Bad Driving

datostar

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

Get a move on, if you mince about no one will let you in (including me), no on wants some timid little thing pulling in front and displaying their safe driving technique and causing dealys whilst they perform.

Show you know how to drive competently and people are happy to let you in because you wont hold them up.

Its only normal driving, nothing too drastic.

That timid little thing might be doing his or her incompetent best in a low-powered vehicle and surely still deserves some consideration and regard for their safety. Personally, if I ever found myself unable to join the flow due to inconsiderate drivers travelling too close I'd take to the hard shoulder, which you are allowed to do in an emergency. Being forced to stop on a slip road is an emergency and a short distance on the hard shoulder is the lesser of the two evils. Same applies to leaving the hard shoulder after an emergency. Accelerate to the speed of the traffic on the main carriageway and signal before joining it.

pulliptears

Lum wrote: »

I can honestly say I've never had somebody deliberately try to block me from merging. Sometimes I've seen people who are already catching up to the vehicle in front (typically a lorry) and with these you need to take the relative speeds into account.

If something like that did happen to me, I guess that would be when I'd use the hard shoulder.

The problem was yesterdays incident was on a dual carriageway so there was no hard shoulder. It was a case of brake and get in behind, fortunately the car behind had seen what she'd done and moved over. She then slowed down to about 40mph (50mph limit) and objected when we moved to the outside lane to overtake by speeding up again, probably hoping to block us coming back in and taking the off slip. Maybe she'd had a bad morning, but it was a bloody dangerous display of driving thats for sure.

NBLondon

pulliptears wrote: »

Little old fella in a small 'foot like' car comes down the slip road.

What my wife calls a "surgical boot" car. Yes, often driven by hesitant elderly folk.

As for the idiot in the people carrier - I don't recall ever having it done to me (at that sort of speed) but I have seen a few people carriers being thrashed as if the driver's ego was compensating for having a "sensible" car.

Lum

pulliptears wrote: »

The problem was yesterdays incident was on a dual carriageway so there was no hard shoulder. It was a case of brake and get in behind, fortunately the car behind had seen what she'd done and moved over. She then slowed down to about 40mph (50mph limit) and objected when we moved to the outside lane to overtake by speeding up again, probably hoping to block us coming back in and taking the off slip. Maybe she'd had a bad morning, but it was a bloody dangerous display of driving thats for sure.

Fair enough, if there's no hard shoulder and someone pulls a stunt like that, and nobody else is willing to help, you may then have to stop at the end of a sliproad.

It really should be an option of last resort though.

Perhaps the person you encountered was the OP? :rotfl:

Mrs_Arcanum

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

i see this all too often. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIyvCOmehl0

how not to join a slip road.

More like how not to drive when traffic is merging from your left.

warehouse

Driving is a learning experience from the moment you start. I'm still staggered by the amount of drivers out there who don't appear to have moved on from the point where they passed their test.

It's all about common sense, so why do so many appear to be missing it?

pulliptears

Lum wrote: »

Fair enough, if there's no hard shoulder and someone pulls a stunt like that, and nobody else is willing to help, you may then have to stop at the end of a sliproad.

It really should be an option of last resort though.

Perhaps the person you encountered was the OP? :rotfl:

lmao

Whoever it was she mush have had poor eyesight because she had her boobs rested on the wheel, hands at ten to two and her nose virtually touching the windscreen

And lol at the 'surgical boot' comment.

Lum

Leaning that far forward against the wheel is a classic sign of a lack of common sense with the possible exception of if they're driving a really old car.

If their airbag goes off for any reason, having your chest pressed against the wheel means the airbag will likely break your neck.

If they haven't even thought about that, assume they don't think much at all about car-related things.

photome

Whats happened to the OP..maybe gone for further driving tuition

Mrs_Imp

NBLondon wrote: »

Does that work? Like the French used to have priorite a droite in all cases which meant that a 2CV could potter onto a trunk road at 20mph and have priority over traffic coming down it at 60mph.

HEY. I do not potter at 20mph. I do my very best to join the traffic at the speed they're going, but it's often not helped by the nervous driver who goes 'oooo, there's a car on the motorway, must brake sharply and join at 30mph' leaving me with no choice but to join at 30.