wrong lane.
7:07 - Same biker AGAIN? The Audi is up your arse because you're hogging L2 you utter tool.
8:12 - What are you doing you throbber? "He's just gone through a red light" So f***? It's an empty road, no other traffic around, probably a genuine mistake. What does biker do? Gives chase on a pedal bike down the middle of a DC in the dark, spends several mins chasing the car then pulls in-front and forces it to stop and wonders why the passenger gives him an appropriate hand gesture! Not only that he then does it a second time! WTF!
I'm at work so don't have sound, therefore can't listen to the argument, but so far the bike rider is a complete throbber for trying to self police the roads.
t, it's more likely to make people crash through crying with laughter than wonder what they did wrong.And the last one is just a knob of the highest order, deserved all of the grief the car full of lads were giving him.
AJXX1 said:
FreeLitres said:
6:25 - I'm of the opinion that if you can be undertaken then you're in the wrong lane.Edited by AJXX1 on Friday 29th July 20:54
If I want to overtake something I'll hang back until the car ahead in the overtaking lane has got passed it before I move up past it myself. I don't tailgate or sit alongside anything. Just because someone is keeping space to his left to allow himself room for manoeuvre and to avoid being side swiped by something else, it doesn't mean he's lane hogging and it isn't an invite for someone to dodge past on the inside getting stupidly close to other vehicles. It's simply good driving practice to keep a zone of relative safety around your car.
Blakewater said:
A claim often made to justify ignorant and close overtakes on the inside. Is the guy supposed to drive right up to the back of the bus before pulling out to overtake it or tailgate the car in front while sitting alongside the bus to prove he's overtaking?
If I want to overtake something I'll hang back until the car ahead in the overtaking lane has got passed it before I move up past it myself. I don't tailgate or sit alongside anything. Just because someone is keeping space to his left to allow himself room for manoeuvre and to avoid being side swiped by something else, it doesn't mean he's lane hogging and it isn't an invite for someone to dodge past on the inside getting stupidly close to other vehicles. It's simply good driving practice to keep a zone of relative safety around your car.
According to a significant proportion of the population of these forums, you have to get within half a second of the car in front, then pull out and then cut right back in to his safety gap. Then you repeat the whole thing three seconds later for the next car.If I want to overtake something I'll hang back until the car ahead in the overtaking lane has got passed it before I move up past it myself. I don't tailgate or sit alongside anything. Just because someone is keeping space to his left to allow himself room for manoeuvre and to avoid being side swiped by something else, it doesn't mean he's lane hogging and it isn't an invite for someone to dodge past on the inside getting stupidly close to other vehicles. It's simply good driving practice to keep a zone of relative safety around your car.
Try to suggest otherwise and you're a middle lane hogger. Furthermore, no matter what t
ttery the guy behind you pulls or how high his intended cruising speed, if you hold him up for a few seconds you're a middle lane hogger.Bennet said:
According to a significant proportion of the population of these forums, you have to get within half a second of the car in front, then pull out and then cut right back in to his safety gap. Then you repeat the whole thing three seconds later for the next car.
Try to suggest otherwise and you're a middle lane hogger. Furthermore, no matter what tttery the guy behind you pulls or how high his intended cruising speed, if you hold him up for a few seconds you're a middle lane hogger.
Very defensive post Try to suggest otherwise and you're a middle lane hogger. Furthermore, no matter what t
ttery the guy behind you pulls or how high his intended cruising speed, if you hold him up for a few seconds you're a middle lane hogger.
You should treat use of the overtaking lane in the same you would treat an overtake on a single carriageway. That means don't pull out to early and don't stay out too long.
Mr2Mike said:
...it's an Audi. That's what they do.
Agreed, however in this case I can understand the Audi drivers frustration as the biker (who it's clear is a bit of a knob anyway) is lane hogging. This is evident by the large gap in the left hand lane and the fact towards the end of the video the biker turns left off a slip road anyway, so there was no reason for him to be in that lane (well apart from to gather footage and act like a professional victim).CoolHands said:
pinchmeimdreamin said:
"Pull over we'll have you for section 5" 
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Classic. I bet he sleeps with one eye on his phone too..
blueg33 said:
You should treat use of the overtaking lane in the same you would treat an overtake on a single carriageway. That means don't pull out to early and don't stay out too long.
...which fails to recognise that single carriageway overtakes (done properly) usually involve significant and rapid changes in the speed of the overtaker. On Mways and DCs it's all steadyish speeds with very low differentials.silentbrown said:
blueg33 said:
You should treat use of the overtaking lane in the same you would treat an overtake on a single carriageway. That means don't pull out to early and don't stay out too long.
...which fails to recognise that single carriageway overtakes (done properly) usually involve significant and rapid changes in the speed of the overtaker. On Mways and DCs it's all steadyish speeds with very low differentials.RenOHH said:
3:15 - the camera car continues to drive into danger when it was obvious the bin lorry was making a move which it had started the very instant the camera car rounds the bend. Seemed to stop at the last possible moment when they had plenty of time and space to slow down. Must be a nightmare pulling out of a junction like that in a heavy vehicle.
And at 3:39 we have the old classic; everyone pile into lane 3 when the traffic slows. Amazes me that people do that.
I like the last clip where the cyclist offers out those mouthy bellends, only for them to drive away like a bunch of softies. And at 3:39 we have the old classic; everyone pile into lane 3 when the traffic slows. Amazes me that people do that.
ShaunTheSheep said:
Blakewater said:
I'll hang back until the car ahead in the overtaking lane has got passed it
Why not just stay in the driving lane until the overtake is on? I'll have to wait for everyone I previously overtook to trundle past nose to tail and become part of the hold up in front again.
Also, when the intention is to keep space around my vehicle, I won't move into the middle lane from the outside lane if I'm alongside something in the inside lane. I'm wanting to avoid lingering in the blind spot of another driver and one of the most common motorway accidents is a driver in lane one and a driver in lane three both moving into the same gap in lane two and side swiping each other.
To move in to lane two, maintain a two second gap from the vehicle in front and avoid being alongside what's in lane one, I'll have to slow in front of the guy I've moved over in front of. Then he'll expect me to move into lane one to not be hogging the middle lane and suddenly I'll be trundling in lane one at 50mph with the supermarket lorries because all those who want to tailgate and drive in people's blind spots think they have more right to the overtaking lanes than those who want to make progress safely.
The angry tailgater and the person leapfrogging past people in the outside lane by dodging through small gaps to overtake on the inside are no less obliged to move over for those behind them in dense traffic than anyone else is. They have gaps to their left but they think those in front should move over and allow them through because they're the only people who want to go faster and the only people whose journeys are important. The problem is, when the snail racing HGVs and the person doing 56.5mph in the outside lane move over, these people who think they're the fastest on the road never look in their mirrors and never leave the outside lane themselves. I encountered one such woman on the M62 the other day who, after giving it argie-bargie past Leeds, sat in the outside lane all the way to Manchester when the road in front of her had cleared and everyone she'd shoved past in heavy traffic was stuck behind her.
Blakewater said:
ShaunTheSheep said:
Blakewater said:
I'll hang back until the car ahead in the overtaking lane has got passed it
Why not just stay in the driving lane until the overtake is on? I'll have to wait for everyone I previously overtook to trundle past nose to tail and become part of the hold up in front again.
Also, when the intention is to keep space around my vehicle, I won't move into the middle lane from the outside lane if I'm alongside something in the inside lane. I'm wanting to avoid lingering in the blind spot of another driver and one of the most common motorway accidents is a driver in lane one and a driver in lane three both moving into the same gap in lane two and side swiping each other.
To move in to lane two, maintain a two second gap from the vehicle in front and avoid being alongside what's in lane one, I'll have to slow in front of the guy I've moved over in front of. Then he'll expect me to move into lane one to not be hogging the middle lane and suddenly I'll be trundling in lane one at 50mph with the supermarket lorries because all those who want to tailgate and drive in people's blind spots think they have more right to the overtaking lanes than those who want to make progress safely.
The angry tailgater and the person leapfrogging past people in the outside lane by dodging through small gaps to overtake on the inside are no less obliged to move over for those behind them in dense traffic than anyone else is. They have gaps to their left but they think those in front should move over and allow them through because they're the only people who want to go faster and the only people whose journeys are important. The problem is, when the snail racing HGVs and the person doing 56.5mph in the outside lane move over, these people who think they're the fastest on the road never look in their mirrors and never leave the outside lane themselves. I encountered one such woman on the M62 the other day who, after giving it argie-bargie past Leeds, sat in the outside lane all the way to Manchester when the road in front of her had cleared and everyone she'd shoved past in heavy traffic was stuck behind her.
FreeLitres said:
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