One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 5
Discussion
Red9zero said:
Muddle238 said:
carreauchompeur said:
The thing that really annoys me about mini roundabouts is people LAUNCHING themselves at them at 30mph.
If there’s a car turning left on my right, then that’s my cue, when you see the lemming bearing down on you.
I used to think “well you’re not actually going to drive into me to make a point, are you?” but after a while on Youtube i realise they absolutely will.
Oh, this definitely. People who assume priority over others, for a junction that they've not actually yet arrived at, but assume priority based on maintaining their speed, and assume everyone else actually already at the junction will yield to their approaching presence until they've approached, arrived, crossed and left, without for a moment considering to slow down. If there’s a car turning left on my right, then that’s my cue, when you see the lemming bearing down on you.
I used to think “well you’re not actually going to drive into me to make a point, are you?” but after a while on Youtube i realise they absolutely will.
And yet if anyone dares use the junction ahead of their arrival, they're met with copious amounts of horn usage and angrily shouting "dAsH cAm!!!!"
biggbn said:
lancslad58 said:
21st Century Man said:
Me, driving through town with my music up LOUD!
It was a bangin' choon and I couldn't help but crank it up.
WTF is a 'choon' ?It was a bangin' choon and I couldn't help but crank it up.
lancslad58 said:
biggbn said:
lancslad58 said:
21st Century Man said:
Me, driving through town with my music up LOUD!
It was a bangin' choon and I couldn't help but crank it up.
WTF is a 'choon' ?It was a bangin' choon and I couldn't help but crank it up.
donkmeister said:
lancslad58 said:
biggbn said:
lancslad58 said:
21st Century Man said:
Me, driving through town with my music up LOUD!
It was a bangin' choon and I couldn't help but crank it up.
WTF is a 'choon' ?It was a bangin' choon and I couldn't help but crank it up.
Had the joy of driving to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary today for an appointment today, which meant driving during the day time. Highlights:
- Slip lane onto the motorway. Stuck behind a BMW X-series of some sort straddling both lanes of the slip and going no faster than 45 mph. This would put it into the side of a lorry in L1 at the bottom of the slip, so they belatedly sped up to get ahead of the lorry. This spooked the lorry into L2. Hit the motorway and they find the accelerator and get up to 80 mph. Merging onto motorways is a lost art, it seems. I think drivers get target fixation, and pick the car they want to drive into the side of rather than adjusting speed to reach a suitable gap.
- Dirty white Tesla rolled out in front of me without looking, causing me to slow down fairly rapidly. I then followed them through various junctions, filter lanes etc. Not once did they use their indicators and instead drifted lazily into whatever lane they wanted. At times their right hand wheels were over the median and at others their left hand wheels were into the bus lane. Overall minimal lane discipline. I'm guessing these cars have hard suspension as they seemed to judder and skitter over every bump or cover in the road and the driver was actively if erratically dodging bigger potholes. I assume the steering in these cars has no feel either. I'm seeing a big uptick in badly driven unwashed white Teslas, so I assume older used ones are getting cheap enough for a less conscientious demographic to start buying them up. All the charm of a badly driven Merc or BMW, combined with the messiah complex of driving a planet-saving automobile?
- Finally, having made it most of the way back home I ended up stuck behind an old Picanto doing 10 mph in a 20 mph zone. The driver was braking at imagined hazards and threats. They ended up essentially brake-checking me having flung on the brakes at nothing, yet again. At this point I was struggling to keep a good distance behind a car doing up to 10 mph and modulating speed at random. I doubt the brake checking was deliberate, but I ended up using my horn because I was that sick of their slow, faffy driving. They had a provisional plate on their car, but were driving like they were on their first ever lesson. Way too cautious, way too slow. I thought driving tests were getting harder, but somehow this genius passed.
Ignoring these three specifics, the standard of driving was fairly terrible, consistently. Poor lane discipline, vehicles wading out into L2 of the city bypass without signalling or checking to see what was already in L2. Cars defaulting to L2 and then sitting at 60 mph. Cars blasting onto roundabouts from my left when they should have given way. Cars rolling out of side roads virtually in front of me and then driving below the limit. I'm also seeing an uptick in visibly damaged cars in car parks. Squashed in panels, dents, cracked bumpers, striations down the side from bollards and fences. More generally, in the last few weeks I've seen several cars with one headlight out, with one driver compensating for this by using their front fogs instead. Increasingly knackered cars being driven in an increasingly erratic manner.
The other thing I've noticed more of recently is cars being driven in a binary accelerate/brake way. Cars on B roads that speed up on any straight but are immediately on the brakes when the slightest of bends occurs. Cars braking going up hill. Cars braking if a car is coming the other way. For some drivers the brake pedal is clearly a crutch, combined with a very basic faster/slower approach to driving.
- Slip lane onto the motorway. Stuck behind a BMW X-series of some sort straddling both lanes of the slip and going no faster than 45 mph. This would put it into the side of a lorry in L1 at the bottom of the slip, so they belatedly sped up to get ahead of the lorry. This spooked the lorry into L2. Hit the motorway and they find the accelerator and get up to 80 mph. Merging onto motorways is a lost art, it seems. I think drivers get target fixation, and pick the car they want to drive into the side of rather than adjusting speed to reach a suitable gap.
- Dirty white Tesla rolled out in front of me without looking, causing me to slow down fairly rapidly. I then followed them through various junctions, filter lanes etc. Not once did they use their indicators and instead drifted lazily into whatever lane they wanted. At times their right hand wheels were over the median and at others their left hand wheels were into the bus lane. Overall minimal lane discipline. I'm guessing these cars have hard suspension as they seemed to judder and skitter over every bump or cover in the road and the driver was actively if erratically dodging bigger potholes. I assume the steering in these cars has no feel either. I'm seeing a big uptick in badly driven unwashed white Teslas, so I assume older used ones are getting cheap enough for a less conscientious demographic to start buying them up. All the charm of a badly driven Merc or BMW, combined with the messiah complex of driving a planet-saving automobile?
- Finally, having made it most of the way back home I ended up stuck behind an old Picanto doing 10 mph in a 20 mph zone. The driver was braking at imagined hazards and threats. They ended up essentially brake-checking me having flung on the brakes at nothing, yet again. At this point I was struggling to keep a good distance behind a car doing up to 10 mph and modulating speed at random. I doubt the brake checking was deliberate, but I ended up using my horn because I was that sick of their slow, faffy driving. They had a provisional plate on their car, but were driving like they were on their first ever lesson. Way too cautious, way too slow. I thought driving tests were getting harder, but somehow this genius passed.
Ignoring these three specifics, the standard of driving was fairly terrible, consistently. Poor lane discipline, vehicles wading out into L2 of the city bypass without signalling or checking to see what was already in L2. Cars defaulting to L2 and then sitting at 60 mph. Cars blasting onto roundabouts from my left when they should have given way. Cars rolling out of side roads virtually in front of me and then driving below the limit. I'm also seeing an uptick in visibly damaged cars in car parks. Squashed in panels, dents, cracked bumpers, striations down the side from bollards and fences. More generally, in the last few weeks I've seen several cars with one headlight out, with one driver compensating for this by using their front fogs instead. Increasingly knackered cars being driven in an increasingly erratic manner.
The other thing I've noticed more of recently is cars being driven in a binary accelerate/brake way. Cars on B roads that speed up on any straight but are immediately on the brakes when the slightest of bends occurs. Cars braking going up hill. Cars braking if a car is coming the other way. For some drivers the brake pedal is clearly a crutch, combined with a very basic faster/slower approach to driving.
Muddle238 said:
carreauchompeur said:
The thing that really annoys me about mini roundabouts is people LAUNCHING themselves at them at 30mph.
If there’s a car turning left on my right, then that’s my cue, when you see the lemming bearing down on you.
I used to think “well you’re not actually going to drive into me to make a point, are you?” but after a while on Youtube i realise they absolutely will.
Oh, this definitely. People who assume priority over others, for a junction that they've not actually yet arrived at, but assume priority based on maintaining their speed, and assume everyone else actually already at the junction will yield to their approaching presence until they've approached, arrived, crossed and left, without for a moment considering to slow down. If there’s a car turning left on my right, then that’s my cue, when you see the lemming bearing down on you.
I used to think “well you’re not actually going to drive into me to make a point, are you?” but after a while on Youtube i realise they absolutely will.
And yet if anyone dares use the junction ahead of their arrival, they're met with copious amounts of horn usage and angrily shouting "dAsH cAm!!!!"
NapierDeltic said:
Had the joy of driving to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary today for an appointment today, which meant driving during the day time. Highlights:
- Slip lane onto the motorway. Stuck behind a BMW X-series of some sort straddling both lanes of the slip and going no faster than 45 mph. This would put it into the side of a lorry in L1 at the bottom of the slip, so they belatedly sped up to get ahead of the lorry. This spooked the lorry into L2. Hit the motorway and they find the accelerator and get up to 80 mph. Merging onto motorways is a lost art, it seems. I think drivers get target fixation, and pick the car they want to drive into the side of rather than adjusting speed to reach a suitable gap.
- Dirty white Tesla rolled out in front of me without looking, causing me to slow down fairly rapidly. I then followed them through various junctions, filter lanes etc. Not once did they use their indicators and instead drifted lazily into whatever lane they wanted. At times their right hand wheels were over the median and at others their left hand wheels were into the bus lane. Overall minimal lane discipline. I'm guessing these cars have hard suspension as they seemed to judder and skitter over every bump or cover in the road and the driver was actively if erratically dodging bigger potholes. I assume the steering in these cars has no feel either. I'm seeing a big uptick in badly driven unwashed white Teslas, so I assume older used ones are getting cheap enough for a less conscientious demographic to start buying them up. All the charm of a badly driven Merc or BMW, combined with the messiah complex of driving a planet-saving automobile?
- Finally, having made it most of the way back home I ended up stuck behind an old Picanto doing 10 mph in a 20 mph zone. The driver was braking at imagined hazards and threats. They ended up essentially brake-checking me having flung on the brakes at nothing, yet again. At this point I was struggling to keep a good distance behind a car doing up to 10 mph and modulating speed at random. I doubt the brake checking was deliberate, but I ended up using my horn because I was that sick of their slow, faffy driving. They had a provisional plate on their car, but were driving like they were on their first ever lesson. Way too cautious, way too slow. I thought driving tests were getting harder, but somehow this genius passed.
Ignoring these three specifics, the standard of driving was fairly terrible, consistently. Poor lane discipline, vehicles wading out into L2 of the city bypass without signalling or checking to see what was already in L2. Cars defaulting to L2 and then sitting at 60 mph. Cars blasting onto roundabouts from my left when they should have given way. Cars rolling out of side roads virtually in front of me and then driving below the limit. I'm also seeing an uptick in visibly damaged cars in car parks. Squashed in panels, dents, cracked bumpers, striations down the side from bollards and fences. More generally, in the last few weeks I've seen several cars with one headlight out, with one driver compensating for this by using their front fogs instead. Increasingly knackered cars being driven in an increasingly erratic manner.
The other thing I've noticed more of recently is cars being driven in a binary accelerate/brake way. Cars on B roads that speed up on any straight but are immediately on the brakes when the slightest of bends occurs. Cars braking going up hill. Cars braking if a car is coming the other way. For some drivers the brake pedal is clearly a crutch, combined with a very basic faster/slower approach to driving.
Perhaps the Tesla could not spare the battery power to use indicators?.- Slip lane onto the motorway. Stuck behind a BMW X-series of some sort straddling both lanes of the slip and going no faster than 45 mph. This would put it into the side of a lorry in L1 at the bottom of the slip, so they belatedly sped up to get ahead of the lorry. This spooked the lorry into L2. Hit the motorway and they find the accelerator and get up to 80 mph. Merging onto motorways is a lost art, it seems. I think drivers get target fixation, and pick the car they want to drive into the side of rather than adjusting speed to reach a suitable gap.
- Dirty white Tesla rolled out in front of me without looking, causing me to slow down fairly rapidly. I then followed them through various junctions, filter lanes etc. Not once did they use their indicators and instead drifted lazily into whatever lane they wanted. At times their right hand wheels were over the median and at others their left hand wheels were into the bus lane. Overall minimal lane discipline. I'm guessing these cars have hard suspension as they seemed to judder and skitter over every bump or cover in the road and the driver was actively if erratically dodging bigger potholes. I assume the steering in these cars has no feel either. I'm seeing a big uptick in badly driven unwashed white Teslas, so I assume older used ones are getting cheap enough for a less conscientious demographic to start buying them up. All the charm of a badly driven Merc or BMW, combined with the messiah complex of driving a planet-saving automobile?
- Finally, having made it most of the way back home I ended up stuck behind an old Picanto doing 10 mph in a 20 mph zone. The driver was braking at imagined hazards and threats. They ended up essentially brake-checking me having flung on the brakes at nothing, yet again. At this point I was struggling to keep a good distance behind a car doing up to 10 mph and modulating speed at random. I doubt the brake checking was deliberate, but I ended up using my horn because I was that sick of their slow, faffy driving. They had a provisional plate on their car, but were driving like they were on their first ever lesson. Way too cautious, way too slow. I thought driving tests were getting harder, but somehow this genius passed.
Ignoring these three specifics, the standard of driving was fairly terrible, consistently. Poor lane discipline, vehicles wading out into L2 of the city bypass without signalling or checking to see what was already in L2. Cars defaulting to L2 and then sitting at 60 mph. Cars blasting onto roundabouts from my left when they should have given way. Cars rolling out of side roads virtually in front of me and then driving below the limit. I'm also seeing an uptick in visibly damaged cars in car parks. Squashed in panels, dents, cracked bumpers, striations down the side from bollards and fences. More generally, in the last few weeks I've seen several cars with one headlight out, with one driver compensating for this by using their front fogs instead. Increasingly knackered cars being driven in an increasingly erratic manner.
The other thing I've noticed more of recently is cars being driven in a binary accelerate/brake way. Cars on B roads that speed up on any straight but are immediately on the brakes when the slightest of bends occurs. Cars braking going up hill. Cars braking if a car is coming the other way. For some drivers the brake pedal is clearly a crutch, combined with a very basic faster/slower approach to driving.
lancslad58 said:
donkmeister said:
lancslad58 said:
biggbn said:
lancslad58 said:
21st Century Man said:
Me, driving through town with my music up LOUD!
It was a bangin' choon and I couldn't help but crank it up.
WTF is a 'choon' ?It was a bangin' choon and I couldn't help but crank it up.
Cyclist this morning who ran a red light, almost getting taken out by an X5.
I was 2 cars back to the left of the X5 which was at the head of the queue waiting at a red, I could see cars approaching lights to the left slowing so knew my lights would be changing to green imminently, I clocked the cyclist approaching at full pelt, I said to myself "he's not stopping", he didn't, the X5 set off and had to slam his brakes on due to the cyclist, the cyclist didn't even flinch!
I was 2 cars back to the left of the X5 which was at the head of the queue waiting at a red, I could see cars approaching lights to the left slowing so knew my lights would be changing to green imminently, I clocked the cyclist approaching at full pelt, I said to myself "he's not stopping", he didn't, the X5 set off and had to slam his brakes on due to the cyclist, the cyclist didn't even flinch!
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