no you don't bring flowing non busy traffic to a standstill to let someone out

[agentEgypt]

This happens a lot where I live. Your behind another car going 30-40, they decide to let a car out so bring themselves and you to a standstill to do so. The other car doesn't react quickly to what is happening so waits a bit longer until they join the traffic. I can understand if its busy or stuck in a q, but all the time it happens where the road is free behind or one more car behind. So if they just carried on they could go after we pass. The only thing it does is delay everyone and waste fuel.

"Hufhwy Code" Is this the welsh version?

"You can't find anything about giving way at give way lines"

What's that got to do with stopping to let someone out?

This isn't about a driver giving way at give way signs is it? It is about another driver letting them out. The driver joining the road has given way.

Also conversely, all those 40 or 50 drivers that come past the end of my road from the right having been able to see me waiting for about 1/2 a mile and who all decline to leave just a little gap that I could get out into, I'm going right so I wouldn't even be setting them back a space.

The ones that I really don't like though, on safety grounds, are the ones who pause and wave me and the DCs over when we are waiting to cross the road, my DCs are at the age when they're out on their own now and I would far rather they waited till all the cars had gone than misunderstood someone letting them cross, or stepped into the path of an overtaking car, I really wish they wouldn't so it.

I, too, live in Cornwall coincidence. If I get impatiently beckoned out of a side road one more time by a retiree on a totally empty road, I will be storming out of the car to point at the white dashed lines indicating the side road and screaming "WHAT THE FUCK DOES THE HIGHWAY CODE SAY THEY'RE FOR THEN???". Or maybe I'll just chew my own hand off.

Rural road rage folks, it's an ugly thing .

Another Cornish maid here! Actually, what irritates me most about drivers down here is the exquisite lack of indicating on roundabouts. I know everyone says that BMW drivers never signal, blah blah... But really, NOBODY signals on roundabouts here... Or drives around them in the correct lane most of the time either...

I just love my morning commute "Guess the direction!" game.

Here's a question then, Inn. If you were on your driving test, doing 40moh along a clear road and you came to a stop to let someone join the carriageway from a side road, do you think it would be likely that you would pass your test? Or do you think the tester might feel this showed a lack of understanding of right of way?

I bet if you drove how you normally drive you would fail a driving test too.

whoknows totally agree with the waving pedestrians over thing. I often cross at a roundabout and the amount of drivers who wave me over when there's something coming along the other lane is shocking. Makes you realise how few people check mirrors at all thoroughly too

I must be a total cow because I hate letting people out. I used to let people out but almost without fail the person then poodles along at 35 in a 60, especially when I am on my way to work. I think it is because any normal driver would have safely got onto the road in an appropriate gap. The people waiting to be let out are probably those who need a totally empty road in both directions before they will even think of manoeuvring.

YANBU OP.

Sometimes I think about letting someone out, but I always check in my mirror and if there are only a few cars behind then I don't let them out. Ultimately as I am on the road I have right of way anyway and it is ridiculous to hold up a load of traffic to keep letting people out. I hate it when I get behind someone who just gives way to everyone all the bloody time, it's so irritating.

I also hate it when people don'the know the highway code basic that YOU GIVE WAY TO THE RIGHT ON A ROUNDABOUT! We have a mini roundabout at the end of my road and it really seems to confuse people as it was a junction years ago so 2 of the directions are straight IYSWIM. It's not difficult to work out who has right of way but the amount of people who sit there waiting for me to go when it's their right of way is bloody infuriating (I'm not talking about 3 people there at the same time though). I just wait for them looking exasperated.

I also hate it when people don't indicate, so unbelievably common.

But the worst and it seems to be getting worse, are the people who are on their fucking phomes whilst driving. It's so obvious when they are texting. I hate it when they are behind me as I feel like I'm waiting for them not to notice I have stopped and crash into me. It's he worse thing you can do I think and personally I think it should be an automatic 12 month driving ban and £1000 fine. The deterrent need to be much more than what it is and the police need to catch them more, it's not difficult just drive around in an unmarked car and you'll see it all the time.

Reading about driving in Cornwall - I hope there's no mini roundabouts. Even up here in the Midlands they send people batshit

I'm trying to teach the DCs not to make eye contact with drivers who stop to let them cross and just wait for them to go, but it's tricky.

I don't live in Cornwall anymore but the emmets admiring the views when I was in a rush to do the school run drove me insane. Yes it is beautiful but almost coming to a total halt because you can see the sea is madness.

XPd with CrapBag re mini islands. If I had one that nearby I would move house rather than spend ONE MORE MORNING WITNESSING EVERYONE'S DRIVING UNRAVEL IN A HEAP OF SHIT AND INDICATOR LIGHTS sorry to fuel your rage

As we are talking about not indicating can I mention the car in front of me on the way home from work tonight changing lanes at least three times without indicating once. Not quite the quality of driving you expect from traffic police!

I'm lucky enough to live near a cornish double mini roundabout. I suspect that's where the horn got worn out.

The absence of indicating coupled with the general lack of adherence to road rules means I've had a few near misses there.

And I had to do the chiverton cross roundabout this morning which normally requires nerves of steel.

I was about to say 'Don't move to Cornwall' (where indicators are legally prohibited apparently) when I saw everyone else.

I moved here last year and my face has still not lost its expression at the driving.

But I'm with you OP, it's actually creating a bigger problem than it's solving, in many cases.

I did chiverton cross for the first time in over a year yesterday. Nerves of steel would be correct.

Agreed about emmets' inappropriate timings for view admiration- if you want to sight see, you really should stop and get out of the car to be safe and actually, you know, ENJOY it.

Perhaps we should ask HQ for a new Driving In Cornwall topic?

Me, I drive in London. Just about the most tedious stop/starting, pulling over/trying to battle through, horn-tooting, teeth-gritting, rage-inducing experience you can imagine.

SoupDragon I don't think I would. I think I drive pretty safely, considerately, and within Highway Code and legal guidelines. What evidence do you have otherwise?

I live just off a lethal (yes there have been multiple fatalities) round. It has a zebra crossing about 10 yards off each exit, and a bus stop on each side, hard to explain but its bloody dangerous. It amazes me the amount of parents that don't insist with their children to wait for the cars to actually stop, because depending on if there is a bus at one of the stops or if you are glancing for a spot to join the round about you genuinely can't see people until its too late. As a mum it makes me feel sick the amount of children we have knocked down on it.. hopefully the big campaign to get it changed will work soon.

I also don't understand why drivers race up the hill onto the roundabout, again one of the z.crossings is blind until the last minute when you come up the hill, or cyclists that think the rules of the road don't apply to them and just pull out on you.

Makes my blood boil arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I could happily fill a driving in Cornwall topic mintyy

Another of my cornish driving beefs is the ridiculously huge gaps people leave in queuing traffic. Thus creating utterly needless tailbacks.

mintyy I've only visited London twice. The second time we got on the coach, I fell asleep as soon as we left he station and I woke up an hour and a half later. We were still sat in traffic in bloody London! I told DH I'd never drive there after witnessing the roads and driving there. So I salute you for doing so .