Does everyone hate learners or what?

i think its the same ignorants who cannot drive in the correct lanes on motorways, drive at 40mph on b roads regardless of the speed limit, even though the tiny villages, have badly maintained dangerous cars and dont like being overtaken or drive about all the time with fog lights on

there are lots of utter morons on the road
 
I am patient (to a certain extent anyway) with learners - after all, we've all been there! It's the ones that are supposed to have passed a test but still suck that annoy me ;)
 
a lot of the learners here do about 10 below the speed limit, but they have to learn as did we all so I just sit back and watch for any mistakes haha.
 
When I was learning last year, we had a guy on my tail who had the craziest road rage. We decided to try and predict where he was going to go so we could stay in front of him and annoy him. He was going loopy, screaming and shouting. Did contemplate stalling, but meh.
 
I have had about 2 people like that in the entire time I've been driving, plus the odd vanman who likes to sit up my bum :x

People round here are good to learners!
 
I was behind a learner the othe day who just couldn't get on to a roundabout. Stalled it about 6 times, poor bloke. I wasn't in a hurry so I just sat and waited :p
 
esK` said:
a lot of the learners here do about 10 below the speed limit, but they have to learn as did we all so I just sit back and watch for any mistakes haha.
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id rather keep my distance too. a learner is more likely to make a mistake, id rather not be part of it

a lot of drivers just have no common sense though
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
You would not believe how many times I have seen somebody "flash out" another car and then plough straight into them!
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I was just wondering about this, I was sure someone in a snotter of a car was intentionally flashing trying to get people to pull out of a side road onto the main road to crash into them and get money or something.
 
Learners only iritate me when the instructor has taken the wrong pupil out at the wrong time, the evening rush hour is not the right time to take out some newbie who thinks driving everywhere at 15mph and hesitating for 15 minutes at every jusnction is appropriate.
 
I ram them out of the way with my superior driving skills and car :D:D:D

Always patient with them, we all had to learn once. Plus getting annoyed with them, flashing and sitting up their bum will only force them to make more mistakes.
 
Learners are a nuisance but mostly its the instructors fault. I have lost count of the number of times a learner around here has brought a busy roundabout to a halt because the instructor is taking them out into heavy traffic before they've really mastered the basics. Whats wrong with spending lots of time in industrial estates until they've got basic clutch control?
 
Firestar_3x said:
I don't hate them, i just wish they wouldn't get in my way down some great country roads!
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Tbh it could be any form of moving road block, gernally OAP's in the Giro collectors 206/Agila/Getz.


I never get annoyed by learners, I just give them twice the car lengths I'd give anyone else so they don't feel pressurised.
 
What time were you out driving?

I really don't understand why learners have to be on the road during the rush hour (either morning or evening). I realise there is some value to learning what heavy traffic is like, but the aggravation they cause is often palpable. When I'm in a long line of traffic on an apparently clear road that's being held up doing 40 in a 60 I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one simmering behind the wheel.

And yes, everyone started somewhere - I get that - but it doesn't have to be specifically to the deteriment of people just trying to get to work. What's the harm in starting the lesson at 9:30am or something?
 
I don't understand why some learners go so slowly, I always stick to the limit and was doing 60 on my second lesson. Is everyone scared of speed :confused:
 
when i used to drive my dolomite i found a similar situation. People tried the craziest overtaking manouvers.
 
Takes nothing to courteous, takes a lot to be an arse.

I always give learners and just passed drivers a lot of room after all tail gating them isn't going to make them speed up or get out of the way is it?

I had the pleasure of meeting such an arse during my driving test, it's raining, visibility is not good but an arse decides that he's going to overtake me on the high street except that he didn't see the bus coming the other way so he cuts me up and I had to do a semi emergency stop. Scared the be-jebbers out of me, heart was now pounding and I was sure I had failed the test. At the end the tester commented on the incident and said well done for avoiding an accident and passed me :)
 
The only thing that bugs me about learners, and infact its more a criticism of the instructor, is when they are allowed to join a dual carriageway at 30mph. Its so dangerous and my instructor used to tell me to get my toe down in such situations and merge into traffic not cause it to have to swerve around you.
 
Zefan said:
I don't understand why some learners go so slowly, I always stick to the limit and was doing 60 on my second lesson. Is everyone scared of speed :confused:
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its down to the instructor

mine was the same, out onto the open road on my first lesson. he did the clutch control and changing gears and told me just to worry about acceleration and road position.

Not 10 minutes into my lesson he was telling me "C'mon gas gas gas, give it some more" to get me to keep up with traffic

If your instructor starts off like this, you're never going to be one of those learners doing 20 in a 30.
 
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