nice piccy, 1st car merging has left it a little late though
I'm not sure about that, to me the idea was that you simply follow the lines of the cones that force you to merge
Someone ... please invent a merge in turn camera!
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I'm not sure about that, to me the idea was that you simply follow the lines of the cones that force you to merge
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Well, yes there is, its a completely ridiculous thing to do.
The reason dim people hate merge in turn is because of people like you. Honestly, you should be on the bus the way you tell us you drive. Hope you don't take somebody else with you when something eventually goes awfully wrong
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[TW]Fox;19167468 said:
That is no reason at all, given the fact I'm doing the move correctly by merging at the pinch point ... just like a zip.
If they made the move correctly then there would not be an empty lane for me to drive down to begin with
You went bombing down the outside of a stationary queue of traffic at 50mph. As a result, you almost crashed because you were right on the limit of being able to safely stop. Blaming the other guy is only useful if you can speak from your hospital bed.
I know you think you are always right at everything but please stop driving as if you are some sort of god, unlike words on an internet post which can only amuse us, if you crash into somebody, you may hurt them.
I know you think you are always right at everything but please stop driving as if you are some sort of god, unlike words on an internet post which can only amuse us, if you crash into somebody, you may hurt them.
I went driving down an empty lane at the speedlimit, a perfectly safe move.
The fact that the person pulled out in front of me with no indication (and on purpose KNOWING that I was there) is no reason at all.
If anything that move is enough to get the trucker charged with DWDCA or Dangerous Driving were any police present
The fact that the person pulled out in front of me with no indication (and on purpose KNOWING that I was there) is no reason at all.
If anything that move is enough to get the trucker charged with DWDCA or Dangerous Driving were any police present
So perfectly safe it resulted in an emergency stop.
Thank you for proving you have zero anticipation skills. People change lanes all the time and its important to be ready to react. Driving at 50mph alongside stationary traffic shows you are utterly oblivious to this potential and have absolutely no anticipation skills.
You would fail an advanced driving test.
The vast majority of non-fault accidents that take place can be avoided. I suspect you'd never avoid a single one - because as you clearly demonstrate, you drive for yourself and yourself only. Pointless saying its the other guys fault once you are being cut out of your car by the emergency services. And all avoidable..
Please stop driving like that.
[TW]Fox;19167843 said:
Except for the fact that the change in lanes is against the highway code which tells you to not change lanes while queuing for a merge in turn.
This is before we get to the fact that straddling lanes is illegal
and before we get to the fact that pulling out knowing that someone is there in order to block them is illegal
and so on
You still didn't read my simple post on the other page, or you did and just couldn't understand it's complexity.
It's a speed limit not a target to nail whenever YOU feel the power
A 50mph speed differential between you and the people in Lane 1 is not safe as your experience has shown.And bombing down lane 2 at the speed limit in this situation is just as stupid if not more so. Not illegal by any means, but stupid and without care. Yes!
So what are you going to do when one day you do smash into a car that pulls out?
Perhaps you'll be concious long enough to whinge about how it wasn't your fault even though it was totally avoidable?
You just dont get it, do you?
You proceed with caution past stationary traffic, you dont bomb past at 50mph.
Your arrogance is scary.
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What exactly happens at a 2mph + 50mph zip? Is that when we hear a sound more like rypt than zip as you bounce through the cones as you cant stop in a pseudo gap?
Who said anything abut merging at 50mph? You slow down at the merge point, but you drive up tot he merge point at whatever speed the traffic is moving.
In my case, since everyone decided to not use L2, the traffic for L2 was moving at the speedlimit.
Were the cars using the two lanes correctly then there would be no issue
[TW]Fox;19168902 said:
There was no potential hazard created as even if cars are all in L1, you should still not pull out into L2 without indicating, you should still not pull out into L2 period as you are queueing for a merge in turn, you should still not pull out into L2 on purpose to block someone and nearly cause an accident ... and lastly ... you should still not straddle lanes.
I broke a total of 0 rules, and drove safely.
Which is more than what can be said for the idiotic truck driver ... do they not test understanding of the rules of the road when it comes to HGV tests?
It's threads like this that really make me hope rypt is trolling with the stuff he posts because if he actually thinks driving past a queue at 50mph is perfectly safe because no one 'should' pull out, it's really quite a scary prospect.
Life doesn't always work to the rules rypt, people do things you may not expect them to and knowing you were technically in the right according the highway code will be of little consolation when you're in a wheelchair.
A good driver is not one who blindly follows rules - it is one who can read ahead and anticipate hazards - something you clearly failed to do here.
There was, otherwise you wouldn't have had to do an emergency stop, it's not a difficult concept.
You may not have broken any rules but that doesn't mean your driving was safe. In this case it absolutely wasn't safe at all.
Life doesn't always work to the rules rypt, people do things you may not expect them to and knowing you were technically in the right according the highway code will be of little consolation when you're in a wheelchair.
A good driver is not one who blindly follows rules - it is one who can read ahead and anticipate hazards - something you clearly failed to do here.
There was, otherwise you wouldn't have had to do an emergency stop, it's not a difficult concept.
You may not have broken any rules but that doesn't mean your driving was safe. In this case it absolutely wasn't safe at all.
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Oh. So you didn't need to perform an emergency stop then? You wouldnt need to if there was no hazard. So are you telling lies?
You did not drive safely - whether you broke any rules or not has no bearing on that.
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I really love it when people block me from coming up the outside lane before merging in turn. It's always lorries/coaches so as soon as I get out of the roadworks I'll drive just under their speed in front of them - I can do it for miles and miles and it really gets them fuming.
They must be seriously retarded to not understand exactly what merge in turn really means.
Rypt, your continued lack of understanding when it comes to anything remotely outside perfect scenarios is staggering.
What are you ever going to do in the real world where situations remain fluid and you have to constantly re-evaluate your planned actions?
What are you ever going to do in the real world where situations remain fluid and you have to constantly re-evaluate your planned actions?