One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3

One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3

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Big Al.

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68,795 posts

257 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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One single thing that makes me think "knob"?

Idiots so desperate to be the first to post on a new volume, that they'll post the sum total of naff all to do it...

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carreauchompeur

17,830 posts

203 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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Yeah, that winds me up too

bairn7

142 posts

118 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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Purple sh*tbox Polo on the M9 Edinburgh-bound this morning. In rush hour traffic decides to leave a good 7 or 8 car lengths between himself and the car in front in L2 (with a busy L1). The inevitable happens and L1 cars pull into the gap. Moron then slows down to maintain the 7 or 8 car length gap!! Forced me to indicate to join L1, wait until someone in L1 was kind enough to slow to let me in (about 10 cars), keep up with the flow of traffic in L1 until I was past the tw*t the pull into the gap in L2 myself to make some decent progress.

That'll be the easter hols over then frown

kowalski655

14,599 posts

142 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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He was probably doing the "only a fool breaks the 2 second rule" thing...which with all the loons on the M9 is possibly a good thing

Roger Irrelevant

2,898 posts

112 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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Bloke up the road from me is leaving at the same time as me this morning. Bin lorry is slowly coming down the road. Bloke decides that getting out in front of the bin lorry is more important than clearing his screen of ice, so drives off with a totally opaque screen and his head sticking out of the window. Within the space of 100 metres mounts the kerb on the drivers side and very nearly hits the row of parked cars on the passenger side. If the bin lorry had got past him all it would have meant is that he would have had to have done a very easy 3-point turn to go the other way up the road. Utter .

nullogik

225 posts

141 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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People who can't judge braking distances properly. By that I mean those that come to a stop in a line of traffic leaving an unnecessary two car length gap between themselves and the car in front. They then fiddle around and creep forward a few little, loose momentum and drift to a stop still leaving a large gap in front. Finally they inch forwards again and close the gap. This causes an unnecessary concertina effect in the traffic behind with every one else having to creep forward, stop, creep forward, stop.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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kowalski655 said:
He was probably doing the "only a fool breaks the 2 second rule" thing...which with all the loons on the M9 is possibly a good thing
That's all very well, but if you are continually slowing down to maintain the gap, perhaps you should be thinking about getting into lane 1? I prefer to stay in lane 1 where possible if I'm in no hurry, as I've no particular desire to hold anyone else up, but 'Bairn7' doesn't mention the speeds involved, so to be fair to the chap with the 'big' space ahead of him, if impatient tossers are continually coming alongside and passing in lane 1, getting over isn't going to be easy. On balance, I'd say he's not really the knob in this case, because if you are maintaining a large gap, yet still keeping pace with traffic ahead in lane 2, getting closer to that traffic will not allow you to make any meaningful extra progress above holding station. Kudos, in this case, to the Polo driver, I reckon, for sticking to his driving plan, because, if the only reason you are not overtaking traffic in lane 1 is that there is also traffic ahead in lane 2, then you are not really 'hogging the lane' nor are you 'causing a holdup'. Holdups and even full-blown traffic jams are often caused by impatient fkwits who drive too close to vehicles ahead, and thence are forced to brake heavily to avoid collisions, causing a concertina/ripple effect that, 20 cars back, means following traffic has to brake to a halt. If everyone left 7-8 car lengths (and at motorway speeds that's not excessive, given the attention span of the average British driver) then minor hiccups could easily be dealt with by briefly reducing accelerator input, eliminating the need for this 'braking wave', and reducing stress and driver load all round...

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The Highway Code stopping distance table suggests 24 Car Lengths!!!...

...but as that is braking to a standstill, we can allow ourselves to be closer, so long as we are sure the car ahead has working brakelights, because, from 70mph it won't be coming to an instant stop (in clear conditions, at least). 96 metres is, in fact, the length of 22 Ford Focus.

Driving test advice ( http://tips.drivingtestsuccess.com/learner-car/saf... ) suggests a slightly more realistic allowance of 70 metres (or 1 metre per 1mph) which still equates to the length of 16 Ford Focus. So it would seem that the 7 to 8 car lengths left by the Polo driver was quite conservative, unless traffic speeds overall were significantly lower than the usual motorway speed limit of 70mph.

Me, personally? On the motorway I look for about 100 metres clear road ahead of me, which enables me to drive to MY plan, not constantly having to react to minor changes to the speed/direction of vehicles ahead. (It also allows space for drivers in lane 2 to cut in safely to allow faster traffic through to overtake). It served me well recently on the motorway, when the camper van ahead of me swerved violently at the last possible moment to avoid hitting the better part of a whole truck tyre in the centre of lane 1. I had time and space to brake firmly, but in a planned and controlled manner, move across partly onto the hard shoulder, and activate the hazard lights with 50 metres to spare, thus warning following traffic, and allowing them to see the debris earlier. Had I been 4 or 5 car lengths back from the motorhome, I might well have hit said tyre, possibly causing a collision of motorway-closing proportions.

bairn7

142 posts

118 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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kowalski655 said:
He was probably doing the "only a fool breaks the 2 second rule" thing...which with all the loons on the M9 is possibly a good thing
It is 'only a fool breaks the 2 second rule' x2 at least. I've been driving daily along the M9 for a couple of years now and I've never seen such a big gap left. The gap itself I could live with, and to be fair to Polo he was doing 70 on the button. The thing that annoyed me was the slowing to 65ish when someone moved into the gap until the distance was maintained, thereby causing everyone else to slow down. Traffic was moving marginally faster in L1 the whole time.

ORD

18,086 posts

126 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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Knobhead in a diesel Mercedes cab.

Bus is at a stop in front of me on my side of the road. It indicates right as I approach; I stop behind it to allow it to pull out; Merc driver behind me decides that he is too important to wait for a bus, so swerves out from behind me, almost clipping the back of my car. He then swerves further across the road to avoid the bus as it pulls out, narrowly misses a van parked on the other side of the road and then almost has a head-on with a bin lorry coming the other way.

Best part of all this? It was at 3:30pm in London and in a 30mph limit, with kids all over the pavements and heavy traffic.

It is about the 3rd or 4th time in the last month that I have had someone overtake me while I wait for a bus to pull out from a bus stop. All drivers of diesel Mercs or Audis. All thoroughly dangerous. Knobs!

CrutyRammers

13,735 posts

197 months

Pogle

180 posts

155 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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stty lane discipline on roundabouts i.e. I'm turning right, chummy on left is going straight on so cuts across my lane skimming the centre of the roundabout, relying on me to avoid the accident then carries on oblivious like a stupid fking Mr Magoo ct

Timmy40

12,915 posts

197 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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Someone sitting in a Toyota Prius, reading the Guardian.

vtecyo

2,122 posts

128 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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Roger Irrelevant said:
Bloke up the road from me is leaving at the same time as me this morning. Bin lorry is slowly coming down the road. Bloke decides that getting out in front of the bin lorry is more important than clearing his screen of ice, so drives off with a totally opaque screen and his head sticking out of the window. Within the space of 100 metres mounts the kerb on the drivers side and very nearly hits the row of parked cars on the passenger side. If the bin lorry had got past him all it would have meant is that he would have had to have done a very easy 3-point turn to go the other way up the road. Utter .
Unless you live at the North Pole I'm calling dog egg on that one.

Monkeylegend

26,226 posts

230 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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yellowjack said:
One single thing that makes me think "knob"?

Idiots so desperate to be the first to post on a new volume, that they'll post the sum total of naff all to do it...

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No need to speak about Big Al like that.

Cliftonite

8,406 posts

137 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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Cyclists once more:

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/32284180

Believe they own the road. Do they pay road tax in France?

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Thread here:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Edited by Cliftonite on Monday 13th April 11:39

Hackney

6,810 posts

207 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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nullogik said:
People who can't judge braking distances properly. By that I mean those that come to a stop in a line of traffic leaving an unnecessary two car length gap between themselves and the car in front. They then fiddle around and creep forward a few little, loose momentum and drift to a stop still leaving a large gap in front. Finally they inch forwards again and close the gap. This causes an unnecessary concertina effect in the traffic behind with every one else having to creep forward, stop, creep forward, stop.
I hate loose momentum. That's why I always keep a spanner handy to tighten mine up.

Hackney

6,810 posts

207 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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Flatbed lorry driver this morning on the A1 / M25 roundabout.
Having left the A1 North he was in the left lane (of three) on the slip road, Westbound M25.
When the lights changed he moved to the centre lane (still Westbound M25), and proceeded to go under the M25 in the lane for South Mimms services.
At the traffic lights for the services he indicated right and went into a gap (Eastbound M25) but then drove through the gap to the right hand lane (A1081 or A1 Southbound)
As the lights changed he went forward, then tried to squeeze back into the lane he'd just left (M25 East)

All that hassle, and knowing you're p**sing people off by swerving across them or forcing them to let you in. You may as well just join the correct lane! I got in the correct lane and despite having to let in several people as they changed lanes around the roundabout I got to the M25 at the same time as him.

Knob.

nullogik

225 posts

141 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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Hackney said:
I hate loose momentum. That's why I always keep a spanner handy to tighten mine up.
Yes righty tighty, lefty loosey

cootuk

918 posts

122 months

Monday 13th April 2015
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"By that I mean those that come to a stop in a line of traffic leaving an unnecessary two car length gap between themselves and the car in front."

We've got an auto, dear boy, so just let the creep take up the distance until the lights change.
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