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? 😡

@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

A lot of cars don't pay road tax as emissions are so low, cyclists don't emit any emissions

At a quick glance I thought this thread was going to be about people driving with pet goats in their cars. How disappointing!

People who blast their horn when someone does something mildly irritating, cuts in, etc. IMO, if you have a hand free to blast the horn, then all you had to do was adjust your driving, and if you truly have to take evasive action then you’ll be too busy to toot!

QuestionableMouse, 'Sometimes that's down to the car though. My best friend has a little 1L Aygo and it takes forever to get up to motorway speed.'
My daughter has a Peugeot with the same 998cc engine and that thing bloody flies away. Runs out of steam about 80, though but nippy as hell until then.

My biggest peeves -

1. Drivers who turn right off of one road into another by cutting the fucking corner! Who the hell taught them that was how you turned into a road? I had one the other day who ended up side on to my front she'd cut the corner so much. And the fuckers will not acknowledge their fuck up and look straight on as if you don't exist. Mind you, that didn't really work as I didn't move so she had look to where I was, saw I wasn't going anywhere, so she had to reverse back out, which is another story, and caused even more chaos.

2.Our city was one of the early 20mph adopters.(made worse because it's not all roads) Not really policed though so the twats who were driving at forty and therefore 10 miles per hour over the limit haven't changed their driving and are now 20 miles per hour over the limit!

1. Drivers who are obviously either texting or reading messages because you can see them looking down at the phones by their side whilst crawling along in traffic.
2. And finally, our local private hire company. They have 'millions '(ok, hundreds) of them on our local roads and they all seem to drive like twats.

And breath....

People who pull out right in front of you from a side road (often having waited to do it) when you have no one behind and then proceed to drive really. bloody. slowly.

People hard of thinking that imagine somehow that paying VED somehow gives them more entitlement to use the roads is definitely a peeve. It is a general tax, like anything else, and just goes into central government coffers. Council tax does pay for most roads though, only Motorways and major A roads are centrally funded.

It's a pretty crude tax anyway as based on C02 emissions broadly, so electric cars and bikes pay nine, some cars £30/year, some cars £500+ a year. But none of that pays for the roads they drive on particularly, nor confers any entitlement to use the roads.

Middle lane hogs!

On a similar theme, supersonny, it drives me potty when I'm waiting to turn right onto the main road and the driver already on it to my right got just pootles along at around 25mph, neither slowing down nor speeding up, so that by the time it passes me, there's a huge stream of cars on the other side and no space for me to turn right any more.

The 40mph in a 60 who then go on to do 40mph in a 30. Just 40mph everywhere

People who drive around totally oblivious to the idea that there might be something on the road that isn't a car or motorbike (and a lot of them appear unaware of motorbikes too)..

Cyclists, horses, pedestrians, and people using road legal mobility scooters and wheelchairs may ALL be in the road for a variety of reasons, some of them with no actual desire to be there at all, but forced to be..

If drivers could avoid squashing us and refrain from being angry at our existance.. that would be nice :)

I always moan about this but wonder if it's new cars have ridiculously bright lights and they are dipped?

Yes, I seem to constantly get flashed when driving on country roads at night, even when my beam's off. My lights are in the lowest position possible. I think they're just really bright

And those that come on the outside of a lane merge to the front and try to force their way in the front of the queue

This is merging in turn. Those drivers are right to use the outside lane and then merge. The drivers getting annoyed at them 'pushing in' are in the wrong.

I've been dropping DH at work at 2am for a couple of weeks, and cruise home at around 40mph in the left lane of a 3 or 4 lane 50mph motorway.

At least every second night, I have the only other car on the road for miles driving up my arse, rather than overtaking me using the next lane, or the next lane, or oh! even the next lane.

It's 2am! Bugger off!

Cyclists...
Driving at a snails pace behind a cyclist for bloody ages, waiting patiently for that chance to safely overtake them... you finally do so, only to hit a bit of traffic further on and that same cyclist passes you so you have to repeat the whole procedure all again!

@BunnyBeanz

Cyclists... Driving at a snails pace behind a cyclist for bloody ages, waiting patiently for that chance to safely overtake them... you finally do so, only to hit a bit of traffic further on and that same cyclist passes you so you have to repeat the whole procedure all again!

So that's cars holding up cyclists then...?

Let's face it, motorists only hate cyclists because they are having more fun AND not paying through the nose to sit in traffic jams all day.

Idiots driving to fast for the narrow country lanes i with work .Amount of times i have had to take really quick evasive action to avoid being hit because they think no one else is on the road.

Walkers, worse since covid .Glare at you when they have to get out of the road. I have on a uniform i am not out on a joy ride.

Tailgaters and aggressive drivers .I changed my car from a big car to a small sporty looking car with tinted windows .I get tailgated at nsl as if they think i am going to race them .When they give up and go past they look in see a woman not a boy racer as they probably expect and you see the suprised look 🤣.

about the fog lights: here in Germany the police will pull you over if you are using them when it's not necessary. Including in rain. Visibility has to be under... ah, i need to check, 50m i think (could be 25m)
If it is raining heavily you need way more distance than "only a fool breaks the two second rule"

I hate all other drivers equally. It works for me but i reserve particular ire for those who take your priority when you're driving down a narrow street with parked cars. It's always a sodding Audi.

@DidSheReallySayThat20

People crawling along on a nsl road. Supermarket is down a nsl road. 60mph limit. I swear I always get caught behind a 25/30mph driver. Last week in fact there was one. The road goes from 50 to 60 to 30... His speed went 25ish..to 20.

I know the limit is a limit not a target but it was really frustrating.

This is really frustrating. And you'd fail your test for doing it, assuming the conditions were met for travelling at the limit. You are actually expected to drive at the limit where safe, so in a way it is a target, in the right conditions.

People round here must be twinned with Somerset as indicators are optional. Though speed limits are as well, it seems. We live on a 20mph road which gets used as a cut through and many cars go 40+ mph. It's disgusting.

For me it's drivers not pulling up to the crown of the road at a junction when turning right at traffic lights. They just stop at the head of a queue of traffic and prevent any other vehicles behind them from continuing straight ahead, even though it is safe to do so.
Happens all the time at a junction near my house.

We have a roundabout with 3 exits and nobody ever ever ever uses the right hand lane for straight over when there is no right hand turn. Sounds minor but every day I wait to turn right, almost go as I think someone is turning left as they're in the left lane, but no, they're going over

I'm still LOL at the idea of a horse patiently logging in online to arrange its tax and insurance.

@Papergirl1968

At a quick glance I thought this thread was going to be about people driving with pet goats in their cars. How disappointing!

Agree, I’m also disappointed. Now I’m off to start a thread specifically about goats 😂

People who don't indicate.

People who don't get in the right lane in advance and decide to cut you up at the last minute.

People who do stupid things like go right in the left hand lane at an island.

People who don't know how to drive on motorways. I genuinely think it should be part of the driving test. Joining at too low a speed, constantly in the wrong lane etc.

People who give way (when there's a car parked at side of the very wide road) when there is more than enough room for a bloody bus and they're driving a tiny car (ka, up or similar). I don't even say thank you because there is no need for them to 'give way'

People who turn right from the left hand side of a road - especially when there is a turning box.

Like a PP, people who stop to ‘give way’ every time there is a parked car, no matter how wide the road is.

Living on country lanes, people who don’t know how wide their car is, don’t know how to reverse, and don’t say thank you when you realise they can’t drive and reverse half a mile down the road for them.

Anyone paying road tax now should probably contact the DVLA to hand their licence back, given that it was abolished in 1937. Since then, roads have been paid for from general taxation.

Vehicles now pay vehicle excise duty which is based on emission levels of your vehicle. If you're driving a tiny electric car, you pay no VED. If you're driving a massive new v8 Range Rover you pay lots of VED because of the emission levels of that car.