Bad Driving thread

one of these days I am going to be in a crash:

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The lights here has been completely disabled. No problem it is a 3 way stop.

No worries. I stop and let the cars who stopped first go, left and right from me. While this is happening cars keep going through full speed, top left, counted on Friday 3 cars went. No issues.

But now it is my turn.

Cars keep going through full speed top left, lane 1 and 2.

Now when I am halfway in my turn a white kakvaal wants to lose his **** and "fight" as I am turning in to his lane.
 
Am I the d!ck here? I might well be.
There's a stretch of road I often use, basically two lanes that eventually (the 2 lane portion is a few km long) become one - the left hand merges into the right.
Now I'm a chilled driver, I'm cruising along in the left lane, folk are passing me, all good. Until we get to the point where we need to merge. Now that right lane is backed up and the left is normally much shorter so what happens is I get close to the front and then folk do that whole you go then I go zipper type merge. But some folk thing I'm cutting in. I mean there's time I'm literally the only car in that left lane and there's maybe 10 in the right - should I have pulled into the right lane and joined the queue? Because I've done that as well and then other cars cruise by in the left and I'm like well, they're not doing anything wrong. And I get there's a difference between being technically breaking the rules wrong and common courtesy on the road but I don't even see this as being uncourteous (yes I know that aint a word). Is it an unwritten rule that you should always stay behind the car that was ahead of you?
 
Sepeng said:
Am I the d!ck here? I might well be.
There's a stretch of road I often use, basically two lanes that eventually (the 2 lane portion is a few km long) become one - the left hand merges into the right.
Now I'm a chilled driver, I'm cruising along in the left lane, folk are passing me, all good. Until we get to the point where we need to merge. Now that right lane is backed up and the left is normally much shorter so what happens is I get close to the front and then folk do that whole you go then I go zipper type merge. But some folk thing I'm cutting in. I mean there's time I'm literally the only car in that left lane and there's maybe 10 in the right - should I have pulled into the right lane and joined the queue? Because I've done that as well and then other cars cruise by in the left and I'm like well, they're not doing anything wrong. And I get there's a difference between being technically breaking the rules wrong and common courtesy on the road but I don't even see this as being uncourteous (yes I know that aint a word). Is it an unwritten rule that you should always stay behind the car that was ahead of you?
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The Rand is busy plummeting and here you are expending all of this effort on a non-issue. If you are ahead, you are ahead. Whomever's bumper is in front gets the right of way.
 
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Sepeng said:
Am I the d!ck here? I might well be.
There's a stretch of road I often use, basically two lanes that eventually (the 2 lane portion is a few km long) become one - the left hand merges into the right.
Now I'm a chilled driver, I'm cruising along in the left lane, folk are passing me, all good. Until we get to the point where we need to merge. Now that right lane is backed up and the left is normally much shorter so what happens is I get close to the front and then folk do that whole you go then I go zipper type merge. But some folk thing I'm cutting in. I mean there's time I'm literally the only car in that left lane and there's maybe 10 in the right - should I have pulled into the right lane and joined the queue? Because I've done that as well and then other cars cruise by in the left and I'm like well, they're not doing anything wrong. And I get there's a difference between being technically breaking the rules wrong and common courtesy on the road but I don't even see this as being uncourteous (yes I know that aint a word). Is it an unwritten rule that you should always stay behind the car that was ahead of you?
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you should have pulled into the right lane at your earliest convenience
 
Steamy Tom said:
you should have pulled into the right lane at your earliest convenience
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Joburg drivers seem to think merges work by merely drifting to the end of the merge lane and hoping someone is going to leave a gap for you. Given it is Joburg and that courtesy is a foreign concept, nobody gives them way. Cue the anger and gun waving.
 
Steamy Tom said:
you should have pulled into the right lane at your earliest convenience
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Jefferson D'Arcy said:
Joburg drivers seem to think merges work by merely drifting to the end of the merge lane and hoping someone is going to leave a gap for you. Given it is Joburg and that courtesy is a foreign concept, nobody gives them way. Cue the anger and gun waving.
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Ug, I was the d!ck. Hate when that happens.
There will hopefully be one less d!ck on the roads going forward.
 
Sepeng said:
Ug, I was the d!ck. Hate when that happens.
There will hopefully be one less d!ck on the roads going forward.
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you seem like less of a d!ck than most since you seem concerned enough to check, admit and possibly rectify behaviour.

Like I agree you didn't technically do anything illegal or out of the bounds of road rules, just logically it makes sense to merge out of the lane that closes as soon as is safely possible before the road narrows, you may have been doing it because you thought that is just how it works but others do it 100% intentionally to get ahead, they will even move out of the right lane that they hogged all the way up until the merge just to push in on the left.
 
Sepeng said:
Am I the d!ck here? I might well be.
There's a stretch of road I often use, basically two lanes that eventually (the 2 lane portion is a few km long) become one - the left hand merges into the right.
Now I'm a chilled driver, I'm cruising along in the left lane, folk are passing me, all good. Until we get to the point where we need to merge. Now that right lane is backed up and the left is normally much shorter so what happens is I get close to the front and then folk do that whole you go then I go zipper type merge. But some folk thing I'm cutting in. I mean there's time I'm literally the only car in that left lane and there's maybe 10 in the right - should I have pulled into the right lane and joined the queue? Because I've done that as well and then other cars cruise by in the left and I'm like well, they're not doing anything wrong. And I get there's a difference between being technically breaking the rules wrong and common courtesy on the road but I don't even see this as being uncourteous (yes I know that aint a word). Is it an unwritten rule that you should always stay behind the car that was ahead of you?
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I literally think about this every time I am driving to work and get to the Brakfontein Interchange on N14 :ROFL:
Luckily there it is 3 lanes and the far right lane converges into the middle lane, but sometimes I find myself on the far right having to get into the middle lane quickly.
 
Sepeng said:
Am I the d!ck here? I might well be.
There's a stretch of road I often use, basically two lanes that eventually (the 2 lane portion is a few km long) become one - the left hand merges into the right.
Now I'm a chilled driver, I'm cruising along in the left lane, folk are passing me, all good. Until we get to the point where we need to merge. Now that right lane is backed up and the left is normally much shorter so what happens is I get close to the front and then folk do that whole you go then I go zipper type merge. But some folk thing I'm cutting in. I mean there's time I'm literally the only car in that left lane and there's maybe 10 in the right - should I have pulled into the right lane and joined the queue? Because I've done that as well and then other cars cruise by in the left and I'm like well, they're not doing anything wrong. And I get there's a difference between being technically breaking the rules wrong and common courtesy on the road but I don't even see this as being uncourteous (yes I know that aint a word). Is it an unwritten rule that you should always stay behind the car that was ahead of you?
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Nothing wrong here, if you are in a legal merging lane, and you are not crossing over solid lines, it's the people who are in the queue that will not let you in despite you being in a legal merging lane, that are the problem.
 
Ivan Leon said:
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sounds good, doesn't work.

Firstly our roads aren't setup like that. secondly car 6 would actually wait longer in South Africa because the number of cars in the left out numbers those in the right with people pushing in so he actually sits longer.

These pictures don't match up, he has to wait for 3 cars to move in the right picture, on the left he would have more than double that number of cars to wait for in an equivilant scenario
 
Ivan Leon said:
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This is the way I see it too.
In South Africa we do have the problem where common sense seems to be in short supply though. So in this scenario we would have 3,4, and 5 sitting on each others asses, looking straight ahead, refusing to let c in.
In a perfect picture, if every one would start to open a car size gap just before the merge the traffic would flow substantially faster.
 
Straight road for a couple of kilometers, sharp right (or left if you're coming in the opposite direction) curve, straight road for a couple of kilometers.

Dick stops in the curve to pick up his pal.
 
So yesterday I was driving behind a heavy vehicle. He got up to the the speed limit eventually. No problem. I'm not in a hurry.

The traffic light changes to red and we stop. Then I look in my rear view mirror and see a truck approaching (the type that carries sand) He then overtakes us by going into the turn right only lane and proceeds to go straight through the red traffic light without even slowing down.

**** me.
 
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dualmeister said:
So yesterday I was driving behind a heavy vehicle. He got up to the the speed limit eventually. No problem. I'm not in a hurry.

The traffic light changes to red and we stop. Then I look in my rear view mirror and see a truck approaching (the type that carries sand) He then overtakes us by going into the turn right only lane and proceeds to go straight through the red traffic light without even slowing down.

**** me.
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You can be lucky, as he was most probably too fast to stop in time and would have rear ended you with considerable damage or even injury to yourself.
 
Sepeng said:
Am I the d!ck here? I might well be.
There's a stretch of road I often use, basically two lanes that eventually (the 2 lane portion is a few km long) become one - the left hand merges into the right.
Now I'm a chilled driver, I'm cruising along in the left lane, folk are passing me, all good. Until we get to the point where we need to merge. Now that right lane is backed up and the left is normally much shorter so what happens is I get close to the front and then folk do that whole you go then I go zipper type merge. But some folk thing I'm cutting in. I mean there's time I'm literally the only car in that left lane and there's maybe 10 in the right - should I have pulled into the right lane and joined the queue? Because I've done that as well and then other cars cruise by in the left and I'm like well, they're not doing anything wrong. And I get there's a difference between being technically breaking the rules wrong and common courtesy on the road but I don't even see this as being uncourteous (yes I know that aint a word). Is it an unwritten rule that you should always stay behind the car that was ahead of you?
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I was in a situation recently where I was cruising along on the right hand lane noticing a hell of a long line of traffic backed up on the left. Approaching the robot intersection, I realized that I'm in a lane that's only for turning right and I was going straight. Had to quickly make a plan once I reached the intersection. If looks could kill....
 
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