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25-02-2021, 06:53 PM | #1 | ||
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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! |
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25-02-2021, 06:56 PM | #2 | ||
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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!!! |
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25-02-2021, 06:59 PM | #3 | ||
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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
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25-02-2021, 07:14 PM | #4 | ||
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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. |
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25-02-2021, 07:18 PM | #5 | ||
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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!!!! |
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25-02-2021, 07:59 PM | #7 | ||
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25-02-2021, 07:59 PM | #8 | ||
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As for tailgating.
Soccer mum's love it in their fancy SUV. |
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25-02-2021, 08:02 PM | #9 | ||
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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...
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25-02-2021, 08:05 PM | #10 | ||
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Letting someone in and not getting a wave, would be punishable by death under a government I lead.
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25-02-2021, 08:05 PM | #11 | ||
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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.
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25-02-2021, 08:06 PM | #12 | ||
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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. |
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25-02-2021, 08:07 PM | #13 | ||
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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
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25-02-2021, 08:15 PM | #15 | ||
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25-02-2021, 08:17 PM | #16 | |||
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I agree completely. (similar to OP) |
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25-02-2021, 08:40 PM | #17 | ||
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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 |
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25-02-2021, 08:44 PM | #18 | ||
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People who refuse to keep left
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25-02-2021, 08:55 PM | #19 | ||
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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.
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25-02-2021, 09:16 PM | #20 | ||
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People who crash into me. I just wish they wouldn’t.
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25-02-2021, 09:26 PM | #21 | ||
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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 |
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25-02-2021, 10:14 PM | #22 | ||
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25-02-2021, 10:23 PM | #23 | ||
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Odd that they indicated or that they didn't?
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25-02-2021, 10:42 PM | #24 | ||
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I live near Hobart airport.
Covid of course affected but the amount of drivers using their navigation tool not looking at the road...... |
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25-02-2021, 10:43 PM | #25 | ||
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Why is that legal yet a phone not?
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25-02-2021, 10:43 PM | #26 | ||
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OoooooOOOOOOooooooh...
My one and only paid-for lesson in driving (it was the mid-to-late 80's) had the teacher asking me do you do that (indicate left exiting)? I said yeah, she said "who exactly do you think will see the indicator flashing?" So I indicate left if going left, don't indicate if going straight, indicate right if turning right (but turn it off early so no-one waiting to enter on the right side gets confused since they are the important drivers to help out here). Had a cop up my 'ss a few weeks ago (I guess he thought he had me, being heavy on the pedal coming out of the round-about prior to my next right-exit one on the way home, sorry buddy but dumping a bit of fuel to make some noise won't get you your ticket)... He didn't pick me up on my indicating, or anything else. I've also replaced my front fog lights by LED DRLs (I showed how-to here, with relays and diodes, to turn them off with low beam on) so I'm confused why that might be a problem too. Just one last thing, I've always tried to understand the speeding up thing when overtaking lanes appear.. I put it down to driver ability, where some people feel more confident to actually do the speed limit when there's two lanes in the one direction.. as annoying as it is. If I was in a junk vehicle, I'd not do that, so others can pass. But then there's eye sight and I suppose other things that are in play there. People who give me the finger when they are stopping at green lights and I honk (it happens) or doing so when not taking off at a reasonable time when they go green (and I honk in a short press) is about the only thing that makes me think someone needs to reevaluate their road presence. |
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25-02-2021, 11:13 PM | #27 | ||
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26-02-2021, 01:24 AM | #29 | ||
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The cars you see with a baby on board sticker or sign, who drive like lunatics, but look at you like you are the crazy one.
People who teach there kid to drive in the right lane. |
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26-02-2021, 01:48 AM | #30 | ||
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People who block the passing lane, making traffic flow inefficient.
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