to think that if you drive a car, you should know

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that you give way on a roundabout to the right?
that if you intend to turn a corner/ change lane you use an indicator?
that if you are on the motorway and someone is indicating, it is polite to pull over to let them out if it is safe to do so?
that if you are driving at night, regardless of whether the area is well lit (eg. a supermarket carpark) you put your lights on?
that if a car is parked but there is still room for two cars to pass, you DON'T sit there like a lemon waiting for the approaching cars and expect to be thanked for it?
etc, etc, etc

Particularly bad school run?

Had to pick my son up from the airport this week, and so many idiots on the road!

Seems to be a lot of numpties around here that don't realise that you are meant to be across the junction before the traffic lights turn red.

Drives me mad.

Before I even clicked on this thread I thought you were going to say that indicators are not an optional extra, though many drivers seem to think they are.

They're the same ones who sail into the middle of a mini roundabout even though they can see it's jammed solid ahead, and then completely block it for those of us who are trying to cross the other way.

And pull across an entrance to a side road and then get all surprised that anyone might actually want to go in or out of it.

Oh yes, DeepRedBetty, those drivers who only look at the 2 yards ahead of them. Don't bother to think about what going on around then, just moving their cae forward a smidgeon, that's all that friffing matters.

if your on a country road with priority given to the one way dont drive through instead of waiting when you dont have right of way.

drives me insane.

Indicators certainly seem like an optional extra around here. It gives me Clown Rage.

Ae you in Essex as well OP.?!

Driving standards are insane. I don't know how some of these people passed their tests.

And that they don't have to be nose to tail in a traffic jam, and that they should in fact leave the pedestrian crossing clear so when the lights change those with buggies or wheelchairs can cross the road.

And the ones who in a slow queue block the entrance to a side road, that someone oncoming needs to turn right into. Thus blocking the junction ahead of the culprit as the traffic tails back into it. Something karma-ish about that one I suppose. I've been hooted several times for not going forward a car length because I'm a local and I know the bus I can see ahead will be turning right into the road on the left in front of me.

There are bloody awful drivers in Wiltshire as well as Essex.

Just be grateful you don't live in Birmingham, where driving licences are optional, half the drivers can't read road signs including the scary ones such as "No Entry", no left/right turn and there is 100% lack of comprehension of the use of a box junction. The no entry one is always fun if you're halfway down a one way street and a car comes the other way.

Pedestrians have to keep their wits about them too, as pavements are not just for people but can be used as cut throughs, and zebra crossings are merely pretty patterns painted on the road.

Slamming your brakes on a dual carriageway because you've just realised you need to turn left is also an often seen manouvre on the Queensway tunnels - which is why they're closed so often

people who don't use their indicators are the worst -_- or people that get in the wrong lane to turn, and then try and cut you off, which happened to me twice the other day, by the same driver, in the space of about 500 metres. ughh.

MY DP never uses the indicators. He says other drivers know which way he is going by his position in the road. So, if he thinks that, then lots of other twats men are thinking the same.

There is a theory used on unlit single track lanes in deep countryside at night that you can see if there's a car ahead by turning your own lights out and looking for headlights. It does work quite well - until you meet someone else using the same theory...

These are all dangerous driving manoeuvres that have nothing to do with speed, but when did anyone last hear of anyone being pulled up for any of these?