Bad Driving thread

I was going on the opposite side of the traffic and a traffic jam on the crossing between Grayston and Daisy was preventing cars to enter the street.
 
Well done in any case. I do the same when they start driving into oncoming traffic.
 
Is there anything that does scare the average taxi driver?

I'm thinking a cardboard sign saying "I am Sangoma, you taxi driver are cursed" and then a painted (blood coloured) rubber chicken foot or large spider or something that one moves across the cardboard for the taxi driver to see.
 
They are fairly intimidated when I drive the Murano. I guess a big orange 4x4 might not be what they want to mess with :D
 
ahoudet said:
They are fairly intimidated when I drive the Murano. I guess a big orange 4x4 might not be what they want to mess with :D
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Back in the days, my student car was an old Ford Laser. The taxi's realised that their damage will cost more than mine, so they avoided me like the plague.
 
Colin62 said:
When it's running. The part that worries me is when it converts you into a pedestrian.
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never happened in 8 years of owning 2 Td5s and now a Puma.



Claymore said:
You need an old one. I have fantasies of a Series 2A with Chevy 4.1 engine and bull bars all round anchored to that massive chassis.
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Nah, a Puma is what you want. Goes like the clappers (especially with a remap, decat & bigger intercooler), great fuel economy and chicks dig it :whistle:
 
Naks said:
sure.

if I give you a brain, will you use it?
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Nah, mine's working fine thanks. Even the advanced features like humour and sarcasm detection. Perhaps you should hang on to it till you've got it going properly?
 
Bobbin said:
Yesterday, on Rivonia as I was turning left onto Bryanston Road. This traffic light also has a light for the slipway traffic.

So I stopped as the front car in the slipway as it was red for me. The taxi behind me hoots. At first I thought he might be hooting for passengers, but he carried on and it became a little incessant and blatant.

About 3-4 cars passed in front of me during the transition so if I had gone they could have hit me anyway.

Then for some reason the last impatient hoot of the taxi nearly made my head explode. I don't know why but it did. After a quick death stare in my rearview I noticed the light was now green for me (Hopefully I didn't end up delaying, not sure) so on I went.

About 300 meters down I catch up to another car but I can sense the aggressiveness of this taxi driver behind me. True enough he comes bounding down irrationally accelerating and then overtakes 2 cars in a single lane, WHILE THE FRONT CAR WAS INDICATING TO TURN RIGHT!?! That could have been a nasty accident but as he sped past I hooted, not only at him but also to alert.

After all this, the taxi driver then challenges me at the next traffic light?!?! WTF... He winds down his window and looks straight at me as if to imply what am I going to do about it. Jesus did I want to murder him. I just shook my head at him though, what else can I do... :/ Anyway he took the turn and I carried on with my route.

This industry must catch a wake up because it isn't one of them but all/majority of them who behave like this and it has gradually degraded to the point of obscenity. I witness it every single day multiple times a day and nobody is doing anything about it :(
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Last year sometime I was driving down West in Sandton. Heading South just passed the Gautrain. At the intersection between West and Katherine, they were doing roadworks and construction which meant that the left hand lane was blocked. At this point, West has 3 lanes if you are heading South crossing Katherine.

The leftmost lane was left turning only (blocked off due to roadworks). The second lane was to go straight and also turn left. The third lane was turning right only. Because I was going straight, I would drive in the second lane, the one not blocked off. The robot sequence was green for going straight and turning, then it would turn red for going straight and a green arrow would appear for turning left.

So at least two or three times, I am in the second lane to go straight, and the robot turns red for going straight. I stop. People behind me want to turn left onto Katherine, and they start hooting like crazy. For them, it is green, but they cannot go since I am in front, and cannot go. I am in the only lane that I am allowed to be in, and I cannot go.

They just hoot and hoot and hoot. Its like I should break the law and drive straight through the intersection to please them. No thanks.
 
Ancalagon said:
Last year sometime I was driving down West in Sandton. Heading South just passed the Gautrain. At the intersection between West and Katherine, they were doing roadworks and construction which meant that the left hand lane was blocked. At this point, West has 3 lanes if you are heading South crossing Katherine.

The leftmost lane was left turning only (blocked off due to roadworks). The second lane was to go straight and also turn left. The third lane was turning right only. Because I was going straight, I would drive in the second lane, the one not blocked off. The robot sequence was green for going straight and turning, then it would turn red for going straight and a green arrow would appear for turning left.

So at least two or three times, I am in the second lane to go straight, and the robot turns red for going straight. I stop. People behind me want to turn left onto Katherine, and they start hooting like crazy. For them, it is green, but they cannot go since I am in front, and cannot go. I am in the only lane that I am allowed to be in, and I cannot go.

They just hoot and hoot and hoot. Its like I should break the law and drive straight through the intersection to please them. No thanks.
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People are just getting more and more impatient and irrational on the roads these days....

Had a similar thing happen to me awhile ago, I just ignore the people hooting.. the one day the guy behind me was getting visibly irate at the fact that I wasn't going (I was going straight and the robot was red for me).. I just laughed and turned up my music and waited for the robot to change... when it did, I drove off and the idiot behind me was still hooting and gesturing and all that behind me whilst driving like a complete lunatic around the corner..
 
Ancalagon said:
Last year sometime I was driving down West in Sandton. Heading South just passed the Gautrain. At the intersection between West and Katherine, they were doing roadworks and construction which meant that the left hand lane was blocked. At this point, West has 3 lanes if you are heading South crossing Katherine.

The leftmost lane was left turning only (blocked off due to roadworks). The second lane was to go straight and also turn left. The third lane was turning right only. Because I was going straight, I would drive in the second lane, the one not blocked off. The robot sequence was green for going straight and turning, then it would turn red for going straight and a green arrow would appear for turning left.

So at least two or three times, I am in the second lane to go straight, and the robot turns red for going straight. I stop. People behind me want to turn left onto Katherine, and they start hooting like crazy. For them, it is green, but they cannot go since I am in front, and cannot go. I am in the only lane that I am allowed to be in, and I cannot go.

They just hoot and hoot and hoot. Its like I should break the law and drive straight through the intersection to please them. No thanks.
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Same here. Had an old lady no less who almost lost her **** when I wasn't driving through the intersection so she could turn. Was rather amusing.
 
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Zenbaas said:
Same here. Had an old lady no less who almost lost her **** when I wasn't driving through the intersection so she could turn. Was rather amusing.
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similar happened to us once on Rivonia the right lane is exclusively to turn right on to the N1S while the lane to the left of it both for going straight as well as turning right, so my buddy in his fiesta is in that lane planning to go straight the lane on the right is empty So not like heavy traffic situation, buddy waiting at robot, Range rover pulls up behind, the turn signal goes green, and lady range rover goes ballistic that we aint moving starts hooting and swearing - so we all get out of the car she roll her window and screams learn how to f*&king drive, (we assume) we all get out I think at this point she shat herself. so i point at the arrow on the ground that shows arrow in lane is both for going straight and turning, she stops hooting, she rolls her window back up, and mouths sorry (we assume),
Its surprising how many people don't see the marking on the road, Icant count how many times a guy in the right lane tries to ram a guy in the lane to the left of him because he assumes the guy is cutting in and isn't allowed to turn right as well.
 
ToxicBunny said:
People are just getting more and more impatient and irrational on the roads these days....
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Getting that feeling too.

The okes that drive fast & weave through traffic are annoying, but it seems to me that there are more people on the roads that shouldn't be permitted to pilot a shopping cart let alone a car. e.g. had a guy today that couldn't decide which lane he wants...so drove in the middle of two zig-zagging 30 cm each way for a considerable distance (presumably trying to decide). I'm just "dude wtf are you doing?". Also had an oke drive against traffic on a one way today...

That being said there are chilled drivers out there too...occasionally you find a "train" of reasonable drivers on the highway that all match their speed & behaviour.
 
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