Vent about some drivers

GentleGiant_2

tandraig wrote: »

them too!
have a confession - I dont drive! my OH does - in fact he drives around all day - and he still doesnt understand roundabouts or believe me when i say we should take the second right off it! in fact we were coming back from a trip into cardiff and locals will know this one - were heading back from the john lloyd centre and got onto roundabout - we wanted a470 but he wouldnt believe me and that roundabout had about 5 turnoffs and he headed up each and every one wrong one! i was wetting myself laughing and kept saying its that one and the silly sod WOULDNT go that way! we went round that roundabout 5 times! in the end he took the road i originally pointed out - then lambasted me for not telling him!!!!!!!!!! what made it funnier was that someone had broken down on roundabout and he and AA man were watching in amazement so i waved gaily at them on each go round!

Then get him off the road - such drivers should be banned.

Of course so should the idiots who have rear fog lights on in the rain, mist, snow etc. They are for FOG - not mist even.

Having them on in any other weather will blind and distract the driver behind.

FatAndy

We had an encounter with a particularly moronic motorist a couple of weeks ago whilst heading into Llandudno on a Saturday morning. We took the main road into the town (the A470) which for the most part is single carriageway and which has no overtaking markings in places and also a number of roundabouts spread out at regular intervals. However there is one section which is fairly long and straight, albeit single carriageway, so providing there’s nothing coming the other way you can safely overtake there. On this occasion I was behind a slow moving car so when I got to this part of the road I indicated and started to overtake. As I was overtaking I glanced to my right and saw that some idiot was overtaking me, as I was still overtaking the slow moving car, on a single carriage road! Funnily enough by the time we reached Llandudno, about two miles further down the road, the idiot was one car in front of me. Having risked the lives of myself and my family, the people in the slow moving car and not to mention himself he must have knocked all of ten seconds off his total journey time.

On the topic of headlights and foglights could someone possibly explain this new fashion of driving after dark with headlights switched off but foglights switched on? By what logic can visibility simultaneously be clear enough not to need to switch your headlights on whilst at exactly the same time be so poor as to need foglights? Presumably I’m supposed look at these cars and think “Wow, the person driving that car must be truly amazing because they own a car that came equipped with foglights” but I generally think “Wow, that person’s brain mustn’t be properly wired”.

bryanb

On the topic of headlights and foglights could someone possibly explain this new fashion of driving after dark with headlights switched off but foglights switched on?

As far as I know it is illegal to have foglights wired so that they can be on without headlights - has something changed?

shuaibf

the one thing i hate is with some drivers their cars have either annoyin exhaust and the other is their lights are soo bright ends up blindin you in the mirrors .

AND TAXI DRIVERS DOING U-TURNS IN MIDDLE OF A ROAD WITHOUT WARNING

custardy

bryanb wrote: »

As far as I know it is illegal to have foglights wired so that they can be on without headlights - has something changed?

front fogs work with headlights (sidelights only) but rears wont

lazer

olly300 wrote: »

It actually doesn't.
There is a diagram that indicates you use the left hand lane but it actually says:
[/LIST]http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_070338

Roundabouts can be confusing - i know of one, wheer the left hand lane is for turning left only and the right hand land is for turning Right and straight ahead.

Confuses me everytime, I'm usually going straight on and there is a queue in the right hand lane - so i stay in the left, and then realise i'm in the wrong lane (again)

LilacPixie

my pet hate is no lane disapline. For some reason where I live drivers in the left hand lanes at roundabouts seem to think that going straight on means that you do not even have to attempt to steer around a roundabout just go straight ahead.

Drivers who seem to think a silver car is invisible and the pepetual boy racer in a noisy citroen saxo who seems to think that they can goad me into a race by racing right up to my assthen backing off then coing up to the !!! again then sitting in the right hand lane at my rear quarter.

bryanb

custardy wrote: »

front fogs work with headlights (sidelights only) but rears wont

Sorry, could you clarify that please?

biscit

I think they mean spotlamps. They're meant to be used in the fog.

FatAndy

bryanb wrote: »

Sorry, could you clarify that please?

It means that as long as your sidelights are on your foglights will come on, you don't need to switch your headlights on.

Perhaps it's just the area where I live but it's now pretty unusual to make a journey of more than a couple of miles after dark and not see people doing this. This morning before I went into work I popped up the road to the shop to buy a paper and in the space of maybe two minutes I saw two people doing it. One of these was an enormous and expensive looking Chrysler, can't remember what the other one was but I think it was an older car.

And no, I'm not talking about spot lamps I'm talking about foglights.