Is the standard of driving falling?

[Pillartopost]

It seems to me that it is the exception and not the rule that I make the journey to or from work without someone behaving like a selfish ass. Example; - This morning I was merging at 25 mph onto the elevated section of the A316. At that point there are three lanes, shortly to become two.

Thirty feet behind me in the left hand lane there was a woman in a A3 sportsback who can quite clearly see me merging.

She has the following options:
a) Continue at the same speed and let me complete merging.
b) Change lanes. The one to her right is completely clear.

She chose:
c) Put her foot down and accelerate to cut me off.

Through pig-headed stupidity, she almost caused an accident. Then she has the gall to act innocent when I lean on the horn, though her flushed face said otherwise. By now, she's probably convinced herself that she did nothing wrong.

I'm 40. I've been driving for 16 years, and things have never, ever been as bad "out there" as they are now. I'd like to see less speed cameras on the road and more policemen enforcing the law.

Anyone else like to vent?

 

[drivinggod09]

the standard has dropped i notice more idiots when im driving my HGV trying to cut 38t of lorry up on roundabouts to get one place ahead only to turn off at the next junction?????????????????????????????
pet hate of the day Random parkers who park outside the house all be it on a public highway and go off to work / college/ dole office instead of using more than adequate parking in town ok it cost money BUT if they can afford to drive a bmw / jag or a brand new red ****** fiat they can afford the charges, i have seen a wheel clamp in macro thats looking tempting rant over .

 

[PanzerMcGrory]

No women have always been terrible drivers, i mean how is it possible to even attempt to drive with your chest pressed against the steering wheel and your head stuck to the windscreen with the look of terror permanently etched on your face? and like quite a few coffin dodgers blissfully bumble along unaware of the mayhem they cause as the rest of us use our foresight to stay out of there way thus avoiding countless accidents they would know nothing about and deny liability for.

 

[Alex M Grieve]

She chose:
c) Put her foot down and accelerate to cut me off.

Through pig-headed stupidity, she almost caused an accident. Then she has the gall to act innocent when I lean on the horn, though her flushed face said otherwise. By now, she's probably convinced herself that she did nothing wrong.

I'm 40. I've been driving for 16 years, and things have never, ever been as bad "out there" as they are now. I'd like to see less speed cameras on the road and more policemen enforcing the law.

Anyone else like to vent?

Good vent sir!

Two good points, and well made. I really have no sympathy with the term "accident". It implies: inevitable, no one to blame, ordained by the gods.

It is really either a case of someone being stupid, as in this example, or even worse, two f***wits, asleep at the wheel and trying to occupy the same piece of road at the same time.

Sadly, the cavalry then arrive and, do they move things on, no - they close the road (sometimes in both directions to save other rubberneckers having an "accident" too).

So the rest of us pay twice, once in the time we lose sitting 3 abreast and stationary waiting for the siege above to be lifted, and secondly through increased insurance premia as we contribute to the cost of the above collision.

To your second point - more visible policing. None of this seems to happen anywhere near a marked police car. So more traffic cars would help to keep people legal and would reduce inconsiderate behaviour.

This then leads to "Grieve's Law of the Police Car". If I had been driving a police car, would the other person have done that. No. They would certainly not have done that.

So why can't people drive as though they were driving alongside a police car. They can obviously do it. If they did, there would be fewer collisions (there never were any accidents), and we would enjoy smoother, uninterrupted journeys, and lower insurance premia.

So everyone wins. What's wrong with that?

 

[100%Bitch]

No women have always been terrible drivers, i mean how is it possible to even attempt to drive with your chest pressed against the steering wheel and your head stuck to the windscreen with the look of terror permanently etched on your face? and like quite a few coffin dodgers blissfully bumble along unaware of the mayhem they cause as the rest of us use our foresight to stay out of there way thus avoiding countless accidents they would know nothing about and deny liability for.

Couldn't agree more.

Us women are absolutely terrible drivers and there's no man on the road as bad.

 

[Alex M Grieve]

Couldn't agree more.

Us women are absolutely terrible drivers and there's no man on the road as bad.

Hi Helen,

Can you help us differentiate between irony and sarcasm?

Pretty please???

 

[SQ_W211]

I think road rage is getting worse now a days and its all started since we have our roads flooded with the white van drivers who think they can go anywhere they want as most of the time they are driving someone else's vehicle and insured under the company so they have nothing to loose.

and they are very quick to start a fight/argument if you show any concerns against it

 

[100%Bitch]

Hi Helen,

Can you help us differentiate between irony and sarcasm?

Pretty please???

I was thinking that sincerity was key.

 

[Dosco]

I was thinking that sincerity was key.

Get out of that one alex - or don't dig any further.

Helen PLEASE change your Avatar, gives me the creeps every time I see it, not a patch on your web pic unless of course that is your younger sister

 

[Pillartopost]

No-one tried to ram me off the road this morning, so I'm full of the milk of human kindness. Not.

Saw another motorist almost get twatted by a charmless man eager to prove the adage "Tanks driven by pigs". You guessed it. A Land rover, blue, reg xx04 FPA with those silly chrome exhaust things on the side coming to a motorway near you.

One of those happy to idle in the overtaking lane, but equally happy to leave his exit to the last hundred yards before veering across several lanes of traffic, indicating optional. Had a police car been in the area, I am sure that Grieve's law would have applied.

Oh, for a button on the brake lever and machine guns behind the headlights. :twisted:

 

[Seeker_UK]

Can you help us differentiate between irony and sarcasm?

Sarcasm is a form of ironic speech or writing which is bitter or cutting, being intended to taunt its target.

Irony means that it's made out of iron.

 

[Dosco]

Sarcasm is a form of ironic speech or writing which is bitter or cutting, being intended to taunt its target.

Irony means that it's made out of iron.

...and Welsh iron to boot:grin:

 

[PanzerMcGrory]

Couldn't agree more.

Us women are absolutely terrible drivers and there's no man on the road as bad.

Thanks Helen,
I do like a woman who knows her place

 

[Alex M Grieve]

I was thinking that sincerity was key.

Would that be sincere sarcasm then?

 

[Alex M Grieve]

Sarcasm is a form of ironic speech or writing which is bitter or cutting, being intended to taunt its target.

Irony means that it's made out of iron.

Thank you for ironing that one out. So, it was Welsh sarcasm, look you ............?

 

[st4]

This then leads to "Grieve's Law of the Police Car". If I had been driving a police car, would the other person have done that. No. They would certainly not have done that.

So why can't people drive as though they were driving alongside a police car. They can obviously do it. If they did, there would be fewer collisions (there never were any accidents), and we would enjoy smoother, uninterrupted journeys, and lower insurance premia.

So everyone wins. What's wrong with that?

This is the best thing I've read in ages and I will apply it to my driving and see how it goes

 

[Dosco]

Thank you for ironing that one out. So, it was Welsh sarcasm, look you ............?

...don't forget the 'boyo' or however you spell it

 

[Pillartopost]

Sarcasm is a form of ironic speech or writing which is bitter or cutting, being intended to taunt its target.

Irony means that it's made out of iron.

Aha! That's where you're wrong. Irony is something a blacksmith does.....! (Welsh or otherwise)