One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3
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Morons with incorrectly fitted, loose or broken lights.
Was followed this morning by a 13 plate Focus ST with a wobbly xenon light. This turned off at a roundabout, but was replaced by some other car with one light pointing down and the other right into my central mirror.
Oh yes, must also add the morons who are driving in the morning with no lights on, whilst it is dark.
I'm seeing a lot of lazy DRL use too. You pass a car in dark conditions and the front is lit up, but the back isn't.
Was followed this morning by a 13 plate Focus ST with a wobbly xenon light. This turned off at a roundabout, but was replaced by some other car with one light pointing down and the other right into my central mirror.
Oh yes, must also add the morons who are driving in the morning with no lights on, whilst it is dark.
I'm seeing a lot of lazy DRL use too. You pass a car in dark conditions and the front is lit up, but the back isn't.
Blanchimont said:
smithyithy said:
One I spotted was an old Picasso, so no lights whatsoever. How could you not realise, surely the whole interior would be black?
I guess some of the DRL cars light up the dials too. Or that they don't look at them.
I'm not sure which is more worrying.
With the lights off (no option to turn off DRL's on a 2014 Audi) the gauges are unlit but the needles themselves and the AMI data are lit.
When the lights were switched on (side/main/auto) then the gauges backlit up.
it's pretty stupid really. The dash should illuminate when it's dark, and this is usually when a driver would choose to illuminate the headlights manually (when that was a thing), so it's done at the same time. DRLs, well the clue is in the name - DAYTIME running lights. Firstly they are on all the time, and secondly they are on in the daytime to aid in the weird circumstances where they would make you more visible - not in the rain, and not in the dark. So, why would we now need to know they are illuminated in our own car, by illuminating the dash? Nearly everyone associates illuminated dash with headlights turned on, not engine turned on. It's pointless and confusing to illuminate the dash when DRLs are on, because they are on ALL THE TIME!
The highlight of my Thursday:
There's roadworks on City Road in Chester. Basically where the yellow sign is saying they are going to be:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.1949313,-2.88110...
It's one way through that section. The lights are four way and slow-ish so there's usually a queue all the way back as far as The Cellar or even onto the roundabout.
Was behind this B6 A4 Estate most of the way through town and he's driving like an arse. NBS, Audi.
As we reach the lights, I don't know whether he was trying to go on red and then there was oncoming traffic so he had to back up or if he's trying to park, but somehow he ends up on the wrong side of the road. Bear in mind at this point there's a solid all the way back up the road and a lot of traffic coming through the other way. There's just about enough room for oncoming traffic to squeeze through, but he's really got nowhere to go.
He starts reversing away from the sign slowly. I don't know if he's trying to park or looking for the end of the queue or what. If you spin the camera around, I saw him get as far back as the hump of the bridge.
It was fascinating.
He wasn't there this morning so presumably somebody let him in eventually.
There's roadworks on City Road in Chester. Basically where the yellow sign is saying they are going to be:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.1949313,-2.88110...
It's one way through that section. The lights are four way and slow-ish so there's usually a queue all the way back as far as The Cellar or even onto the roundabout.
Was behind this B6 A4 Estate most of the way through town and he's driving like an arse. NBS, Audi.
As we reach the lights, I don't know whether he was trying to go on red and then there was oncoming traffic so he had to back up or if he's trying to park, but somehow he ends up on the wrong side of the road. Bear in mind at this point there's a solid all the way back up the road and a lot of traffic coming through the other way. There's just about enough room for oncoming traffic to squeeze through, but he's really got nowhere to go.
He starts reversing away from the sign slowly. I don't know if he's trying to park or looking for the end of the queue or what. If you spin the camera around, I saw him get as far back as the hump of the bridge.
It was fascinating.
He wasn't there this morning so presumably somebody let him in eventually.
Blown2CV said:
it's pretty stupid really. The dash should illuminate when it's dark, and this is usually when a driver would choose to illuminate the headlights manually (when that was a thing), so it's done at the same time. DRLs, well the clue is in the name - DAYTIME running lights. Firstly they are on all the time, and secondly they are on in the daytime to aid in the weird circumstances where they would make you more visible - not in the rain, and not in the dark. So, why would we now need to know they are illuminated in our own car, by illuminating the dash? Nearly everyone associates illuminated dash with headlights turned on, not engine turned on. It's pointless and confusing to illuminate the dash when DRLs are on, because they are on ALL THE TIME!
VW Up has a simple solution to this - dials are normally illuminated but a light sensor turns them off when it gets dark - forcing you to put the headlights onAlmost forgot about the throbber I saw as I was waiting at a side road on my way back the car wash.
He was driving Old Burgundy Jag Estate car and was following a learner though an industrial estate.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3630014,0.578741...
There were multiple cars parked where the lorries are on google, but that didn't stop dips
t overtaking the learner with out even indicating, making oncoming traffic slow and then pulling in too soon on the learner.
Was he in a hurry?? Life or death event???..... No!
Less than a 100m up the road, he is slowing pull into the local recycling depot.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3605456,0.578195...
I had a moron in a parked burgundy Jag estate suddenly open his door on me as I was passing a year or so back, I wonder now if its the same tt.
He was driving Old Burgundy Jag Estate car and was following a learner though an industrial estate.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3630014,0.578741...
There were multiple cars parked where the lorries are on google, but that didn't stop dips
t overtaking the learner with out even indicating, making oncoming traffic slow and then pulling in too soon on the learner.Was he in a hurry?? Life or death event???..... No!
Less than a 100m up the road, he is slowing pull into the local recycling depot.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.3605456,0.578195...
I had a moron in a parked burgundy Jag estate suddenly open his door on me as I was passing a year or so back, I wonder now if its the same t
t.My biggest annoyance as of late is when people feel the need to accelerate as close as possible to the car in lane 1 before overtaking it.
I joined a 50mph empty dual carriageway just now, going 50mph in my little i10 hire car.
RR Evoque approaching in lane 1 from behind. I barely even registered it was there, until it was right on my arse. She (young couple) must've accelerated to nearly 70mph in lane 1 (still no other vehicles in sight), got within a car length from the back of my car before overtaking me.
What's the point? Had she changed lanes earlier and passed normally I wouldn't care, but the way she got that close so quickly was like saying "Oi! Oi you! I'm coming, I'm overtaking you! Look! Here I go!"
I joined a 50mph empty dual carriageway just now, going 50mph in my little i10 hire car.
RR Evoque approaching in lane 1 from behind. I barely even registered it was there, until it was right on my arse. She (young couple) must've accelerated to nearly 70mph in lane 1 (still no other vehicles in sight), got within a car length from the back of my car before overtaking me.
What's the point? Had she changed lanes earlier and passed normally I wouldn't care, but the way she got that close so quickly was like saying "Oi! Oi you! I'm coming, I'm overtaking you! Look! Here I go!"
funinhounslow said:
Blown2CV said:
it's pretty stupid really. The dash should illuminate when it's dark, and this is usually when a driver would choose to illuminate the headlights manually (when that was a thing), so it's done at the same time. DRLs, well the clue is in the name - DAYTIME running lights. Firstly they are on all the time, and secondly they are on in the daytime to aid in the weird circumstances where they would make you more visible - not in the rain, and not in the dark. So, why would we now need to know they are illuminated in our own car, by illuminating the dash? Nearly everyone associates illuminated dash with headlights turned on, not engine turned on. It's pointless and confusing to illuminate the dash when DRLs are on, because they are on ALL THE TIME!
VW Up has a simple solution to this - dials are normally illuminated but a light sensor turns them off when it gets dark - forcing you to put the headlights onfuninhounslow said:
Blown2CV said:
it's pretty stupid really. The dash should illuminate when it's dark, and this is usually when a driver would choose to illuminate the headlights manually (when that was a thing), so it's done at the same time. DRLs, well the clue is in the name - DAYTIME running lights. Firstly they are on all the time, and secondly they are on in the daytime to aid in the weird circumstances where they would make you more visible - not in the rain, and not in the dark. So, why would we now need to know they are illuminated in our own car, by illuminating the dash? Nearly everyone associates illuminated dash with headlights turned on, not engine turned on. It's pointless and confusing to illuminate the dash when DRLs are on, because they are on ALL THE TIME!
VW Up has a simple solution to this - dials are normally illuminated but a light sensor turns them off when it gets dark - forcing you to put the headlights onBlown2CV said:
i guess the problem fully goes away when all cars have DRLs and automatic headlights. I don't think I've touched the dial on the golf in the 18 months i've had it. Maybe to set it back to auto after it's been in the dealer.
Except in fog. My auto headlights seem incapable of recognising fog during daylight and don't turn on. At that point, manual switching on is needed.GravelMachineGun said:
Drivers who when are behind a car that is turning left go onto the other side of the road to avoid slowing down behind the car that is turning and then when they just about miss the car that has pulled out turning right as the other car turned left they shout abuse at them like it is their right to be on that side of the ride getting past a slow car.
A friend of mine had a crash this way and the other driver completely denied being on the other side of the road. They went to court and it ended up a 50/50.
This is why everyone should be made to use a dashcam.
The driver joining the road is mostly to blame.A friend of mine had a crash this way and the other driver completely denied being on the other side of the road. They went to court and it ended up a 50/50.
This is why everyone should be made to use a dashcam.
DavidJG said:
Blown2CV said:
i guess the problem fully goes away when all cars have DRLs and automatic headlights. I don't think I've touched the dial on the golf in the 18 months i've had it. Maybe to set it back to auto after it's been in the dealer.
Except in fog. My auto headlights seem incapable of recognising fog during daylight and don't turn on. At that point, manual switching on is needed.Throbber on the BMW 1200GS who was so crap at filtering that he nearly hit several cars on the A421 this evening.
Extra knob points for the "Polite" hi-viz.
The driver of the A6 who decided to park diagonally on the Jct 13 slip road hard shoulder to take a phone call....meaning that his boot was sticking out into the live lane.
Extra knob points for the "Polite" hi-viz.
The driver of the A6 who decided to park diagonally on the Jct 13 slip road hard shoulder to take a phone call....meaning that his boot was sticking out into the live lane.
The 'Royal' county of Berkshire was living up to it's common postal abbreviation today. Although 'Berks' is too benign a term to use on them. Feckin' chockers with knob-heads everywhere I went.
From two young male 'student types' in a red Polo, who BOTH stared directly at me as I rounded a roundabout, then, at the very last possible second, decided to move out in front of me. The bearded clown, about 50, in a Skoda estate who was concentrating so hard on traffic from his right that he didn't even bother to look to his left (from where I was approaching) before pulling out of a stty gravel car park right in front of me. Luckily I'd been looking for that all-important eye contact, and held beck when I realised he was never likely to look my way. Same-same with two nuggets in a Citroen van who were crawling forward to time their turn to fall in behind a car approaching from the right. Traffic from the left? Who cares, fk 'em. We've got a big van and we'll do as we jolly-well please.
Prize prick of the day, though, goes to the Porsche 911 driver in Wargrave. Just where the hell did you learn that it was a good idea to overtake another road user who is clearly indicating, and correctly positioned to turn right from a major to a minor road. Fingers crossed you'll stack the piece of crap anyway, you utter 'tard.
There was an Audi estate who turned left into a driveway ahead of me. Then immediately began to REVERSE!!! into my path. WTF? OK, I get it, it's not your house, you just want to turn round. Great. Then do it CORRECTLY, FFS. It's simple. Indicate left, and pull in just beyond the chosen turning point. Select reverse, check mirrors, etc. Then REVERSE INTO the bloody turn point, and then select first to drive forwards out of it. It's about a bajillion times safer than what you were trying.
Oh, and the two pie-eating champions in the cab of a skip truck that rounded a corner driving AT me on 'my' side of the road. What was that all about? I could keep an artic on the correct side of the dotted lines, you lazy fat Hi-Viz clad cock-womble. Drive properly, or quit the job.
And those were just the ones worth sharing.
Oh, and for the record, I was on a 65 mile cycle ride, so was subject to more close calls than is usual, despite keeping to the quieter roads wherever possible.
A pox on you all. Especially the X3 driver who took exception when I rode like BMW/Audi drivers drive, and helped myself to a bit of "his" space. Screw you, and your blank look, and wildly waving arms. You were driving like a fking chimp (although that insults chimps more than it does you) and holding me up. You stupid fkers really don't like a taste of your own medicine, do you? Knob? Definitely. And I hope yours turns green and falls off.
From two young male 'student types' in a red Polo, who BOTH stared directly at me as I rounded a roundabout, then, at the very last possible second, decided to move out in front of me. The bearded clown, about 50, in a Skoda estate who was concentrating so hard on traffic from his right that he didn't even bother to look to his left (from where I was approaching) before pulling out of a s
tty gravel car park right in front of me. Luckily I'd been looking for that all-important eye contact, and held beck when I realised he was never likely to look my way. Same-same with two nuggets in a Citroen van who were crawling forward to time their turn to fall in behind a car approaching from the right. Traffic from the left? Who cares, fk 'em. We've got a big van and we'll do as we jolly-well please.Prize prick of the day, though, goes to the Porsche 911 driver in Wargrave. Just where the hell did you learn that it was a good idea to overtake another road user who is clearly indicating, and correctly positioned to turn right from a major to a minor road. Fingers crossed you'll stack the piece of crap anyway, you utter 'tard.
There was an Audi estate who turned left into a driveway ahead of me. Then immediately began to REVERSE!!! into my path. WTF? OK, I get it, it's not your house, you just want to turn round. Great. Then do it CORRECTLY, FFS. It's simple. Indicate left, and pull in just beyond the chosen turning point. Select reverse, check mirrors, etc. Then REVERSE INTO the bloody turn point, and then select first to drive forwards out of it. It's about a bajillion times safer than what you were trying.
Oh, and the two pie-eating champions in the cab of a skip truck that rounded a corner driving AT me on 'my' side of the road. What was that all about? I could keep an artic on the correct side of the dotted lines, you lazy fat Hi-Viz clad cock-womble. Drive properly, or quit the job.
And those were just the ones worth sharing.
Oh, and for the record, I was on a 65 mile cycle ride, so was subject to more close calls than is usual, despite keeping to the quieter roads wherever possible.
A pox on you all. Especially the X3 driver who took exception when I rode like BMW/Audi drivers drive, and helped myself to a bit of "his" space. Screw you, and your blank look, and wildly waving arms. You were driving like a f
king chimp (although that insults chimps more than it does you) and holding me up. You stupid fkers really don't like a taste of your own medicine, do you? Knob? Definitely. And I hope yours turns green and falls off.smithyithy said:
My biggest annoyance as of late is when people feel the need to accelerate as close as possible to the car in lane 1 before overtaking it.
I joined a 50mph empty dual carriageway just now, going 50mph in my little i10 hire car.
RR Evoque approaching in lane 1 from behind. I barely even registered it was there, until it was right on my arse. She (young couple) must've accelerated to nearly 70mph in lane 1 (still no other vehicles in sight), got within a car length from the back of my car before overtaking me.
What's the point? Had she changed lanes earlier and passed normally I wouldn't care, but the way she got that close so quickly was like saying "Oi! Oi you! I'm coming, I'm overtaking you! Look! Here I go!"
Along with not indicating, not giving way when there is an obstruction on your side, cutting corners when turning right, taking the 'straight line' on a bend or cuvre in the road, palm steering, speeding through town centres, and generally being an ass, these and your example are reaching epidemic proportions.I joined a 50mph empty dual carriageway just now, going 50mph in my little i10 hire car.
RR Evoque approaching in lane 1 from behind. I barely even registered it was there, until it was right on my arse. She (young couple) must've accelerated to nearly 70mph in lane 1 (still no other vehicles in sight), got within a car length from the back of my car before overtaking me.
What's the point? Had she changed lanes earlier and passed normally I wouldn't care, but the way she got that close so quickly was like saying "Oi! Oi you! I'm coming, I'm overtaking you! Look! Here I go!"
WD39 said:
Along with not indicating, not giving way when there is an obstruction on your side, cutting corners when turning right, taking the 'straight line' on a bend or cuvre in the road, palm steering, speeding through town centres, and generally being an ass, these and your example are reaching epidemic proportions.
It is quite worrying how standards seem to be constantly getting worse..Bit of an odd one on the way home yesterday, came off a roundabout with a Vectra alongside who then pulled ahead quite easily and started to move across to the left lane (without bothering to indicate) with a space the size of a LWB Sprinter between us and growing as I wasn't bothering to accelerate (I wasn't about to undertake someone as I've had tts try and pull that same thing on me in the same spot and the only reasons that I didn't hit them was down to checking mirrors and a glance over the shoulder).
He then seemed to st himself for some reason, I can only assume that he only actually bothered to look in his mirrors as he was half way through his manoeuvre, merely glimpsed me as he jerked the steering wheel hard right (the car cocked its rear drivers side wheel it was that hard), swerved back into the right lane then booted it and took off.
ts try and pull that same thing on me in the same spot and the only reasons that I didn't hit them was down to checking mirrors and a glance over the shoulder).He then seemed to s
t himself for some reason, I can only assume that he only actually bothered to look in his mirrors as he was half way through his manoeuvre, merely glimpsed me as he jerked the steering wheel hard right (the car cocked its rear drivers side wheel it was that hard), swerved back into the right lane then booted it and took off.Blanchimont said:
smithyithy said:
One I spotted was an old Picasso, so no lights whatsoever. How could you not realise, surely the whole interior would be black?
I guess some of the DRL cars light up the dials too. Or that they don't look at them.
I'm not sure which is more worrying.
Benefit of the doubt there I think
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