Your bad driving encounters

If only there was some sort of proficiency test for cyclists
good, bad and ugly like motorists.

you have to look out for below situation as a cyclist and take more of the road if you can see someone approaching from behind and know that you will meet adjacent to an oncoming;
equally as a motorist flash the person pro-actively before they try the stupid overtake of the cyclist (go ahead punk .....)
maybe if motoring tests included (simulated ?) over-take windows that could help, too.

Yesterday, on the exact same stretch of road I posted about earlier, another idiot performing a ridiculous overtake on a cyclist. They were going up a hill we were going down, so you can imagine the cyclist was pretty slow. They overtook the cyclist as we were passing them, my other half was driving and she had to squeeze right over to her left. The poor cyclist wasn't given 15cm let alone 1.5m of space
 
Why do people have such a problem with merging at point and insist on moving over at the earliest point?!

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There are also the opposites to this, those that have to get one more car in front, the ones who continue past the merge point (when not coned) and then try to force their way in, usually because they're now in the oncoming lane.

Personally if there's a gap and I'm close (couple of car lengths) to the merge point then I'll move over. If I'm at work and there are bus stops along the left lane then I have to get over just in case someone wants to get on/off.
 
Absolutely honking down with rain yesterday and many driving with absolutely no lights on making them almost invisible in those conditions and yet again a couple of idiots with main beam on both Ford Eco-Sports strangely?
The % of drivers not putting on their lights on is getting worse each time it rains
 
The % of drivers not putting on their lights on is getting worse each time it rains
I think this is a real issue. The auto headlights on some cars are very poor at coming on in poor visibility such as rain as can be seen driving along in heavy rain or mist. There needs to be an awareness campaign that makes people realise that their auto headlights are not coming on in conditions where headlights are needed, especially as driving lights do not usually include the rear lights.
 
I had to go out earlier, gloomy and rainy, was 100-200m down the road before it occurred to me to put the headlights on, to be fair they had turned on on auto as I pulled away but must have turned off again once I was on the road.

The DRLs are almost as good as older headlights but don't include rear lights.
 
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don't care it is less likely to lead to confrontation moving over early. Which just ruins it for everyone.
This is unfortunately how I end up handling a couple of points on my commute because I've not got the energy to deal with the specials ones who block you from merging after a day at work.
 
I think this is a real issue. The auto headlights on some cars are very poor at coming on in poor visibility such as rain as can be seen driving along in heavy rain or mist. There needs to be an awareness campaign that makes people realise that their auto headlights are not coming on in conditions where headlights are needed, especially as driving lights do not usually include the rear lights.
Noticed mine switches off about 45 min after sunrise
 
If only there was some sort of proficiency test for cyclists
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In that instance wasn't exactly being critical of the cyclist, though they could have done better, but the initially vague hand signal at that point and being over on the left, when they could have taken up a dominant position earlier as I was holding back behind them, could have ended in disaster another time if someone less careful had mistaken it for the cyclist waving them on, as it was at the kind of point some cyclists do that, and the driver had put their foot down to go past just as the cyclist moved across the road...

And frankly largely came down to the fact I just don't go unless I can see it is clear for myself because you never know when someone might be malicious or have bad judgement, etc.
 
Lights chat reminds me of years ago cycling home at night and politely pointing out to the driver of a Clio or something that they had no lights on. I looked on confused as they fumbled around the controls for a while before saying it wasn't their car.

It's a shame manufacturers don't make it more difficult to find first gear.
 
I suspect most people just put the light switch on auto and never think about it ever again.

I'm actually guilty of driving for about 10 minutes without lights the other night. I was in town so it was well illuminated... Modern ish cars with an LCD dash, infotainment and no automatic lights are so... Lit up, it's easy to forget. Tbh the DRLs on my car are as bright as the headlights tho :o
 
Impatient ***** on the road today. Had a white van come charging up behind me out of nowhere in a 30 zone (I was doing 30) and then tailgated so close I decided to pull over. Unsurprisingly seconds later I was directly behind him as we approached the traffic lights not much further up the road.

Then later on the same journey someone nearly went into the back of me because they decided to speed up massively to change lanes just as I was indicating. It's a two lane road but the outside lane has a right turn that most use so the majority of people go on the inside lane and then move across after the right turn. This one was in too much of a hurry to let me take my turn. Again, they got held up by a bus seconds later so there was no advantage to them.
 
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