to have so many driving peeves?

[littleemma1]

This is kind of just for fun but I’m intrigued to know what everyone’s top 3 driving peeves are... I’ll start...

1. No indicators. Got to be. Especially on busy roundabouts, junctions etc or when cutting you up on dual carriageway. Anytime really 🙄
2. Drivers who don’t say thank you when you’ve done something nice. Like it’s just a little wave but it makes all the difference! 👋🏻
3. Drivers who can’t stick to one speed limit on a dual carriageway. Going from 70 to 90 to 80 is just silly. I usually find it goes I overtake them, they overtake me, then I overtake them, then they overtake me. It’s ridiculous. Does make me giggle at how much more fuel they’ll use 🤣 (not to brag but I have the luxury of cruise control so I know it’s not me!)

Please do let me know. I’m very curious.

@ApocalypseNowt agreed!!!

My DH does this and I've told him off a few times for it recently....
not exiting the roundabout in the correct lane.

Maybe it's just me but I get so annoyed at a roundabout near us where the right hand lane is straight ahead or right turn. I always need to go straight ahead and that lane then becomes a right turn only at the next junction which is what I want. The amount of people who go straight ahead in the left lane and merge into my right hand lane as they exit on a daily basis is ridiculous. Also, that's where DD's car seat is and I seriously am contemplating moving her because so many people have nearly taken the side of our car out.

I've got a new one for the list! People that don't use their lights in poor lighting, be it fog, heavy cloud, rain or low glaring sun that puts things into sillohette.

Tip, if the light quality/ angle is bad and you're finding it hard to see the vehicles ahead, the drivers around you will also find it hard to see you! Especially in one of the dull monotone colours that have been so endemic for the last decade (yes this includes my own car!)

DLRs are of limited use for this problem, while they are useful for the front, sometimes, like when driving into low sunshine, you could do with the extra illumination on the rear.

I think most of my others have been covered... indicators, tailgaters (especially the ones that inch past after you've pulled in for them appropriately, that then sandwich you behind a slow vehicle because you'd anticipated that they were going to pass at 80 mph not 70.00001 mph from the BMW/ Audi/ Merc badge that was 3 inches off your rear bumper and you thought there would be enough time to continue at 70mph to pull back to lane 2 before catching up with the Micra doing 57 mph.

Ooh, another... people not using slip roads to accelerate to the speed of the traffic they are joining. On a related theme, a few miles away there is a dual carriageway that is a major route across hundreds of miles across the UK. It also forms part of the local by-pass. I hereby nominate the muppets that join this major route at the roundabout and gradually accelerate to 45 mph (NSL) Now there's a bit of a climb over some bridges, nothing spectacular, but it does involve dusting off that right hand pedal and getting a bit of value out of 3rd and 4th gear in order to get to an appropriate, safe speed for a NSL. But no, stuff that, they're just having a nice gentle pootle along the local by-pass for a few miles.

People who are blatantly on the phone with it against their ear. People who are trying to sneakily text, they keep looking down to the phone in their lap.
STOP IT 😡

Ooooo I forgot about those kind @UrgentScurryfunge! It’s even worse when they tootle up the slip road and then 1 mile down the road turn into a tail gater 😡
I also agree on the frustrations of when they sandwich you because they decided they all of a sudden didn’t need to pass you but aren’t paying any attention and anticipating you need to be out!!!

@Sproutpie yup, agree!!!

I am in the US, so some of these might be country specific !

Pulling out of a side road in front of me and not using the accelerator and just drifting up the main road, so I have to slam on my brakes. ESPECIALLY when there is a huge gap behind me

Slamming on their brakes to stop when someone looks like they might possibly be thinking about crossing the road. I’m sure some pedestrians get guilted into unecessary road crossing just by the social pressure of all the cars on the road stopping just in case

Not knowing how to drive on a roundabout (rotary) The car on the roundabout stops to politely let the approaching car enter the roundabout ahead of them........ arrrgh

Parking 4ft away from the kerb. Its like they were driving down the road, saw a shop, thought oh I want to pop in there, and just stopped the car in the road without pulling in AT ALL.

I could go on and on and on and on......

1 Speed humps.

2 People parking outside my house.

3 Roundabouts are fine, traffic lights at a junction are fine. But both together? Severely annoying - you've just queued for ages to pass the traffic light to get onto the darned roundabout... and halfway round you get another set of the blighters. And then another. Just no.

4 Insanely bright headlights.

5 Entitled twats who genuinely believe that they own the road, and expect you to defer to their superiority. Even worse, when they are equipped with item 4 above, and are behind you on a narrow country lane on a dark night.

6 MAMIL

7 People who tore up their copy of the Highway Code the minute they passed their test and couldn't care less that actually it isn't their right of way.

I forgot about speed bumps. I live on an estate with a roundabout in the middle and 4 roads off this roundabout. Each road has a minimum of 7 speed bumps along it. We can't avoid them at all. My car now rattles and so do I.

People who can’t park their cars
Not indicating
Middle lane hoggers
People who call the motorway lanes slow and fast

People who park where they like (double yellows, disabled spaces, across driveways) but think it’s ok because they’ve put their hazards on.

Middle lane hoggers.

Dawdlers. I live in an attractive rural area and often come round a bend to find someone fannying about trying to take a picture of a thatched cottage or one of the stones whilst driving at 15 mph whilst their passenger leans out of the window. Just bloody pull over!

As a runner,, people who don't indicate when I'm crossing the road at a junction then nearly run me over. People who park on the entire pavement which means I have to run in the road.
As a driver, people who don't indicate, old people doing 20mph in a 30 zone who are clearly terrified which makes me terrified for other road users.
Agressive drivers who drive up my arse, I slow right down. People on their mobiles.

When they tailgate me in a 30mph zone. I don't care, I am not going any faster than that. Last time they overtook me there was a speed camera lol I hope they clocked them!

I'm still learning but not indicating is one that really annoys me. I got a minor on my first test for hesitating at a mini roundabout because no one was bloody indicating so I waited till it was clear.

And looking at me and pulling out anyway in front of me. And I've had pedestrians just walk out in front of me. Why do people do that? They don't do it to dh in his BMW but they do it if he's driving my Corsa with no L plates.

I almost couldn't post on this thread because it'd take too long to type out. I drive a huge commute in Cumbria. In the summer we get the idiots who didn't check a map and are so frightened at being somewhere else than home they can't concentrate so don't look or do an appropriate speed.

I drive behind the 40mph-ers who speed through the villages and creep along the NSL parts. Too winding to get past so I get home hopping for a wee because I've had 10 mins added to my journey!

Panicked drivers; if you can't manage a roundabout, enter a motorway or dual carriageway at a decent safe speed or stay out of the gutter, please stop driving. I don't want to share the road with people who are frightened despite having driven for years.

This morning I was tailgated through a village by a Mitsubishi L200 double cab. The driver was drinking a brew from a ceramic fucking mug. Gahhhhhh!

Someone told me once that they didn't indicate right when entering a roundabout because that would mean they were intending to drive across the grass on the roundabout itself

There's a road on my way home which splits into two clearly marked lanes, one for turning left and one for turning right. The queue for turning right (which I'm always in) is always much longer. There's always someone who deliberately gets in the left lane and tries to push in to turn right at the very end. They'll often do it at the traffic lights, without indicating. You can normally tell when they start creeping forward at the lights. I refuse to let them over, if they want to force their way across its their own fault if they hit my car by doing a dangerous manouvere.
I've developed a sixth sense for when people want to change lanes without indicating, and I deliberately don't leave them a gap. They need to learn to indicate lol.

A certain city I occasionally drive in seems to have different rules from other places:

1. Always stop at roundabouts, especially if you can see there are no other cars anywhere near it, especially if the car behind you also has good visibility and is expecting to keep going.
2. As soon as you join a dual carriageway get in the lane you will exit from and stay in it, irrespective of traffic flow, especially if you will be turning right off a roundabout three miles ahead.
3. Never let another car change lanes, match speed with them to prevent this, this will teach them to obey rule 2.
4. If at all possible stop at the end of slip roads (only for advanced drivers who have mastered rule 1). (Actually quite sensible because of rule 3 which means nobody will let you join the road anyway).

I thought all of this was my imagination, but others have confirmed it and it is alluded to in a book by Christopher Brookmyre.

1. phone use. Especially texting. It is dangerous, just stop it
2. assuming that because the long line of parked cars is on my side of the road, you have ‘right of way’ despite me being 2 or 3 cars from the end. Stop coming, all you will do is block us both and slow everything down. I have the right as I have nowhere to go and am already committed before you even turned up.
3. people making assumptions on the car I drive. I have a BMW and always try to be courteous to other road users so stop being nasty to me. Really. Am so fed up of being judged when it is untrue.

Not indicating is my pet hate. And peole tailgating my Fiat 500 but happily giving my room when I’m driving the BMW at the same speed. People also pull out in front of the Fiat all the time, I think its size makes it look further away than it is.
Over bright headlights also annoy me, I think they are actually dangerous.

Same top 3.
Didn't Bill Bryson in his book write about that important really nice thank you that only Brits do, by barely raising their hand. I love that!

People who don't understand merge lanes.

If a roundabout has been designed with 2 lanes on the exit, there's a reason for it. The lanes merge later on and help clear traffic behind allowing the traffic to clear the roundabout and free other lanes. The Highways Agency didn't spend a fortune improving all the roundabouts for no reason at all.

So don't block the merge lane because someone is going past you. Don't spend ages at the start of the merge lane sitting still trying to get in leaving the empty 100 m in front of you.

Just drive along and merge. Like a zip. It will do wonders for the speed of the traffic behind you.

Oh - and don't straddle the lane or speed up to close a gap because someone might get in front of you.

And if you are using the merge lane, don't accelerate full speed to the absolute front and then try to push in. Just merge in place at a sensible speed.

And breathe.

Not indicating (everyone around here seems to have broken indicators!)

Pulling out in front of you really fast, then pootling along at about 15mph under the speed limit for no discernible reason.

People who drive at 40 ALL the time, except during 40mph zones where they slow down to 30 for no apparent reason.

Idiots who cut you up in traffic. Someone did it to me the other day and I took great pleasure in the fact that he'd been pulled over by the police five minutes later

People who come round blind bends on the wrong side of the road, forcing you to either slam on your brakes or swerve into a hedge.

People who drive really slowly/clearly don't know the roads but refuse to pull over to let the queue of traffic behind them past!

Fog lights - less than 100 mtrs visibility and that’s it. Just switch the fuckng things off. In 25 years of driving I’ve seen it foggy enough twice to use my fog lights. If you’re not sure trucks are a good guide.

Middle Lane Hoggers.

City folk / tourists (usually in 4x4s) who can’t drive on country lanes. You know you can get close to a hedge you don’t need 3ft when there isn’t 3 ft to take. Bastards.

You can add BMW and Audi drivers a special kind of wankery.