Can I start a rules of the road you don’t learn on driving lessons thread?

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These are mine:
You will be treated differently depending on what car you drive (having passed in my 30’s people see my banger of a tiny hatchback and treat me far worse on the roads than when I’m driving dh’s estate)

2: a tractor that slows down and indicates right is telling you it’s safe to overtake them.

3: playing rock anthems so loudly the static kicks in is a very sad look for a mum on a school run and cars and not sound proof to the outside world. (I am the sad twat in question here!).

Please add your own

Driving a big car does not mean you own the road, my little car can fit in all the gaps and I’m very patient so i will happily watch an idiot knock their car because they didn’t want to give me way when it was the sensible thing to do.
Also, hazard lights are not for stopping in silly places because you can’t be bothered to walk a bit.

If you’re driving on the motorway or dual carriageway, you stay to the left unless you are overtaking. After overtaking you move back to the left lane again.

Both very good rules. I’d like to add that all dh wants for Christmas is sit in the Aldi car park and watch people with big casts attempt to park . That will be my gift to him (if I could arrange such an excursion)!

Gah! Big cars obvs

If there is a gap in front of you and someone indicates they want to move into it, let them, don’t speed up and block them.

Lots of people in nice cars aren't able to reverse their vehicles. At all. You discover this in small country lanes when they just sit there and wait for someone else to give way and reverse.

People should know this but don't: you need to go really really slowly past horses. And ideally give them a good bit of space as you pass. They are very easily startled by loud noises and sudden movements and the results can be catastrophic.

So true about horses but living somewhere where horses are always on the roads it was covered by my instructor and I had to demonstrate many times.
Horse riders are always so courteous and thankful when you slow tight down.

It is good manners to give a little thankyou wave to acknowledge the car that stopped to let you through EVEN IF WAS YOUR RIGHT OF WAY

Your first one is so true, and I only became aware of it this week! I drive a newish SUV which is in the garage for repairs and my courtesy car is an unmarked Corsa. I've noticed a massive difference in how other road users treat me, totally due to the car I'm driving! Car-ist bastards!

Further to Babamama and other PPs : if you can’t park it, don’t drive it - that includes me 😆

If there is a gap in front of you and someone indicates they want to move into it, let them, don’t speed up and block them.

Unless you're in London where this most definitely doesn't apply.

1. If you drive a BMW you own the road

2. You can park anywhere you like provided you put your hazard warning lights on.

3. Filtering in turn (as per Chanel islands) would massively improve many mini roundabouts.

The Highway Code seems not to exist any more. People do what they want. Here are some fantastic examples of driving like a twat.
When cars are parked on the opposite side of the road, all the cars coming towards you will force you to wait even though you have right of way

When you see a yellow box junction, enter it like a total twat even though your exit is blocked.

Make sure you always pull into the stopping distance between cars. Especially on a motorway. Especially even more when there is spray on the road.

When seeing someone approaching the motorway on a slip road, make sure you don’t change lanes, making it as hard as possible for said driver to get on the motorway.

Make sure, when you see someone indicating to go into a parking space to immediately undercut them and nip in. Even if it neatly causes a crash.

Totally ignore mirror,signal, manoeuvre and do whatever you feel like.

I could go on🙄

If you’re driving on the motorway or dual carriageway, you stay to the left unless you are overtaking. After overtaking you move back to the left lane again.

I was coming here to say exactly this. I wish more people knew this. It drives me insane when people sit in the middle lane of a motorway doing 60mph when there is nobody to overtake, so I have to cross over to lane 3 and back across to lane 1 just to get past them 🤬

If you don’t want your car to get scratched/scuffed park over 2 spaces

If you have a Landrover or Audi you can park in disabled spaces (because you are so important)

If you are doing the school run it is ok to block other people’s drives

If you flash your lights at someone and gesture they can pull out, and you then accelerate quickly into them, the owners of the car that pulled out owe you £20,000 for whiplash

That silver cars are invisible in most weather conditions.

People in yellow box junctions are the bane of my life!!!!!

If you tailgate someone they will, of course, speed up and break the speed limit because they don’t want to hold you up because obviously you’re much more important and time poor than them.

Horses and donkeys wandering about on New Forest roads, especially at night, do not jump out of your way, even though you insist on racing at 20mph over the speed limit.
As a poster says “horses don’t dent, they die” 😥

Pedestrians, when you see a car starting to reverse out of a parking space in the supermarket car park, make sure you nip across behind it, it’s great fun seeing the look of shock on the drivers face.

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If you drive a really old pick-up, you're allowed to park almost anywhere you like, because what?

This is me, on the very few occasions i drive DP's 'car'. We live very very rurally, before everyone gets up my arse.

2: a tractor that slows down and indicates right is telling you it’s safe to overtake them.

I'm assuming you mean "indicates left", not right?

Cars like BMWs and Mercedes don’t have indicators fitted.

The invisible silver car thing is very true! I had a near miss recently, I wasn't rushing, I really looked and this silver car just appeared! It really shook me up.

Unless there’s a real reason I.e bad weather/visibility drive the speed limit.

If you’re going 40mph, at rush hour (it’s impossible to overtake as there’s traffic on the other side), in a 60mph ‘because it’s all you feel comfortable’ get off the road. Especially if the visibility and it’s a straight road. Get. Off. The road.