Fun on the drive to work

[Salazaar]

If you're passing slower moving vehicles then it's fine, but you've got to remember to pull back in once you've complete maneuver.

[finlay666]

Whilst we're doing this upgrade, any change we could put cameras on roundabouts that check whether people indicate when approaching them? If they don't a sign would flash up saying:

'No indicators? You're a dick.'

What if you are going straight on? You don't indicate left or right.... or should I put my hazards on?

[oolon]

If you're passing slower moving vehicles then it's fine, but you've got to remember to pull back in once you've complete maneuver.

Yes I do exactly that, what I don't like is someone driving my the back of my car at 90+, beeping the horn flashing the lights to get by me. Just because I slowing them down while I (legally) over take, why should I have to speed to over take cars just to please them?

[lego batman]

Replace airbags with pointy sticks

Increase the danger to the driver from a little accident and hey presto, everyone driving nice and safely and courteously.

Hehe just make sure that you don't make the mistake of putting a child-seat in an air-bag fitted car then!

[jim]

What if you are going straight on? You don't indicate left or right.... or should I put my hazards on?

I was thinking that cars should just have an inbuilt system... if you're approaching a junction, and you don't indicate, the car will prevent you from turning either left or right. That would be good

[mikerr]

My Favourite sport is accelerating fast from traffic lights, right up to the speed limit then hanging at the right speed

Sudden unexpected changes in speed or acceleration is dangerous driving in my book.

You sound like you will be happy and smug the day someone crashes into the back of you ?!

[DeludedGuy]

Completely disagree with spud on this. There are numerous reasons why people are in a rush, important and costly reasons.

Best example of this was when I was dropping of my uncle at Stansted airport just before Christmas. I accidently got off the wrong exit at a roundabout and was heading towards Cambridge – no problem I thought, I would just get off at the next exit – little did I know the next exit was actually in Cambridge! In a state of controlled panic, thinking he would miss his £400 flight and miss the funeral I proceed to put my foot down reaching speeds on average of 90 mph and thankfully he made it to the check in just as they were closing.

Had I been slowed down by a self-righteous idiot who was either too scared or unskilled enough to control a vehicle at over 70mph many people would have been extremely cheesed off.

I’ve driven in other foreign countries such as Spain, Portugal, France and Germany, there speed limits are much like ours, apart from it being in KPH, but I’ve always found them to be constantly driving much faster, well over 100mph in some cases, especially in Portugal, which is probably why they have one of the highest mortality rates for car crashes.

Our 70mph limit is safe, but I would honestly go as far as say that raising it to 80mph wouldn’t increase fatal car accidents, the majority of people know what they feel comfortable with, I certainly don’t feel comfortable when driving at 100mph, so even if the limit was 120mph, I wouldn’t be driving at the that speed limit, but then I wouldn’t be impeding people from doing it, its not my job.

[kalniel]

Sudden unexpected changes in speed or acceleration is dangerous driving in my book.

Change in speed, sure. But change in acceleration? That's not dangerous driving, or we're all guilty of it every time we change gear.

[chadders]

Hehe just make sure that you don't make the mistake of putting a child-seat in an air-bag fitted car then!

I'd be woried if my 6 month old attempted to drive, yeah I meant driver's airbag!

Seriously though, why do people change so much behind the wheel? It's not like that walking down the street or queuing in a pub, or even pushing trolley round a supermarket.

[Guy]

Next time I suggest people leave earlier so they don't have to stress about being late.

Thats not an option available to all of us.

I *suggest* to you, that you get off that high horse, and stop trying to preach to the rest of us.

[dave87]

^^ Typical BMW driver.....










Shame. I agree with him though

[Stringent]

TBH we are all going to be restricted to 55mph or something soon because of the government, and because petrol is going up massively.

I hate middle lane hoggers. Doesn't bother me people driving at 90 or whatever as they zoom by. I am considerate for those in a rush, if I need to overtake I do and then go back into the middle or left lane. If I see someone coming up behind me fast I'll try and pull in for them if its safe and let them get annoyed at the person in front of me rather than me!

[scaryjim]

Sorting the motorways is actually easy - we just need 2 things:

1) ban lorries from the motorways at all. Move all long distance freight hauling onto rail or canals. We invented the damn things after all, why don't we use them

2) Have automated lasers mounted on cameras that blow out the tyres of anyone driving in an outer lane when the lane inside them is clear. Sorted.

I dislike getting into the outside lane for overtaking when there are idiots pelting down at 90+, but I get even more frustrated when I'm driving up the inside lane at 70mph and some idiot is sitting in the middle lane at ~ 65. You can almost guarantee that there's going to be traffic going past you faster and then overtaking him, so you can't pull out to overtake properly, which means you're left with the option of slowing down and waiting for him to stop being a <insert profanity of your choice> or overtaking on the inside. And you know that if you do sail past him, he'll spend the next 5 minutes swearing at you for undertaking despite that fact that he's driving at least as badly if not worse...

Oh, and there's no excuse for anyone to flash lights or beep horns at someone who is genuinely overtaking in the outside lane of a motorway at 70mph. I think that's where the resentment comes from - you're driving properly and some idiot comes down blaring horns and flashing lights and sitting 2 meters off your boot: it's funny, but I don't remember my driving instructor teaching me that bit...

[LWA]

Err I do, if there is space for me and the traffic is moving at a reasonable speed in that lane, otherwise I am driving at the speed limit why should I move over for you to break the law? Particularly if you flash your lights and beep your horn, I will probably do a bit of breaking instead for those people who choice to sit on my bumper.

Well I was going to respond in full to this but then I realised you're one of those ignorant people I was talking about earlier in the thread. It doesn't matter how many times people tell you, you're going to do it your own way anyway. Read my post I didn't mention anything about flashing lights or beeping, simply that you move into the middle lane after overtaking if it safe to do so.

Not complicated is it?

What's strange is that I rarely, if ever, get anyone sitting behind me flashing and beeping their horn (and believe me I do a lot of miles). If you do get a lot of people doing that to you, surely that says something about your driving?

I don't do anything special but I do pull in after overtaking.... Strange ;-)

[oolon]

Thats not an option available to all of us.

I *suggest* to you, that you get off that high horse, and stop trying to preach to the rest of us.

How is that option not available to all of us? Please explain as I don't understand. Do you have too little time to do a journey in a legal manner? Is the road to busy to complete the journey at the speed limit? Surely you know by now how long the trip should take so can adjust your plans? Or perhaps you feel that your time is more important that other peoples, so their journeys should take longer so yours can be shorter? Perhaps you have a young child that keeps you up all hours so you don't get much rest so you wanted a nice lie in?

Well I was going to respond in full to this but then I realised you're one of those ignorant people I was talking about earlier in the thread. It doesn't matter how many times people tell you, you're going to do it your own way anyway. Read my post I didn't mention anything about flashing lights or beeping, simply that you move into the middle lane after overtaking if it safe to do so.

I didn't say you did flash your lights, I didn't say I sat in any line keeping time with any cars next to me... I am over taking too! Just not perhaps at the speed you might have liked me too. When I find I cannot overtake I try to slot into the line of traffic to the left of me. I have attacked no one on this thread, yet people think I am a monster for driving legally and not wishing to speed like they do. My point was people need to calm down getting to your destination is more important than when you get there.

I don't do anything special but I do pull in after overtaking.... Strange ;-)

Did I say I didn't do that? I do as and when I can, if your overtaking 6 or 7 cars though, it does take a little while to get to the front of the queue. Perhaps I have just been driving longer than you, I have had aggressive drivers flashing lights behind me about 10 times. Not that common for the amount of driving I have done.

[dave87]

Actually I happen to know Rasta does circa 50k miles a year, up and down the motorways. So he not only deals with this behaviour every day, but to a greater extent than most of us manage in 4-5 years. That is every year....