Car drivers who inccesantly check...

[Ben774]

And whose fault is/would that be?

Yes mine, but it doesn't mean that the hesitation is correct though. It would be your fault if you went into the back of a car who slammed on it's brakes for no apparent reason at any other part of the road also.

Just ask the proffesional accident brigade who make a healthy living off brake testing people.

 

[Maizie]

I was taught "look right, look left, look right again". I am probably a cautious driver, but I'd rather get someone in one piece and thirty seconds later than otherwise.
If we ask people to 'think once, think twice, think bike', then perhaps we should forgive them for listening and enacting as 'look once, look twice, look for bike'. I'd certainly rather share a road with drivers who are too cautious than those who are not at all cautious.

Being in a hurry just means you didn't leave early enough.

 

[BentMikey]

Yes mine, but it doesn't mean that the hesitation is correct though. It would be your fault if you went into the back of a car who slammed on it's brakes for no apparent reason at any other part of the road also.

Just ask the proffesional accident brigade who make a healthy living off brake testing people.

So you're saying you normally tailgate and risk a collision each time someone stops unexpectedly? What's worse is that you think it's their fault for stopping unexpectedly. What are you going to do when a dog/child runs out?

This kind of thing makes me want to fit a towhitch so tailgaters can pay their stupidity tax without affecting my car. Professional accident brigade my backside.

 

[Arch]

I was taught "look right, look left, look right again". I am probably a cautious driver, but I'd rather get someone in one piece and thirty seconds later than otherwise.
If we ask people to 'think once, think twice, think bike', then perhaps we should forgive them for listening and enacting as 'look once, look twice, look for bike'. I'd certainly rather share a road with drivers who are too cautious than those who are not at all cautious.

Being in a hurry just means you didn't leave early enough.

Hear, hear.

Whether I'm on foot, on a bike, on the work trike, in the work truck or whatever, I do the same when I need to join or cross the road. Look right, left, right, if it seems clear start to go, but keep looking left and right as I go and be ready to stop. Things can appear at great speed - a car pulling out from the next street along, or a parking space, a cyclist who'd been riding in a blind spot (perhaps someone gutterhugging between parked cars), a pedestrian who suddenly decides to cross just where I'm heading. How quickly I go probably depends on how fast I know I can pull out, which obviously varies from vehicle to vehicle, but I'd rather be over cautious than get it wrong.

 

[GrasB]

Being in a hurry just means you didn't leave early enough.

Right on... I rarely speed (which seems to p**s people off no end I do 20 in a 20 not 25.. & 30 not 35 etc) & am rarely late. I normally have a nice stop a few miles before I arrive or can take a look around after I arrive to kill some time & thus am nice n' relaxed.