Entitlement of drivers

[HarryPotterDucks]

I’m not from the uk so I have learnt to drive elsewhere.

the entitlement of drivers is shocking.

park on double yellows is ok when hazards lights are on.

drive on the hard shoulder when there’s slow moving traffic

drive in lanes marked X on the motorway

speed

FaceTime and watching videos whilst driving.

kids not wearing seat belts

res light jumpers

tinted from windows

illegal number plates

etc

AIBU ti get so annoyed by this?

I rarely see many of those things happen.

I'm not sure what you mean by illegal number plates as that would be flagged but how do you tell a number plate is illegal? and why tinted windows my two back windows in suv is tinted because it stops the sun I brought the car like that..

Where on earth do you drive? I see speeding and parking on double yellows but not so much of the other stuff.

Front windows and windscreen can be tinted to a certain degree as long as it lets a certain amount of light through.

In terms of the licence plates to the previous PP, I would imagine it is illegal spacing/font of the reg number

Literally never seen any of them other than speeding

Not too sure why you mentioned the type of cat you have…. Tinted front windows mean other road users including pedestrians can’t see you as well.

I won’t pass comment on your need for it. I will however say the tolerance in aus is much lower.

it’s absolutely dangerous for front windows to be treated. Have you seen them? Can’t see anything.

So where did you learn to drive? And where do you live now?

I can bring you to a certain area where I live, go to the supermarket car park and I can be sure it will be within a few cars you will see the seat belts.

Yes illegal spacing….

I live in Manchester and can show you them very quickly.

Oh dear. I think you need a hobby.

What about parking in disabled bays?

Maybe you do as well?

I somehow being from Manchester also, think your being slightly dramatic 🤨

Shall I take you on a trip around where I live? In Hulme? Or compile dash cam footage? Maybe you are one of those drivers so don’t recognise bad driving?

perth and Manchester

I'm from Birmingham and it's exactly the same.

I soend a lot of time in Norfolk and Cornwall. Never ever see any greyed out number plates there. It's exceedingly localised. That's why PPs are incredulous.

My son was nearly taken out on his right of way pedestrian crossing by a car that we know drives around in false plates.

If he'd have been killed there'd have been no trace of thus car because the number plate doesn't exist.

I have seen everything you mentioned in British roads, except children not wearing seat belts simply because most kids are seated in the back seat and it's difficult to see whether they are wearing seat belt or not.

I'll add more to the list that I have seen, such as eating while driving, doing make up - yes really!, on the phone, tailgating, etc.

Yes many drivers in Britain are selfish and entitled. Best example of this is driving in lane 2 and 3 continuously when lane 1 is empty. Many drivers don't move to the left lane at all. Stupid and ignorant.

The police are over stretched and concentrate on other things. There's a takeaway near us close to a pelican crossing. Every evening multiple customers collecting food park on the zig zag lines of the crossing. We live on an A road with a 30mph speed limit. I'm regularly tailgated and overtaken doing 30. People know they are unlikely to get stopped and they're selfish so do as they please.

Yes, regularly see all of these things (London and travel around a lot for work). Add to the list illegally loud exhausts (cars & motorbikes), licence plates with ANPR resisting tints, body wraps that should be illegal if they aren’t (chrome and mirrored), and men so catastrophically self-centred they can’t possibly be aware of other road users. I long for a time when the police impound and crush any and all vehicles that aren’t compliant. Tiny cubes of crushed metal to match their tiny manhoods.

Chrome or mirrored body wrap vomit

YANBU. Lots of people love to push the boundaries and it's easier now the police aren't so bothered about low level crime. I don't see lots but see:

Poorly spaced, incorrect sized and even tinted plates for the 'murdered out' look. Also a trend is no front plate at all as these idiots prefer their cars looking clean at the front (plate in window on the dash!).

But mostly people don't seem to care about parking close to a bend, across a T junction or the wrong way round at night. It's like anything goes nowadays and that's not even mentioning what goes on on the roads!

YABU There are plenty of people who break driving laws, and thousands of fixed penalty notices drop through letterboxes every day.

Can't you take a more pragmatic view. A wrongly spaced number plate isn't hurting you. Nor someone passing you at 78mph on a dry motorway. Nor is someone who parks in one of the 30 available disabled bays outside a supermarket at 7am on a Saturday morning.

Save your outrage for when someone endangers people's lives, or you are going to be exhausted. Buy a dash cam and if you see anything truly dangerous, the police will be delighted to receive it. 😊

Perth Scotland or Perth Australia?

But a wrongly spaced or illegal font plate could hurt because it can avoid being picked up by ANPR so the car won’t be traceable if it injures someone or hits something. Illegal tints affect visibility of other road users. Modded exhausts are massively antisocial. Reflective wraps can be dazzling. People who park in disabled bays without need are arseholes, and arseholes do other arsehole stuff. There are no reasons for any of these things except the driver thinking the rules don’t apply to them. And if the rules about number plates and tints don’t apply, you can be sure the ones about speed and tailgating and so on also don’t apply. Twats the lot of them.