HenryKrinkle Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Is it me or are most people **** at driving these days??? When did it become law that you don't have to indicate when turning left? Especially when the person coming from your left at a roundabout is sat there waiting for you to go 'round it!!? Or indicate when stopping/pulling away? Also, it seems that as a motorist you no longer have an obligation to stop if you see a pedestrian about to cross at a zebra crossing - people now seem to think that the pedestrian has to wait until you've gone past - well then what's the point in the crossing then? You know things are bad when lollipop ladies now have to stand at pelican crossings and operate the buttons for people - again, isn't that what the crossing is for?....When I was young, they used to be able to go and stand in the middle of the road and cars would stop for them... Do people just not care about running kids over anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hucknall Ram Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 What gets me at the moment is that I am driving in the left hand lane on a motorway, the left hand lane is clear, then I have to move over two lanes to overtake someone who doing 60 in the middle lane, because it's illegal to undertake them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfcdavecov Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Lorries overtaking each other at 0.5 mph faster than the other meaning the brilliant two laned A46(near Newark) and A1 wouldn't have a queue of 4,598 cars piling up behind them. People who just change lanes on roundabouts, and don't even realise they have cut you up. Grannies and grandads who insist on doing 45mph on a slip road, only to then suddenly put their foot down in their 2 litre Honda Civic, leaving me struggling to get up to 60 bfore the end of the slip road. People who slow down to 20mph to go through a speed camera. Police who just coast past at 85mph, just because they can. People who find in necessary to share their music with me ( can we do one of these for the tube?) and feel the need to have all 4 windows down. People who drive up your arse when you can't go any faster because there is a lorry overtaking a lorry in front. When you have overtaken somebody, thet overtake you 2 minutes later, then slow down again and you have to overtake them again. People who stop at roundabouts and then look to see if anything is coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryKrinkle Posted May 11, 2011 Author Share Posted May 11, 2011 I may also add the following that annoy me: personalised number plates that look nothing like a name - you might as well wipe your ar5e with £500. personalised number plates that have the person's name under the reg - just in case you weren't quite sure whose car it was!! cars full of pink fluffy cushions and playboy bunnies that have a fat heffalump driving them people with convertibles who drive with the top down in the middle of November (if you need a woolly hat it means it's too cold!!) People that make a big effort to pull out in front of you and then hold you up by driving at 20mph. Chavs that have to drive their bad boy whips basically lying on their side - ap[parently it looks cool:cool: When there's a queue of people going straight on but the road separates into two further along and there's no queue to turn right - people think it's ok to overtake and basically drive for 200 yards into oncoming traffic so that they can miss out the queue - and they get pi55ed off with the people coming the other way. All taxi drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfcdavecov Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Taxi drivers who don't stop at the lights until half their car is over the white line. People who take up two street spaces when parking. Van drivers Tractors on dual carriageways. Motorbike erm ists who think the speed limit doesn't apply to them, and then moan cars never see them in their mirrors. Push bikes. You don't pay road tax, so get on the feckin path. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archram Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 Visitors to the seaside who drive up to junctions astride the white line to keep their options open, thus blocking 2 lanes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryKrinkle Posted May 11, 2011 Author Share Posted May 11, 2011 Mostly people who clearly do things wrong and then give you **** for it! These 3 things all happened this morning: Some bad boy was in front of me and swerving all over the shop - i knew he was gonna do something stupid eventually....he then merged into the righthand lane and then changed his mind - no indicating or anything - but I had already gone past him in the left so he had to stop suddenly. Then he caught up with me further along, overtook me on the inside and starting shouting stuff at me, before driving off 100mph...twot 5 mins later I was waiting to turn right into a side road and a watched a woman step on to a zebra crossing further up and I started to edge across slowly as I assumed the traffic was gonna stop. A woman coming the other way just went straight across the crossing and zoomed past me shaking her head and muttering stuff - she hadn't even seen the woman who she had almost killed! Another 5 mins later I was at another junction. A car came along indicating left so I started to edge out...then she carried straight on, zoomed past me beeping her horn and ranting at me....I was behind her the rest of the way and she still had her indicator on about 10 minutes later!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GboroRam Posted May 11, 2011 Share Posted May 11, 2011 ... and she still had her indicator on about 10 minutes later!! Sorry if I ever inconvenience anyone, but my left indicator is broke and doesn't snap off Anyway, annoyances: Drivers who turn right on roundabouts when they're in the left hand lane. Sunday drivers (aka 50mph drivers - 50 through the 60 zone, 50 through the built up area). Tractor drivers holding up traffic at 8.30am. I thought farmers worked long unsociable hours? Get the f'cking tractor in a field then, instead of holding me up on the way to work. Yoofs who hang around supermarket carparks in their Ford Escort Mk3s or other crappy vehicle generally lousing up the place. Is that all there is to do, sit in a car in a supermarket car park? People who drive ancient "classic" (aka crappy) cars around town that can't get above 25mph. Particularly the ones who take offense at being overtaken. I drive a Ka - if I'm overtaking you, there's something wrong with your engine. Old biddies who drive around town at 15mph, leaving you wishing you were behind a milk float. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryKrinkle Posted May 12, 2011 Author Share Posted May 12, 2011 oh yes...and chavs on mopeds/scramblers/quad bikes what is their obssession with such things?? Quick update from yesterday - a BSM driving INSTRUCTOR pulled out in front of me this morning, again no indicator or anything... I don't expect everyone to be as perfect as me but if you drive for a living or teach others to, you should be bloody faultless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crozzling Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 I passed my driving test this week and I still haven't got my full drivers license sent to me. Can I buy a car and insure it without it and just give them my pass certificate number/driver number or will I need it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rynny Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 I passed my driving test this week and I still haven't got my full drivers license sent to me. Can I buy a car and insure it without it and just give them my pass certificate number/driver number or will I need it? You should have been given a certificate to show that you have passed your test. You should get your license next week, mine only took 2 weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duracell Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 I'm not even driving yet, and some things annoy me. Number 1 - people who call the outside lane the inside lane, and vice versa. The lane closest to the barrier is the outside lane. Grrr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crozzling Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 You should have been given a certificate to show that you have passed your test. You should get your license next week, mine only took 2 weeks. Yeah I have the certificate and everything. Is that all I need to insure a car? My license should come next week at some point. Rather get a car now for work than have to use the bus for another week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obi1Kenobi0 Posted May 12, 2011 Share Posted May 12, 2011 All valid points. From a Derby perspective I hate driving in Normanton. Seems like every other car is a wannabe gangster driving a pile of modified crap. The rest either have no license or seem to want to block the road trying to get into Pak foods. My pet hates are: When a road merges from two lanes into one some feckless imbocile will always try and overtake the merging traffic on the wrong side and cut in. People who can't/indicate. People who have no concept of appropriate speed when joining a motorway i.e. doing 50. Old people driving at supermarkets. Spend 30 mins trying to get in and out of spaces. Women driving at supermarkets. See above. All taxi drivers and white van men. Modified exhausts on 1ltr cars. Feel that 50bhp power. There's a queue of traffic going left, you are pulling out to go right. You need a gap. Muppet brain decides to pull forward and block you even though it does not disadvantage them by letting you out. Buses The list is endless. If only everyone could drive as well as me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archram Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Yeah I have the certificate and everything. Is that all I need to insure a car? My license should come next week at some point. Rather get a car now for work than have to use the bus for another week! I've never had to show a driving licence to buy a car - and I've bought quite a lot! Only time you'd need it is if stopped by cops when driving and you have your certificate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crozzling Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 I've never had to show a driving licence to buy a car - and I've bought quite a lot! Only time you'd need it is if stopped by cops when driving and you have your certificate. Oh right, thank you. I suppose I would buy insurance over the phone anyway, so all I need is my drivers number. I'm a bit nervous to start driving around on my own but I suppose everyone is to begin with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StaffsRam Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Driving tests should include basic intelligence and common sense tests. Too many idiots on the road and not enough oil to go around would kind of lend itself to its own solution surely..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archram Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Oh right, thank you. I suppose I would buy insurance over the phone anyway, so all I need is my drivers number. I'm a bit nervous to start driving around on my own but I suppose everyone is to begin with. I'm pleased you are, it means you taking it seriously! I passed my test 52 yrs ago and even with so little traffic it felt scarey! Plus, very few young women drove then so I had to put up with a fair few idiots trying to show what big butch men they were. I taught all 3 of mine to drive and they discovered that I said the same to each of them at the beginning 'Remember you're now in charge of a lethal macine, it may feel safe and cosy in it but it can kill you and other people' Pretty much what my dad said to me! Enjoy being independently mobile! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crozzling Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Hey guys, so I just got my full drivers license through the post after passing my test the other week and I was just wondering if you ever have to re new the photo on it? They used the same picture for my full drivers license that was on my provisional one, which I had taken a few years ago when I looked really young with long hair. I look like a 15 year old boy with Justin Beiber hair which is a bit embarrasing now I'm 20. Do you have to renew the photo at some point? I don't want to be a 35 year old man with this photo on my license... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GboroRam Posted May 20, 2011 Share Posted May 20, 2011 Back on the hatin' theme: why do some people think it's clever to start to indicate off the roundabout so early that you nearly pull out in front of them as you're expecting them to turn off the junction before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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