Annoying things motorists do

[Bagpuss]

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for avoidance of doubt "worse drivers"

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[Peoplesoft bloke]

Unnecessarily slow drivers. They are complete flipwits not to realise the holdup they cause as they creep along at 30mph on national speed limit roads. I have to add 20% to 30% to my journey time in case I get stuck behind one of these c***s.

It's not always old folk either - and at least they have an excuse.

Please give details of your journey time calcs

[TykeMerc]

This site sums up quite a few of my feelings about other drivers.

http://www.howmotorwayswork.co.uk/index.htm

[Platypus]

Which is no where near as annoying as sanctimonious complainers about complainers on internet forums. Etc.

Oh yeah. That too

[Bagpuss]

Good find

Get in that fast lane as soon as possible!

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

[Pogle]

I have fast days and I have slow days, but I do like driving as a rule.

Last year I was working in Glasgow and used to travel up on Monday and back on Friday. I LOVED the journey (it was spring & summer!) the road was empty and the scenery was amazing. I used to do Manchester to Glasgow in around 2hrs 50mins - bliss

[Bagpuss]

I pretty much hate driving on motorways, too many idiots, too straight, too boring.

Give me a twisty A or B road throught the countryside any day.

[NickFitz]

I've noticed a few times that they leave the speed limits on when the road isn't actually busy. I wonder how many have been done for creeping over 50 when the road has been empty. I've been on it when the outside lane has been completely empty yet the variable speed limits are still showing 50.

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.

[NickFitz]

the M42 cameras don't work if you change lane inbetween the cameras

Urban legend. The cameras previously weren't type-approved to deal with lane changes, which is why the limits weren't actually enforced. Now they do have type-approval, and the limits are enforced. It changed quite a while ago.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

.......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.
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A couple of weeks ago I witnessed a moron of exactly this type get hit by the woman in front of me at a roundabout. The moron in question joined the roundabout without indicationg and then tried to travel all the way around the outside of a two lane roundabout (he was trying to go back the way he'd come), passing two exits without givng any indication at all. When he cut across the path of the woman in front, she crashed into him, at which point he lept out and started complaining - evidently he thought she should have the benefit of clairvoyance. Where in the world do these people get a licence?