Your bad driving encounters

How old was it? IIRC some of the newer ones have a sealed LED headlight unit (silly idea IMO) where you can't just replace the bulb at the roadside. Personally don't think they should be legal.
Virtually all LED headlights are sealed, they almost all use multiple LEDs so they wouldn't be easily user-serviceable anyway.
 
Yea lazy parents should be banned from school runs in car. Full stop.
Your children have legs - use them.

The problem is when parents apply for schools for good reputation. So more cars.

Friend’s daughter couldn’t go to the school at the bottom of her road. Even my friend applied when applications were first accepted for her daughter’s intake
 
It's not like the good old days where everyone could get into the school 10 minutes walk away though, we're lucky my step daughter literally just has to cross the road for school.

We're also unlucky that we're just across the road from a school but it's generally relatively short periods of time where it's not worth trying to get in and out of the road and very predictable so easy to plan around if needed.
 
After years ago a few of us having a heated argument in the pub with a fellow bike who said he rides on Main Beam all the time for his "safety". I find many car drivers doing the same now and I am talking Halogen headlights with a separate Main Beam lens. Even a quick flash to tell them and they do nothing, only when you go full retina burn do they dip their lights.
I think this is mostly people in new cars with "auto" high beam that doesn't work and removes their feeling of responsibility.
 
I think this is mostly people in new cars with "auto" high beam that doesn't work and removes their feeling of responsibility.
Its the same with the auto lights that come on when its dark, but not when its raining. It was raining yesterday morning and noticed about 10% of cars with no lights on. Then out of the 10%, about 90% of the vehicles were of an age with auto lights were in every car.

It just takes me to move the end of the windscreen wiper stalk to on, If people are unable to do this themselves - give up driving.
 
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Yea lazy parents should be banned from school runs in car. Full stop.
It's one of the reasons I don't understand people wanting to live near a school. When I pick my daughter up I make sure to not block drives and park curtiously. There's 1 parent that parks opposite the gates, right under a bus stop sign, but that's obviously not their problem :rolleyes: . I've heard all sorts of bad stories like parents parking on randomers drivers, blocking people in and then having the cheek to mouth off to people when asked to move. It's that entitlement that ****** me off.
 
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It's one of the reasons I don't understand people wanting to live near a school. When I pick my daughter up I make sure to not block drives and park curtiously. There's 1 parent that parks opposite the gates, right under a bus stop sign, but that's obviously not their problem :rolleyes: . I've heard all sorts of bad stories like parents parking on randomers drivers, blocking people in and then having the cheek to mouth off to people when asked to move. It's that entitlement that ****** me off.
We're in a row of six houses on the street that were built long after everything else so we've just got 12 tarmac spaces in a row out the front, 2 for each house.
Every now and again I'll get home and time it wrong so I hit the school run and there'll be someone parked across both our empty spaces, in that case I'd rather they just used a space so at least I can get in the other one without having to hope next door are out and do some million point parking to get into the space behind them :o but generally it's not too bad around here.
 
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It just takes me to move the end of the windscreen wiper stalk to on, If people are unable to do this themselves - give up driving.
I dont think it is about unable to do it......... if your car has a feature which is on by default its kind of logical that they would use it........... chances are it isnt deliberate that they do not over ride it manually when it doesnt work properly, its just they didnt notice it was failing to work.

as for your sarcasm about autolights.... maybe if it is just on and off you may have a point, however many cars now have intelligent headlights which will half dip where needed and still allow full beam where not, this makes (in theory) it safer for all as it allows the driver better vision without blinding others.
I cant comment on all cars, only my own, however i have yet to be flashed by anyone in 8 months of owning the car however immediately got flashed when i was in my wifes car and was a second late in dipping my main beams (due to it being the 1st time driving her car at night) so i can only assume the system in my car is working properly.

given the huge number of drivers who cant be bothered to indicate however, i would say having auto dip lights is probably the lesser of 2 evils when it comes to headlights and full beam (look at the amount of cars either without any lights on at all, or who just continually drive with full beam on...... (there is a boy/girl racer i see now and then who continually has not only full beam on but also front foglights. its like seeing a car from the RAC rally approaching me (ok slight over exaggeration).

This i think has to be deliberate, I am surprised (s)he hasnt been pulled over yet.... but then with the amount of cars on the road with broken lights maybe i shouldnt be.
 
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I struggle to fathom some people's decision making. Today I witnessed the most idiotic and stupid overtake maneuver.

I was a passenger in my other half's car, it's just gone 7am and we're on a 50mph limit single carriage A road, it's pitch black with no street lights. I notice a single headlight on the opposite site of the road, which I initially thought was a motorbike performing a questionable overtake on a car that we're about 50 yards or less from passing. Only it isn't a motorbike, it's a white BMW 1 series who had nudged out to start an overtake before seeing us - I couldn't see their near side headlight because they were so close to the bumper of the car in front. Either a moron thinking they need to overtake everything on the road, or these two cars had an altercation earlier on.

I then looked in our nearside wing mirror, unsurprisingly I can see said BMW then performing the overtake. If trying to overtake when there's an oncoming car (ours) on top of you isn't bad enough, the overtake they made was on a road going uphill and the brow of said hill wasn't far away. At 50mph you'll quickly find the situation changes when a car suddenly appears at the brow of a hill. This was a classic case of how head on life changing/fatality crashes happen. It's lucky for us they saw us and pulled back in because this road is also going through woods and the road is straddled by steep banks, no room to go off road to avoid a head on collision.
 
and the road is straddled by steep banks, no room to go off road to avoid a head on collision

Not something I've really thought about - but an accident black spot near me (actually 2 of them) where there is often head on collisions likely from overtaking has high banked sides so no where for anyone to go if there is a situation like that.

I was following a 7.5ton truck to work yesterday and he was dawdling along barely 40 in NSL (even taking into account he was technically restricted to 50), overtook and he seemed to take exception to it and was rinsing the vehicle out trying to stay behind me all the way to the next town - dunno why he couldn't have just gone a bit faster in the first place :s

On another note - hear a lot about how it is car drivers jumping reds in some other threads on here/other forums - but always seems to be cyclists in my experience - did not see this one last night either until they'd nearly cleared the vehicle in front of me - I did see the light moving about but thought it was something on the pavement initially and didn't think someone would come through against the lights!


Not the worst but if I'd been driving my truck or a van I'd have been wider through there (have to go out a bit to avoid the drain on the left ideally) probably not leaving much if any gap... and I bet that cyclist would have been the first one up in arms if a driver had passed them that closely!
 
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It's one of the reasons I don't understand people wanting to live near a school. When I pick my daughter up I make sure to not block drives and park curtiously. There's 1 parent that parks opposite the gates, right under a bus stop sign, but that's obviously not their problem :rolleyes: . I've heard all sorts of bad stories like parents parking on randomers drivers, blocking people in and then having the cheek to mouth off to people when asked to move. It's that entitlement that ****** me off.
Lol thats nothing I used to work opposite a school and the shenanigans that went on you wouldn't believe I've seen them drive all the way down the pavement, over the grass verges that line the entrance you name it I couldn't believe what I was seeing at times
 
The entrance to the flats I live at is at the bottom of a road. Entrance narrows. There is a Ford Transit Luton parked in the corner where it narrows. It belongs to the last house on the road. It’s on council road, not private (which my home is) and on DYLs. The way he’s parked is making larger vehicles - bin lorry, courier vans etc difficult to pass through.

The tenant of the property has already have one other van which parks in his bay.

Can I get the council to get a parking warden out and slap on a ticket?
 
Saw some karma for a knobbish driver this morning. This guy (who was driving dangerously, slammed vw van, no indication when overtaking). He went in the right lane to go round this roundabout (going completely round) to try and dodge the queue in the left lane. He lost about 6 spaces :cry:.
 
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Driving down the M54 on my way home last night and there was a brand new electric Merc (therefore I'm assuming packed full of things like lane assist and other driver aids) in the outside lane, they were varying between 60-80 with seemingly no reason behind the massive speed variance and continuously drifting over like they were about to change back to lane 1 but then deciding against it (this was generally at the point they had slowed to a crawl with everyone stuck behind them).

Pulled off the same slip road as them and again they seemed unable to sensibly slow down up the massive slip to the roundabout and instead starting jumping on the brakes. Looked over expecting to see them with their head buried firmly in a phone but it looked like they were just too busy having a chat to their passenger, who was waving a phone around so maybe they were both watching TikToc :rolleyes:
 
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