Car drivers who inccesantly check...

[BentMikey]

"If you're going faster than me you're a lunatic and if you're going slower you're an idiot".

 

[jonny jeez]

does it do your 'ead in :?:



NOPE,

I've got all the time in the world for someone who takes the time to check, no matter how long it takes them.

Personally it scares the total shoot out of me when drivers race up to the give way line and stop on a dime, for all the world looking like they are going to come straight out and flatten me. Much rather they stopped even if they do daudle a bit.

 

[CatherineB]

That's me in a car - obsessively checking, stopping on the approach to roundabouts for no good reason, waiting for a gap the length of a football pitch before pulling into traffic. I was in a terrible wreck where the girl in the back seat next to me died, so I just can't be comfortable in a car. Good thing I almost never drive, right? I'm confident on my bike (but careful - I don't jump redlights or cut corners across the pavement like SOME people I see pretty much every day) but in a car I'm a nervous wreck (haha).

I know that people who are so timid that they slow down traffic probably shouldn't be driving, but I'd rather encounter a nervous nelly than an overconfident speed demon. I know how stressful driving can be so I can only sympathise.

 

[shunter]

There is another aspect to Yenrod's post. Car drivers who are not bothering to note the traffic coming onto the roundabout and traffic already on the roundabout as they approach the roundabout thereselves. This would mean, in Yenrod's example, that they would have already ascertained that there was no traffic in their way and could merge onto the roundabout as soon as they arrive.

Unfortunately there are many who do not bother to or haven't the ability to check the traffic on the roundabout until they stop at the junction onto it.

 

[zacklaws]

I had a "dick" in a car on a roundabout during the summer months and never understood it.

The car was approaching the roundabout fast from the road to my right with nothing behind and I was going fast too and would nicely slot in well behind the car as the roundabout was clear, but as the car was almost in front of me on the roundabout and I was not yet near entering it, the car slowed down rapidly, blocking my entry route, all the occupants and driver were looking at me and laughing there heads off, and all I could do was brake hard and almost come to a stop before the car set off again.

All I can think off was the driver, for a laugh deliberately slowed down to cause me to to the same. Anyway he got the finger.

 

[jonny jeez]

I was in a terrible wreck where the girl in the back seat next to me died, so I just can't be comfortable in a car. Good thing I almost never drive, right? .

Blimey Catherine, that sounds like a really awful experience. Just goes to show that there are reasons for all of us doing the things we do (in a car, on a bike, wherever)

Well done for having the courage to actually get in a car (let alone drive) again.

 

[Gromit]

Er I think I'd rather stop and check than carry on, I'm always over cautious, I don't wish to hurt anyone buy just pulling out of the road without looking. Same reason why I always wait to over take a cyclist.

You should just take things easy and slow down, what's the point of over aggressive cycling? Track stands are meant for races not road cycling.

 

[joolsybools]

The drivers that irritate me are the ones who sit there, dithering, wondering whether or not to pull out ... I clock them in plenty of time ... they're still dithering ... I'm getting closer ... still with the dithering ... then when I dangerously close ... they decide to pull out! :?:

+1, annoying gits they are!

 

[summerdays]

Another for the rather they stopped and looked than the opposite. It may slow me unnecessarily ... but is 5 seconds of my time that important - sometimes we need to remember that it isn't a race when we are out on the road, but accept that others have different rates of acceleration etc. What might be a safe gap for me - might not be for them.

 

[GrasB]

Another for the rather they stopped and looked than the opposite. It may slow me unnecessarily ... but is 5 seconds of my time that important - sometimes we need to remember that it isn't a race when we are out on the road, but accept that others have different rates of acceleration etc. What might be a safe gap for me - might not be for them.

+1... however some people are to tentative & can take a very long time to pull out. Also there's a growing number of people who won't pull into the central refuge but have to get a gap in both flows of traffic before turning right.

 

[g0kmt]

Rush rush rush rush rush ......... splat.

Having knocked someone off his bike years ago I don't intend to flatten anybody again. Look once look twice think bike - or something like that if memory of the advert serves.

Anyway. Consider this - It could be you that gets flattened by the gung ho driver.

Time is irrelevant - lunchtime doubly so! Talking of time, time goes by quicker as you get older - its a perception thingy, 10 seconds of your life when young may seem like an eternity but when your old its gone in the blink of an eye.

Take a chill pill, live and let live etc

Oh yeah + 1 for the cautious approach

 

[yenrod]

Listen I aint talking about them getting to a t-junc and waiting a sec. then pulling out..i'm not that impatient and impatience is not the issue here.

I'll repeat for the stupid;

If a car driver is at a junction and has passed me about 60 mph THEN stops and takes an hour to check if anyhting aint coming either way then that is TAKING THE LITERAL and if I'm in the right mood I may just undercut them for taking the piss outta me.

I give and have done, a cardriver many degrees of respect over the years (20+) but to wait TOO long ?

When I was taking lessons - I got taught by a driving instructor to look the relevant ways and go...no double, triple, quadriple...checking = JUST GO !

Simply...

 

[goo_mason]

Yenners, no-one's being stupid so go easy on bandying that word around.

I'd rather a driver was cautious at a junction, regardless of whether he'd "overtaken me at 60mph" or not. Far better than just pulling out as you claim your instructor told you; that's a guaranteed way to end up with another vehicle coming through the side of your car - not to mention possibly killing yourself or an innocent motorist or passenger.

We go on and on about impatient drivers on these forums, and yet here you are wanting them to be just that and pull out before they feel their observations say it's safe to do so?

 

[Ben774]

Tend to agree with the majority. At junctions I don't mind the cautious approach and a bit of a delay. Agree with the 'wait, wait, pull out on you' comment though.

However, driving up to roundabouts and stopping THEN looking is, in my book, down right annoying and dangerous. The whole idea of a roundabout is to keep traffic flowing. I loose count of how many times I've nearly gone into the back of someone stopped at an empty roundabout.

 

[BentMikey]

I loose count of how many times I've nearly gone into the back of someone stopped at an empty roundabout.

And whose fault is/would that be?