Letting cars out before turning off...tell me I'm wrong
Discussion
A point of great annoyance, which I see more and more, is people who, before turning off a main road, flash others (such as tractors!) out onto the main road in front of them. Am I being completely unreasonable to see this as bad form? To me it's similar to someone letting a family of 8 take their place in a ticket queue as they decide to duck out. Polite, yes, but ultimately incredibly inconsiderate to anyone else on behind them. I feel like it's the same type of people who would speed up to try and stop someone overtaking, as they see it as 'pushing in'. A bizarre magnification of being English.....
Not sure why, but I feel it's slightly different to letting someone out of a junction if you're carrying on the same way. That's fairly acceptable as they are making their own decision to sit behind someone else. But effectively forcing those behind to deal with your choice seems a little inconsiderate.
So. Tell me I'm being totally unreasonable
Not sure why, but I feel it's slightly different to letting someone out of a junction if you're carrying on the same way. That's fairly acceptable as they are making their own decision to sit behind someone else. But effectively forcing those behind to deal with your choice seems a little inconsiderate.
So. Tell me I'm being totally unreasonable
Gary C said:
Like all things, it depends.
If it's a tractor say, and you are the only car behind and the tractor would easily be able to join after you pass, I would say that's thoughtless.
If it's a slow/busy road and they are not going to impede anyone more than the car that's just turning off, why not.
And shades of grey in between.
Don't have much of a problem with it
Yeah, I'd agree with that. I suppose I'm thinking more of the situation when there is no one else behind you. And of course, there's all the added grey area of potentially causing someone to pull out in front of a car coming the other way.....If it's a tractor say, and you are the only car behind and the tractor would easily be able to join after you pass, I would say that's thoughtless.
If it's a slow/busy road and they are not going to impede anyone more than the car that's just turning off, why not.
And shades of grey in between.
Don't have much of a problem with it
Bennet said:
The priorities we were all taught were that the car turning in to the junction goes first.
Messing with that order out of courtesy just leads to confusion in many cases. Since there's no means whatsoever of altering the rules or agreeing what the etiquette is en masse, just do what you were taught and take priority when it's yours.
If your conscience dictates that you absolutely must flash people out under some circumstance or other, don't be offended when the opposite circumstance arises and the other guy doesn't just happen to share your arbitrary interpretation of what makes for courteous driving.
Interestingly, the place on my way to work where this happens a lot was almost the scene of a massive accident this morning. Car 4 or 5 cars ahead of me stopped and flashed cars to go across the junction. Car from the left started to pull out, and then slammed its brakes on as there was a car coming from the opposite direction....Messing with that order out of courtesy just leads to confusion in many cases. Since there's no means whatsoever of altering the rules or agreeing what the etiquette is en masse, just do what you were taught and take priority when it's yours.
If your conscience dictates that you absolutely must flash people out under some circumstance or other, don't be offended when the opposite circumstance arises and the other guy doesn't just happen to share your arbitrary interpretation of what makes for courteous driving.
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