Your motoring irritations

Kenai - surely that's nothing compared to the bottleneck caused by not using hundreds of metres of empty road? Bringing the merge forward surely can't be better than having one lane of slow moving traffic begin sooner than it needs to, even if people 'cutting in at the last second' do join the flow at the last minute. Not sure what it is that means that the person merging immediately is being sensible, yet the person joining later is by definition violently cutting in, but there you go.
 
Also never ending roadworks. It's been TEN years to widen the M1, you'd think they would have had it done by now. Can't stand companies being so sloppy about stuff like this when Japan rebuild a fallen motorway in a week (there's bridge works on the M2 to canterbury that have been left nearly 2 months after they finished as well).

FishFluff said:
I get both of these in my Seicento and it's annoying as hell :mad:

I can't wait to get a better car *sigh*
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:( I see it happen more to even smaller cars, just so long as you don't do what my sister does who gets the red mist any time someone flashes her when she is in the wrong lane... Her answer is to floor it away from them, Polo's feel like they are about to go back to the future and dump a lot of liquid on the way (well fuel and coolant) when she does this and I hate it (would be better if she could just sit in the correct lanes).

Better car would help, just a bigger body. Mate has an Ibiza now, same engine size as my polo (though faster), never gets cut up like I do.
 
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Erm, you do realise the Polo/Ibiza (and Fabia) are the same size ... being based on the same platform.

That said I do get cut up in my Fabia where I didn't in the big old VW or the work Transit Connect van (in white!). Fabia has enough power to get out of trouble (and shower then in soot) so it all works out fine. ;)
 
  • People riding my bumper.
  • People failing to hold back when the obstruction is on their side of the road.
  • People not giving way to the right on roundabouts.
  • People doing ten plus mph over the speed limit.
  • People crawling a long on a NSL dual or single carriageway.
  • Cyclists that think their bike is as wide as a car.
 
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People not doing the speed limit.
Price of petrol.
People who give chase when your making progress.
People who automatically think you are going to move over when there is a obstruction on their side (tractors, roadworks etc).
People that go on kerbs etc for emergency services or do it wrong.
 
Kenai said:
Merging in turn is preferable in terms of traffic flow, when done properly.

If there is already a single file queue of traffic for whatever reason, that is flowing slowly but surely, blasting all the way down the outside and cutting your way in at the end forcing others to stop to let you in (causing a ripple effect all the way back) isn't conducive to better traffic flow.
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There shouldn't be a single file of traffic, they're do it wrong, so I take it as my civil duty to demonstrate the right way.
 
Blackhawk47 said:
Got nothing against led/normal daytime running lights personally. Doesn't bother me at all as both a driver or if another car has them. :)
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No nothing wrong with them at all, it's annoying during the night time as it's just the DRL's, and HID fogs which are bright as anything! Now that the roads are constantly wet too, it's just horrible.
 
Feeling charitable, Leave an epic gap in front.
Decide to be nice and flash someone out into the epicness in front of you, incase they can't take the hint.
They just stare blankly at you as you sail toward them, then decide to jerk forward 6 inches right before you pass them in a pitful attempt to go at the last minute.

Oh and HID's. They are way too bright, in OEM correctly aimed projectors or retrofitted to fluted lenses on a Corsa C. Thank you EU.
 
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People who accelerate on motorways when you try to pass them, must be little man sydrome i guess lol, most times im on cruise control at a fairly high speed, and some idiot takes Offence and totally boots it up to about 120, only to slow back down to about 80, so i catch up and the he boots it again! So hes basically rubberbanding to try and proove a point.. Get over it and pick a speed numpty!

Oh and LED brake lights. Theres really no need to blind the people behing you in standing traffic.
 
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People who are too polite - breaking, going out of their way for every other car. I'm talking about the idiots who brake slowing themselves and those behind to let people out of side streets who aren't even at the junction yet, or only just arrived.

I'm all up for being courteous, letting people out who are queuing, changing lanes to let people merge but some people go to the extremes of impacting flowing traffic behind them for someone who's right of way it isn't and they've not waited.

Grrrrrrrrrrrr
 
And the super-duper dangerous award goes to people who stick their nose out at t-junctions and literally force you to swerve into the opposite lane to avoid a collision. I **** you not I have been THIS close to smashing into them on purpose just to teach the air-thieves a lesson. I drive a reasonably hefty car and I'm prepared to take the hit you *******. No way I'd be at fault in the eyes of anyone sane or the insurance companies. Tempting as it may be, I don't, because I'm a swell guy.
 
I've noticed the people who used to sit on my rear bumper all the way through the Summer months trying to make me go over the speed limit and the ones who had to overtake everyone no matter what are now holding me up now it gets dark earlier. There's driving to the conditions and then there's taking the frickin' pee. Darkness = -10MPH, Rain = -10MPH. So a 60MPH road is now reduced to 40MPH because of these idiots. I hate to think what would happen if it snowed, we'd probably be going backwards.

People who leave stupidly large gaps between them and the car in front in a queue. The next time I come across one I'm going to go around them and see if they wake up.

People who sit on your backside when it's quite obvious I couldn't go faster if I tried due to the line of traffic in front.

People who speed up as you over take them. Had one last week. Doing 40 in a 50. I get to a small bit of dual carriageway (literally 500 yards long maybe) and start to over take as I assume they are going to carry on doing 40. No, foot down. 50, 60, 70, 75 and they give up. I look in the mirror and the fat idiot is sat there grinning. Yeah, nice one, good job I wasn't over taking you on a single lane carriageway.

People who seem to take an age to work out what the traffic coming around a roundabout is doing. Sat behind someone today who had three very clear chances of going, but they kept hesitating.

The idiot in a red MK2 Golf last week who thought it was a perfectly safe idea to overtake a car that was already overtaking a van on a single lane carriageway with dashed markings down the middle of it just before a long blind sweeping corner.

I could go on. A48 = Complete idiot magnet, avoid it at all costs.
 
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