Drivers have no patience towards learner drivers

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Don’t they remember when they were 17, 18, 19 or whenever they learned to drive?

I remember myself when learning to drive in 1999/2000 that had some impatient drivers scaring the crap out on me.

Seen drivers beeping horn, flashing lights when learner driver stalls etc. Then overtaking them in dangerous situations.

AIBU?

I had to do a real emergency stop during my test as some nobhead decided to pull out in front of me at a roundabout (my right of way). I passed the test too. If I see a car with L plates and a person in a high vis in the front seat i immediately think possible driving test and do everything I can within reason not to spook them.

Some drivers have no patience for any drivers let alone learner drivers. YANBU but at least the learners are getting a taste of what absolute tits are on the road with an experienced, calm instructor by their side who will coach them how to handle it.

I always try to stay back from leaners. I remember how stressful it was trying to learn with someone driving up my arse... The worst was the accident I had one on my later lessons. Some tit decided to overtake me as I was turning right! 100% his fault but still unpleasant.

Recently, I was two cars behind a learner and the person in front of me was tailgating them. We came to a roundabout and he tried to be clever by going into the right hand land, rather than the left, to go straight over. He didn't account for the fact that the right hand exit was blocked and he couldn't cut back in and ended up about six cars back.

I think patience and kindness is in short supply. I put it down to everyone being more stressed overall, I am trying hard not to be impatient about other people being impatient!!

Some drivers have no patience for any drivers let alone learner drivers.

Definitely, I feel that a lot of drivers have lost all sense of patience this year.

I learned to drive last year and was regularly beeped and bullied on the road, usually when I wasn't even doing anything wrong! People would drive SO close behind me all the time.

Since I passed my test, I haven't been beeped once, even when I HAVE made stalled or been slow etc and expected a beep lol.

I think a lot of drivers have no patience anymore. I was stuck in a jam at the weekend for about 10 minutes all because a driver was too impatient to give way to a lorry meaning they got stuck with not enough space to pass eachother!
I just don't get it

I’m currently learning, I’m in my late 30s and really REALLY regretting not doing this 20 years ago I know I wouldn’t have cared what other road users thought of me back then but I do now and some of them are horrible.
thankfully I take my lessons midweek through the day when it’s generally quieter but I still get impatient knob heads. My last lesson I actually had a VW golf full of teens purposely tail me for about 4 miles trying throw me off my stride, then they nearly ran a pedestrian over when trying to overtake me cause I’d stopped to give way to them crossing at a junction. It’s really hard to learn to drive and take on board everything when you have a million and one other things going on in your life too.
my instructor however will not take me on roads he doesn’t think I can handle but it is hard not to worry that your getting in the way of other road users

It's a real problem and it's so awful. I learned to drive last year and the amount of aggression, bullying and dangerous behaviour directed towards me was insane. I feel at least once every lesson my instructor was having to reassure me I'd done nothing wrong after being beeped at randomly or intimidated at roundabouts. A car even tried to overtake me at traffic lights literally the second it went green and nearly caused a major accident!

I was learning in my husband's car and the second I passed my test and took the L plates off, I never had another episode of bullying or aggressive behaviour from another driver. On one occasion he forgot to take the L plates off before driving himself and he came home astounded at how differently he'd been treated.

Totally agree. Currently going out with my daughter. She is growing in confidence and zips along. Invariably though she isn't always quick at roundabouts or junctions. The number of people who beep at her or overtake dangerously just astounds me. Everyone is in such a rush now

I don’t drive. My dh does but honestly the 30 bloody learner drivers I get practising parking over my fucking dropped kerb daily piss me right fucking off.

When I did bother to do a few lessons years ago my instructor would never use a dropped kerb as the place to practice yes I get 30 upwards per fucking day and yes I’ve counted on a boring af day.

Yanbu. DS stalled at roundabout traffic lights last week and a stupid woman (in a nurses uniform FGS!) started flicking V's at him and honking. I have it all on dashcam.

I was going to write this.

I have to use a 60mph road daily and regularly encounter learners who are doing 30.

My instructor would never have allowed that.

I do try to be patient though and wouldn’t be aggressive (to anyone).

I am always patient with learners, even though it can be frustrating at times. Nothing to be gained by flustering them further.

Drivers who are NOT learners, but seem unable to drive, on the other hand.....they test my patience severely!

I read somewhere - maybe Reddit- , that an experienced driver was driving and hadn’t taken their L plates off , their learner driver child wasn’t driving at that time ( they had swapped seats on their way somewhere ) but yet people’s attitude towards the experienced driver really changed for the worse - drivers being aggressive , shouting abuse , tailgating etc.

Basically they just saw the L plates and assumed she/he was a learner driving and therefore was driving badly or deserving of being subjected to aggressive driving.

Obviously nothing had changed about this experienced drivers driving , so there was no reason for other road users to be like that, it was simply people’s preconceptions at play on seeing the L plate. They only had this experience with the L plates displayed!

Yes, I do this as well- leave a decent gap to shield the learner and force the idiots behind me to tailgate me, as I quite enjoy annoying them.

Love putting people on go-slow 😅

None of what you say excuses rude aggressive or hostile behaviour towards the learner though does it. I fear from your response that you are one of the culprits

If you have problem, take note if the company and contact them. Don't take out your juvenile rage at an innocent learner who is just driving where the instructor tells them to drive.