Ten Good Natured Driving Irritations

Lately it seems nearly everyone is intent on zooming right up behind me in 30 zones and sitting right on my tailgate, then giving me the evils. This is nearly every car lately for some reason. I can see them about 400 yards back and I just know that in 5 seconds they'll be about 3 inches off my bumper. And no my speedo isn't knackered.
 
Steve2000 said:
Lately it seems nearly everyone is intent on zooming right up behind me in 30 zones and sitting right on my tailgate, then giving me the evils. This is nearly every car lately for some reason. I can see them about 400 yards back and I just know that in 5 seconds they'll be about 3 inches off my bumper. And no my speedo isn't knackered.
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Are you sure it's a 30:D
 
Those 40mph everywhere brigade.....

Tediously long stretches of 30/40 mph dual carriage way before it turns to NSL.

People who speed up whilst being overtaken.

Drives who decide to straddle both lanes where people are meant to filter into one to stop them "pushing in".
 
Can relate to 9,

My car's wipers goes from Off > good speed if it detects its raining > Way too Fast > Out of control

I usually have to manually go up and down on the wiper stick to get it going a decent amount.
 
Hiijinx said:
Those 40mph everywhere brigade.....

Tediously long stretches of 30/40 mph dual carriage way before it turns to NSL.

People who speed up whilst being overtaken.

Drives who decide to straddle both lanes where people are meant to filter into one to stop them "pushing in".
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Most people ignore the speed limit on those stretches of dual carriageway, unless there are lots of cars about, police cars, cameras, camera cars, or snipers on the roofs. :p

I hate people that speed up when being overtaken. Its not a massive issue on a dual carriageway, you can just tut and put your foot down a little harder, but its downright dangerous on a normal road when you're on the opposite side...

People who straddle the lanes get a long blast of horn until they move out of the way, its not my fault that they don't know how to use the road...
 
People who don't understand lane discipline.
People who don't understand merge in turn.
People who don't use their indicators.
People who don't accelerate along slip roads.

Basically, people.
 
After what happened this morning, people who don't know what 'keep clear' means. Whole intersection came to a standstill because this little Matiz was stopped right slap bang in the middle of the keep clear lines.

Everyone had to reverse a few inches just to get it going again. Was daft.
 
Round here we get the road sweepers going out at rush hour times and creating mayhem as they crawl along at 5mph sweeping the gutters with a huge queue behind them.

Tractors whilst a necessary evil is there not some way they could be banned from the roads during the rush hours, as particularly round here they're out in force between 8-9am.

Councils allowing work to be carried out on two roundabouts at the same time a few hundred yards apart, meaning lanes closed off to and from them, reduced speed limits, and the best one with all this is that there is only one lot of people doing the work, so whilst work has technically started on one, it actually hasn't! - Grrrr, Oxfordshire County Council why, why, why...

Edit; people that can't manage to accelerate using the slip road onto a dual carriageway that's moving at 70mph and only start to accelerate once they're on.
 
I don't think this one has been mentioned yet: drivers that cut right across the wrong lane when turning into minor roads at T-junctions to save driving a further 2m forward and making a sharper turn.

I'm sure it saves ~2 seconds per junction, but I frequently end up having to brake suddenly when cycling to avoid being hit (when turning right out of the minor road) and the other week almost had a head-on when driving when someone decided to cut the junction completely.
 
Another one Phill99 has just reminded me of - Cyclists, the majority of them are fine, you show them courtesy and you get it back.

Sadly there is a few that ruin the cyclists reputation by overreacting. Whilst I fully understand helmet cams, etc, it's the cyclists that deliberately do something stupid to then have a go at a driver just so the video can be put on YouTube.
 
Jamauk said:
Another one Phill99 has just reminded me of - Cyclists, the majority of them are fine, you show them courtesy and you get it back.

Sadly there is a few that ruin the cyclists reputation by overreacting. Whilst I fully understand helmet cams, etc, it's the cyclists that deliberately do something stupid to then have a go at a driver just so the video can be put on YouTube.
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The latter also applies to the Dashcam Warriors out there.
 
Nasher said:
Yea they did this at the Black Cat roundabout at St Neots. They made it much bigger with more lanes, but also added traffic lights :/

It didn't improve the traffic problem AT ALL. You still can't go within about 3 miles of it without hitting gridlock.
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The same was done on the m18 junction 3 to Doncaster, the traffic during rush hour is insane it never was that bad before hand...
It is actually quicker to take the back roads - instead of stopping on that uphill slip road all the time.
 
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