What winds you up most when you're driving?

St0rmer66 said:
Actually that's wrong. A speedo cannot under-read unless it has been seriously messed with, they will ALWAYS over-read. In fact when made they purposely make them to over-read. Imagine the uproar if people were being caught speeding in a new car and the speedo said they weren't? Car manufacturers know this and take precautions.
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Yep I GPS all my cars for speed camera reasons.

The EVO at 70mph GPS is about 76mph indicated, so it over-reads by nearly 10%

The 306 at 70mph GPS is about 73mph indicated, so only about 2% over-reading.

The 911 at 70mph GPS is indicating 71mph, it over-reads by less than 1%, its the most accurate yet.

The Mustang I could calibrate the speedo precisely and I set it too over-read by 2% :)
 
Gibbo said:
Thats not the issue, I'd too do similar, but when a faster vehicle comes along I will move over, even if I was doing a ton myself, I'd still move over.

When I go on the motorway I tend to just sit in the fast lane simply because as you say I'd be darting in and out constantly, but the moment I see a car coming up behind I move over and allow them to pass.

I've been on the motorway moving pretty fast and still had cars fly by me which made me look like I was not moving, I just let them get on it.
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Yup I do the same, never get a thank you from the car I move over to let though though :( Rude gits!

Annoys me when someone catches up to me, I move over, but they don't overtake though
 
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Newport Road in Cardiff, any Saturday is lethal for people skipping lanes. They indicate then INSTANTLY nudge into another lane without looking assuming just indicating means move over, I've had so many near misses I can't even keep count its mental.
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My sister lives in Cardiff and I now go up the motorway and past Ikea to get to her house because Newport road just seems to be a massive congregation of ********* who either don't know which lane they need to be in, or they just change lanes without warning, that and the buses which randomly switch from regular lane to bus lane and back again.
 
Faffing.

Nothing makes me seethe like people faffing. Braking for everything. Taking ages to turn into a side road. Waiting until the lights have been green for 5 whole seconds before pulling away. People dawdling along in the middle lane at 60mph. GET A SODDING MOVE ON.
 
Sheeple who are stuck in the last century who think BMW bashing is cool. The sort who see you driving a BMW and then suddenly change lanes because they have to have the upper hand.

Unfortunately for them I nearly always ring the police to report a drunk driver swerving across the road.

People who constantly want to race. I get that you have a fast car with its special go faster stripes and extra can of rice in the glovebox, but if I am at traffic lights and I have my family in the car, I won't drive like a tool to prove to my 5 druggie mates that I'm an ace driver.
 
K1LLSW1TCH said:
My sister lives in Cardiff and I now go up the motorway and past Ikea to get to her house because Newport road just seems to be a massive congregation of ********* who either don't know which lane they need to be in, or they just change lanes without warning, that and the buses which randomly switch from regular lane to bus lane and back again.
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You will find mostly that they are stolen cars, stolen by the ***** scum which live behind it. They don't care if they crash into you, they will just stab you instead.:( RIP Paul.
 
dmpoole said:
1)7) 4x4 drivers who go over speed bumps at 2 mph.
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Would like to apply this to pretty much any car. Its called a speed bump, not a turtle climbing hump. I understand that some speed bumps are horribly high/angular and slowing to a crawl is the only thing to do to stop you cringing at the crunch on impact but when its those little red squares that any normal saloon and most hatchback wheelbase can go either side of yet people slow down to 3-4 go halfway across it so half the car is up in the air and the other is in the middle of 2 lanes, then proceed to continue doing it for the entire road. up to speed then back to 3. grrr.

I think the overtaking thing is a masculinity/inferiority thing. Some people really seem to take it personally and have to avenge themselves. You can see then stare at you and become physically angry as you pass them doing the speed limit, its almost territorial, like you are taking a wiz on their car as you pass.

People who cant read road marking aswell, seen so many people at a roundabout with 3 lanes approaching, turning right out of the left lane. They just flick on the right hand indicators and assume its fine. Another (the only time ive ever become really angry whilst driving) approaching traffic lights, 2 lanes (right hand lane turns into 2 lanes and swings to the right, left hand lane continues straight), im in the right hand lane, guy in a corsa comes darting and swings into the left - I figure oh here we go another gimp trying to jump cars because hes 'special' - lights go green, we both set off - oh hes not speeding, must be one of the few people that actually go up that way (now approaching the part where the road seperates) oh wait.... wheres he going.... shiiiiit - guy just starts turning right to follow my road almost crashing into my, I swerve to the right, he brakes, dives around to the right of me and accellerates up to me. We get to some lights. Im seething and turn to him, him and his bint shemale girlfriend already got their windows do shouting at me! saying it was their right of way because 'there are 2 lanes going right so one of them must be from their side of the road.....' I was ready to get out and puch the dude but my GF managed to stop me, I was more seething that they were oblivious to the stupidity of their thinking and that they would do it again and again as they thought they were in the right. Will cause an accident, its a case of when and not if.

Oh people who park wherever they want (narrow roads, double yellows, tram lines) to pop to the cash machine/corner shop and justify it by putting their hazzard lights on because that makes it all ok....

Too many numpties that annoy me. I love driving, I just hate drivers.
 
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Cyclists.

Most are fine but when you get an inconsiderable pufter on his bike either weaving or jumping lights or riding alongside another cyclist....(the list goes on).
He is a liability to his and everyone elses safety on the road.
 
Impatient people who rant and rave in "What winds you up when you're driving" threads.

Look, some of us have crap cars, with crap speedos that over-read by some indeterminate amount, probably more than 10% given the age of the thing. For the sake of your own sanity, it's probably best to assume that slow drivers just have heavily over-reading speedometers.

I really should buy a GPS with a speedometer one of these days. Find out just how much my speedo is over-reading by. Any suggestions?

Back on topic, things that wind me up:
- Cyclists. Not all of them, just the twonks with no apparent sense of self-preservation, or the ones who think traffic laws don't apply to them just because they don't have a numberplate.
- Tailgaters. Why tailgate? Just why? Do you honestly think it'll make me speed up for you? Because I'll tell you, I'm a stubborn git who will slow down if you tailgate me. And slow down some more if you persist. And keep going until we're at tortoise miles per hour. How do you like that, Mr I Have A Big Expensive Audi And Am Therefore More Important Than You?
- Speed limit enforcement. Speed doesn't kill, you idiots, bad driving kills. Speeding is just one tiny part of bad driving, so just admit already that you're only targeting that one because it's the cheapest to measure. But NOOOOOOO, you're just going to keep spouting that crap about "Speed Kills", and punish people for going 4mph over the limit regardless of whether the act of speeding was any danger at all to anyone.
- Middle lane dwellers. For the love of Odin, move the **** over.
- Traffic lights that turn red for no reason. You're just sat at the red light despite nothing coming out of any side roads, and the road ahead of you being completely empty. Luckily rare in this country, but you do get them abroad.
- Slow people. Here I am, in my ancient crapmobile with a speedometer whose calibration has almost certainly drifted over time to over-read by more than 10%, and a pitifully small engine that rattles, and even I think you're going too slow. Gerra bleedin' move on.
- Hypocrisy. Hypocrisy of the sort where someone criticises others for ranting in a thread, and then proceeds to rant about the same things himself. And then has the brass neck to point out his own hypocrisy. I hate people like that, don't you?
 
The most annoying drivers I've noticed are the ones that can't maintain a constant speed (obviously if the road allows).

Whilst if the road is clear I'll drive at a speed suitable to the conditions and I've got no problem with following someone at the NSL, but the number of times I follow someone along a NSL road and they randomly slow down and then speed up again for no obvious reason.
 
SlyReaper said:
I really should buy a GPS with a speedometer one of these days. Find out just how much my speedo is over-reading by. Any suggestions?
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what phone do you have? or even do your friends have

most have gps on them nowadays, use that rather than buying tomtom if all you want is a gps readout
 
people not using there indercaters, SOME old people, chavs in "tuned" cars with crap music on way too loud... people that drive flat out everywhere however are on there brakes every sec and end up going slower...

but most of all... people with stupidly bright lights that blind you and arnt aimed down, and people that drive with there fog lights on when its not foggie!!!! arrrrgh!!!

do i qualify for grumpy old men yet??? :P (grumpy old teenagers?)

edit: also people on there mobile phones, people messing around with there radio at lights and missing the lights same with satnav, people that beep and shout at your when you follow the rules of the road...
 
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Lorries overtaking lorries at the same speed

Old people who really shouldnt be driving

People who park in 2 spaces because their car is too expensive and important to get banged/scratched.
 
Little things:

People with fogs on when you can see for miles, not less than 100m or whatever the real limit is supposed to be.

People who pull out in front of you from side roads and then fail to accelerate at all, i like to wait as long as poss to break behind them so they realise their mistake when 1 second later they have you 2 feet behind them. They seem to think its fine to pull out when there is gonna be a 60mph speed diff between you and them :(

Main things:

People who you let into traffic or you slow down / stop to be kind and then they take a month of sundays to do anything, keeping you waiting, punishing you for your kindness

General slow reactions and lazy lethargic driving, im there going "Think fast old man come on!"

Btw im not a road rage person i just laugh, i can be pretty impatient tho, but not in an angry way, more like "have you not got anywhere to be" type way.

ps. i always give way to people and let them out, it just amazes me that they think they have all the time in the world to move, if someone lets me out i say thanks and get out of their way ASAP.
 
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As I started this thread, I'll add one which I wonder if it winds you up as much as me?....

When I'm in a busy garage and all the pumps are busy... I always seem to get behind the oaf that has filled up and paid, who then comes out to the car and sits there for several minutes ******* about before moving off!
Or I get behind the **** who wants to their whole week's shopping and takes forever!!!

Why can't garages just be like they used to be...selling petrol, spare bulbs, L-plates and occasional sweets and where everyone handed over cash to pay for things? Filling up was so much quicker in those days.
 
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