Please tell me this pisses you off too?

[WaitrosePigeon]

I do a lot of motorway driving.
Can someone please enlighten me as to why people don't indicate when changing lanes? People just drift in and out of the lanes, cut in front of me etc.

I guess it's laziness but how is it hard to indicate? Surely it's just an ingrained thing you do without really thinking about it?

It's really starting to piss me off.

I find motorway driving v tiring because you have to be constantly alert, checking mirrors, judging the speed of traffic ahead and behind you

Shouldn't you be doing this wherever you are driving?

your not alone this is something that bothers my other half who does the driving but something that really ticks me off.Is when a flashing ambulance is trying to go past and drivers wont move out the way

Shouldn't you be doing this wherever you are driving?

Don't be ridiculous, you know what she means.

Also, with regard to indication, you don't actually have to indicate if you're moving from a right-hand lane into a left lane as you're simply returning to the normal driving position.

Erm, yes. Yes you do. The only time you don't need to indicate back in is if you're driving on a single carriageway with one lane for each direction and using the lane for oncoming traffic to overtake.

It was 20 years ago that I passed my test, but that was what I was taught too. That you don't need to indicate left if you're completing an overtake and so returning to the correct driving position, whether it be a single lane road, dual carriageway or motorway.

Annoying and yanbu. It annoys me most at roundabouts.

Im with Bluepancake. I was taught to indicate my intention of changing lanes so the other drivers would know what to expect. Mirror, signal, keep signalling until it is safe to manoeuvre.

I was also taught not to check blindspot while moving because the action of twisting your head round inevitably affects your steering for a moment and you do a wobble, which if you're going at 70mph could have disastrous consequences.

Bloke just pulled in from lane 2 to lane 1, doing 50. On the M fucking 25!! Bonkers.

My driving instructor (when I did the pass plus) taught me that the inside lane was lane 3 aka the fast lane and the outside lane was the slow lane aka lane 1. The middle lane was for over and under taking. Yes he taught me to undertake it was only after driving a few months on motorways did I realise that you shouldn't undertake and people call the lanes different names. I now use lane 1,2,3 instead.

I was taught to always indicate even if the road is clear. It's a good habit.

I think that all drivers should have to do some form of pass plus to properly learn to use motorways.

Does that mean you don't check your blind spot on the motorway redex?

Checking my blind spot has saved my life on the motorway. I'm not even exaggerating I would have gone straight into a little silver car if I had listened to my ex and his don't check the blind spot when going fast as you can wobble advice.

I've seen a lot of near misses on the motorway where people moving left haven't checked their blind spots!

If you are unaware when someone is about to change lanes, you are not paying attention. What?

so all middle lane hoggers should have they warning lights on as they intend to stay in the wrong lane?

Lurking I've seen a sign in NYC that said "merge like a zipper" which I thought was genius!

I get upset with non indicators who expect me to mind read.

I get more upset with tailgaters - I am very conscious of stopping distance and find it frustrating that leaving a safe distance between me and the car in front is seen as an open invitation to numpties to barge in, forcing me to slow to avoid hitting them.

Is driving ahead (as in anticipating as far as you can see) still taught? It seems to be a vanishing skill.

I was also taught not to check blindspot while moving because the action of twisting your head round inevitably affects your steering for a moment and you do a wobble, which if you're going at 70mph could have disastrous consequences.

No no no no no!! Unbelievably stupid! You should always check your blind spot before moving over, what if there is a motorbike next to you or a small car?

Our Citroen has a blind spot warning system (a light in the mirror when a car is in your blind spot). The problem with this, is it's only if use for drivers who look in the mirror before they move. Which is certainly less than 100%.

It also has adaptive cruise control which follows the car in front ...

Blind spot check habit has saved me on more than one occasion.

I always check the blind spot. And so far no accident in 25 years of driving.

I don't do motorway driving. I hate the busy ones, especially the M6 the lanes are way too narrow now they're making it in to a smart motorway.

I hate when I'm waiting at a roundabout and I'm giving way to the right and they don't indicate if they're going left.

I always indicate, it's second nature.

I always check my blind spot. Even though my mirrors are supposed to cover that. Has saved my life.

Yes, sloppy driving is very irritating whether it be indicating, hogging the road or cutting you up.

Schadenfreude I lived in Belgium, France and Germany. The drivers there are generally a lot better in road hogging terms. I loved the lack of speed limits in Germany (circa 1/3 of motorway). 180/200 kph (110-125mph) does get you from a to b much faster . Just had to be a very very aware driver at that speed. I kept my RH drive in Belgium but didn't feel safe with the steering wheel on the wrong side in Germany because some cars were arriving in the outside lane at speeds of at least 200mph in a Porsche. In Germany, you know how to drive on motorways or you are at big risk of dying - as found out when Porsches met Trabants at reunification and created some spectacular and deadly accidents.

I cannot believe some posters have admitted to hogging the road and not wanting to change lanes every 5 minutes or refusing to let other cars pass because they're doing 70. The ones doing 70 have no concept a car, which is some distance away and doing 90 plus is quickly on your tail and should be left to go past FIRST because of the accident risk. What you are NOT doing is teaching these drives a lesson YOU ARE PUTTING YOUR LIFE AT RISK.

Yes op YANBU. There are so many pratts in this world, who think they own great swathes of the road around them. When a car is some distance infront and has no bearing on your driving decisions and they don't indicate, it's not a biggie. It's when they dart around/weave and give you no warning.

The only crash I've ever had (in 30 years of driving) was because of checking my blind spot while moving - I glanced over my shoulder to check the dual carriageway I was joining was clear (it was) and ran into the back of the car that had stopped at the end of the slip road for no reason whatsoever because the fricking dual carriageway was clear for miles.

My fault, it was a bad habit of moving forwards while looking backwards that my instructor had told me off for years before. And checking my blind spot has saved me from more crashes since, to be fair.

"I cannot believe some posters have admitted to hogging the road and not wanting to change lanes every 5 minutes or refusing to let other cars pass because they're doing 70. The ones doing 70 have no concept a car, which is some distance away and doing 90 plus is quickly on your tail and should be left to go past FIRST because of the accident risk"

I don't understand what you mean. Are you saying:

• I'm doing 70mph and come across someone in the middle lane doing 60mph
• I can see a car a fair way behind who might be doing 90mph
• If I choose to go into the outside lane to overtake the 60mph car the 90mph might end up behind me and having to slow down
• So I should instead slow down myself and make sure that I don't happen to get in anyone's way who is speeding.

That's the only way I can read it. But it seems a bloody stupid point of view.