and that goddamn hook turn use to get me all the time, not that there is anything wrong with it. its just when the victorians do it in nsw its dangerous
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jenz58 wrote:Flying VW wrote:barls wrote:i dont know if any one else has noticed that most ford, holden and 4wd drivers have become the worst drivers on the highway.
Maybe they are a Majority and Vw drivers are a minority so thats why everyone is shitting you.
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Hi
The F3, F4 & M5 have a lot in common, that's why they call the central coast, "Mount Druit on sea" or Mount Druit with seaguls
This is a list I made.
Things that piss me off while driving
1) People who are unable to merge.
2) Drivers who park near the end of a parking zone and leave ½ - ¾ s of a space vacant between them and the parking sign, they are in affect using almost two car spaces.
3) Fog lights, marshals should be equipped with hammers to smash offending fog lights when they are not being used at the correct time, like when its foggy.
4) Dogs on drivers laps, should be instant loss of license, they obviously think that having air blown over their pets face is more important than driving, this is easily spotted, just follow someone doing this and see how badly they negotiate roundabouts etc.
5) People stopping on service station aprons, how often do you see someone pull into a service station apron or side street and stop, leaving the rear of their car hanging out, they then have a look around before proceeding, meanwhile everyone behind them has to stop suddenly or change lanes.
6) Roundabouts, some people just don’t understand the physics of cars on the other side of the roundabout, they cant possibly run into them when they are on the other side of the round about, so why stop and wait for them? The law says to give way to cars already on the roundabout, but if you can make your turn on the roundabout without causing the other driver any problems, just go!
7) M5 off ramps at Kingsgrove and Bexley Roads, what engineering giant decided the off ramps would come off to these two roads from the right hand lanes? What this causes is people wishing to leave the M5 at these off ramps to dawdle along in overtaking lane well before the off ramp so that they can be sure to make their exit without having to change lanes at the last minute, this is despite laws and signs saying “keep left unless overtaking”.
8) People who don’t obey “keep left unless overtaking” signs.
9) People who pull out from a side street, service station etc and don’t accelerate to the speed of the traffic.
10) Red filter arrows, why can’t you turn if the road is clear and it’s safe to do so.
11) Drivers while looking for an address dawdle along holding up traffic behind them, they should pull over and stop, the minute another car is behind them and then when the road behind them is clear resume their search.
12) It is my belief that it is everyone’s responsibility when driving that they should not make any other driver take any evasive action as a result of their actions while driving, apart from slowing or braking for traffic.
Heres my current hate ,People who pull up hard for parking spots, like its life or death!
Driving is following ...Like a bank queue...or the supermarket line, You Keep Up, you dont push in and if you bump trolley's say sorry......
How can some people, be so self important, that they can leap frog through traffic, pushing in and causing stress and bother to others ?
If they behaved like this at the footy queue ???
Or at theBar?
With distinctive vehicles like Ours, we have to pull our heads in. Some one you pissed off will see it parked one day, and give it a kicking
"Its a Jungle out there"
Keeping it real !
been there my bug got a kicking when i live in navy accomidation. but i got them i happened to catch them in the act and i have a cross pain hammer under the front seat. his now has speed holes in the bonnet. hehe
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1302Steve wrote:9) People who pull out from a side street, service station etc and don’t accelerate to the speed of the traffic.
You know I always used to think (before I got a kombi) that every car would respond in the same way when you put the pedal to the floor, and each car would accelerate in roughly the same time. This was before I started to drive a crappy old Toyota Tarago and now my kombi (which I love driving, I might add).
I thought as VW drivers you would all have some understanding of this. Not all cars respond the same way. I remember times when I would sit in my Tarago and vocally urge my car up to the speed limit just so the person behind me would get off my ass. Some cars just do not have the grunt or power to do this (as I found out).
You all talk about tolerance on the road. I mean no offense by this (especially to you 1302Steve, just using your comment as an example) but you should all understand, when it comes to a speed issue, that some cars just cannot physically do it! And its not the driver, its the car!
(I'm not referring to driving in right lanes or whatever, just people pulling out and being slow).
You can't justify being angry at someone because their car is so old and their engine has no grunt to get to the speed limit in your time frame (and I'm saying this as a person who used to get really pissed off at slow drivers).
Just my $0.02
[Edited on 22-7-2004 by dodge]
:beer Here's to dodge!
If you have a "slower" car, you just need to allow more time/room before you pull into traffic if you don't want to hold up the oncoming traffic.
I've had d1ckheads pull onto the highway in front of me with such little room that it was safer to overtake them on the painted median strip than to try and brake to avoid a collision.
Not every person, car or situation is the same, but we should all be tolerant of other people.
As Steve C said:
It is my belief that it is everyone’s responsibility when driving that they should not make any other driver take any evasive action as a result of their actions while driving, apart from slowing or braking for traffic.
VW car, VW engine ...... keepin it "real"
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just came up with one more. its that some people dont give a wave when you let them in. if ive taken the time to be nice at least acknowledge it.
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
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Hi
Dodge, in your case just wait for a bigger gap, my 1st car was 40hp bug so I know all about slow cars, my problem is with cars that do have the power but dont accelerate to the speed limit quickly. 4WDs are also bad for this. Barls I bet you wish you had a replay or undo button, but I too would like to hit an undo button when someone fails to acknowledge my courtesy.
1302Steve
yeah its just plain rude. i mean i try to do the right thing most of the time but this just agrivates me. its almost as bad as parking lots. ok some one wants to wait for my spot fine at least give me enough room to get out of it. i think im just angry today or have a short fuse.
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I love it when I pull up at the lights (in the left lane) and everyone else queues up in the right lane, so I am the only person in the left. When the lights go green, quite often I am faster than the other lane! haha suckers!
I have noticed that people have problems with speed. Some people will go 70 in a 60 zone, but when it changes to 80 they wont go over 75. Some people will not go over 95 on single lane each way 2 way roads, but when there are two lanes on our side they will go 105-110, then back to 95 when the overtaking lane ends.
A lot of people are scared of driving in the left lane. The left lane is often the fastest, as the others are congested. Hehe Geelong freeway, start of last year I drove at 103km/h melbourne-geelong, only had to change lanes once to overtake a slow car (90) that was doing the right thing, all the other slow cars were in the centre lane. (I know that overtaking on the left is illegal, but its stupid not to use the lane if people refuse to move over)
I would like to have some large bazookas attached to the front of my car and when people piss me off I would like to just launch them off the road and out of the way !!
I hate people that drive slow and then speed up when you try to overtake.
:vader
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“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
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The traffic in Rockhampton annoys me!! Reading your southern woes makes me feel better:
In traffic no one comes near my car because ot the various parts threatening to fall off, and all the oil spraying every where.:thumb
THe MC Bat Commander's motto: "Never do now, what you could do for 24 hours straight, all night, the night before."
I have one nice freeway on ramp near here (Unanderra) that starts out 1 lane and opens up into 2. Its a 270 degree turn. Cars will do anything to get in front before the ramp. They will sit behind you in the left hand lane, realise the onramp is coming, swerve across to the right hand lane, accelerate to 100 to overtake the middle lane car, dive straight back to the left where they are in front of the old kombi for the onramp. My way to get at them is to hook into the corner hard, sit right up their clacker till it opens into 2 lanes, lay the kombi on a 45 degree angle and drive around the outside of them. As I settle down to 110kmh they fly past without looking and dive in front to settle down at 100.
I hate how its too slow to sit behind a kombi doing 10 kays over so they overtake to do the speed limit. Actually I get that when driving any car. I hate how sitting behind me at 110kmh is too slow, but sitting in front doing 100 is OK. Too many wankers in this country.
That is the best part of turbo kombis. The wankers move over to overtake 1 km before a hill, they get up beside you before they run out of steam, you wave at them to get in front but of course they they cant, so you give them the finger and floor it. Priceless.
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
i ahve alot of pet hates, most of them very similar to steve's. But a big one are cars that join a road and don't accelerate. I was coming back form the buggy day, with the pajero, and trailer with car and sapres on. so was itting in the left lane of the 2 lane highway doing my 80km/hr. but then this di$$head of a merc driver out on a sunday drive pulls out and only does 60 in the 100 zone. I had the tralier brakes locked up and teh car just about to end ended up only pulling up 1m from his tai, tehn they look around with this balnk look!!!!! what did they think that my 4t or so of car and trailer would be able to stop just like that?
I have no sympathy for my car, only the wallet that pays for it!
Go hard or go home!!!!
Another pet hate is drivers who dont look behind them when cornering, you usually see them turning left from the middle of two lanes of traffic holding everybody up. Then there is the twits who try to pas trucks on the inside of a round-a-bout, those who carreer across both lanes when driving straight through a round-a-bout. It is amazing what a little bit of thought would achieve with the majority of these drivers!
The solution to the fixing the Commie, Falcon and 4wd owners is to have a car that seriously out performs there vehicle. Read European performance vehicle, withone of these you will really understand how crappy most modern Aussie vehicles are. Even most standard beetles will keep up with the modern cars to 40 or 50 Kph, this can be very pleasurable when dragging the off at every set of lights.
Another pet hate is small tin cars which dart and weave through traffic, just to get one car a head of you at the next set of lights. The easiest way to cure this type of driving behaviour would be to froce these drivers to cruise around town in a small under powered truck or van.
[Edited on 26-7-2004 by Freddie Fender]
Provisional drivers get on my nerves quite a lot (even though I am one). A lot of people on their red Ps that I encounter are very aggressive drivers. So often they seem to be dodging and weaving in amongst traffic, following too closely, driving way too quickly in low speed areas and just generally getting on my nerves.
I think a lot of people fail to realise just how serious driving is. It may be enjoyable and give them a sense of freedom, but they're still operating machines which have the power to kill and do require a lot of skill to operate correctly and safely. It sometimes scares me that in the time it takes me too look down at the radio and change the station, something could have happened in front of me which could lead to a horrific accident.
I agree with with most of the comments on here.. I drive a 3 cylinder charade with green p plates which is automatically assumed to be slow. though it moves along quite nicely due to a reasonable power to weight ratio. I find commodores and falcons to be the main offenders but I would assume this has more to do with the amount of cars sold and there fleet usage.
Not trying to tread on any toes here but I find females in commodores to be the worst offenders. You can't travel infront of them.. they have to over take or sit right next to you if it's dual lane. (dangerous)
I live 50 k's from my girlfriends place and do alot of commuting from liverpool to penrith. Travelling via the northern rd is the usual route. And the new overtaking lanes that have just been finished seam to baffle the locals..
I have one month on my p's left and can't wait as it's basically a sign that says "Abuse me please i like it" when your in a smallish car.
I'd like to see retesting of drivers to become mandatory. The amount of old people I see driving and having minor accidents that arn't reported is quite scary. Also a more thorough eye sight test that includes night vision.. some people really go blind at night.
And further more.. I'd like to see a dob in a dickhead program.. citizens reporting idiots into the police when your tally hits a certain point you get fined (impossible to administor and to police but a nice idea i thought)
DOm.
Dob in a dickhead! I love it.
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
sounds like a good idea all in favour
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
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any more gripes out there about the way others drive
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
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vote 1 Spoon!
doesn't that have a nice ring to it :P
why not you cant do any worse than whos already in there😉😉
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
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i cannot believe that no one has mentioned motorcycles.
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.” Bill Hicks
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motorcycles
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
cyclists who go through red traffic lights... seem to think they don't have to obey the road rules...
people who continuously beep me when going up steep hills...doesn't seem to matter if my 36 horsie is managing to do the speed limit or not...I do drive in the left (slow) lane for a reason 🙂
People who overtake me then move back into the lane very close and slam on their brakes...Heidi may drive slow but she don't stop fast!!
I guess its the basic attitude of drivers...they just want to get to the destination and get there fast...
Heidi - 1960 White Beetle
'65 Kiwi Ghia
Don't forget the tools that turn left from the right hand lane which is designated as no turn left.
