people who pull the handbrake with out pressing the button
People who pull the handbrake while pressing the button. It's a ratchet for a reason!
Plus my handbrake (Fiesta ST200) has a really satisfying sound.
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People who pull the handbrake while pressing the button. It's a ratchet for a reason!
Plus my handbrake (Fiesta ST200) has a really satisfying sound.
Learn to drive on the Motorway
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people who pull the handbrake with out pressing the button
Read your manual, it likely says to do exactly that.
He's not wrong though.
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And for @billysielu unless you are overtaking something, you should always be in the left lane (assuming ordinary driving conditions).
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Just for the maths side of the "if a truck is 30 secs in front of me I won't pull over" comment -
You = 70mph
70mph x 30 sec = 1km in distance between you and the truck
Truck speed = 55mph
Difference in speed between You and the Truck = 15mph
Therefore Time taken to travel 1km at 15mph (the actual overtaking speed) = 2min 30sec
So the "it's only 30 sec" is actually 2min 30sec to physically overtake a truck 1km in front of you and thats 2min 30sec spent in the Middle Lane next to an empty inside lane without moving over as the Highway Code says you should do.
Yet everyone who moves over as they should is wrong?
I would love the Government to start producing proper Road Safety videos again which are played during Soaps to maximise the audience - Videos like "How to join a motorway" - "Why you shouldn't sit in the middle lane" - "What the National Speed limit actually is" etc - It'd be very enlightening for a lot of people I think!
You = 70mph
70mph x 30 sec = 1km in distance between you and the truck
Truck speed = 55mph
Difference in speed between You and the Truck = 15mph
Therefore Time taken to travel 1km at 15mph (the actual overtaking speed) = 2min 30sec
So the "it's only 30 sec" is actually 2min 30sec to physically overtake a truck 1km in front of you and thats 2min 30sec spent in the Middle Lane next to an empty inside lane without moving over as the Highway Code says you should do.
Yet everyone who moves over as they should is wrong?
I would love the Government to start producing proper Road Safety videos again which are played during Soaps to maximise the audience - Videos like "How to join a motorway" - "Why you shouldn't sit in the middle lane" - "What the National Speed limit actually is" etc - It'd be very enlightening for a lot of people I think!
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I’ve come across a lot of people lately who don’t use their indicators until they’ve actually started turning off the road. They usually slow to about 5mph to make the turn too. Boils my ****
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Some people are just too thick to learn, I'd actually guess there may be a correlation between those people and soap watchers! So although you have your captive audience - it's just a wasted exercise.
As an example I had one recently - a few members on here are familiar with the road in question. It goes from a 30 to a 60 to what used to be a 40 but is now a 30 following an accident (another stupid decision in itself). People on this road fall in to 3 groups.
1, those with a brain who can follow the signs and limits correctly.
2, those with no brain who do 30 for the whole lot.
3, those with no brain who do 30, 40, 40.
I had option 3 recently. I overtook him in the 60 where he was doing 40. He then flew past me in the 30 making gestures. I caught up with him at the next set of lights and very politely asked what his issue was. Apparently I was 'going too fast' then 'going too slow'. I pointed out I never once broke the limit, unlike him. He tried to argue he was in the right until I pointed to the sign behind us. Then the lights changed and I drove off. He stalled.
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Him stalling is the cherry on the cake there! Most people deep down will know they are wrong but too arrogant to accept it and just argue because they are such babies.
Oooh, where to start. Here's a few:
Really, all the above comes down to is being more polite to the drivers around you.
- · Tailgators, with inappropriate braking distances behind me. These for me are typically the most dangerous, as IMO they’re most likely to be the people going to be rear-ending my car
- · Drivers holding a phone to their ear or actively looking at their phone, as against where they’re going
- · Drivers breaking the speed limit by a “bit”, i.e. enough to get nailed by a speed camera, but not enough to actually get anywhere faster than you are. You’re probably wondering why this annoys me. That’s easy, these are the same drivers who are typically FUNDING the existing speed cameras to justify their existence. If most drivers could contain their ego’s for a little while, speed cameras would be dropped due to costs
- · The motorway middle lane muppets. Just oblivious to what’s going on and are only sat there because they think they should
- · The 35mph bunch, i.e. drive at 35 EVERYBLOODY WHERE, regardless of whether they’re going past a school, or out in a national speed limit area. Do they remember the phrase “making effective progress”.
- · A more recent one, bus drivers using their hazard warning lights and NOT their indicators. The implications being that if there’s a pair of buses stopped together, the rear one stops you seeing the nearside indicator, so you’ve no idea if their hazards are on, or they’re indicating to pull out
- · Another more recent one, poor lane discipline, i.e. drivers who seem to lack the understanding of what lane and/or side of the road they’re meant to drive on. Had a guy happily wander over both lanes on the exit of a roundabout last week and nearly take the front of my car and regularly see cars pull so far out whilst overtaking a parked vehicle that they stop cars coming the other way.
- · Drivers parking on the hatched lines in our Tesco, because they’re either “too cool”, or in reality, too bloody lazy to park their car in a genuine space and walk another 10m. Why do I care? Parking on those hatched areas typically results in a significant impact on vision in some areas of the car park, making driving around more dangerous
- · Unnecessarily aggressive drivers (typically SUV or Audi drivers). Don’t want to let anyone out (ever), poor braking distances, think it’s OK to try to intimidate everyone around them, undertake then pull in-front of someone resulting in no braking distance, all to get just 8m further up the road. Hateful prats.
Really, all the above comes down to is being more polite to the drivers around you.
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lmao - good "i've got a detached house in Oxford" post
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Yeah! Gotta +1 this. It's usually parked lorries around here, but same problem.
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People using the left-most lane on roundabouts, even when they're taking exit five or six, thus getting in the way of everyone doing it properly.
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320d drivers who think their car counts as "much more powerful", and think it's ok to drive at 110mph on public roads
People who can't use lanes properly.
There is a bypass near my house and people drive the full length of it in the overtaking lane at 25mph under the speedlimit just because they want to turn right at the roundabout a mile down the road. Even had a few pip or flash lights at me for passing on the left when they are doing 45 in a 70.
There is a bypass near my house and people drive the full length of it in the overtaking lane at 25mph under the speedlimit just because they want to turn right at the roundabout a mile down the road. Even had a few pip or flash lights at me for passing on the left when they are doing 45 in a 70.