Your bad driving encounters

theone8181 said:
I do find it annoying (which I didn't realise until I owned an ev) that the brake lights do stay on when stopped, I guess I could put it in park to stop it but it just seems annoying.
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Already covered in other threads but most automatics and EVs the manual tells you not to use neutral except in an emergency i.e. stalled engine or having to push the vehicle and not to use park as a regular part of driving to avoid wear and tear (parking pawl etc.) additionally on any automatic which uses a shifter/selector or similar which passes through reverse to get to park (which is more common than not) you flick the reverse lights on and off each time which can alarm people behind you.

Given the letter of the highway code in the UK I'm surprised the implementation is like that but that is how it is.
 
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Last week driving towards the A27 and I come up to Rodmell, come round a corner at 30mph and an old dear is looking at me from the wheel of her Honda Jazz.
I can only commend her decision to choose this moment to pull out of her drive causing me to test my reaction skills and condition of my brakes, which were both in good condition.
 
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alexakasloth said:
Last week driving towards the A27 and I come up to Rodmell, come round a corner at 30mph and an old dear is looking at me from the wheel of her Honda Jazz.
I can only commend her decision to choose this moment to pull out of her drive causing me to test my reaction skills and condition of my brakes, which were both in good condition.
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Just as well as she may not be insured ;)
 
I have to nominate myself for waiting for a truck to turn off into a side road then gunning it through the revs. Looking into the distance seeing a mobile camera van in the dark then looking at the dash and see I am doing an indicated 74..................... 14 day wait now! Never seen a mobile van in the dark for the 20 years I have been driving :(. Never had points either.
 
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I think I'm done with onsite working. The traffic, accidents, crumbling roads and randomness of many drivers just makes the travel element too much of a chore now. Ironically I used to love driving, even if it was just a big standard motorway trip.

Something I've noticed becoming ever more popular, which totally fries my brain as to why people do it, is the right hand at 10 o'clock driving position. Your arm is at full stretch so you've got no capacity to weave left if required and the position pulls your entire torso over to the left. It looks ridiculous and can't be comfortable.
 
Wow got a hand gesture from a biker, not a rude one but like gesturing they didn't think much of my driving, because they got too close behind me when slowing down into a 30...
 
Had a woman look annoyed with me because I positioned my car correctly to take a right turn out of a side road meaning she couldn’t cut onto the wrong side of the road. The humanity!
 
Bit of road that frequently irritates me, "read the script" on this one, could have gone behind the Berlingo in lane 2 but had a feeling they weren't going to get going and had a feeling the people in lane 1 weren't going to be turning off (hardly anyone bothers indicating here until they are already turning...) and that at least one person in lane 1 would probably take their sweet time getting up to 70 then suddenly speed up only after causing chaos...

Just boggles my mind how many people sit in lane 1, don't bother getting going, cause chaos, then suddenly decide to get up to 70 half a mile down the road... and how many people take up a position in lane 2 when they clearly have no intent on getting going - just sit behind the stuff that might be turning off FFS - it'll cost you like half a second...

So I just sat back let it play out shaking my head. I think the BMW driver had half a clue as well as they'd been impatient behind me but were more chilled through that section (nice sounding engine on that car).


(Berlingo may have been limited to van limits and not wanting to go over 60 but still).

EDIT: Dunno what setup that BMW was running but it was seriously quick - they overtook cars behind me to then catch up with me and making it look so effortless.
 
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Looks to me like it was quite a gradient which in a lower power car is going to take some time to get up to 70, especially if you don't enter the second half of the rev counter. The car at the front suddenly picks up pace once the road levels off which ties in with that.

What got me in that video, which you see all the time, is why the Ibiza sat right on the Berlingo's rear wheel arch? Especially when they then dive straight into lane 2. Just drop back two car lengths and everyone gets where they want to be :confused:
 
lordrobs said:
Looks to me like it was quite a gradient which in a lower power car is going to take some time to get up to 70, especially if you don't enter the second half of the rev counter. The car at the front suddenly picks up pace once the road levels off which ties in with that.

What got me in that video, which you see all the time, is why the Ibiza sat right on the Berlingo's rear wheel arch? Especially when they then dive straight into lane 2. Just drop back two car lengths and everyone gets where they want to be :confused:
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Good point on the first part - most of my driving history has been ~3L V6s even the Qashqai is a fairly torquey 1.6L diesel for all its sins. Not something I'd really considered although I'm not sure it entirely explains it.

Like with the bit you mentioned above with the Ibiza that bit of road is always chaos due to people driving like that, rush hour is terrible. I generally just try to sit back and let people untangle themselves before putting my foot down.
 
Stu999 said:
Had a woman look annoyed with me because I positioned my car correctly to take a right turn out of a side road meaning she couldn’t cut onto the wrong side of the road. The humanity!
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There’s a small road between the shops and roundabout. So many drivers cut that corner off when going right down towards the roundabout. I turn right from the side road to go home. The number of near misses.

If there is a collision there, it will cause chaos.
 
bigmike20vt said:
oh dear. hope you are ok
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I was fine the only thing that wasn't was my pride. There's a back road near where I live that has a river passing over it, I don't go that way often but for some reason that I day I decided to go the 'scenic route'. The river in the summer doesn't get very high but if it rains the level rise rapidly (although I only learnt this fact when it was to late) but that day there had been a lot of rain and I took the split decision to blast my way through the water at full so I stuck my foot down and my low riding Alfa Romeo Giulia went careering into the river and died.

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That's the river in question, in the the Google Earth photo the water isn't very high but that can change quickly.
 
Rroff said:
Funny enough seen a couple of cars doing it in the last few days, but I've not seen it as a craze.
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It's been practically every other set of lights for the past week whilst I've been at work (town/city driving). I even got glared at yesterday because it was 2 lanes and I dared to pull up to the line in lane 2.
 
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