Examples of poor driving you have witnessed!

Withnail

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henryscat said:
"Norm" does not mean it is right, nor does it mean flashing lights, sounding horns and hand gestures are not erratic and aggressive driving.
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As entertaining as this has been, i cannot be the only one, shurely, who when they read this shoeism -
shoes said:
I undertake a lot tbh, too many people going far too slow in Lane 3, no amount of beeping and flashing moves them so I just undertake usually with the middle finger extended as I pass. Some of us have a life to get to and when they're clearly in no mood to shift left I see no issue with undertaking.
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- rather took it to mean that he with the over-sized feet doesn't do the beeping and flashing thing on account of its inefficacy.
as above it is said:
I just undertake usually with the middle finger extended as I pass.
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One can only assume his reluctance to be clear upon this, at least to me, rather obvious inconsistency in your argument can be explained only by his spoiling for the fight, sort of thing.

For which, even the hardest of hearts must harbour a flicker of admiration. :)
 
Trumpet

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Now the dark evenings are here, why do people on unlit roads, I'm talking Stafford to Eccleshall here, feel that they have to suddenly brake when faced by traffic coming in the other direction. On several occasions recently I've been following other vehicles which have braked quite harshly (I'm talking almost to a standstill here) for no apparent reason than that there is something coming the other way. As soon as the oncoming 'danger' has passed they get back up to normal speed until the next one comes along. Weird, frustrating and potentially dangerous.
 
wildwood

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People who don't let cars filter out of Wildwood in a morning and then proceed to block the entrance. T#@?S!
 
tek-monkey

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bigbluewolf said:
Maybe it's because they get blinded by the headlights? Whatever it is, it is annoying and can be quite dangerous.
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I used to ride a motorbike up that rode almost daily (nightly?) and virtually everyone seemed to think it was OK to use full beam on an oncoming motorbike. If a car was behind me they'd dip their beams, but only when they saw the car. The only option I had was to blind them myself til they got the message, funny thing was then they often beeped at me as if I was in the wrong! (after dipping their own headlights)
 
proactive

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Trumpet said:
Now the dark evenings are here, why do people on unlit roads, I'm talking Stafford to Eccleshall here, feel that they have to suddenly brake when faced by traffic coming in the other direction. On several occasions recently I've been following other vehicles which have braked quite harshly (I'm talking almost to a standstill here) for no apparent reason than that there is something coming the other way. As soon as the oncoming 'danger' has passed they get back up to normal speed until the next one comes along. Weird, frustrating and potentially dangerous.
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Many drivers seem to do that in daylight as well :(

I was behind a chap this morning, on the A34 on the long humpy straight just before Pottal Pool and he kept braking down to 30mph, then allowing the speed to creep back up to 40mph then brake again down to 30... Nobody in front of him but oncoming traffic so I couldn't get past. Just had to sit there wondering why the hell he is allowed out into the community. I blame Thatcher!
 
henryscat

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tek-monkey said:
So, at the risk of repeating myself, what do you do when faced with someone doing 50 in the right hand lane?
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Usually the ones with poor lane discipline are in the middle, so the outside lane is available. What I experience more is that on a busy motorway, so many BMWs and Audis pile into the outside lane that they make it slower than both lanes 1 and 2.
 
phildo

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henryscat said:
Usually the ones with poor lane discipline are in the middle, so the outside lane is available. What I experience more is that on a busy motorway, so many BMWs and Audis pile into the outside lane that they make it slower than both lanes 1 and 2.
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Slight tweek - numpties with poor poor lane discipline sit in the middle so all the BMW's and Audi's have no option but to pile into the outside lane in order to try and get past the numpties.....if the numpties moved over to lane 1 then the traffic flow would improve as the BMW's and Audi's (and other marques drive correctly) could use middle and outside !!
 
phildo

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On the whole undertaking matter.....I regularly have to undertake around Stafford as a significant number of road (ab)users seem incapable of understanding that you keep left on a twin lane dual carriageway (even if you are intending to turn right at the next junction that's a mile ahead!!)...favourite stretches being Queensway, Stone Rd approaching Redhill roundabout, A34 through Stone..... etc

My prefered method is as follows:
Approach lane hog briskly from behind (tip toeing up doesn't alert them as much) and then match their speed at an appropriate distance (not too close) - Wait and see if they 'wake up' and move left......
If they haven't moved then give 1 flash of headlights - not confrontational - alerting to my presence...
If they still haven't moved then drop to inside lane (still behind them), wait a few seconds and see if they react....
If they still haven't moved then undertake fairly quickly.............

I have been known to give the odd hand gesture and I can 100% confirm that this can be completed in a perfectly calm and considered manner without impacting on my concentration or driving..........
 
Gramaisc

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phildo said:
On the whole undertaking matter.....I regularly have to undertake around Stafford as a significant number of road (ab)users seem incapable of understanding that you keep left on a twin lane dual carriageway (even if you are intending to turn right at the next junction that's a mile ahead!!)...favourite stretches being Queensway, Stone Rd approaching Redhill roundabout, A34 through Stone..... etc
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I had one yesterday - sat outside me all the way down the Queensway from Gaol Square to Lammascote, when I was the only vehicle in the left lane, forcing me to drop back to get into the correct lane to proceed to the next section ( I was going up Wolverhampton Road, eventually ) - he then realised that he really wanted to go up Weston Road and so shot into the left lane at the last moment - without indicating.
 
Jonah

Jonah

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I went to Florida in 2006 and hired a car for the holiday. Undertaking is allowed (as far as I know) in the US and seemed to work perfectly well when I was driving there.
 
proactive

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bigbluewolf said:
I went to Florida in 2006 and hired a car for the holiday. Undertaking is allowed (as far as I know) in the US and seemed to work perfectly well when I was driving there.
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Indeed it is and it does. The difference though, is that people are expecting it.
 
shoes

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phildo said:
On the whole undertaking matter.....I regularly have to undertake around Stafford as a significant number of road (ab)users seem incapable of understanding that you keep left on a twin lane dual carriageway (even if you are intending to turn right at the next junction that's a mile ahead!!)...favourite stretches being Queensway, Stone Rd approaching Redhill roundabout, A34 through Stone..... etc

My prefered method is as follows:
Approach lane hog briskly from behind (tip toeing up doesn't alert them as much) and then match their speed at an appropriate distance (not too close) - Wait and see if they 'wake up' and move left......
If they haven't moved then give 1 flash of headlights - not confrontational - alerting to my presence...
If they still haven't moved then drop to inside lane (still behind them), wait a few seconds and see if they react....
If they still haven't moved then undertake fairly quickly.............

I have been known to give the odd hand gesture and I can 100% confirm that this can be completed in a perfectly calm and considered manner without impacting on my concentration or driving..........
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CHILD KILLER! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY ACCIDENTS YOU HAVE NEARLY (BUT NOT ACTUALLY) CAUSED!?!?!

Makes my blood boil!
 
tek-monkey

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henryscat said:
Usually the ones with poor lane discipline are in the middle, so the outside lane is available. What I experience more is that on a busy motorway, so many BMWs and Audis pile into the outside lane that they make it slower than both lanes 1 and 2.
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Well answered, by not answering. So you honestly think shoes undertakes when the right hand lane is vacant? I don't get how you can moan at him yet refuse to say what you do in the same situation, and instead say what you'd do in an entirely different one as if that clears everything up.

As said above, politician material.
 
Trumpet

Trumpet

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C'mon HC it's either: a) sit behind them and join the rolling road block, b) sit just behind them but in lane two thus creating a two lane rolling road block, or c) undertake.
 
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