I’ve been driving for 24 years, and I realise that there’s a lot more traffic on the roads now than there used to be. Which is obviously going to mean a higher total number of people who don’t have a bloody clue, but honestly it seems endemic at the moment.
Things I’ve noticed in particular lately:
Indicators appear to have become entirely optional, not just at roundabouts but also pulling over or turning into a junction.
People don’t give way when they’re supposed to. When it’s your right of way and you’re approaching a parked car on the other side of the road, or one of those traffic calming bits where the road narrows and signs show it’s your right of way, drivers coming the other way seem to be increasingly taking the view that if they can nip in there first then they do so, causing you to stop when it’s your right of way.
Undertaking. Was on a fairly busy motorway today and saw two separate cars going like stink, cutting into whichever lane they could make the most progress in and undertaking time and time again.
People who seemingly have no idea how to reverse their car. I live in the countryside and on narrow lanes frequently have to reverse back bloody miles, when the person I meet coming the other way has a place much closer they could reverse to, because they sit there looking panicked and helpless rather than just bloody well reverse back.
I used to enjoy driving. I don’t anymore.
AIBU?
To think driving standards are generally awful?
Jknow · 17/10/2022 01:01
Am I being unreasonable?
215 votes. Final results.
POLLHighlandPony · 17/10/2022 02:55
Totally. Lane discipline - rotten. Meandering at 30-40 in a 60 - need shooting. Going right round a roundabout in the outside lane - hang the bastards. I’ve been driving since I was nine though only legally mostly since 17 and I’ve got a class 1, I think half these buggers passed their test in Lego land
DomesticShortHair · 17/10/2022 07:23
This is my world. I live rurally and call them the 40 milers- national speed limit, open straight road, good visibility, no hazards. 40 mph. Come to a village with no footpaths and 30 mph speed limit- 40 mph.
HighlandPony · 17/10/2022 02:55
Totally. Lane discipline - rotten. Meandering at 30-40 in a 60 - need shooting. Going right round a roundabout in the outside lane - hang the bastards. I’ve been driving since I was nine though only legally mostly since 17 and I’ve got a class 1, I think half these buggers passed their test in Lego land
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ivykaty44 · 17/10/2022 07:31
DomesticShortHair Just overtake then? If they’re traveling at 40mph on a 60mph limited road, it’s clear and straight - go round them.
they are entitled to travel under the speed limit, you are entitled to overtake when safe to do so
HighlandPony · 17/10/2022 02:55
Totally. Lane discipline - rotten. Meandering at 30-40 in a 60 - need shooting. Going right round a roundabout in the outside lane - hang the bastards. I’ve been driving since I was nine though only legally mostly since 17 and I’ve got a class 1, I think half these buggers passed their test in Lego land
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