Bad Driving thread

SHL said:
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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This is my Oscar award winning acting whenever I faced with the very exact blunder...... and I must be seen.

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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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Late to the party here but you're not the dick.

If the left lane merges into the right and there's traffic on the right then you keep left and join at the end via ye olde zipper method.

It eases congestion and tailbacks by filling the 'unused' lane. People who are salty because they think you're cutting in are the ones who need to go back to driving school.

Far too often in those circumstances you see idiots trying to squeeze in from the left lane far too early and way before the end of the lane instead of heading to the end along with everyone else who needs to merge, and following the zipper.

So you have one long empty lane with a long tailback created by idiots who don't know what they should be doing, and multiple cars cutting in wherever they can find an opening instead of being fairly and evenly managed at the joining point.

Bad drivers get angry because they're the weakest link on the roads and don't understand the rules.

Don't listen to them. Know the rules and follow them. Driving is a wonderfully ordered system. Don't be an agent of chaos.

The Brits largely suffer the same problems.

Went to London this past week. Four near misses during the drive there because idiots don't look before they merge, don't use their indicators, and don't know which lane to exit into from a roundabout/interchange.

Having a licence doesn't necessarily mean someone knows how to use it.

The responses to your post saying you did anything wrong should speak volumes.
 
I don't know WTF I was thinking or what. I was stopped at a red light, waiting to turn right. The light changed green and I just started driving forward and turning, no there wasn't a flashing arrow, yes there was oncoming traffic that I nearly hit. I braked in time to not hit anyone, but I honestly was slightly into the oncoming traffic lane, I think the oncoming traffic would have had to pull slightly left in their lane to avoid hitting my car. I have no excuses. I really don't know what the hell I was doing. Not very happy or proud of myself for that. Bad driving. If anyone reading this was in the oncoming lane, I'm sorry, I hope you swore at me.
 
1am7h30n3 said:
I don't know WTF I was thinking or what. I was stopped at a red light, waiting to turn right. The light changed green and I just started driving forward and turning, no there wasn't a flashing arrow, yes there was oncoming traffic that I nearly hit. I braked in time to not hit anyone, but I honestly was slightly into the oncoming traffic lane, I think the oncoming traffic would have had to pull slightly left in their lane to avoid hitting my car. I have no excuses. I really don't know what the hell I was doing. Not very happy or proud of myself for that. Bad driving. If anyone reading this was in the oncoming lane, I'm sorry, I hope you swore at me.
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not the worst that has been done. At least you are dent free.
 

The polo on right. So it seems to be a "thing" to not have to wait , but to duck into the lane from a right turn lane or something. With the pointsman there, he was unable to duck in before the pointsman stopped the the traffic so carried on in the hope I left a gap so he could duck in afterwards.
 
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Just passed an accident where a Mercedes AMG had hit a Honda Type R. The Honda driver was no where to be seen and the young Merc driver climbed back in the car and drove away with the bumper scraping on the ground and headlights hanging out.

And then to top it a very loud Mustang came racing down pushing everyone off the road.

I'm sure alcohol had nothing to do with it..........
 
That moment when I nearly got taken out by a coal truck, because the driver of the MPACT Recycling truck decided to suddenly change lanes WITHOUT checking his left door mirror first, to ascertain if there was in fact any oncoming traffic in that lane approaching at a much faster speed..

N.B.: Video does contain some expletives... ;)

 
Grant said:
this is quite some achievement to pull off on a straight, level, narrow, and generally congested road:
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not really surprised, judging by the level of competence show on the roads these days.

For example, after , what, 18 years? of loadshedding, and robots not working, people still will get really really confused at a set of non working robots. Seriously - just go, if everybody is waiting, it is obviously your turn. And f&^& those that tailgate through.
 
Ivan Leon said:

TND 145 GP - Driving like a Tortoise​

When you're totally oblivious to the fact that - when vehicles are overtaking you on BOTH sides - you're driving WAY TOO SLOW...

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Ex Capetonian maybe? Remember after having lived in JHB and adapting to highway driving (survival of the fittest), I almost went through a few people when I visited Cape Town because they were sticking to the speed limit.
 
Ivan Leon said:

TND 145 GP - Driving like a Tortoise​

When you're totally oblivious to the fact that - when vehicles are overtaking you on BOTH sides - you're driving WAY TOO SLOW...

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So many people think the second lane from the right is the best lane, no matter what their speed. So annoying!
 
Claymore said:
So many people think the second lane from the right is the best lane, no matter what their speed. So annoying!
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Usually the far left lane is the emptiest because nobody drives there. Usually some plonker will sit there going below the legal speed limit so need to just scan ahead for such tortoises and be ready to jump into the next lane. The most dangerous lane in my opinion is the second from far left , because people getting on the highway will dive straight to that lane without checking their mirrors, or getting a drivers licence, apparently.
 
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