Pet driving hates. What gets your goat?

[greenforme]

For me it's lorries in the middle lane on motorways, driving parallel to another. Yes I know they have deadlines, but miles and miles side by side? 😡

I would never drive round a bend on the say so of a horse rider or cyclist and I don’t want someone else judging when it’s safe for me to do so and waving me on.

If I find myself getting angry I keep telling myself that someone driving might be ill, have just had bad news etc but it doesn’t always work.

@Ellamiss

I would never drive round a bend on the say so of a horse rider or cyclist and I don’t want someone else judging when it’s safe for me to do so and waving me on.

If I find myself getting angry I keep telling myself that someone driving might be ill, have just had bad news etc but it doesn’t always work.

Sorry that was in response to the post about cyclists and riders not waving cars on.

Also we zip, so if there is slow moving traffic entering a road and the road is also slow moving you take turns to let one person in, there are signs telling you to do this and it's advertised on TV occasionally.

I wish people would do this more. So many drivers seem to not want to let people in. They'll driver right up to the car in front and stare ahead, not even acknowledging the car trying to join. It's completely selfish.

Same with merge in turn. That should work like a zip but so many selfish drivers don't allow it to work properly. I've mentioned it a few times in here because it's something that really gets my goat. And people on here have referred to it as "pushing in" proving that some really don't understand the rules of the road.

Dont get me started on that - filtering - or lane splitting - is when a motorbike zips down between two lanes of cars.

Its in the highway code, its taught and even examined on in the tests (well it was in my mod 2 / A). Yet still i have people shaking fists at me

People who pull out of a side road right infront of you forcing you to slam on brakes, then creep along the rest of the way, holding you up. So desperate to get on the road before you - yet then just sit there creeping slowly along arrrgggh.

Drivers sitting below or dead on limit in outside lane but refuse to budge when seeing cars approaching behind them who clearly want to go faster.

Anyone who sits well below speed limit on a long stretch of road despite holding up a queue of cars behind them.

Mittens030869 you say you're always being tailgated for sitting exactly on the speed limit, and then also speak of being often cut up at roundabouts. Being cut up on a roundabout has rarely happened to me and in cases I've seen it (or sometimes resorted to this myself in utter desperation) is exactly because you are driving so slowly, and causing such intense frustration to drivers behind you the only chance they'll get to escape you rather than being forced to sit behind you on yet another stretch of road - is to cut you up on the roundabout!!!

Don't be so quick to just other drivers for their actions, there is usually a cause for it and not just coincidence you are 1) regularly being tailgated 2) then being cut up on roundabouts!!

I never said I was always being cut up at roundabouts. But it has happened. And I drive at the speed limit always, but there's so often someone on my bumper, even when there are speed cameras and I just don't want 3 points on my license, or to pay a fine. Is that reasonable to you???

How can you know anyway? You're making big assumptions there.

Cyclists and horse riders who can see round a bend when you can't and don't wave you on. (Most horse riders do this but it infuriates me when they don't-I say this as a horse rider, its just common decency)

I wouldn't ever act on someone on a horse or bike waving me on around a bend.

I have another. Drivers who slow down going uphill. I'm talking a gentle incline on a dual carriageway, not the north face of the Eiger.

If you use the same amount of acceleration on an incline you slow down - just keep your speed constant.

Thank you

People hogging the middle lane

--Looking at you DH

I mentioned it once, and DH lectures all the way home on how it was 'safer' than in inside lane. Tosser

Tail-gating is inherently dangerous, cycling isn't, it's a bit dumb and small minded to put them in the same category

@AnotherEmma

Shudder

Could we possibly be married to the same man? Or are there more than one of 'em like this?

I think there could be 😱

I would never drive round a bend on the say so of a horse rider or cyclist and I don’t want someone else judging when it’s safe for me to do so and waving me on.

At a safety meeting for horse riders we were advised not to wave drivers past as it should be their decision whether it's safe to overtake, not ours.

That said, I do wave drivers past if the only reason they're sitting behind me is not to scare my horse. Very considerate, but he's not scared of cars - just big plants, plastic bags, piles of gravel ...

@SarahAndQuack

You're not.

Also, I will add - wanting to let someone in from the slip road, so slowing down unpredictably. While the person on the slip round sees us coming along in the left lane and slows down to tuck in behind. And we end up both slowing down, and I sit there muttering 'just put your bloody foot down before they run out of slip road'.

It never seems to occur to her to, you know, get into the middle lane well before the slip road if there's someone there, or to judge the speed of the other person and speed up so they can come in behind.

OMG yes to that last paragraph! 🤦🏻‍♀️

I would never drive round a bend on the say so of a horse rider or cyclist and I don’t want someone else judging when it’s safe for me to do so and waving me on.

That's the correct thing to do. I wait until I can see too.

[quote PaddyF0dder]@PolPotNoodle

Wait... you think the proximity sensors are there to inform you of safe distance?

Yikes.[/quote]
Yes, such as the one on my car that calculates distance and speed to the car in front and alerts you on the dashboard if you risk an unsafe breaking distance. I'm not talking about parking sensors.

Yikes that you're not competent on the features of modern cars, must be all hand signals out of the window in your household.

If all you drivers that need to be somewhere so quickly why not just leave earlier then you might avoid driving around with all this rage which is incredibly dangerous

@greenforme

I'm with you on cyclists. IMO anyone using the roads should pay road tax and be insured. I include horses in that too

People with this attitude. The roads are for everyone, regardless of their mode of transport.

Indicating or rather lack of is a pet hate, I'm often left at a roundabout having to guess which way the oncoming driver is going as no signal is given. Also the number of drivers who sit at a junction and wait even though you have clearly indicated in good time that you are turning left and they can safely pull out.

I'm with you on cyclists. IMO anyone using the roads should pay road tax and be insured. I include horses in that too

I mean, this is along the same lines as "if you don't pay tax you shouldn't have access to NHS treatment" isn't it? It's just a ridiculous argument.

Yes its incredibly arrogant

@MNHQ Classics please!

I don’t this thread is worthy of Classics. It’s just people letting off steam - no harm in that, but Classics needs something a bit more legendary.

People who ignore parked traffic/other hazards on their side of the road and force their way through on the other side of the road. The narrower the road the more it happens, and it's a bonus doing it on a tight blind bend.