People who beep at someone stalling

[Cleo2628]

Absolutely unnecessary do you agree?

They probably haven’t realised the person is stalling

Yep, especially when it's a learner driver too.

Maybe they hadn’t realised someone had stalled? Did the person who had stalled get going quickly? Did they acknowledge the drivers behind?

How are they supposed to know someone has stalled? Plenty of people aren’t paying attention when the lights change or stop to read a text ect.

I wish you could have two types of beep. The loud ‘BEEEEEEEP’ for stop being an idiot and a ‘COO-EEE’ for, ‘have you noticed the lights have changed?’

/lighthearted

I just think people are generally more impatient and rude these days. Everyone is in a hurry. A couple of week ago my indicator light went whilst I was out driving. I couldn't stop and change it so I had to carry on with my journey. I knew I wasn't indicating (at the rear anyway) but I had some abuse because of it.

you can usually tell when somebody’s stalled because their brake lights come on, no? anyway YANBU. hate proper impatient people who beep if you don’t set off within seconds. jerks

You can tell if the car stalls because it jumps forward a little and the brake lights usually go on.
All you have to do is wait for them to start the engine again.

Are people really reading texts at the lights?

Surely that depends if they've got the brakes on Sparking. Or they might just be sitting with their brakes on not noticing the lights have changed.

"I wish you could have two types of beep. The loud ‘BEEEEEEEP’ for stop being an idiot and a ‘COO-EEE’ for, ‘have you noticed the lights have changed?"

There already is! A polite 'pip-pip' on the horn is the accepted way to communicate the latter.

I have never felt the need to beep at anyone because they didn't pull off immediately for whatever reason. There's just no need.

First time DH took DS1 then 17 out some knobhead honked their horn at him because he took a bit too much time to pull out.

I spend school run time then rush hour every day listening to people beeping at other people on my narrow road for giving way. Infuriating. What with them and the people who think 'their' right of way supersedes the motorways act and block the road accordingly, I love the Summer holiday.

I was behind a serial staller the other day. We were going along a long stretch of slightly uphill road with lots of traffic lights, and at every single light she stalled at least twice. People gradually turned off and I ended up directly behind her, and it was only then that I could see she was stalling. Before that it was just some kind of unexplained delay at the traffic lights - at some of them she stalled five or six times, and at one set of lights she missed the green light three times trying to move off. People further back down the line were leaning on the horn and it was massively frustrating because there was no way of getting round her and it was really slow. They would have seen the lights turning green and no cars moving anywhere, I'm sure they couldn't see what was happening. Poor girl though - I finally managed to overtake her (we got to a stretch of two lanes) and she looked really young and was in tears. But I do wonder whether she should have been out on the road if she had that much trouble with hill starts on a gentle slope.

We all stall sometimes - I always wave to the car behind to thank them for waiting or to apologise.

I wish you could have two types of beep. The loud ‘BEEEEEEEP’ for stop being an idiot and a ‘COO-EEE’ for, ‘have you noticed the lights have changed?’

Me tooooo a pip pip is still aggressive sounding I think

If you knew your rear indicator was out then you should have been giving hand signals.

I did try to beep angrily at a bloody big van that pulled out on my at a roundabout this morning. I was so pissed off, by the time I remembered where the horn was it was too late.

I wouldn't even think about beeping for someone stalling or someone not pulling off quickly. I remember getting beeped at on roundabouts when I was learning to drive. Always made me feel like shit.

I missed a gap on a roundabout and someone behind me beeped so long and hard on their horn just as I was about to go that I thought I’d not noticed some sort of hazard and stopped to check so missed another gap! I probably added a whole twenty seconds to his journey, definitely worth his apoplectic meltdown. I don’t know how people can cope being so aggressive all the time!