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If people want to drive foe recreational purposes then fine but they should still have a bit road awareness and realise slamming their brakes on at a slight turn in the road is dangerous.
My post wasn't even really aimed at people who want to go out for a drive and look at the scenery. It's people who are excessively nervous and tentative on a decent road in near perfect driving conditions.
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Thread: Driving Pet Peeves
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26-07-2021 06:10 AM #2131
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26-07-2021 08:44 AM #2132
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Got stuck behind a few of them recently and it was infuriating.
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26-07-2021 09:00 AM #2133
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At times like that the basis of the horror film The Purge becomes appealing.
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26-07-2021 09:02 AM #2134This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The worst area I encounter it regularly is when exiting Sherrifhall Roundabout onto the A6106 towards For Kinnaird. The road goes from 70 on the bypass to 60 on the A6106 itself, slows to 40 as you approach the roundabout at Newton Village, drops to 30 almost immediately after the roundabout and stays that way through the village, back up to 60 after leaving the village then drops to 30 again just before the sharp corner that brings you round to meet The Wisp. It's almost an every day occurrence to be behind someone who sits at 45mph throughout the whole section apart from the obligatory violent braking when they spot the speed camera.
It's utterly bizarre behaviour.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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26-07-2021 03:03 PM #2137
People who don't use cruise control on major roads. Their speed fluctuating from 45 to 60 all the time.
There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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26-07-2021 05:05 PM #2141This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I absolute love the ACC on motorway journeys.
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26-07-2021 05:10 PM #2142This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As for speed variations, it definitely depends on the engine size.
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26-07-2021 05:18 PM #2143This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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26-07-2021 05:35 PM #2144
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That's a new one to me, never heard of that before.
What size of engine would this happen to ?
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26-07-2021 05:57 PM #2145This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Out of interest I tried the same road in my wife's car (kangoo 1.5 dci, 90bhp) which has exactly the same engine, with exactly the same result.
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26-07-2021 08:55 PM #2148
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It is useful on long motorway treks but I do lose the feel of the car
and it can lead to loss of attention.
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26-07-2021 09:01 PM #2149This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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27-07-2021 08:38 PM #2152
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The other one you see is when you pull out to overtake and the car you were easily going past all of a sudden speeds up leaving you stranded in the outside lane and pulling back in only to then “catch up” again and go through the same rigmarole.
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27-07-2021 09:02 PM #2153This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
United we stand here....
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28-07-2021 08:39 PM #2154
This is a very specific driving pet peeve but there's someone who occasionally comes into my street to see family of theirs - the car itself is an unremarkable chelsea tractor, big range rover, private number plate - it sort of suggests the driver has a bob or two and yet, lately, the driver's rear end is running lower than the passenger's rear end. It seems to have been fixed but it's now running about with the hazards on permanently.
So, folk whose motor is ****ed but say "**** it, I'm above fixing it. let other folk try to determine which way I'm turning - if at all!"
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29-07-2021 07:54 AM #2155
Speed bumps that aren’t properly marked so you often don’t realise it’s there before it’s too late.
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29-07-2021 08:09 AM #2156
It's been mentioned before but an incident yesterday brought it to mind again.
Lane discipline at roundabouts
Leaving Inverness heading towards Aberdeen at the Longman roundabout and the lanes are well signposted on approach and the lanes newly painted on the road. Inside me is a black seat leon with cracked windscreen at the lights. Lights change and we move off, Aberdeen turn off is 3rd exit, following the lanes this arse starts Drifting into the lane I'm in and gives a blast of the horn at the second exit, I hold my position and he has to drop back. I exit the roundabout onto the dual carriageway, check behind me and he is nowhere to be seen. Did he turn off at the 2nd exit or continue round to go back into Inverness? I've no idea.
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29-07-2021 08:42 AM #2157This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Hit one of those a few years back on my bike and had a couple of seconds flight time before crash landing and skidding to a halt about 25m from my bike. Absolutely lethal when due to dirt on the road they are undistinguishable in colour from the road itself.
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05-08-2021 10:24 PM #2158
The duck of a taxi driver who took the opportunity to do a u turn on the lights from Charlotte Square to Princes St to go back to Charlotte Square, very quickly followed by the driver who raced 3 cars to the front of the lane closed 50 yds on the Western Approach road about 3 minutes later.
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