Driving Pet Peeves

[Just Alf]

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I haven't fact checked this but I was told the other day that beyond a certain date, new cars will have speed limiters on them as well to help reduce speeding.

I immediately thought of how much more dull cinema car chases will become as the baddies get to the motorway in front of the polis and they both scoot along at a steady 70mph until one of them runs out of petrol.

The Steady Pace and the Furious.

The speed limiter is true... part of EU legislation. The way I read it there is a facility to over ride it, a bit like 'kick down' on an automatic. ...... they did also mention some 'bleeping!' though

[Jones28]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11jr44gexo

Gee who’d have thought it? Retailers were given an excuse to inflate prices and very surprisingly margins have been kept higher than they should be.

[Jim44]

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11jr44gexo

Gee who’d have thought it? Retailers were given an excuse to inflate prices and very surprisingly margins have been kept higher than they should be.

It doesn’t just apply to fuel. During the bad times prices of everything soared, steadied and should have steadily reduced but, for the most part, have stayed the same or even increased.

[speedy_gonzales]

Peeving at myself for not saying anything at the time, but I was driving around a Lidl car park this lunchtime when a small car went straight across the front of me ignoring all road markings and parking bays. Looked like a mum out with her teenage daughter driving (umpteen L plates) and both of them give me a filthy stare like I was in the wrong.
I was bewildered at the time but with hindsight I wish I'd politely pointed out that driving like that would make passing her test nigh impossible.

[J-C]

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Peeving at myself for not saying anything at the time, but I was driving around a Lidl car park this lunchtime when a small car went straight across the front of me ignoring all road markings and parking bays. Looked like a mum out with her teenage daughter driving (umpteen L plates) and both of them give me a filthy stare like I was in the wrong.
I was bewildered at the time but with hindsight I wish I'd politely pointed out that driving like that would make passing her test nigh impossible.

Seems to be a thing to allow learners to practice in these car parks, Lidl and Aldi should tell them to get knotted.

[overdrive]

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Peeving at myself for not saying anything at the time, but I was driving around a Lidl car park this lunchtime when a small car went straight across the front of me ignoring all road markings and parking bays. Looked like a mum out with her teenage daughter driving (umpteen L plates) and both of them give me a filthy stare like I was in the wrong.
I was bewildered at the time but with hindsight I wish I'd politely pointed out that driving like that would make passing her test nigh impossible.

I don’t think it is just a learner thing. It seems folk just ignore road markings in supermarket car parks these days.

The Lidl/McDonalds car park in Corstorphine has a lane (nearest the road/Tesco) that then curves round and meets the middle lane of parking. The road markings clearly indicate that you are meant to give way if you are coming from that third lane - hardly anyone does given the amount of times I’ve had to slam on the brakes.

Another peeve in that car park is that you can be stuck for ages if you park in the row of parking nearest Lidl due to the queues for the drive through at McDonalds

[Scouse Hibee]

The amount of idiots that zoom down the outside of you when you indicate and are waiting to get into the box to turn right into Duart Crescent from the Drumbrae. They are turning right further on into Drumbrae Drive but just can’t ****** wait or follow the road markings! 😡

[Pretty Boy]

People who park on the zig zag lines around schools, speed near schools or double park near schools.

The road outside my bairns school has been an accident waiting to happen for years and sure enough this morning someone unsighted trying to get round a double parked car clipped a child. Thankfully they are ok but it just shows the potential effects of such entitled selfishness. The school have repeatedly pleaded with parents to park elsewhere or walk to school but it's the same faces every day stacked up right at the gates so they don't have the inconvenience of walking a couple of hundred yards to make things safer for everyone.

The road has been supposed to be getting closed to cars at the times the 2 schools on site go in and out for months but of course the local car lobby who think they are entitled to drive anywhere regardless of obvious safety issues are kicking up a fuss so the decision keeps getting kicked down the road.

[Smartie]

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People who park on the zig zag lines around schools, speed near schools or double park near schools.

The road outside my bairns school has been an accident waiting to happen for years and sure enough this morning someone unsighted trying to get round a double parked car clipped a child. Thankfully they are ok but it just shows the potential effects of such entitled selfishness. The school have repeatedly pleaded with parents to park elsewhere or walk to school but it's the same faces every day stacked up right at the gates so they don't have the inconvenience of walking a couple of hundred yards to make things safer for everyone.

The road has been supposed to be getting closed to cars at the times the 2 schools on site go in and out for months but of course the local car lobby who think they are entitled to drive anywhere regardless of obvious safety issues are kicking up a fuss so the decision keeps getting kicked down the road.

I mean, I'm not going to go arguing that a child getting knocked down is a good thing, but an accident like this (fortunately not a serious one) is exactly the sort of thing that can drive through necessary change.

[McD]

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People who park on the zig zag lines around schools, speed near schools or double park near schools.

The road outside my bairns school has been an accident waiting to happen for years and sure enough this morning someone unsighted trying to get round a double parked car clipped a child. Thankfully they are ok but it just shows the potential effects of such entitled selfishness. The school have repeatedly pleaded with parents to park elsewhere or walk to school but it's the same faces every day stacked up right at the gates so they don't have the inconvenience of walking a couple of hundred yards to make things safer for everyone.

The road has been supposed to be getting closed to cars at the times the 2 schools on site go in and out for months but of course the local car lobby who think they are entitled to drive anywhere regardless of obvious safety issues are kicking up a fuss so the decision keeps getting kicked down the road.

Totally agree, no need for it at all


Where my wee one is at nursery/school there’s a public carpark right next to it, that services the school and a handful of wee shops behind the carpark, there’s a wee lane that leads into the car park and the back of the shops slightly further up the hill.

The amount of parents who don’t bother to go into the carpark (even when it’s empty) and just park in the lane, causing obstructions to traffic trying to get in and out, making it harder to see and harder to get out/in the carpark because of the angles needed with a tight entrance. Just laziness and ‘I’m more important than you’ attitudes

[AltheHibby]

Ask the police to attend unannounced one morning. They do that in South Wales when they can.

[AltheHibby]

Maybe not a driving peeve, but a parking one. Since I had my hedge trimmed the little feathered *******s have made me wash my car every day!

[Moulin Yarns]

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Maybe not a driving peeve, but a parking one. Since I had my hedge trimmed the little feathered *******s have made me wash my car every day!

Shouldn't have cut the hedge whilst the birds were nesting then 🤣

[AltheHibby]

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Shouldn't have cut the hedge whilst the birds were nesting then 🤣

That would have been helpful at the start of the week!

[Scouse Hibee]

Not a peeve for me but maybe for some. Following the resurfacing of the Gyle Centre car park they are now going to enforce the 4 hour parking limit which they never really bothered about before. ANPR cameras now live.

[silverhibee]

Private hire cars, wtf, fell out with a driver this morning on Corstorphine road, he just came to a halt at Subway with no indicators on and started typing something into his phone, I’m now starting to question if some of these drivers have a driving license.

[overdrive]

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Private hire cars, wtf, fell out with a driver this morning on Corstorphine road, he just came to a halt at Subway with no indicators on and started typing something into his phone, I’m now starting to question if some of these drivers have a driving license.

I’ve been suspicious a few times with Uber that the driver that turns up isn’t actually the driver the app says it is.

[Pretty Boy]

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Private hire cars, wtf, fell out with a driver this morning on Corstorphine road, he just came to a halt at Subway with no indicators on and started typing something into his phone, I’m now starting to question if some of these drivers have a driving license.

I was cycling down a one way street the other day and a private hire was reversing the wrong way up it.

He was totally oblivious to my presence and when I gave him a mouthful he stated 'I'm reversing and I have my hazards on'.

Aye I think that's covered in the highway code right enough. Selfish clown.

[J-C]

PHC do as they please and the council/police do nothing.

[matty_f]

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Not a peeve for me but maybe for some. Following the resurfacing of the Gyle Centre car park they are now going to enforce the 4 hour parking limit which they never really bothered about before. ANPR cameras now live.

That's handy to know, would sometimes park there for work in Edinburgh Park over the road, so I'll just train it in instead if I can't get parked at work.

[Keith_M]

On the subject of bad drivers...


I was crossing a street at a pedestrian crossing in Munich when a car, driver clearly oblivious to the red light until the last second, slammed on his brakes, skidded through the crossing and stopped at the other side. Fortunately I'd seen him just in time and had only put one foot onto the crossing.

The crossing light still being green, I then proceeded to cross the road... at which point he slammed his car into reverse and then shot backward through the lights, just missing me for a second time.

I must admit to being a tad annoyed by that time and banged my fist on his car door.... at which point he rolled down his window and started screaming at me about damaging his vehicle!

[Pretty Boy]

Those guys with cars like Subaru with big spoilers on them and modified so the engine absolutely roars.

There was a guy in a supermarket car park the other day in one of those in the regulation metallic blue. Absolutely roared away at about 50mph in a tight car park and done this pathetic one handed steering motion as he tore right across the mini roundabout. He was hanging out the window and had that half sneer on his face desperately hoping everyone saw him.

Guy was 45 if he was a day and you just know he thought everyone looking at him thought he was so cool. In reality everyone was just thinking 'what a total gimp'. It was utterly tragic.

[J-C]

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Those guys with cars like Subaru with big spoilers on them and modified so the engine absolutely roars.

There was a guy in a supermarket car park the other day in one of those in the regulation metallic blue. Absolutely roared away at about 50mph in a tight car park and done this pathetic one handed steering motion as he tore right across the mini roundabout. He was hanging out the window and had that half sneer on his face desperately hoping everyone saw him.

Guy was 45 if he was a day and you just know he thought everyone looking at him thought he was so cool. In reality everyone was just thinking 'what a total gimp'. It was utterly tragic.

A few years ago I drove a big 2 lr Audi, this young guy in a super up Fiesta, ir similar pulled up beside me at the lights and started revving up. Lights went green and he was off, 6 or so seconds later I flew past him and smiled, erse.

[hibee_girl]

They’ve made the pavement corners at Albion Road bigger, even tighter to get round now.

[Pedantic_Hibee]

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Those guys with cars like Subaru with big spoilers on them and modified so the engine absolutely roars.

There was a guy in a supermarket car park the other day in one of those in the regulation metallic blue. Absolutely roared away at about 50mph in a tight car park and done this pathetic one handed steering motion as he tore right across the mini roundabout. He was hanging out the window and had that half sneer on his face desperately hoping everyone saw him.

Guy was 45 if he was a day and you just know he thought everyone looking at him thought he was so cool. In reality everyone was just thinking 'what a total gimp'. It was utterly tragic.

I literally point and laugh out loud in the direction of any car that makes that noise in the hope the driver sees me and starts to feel just a little bit silly.

[overdrive]

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They’ve made the pavement corners at Albion Road bigger, even tighter to get round now.

Ah, what a nice parting gift from Scott Arthur.

[Northernhibee]

People who perform u-turns on mini roundabouts. Often need a second cut and there’s no way for other drivers to anticipate what they’re doing, making it dangerous.

[HibbyDave]

POT HOLES!!!!!

If you have time, please contact local MP and try to get pressure on them to push for urgent repairs.

[marinello59]

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POT HOLES!!!!!

If you have time, please contact local MP and try to get pressure on them to push for urgent repairs.

Don’t you mean MSP?

[HibbyDave]

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Don’t you mean MSP?

Yep.

Contact anyone you think can put pressure on for improvements.