Bad Driving thread

j4ck455 said:
I know that intersection (although I avoid it unless all other routes are jammed up), it's most likely repeated cable theft in that area.

I am more surprised that the traffic lights in that area haven't been stolen.
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That is the problem, same as on the R55 at the Erasmia rd junction. There they have removed the robots and just put up stop signs, wonderful during peak times.
 
Craig_ said:
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This traffic light has been dead now for almost a week, I haven't seen a pig regulating traffic there once in that time, but just a few hundred meters down the road there's a fat pig sitting in his car stuffing his fat face with food watching a camera.

This is why this country's looks the way they do, they'd rather sit and watch a camera than go out and patrol moving violations. Too much work for the fat arseholes.
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Not a pothole or donga across the road to be seen that picture must have been taken overseas.
 
Düber said:
That is the problem, same as on the R55 at the Erasmia rd junction. There they have removed the robots and just put up stop signs, wonderful during peak times.
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Given the frequent recurrence of loadshitting and that most (if not all) of the traffic lights around Gauteng haven't got solar charged battery backup power, we should probably lower our expectations from first world to third world and consider it a miracle that the stop signs haven't been stolen (yet).

The only solar charged battery backup power for traffic lights that I have seen in Gauteng, was in Sandton, and that was years ago (I don't go to Sandton often).
 
Someone driving a mid-life crisis with the licence plate Zainy needs to learn what the white lines on a road are for. He also needs to invest in a GPS so he can take the offramp he needs rather than driving like an entitled ping-pong ball.
 
The_Librarian said:
Probably stolen and repurposed by now. :(
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IIRC it was a pilot and there were only two intersections in Sandton with solar charged battery power, and it was at least four years back.

Anything that looks like it might have or is a battery, is at the top of thieves' lists of things that have to be stolen (compulsively).

I would not be surprised if electric vehicles being sold in SA have their battery banks stolen and are left as gutted empty shells on the roadside.
 
I don't give a rat's ass for bad drivers anymore.

I just let them continue on their merry way. After all, they will reinforce their bad behaviour, and they'll cause an accident sooner or later, hopefully with another bad driver.

Too dangerous to even try and make them aware by honking, hand waving and the such, you'll never know if said bad driver's in a bad mood, and will road rage on you.
 
I watched a company bakkie overtake someone on the freeway, using the emergency lane, and later saw it run a red light. Sounds like the driver now has a disciplinary hearing...
 
Why do some speshul drivers do this?

You pootle to work as usual in the slow lane, until you encounter somebody drivening slower than you. So, you overtake them (doing it safely, mind) and then proceed as usual.

Then the driver (whom you've just overtaken) overtake you, then slows down (not a brake check), so you have to slow down as well.

That irritated me, so I gave my car a bit more gas in order to get away from that driver.
 
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