Driving - Your "pet hate" on the road

MercuryT · 25-02-2021, 06:53 PM

Ok guys and girls.

What on the road really grinds your gears?

Open to all but mine include;

Tailgating
Changing lanes and indicating after
People msging whilst driving.

Open to all!

MercuryT · 25-02-2021, 06:56 PM

My number one is tailgating.

Sometimes I'm in "right lane" which overtaking lane and a safe distance yet a car a MM off my bumper?!?

What am I supposed to do, somehow drive or jump over the car doing under the limit in front!!!

MercuryT · 25-02-2021, 06:59 PM

Caravans cruising in right lane doing 70 in a 110 zone not ideal either! Causes traffic problems too as people get frustrated and do stupid things

bungarra · 25-02-2021, 07:14 PM

Road Snails aka Caravan and campervans. Travel 20 to 30Km/h below speed limit on open highway but maintain doing 80 through town with 60 limit, have "Bill and Jill CH40" on the back, never answer when you call for clearance to pass or advise you would like to pass.

Idiots who do way below the speed limit on open roads but speed up if you go to overtake.

TICKFORD220 · 27-02-2021, 02:23 PM

Im a delivery driver/parts pickup so im on the road all day and you get to see who can and cant drive.
Nothing like trucks constantly pulling out and trying to kill you,or turning left from the right lane with no indicators,truck drivers go on about cars giving them grief but it s the other way around,at least once/twice a week im almost taken out by trucks.
I give them the respect and space they need but alot of drivers are on drugs or just dont give a fk,thats my biggest hate.
And for some reason toll ipec drivers,absolutely the worst of any company by far from my 2.5 years on the job,here in perth anyway.
Not all truck drivers but at least half of them.
Perth has a huge crack/meth epidemic and the drivers on the gear stand out like dogs balls and just run amuck on the roads with not a care for others.

MercuryT · 25-02-2021, 07:18 PM

haha!

Yep on Midland highway (Tassie...single lane mostly) that's exactly what happens.

Sit at 90 in 110 zone then an overtaking place arrives they speed up to like 130 (I'm not losing my license to go faster than that) then go back to 90.

Infuriating!!!!

MercuryT · 25-02-2021, 07:20 PM

Yes Caravans do that here too.

In a 100 zone do 70 then in a 50 zone......yep still doing 70.

Sprintey · 25-02-2021, 07:59 PM

The road version of the bin chicken:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-...unity/13120570

Ben73 · 26-02-2021, 08:50 PM

Lack of indicators. Especially at roundabouts.

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Originally Posted by MercuryT

Yes Caravans do that here too.

In a 100 zone do 70 then in a 50 zone......yep still doing 70.

Pretty sure the speed limit of NSW is 70

Multi lane Motorway people do 70
Rural single lane highway people do 70
Suburban residential street people do 70
Inner city narrow street with lots of parked cars and pedestrians, you guessed it, 70

MercuryT · 25-02-2021, 07:59 PM

As for tailgating.

Soccer mum's love it in their fancy SUV.

Tonz · 25-02-2021, 08:05 PM

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Originally Posted by MercuryT

As for tailgating.

Soccer mum's love it in their fancy SUV.

we have them over here, I used to have an old rodeo ute with tow hook for trailers, farming implements was fun when mumsy was texting and i hit the brakes.

henry351 · 25-02-2021, 08:07 PM

100% people speeding up in overtaking lanes it gets me about as mad as this fella.
(Mega Language Warning.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-eZwf2DugA

Yellow_Festiva · 25-02-2021, 08:02 PM

When you obviously go out of your way to accommodate another drivers foolishness or just doing something to help them out and they don't give you the thank you wave...

Should be $350 and 2 points...

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Franco Cozzo · 25-02-2021, 08:05 PM

Letting someone in and not getting a wave, would be punishable by death under a government I lead.

MercuryT · 25-02-2021, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

Letting someone in and not getting a wave, would be punishable by death under a government I lead.

Hahaha

Same. I'm always courteous for that but when I don't get a wave it really grinds!!!

MustangNicko · 25-02-2021, 08:06 PM

People who sit in the right hand lane that are oblivious to the fact they are doing under the limit.

People who overtake going 1km faster than the person they are overtaking.

People who brake before indicating.

People who do 95 on a single lane highway then jump up to 105 when an overtaking lane opens up.

MercuryT · 25-02-2021, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by MustangNicko

People who sit in the right hand lane that are oblivious to the fact they are doing under the limit.

People who overtake going 1km faster than the person they are overtaking.

People who brake before indicating.

People who do 95 on a single lane highway then jump up to 105 when an overtaking lane opens up.

Yep excellent.

I agree completely. (similar to OP)

Franco Cozzo · 25-02-2021, 08:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Sprintey

The road version of the bin chicken:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-...unity/13120570

If you're gonna be homeless, might as well as be homeless in a primo location

MercuryT · 25-02-2021, 08:40 PM

Braking heavily in traffic at last second in a tiny car with brand new brakes as didn't watch traffic (probably on phone) and some of our big boys simply can't do it really ****es me off also.

Why I give even more space that usual these days

The Yeti · 25-02-2021, 08:44 PM

People who refuse to keep left

**Rallye Sport** · 25-02-2021, 08:55 PM

Noisy motorcycles.

Its not so much the bikes that bother me but the boofhead thats attached to them thinking everyone else wants to their obnoxious noise.

Citroënbender · 25-02-2021, 09:16 PM

People who crash into me. I just wish they wouldn’t.

simon varley · 25-02-2021, 09:26 PM

off we go....

people who jump lanes at the lights so as to be first, but accelerate as if they have a half brick under the pedal
people who indicate right approaching a roundabout but go straight on (yes, i know that used to be the law a million years ago)
people who don't indicate left when exiting a roundabout
people who are incapable of feeding in the pedal when going up a hill to keep the speed and who end up barely making it over the top
people who accelerate when the overtaking lanes come along
people who refuse to believe they are the ones the slow vehicle pull ins are for
people who don't turn their lights on in poor visibility, but also don't dip their main beam when there is oncoming traffic
people who use fog lamps as driving lamps
people who don't turn off their rear fogs when there is someone right behind them
people who do 80 everywhere. in the 100 zone and also in the 60 zone
people who don't speed up or slow down when merging onto a highway. why is it my job to get out of their way?

is that enough? I've got more

Franco Cozzo · 25-02-2021, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by simon varley

people who don't indicate left when exiting a roundabout

I saw that going on in QLD - I thought that was rather odd

**GasoLane** · 25-02-2021, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

I saw that going on in QLD - I thought that was rather odd

Odd that they indicated or that they didn't?

MercuryT · 25-02-2021, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by GasoLane

Odd that they indicated or that they didn't?

Now that'sa very interesting one.

My Ex was a Cop and they're taught to indicate to leave a roundabout not enter.

I was told to indicate in advance and turn accordingly.

She disagreed.

We aren't together.

GT1533 · 25-02-2021, 11:28 PM

“people who are incapable of feeding in the pedal when going up a hill to keep the speed and who end up barely making it over the top”

This one!

Vesper Martini · 26-02-2021, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by MercuryT

Now that'sa very interesting one.

My Ex was a Cop and they're taught to indicate to leave a roundabout not enter.

I was told to indicate in advance and turn accordingly.

She disagreed.

We aren't together.

She is/was correct.

Franco Cozzo · 26-02-2021, 06:12 AM

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Originally Posted by GasoLane

Odd that they indicated or that they didn't?

That they do, they indicate left even out of small roundabouts going straight

Doesn't happen in VIC, can understand with the big ones with multiple exits around it if you're going to jump off at one but the ones with four entrances, if you're going straight through the indicate left thing on exit is a bit silly.

**GasoLane** · 26-02-2021, 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo

That they do, they indicate left even out of small roundabouts going straight

Doesn't happen in VIC, can understand with the big ones with multiple exits around it if you're going to jump off at one but the ones with four entrances, if you're going straight through the indicate left thing on exit is a bit silly.

A roundabout in Dubbo sums it up nicely, you just use your indicator when exiting a roundabout.