Your bad driving encounters/irritations
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Should get some bloke on an expensive bike with some go-pro’s involved - that’ll show ‘em.
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I kind of like cyclingmikey but don't think I could be friends with him.
Those are the worst.
Dunno if there is something wrong with them, not seen any issue, but 3 days in a row at traffic lights through a village near me where the road is too narrow for 2 way traffic around a corner, as I'm coming around the corner someone coming the other way has jumped the lights and then has to sheepishly reverse back to the stop line - they've obviously known they are in the wrong - dunno if people think as it is a quiet village they can just ignore the lights or something but I've not seen it regularly before.
Coming home last night I was on a steep downhill bit with a road joining from the right at the bottom of the hill, it is very dark there at the best of times and going down the hill your headlights don't light up much in front of you - saw a single red flash in the junction and my initial thought was a car was pulling out so instinctively dipped my headlights, then realised there was no car there, put main beams back on to catch a cyclist in dark clothing pulling out the junction, no lights except a rear which was double flashing a red light twice rapidly every ~10 seconds and off the rest of the time... had to slow behind them as there was a car coming the other way at which point they decided to stop and pull their bike onto the pavement to let me go past... absolutely suicidal - principle reason I have a dashcam because if I'd hit them it would no doubt go against me but very possible for such an incident to happen without the car driver doing anything wrong as such.
Coming home last night I was on a steep downhill bit with a road joining from the right at the bottom of the hill, it is very dark there at the best of times and going down the hill your headlights don't light up much in front of you - saw a single red flash in the junction and my initial thought was a car was pulling out so instinctively dipped my headlights, then realised there was no car there, put main beams back on to catch a cyclist in dark clothing pulling out the junction, no lights except a rear which was double flashing a red light twice rapidly every ~10 seconds and off the rest of the time... had to slow behind them as there was a car coming the other way at which point they decided to stop and pull their bike onto the pavement to let me go past... absolutely suicidal - principle reason I have a dashcam because if I'd hit them it would no doubt go against me but very possible for such an incident to happen without the car driver doing anything wrong as such.
And your scenario is precisely why wearing reflective clothing, especially at night, is so important. I don't understand why some people just don't follow this.
People who tailgate for miles, but then suddenly back off because they've just **** their pants seeing the police car approaching from behind on blues and twos heading to an unrelated emergency.
Happened to me last week. Was priceless seeing them in the mirror.
Happened to me last week. Was priceless seeing them in the mirror.
I'm coming out! #YOLO
This felt significantly worse than it looks in the video - surprised to see the speed only dip to ~45, felt like we almost stopped
Sorry for the music, there were a few non-family-friendly words from my partner!
This felt significantly worse than it looks in the video - surprised to see the speed only dip to ~45, felt like we almost stopped
Sorry for the music, there were a few non-family-friendly words from my partner!
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I'm coming out! #YOLO
This felt significantly worse than it looks in the video - surprised to see the speed only dip to ~45, felt like we almost stopped
Sorry for the music, there were a few non-family-friendly words from my partner!
Yup that was pretty close
He did at least give us a little wave to say "sorry" as he came off the slip road (just after the video ends), because that makes it all OK...
So many people today who either to myself, or mostly other people, dawdling along until someone committed to overtaking at which point they speed up... I seriously do not get the thought process (or lack of) involved... the funniest one being where 2 cars ended up side by side at exactly the speed limit for a mile or so until a lorry in lane 1 forced the second car to slow down - at which point the car in lane 2 also slowed to block them coming out... a touch frustrating sitting behind them but I did sympathise - and I bet the driver in lane 1 went home thinking the other driver was the bad one.
Then the person who got caught out by me actually getting going off the lights and seems to have bruised their ego as they then sped past me only to sit in front of me going no faster than I had been going.
Then the person who got caught out by me actually getting going off the lights and seems to have bruised their ego as they then sped past me only to sit in front of me going no faster than I had been going.
Agreed. Seem to be loads of them around here
Agree, that is annoying but surely if it clear and open you just overtake easily and safely? Though if overtaking is not possible due to oncoming traffic it is aggravating.
The opposite of the above driver is the type who expects you to do 60 (or more) on an NSL with loads of dips and blind corners. The type who is probably local and thinks every other driver should “know these roads”.
If I’m slowing down to 35 - 45 on an NSL that is not giving me more than 50m advance visibility and lots of blind turns and maybe I get to 50 - 55 on the longer stretches, is that a perfectly reasonable speed range?
There tends to be lots of pedestrians and cyclists on NSL B roads, yet we still have inconsiderate drivers who tailgate you for not doing 60.
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I'm coming out! #YOLO
This felt significantly worse than it looks in the video - surprised to see the speed only dip to ~45, felt like we almost stopped
Sorry for the music, there were a few non-family-friendly words from my partner!
That was indeed very close. What I find is that dashcam footage always gives the impression that there is a lot more distance than reality. It is a wide angle effect on a small screen that does it.
So many such instances on YouTube which comments like “you had plenty of room”. Or my favourite when it results in an actual collision, “you had so much room to come to a stop”.
Insurers work on the 2 second principle, 1 second to process what is happening and another 1 second to react. So 2 seconds before you even start braking or taking evasive action in any emergency. Yet you get the YouTube commenters who inevitably conclude “I would have reacted much faster there”. Well that’s kinda the difference between reacting and knowing.
I'm amazed how many people seem to think you can stop a vehicle instantly as well - I'm hoping people who don't drive.
I live in the south east, there’s usually traffic…! But yes you can overtake if clear, but one of the annoyances of this driver is they are going just fast enough that you probably need to speed in order to get the overtake done in a timely enough fashion.
I had one guy argue that the motorway 2 second rule was because that’s how long it took to do a full emergency stop.
I kid you not, he brought up a video of Jeremy Clarkson “proving” that the Highway Code stopping distances were wrong. He would not accept that Jeremy and the other two clowns “knew” where to start braking and that “known” hazards do not factor in thinking and reaction times.
I showed him evidence that the 2 second rule was to give yourself thinking and reaction distance, not stopping distance. There is even evidence that shows typical thinking times are as much as 1.5 seconds.
I’m not sure it worked and he still thinks he can stop his Civic in less than two seconds.
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Yesterday morning and this morning's rush hour while on my way to work has been very poor. Not just taking 30 minutes to drive a single mile, but the amount of bad driving within the heavy traffic has been consistently insane.
The back to school traffic has well and truly returned
The back to school traffic has well and truly returned
Yesterday morning and this morning's rush hour while on my way to work has been very poor. Not just taking 30 minutes to drive a single mile, but the amount of bad driving within the heavy traffic has been consistently insane.
The back to school traffic has well and truly returned
In my day kids weren’t allowed to drive.
