Annoying things motorists do

[BrilloPad]

Good find

Get in that fast lane as soon as possible!

http://www.howmotorwayswork.co.uk/images/fast_lane.jpg

I prefer "outside" to "fast" - or "slow" to be factual.......

[Peoplesoft bloke]

There are some unbelievably impatient people around too. At the weekend, whilst travelling on a narrow road in a 30 limit (at a little over the limit as it happens!) I was agressively taligated by a bloke driving a white van - he had two girls I guess aged 7-10 sat next to him. As I slowed for the roundabout and indicated to turn left, he overtook, cutting up a car entering from the right, then cut across me to turn left, then overtook another car on an uphill blind bend. I really, really don't get people like that - exept they are cut from the same cloth as the people who try to push me out of the way on the tube/bus/train in London.

[BrilloPad]

That's how it's supposed to work. The point is that, if the traffic sped up to 70, it would shortly catch up with slower-moving traffic some distance ahead. This would cause a wave of braking, which would ultimately propagate backwards to the point of causing a dead stop a mile or three behind.

By keeping the limit at 50, it allows the congestion up ahead to sort itself out to some degree before the traffic you are in catches up with it. The end result is that you may have to travel the entire stretch at 50, but you at least get to keep moving. If you (and the other traffic around you) had been allowed to speed up, you would all have then had to slow right down again, or even stop, a short distance ahead.

That's why it's called Active Traffic Management - the intention is to prevent or minimise congestion, not just try to fix it after it happens.

Indeed.

It annoys me when it says 50 - then you soon end up in a queue. They should reduce it down to 40, 30, 20, 10 - whatever it takes to remove the queue. When traffic flows its better for everyone.

[Churchill]

What annoys me is a boy racer in a car who pulls up at the lights, sees my girly driving a nice car and thinks he can burn her off the road... We know different, don't we babe?

[cailin maith]

What annoys me is a boy racer in a car who pulls up at the lights, sees my girly driving a nice car and thinks he can burn her off the road... We know different, don't we babe?

I might look like butter wouldn't melt but

[Churchill]

I might look like butter wouldn't melt but

Hey, I didn't know you were listening...

[cailin maith]

Hey, I didn't know you were listening...

I'm a ninja....

[Churchill]

I'm a ninja....

F**k and I thought the room was empty...

[lilelvis2000]

People who do not know how to use a roundabout. Where I join the M62 there is a 3 lane roundabout. lane 1 is clearly for using the slip road onto the motorway and all the other lanes should move over. I've seen people in lane 1 go all the way around the outside of the roundabout and get off at the third exit. I think you should legally be allowed to hit these cars.

Sorry, I'm new around here. I realise there are signs indicating the exit points before hand...but I just can't be bothered to read them.

[darmstadt]

BMW drivers are the worst for not indicating, but turbo diesel rep car drivers are worse.

s'funny that, in another thread this was mentioned so the other week when I drove from Germany to Bristol I thought I'd check it out. Guess what, false, all but one BMW driver didn't indicate (in the UK every BMW driver indicated) yet not many Ford or Mercedes drivers did. Particularly bad were family wagons (people carriers???) and SUVs.