Things other road users do that drive you crazy!

[WD39]

lexusboy said:

People that indicate at a turn left or right only traffic light

Always indicate. It's not only to benefit the car behind you, but all road users. Just because you are in a right/left turn ONLY all others, drivers walkers cyclists need to know what your intentions are. Think of the pedestrian just about to step off the the pavement but sees your indicator and stays put. just one example.

Indicating has now become an optional extra for mny drivers, so, keep indicating.

Edited by WD39 on Wednesday 28th September 19:24

[Mike_Mac]

Pothole said:

Is there a particular reason why anyone NEEDS to sit with their foot on the brake? If not, don't do it, perhaps as a kindness to other road users.

The XE courtesy car I had a while back only engaged the stop/start while the brake was being held down.

Seeing as I only had it for a day and, once I found that out, never used stop/start from then on there may be other ways of doing it, but that did strike me as being a bit daft.

[WD39]

Mike_Mac said:

Pothole said:

Is there a particular reason why anyone NEEDS to sit with their foot on the brake? If not, don't do it, perhaps as a kindness to other road users.

The XE courtesy car I had a while back only engaged the stop/start while the brake was being held down.

Seeing as I only had it for a day and, once I found that out, never used stop/start from then on there may be other ways of doing it, but that did strike me as being a bit daft.

A pet hate of mine too. Retinal disturbance, so it is.

[Darryl247W]

tom321 said:

People turning left who, just before they make the turn, swing out about a foot into the right lane as if they are driving an 18-wheeler or something.

It seems like the majority of drivers do this, even if they're driving nothing larger than a Polo or a Focus.

Seriously, what's the point?

Beat me to it.

[Vipers]

WD39 said:

lexusboy said:

People that indicate at a turn left or right only traffic light

Always indicate. It's not only to benefit the car behind you, but all road users. Just because you are in a right/left turn ONLY all others, drivers walkers cyclists need to know what your intentions are. Think of the pedestrian just about to step off the the pavement but sees your indicator and stays put. just one example.

Indicating has now become an optional extra for mny drivers, so, keep indicating.

Edited by WD39 on Wednesday 28th September 19:24

I hear the new Beemas even have indicators fitted as standard.

[WD39]

benjijames28 said:

SlimJim16v said:

People who start a new thread when there's already one running on the same subject.

Seems to have attracted a good deal of attention. I predict it will run and run...

[WD39]

Vipers said:

WD39 said:

lexusboy said:

People that indicate at a turn left or right only traffic light

Always indicate. It's not only to benefit the car behind you, but all road users. Just because you are in a right/left turn ONLY all others, drivers walkers cyclists need to know what your intentions are. Think of the pedestrian just about to step off the the pavement but sees your indicator and stays put. just one example.

Indicating has now become an optional extra for mny drivers, so, keep indicating.

Edited by WD39 on Wednesday 28th September 19:24

I hear the new Beemas even have indicators fitted as standard.

Not all Audi's have indicators it would seem. If fitted they must be covered in cobwebs.

[sjc]

br d said:

sjc said:

br d said:

Blib said:

sjc said:

In my god know how many years on PH......this is the first time that I've agreed with every single post on a thread!

I find that West Ham fans, in particular, haven't got a clue when it comes to driving.

Or anything else come to that.

It's because we're not sure whether we should stand up or sit down.

Turning around would probably be preferable at a West Ham game

(Have to catch up soon mate!)

Bloke behind me complained at the last game, next thing I knew I had five stewards around me telling me to stand up.The bloke behind had got fed up watching !

[Europa1]

And back on topic...people who are on the inside of a roundabout who suddenly realise they are about to miss their turn, but rather than simply make a circuit of the roundabout, lurch across from the inside to their desired exit, generally without any indication or at best manouevre-signal-[and now that the guy they nearly hit has sounded his horn]mirror.

Edited by jeremyc on Thursday 29th September 12:53

[RobM77]

• My number one pet hate is people who don't indicate before they make their manoeuvre. Virtually everybody, it seems, indicates as they do something, of after, and what's the point in that? Utterly stupid. Furthermore, plenty of people don't indicate at all and somehow expect to be let out of junctions and lanes, when other road users haven't got a clue what they're doing. It's stupid, arrogant and extremely selfish. There is no excuse.

• Second up is people who don't position their car properly at junctions. I have to negotiate two junctions on my daily commute that always have long queues simply because people sit waiting to turn right from the middle of the road, rather than keeping right and allowing cars to pass down their left hand side.

• People who sit with their foot on the brake in queues. Everyone has different sensitivity to bright lights. Not everybody is the same and it's not fair to shine bright lights in people's faces when you can stop being so lazy and just use the handbrake.

• People who think the speed limit is a target, not a limit. If some old dear is doing 35mph in a 40 limit in her Micra, then leave her alone - she has every right to and if she doesn't feel safe at 40, it's better that she does 35.

• People who tailgate others who are driving at the speed limit. Speed camera vans are a common sight on our roads these days, and if a driver is sat at 30 in a 30 limit, then leave them alone!

• People who don't say thank you. I commute on a dual carriageway for 16 miles each day and often see a lorry up ahead indicating to come out of a parking layby; I always indicate, flash briefly and move to lane 2 so they can get out safely, and I think it's been 6 months since anyone's thanked me. Another example: I live amongst tiny lanes that require co-operation to pass, and if I pull in, people just drive past with their nose in the air! I also get this when slowing for horses - very few people say thank you anymore.

• People who don't understand passing places. Several roads near my house are very thin with passing places and often I meet a car coming the other way that storms past a passing place, stops right in front of me and expects me to reverse, often round blind bends, to a passing place that I passed before I even saw them. Stupid.

• People who think overtaking is illegal. Twice in the past year I've had someone completely lose their temper when I've overtaken them perfectly safely on a straight piece of road. In both cases they were vans doing about 25-30mph on a 60mph limit road where it's safe to do 45-50. In both those cases I indicated, checked it was all safe, and just slipped past without any drama. Both drivers pursued me flashing their lights, and one actually overtook me in a 30 limit, skidded sideways to a halt and lept out of his car to challenge me to a fist fight. Ridiculous. I now never overtaken anyone (other than tractors), but it shouldn't be like that.

• Bigotry. There is no such thing as a "BMW driver" or an "Audi driver". They are just ordinary cars like every other car on the road with four seats, a steering wheel and four doors. People buy, hire and drive BMWs and Audis for a plethora of reasons and they don't deserve to be insulted just because someone is too thick to think beyond their own bigoted ideas.

• People who deliberately put their car in a position to demonstrate their right of way and then have a go at someone for being in the 'wrong place'. I usually cruise at 65-70 on the motorway, and often am following a car in lane 1 also doing 65-70 when someone joins from the sliproad up ahead of them, again doing 65-70. There's nothing unusual in any of that and the car should join making a chain of three of us, all at safe distances. What often happens though is the car in front of me suddenly accelerates to get in the way of the guy joining, and then flashes him when he joins. Petty and silly. You see this a lot with pedestrians crossing the road - drivers frequently accelerate to assert their right of way.

• People who constantly change their speed on the motorway. These people just make it really hard to flow down the road without irritation to others and even congestion forming.

That's about it for me. Rant over

Edited by RobM77 on Thursday 29th September 12:33

[Europa1]

RobM77 said:

• People who don't say thank you. I commute on a dual carriageway for 16 miles each day and often see a lorry up ahead indicating to come out of a parking layby; I always indicate, flash briefly and move to lane 2 so they can get out safely, and I think it's been 6 months since anyone's thanked me. Another example: I live amongst tiny lanes that require co-operation to pass, and if I pull in, people just drive past with their nose in the air! I also get this when slowing for horses - very few people say thank you anymore.

Good point. The lack of this common courtesy (that vestigial wave and acknowledgement) yanks my chain as well. It is a very simple courtesy, costs nothing in time or effort, yet so many people don't do it. Its demise seems to be symptomatic of the growing sense of self entitlement of many road users.

[SuperchargedVR6]

WD39 said:

Vipers said:

WD39 said:

lexusboy said:

People that indicate at a turn left or right only traffic light

Always indicate. It's not only to benefit the car behind you, but all road users. Just because you are in a right/left turn ONLY all others, drivers walkers cyclists need to know what your intentions are. Think of the pedestrian just about to step off the the pavement but sees your indicator and stays put. just one example.

Indicating has now become an optional extra for mny drivers, so, keep indicating.

Edited by WD39 on Wednesday 28th September 19:24

I hear the new Beemas even have indicators fitted as standard.

Not all Audi's have indicators it would seem. If fitted they must be covered in cobwebs.

The newer Audis with the Knight Rider strobing effect seem to be used a lot, because they're cool and showing off probably.

[RizzoTheRat]

People at roundabouts who roll forwards beyond the give way line, completely blocking the view of the person to their left, and in the case of one roundabout near here meaning cars coming round the roundabout in the left hand lane have to pull partly in to the middle lane to get round the tts who've stuck their nose out in the roundabout.

[MarkRSi]

As said on the first page...

Impasse said:

People.

[mike74]

Pootle along at a precise and constant 33mph on an NSL road only to then speed up to 40mph+ when going through a village with a 30 limit... then they go back down to 33mph when back out on the scary and dangerous open road.

[Regiment]

Riktoid said:

And the mongs with the rear wiper going even though it's not required. I wonder how often they check their rear view mirror.

Wait....what?

[Fastdruid]

Riktoid said:

And the mongs with the rear wiper going even though it's not required.

My wife used to do that, turn it on when it rained and not turn it off until the noise drove me mad enough to remind her she didn't need it. It wasn't so much not looking as not noticing the wipe.

Now not a problem as the last two cars have been without a rear wiper (plus I mostly drive when we're out together.)

[Vipers]

Fastdruid said:

Riktoid said:

And the mongs with the rear wiper going even though it's not required.

My wife used to do that, turn it on when it rained and not turn it off until the noise drove me mad enough to remind her she didn't need it. It wasn't so much not looking as not noticing the wipe.

Now not a problem as the last two cars have been without a rear wiper (plus I mostly drive when we're out together.)

Slightly off topic, my daughter was out driving and it started bucketing down, she couldn't find the rear wiper, eventually called her husband, who politely pointed that since they changed the car a year or so, the new one didn't have a rear wiper.

Doh......

[Hol]

Europa1 said:

fivepointnine said:

When at the supermarket I just park the farthest away from everyone that I can find, its only a little bit of an extra walk, but keeps the idiots away from my vehicles that I actually care about.

Lucky you. I seem to find that whenever I do that, some doofus will park alongside. I'm starting to think some people lack the capacity to relate their vehicle to white lines on the ground and can only park if they have another vehicle alongside as a reference point.

^^ I made that connection years ago.

Its either a lack of skill or laziness that only requires them to look out the window and not at their mirrors and the white lines.

I'm not OCD, but Ill often get back in the car and shift forward/back or left/right a little, if ive visibly screwed it up first time.

[RobM77]

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This quite often happens to me when I'm in lane 2 overtaking said person, only to have them leave the motorway making the overtake completely unnecessary. Selfish and/or stupid.