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Thread: Driving Pet Peeves
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08-11-2019 07:18 PM #1111
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08-11-2019 09:45 PM #1112This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-11-2019 01:05 AM #1113
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Temporary traffic lights.
One, two, three cars going through after the lights goes red. I've regularly seen cars overtaking the first car to stop to go through the red light and sometimes it's not even the car immediately behind!Space to let
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09-11-2019 06:03 AM #1114
The taxi driver who sat at 30mph or just under all the way from down Milton rd East last night because you had a fare. Its a 40mph road...
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09-11-2019 07:00 AM #1115This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-11-2019 10:35 AM #1117This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-11-2019 12:31 PM #1118
Drivers that get irate at the driver in front for simply adhering to the laws of the road. Yesterday morning I was at the crossing at Elm Row and the green light allowing traffic to go from Montgomery Street onto Leith Walk turned to red. The car at the front stopped at the keep clear marking at Elm Row. The car behind started aggressively peeping their horn, overtook and drove through the red light at a relatively high speed, still peeping their horn as they passed.
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09-11-2019 01:34 PM #1119
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09-11-2019 02:02 PM #1120
Folk that beep at you for accidentally being in the wrong lane. I was just approaching a roundabout, on the run up I realised I was in the wrong lane. There was no one behind me in my lane so I indicated to go into the right lane. I didn’t at any point try to force my way in, I was preparing to wait for a gap as there were only about 5 cars in the other lane, but I got beeped at by the person behind me in the other lane.
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09-11-2019 07:33 PM #1121This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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09-11-2019 08:15 PM #1123This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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10-11-2019 10:42 AM #1124This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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11-11-2019 07:30 PM #1125This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
These days I seldom drive and I’ve not owned a car for the best part of a decade. A few weeks ago I flew into Bristol airport and had to drive a hired car to Chepstow, my phone was broken and I didn’t know where I was going (for the first part of the journey anyway) so I was going to need road signs on roads I’d never driven before.
When you’re out in the sticks, on roads you don’t know and they are 60mph speed limit roads, dipped headlights don’t give you that much vision. The roads were quiet, as it was quite late. There is a part of my brain that is triggered whenever a car is oncoming to dip my headlights but as I go into a built up area that part of my brain isn’t triggered so readily, so a couple of times I was the guy you mentioned without initially realising.
Sorry about this.
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11-11-2019 08:56 PM #1126This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Likewise, we have all had opposite lane drivers who didn’t remember they were on full beam until they were passing.
Most of the time people remember, but I have been guilty of the former and experienced the latter on more than a few occasions.
Country roads at night are particularly tricky, especially when you have lots of dips, peaks and troughs. Dipped headlights feel like full beam if you get them at the wrong moment. Combined with heavy cover overhead from trees and it is astonishing there aren’t more accidents.There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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11-11-2019 09:11 PM #1127
My most recent car has self levelling dipped headlights.
The only problem was the default ‘self level’ was so low I could only see about 10 yards in front of me.
This led to a wee google and the rather interesting fact that it’s dead easy (in this car at least) to adjust the headlight level. A wee turn or two of the screw on each soon sorted the problem and gave a much better view.
Now they are hardly facing the sky so won’t dazzle on coming cars but I do wonder if those that are driving cars where their dipped headlights are so useless on roads that don’t have streetlights that they need to put full beam on constant might benefit from the same small adjustment..
Obviously full beam is desirable when possible but since my little hack I really don’t need to use it nearly as much.
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15-11-2019 09:47 AM #1128
People who indicate right when exiting a roundabout. WTF?
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15-11-2019 12:07 PM #1129
The almost non-existent middle lane at the Old Dalkeith Road lights on the Cameron Toll roundabout (when coming from Dalkeith Road or Craigmillar).
I must have driven round that roundabout over a hundred times and I still have no idea what they were thinking putting it in there. It's practically begging for an accident.
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15-11-2019 12:36 PM #1130
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15-11-2019 04:09 PM #1131
Impatient pr!cks.
The A720 city bypass was heavily congested and slow moving westbound this afternoon around 1400hrs,,,, lost count of the number of drivers who exited then rejoined at each junction so as to use the clearer slip roads to gain a few spaces. Really petty driving and probably just added to the delays!
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15-11-2019 04:21 PM #1132This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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15-11-2019 04:55 PM #1133
When you come off the Western approach road at Westfield and the lanes merge opposite Wickes, some of the races to get prime spot are ridiculous.
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16-11-2019 03:45 PM #1134
Crazy overtaking.
I've just driven down to Glentress. Just as I was approaching Peeble a guy in a Range Rover swung right out into my path from the other side of the road to overtake a cyclist. I slammed my brakes on and swerved left, he pulled in inches past the cyclist and missed me by not much more.
There was absolutely nothing behind me and I hadn't seen anything in my mirror for miles. Would it have really hampered his journey to ease off for 3 or 4 seconds then overtake? Had I not been concentrating one or both of us would have been finishing our journey in a bodybag.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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19-11-2019 08:14 AM #1135
Approaching Sheriffhall roundabout on the A7 from the north, there's a choice of three lanes. There are five possible exits from the roundabout. Why does almost no-one, during their approach, indicate turning left if they intend to take the first exit, or indicate turning right if they intend to take the fifth exit? Sheriffhall's a bit of a mess but I don't understand why this basic behaviour seems to be suspended in the approach.
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19-11-2019 12:32 PM #1136
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A lack of signalling is annoying but why would signalling in these two situations be necessary?
As I remember it, I was told by my instructor 41 years ago, that the idea of signalling is to inform other road users of my intentions.
As you say, coming from the north and turning left to Millerhill would not affect any other traffic ditto turning right.
Sticking to one's lane and remaining in it means that indicating would cause confusion in a traffic light controlled roundabout.
Ps I live nearby and have observed drivers' behaviour here for many years. Originally there were no lights.
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19-11-2019 12:36 PM #1137
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19-11-2019 01:56 PM #1138This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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19-11-2019 03:16 PM #1139
The folk who only indicate after beginning to turn the wheel and change direction - it’s pointless now, I can see your car changing direction already, the indicator is to let people know what you’re going to do, not what you’re already doing! I can see the car changing direction, what would have been helpful is an indication of what you planned to do before you actually did it
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