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My pet hates:
1) Tailgaiting. It's just TOTALLY un-necessary and achieves nothing positive. I am with Jonnycool as to the reason this happens. Selfish, impatient, thoughtless people who are thinking about nobody other than me, me, me, I don't care about the speed limit, I want to break it and you're in my way, so I'm going to sit on your @ss......
2) Lane discipline on dual carriageways and motorways. If you are not overtaking something, not gaining on something quickly with a view to overtaking it, then MOVE OVER! Equally, when you're driving at 70 in lane one, then a numpty pulls up alongside you and matches your speed / fractionally overtakes you, but takes forever. This means you are now gaining on a lorry, you want to pull out to lane 2 to pass it - and you can't, because this numpty is now sat there, doing 1mph more than you... you can't really easy off, because another numpty is up your chuff, and chances are he's going to try and pull out to lane 2 first...
3) Texting and driving. I overtook a car on the M5 up by Brum a few weeks ago. I was in lane 3, overtaking. The young lady driving the car in lane 2 was totally engrossed in tapping a text message into her iphone, ocasionally glancing at the road ahead. Asking to maim/kill someone, and as Jonny rightly says - it's because of the "me me me" attitude, I haven't even taken time to think of the consequences of killing someone by texting and driving, cos all I care about is sending my text message so I'm a popular blah.....
4) Excess use of speed combined with bullying - mainly on motorways. Don't get me wrong, I'm actually not against speed on it's own, and wouldn't give a hoot about someone driving over the NSL within reason... apart from when there are aggrivating factors... for example, Mr Bloggs is doing an indicated speed of 80 in lane 3, nicely passing the van in lane 2, before he's ready to move over... when Mr Small Man Syndrome in his 5 series comes caning it up behind him at 130mph, looking like he's going to literally push him out of the way, and sitting right on his @ss, often with main beam flashing....
They are my main ones!
Think peeps are talking at cross purposes. Whilst some are talking about safe driving distances, which I think we'd all agree many drivers don't leave enough of a gap, others are talking about pulling up in a queue of very slow moving traffic.
I always leave tarmac and tyres and a bit more when pulling up in a queue. Then you get some gloit pulling up as close as possible behind youMy old lady does that, and it gets right on my tits.
Back in 82 I was taught to leave a gap that allowed me to read the number plate of the car in front, but that doesn't always work with modern cars so I now adopt the tyres & tarmac approach.I think its getting slower over the past 6 or 7 years.Definitely.People not using all lanes of a motorway how they're designed to be used (slow, overtaking, fast driving)No such thing
30 years ago the rule was "Keep left unless overtaking", and I do believe that same rule applies today.Any so called '4x4's' which aren't covered in mud (usually with a woman behind the wheel!)We never felt the need to go mud plugging in ours, we bought it because it had 7 seats and I could get all my work tools in it along with any materials we needed for work (ie, 3m lengths of trunking). It also had the distinct advantage of traversing extreme weather conditions (eg, the january snow) with ease.i use the lanes properly and it annoys me when people don't, especially people sitting in the middle lane! - MOVE OVER!If someone is hogging the middle lane, you can always use your "fast driving" (L3 to the rest of us) lane to overtake before moving back to your "slow" (L1 to the rest of us) lane.
People not using all lanes of a motorway how they're designed to be used (slow, overtaking, fast driving)
It was "Driving, overtaking, overtaking" when I took my test..
Hi,
Just been thinking about all the cars I have owned - there certainly have been a good number.
Anyway, I was wondering what was everybody favourite car they have owned, excluding the Omega.
For me it was a Lancia Delta Integrale.
And a close second, for a different driving style, but still quick, is Ford Granada Cosworth, 1993 model.
And yours, and why?
They just beep at you, getting faster as you get close to an object. Constant tone = stop
