What really gets your goat while driving?
- Thread starter XmisterIS
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jeltz
Veteran
- Location
- Radstock, Somerset
XmisterIS said:
Also a Mondeo ('03 2.0 TDCi Ghia)
I had such a situation with a Frontera (and a post van) some years back, unfortunately the fact that I was stationary and he went into me was unprovable and it was treated as a knock for knock.
This one p'd me off and inconvenienced me but by a matter of luck it didn't end up costing me, as it needed changing anyway. Even if it had a tyre is less than an excess.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
What really gets on your goat while driving?
A billy (called billy funny enough), my poor nanny can't stop him.
A billy (called billy funny enough), my poor nanny can't stop him.
asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
Greedo said:
Yes, I had noticed. But thanks for the explanation anyway.
mr Mag00
rising member
- Location
- Deepest Dorset
or ppl who over indicate at roundabouts, those who feel it necessary to indicate right then left as they go straight on at a roundabout
Amanda P
Legendary Member
- Location
- York. Well, York-ish...
I may be mildly irritated when driving.
But I work quite hard at never letting anything really Get My Goat.
Police drivers call this Red Mist. It's the cause of many collisions because it affects a driver's judgement and causes him or her to take risks they otherwise wouldn't.
Just don't get that worked up when driving. Ever. You could so easily kill someone.
But I work quite hard at never letting anything really Get My Goat.
Police drivers call this Red Mist. It's the cause of many collisions because it affects a driver's judgement and causes him or her to take risks they otherwise wouldn't.
Just don't get that worked up when driving. Ever. You could so easily kill someone.
1. Tailgating.
2. Overtaking on blind parts of the road.
3. People driving ridiculously slowly for no reason on normally fast moving main roads.
4. People trying to jump the queue going into roundabouts.
5. People who decide to speed up when you attempt to overtake them.
6. People on mobile phones
7. People who don't indicate
8. People who constantly comfort brake
9. People who don't dip their headlamps or don't dip until the last possible moment
10. People who park at the side of the road and leave their headlights on when sidelights would suffice.
/*rant over for now*/
I may come up with others when I get my breath back...
2. Overtaking on blind parts of the road.
3. People driving ridiculously slowly for no reason on normally fast moving main roads.
4. People trying to jump the queue going into roundabouts.
5. People who decide to speed up when you attempt to overtake them.
6. People on mobile phones
7. People who don't indicate
8. People who constantly comfort brake
9. People who don't dip their headlamps or don't dip until the last possible moment
10. People who park at the side of the road and leave their headlights on when sidelights would suffice.
/*rant over for now*/
I may come up with others when I get my breath back...
Brahan
Über Member
- Location
- West Sussex
Slow drivers who don't have the confidence to not brake at every corner.
Drivers who do something stupid or rude like shove in and not have the courtesy to make eye contact.
Drivers who do something stupid or rude like shove in and not have the courtesy to make eye contact.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Not indicating..... in a car [or on a bike].
Police Officers should be given the discretion to penalise drivers who perpetually fail to drive to the Highway Code... say by accumulating 3 or 4 indiscretions and you're given either a £30 fixed penalty or a point on your license.... it would be relatively simple to organise an adaption of the existing software/ database which they could tap into to automatically generate a notification.
...and another thing [!]... people who drive too fast round roundabouts making it impossible to filter in to traffic forcing everyone [cars and bikes] to stop...
Roundabouts work well in France where the 90/70/50 kph slow down requirement allows drivers to maintain progress by filtering in.... if all roundabouts had a mandatory 30 [or even 20mph] limit the disruption would be minimised and we wouldn't have to put up with traffic lights on roundabouts holding back queues of traffic on red with no one actually on the roundabout....
There, feel better now.
Police Officers should be given the discretion to penalise drivers who perpetually fail to drive to the Highway Code... say by accumulating 3 or 4 indiscretions and you're given either a £30 fixed penalty or a point on your license.... it would be relatively simple to organise an adaption of the existing software/ database which they could tap into to automatically generate a notification.
...and another thing [!]... people who drive too fast round roundabouts making it impossible to filter in to traffic forcing everyone [cars and bikes] to stop...
Roundabouts work well in France where the 90/70/50 kph slow down requirement allows drivers to maintain progress by filtering in.... if all roundabouts had a mandatory 30 [or even 20mph] limit the disruption would be minimised and we wouldn't have to put up with traffic lights on roundabouts holding back queues of traffic on red with no one actually on the roundabout....
There, feel better now.
domd1979
Veteran
- Location
- Staffordshire
A few are...
- Tailgating
- Doing say 40mph in a 60mph (when going faster would be safe enough) then entering a 30mph without slowing down
- Middle lane hoggers
- People coming down slip roads who don't look/think you should move out of the inside lane
- RLJers - especially when you're waiting to turn right, several cars RLJ then by the time its safe to move the other set of lights are just going green
- People who come round bends in the middle of the road or on the wrong side
- People who drive down narrow lanes but are scared of having to get right over to the left, or are incapable of reversing into passing places
- KNOBS who use fog lamps when its not foggy.
- Idiots who pull out of junctions in front of me when driving my (old) VW, I haven't got high powered brakes and ABS, and it ain't me that'll come off second best in a collision.
That'll probably do for now...
- Tailgating
- Doing say 40mph in a 60mph (when going faster would be safe enough) then entering a 30mph without slowing down
- Middle lane hoggers
- People coming down slip roads who don't look/think you should move out of the inside lane
- RLJers - especially when you're waiting to turn right, several cars RLJ then by the time its safe to move the other set of lights are just going green
- People who come round bends in the middle of the road or on the wrong side
- People who drive down narrow lanes but are scared of having to get right over to the left, or are incapable of reversing into passing places
- KNOBS who use fog lamps when its not foggy.
- Idiots who pull out of junctions in front of me when driving my (old) VW, I haven't got high powered brakes and ABS, and it ain't me that'll come off second best in a collision.
That'll probably do for now...
ACS
Legendary Member
- Location
- Just below the snow line
On a road where one side has parked vehicles along it, drivers who fail to give way when the obstruction in on their side of the road.
Drivers who stop over zebra / Ped crossings or block access to side roads.
Drivers who think that the gap you have left to give access to a side road is for them.
Rear fog lights on non foggy days - should be publically flogged on the side of the road.
Double parking on a road, impeding the traffic flow and because they have their 4 way flashers on suddenly they are exempt from the RTA.
Drivers who tailgate emergency vehicles on blues and twos
Drivers who stop over zebra / Ped crossings or block access to side roads.
Drivers who think that the gap you have left to give access to a side road is for them.
Rear fog lights on non foggy days - should be publically flogged on the side of the road.
Double parking on a road, impeding the traffic flow and because they have their 4 way flashers on suddenly they are exempt from the RTA.
Drivers who tailgate emergency vehicles on blues and twos
OP
OP
XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
mr Mag00 said:
Excellent!
Mondeo = 5 stars
Clapped out chav corsa = 2 stars.
Result = 1-0 to the Mondeo
jeltz
Veteran
- Location
- Radstock, Somerset
XmisterIS said:Excellent!
Mondeo = 5 stars
Clapped out chav corsa = 2 stars.
Result = 1-0 to the Mondeo
LOL, that's getting a bit like
"So who would win in a fight Bruce Lee or Gengis Khan"
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
jeltz said:
...neither- the Mondeo.
