Your bad driving encounters

Resident said:
I don't see why manufacturers can't program a "wipers on (or active with autowipers), lights on" into the car. Yes that's even more reliance but it'd stop this.
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Some cars do - if the lights are on auto on my Qashqai the auto wipers will trigger them but for some reason only after 5 passes at the higher wiper setting which is almost never required for most rainy conditions.
 
LowEndTorque said:
The other bit which has been discussed here before too is the lack of headlights due to over reliance on auto lights and DRLs. The rear lights don't come on and affects visibility for trailing vehicles.

Edit: Only the older vehicles that lack this feature had their lights on.
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My last two cars have had the headlights come on automatically with the wipers and also have the rear lights as part of the DRLs, both of which seems obvious features that I'm amazed other cars don't implement.

A bit like instrument clusters that don't light up if it's dark and the lights are off. For the sake of an ambient light sensor why wouldn't all manufacturers do this?!
 
Rroff said:
The bit a few miles either side of Tebay can be terrible for it - I've seen it far too many times where the weather has closed in, big splodgy heavy rain and visibility down to single digit car lengths and you still get people bombing it along at 90+ in the outside lane... often seems to be the big Range Rovers and Land Cruisers for some reason but not exclusively so.
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Ah, good old Shap, where the rest of the UK can be in a month long heatwave, and it will still be raining :cry:

While we're on the subject of features in modern cars, what is with people in a newish car clearly on a phone call while holding their phone. I can't think of a car made in the last 5-6 years which doesn't have Bluetooth, are they just too dumb to use it?
 
Haggisman said:
Ah, good old Shap, where the rest of the UK can be in a month long heatwave, and it will still be raining :cry:
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One from 2006 or 2007 stands out in my memory - couple of weeks in Scotland on holiday and it was glorious weather, though I somehow picked up a cold, approaching Shap closed right in - literally could barely make out the car in front, stopped off at Tebay services hoping it would clear up and I remember sitting in the restaurant watching the pond ripped up by the rain, didn't let up until we got south of the Lakes and then it was sunshine all the way home.
 
Had some guy try to undertake me this morning. There's a very short section of 2 lanes into 1 near paps in willerby (near hull). It's dual upto that point, then as lots of people turn off left it's easier to stay in the right lane. This guy (in a Corsa), who I'd noticed was driving like a bell end previously, tried to pull into the left lane from behind me then try and fly by. Didn't work, but incredibly dangerous driving. He also straight lined a few roundabouts :rolleyes: .
 
Resident said:
I don't see why manufacturers can't program a "wipers on (or active with autowipers), lights on" into the car. Yes that's even more reliance but it'd stop this.
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As @Rroff says - some cars do. Fords have a setting in their menus that will turn on the lights if the auto wipers trigger over a certain speed (not sure what it is but e.g. 3 intermittent wipes within 10 seconds = lights on)
 
I stopped to let someone out of a side road who was having a bit of trouble due to traffic... women behind me got all huffy and puffy about it and started to get on the horn but her passenger pulled her off it LOL.
 
SilverTongue said:
Was behind someone last night who didn't pull far enough forward at a set of traffic lights so they just stayed in red, ended up getting out and explaining that she needed to stop over the induction loop and then the lights would know we were there
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What worse is normally there's a very big rectangle on the floor showing where to stop. I've also noticed people doing this at side junctions too, not sure why though.
 
aVdub said:
Yeah exactly like those turn lanes that are there to allow other traffic to keep flowing, but seems the latest trend is to leave it until the end of the lane and then turn.

I really struggle to understand how these people can take something so simple and turn it into something so hard.

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And what's the odds 2 days ago that this happened exactly like above and with the same model to me :D

Also on the subject of Fix It Again Tony, are these cars designed to have at least one light fail within a certain period.
 
Stu999 said:
People who can’t stop for a queue or junction in one go. It’s stop. Then pull a little bit more forward when a car stops behind them. Then wait a second. Then pull a bit more forward.

What’s wrong with these people?
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And then before you know it there is a 10m space in front of you and you are wondering when that German car is going to appear from nowhere and take that space..
 
At what point does filtering (motorbike) stop becoming filtering and just start taking the ****?

2 lane carriageway and the traffic is doing the speed limit of 40mph mph yet a biker then decides to filter between both lanes doing around 50-55mph. Is it just me or is that no longer filtering?
 
Has anyone else noticed the rise in poor driving from those driving Nissan vehicles, especially the SUV type and at a certain age of vehicle.
 
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Richie said:
At what point does filtering (motorbike) stop becoming filtering and just start taking the ****?

2 lane carriageway and the traffic is doing the speed limit of 40mph mph yet a biker then decides to filter between both lanes doing around 50-55mph. Is it just me or is that no longer filtering?
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I don't filter if the traffic is moving, not even at 5 mph. Only when traffic is stationary. When I see bikers filtering in moving traffic it scares me.
 
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