Bad Driving thread

A lot of the time the left lanes are horribly damaged by trucks in DBN, making people drive in the right lane only to pass left or flip off/brake-check the GP plate/bmw/audi behind you sitting on your tail.
 
stroebs said:
I wish it were a law enforced here. Unfortunately a large majority of the "right lane hoggers" are self-righteous individuals traveling at exactly or slightly below the speed limit, regardless of the speed or presence of cars to their left. They are the ones who will argue that it is their right to be there and it is their job to enforce the law and prevent you from going faster than them.

Perhaps it's our broken K53 system that caused this as K53 does not have any requirement to drive on a highway or learn highway etiquette as part of learning or the test itself. I've often seen cars in the right lane, with absolutely no cars in the left lane, move over for me when I come up behind them, only to move back into the right lane once I've passed. It's absurd.
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Because people are morons, nothing more, nothing less.
 
stroebs said:
Perhaps it's our broken K53 system that caused this as K53 does not have any requirement to drive on a highway or learn highway etiquette as part of learning or the test itself. I've often seen cars in the right lane, with absolutely no cars in the left lane, move over for me when I come up behind them, only to move back into the right lane once I've passed. It's absurd.
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There actually is a part in the K53 that states you should not hog the fast lane even if you are driving according to the speed limit
 
Rouxenator said:
Even above the speed limit I stick to the left where possible. Just makes sense, the right is only there for overtaking.
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If there was just one thing I could force into Capetonian drivers' brains it would be this.
 
phoenix99 said:
If there was just one thing I could force into Capetonian drivers' brains it would be this.
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If you look at some of those crazy fast autobahn videos, that is the rule of the road - it is what makes the unrestricted sections of the autobahn work.
 
phoenix99 said:
If there was just one thing I could force into Capetonian drivers' brains it would be this.
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That, and to put their F'ing lights on when it's still dark. Almost drove into a Captur (or some other small POS Renault) coming around a corner and there this idiot was, sitting in the right lane at 60km/h in an 80 zone with no lights. Saw him just in time. Luckily I was only driving about 80 myself otherwise I would have gone right into him.
 
I see many of them on my early morning commute to work, before 7 when it is still dark, completely oblivious. On the other extreme you get those rear fog light mofos...
 
Rouxenator said:
I see many of them on my early morning commute to work, before 7 when it is still dark, completely oblivious. On the other extreme you get those rear fog light mofos...
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As much as I hate those, at least I cannot miss them. It's these stupid fncks driving without lights that's just downright dangerous.
 
Rouxenator said:
If you look at some of those crazy fast autobahn videos, that is the rule of the road - it is what makes the unrestricted sections of the autobahn work.
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Even more than that, it's a hard rule that passing a vehicle on the right is forbidden unless in extraneous circumstances out of the driver's control. Both the person being passed and the person passing are liable for a traffic fine if this occurs.
 
Another thing they also have on the autobahn that would absolutely make a killing here is tailgate cameras. If you are not keeping a safe distance you get a moerse fine - which makes sense at the speed they are going. I just wish they could modify all our speed cameras to forget about speed and rather look out for tailgaters.
 
Rouxenator said:
Another thing they also have on the autobahn that would absolutely make a killing here is tailgate cameras. If you are not keeping a safe distance you get a moerse fine - which makes sense at the speed they are going. I just wish they could modify all our speed cameras to forget about speed and rather look out for tailgaters.
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And I wish we had MP's with working brains. You can't always get the good things you want in a sh|thole such as this.
 
People I would like to know, apologies if I don't phrase this properly, is there a recommended distance one should start indicating their intention to make a turn before actually making the turn?

This morning I saw an accident as I was waiting for a colleague, where a driver was driving quite slow, he didn't indicate in time before making his turn, and probably wasn't paying attention to what was happening behind him.
 
namzsteve said:
People I would like to know, apologies if I don't phrase this properly, is there a recommended distance one should start indicating their intention to make a turn before actually making the turn?

This morning I saw an accident as I was waiting for a colleague, where a driver was driving quite slow, he didn't indicate in time before making his turn, and probably wasn't paying attention to what was happening behind him.
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I generally would say that putting on your indicator before applying your brakes is acceptable. This would change with higher speeds and so on but it has worked for me for the past ten years and I haven't had anyone ever hoot or yell at me for not indicating early enough.
 
namzsteve said:
People I would like to know, apologies if I don't phrase this properly, is there a recommended distance one should start indicating their intention to make a turn before actually making the turn?
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The indicator is there to indicate your intention to turn, before making the maneuver and making sure it's safe to do so. Distance when indicating depends on speed and location. It's pointless indicating 300m before the turn, if there are two other roads ahead of you...

It's really not that hard.

How long have you been driving for out of interest?
 
genetic said:
The indicator is there to indicate your intention to turn, before making the maneuver and making sure it's safe to do so. Distance when indicating depends on speed and location. It's pointless indicating 300m before the turn, if there are two other roads ahead of you...

It's really not that hard.

How long have you been driving for out of interest?
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You'd think that the purpose behind an indicator would be a simple, logical thing that people would easily understand and embrace. After all, communicating to other road users when you're about to alter your vehicle's current course and lane (potentially causing you to slow down), seems like an important function. And yet, people increasingly change lanes without indicating, and only start indicating that they're about to turn AFTER they've started braking, which gives the person behind less time to react.

Logic is a dying ability.
 
Driving down a side road with parking bays perpendicular to the road. To my left about 10 meters ahead is a BMW 330d, parked across three parking bays. As I approach the car, he suddenly swerves out in front of me - no indicators. At this stage I was right on his tail as I was doing about 15kph. What does this moegoe do? He brake checks me and throws a zap out the window.

I found a parking and turned left into it, climbed out my car and gave him a glare (I needed to stop at a store nearby anyway). He stops his car right in the middle of the road (screw the cars behind him wanting to go past), climbs out and starts making his way to me, shouting expletives and obscene things about my mother, all while telling me how he is going to kill me. So I told him he must come hit me if he thinks I was in the wrong, I have a parking attendant that saw the whole story and a shop full of people now staring out the window at the scene developing outside.

I raised my arms in a 'come at me, bro' stance and said that not scared of him (I'm not the tallest oke at 1.7something meters but not afraid to stand my ground) and he must try me.

I think he saw what an arse he was making of himself in front of the adjacent shop which was now waiting for this drama to unfold, so he stormed back to his Beemer and took off like a bat out of hell, tyres spinning and smoke enveloping the whole street.

:D
 
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