Driving hates

[Percyprod]

After unbelievably seeing 2 people this week driving on main roads with digs on their laps, what 3 things really annoy you about other drivers, ignoring using a phone, speeding and tailgating. Apart from the doggy one, mine are using earphones when driving, and placing phone/ sat nav in right in front of the driver, or under the rear view mirror.

People who pull out from side roads when there really isn't time to do so and then continue at about 10 miles below the speed limit.

People who don't know the rules for using a roundabout, including the fact that indicators aren't optional.

People who decide to park in the only space along a heavily parked road that is obviously being used as a passing space (usually without indicating, and obviously without using their rear view mirrors).

Huge things dangling from the rear view mirror how do they not get in the way? Swinging about in your line of vision?

The age old one -people that are unable to indicate for some reason.

Drivers that shouldn’t be on the motorway.

INDICATORS

Oh and number 4.
Empty car park. I park up. Next car arrives parks right next to me so close I can barely get out. What is that all about?

People who don't say thank you when you've let them go really really piss me off

Really slow drivers who drive at 10mph below the speed limit

People up my arse

Parking on pavements on busy roads where pedestrians are forced into traffic or not leaving any space for wheelchairs or prams.

Not giving way to pedestrians crossing side roads they want to turn into.

Overtaking cyclists when I am coming towards them.

DH would introduce capital punishment for people who do not indicate properly/at all at roundabouts.

And on car parks, the people who come and park really close to my passenger door when I am waiting for DH at the railway station. How do they expect him to get into the car?

I think people park next to you in an empty car park because they need to line themselves up by someone.

Another one for people with dangling detritus blocking their windows. Those stupid 'baby on board' signs etc and before anyone trots it out they are not for the emergency services!

People with huge cars who cannot reverse or park said huge cars*

People who won't move over on narrow country lanes because they don't want to get their car wheels muddy

People who park in country lane passing places. There is a special place in hell just for you

People who brake on two-lane country roads when another vehicle passes them on the other side of the road. Your lack of spacial awareness terrifies me

People who randomly brake (see above point)

People who insist on driving at 40 on a 60 in perfect conditions and then drive at the same speed on a 30. How the fuck did you get a license?

People who don't know how to use motorway lanes

My list is infinite so I'll stop there

*I have a huge car and can both park and drive it

This may just be a Birmingham thing, but there is quite the fashion for driving up to a T junction from a side road, slamming on your brakes suddenly and stopping with your nose sticking out over the white lines, into traffic. It’s so I’ll let them out, so I don’t.

@weaselwords

This may just be a Birmingham thing, but there is quite the fashion for driving up to a T junction from a side road, slamming on your brakes suddenly and stopping with your nose sticking out over the white lines, into traffic. It’s so I’ll let them out, so I don’t.

No not just Birmingham. People drive way too fast up to the ends of roads (and roundabouts, and junctions generally). They must wear out their brakes!

Now here's a mystery perhaps someone can answer. Why do so many drivers stop a car's length from the white line at traffic lights, rather than up to the white line?

When there's huge carparks (think large supermarkets, hundreds of parking spaces), but people abandon their cars outside the entrance, blocking the road out.
I have asked before if they couldn't find a space, and then gestured to all the empty ones

People who pull out when there isn't really time, then don't get up to pace. It's a straight, flat 60mph road - why are we doing 35!!!!!

People who rather than queue in the correct lane at a roundabout about and wait for 5/6 cars to go, instead go into the other lane and go all the way around the round about, just to save a few seconds

Stuck in a queue of traffic behind a tractor it is just about acceptable for the first car behind the tractor to do the "duck out for a look" manoeuvre on a straight bit - although most tractor drivers will tuck in tight, slow down a little, indicate left and wave you past if they see the way is clear - but when a driver further back keeps doing it with the intention of leapfrogging half the queue it gives everyone the rage. And I don't mean where the first car is tootling with no attempt to get past and the next one passes it and the tractor in a one-r, I mean that aggressive weaving with no intention of letting anyone take their turn to pass. At least it induces a feeling of solidarity among the rest of the queue cos they and the tractor driver and all thinking "Prat".

People treating mini roundabouts as part of the main road giving themselves right of way without a pause.

There's one I have to use every morning on my way to work and I'm terrified that this is the way I will get into a bad accident. From my side the view is blocked by a building and cars coming from he other side treat it as a long road and speed right through.

I've even had people blare their horns at me because I was already on the roundabout when they zipped right through and had to brake.

@Percyprod

Now here's a mystery perhaps someone can answer. Why do so many drivers stop a car's length from the white line at traffic lights, rather than up to the white line?

Sometimes there’s a box for cyclists at the front. Otherwise no idea.

People beeping when someone hesitated or makes a mistake that holds them up for less than a minute. Not their job to police the road and not what the horn is for-probably makes the driver who made the mistake stop concentrating/may scare them and make them mess up more so not safe.

First time out as practice with L plates on with DS. He hesitated slightly to pull out of a car park. Twat behind honked.

^Percyprod

Now here's a mystery perhaps someone can answer. Why do so many drivers stop a car's length from the white line at traffic lights, rather than up to the white line?^

I tend to leave half a cars length if I'm driving in a city (and it's appropriate) for cyclists, emergency vehicles or any other unexpected manoeuvre that may need to take place - my driving instructor taught me to when I passed about 10 years ago.

When I'm behind a tractor/wagon and due to the turns in the road I can't see well enough if the road is clear ahead, but someone in a van two cars behind me has a different view and CAN see, so when I come to pull out and overtake I can't because twatface van man is so impatient he's now roaring to overtake three vehicles at once instead of waiting 30 seconds so we can overtake in turn which is much safer! I wasn't dawdling, I just couldn't see as far ahead as them...

People who don't understand right of way rules when a lane of road is blocked by parked cars. And then when those drivers don't have manners.

People driving 10MPH slower than the speed limit for no reason.

People with enormous cars that cannot drive them with confidence.

People not saying thank you.

People that sit for bloody ages at junctions when there are plenty of opportunities to pull out.

People who don’t say thank you when you stop to let them past.

Those who don’t indicate, so annoying.

Those who change their mind about which exit they want on a roundabout, it’s round for a reason just go round again, obs not some of the massive ones but those here you can do. Those who are in the wrong lane and almost drive into the side of you because they don’t check mirrors/think they are the only car on the road.

Those who don’t follow their lane on a nearby roundabout and cut in front of me - happens every damn day there are two lanes going onto the road, but no my car is invisible.
People who go when it’s not their right of way then don’t say thanks when I’ve had to stop.

Twice in the last week cars have flown out of Sainsbury’s petrol station in front of me without looking do people have a death wish? Do they just hope nothing is coming not sure if some people are very stupid or very arrogant.

Roundabouts
Roundabouts
Roundabouts

Do they not teach how to drive roundabouts anymore?????

@HowToBringABlushToTheSnow

People with huge cars who cannot reverse or park said huge cars*

People who won't move over on narrow country lanes because they don't want to get their car wheels muddy

People who park in country lane passing places. There is a special place in hell just for you

People who brake on two-lane country roads when another vehicle passes them on the other side of the road. Your lack of spacial awareness terrifies me

People who randomly brake (see above point)

People who insist on driving at 40 on a 60 in perfect conditions and then drive at the same speed on a 30. How the fuck did you get a license?

People who don't know how to use motorway lanes

My list is infinite so I'll stop there

*I have a huge car and can both park and drive it

These are basically the same as mine. The people who brake on any relatively narrow road is in my top 3. I don't get it - either you accept the road is wide enough and carry on driving, or you think the road is NOT wide enough, in which case, get off the road? [Although on our high street, where it IS wide enough but everyone is too scared so it turns into a one way road, taking turns, irritates me too].

The other side of that is when the road is NOT wide enough and at some point, there's a bottleneck. There's always ONE person who can't seem to reverse because it's too tight, causing chaos?

People who don't understand the very basic concept of yield to the right on a roundabout.

Middle lane motorway drivers, usually at 5 miles per hour under the speed limit.

Middle Lane hoggers on the motorway!!

My god nothing winds me up more!