You know what grinds my gears?

[XR6_190]

Yes that's really annoying, But the 2 things that really irritate me, are people who can't merge onto a freeway, and slow down almost to a stop, holding every one else up behind them, and people who won't keep left.

A few nights ago, I was driving down the Melton Hwy through Taylors Lakes (Melb) and this stupid woman in a white VT was doing 65 in an 80 zone, she would not go in the Left lane forcing most people to pass her illegally on the left, I followed her for about 2-3Kms like this, then she finally moves into the Left lane just so she could turn left. ANNOYING

Originally Posted by perthxr6t

Seen that plenty of times maybe they want to be truck drivers. And has anybody had the pleasure of f*ckwits that come flying past you in the left hand lane only to cut in front of you in the right hand lane then brake turn the indicator on and turn right!! WTF

Sometimes i wish i was in a big F650 with a bull bar so i could help them on there merry way.

Great idea, but instead of a bullbar put a big snow plow on it. That would have to be even better.... "Mr. Plow, Thats my name, That name again is Mr. Plow, Mmm Plow"

[Dezza]

Originally Posted by 93_eb_fairmont

So, you're saying that, if offered, you wouldn't take a crack at it?

Of course I would! Heh heh aaaalllll riiight!

[SVTVNM]

Farmers! god bless them, but they always pull out of thier paddocks onto main roads with 100 speed limits and sit on 50 then wave to you as you pass them.

[boss 300]

easy fix, laser gun to disintegrate the d....head :d

[JC]

Originally Posted by SVTVNM

I so agree with everyone, One of my pet hates is sitting on 110 (cruisecontrol) on the western freeway to or from Melbourne and getting stuck behind two cars the one in the left lane is going 90 and the one in the right lane is going 95. Why can't people just eccelerate to pass someone quickly and get out of everyones way, Also people who go slow up hill and speed down hill, it is so anoying if you have cruise control bucause you end up going past each other the whole trip, also people who drive under the limit in a 100/110 zone, say about 95 and if there is a slower limit for roadworks etc.. they don't slow down so they go past you and then when the limit goes bak up you go past them.

This is my pet hate!

[JC]

Originally Posted by XR6_190

Yes that's really annoying, But the 2 things that really irritate me, are people who can't merge onto a freeway, and slow down almost to a stop, holding every one else up behind them, and people who won't keep left.

A few nights ago, I was driving down the Melton Hwy through Taylors Lakes (Melb) and this stupid woman in a white VT was doing 65 in an 80 zone, she would not go in the Left lane forcing most people to pass her illegally on the left, I followed her for about 2-3Kms like this, then she finally moves into the Left lane just so she could turn left. ANNOYING

Yep, my second pet hate. BTW, it is not illegal to pass someone on the left on a multi lane (each way) road. It is only illegal to pass someone on the left on a single lane (each way) road - ie by using the shoulder of the road. What I normally do with these twits is pass them on the left, then pull in front of them and brake until they move to the left, the accelerate back to the limit - not in peak hour though, only if there's basically no other cars around.

[nugget378]

I dont like anyone else on the road while Im driving..

[56pickup]

Dipsticks, who cannot assimilate that a roundabout replaced the give way to the right intersections.

Brain dead organisations,RACV, NRMA, RACQ preach how to drive through a roundabout. If you listened to them, there would be crashes every day.

It is so simple: Give way to the right: How ####### easy is that.

: : :

[nugget378]

Originally Posted by 56pickup

Dipsticks, who cannot asimulate that a roundabout replaced the give way to the right intersections.

Brain dead organisations,RACV, NRMA, RACQ preach hoe to drive through a roundabout. If you listened to them, there would be crashes every day.

It is so simple: Give way to the right: How ####### easy is that.

: : :

You sure about that?
when I did my HC a few years ago it was "give way to cars already on the round about" not who's on the right,
I took that to mean if you cross that white line first you have right of way.

[SVTVNM]

Amen!!!

[56pickup]

Wall to Wall bitumen drivers, namely city folk. 99% would not have a clue how to drive. They learn from some Driving School, because the Govt says so. They then buy a heap of c### car, a kill thier mates and others.

I put this theory to the test in some years ago, and guess what?

City drivers could not drive on gravel roads, through sand hills, on dirt roads and through water. Why, Because, they have a belief that learning to drive on wall to wall bitumen proves that they can drive. (sadly only in suburbia)

Question: What doy you do, after driving for four hours from Melbourne and suddenly you find yourself with both off side wheels in the gravel?

1. Do you panic and brake instantly

2. Turn hard right

3. Controlled driving out of the gravel

4. Plant the foot and go for it

5. Flick the sterring wheel from one lock to the other, this will ensure you wake up your passengers in time to slide sideways into a tree

[DoreSlamR]

In our local paper they reported on a road rage incident where some tourist was tailgating an F250 truck, in the end the F250 driver had had enough so the next intersection he stops reverses and drives up and over the tailgaters car...I think we've wanted to do something like this at one time or another....I know i would i hate tailgaters!

[56pickup]

Originally Posted by nugget378

You sure about that?
when I did my HC a few years ago it was "give way to cars already on the round about" not who's on the right,
I took that to mean if you cross that white line first you have right of way.

Yep, it may have changed a tad, but it is still give way to your right, unless you are driving in the USA , were, you should watch out for the left hand side.
When you hit a roundabout , where do you naturally look?
ther right, or the left?

[SVTVNM]

agree with you I think this is the cause of so many accidents, but speed seems to get the blame 99% of the time

[ltd]

What grinds my gears constantly is Camry drivers, and aspirational camry drivers. They're the ones who drive an echo, or a corolla or Yaris etc., but would like to one day drive a camry. They cannot do the speed limit, they jump on the brakes if a leaf blows out on to the road or a car pulls out of a driveway 300 metres ahead, they cannot maintain speed on the freeway and are remarkably magnetic for Indians and Asians.

How many of you have gone past a Camry that was doing 40 in a 60 zone only to see some little lady with a black dot on her forehead struggling to see over the steering wheel?

Here's a challenge for Toyota, put some friggin' adjustable pedals and a real seat height position in a camry if you want sales, for otherwise you are only making the problem of your cardigan image worse. Soon it won't be the cardigan image, it will the turban image done in a power point presentation.

[MITCHAY]

The only problem with people not doing the speed limit is when I have no room to overtake :

And I hate people who high beam me when I do happen to overtake them like I have done something illegal. If the road has broken lines and I have enough distance, fair game! _

Biggest offenders are you guessed it, CAMRY DRIVERS!

I wish the cops would crack down on people hogging the right lane and doing under the speed limit as much as they do people who break the speed limit.

[DanielXR8]

Originally Posted by 56pickup

Dipsticks, who cannot assimilate that a roundabout replaced the give way to the right intersections.

Brain dead organisations,RACV, NRMA, RACQ preach how to drive through a roundabout. If you listened to them, there would be crashes every day.

It is so simple: Give way to the right: How ####### easy is that.

: : :

Umm except in NSW at least, thats wrong. You give way to traffic on the roundabout and any cars entering the roundabout who got there before you.

Nothing in the book about give way to the right, although I agree everyone drives on that assumption. I always smile to myself when people who got to the roundabout first, still give way to me because I am approaching the roundabout to their right, but am still further away to the roundabout then they are. Very courteous people those.

Dan

[DanielXR8]

Originally Posted by 56pickup

Yep, it may have changed a tad, but it is still give way to your right, unless you are driving in the USA , were, you should watch out for the left hand side.
When you hit a roundabout , where do you naturally look?
ther right, or the left?

Honeslty in NSW that is not the case. My neice was going on about it the other day and I looked it up. Also was on an advanced driver training day a few weeks ago and the same question came up. In NSW at least, it is not give way to the right. Its the first there or those on the roundabout have right of way. You can download the RTA road manual or whatever they call it to confirm.

Dan

[ea90gl]

yes but wouldnt giving way to who ever is in the round about first cause many problems since the majority would fly up the road to get to the roundabout first so they dont have to give way? Im all for the give way to right since i dont wanna be mid way in a roundabout then have some *** face T bone me cause he was speeding to get in first and couldnt slow down

[dave289]

what grinds my gears are people who should not be on the road in the first place,basically cause they've got no idea how to drive,yet somehow all these morons get given i license and then i have to drive on the road and the highway risking my life with these tools.

one other thing is suburu liberty drivers who have to drive around in broad daylight with there driving lights on.a few weeks back it seemed to be every second liberty on the road.why do they do this,is it to say look at me cause no one else will.

[daniel_rossy]

Yeah i hate when you are driving around a curvey road and its 100k's, come across this old holden and they are sitting on 60k's, they had no side mirrors or anything, 30 mins later they decide to pull over to let me pass, which ironicly was at the beginning of a passing lane.. Grr..

[Daymoe]

Originally Posted by 56pickup

Wall to Wall bitumen drivers, namely city folk. 99% would not have a clue how to drive. They learn from some Driving School, because the Govt says so. They then buy a heap of c### car, a kill thier mates and others.

I put this theory to the test in some years ago, and guess what?

City drivers could not drive on gravel roads, through sand hills, on dirt roads and through water. Why, Because, they have a belief that learning to drive on wall to wall bitumen proves that they can drive. (sadly only in suburbia)

Question: What doy you do, after driving for four hours from Melbourne and suddenly you find yourself with both off side wheels in the gravel?

1. Do you panic and brake instantly

2. Turn hard right

3. Controlled driving out of the gravel

4. Plant the foot and go for it

5. Flick the sterring wheel from one lock to the other, this will ensure you wake up your passengers in time to slide sideways into a tree

I'll pick option 3 ;)

Turn hard right and the car would probably roll, break hard and the two wheels on the gravel will lose traction.

I'm guilty of not being able to keep to one speed going up and down hills, but i'm a learner

[Nostalgia]

My biggest gripe is young females with bottle blonde hair in their Mummy and Daddy funded Hyundai Getz talking on the mobile at the lights. They just have no idea of the dangers which face them.

[MITCHAY]

On the topic of roundabouts. If you're giving way to those already on the roundabout then you are logically already giving way to the right automatically so basically same thing IMO.

[Jayden]

Originally Posted by Fev

Those people who for whatever reason enters into their miniscule mind that swinging out to the left to turn right is a good idea? i have had so many near misses with people in the centre of their lane in the right hand side of the road swing out to the left to turn right! Luckily i havnt had the chance to stop, get out and abuse them because they have hit me but it has to be inevitable as so many people do it.
And i could resort to "racism" here because the majority are of one particular race but i wont get into that..

I hope you dont do it, its bloody dangerous!

the Scandinavian flick? maybe they are rally drivers. Ill never try that technique in real life because I tend to screw it up in Richard Burns rally game all the time. works though. Obviously the people your referring to are just real stupid.

[pauljh74]

A few of the many things I see daily:

*People who select say the left lane because there's less traffic in it when they know full well they have to turn right 300m up the road and then force their way into the right lane further ahead. Blackburn Rd/Princes Hwy/Westall Rd (southbound) in Clayton (Melb) is a good example. People choose the middle lane to turn left and therefore be in position for the right turn lanes further along. You see people move from the middle lane to the left and then force their way across to turn right making the people who have done the right thing avoid them and slow down.

*Again Blackburn Rd near Wellington Rd (southbound). Sign says left lane ends 200 mtrs. Normal people choose middle lane to go straight ahead, the rest drive all the way up the left lane and push in taking full advantage (and then some) of the 2 lanes into 1 rule (car in front has right of way". I've seen a few do this from the left turn lane 20 metres from the lights. There used to be a sign that said "left lane must turn left" - but some idiot had it changed.

There's too much of people knowing full well they have to merge and they pass as many cars as possible before "kamikaze merging" (changing lanes and expecting everyone to make way would be a more accurate description)

*People who take until the next intersection to reach the speed limit. They take off slow in a car that is capable of much more and 2km later they might get within 10km of the limit. I'm not expecting anyone to set any acceleration records for their car, but 0-70 in 1000 metres isn't good enough! Especially when the limit is 80!

*People who wait 5 seconds when they get the turn arrow before moving off when the time allowed for traffic at that intersection is limited already. There's a queue that has already missed the last sequence and when you're 4th in line and miss the lights because of these people is annoying - you have to wait another couple of minutes unnecessarily.

*People who indicate to turn at the lights after they have been sitting there a while. I'll elaborate - A small 2 lane each way intersection where after the lights it merges back to 1, so you choose the right lane to go straight ahead unless there is someone wanting to turn right, then you choose the left lane. Sometimes you pull up and the person in front appears to be going straight. The lights go green, then they indicate and get stuck behind them for most of the sequence. If I knew that earlier I would have picked the other lane and been on my way.

*People who persistently talk on hand held mobiles. While illegal, answering a call and telling someone "I'm driving, will call back" is probably the next best option, but you see some people driving kilometre after kilometre with that phone to their ear, usually driving worse than usual.

[X000BOSS]

Originally Posted by Fev

i nearly had the front right hand side of my car ripped off by some dumbshit concreter in thornleigh a while back. he was driving dead beside me and decided to change into my lane.. stupid , i hit the brakes, leaned on the horn and gave him the finger, and that had the audacity to stick his up at me! stupid lebo(sorry, but the ones i have had experiences with are all arrogant pricks)

mate its a good thing that in all the commotion you had a chance to see his passport!!!!

[pauljh74]

Originally Posted by Fev

i nearly had the front right hand side of my car ripped off by some dumbshit concreter in thornleigh a while back. he was driving dead beside me and decided to change into my lane.. stupid , i hit the brakes, leaned on the horn and gave him the finger, and that had the audacity to stick his up at me! stupid lebo(sorry, but the ones i have had experiences with are all arrogant pricks)

I had a car (Nissan Pathfinder) sitting alongside me, he indicated for a few seconds, then moved over towards me! I hit the horn, he moved back, then came at me again! The first time might have been a mistake, the second was deliberate. He wanted to go left and nothing was going to stop him. So much for giving way to the car in the target lane.

[DanielXR8]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

On the topic of roundabouts. If you're giving way to those already on the roundabout then you are logically already giving way to the right automatically so basically same thing IMO.

No if there are entry points say just ahead of yours and a car is already there, so from your perspective as you approach from the six o'clock position, they are ahead and slightly to the LEFT of you (think 3 o'clock position) and you charge on the roundabout assuming you are on their right and have right of way... well if they entered first, you are paying the repair bill and learnng about giving way to the left.

[DanielXR8]

Originally Posted by NostalgEA

My biggest gripe is young females with bottle blonde hair in their Mummy and Daddy funded Hyundai Getz talking on the mobile at the lights. They just have no idea of the dangers which face them.

As do few of the men who date them.