Bad Driving thread

Another one just in...

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And yet more yellow lane driving in general plus three drivers using the wrong lane to overtake/U-turn etc...

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The_Librarian said:
Hopefully you can drive over taxis as well :D
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In the last while, have yet to see a taxi that DOESN'T ignore the rules of the road. They take it to the extreme, compared to all bad drivers.

I really need to get a dashcam, can also start building up quite a collection that would generally include taxis.

The other day I almost rear-end a Polo making an illegal right-turn, and he showed me his middle finger in reply when I hooted. I was laughing for the next two blocks!

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Bismuth said:
In the last while, have yet to see a taxi that DOESN'T ignore the rules of the road. They take it to the extreme, compared to all bad drivers.

I really need to get a dashcam, can also start building up quite a collection that would generally include taxis.

The other day I almost rear-end a Polo making an illegal right-turn, and he showed me his middle finger in reply when I hooted. I was laughing for the next two blocks!

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This morning a taxi was making an illegal stop with his hazards on. Probably a few metres away from a designated area for them to stop & offload passengers. I try to go around and he obviously finished loading or unloading & just turned into my lane (with his hazard still on :mad: )
I was then left looking like an idiot because he was in the lane I needed to be & traffic was backed up to the point where he had stopped. I hate taxi's and I dream about getting an old banged up bakkie with a bull bar, so that I can brake less viciously and leave a mark every damn time:twisted:
 
droidx said:
This morning a taxi was making an illegal stop with his hazards on. Probably a few metres away from a designated area for them to stop & offload passengers. I try to go around and he obviously finished loading or unloading & just turned into my lane (with his hazard still on :mad: )
I was then left looking like an idiot because he was in the lane I needed to be & traffic was backed up to the point where he had stopped. I hate taxi's and I dream about getting an old banged up bakkie with a bull bar, so that I can brake less viciously and leave a mark every damn time:twisted:
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Get an old 3 ton Studabaker.
 
The_Librarian said:
And yet more yellow lane driving in general plus three drivers using the wrong lane to overtake/U-turn etc...

[video=youtube;BMY8NwysYdM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMY8NwysYdM&feature=youtu.be[/video]
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Please tell me this was not all in one day.... But I must say you are keeping pretty calm ;)
 
Some typical SA driver entitlement witnessed this morning.
Driving on the N1 having just passed under the sable square bridge I indicated to turn into the far left lane (I take the koeberg road turn off).
Now I always watch traffic coming from century city as they use this lane, the traffic light on the bridge was red.
As I approach the end of the solid line, I noticed that someone had crossed the painted island right at the start of it and darted off into the empty lane. At the end of the solid line I complete my lane change and CY220244 in a Hyundai Getz starts flashing their brights profusely, I hate cutting people off so I rarely do it but there was ample space for me to complete the move safely (in my judgement this person did not even need to brake, just release the accelerator pedal a bit).
Clearly irritated, CY220244 needed to get in front of me, maintaining a following distance was too much and they got in front of me stuck in the same string of traffic to gain at best 10 seconds.
Then CY220244 moves into the lane to the right and immediately got stuck with someone trying to merge into the third lane, lots of hooting and flashing was going on, which cracked me up.
I usually dislike people doing this, but technically they are doing nothing wrong & some of them legitimately come from the sable road bridge so need to merge in this manner (the two left lanes are free flowing & the two right lanes are backed up - going to CBD).
CY220244 has no problem breaking the rules of the road and flashes & hoots at everyone in their way, taxi driver who changed careers?
 
I've come to the realisation that it is taxi passengers that are as much to blame for where taxis decide to stop as it is the driver's fault.

I often see it on my way to work - people standing waiting for a Taxi at an intersection when literally a few meters down the road the is one of those designated pull off areas for taxis and buses. Of course the driver is going to stop illegally because that is where the paying customers are.

Same goes for taxis stopping to let people out.
 
Necropolis said:
I've come to the realisation that it is taxi passengers that are as much to blame for where taxis decide to stop as it is the driver's fault.

I often see it on my way to work - people standing waiting for a Taxi at an intersection when literally a few meters down the road the is one of those designated pull off areas for taxis and buses. Of course the driver is going to stop illegally because that is where the paying customers are.

Same goes for taxis stopping to let people out.
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Agreed, there is equal blame there.
 
droidx said:
Agreed, there is equal blame there.
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Problem is that many of the passengers aren't drivers - they don't actually understand why the spot they are standing in is dangerous. If the driver refused to pick them up from a dangerous spot, they'd soon start standing where the taxi will stop.
 
Colin62 said:
Problem is that many of the passengers aren't drivers - they don't actually understand why the spot they are standing in is dangerous. If the driver refused to pick them up from a dangerous spot, they'd soon start standing where the taxi will stop.
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There are far too many taxi passengers that are grossly obese and I suspect it is a direct result of taxi passengers not wanting to walk more than a few steps to get to their destination, so they tell the taxi drivers to stop right outside where they want to be instead of at a nearby layby which I have observed is often about 15 metres away from where a taxi stops.
 
j4ck455 said:
There are far too many taxi passengers that are grossly obese and I suspect it is a direct result of taxi passengers not wanting to walk more than a few steps to get to their destination, so they tell the taxi drivers to stop right outside where they want to be instead of at a nearby layby which I have observed is often about 15 metres away from where a taxi stops.
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Lol
Is that a scientifically proven fact?
 
tRoN said:
Lol
Is that a scientifically proven fact?
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No, it is not a proven fact which is why I avoided generalising, for example I could have said "all taxi passengers".

Perhaps someone with lots of time and nothing better to do will stalk obese taxi passengers and study their bad habits.

Instead of threatening to charge obese passengers a double fare, taxi drivers should just drop off these customers at the nearest layby and force them to get even the smallest amount of exercise.
 
How about the jaywalking that happens all the time? There seems to be no regard for rules on the road, people will walk across the road where they feel like it, try dodge through traffic etc when there is a perfectly good working robot not far from them sigh.
 
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