Slow drivers... ffs

In a slight detour, my pet hate is drivers who drive at a consistant speed. Yep, those drivers who can hold a solid speed mile after mile...

Driving allong a b road that national limit of 60, doing a solid 40. Then they get to a 30 and continue with the solid 40 they were doing, hit a 20 outside a school and stick true to that 40, then the village ends, and they go for it on the open a road at a solid 40!

ARGH!!!!!!!! They will drive slowly and in their minds safely on a 60 limit road, and then just plow through a village at 40! ARGH!

Edit: yes i speed read the thread
 
I love these go faster rants. But the truth more often than not is that the most dangerous drivers on the road are young immature newly qualified inexperience male drivers who think they're better than they really are and the insurance brokers, undertakers, other road users, the police and judicial system know it.

Here are sure indicators you're high risk:

You have frequent fender benders, scrape someone's car and drive off, clip curbs, and it's always someone else's fault:

You're constantly ranting at other road users because everyone else is always in your way, you're best and they're not:

You lose control because you took a bend too fast or in slippery conditions or in a car that doesn't have the perfomance and handling to match your aspirations and the car slid out on you in a spin:

You're constantly pulled in by the police:

You drink and drive:

You constantly scare pedestrians who have to run or step back to avoid your poor driving:

You use you mobile or text whilst driving:

You're too busy looking at women to concentrate on driving:

Your passengers find themselves pushing their feet into the floor in a vain attempt to apply pseudo brakes because something in your driving is scaring the toss out of them:

You're mechanically ignorant and don't understand basic car mechanics:

You've no concept of first aid which could be a life-saver and you think it irrelevant because you're such an ace:

You've hit wild animals because you're inconsiderate and don't know how to behave and interract in an environment that nature shares:

Even even half of that fits you it's time to eat humble pie and go take an advanced driving course because you're a serious accident waiting to happen that someone else is gonna end up paying for...



Check out your road and auto knowledge with these simple questions....

1. What risk to road safety does autumn present?

2. What are the four phases of the Otto Cycle?

3. You need to inflate your rear tyres to two-thousand hectopascals. What pressure in PSI will you need in them?

4. A magistrate is about to ban you but he'll let you off if you can tell him the overall emergency stopping distance for an average motorvehicle travelling at 70mph according to the latest edition of the highway code. What's the distance?

5. What is Ackerman Angle?

6. State three functions of anti-freeze.

7. When did you last ask someone to confirm that both your brake lights are working properly?

8. Why might your car not move if you jacked up one driving wheel, started the car, put it in gear and attempted to make the car move.

9. Where would you find a planet gear on a car?

10. Do you always indicate when overtaking cyclists?

11. What is SORN and how long is it valid for?

12. Why does a car have a brake pressure regulator?


If you struggled with most of the above questions then the bad news is that you've got the knowledge of a brownie and need to start eatin' humble pie, mateys...



I've seen some bad drivers in my time but the worst were:

a) The moron that killed a pedestrian 200 hundred yards down the hill from where I am now.

b) The halfwit that slaughtered a girl walking down the road a couple of months ago.

c) The cretin that couldn't be bothered to stop and pulled out of a junction into a motorcyclist killing the girl on the back and paralysing the rider for life. And continued driving in the same apalling manner afterwards...

d) The jackass that put an XJ6 through a car full of women at 120 mph at a junction and killed all four.

e) The butthead that pulled out on a motorcylist a hundred yards up the hill from where I am now and killed him outright.

f) The drunk I worked with that drove to the pub the day he passed his test, bounced off the hedgerow and head-on'd a couple celebrating their silver wedding anniversary.

So stop whinging about people that don't break the speed limits and start taking a real hard look at your own driving standards...
 
jaydee said:
Check out your road and auto knowledge with these simple questions....

2. What are the four phases of the Otto Cycle?

no relevance to driving

3. You need to inflate your rear tyres to two-thousand hectopascals. What pressure in PSI will you need in them?

irrelevant, pumps use bar or psi, it aint a lesson in physics

4. A magistrate is about to ban you but he'll let you off if you can tell him the overall emergency stopping distance for an average motorvehicle travelling at 70mph according to the latest edition of the highway code. What's the distance?

no relevance to driving, this situation woujld never arise, and anyway generic stopping distances are completely worthless given every vehicle is different.

5. What is Ackerman Angle?

ABSOLUTELY no relevance to driving, I'll bet even most racing drivers wouldnt know

6. State three functions of anti-freeze.

no relevance to driving

7. When did you last ask someone to confirm that both your brake lights are working properly?

what's wrong with reflection off a wall?

8. Why might your car not move if you jacked up one driving wheel, started the car, put it in gear and attempted to make the car move.

no relevance to driving

9. Where would you find a planet gear on a car?

no relevance to driving

11. What is SORN and how long is it valid for?

no relevance to driving

12. Why does a car have a brake pressure regulator?

no relevance to driving



If you struggled with most of the above questions then the bad news is that you've got the knowledge of a brownie and need to start eatin' humble pie, mateys...
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sorry that whole post was the biggest pile of steaming **** i've read in a long time. It seems YOU are the know-it-all here :/
 
Clarkey said:
sorry that whole post was the biggest pile of steaming **** i've read in a long time. It seems YOU are the know-it-all here :/
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Q F T.

I'm of the opinion that if a driver is doing something that would fail their driving test, they shouldn't be driving.
Doing 40 on a road with the national speed limit when the road is safe and the weather is permitting (ie. not pouring with rain, etc.) would get you a big fat fail in your test.
 
Slow Drivers annoy me too.... But what gets on my nerves more are drivers that Floor it on Straights and then Slow down to like 20 for bends... Just so you cant overtake. I wish i had a 911 [997] Turbo
 
Werewolf said:
That's the one, i've had a few close calls with dear in the early hours of the morning (in addition to the more common sand on the wet road surface;).
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Yep, seen lots of cars off the road on the last tight right hand bend going back towards Heath and Reach!
 
FrannoBaz said:
Slow Drivers annoy me too.... But what gets on my nerves more are drivers that Floor it on Straights and then Slow down to like 20 for bends... Just so you cant overtake. I wish i had a 911 [997] Turbo
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I think that’s even worse than people that don’t change their speed! Although people that speed up as you overtake them are possibly worse :mad:
 
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