just a few rants too pick from, feel free too add your own..........
wheres the option for all of the above except the last one...
all of the above
espeeeeeeecially not pulling over...
my main two are fog lights on at night/extra bright lights which blind every one else and people tailgating you 2 push u along
[Edited on 1/6/2005 by I love speed :-P]
All of them too! But mainly the fog lights as my car isn't really up to the faster of the motorway lanes for the not pulling over one to bother
me!
I'm assuming you had a bad drive home from work today Jon!?
Andy
Hard to pick just one of them Jon. Can you add another button to say 'All of above'.....they are all prone to wind me up I am afraid. 
Fozzie
Not pulling over!!!
I drive 20 miles to work everyday. 10 of them on the A92, a real pleasure, A road, not dual carriageway, bumble along happily, several good places to
overtake and if I get stuck behind a lorry or a bus or a tractor, no big deal.
Hit the A90 dual carriageway and I can't get past anything!!!! Everything is crawling along the fast lane, scared to pull in, in case somebody
passes them! It's shit, I cover the 10 miles of normal road in half the time it takes me to travel the same distance on dual carriage way.
Grrrrrrrrr
Hmmm how about a RANT section???
People who don't indicate on roundabouts or drive all the way round with the left indicator on. Last minute indicators when you are waiting at a junction as well.
Traffic lights turn green for their 12 second cycle - 5 seconds later the lead car decides to make a move......
[Edited on 1/6/05 by GeoffT]
All of the above plus a lot more into the bargain.
Add mobile phone use while driving to that list as well - usually perpetrated by non seat belt wearing young mothers with unbelted toddlers standing
between the front seats.
1) lane mismanagement
2) inappropriate use of lights - either fogs on good days, or no lights on in heavy rain
3) the gloit in the right lane at lights who only indicates right after the lights change, so you get stuck behind him trying to go straight on
4) tailgaiting
5) people who overtake you on the motorway but only change lane at the last minute, almost brushing your bumper
6) people going too slow.
7) people who beep you for pulling across their path, even if they were nowhere near you
8) people who stop at a roundabout when there is blatantly no one coming
9) poor use of inicators, either just slack or even giving misleading signals.
There are loads more, but thats my favourite few.
However, i have the pleasure of witnessing good driving at times, when people demonstrate awareness and consideration that you do not usually come
across - like nipping into a small gap in the middle lane to let you come steaming through, when many would've just made you slow down and wait
for a big gap.
all is not lost.
quote:
Originally posted by colibriman
espeeeeeeecially not pulling over...
I sure know about your hate for this colin
What about folk pulling out infront of you when you are towing at 60mph
1. Using front Fog lights.
2. Motorway overtakers that have to pull in less then 2 yards in front of you and then go slower than you were going before they passed.
3. Idiots that have to overtake just so they can turn off in front of you, usually to the right, forcing you to stop.
4. Sliproad lunatics. The idiots that have to go from sliproad to outside lane in one movement, usually forcing every other vehicle to swerve or
brake.
5. Juggernaut drivers that think putting their indicator on makes all vehicles alongside vanish. Then sit 6 inches off your rear so you can read the
print on the oil filter behind their grill.
6. Any other driver that uses their vehicle as a weapon!
What about folk pulling out infront of you when you are towing at 60mph
well folk's...on the way back north after picking up Drew's mini (Drew driving his van, towing mini on my trailer), some muppet in a fiesta
van pulled out from a side road in front of us.....'oh dear' we shouted...van and trailer slowed really well....no drama...except for us
shouting and smelling brown stuff...
The one I hate most is people not pulling over. I was getting a lift home with my mate the other week and he did it for about 100 miles solid, I felt
like punching his lights out on behalf of all the other road users
Pete
Jon - all of them bar the last one!
The road sense has all gone a bit Pete Tong....
People who can't use lanes properly, forcing me to illegally 'undertake' or cross 2 lanes just to overtake them.
Many of them really don't know what they are doing wrong.
I vote for a retest every 5-10 years.
Out here we have all the above problems, plus a big problem with pedestrians crossing freeways.
Last night a mate of mine was going home at the legal speed of 120km per hour in a middle lane in his 5000km old all singing all dancing Subaru.
Pedestrian ran out from in front of a slow truck in the inside lane, in front of him. He didn't even have time to get his foot on the brake
before he hit her. So the pedestrian killed herself, and took out the entire front of the car, including radiator, intercooler, cam belt, windscreen,
dashboard etc. Not nice at all
Cheers
Fred WB
People turning right at a roundabout who approach in the left hand lane then force their way into the right hand of the roundabout lane because they
can't be bothered driving right round the outside and/or when there is only one exit lane from the roundabout blow their horn cause you've
cut them up.
There is one particular roundabout in Edinburgh that this happens all the time, its infuriating, I now drive left of centre in the proper lane as
close to the line as is safe, thus forcing these fekin twats to drive right round the outside, I will then leave them enough room, just enough mind,
to exit the roundabout, just thinking about this is making me mad.....
Time for a fag methinks!
Couldn't agree more with the regular retests. Every 5 years max, and the test should cover sensible driving bits, like not driving down the
middle lane when the inside lane is empty, instead of whether you can parallel park or not....
Cheers
Andy
Lack of turn signal use!!
All of the above, and people who drive 4x4s...Well those so called 4x4's that never see mud, and would be useless on it anyway. (Nothing against
those in real ones, i.e Landy's)
The reason?...most of them drive like they own the road. Same goes with the majority of BMW/Volvo drivers as well...
David
Don't know why it makes me so irrationally angry as I'm usually pretty chilled but the whole fog lights thing makes me want to kill!
Ok, so usually I just resort to full-beaming them for a few miles instead of actual murder but one of these days...
It just makes me think that if you're so unobservant you leave your fogs on should you really be trusted to propel 100Kg of metal at 70mph!
Coincidentally, I was having a conversation with a colleague just this morning about 5/10 year re-tests for everybody. Maybe when I'm PM...
Cheers,
James
My previous car was a Toyota Carina - you pressed a button to turn the fog lights on. When the ingnition was turned off the lights were cancelled so
they weren't on again the next time you started.
Why can't other manufacturers do the same? (electrically a very simple thing to arrange).
DJ
[Edited on 3/6/05 by David Jenkins]
volvo's
Hi David, there are a few cars out there that do that, I had a Mk4 Escort and an Orion that did it, also my Xantia does too.
not pulling over into a clear lane.
undertaking - yes it is illegal and yes i do it, but here's my defence.
the highway code says you should drive on the left and opvertake on the right. If everyone obeyed this rule you should be able to drive on the left
until you reach a vehicle to overtake! If a vehicle hasn't pulled in then it is them at fault for not having done so. Not had a chance to test
this theory out with a traffic cop (read not been pulled over yet 
)
Ned.
quote:
Originally posted by ned
Not had a chance to test this theory out with a traffic cop (read not been pulled over yet