To think bad drivers will be driving...

Fiat 500 drivers are the worst where we live. No awareness, no anticipation at roundabouts. Also regularly found at the front of a massive queue of traffic, pootling along obliviously.

Small blue and small green cars around us, flipping nuts

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I was aggressively tailgated the other day on the dual carriageway (70mph) by an idiot in a white van. I moved into the other lane to get away from him, at which point he immediately started doing the same to someone else - so close behind there was barely any space between them.

Also noticed at this point there was black smoke belching out of the exhaust.

Every second car where I live seems to be white (including mine) so statistically you are probably right. White vans are the worst imo.

My husband and adult son are always complaining about Audi drivers in our bit of London. I don’t tend to notice car brands.

I do notice bad driving by people in cars with those dark tinted windows. I always wonder what idiots are inside.

I'm with you on bmw's, haven't noticed it with audis. However I'd add Mercedes drivers. We're often calling out the jerk in the Merc.

Not all drivers, but enough to feel like it's a 'thing'.

I drummed it into my children that car parks were about the most dangerous place to be a pedestrian (and probably a driver!).

People are impatient, aggressive or stressed and their attention isn't on the toddler who might be walking behind their car as they reverse but not visible via the mirrors.

I have been driving for nearly 50 years. In my experience bad drivers come in all shapes and sizes. They don't care about anyone else on the road, and their life/business is far more important than anyone else's.

NA BMWD ALT 😂

I’m almost 60, been driving all sorts of cars since passing my test in 1985.

I’ve just got my first BMW.

my driving hasn’t automatically deteriorated, and i still park properly and considerately.

I find THE most dangerous place on earth to be the school car park. All brands, all colours, all sizes, all barely under any control at all.

As a cyclist and pedestrian (as well as driver) I find the lack of indicating very dangerous indeed.

Every time I think ‘what a wanker’ you notice that it’s a BMW. I could never buy one as my driving isn’t bad enough.

White vans (particularly ones without a business name on them) and giant pickup trucks are the most aggressive drivers in my experience.

SUV drivers aren't necessarily aggressive, just oblivious to other traffic and the size of their vehicle. We have had a lot of roads resurfaced locally and the centre line has not been repainted - it seems to be SVB drivers who think this means they can just drive down the middle of the road into oncoming traffic who then has to almost hit the curb to avoid them.

We also have a lot of elderly drivers who are utterly oblivious - they are the ones who drive at 40mph everywhere: 20mph school zone, national speed limit A road, doesn't matter - 40mph it is. They also don't look (limited neck mobility) so you are constantly second guessing. Was OK when they all used to drive Micras and those little Suzuki things but now they all seem to have massive SUVs too!

Not always. Generally all SUVS. The "I feel safer" brigade which translates into " I'm bigger than you are so I get to drive like a pillock" and most especially in the middle lane or supermarket carpark.

Not sure about the white car, but the others are usually good indicators of some of the 25% who should no longer hold a licence.

The exception to that general rule is that none of these rules apply to identify a middle lane hogger on a motorway or three lane dual carriageway. Or as I see them, people medically unfit to drive on grounds of their mental state.

I drive a white Audi SUV so I must be the devil incarnate. Though I’ve never had an accident in 30 years of driving, never had a parking ticket and don’t have any points on my licence…

There is a lady who lives at the bottom of our road.
She drives a BMW taxi and it's white. Speeds, loves pressing the horn. Parks where she likes.

Me too.

Because this winds me up, I've watched several YouTube videos by driving instructors about indicating and their view is unanimous: you should always indicate, even when you're in a specific lane (say a left or right turning lane)/

Their rationale is: it's a good habit to have so that indicating becomes automatic and also - YOU might know that it's a right-turning lane because of the road sign or the arrow on the carriageway, but pedestrians and maybe other drivers don't necessarily know that.

Always indicate!

People get really hysterical about middle lane sitting but seriously it's SO far down the list of driving infractions.

Annoying yes, but let's face it there is a 3rd, 4th or sometimes even 5th lane to overtake them on.

I am far more worried about actual dangerous driving like overtaking people on blind bends and when someone is coming towards them, or driving on pavements when pedestrians are there, or putting their foot to the floor when they see a pedestrian crossing on amber.

Overseas lorry drivers. They are terrifying on the M25/M20.

But generally speaking the bad drivers are middle aged men who are probably retired and therefore not in a hurry, but are - and delivery drivers - I know they are in a hurry but that doesn't mean they can try to kill people.

That too!

I wish there were public information films like there used to be in the 60s and 70s. I know few people watch actual TV now, but there ought to be a way of getting some basic messages across.

There used to be a TV information film about parking, where a terrible parker called Reginald Molehusband tried to parallel park and finally managed it!

Not a proper taxi - a hackney carriage, such as you find in London and other big cities. I find that those drivers are assertive but rarely 'bad' and unprofessional. They just know the routes like the backs of their hands. Mini-cabs, yes - you may be right.

I roll my eyes at black saloons of the 'luxury' type - mainly BMWs and sorry to reinforce a stereotype, but massive tanks too.

I drive up and down the country a lot but my God - last Saturday morning on the M25 and M40 - some absolutely shocking driving. I was sure I was going to witness, or be part of, an accident. No indicating, undertaking like crazy, weaving in and out of lanes with no indication when traffic was very dense and close together, speeding, running up the hard shoulder to undertake...Jeez. I'm getting older and I made a mental note not to drive on a Bank Holiday again if I can help it.

Have to say, my son drives an Audi and is a very good driver.
However.......Mums on school runs who can't see over the steering wheel of their huge 4x4s...

You forgot 'To think bad drivers will be driving........'in lane 2 or 3 of a motorway at all times!

I’m surprised that so many people are upset about the lack of indicating. I don’t mind at all if someone doesn’t indicate, based on the fact that a huge number of people who do indicate then seem totally incapable of actually going the way they indicated.

I'd swap black cars for white ones on your list( but keep white vans) but your others are correct. Black BMWs are the worst. Black cars have drivers who love speeding and tailgating.

around where I live it’s the Prius drivers that are terrible (I guess a lot are taxis) white vans/cars I agree with and Nissan Dukes are bad too!

The Audi/BMW and most suvs are fine!