Driving questions

theone8181 said:
While it is too much use of the horn, what is the accepted way to tell someone they've forgotten their lights are off? Flashing them (wahey) can be a bit like staring into the sun so I wonder if it's really the best way (although not sure the horn would work either).
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I tend to switch to sidelights quickly rather than flash.

It's more obvious at night (a flash could just be taken as you going over a bump in the road), I feel it gives a clearer indication of what the problem actually is (hey look, no lights!), and you aren't going to dazzle the other driver.

Blackjack Davy said:
Who's taking bets on whether OP is driving a BMW or a White Van?
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Yeah, got to be something German, or a "hot" hatch (which is actually just the base spec model with the smallest engine after being driven through Halfords)
 
Haggisman said:
I tend to switch to sidelights quickly rather than flash.

It's more obvious at night (a flash could just be taken as you going over a bump in the road), I feel it gives a clearer indication of what the problem actually is (hey look, no lights!), and you aren't going to dazzle the other driver.



Yeah, got to be something German, or a "hot" hatch (which is actually just the base spec model with the smallest engine after being driven through Halfords)
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Naa, it'll be a diesel :cry: .
 
OP you definitely need to chill your beans a bit. You're gonna **** the wrong person off at some point.
 
ATiRubyfan said:
4. On a 3 lane dual carriageway, if I am on the right lane, and I am driving at the speed limit, if someone flashes me > Ignore and continue. On a motorway, if I do happen to find myself on the right lane, I will try to move to the middle lane as soon as it is safe to do so.
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This is an interesting one, I'm assuming from this statement there must be some difference between 3 lane dual carriageways and 3 lane motorways that I'm not aware of

7. Meet and greet situation in a residential road where it is a two-way road and cars are parked on both sides > If I am near the end of the road, I will reverse. If I am in the middle of the road or towards the front section of the road, I refuse to reverse all the way down the road , tell the other guy to reverse and switch off my engine.
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What happens if you meet someone with the same attitude in the middle of the road, you both just sit there with your engines off until a parked car moves?

10. If on a motorway, there is traffic on the left and slow traffic in the middle lane but no one is in the right lane, and I move to the right lane and floor it. One of the daydreamers in the middle lane sees me and then comes behind me on the right lane and flashes me to move out of the way > Ignore him and keep going until I have gone past the slow traffic in the middle lane and can go back to the middle lane.
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This is how it should be IMO, unless it will be a very long time before you catch-up the slower moving traffic. My wife does this a fair bit, there will be cars in the middle lane doing say 67mph, she'll be overtaking at 70mph in the outside lane, but sometimes she could technically come back in to let faster moving traffic past before moving back out again.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Is this the OP?

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What would have been so wrong about holding off for a moment, letting the BMW move over then GOING AROUND IT IN THE RIGHT LANE!!! I sincerely hope Sam loses his license forever. Not to mention accelerating up to 10MPH over the speed limit to deny the movement back, then continuing to accelerate to nearly 40% over the speed limit.

Dunno if there was any previous interaction between the drivers but doesn't excuse that driving with the risk of serious harm to other road users.
 
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Completely agree, utterly abhorrent ‘driving’.

Cracked me up when he started yelling ‘dash cam’ when pulling these licence loosing moves. They are completely delusional thinking they are in the right and have the audacity to send it to a dash cam YouTube channel thinking they had some kind of moral high ground.
 
theone8181 said:
Tbf in that video they're both driving like a male reproductive organ. Yes you got cut up, but doesn't excuse "sams" driving.
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In the initial incident he didn't get cut up, except in his own mind maybe - albeit the other driver could have come back to the left lane earlier - he accelerated into the gap after the other driver started indicating.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Completely agree, utterly abhorrent ‘driving’.

Cracked me up when he started yelling ‘dash cam’ when pulling these licence loosing moves. They are completely delusional thinking they are in the right and have the audacity to send it to a dash cam YouTube channel thinking they had some kind of moral high ground.
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He got rinsed in the comments :D
 
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