Driving Pet Peeves

[matty_f]

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Ah yes.....drivers who simply aren't concentrating.....like the guy who drove along Joppa in front of me yesterday at barely 20 in the 30 limit then decided to speed up to 30 when he got to the 20 stretch at Porty.

I have some sympathy for that driver (not much, but some) - I live in Dunfermline so an nowhere near as familiar with e Edinburgh roads as I used to be. Some of the roads are very hard to tell if it's 20 or 30 as a limit.

[lapsedhibee]

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I have some sympathy for that driver (not much, but some) - I live in Dunfermline so an nowhere near as familiar with e Edinburgh roads as I used to be. Some of the roads are very hard to tell if it's 20 or 30 as a limit.

Best just to stick to 30 at all times, to avoid annoying local drivers.

[Hiber-nation]

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I have some sympathy for that driver (not much, but some) - I live in Dunfermline so an nowhere near as familiar with e Edinburgh roads as I used to be. Some of the roads are very hard to tell if it's 20 or 30 as a limit.

I know what you mean and it happens to me in some areas of Edinburgh. But the 30 limit is a wide road with no houses or shops on one side. The 20 is narrower in an urban area full of shops and houses...Porty High Street. I just assume these folk are jambos anyway

[Hiber-nation]

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Best just to stick to 30 at all times, to avoid annoying local drivers.

[matty_f]

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I know what you mean and it happens to me in some areas of Edinburgh. But the 30 limit is a wide road with no houses or shops on one side. The 20 is narrower in an urban area full of shops and houses...Porty High Street. I just assume these folk are jambos anyway

To be fair, you're right about that road - does it not go from a 40 to 30 to 20?

[lord bunberry]

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To be fair, you're right about that road - does it not go from a 40 to 30 to 20?

It used to 40, but they scraped that a while ago.

[matty_f]

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It used to 40, but they scraped that a while ago.

[snooky]

The City Bypass - it's a carpark today if you're heading west.

[Hermit Crab]

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The City Bypass - it's a carpark today if you're heading west.

Between Millerhill and Sherriff Hall westbound is always murder during the day.

[Alfiembra]

I always seem to get caught in traffic jams when I need to fill up with fuel and start to get stressed out about wondering where the nearest filling station is and if I have enough fuel to get there.....My bad

[Hermit Crab]

5hIte bags the use bus lanes during the prohibited times and then try to push in further up the queue of traffic!

[McD]

Folk who sit at 50 on a motorway, forcing you to slow down, which then makes it difficult to move into much faster moving traffic in the outside lane. I know the speed limit is a max, not a target, but on a nice sunny day there’s no need to be going that slowly, it’s dangerous.

[Pretty Boy]

Drivers creeping about with no lights at all on this morning when visibility was very poor.

[Pete]

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There's no 50/50 it is either safe to let a bus out or is isn't. If it's not you shouldn't have to suffer some erse pulling out and causing you to take evasive action.

In the world of motor insurance there most definitely is, especially when buses are involved.

Knock for knock isn't just something that Liverpudlians do to opposing teams buses. ;-)

[Killiehibbie]

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Folk who sit at 50 on a motorway, forcing you to slow down, which then makes it difficult to move into much faster moving traffic in the outside lane. I know the speed limit is a max, not a target, but on a nice sunny day there’s no need to be going that slowly, it’s dangerous.

Maybe they're just heeding advice and driving economically. Get your indicator on early, get out and pass them. I can get an extra 100 miles per tank of fuel by sitting at 60 instead of 70 up and down the motorway.

[snooky]

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Maybe they're just heeding advice and driving economically. Get your indicator on early, get out and pass them. I can get an extra 100 miles per tank of fuel by sitting at 60 instead of 70 up and down the motorway.

You save money, yes but you're spending your time in traffic when you could already be relaxing or having fun at your destination

[Moulin Yarns]

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You save money, yes but you're spending your time in traffic when you could already be relaxing or having fun at your destination

The difference is likely to be minutes, maybe just enough time to get the kettle on. All depends on the distance, as an example when the A9 is fully dualled you will save 18 minutes on the journey to Inverness from Edinburgh.

http://transformscotland.org.uk/blog...wer-than-road/

[Killiehibbie]

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You save money, yes but you're spending your time in traffic when you could already be relaxing or having fun at your destination

Driving to and from work is the most relaxing part of my day and for a couple of minutes each way could be worth the price of my season ticket

[snooky]

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Driving to and from work is the most relaxing part of my day and for a couple of minutes each way could be worth the price of my season ticket

Try the City Bypass, KH - it's a game changer

My post was tongue-in-cheek, GF.
I do a 40 mile trip weekly. If I drive normally, it takes 45min. If I drive fast, it takes three quarters of an hour. Go figure

[Killiehibbie]

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Try the City Bypass - it's a game changer

Get on the backshift.
Bypass is bad enough on Sunday, I would really hate to be on it at peak times during the week

[Alfiembra]

Adaptive Cruise Control

Just recently change my car and new one has this, it's "driving" me nuts.
It slows you down if you are catching up on a vehicle in front of you and maintains a safe distance until they move out of the way, fine but the gap it leaves others jump in to the space and it sees a closer obstuction and slows you down even further. Can't see a way of disabling the adaptive bit and just have cruise control on it's own.

[pollution]

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Try the City Bypass, KH - it's a game changer

My post was tongue-in-cheek, GF.
I do a 40 mile trip weekly. If I drive normally, it takes 45min. If I drive fast, it takes three quarters of an hour. Go figure

That's less than 1mph. Unbelievable!

[snooky]

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That's less than 1mph. Unbelievable!

40 miles in one hour therefore 40 divided by 0.75 (hrs) = 53mph average.

[Hibrandenburg]

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Adaptive Cruise Control

Just recently change my car and new one has this, it's "driving" me nuts.
It slows you down if you are catching up on a vehicle in front of you and maintains a safe distance until they move out of the way, fine but the gap it leaves others jump in to the space and it sees a closer obstuction and slows you down even further. Can't see a way of disabling the adaptive bit and just have cruise control on it's own.

You need adaptive adaptive cruise control where you can set the distance between you and the car in front.

FWIW I've got it and it's great for caravaning. I just find myself a truck travelling at 110kmh and slip in behind it, cruise control and lane correction does everything else.

[pollution]

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40 miles in one hour therefore 40 divided by 0.75 (hrs) = 53mph average.

I'm on the wind up. You said weekly, ie once a week!

[snooky]

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I'm on the wind up. You said weekly, ie once a week!

Aye, I realised that just after I posted.

[lapsedhibee]

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I do a 40 mile trip weekly. If I drive normally, it takes 45min. If I drive fast, it takes three quarters of an hour. Go figure

I figure you normally drive fast.

[calumhibee1]

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5hIte bags the use bus lanes during the prohibited times and then try to push in further up the queue of traffic!

By the same token, folk that don’t use bus lanes when they can. I drive in the same bus lane every Saturday morning, which isn’t an operating bus lane at the time and the amount of times drivers in the right hand lane just start drifting across into the bus lane when it ends without even looking and almost hitting you is ridiculous. Then when you hammer the horn to stop them crashing into you they look at you as if you’re in the wrong.

[Scouse Hibee]

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By the same token, folk that don’t use bus lanes when they can. I drive in the same bus lane every Saturday morning, which isn’t an operating bus lane at the time and the amount of times drivers in the right hand lane just start drifting across into the bus lane when it ends without even looking and almost hitting you is ridiculous. Then when you hammer the horn to stop them crashing into you they look at you as if you’re in the wrong.

Even worse is the idiots that don't use them when they are allowed to and turn left from the outside lane cutting right across your path.

[Future17]

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Even worse is the idiots that don't use them when they are allowed to and turn left from the outside lane cutting right across your path.

Is that not what he said? Or am I missing something? :-)