Ten Good Natured Driving Irritations

Specifically Prius / Hybrid "Green" Taxis. They're a taxi, they're renowned for getting places fast. STOP DAWDLING OH MY JESUS.

As already mentioned, people blindly overtaking cyclists, especially on corners. You can't see what's round it, heck there's even a solid white line you pleb! Just wait for another twenty seconds! And then you get the massive jebends that beep their horns and flash their lights at your because you decide you aren't going to blindly overtake round a bend! The cheek of it!

People on the inside lane that just *have* to move into the outside line when a slip road approaches. Without looking. In the dead of night. On an empty road. Just as you're coming up level with them.

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In a similar vein, people that think indicating results in them magically having the right to manoeuvre. No you idiotic shart biscuit, use your mirrors.

Oh and the obligatory "BMW drivers". :p
 
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mulpsmebeauty said:
The following are minor irritations in my daily driving life. These are presented with mild good humour and as generic as possible, so if anyone has input please keep it good natured.

1. People who lean over massively in their seats when turning a corner. That 1 litre econobox can only pull 0.0000001 lateral g before sliding off the road, but the driver is leaning at a 45 degree angle into the corner, neck muscles straining to fight against mavity.
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I do this, habit from karting, moped, motorbike, and from driving like a hooligan :p (friends who were stubborn enough not to use their seatbelt usually smack their head into my door sometime in the journey :D).


2. Sitting at the back of a rush hour traffic jam for 45 minutes before an RDS announcement comes on to tell me what it's all about.
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Use Waze...


3. Local radio stations synching their adverts to foil my channel hopping.
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Agreed, but preventable by having your own music, be that an SD card of 64 gb, a usb stick or bluetooth from phone+spotify...


7. Thirty seconds off the slip road onto the dual carriageway and the phone in my pocket starts buzzing. I can't answer it, nor even really look at the screen. So it's another 40 slightly frustrating minutes of driving until I get home before I can find out who it was. And of course they don't leave a message or answer my call back. Or it's a withheld number.
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Like 3, get bluetooth, or simply an el cheapo phone holder and answer on speaker.

8. Bird poo on the drivers door handle. Big, fat, green and covering both outer and inner parts of the handle. I avoid bird poos nowadays by simply never washing my car and they never seem to target me.
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Birds are creatures from hell, I hope some day cars will come with bird poo defence systems and shoot flak rounds against incoming birds.

9. Auto wipers. Beautiful in theory, but in practice they flap away like a madman in light rain, whilst activating slightly less often than I want in heavy rain. And because they are so amazing, the car's engineers don't allow a simple 'intermittent' function anymore.
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Agreed :p.




Anyhow my top 10 irritations:

1. People who don't keep right unless overtaking (or left in UK's case), I must overtake tens if not 100+ on a 1hr trip. If I can overtake you ''illegally'' so easily then you are in the overtaking lane illegally, **** off to the right.
2. People who join the motorway at the first possible moment at 40 mph instead of making speed first.
3. People who can't judge speeds in their mirrors (and thus not respecting the right of way), there I am nicely cruising around 100-110 mph, and there goes granps making me brake hard because he has to overtake a truck doing 50mph, doing 55 mph himself. Mostly crapmobiles like Agila's, Wagon R's and other dinosaur mobiles (mini mpv's).
4. People who don't even do the speed limit, stop being such a selfish **** when you can't be overtaken and don;t hold up people who have something better to do.
5. People who don't accelerate quickly in busy conditions, creating huge gaps at green lights, which means 10-20 cars less than possible get through the green.
6. People who don't get merge in turn, and don;t understand that you're supposed to use the lane till it ends, rather than joining 1-2 miles sooner.
7. Intersection blockers
8. Motorway speed limits (not that they really matter I do the speed I want to anyhow usually)
9. Traffic lights that aren't deactivated at night, making you stop for absolutely no ****ing reason with not another living soul for miles around.
10. Generally slow people who don't understand driving, the driving requirements should be MUCH tougher, people who don't understand the mechanics shouldn't drive, people who don't understand physics shouldn't drive, people who have the reaction time of a drunkard shouldn't drive, people who have no clue what is going on ahead oft hem and around them shouldn't drive, basically anyone who can't anticipate in traffic/doesn't look forward far enough.
 
People who crawl around everywhere because "speed kills", but who then don't indicate not use their lights properly. Are you trying to be safe or not? I guess more victims of the BRAKE "speed is the only factor in road safety" campaign.
 
There are so many :) But my prime annoyance is probably people who think that because they're indicating, they have a free pass to do whatever they want. Apparently it's fine to just go over hatched lines or move into your braking gap because they've put their indicators on approximately 0.0001 seconds before carrying out such a manoeuvre.

If more people used their indicators properly and actually put them on a couple of seconds before attempting a manoeuvre to give other drivers a chance to register what they're planning on doing, things would be much more pleasant all round, but this insta-indicate-then-move-out crap really does frustrate me at times.

Also people who think their Corsas, Aygos and Citroen C1s are F1 cars and drive them like they stole them. What is it about these cars that makes so many people drive them like that? I realise that driving like a tool isn't restricted to any particular class/manufacturer of vehicle but the amount of Corsas/Aygos/C1s I see pelting it up motorways at 90mph+ is crazy. It's one thing doing such speeds in a bigger car but when it's something that's small and with pram wheels, I just don't get why you'd risk it.
 
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People who slow down for speed cameras, even when they aren't speeding.

People who slow down when approaching a green light, thereby increasing the chance it changes to red by the time they and traffic behind them (me) get to it.

Also, people who drive round blind bends of country roads with no road markings, in the middle of the ****ing road. Increasingly common for some reason.
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
4. Drivers turning to face their passengers when they talk. It's like they're sitting next to their elderly aunt on the sofa and feel that they HAVE to turn their head to stare DIRECTLY at them when talking. Watch the road you plonker!
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I usually find that when the passenger screams it's a good indication I've missed something going on :p
 
peterattheboro said:
Tractors. Even worse the ******s who won't overtake the tractor and i have to overtake all 3 or 4 of them in a Transit :mad:
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Tractors on the roads are a necessary evil, at least they tend to pull over when they can round here. But idiots who won't overtake tractors, or leave enough space to get round them, wind me up no end :(
 
People round here are that bad they queue so far back behind them and so packed together that it's a pain for me to get past them even on a bike.
 
Jokester said:
People who slow down when approaching a green light, thereby increasing the chance it changes to red by the time they and traffic behind them (me) get to it.
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Although I completely agree with you, is this not technically the correct thing to do, so they are able to safely stop if the light does change? It's still bloody annoying though, especially if it then changes and they go through it on amber/red anyway, but leave you stuck at the lights :rolleyes:

Another one of mine: People in expensive executive cars that I KNOW have bluetooth as standard, who still insist on driving with their phone held up to their ear... On the plus side, it does mean they are far more likely to get pulled over for it :D
 
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Gooner Leroy said:
I'm glad it's not just me who find 90% of other motorists intolerable :D
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haha nope! :p

Here's another one, people who turn left to come off a roundabout... In the right lane thus forcing you to break while they cut across the front of you:mad:

There's a roundabout I use on the way home from work where this happens everyday. People queue in the left lane to come on to the roundabout,
only for someone to fly down the right onto the roundabout and cut across everyone who's been queuing. Its not like its a cheeky time saver either, as its always queuing just after you come off anyway.

In what world do you turn left in the right lane?!
 
Jamesyboyjim said:
In what world do you turn left in the right lane?!
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Probably the same one you turn right in the left lane...

Please correct me if I'm wrong here, I may be reading the road markings incorrectly:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4...4!1sYwubBIF1iPrT9lElMj18Lw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Does that not show that both lanes are for the dual carriageway on the next exit, and if you want to carry on round the roundabout to join the M6 southbound you should be in the right lane?

So why the **** on an almost weekly basis is there some moron who decides it's perfectly acceptable to carry on round the roundabout in the left lane, completely ignoring the car to their right indicating to come off the roundabout and forcing them (me) to take evasive action? *


* Rhetorical question; this is in Birmingham where 90% of drivers got their licence in a christmas cracker :rolleyes:
 
People who come alongside you in the right hand lane coming up to a merge in turn but then just sit right alongside you, speed up and drop in in front of me or slow down and **** off!
 
People who potter along at 65MPH on a motorway, I overtake, they then realise my van is limited to 68MPH and decide i'm not sitting behind a Van, overtake you and then drop back down to 65MPH. I overtake again, then this time the screen wash wars begin.
 
Taxi drivers.

They all drive like *****.

The worst is when they just whack their hazards on in the middle of the road because they want to stop to pick up/drop off a fare. They should make it illegal to use your hazards in this fashion.
 
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