Driving - Your "pet hate" on the road

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by mick taylor

Coming across road works signs saying 60KM/H and then drive 5KM and nothing to be seen, I seen this many a time, only the other day the same nonsense and then hear is the un marked cop car siting off the road, I seen the in car radar, the cop was sitting with the door open eating looking down the road, I was doing 100KM/H as I passed and then up the road was a road works ute driving along going to set up another speed sign.

I thought hang on FFS I was thinking of going back and abuse the cop, but for the cars behind me pushing me along I was thinking of.

Do the cops in QLD still have to pull you up to give you a ticket or is it just sent to you in the mail, not sure if in car radar does send out like the Vans do, I think they still have to pick you up.

Dunno about Police states like QLD but here you MIGHT get a caution the first time, but if you get caught again automatic 3 months of walking/ thinking time for being 35+ over the speed limit.Been a couple of roadworks people killed or seriously injured in the last few years so the law takes a very dim view of speeding idiots

[Ben73]

Originally Posted by DoreSlamR

People who stop a good car length from the stop line at traffic lights. Especially the ones that have sensors in the road..what if no one turns up...do they just sit there forever??

I once drove around someone and stopped in front of them behind the line at a set of lights. They sat there at a red for at least 2 light rotations that I saw. I got into the left lane to go left assuming the lights were screwed when I saw they had about 8m between them and the stop line. So I pulled back in front of them to turn right and what do you know, light went green on the next rotation.

[JasonACT]

Hmmm.. Shops on my way home from work have camera operated boom gates (plate reading, for over-stayers). Had an old guy wait at the gate about 2 metres away from the camera for a couple (!) of minutes while the cars behind us piled up. He got out of the car to complain to me that he can't reverse out because I'm in the way... I said, drive forward! He got visibly angry, I yelled "forward!" while pointing in the direction needed and he got back in and moved slightly forward - the gate opened.

I don't blame him though. That's on the complex. Maybe because they installed 4 little speed bumps on the way out which screws with my car (and my XR6 mudflaps).

So... Unnecessary speed bumps. ( ooh, now I'm happy again.)

[Yellow_Festiva]

Originally Posted by JasonACT

So... Unnecessary speed bumps. ( ooh, now I'm happy again.)

Ok, how about speed bumps that are stupidly spaced apart?

Revesby Coles in Sydney has an underground car park. Just as you exit the book gates they have 2 speed humps at about 2.7m apart - you know, about the distance of the average car wheelbase.

When attacked straight on or at a slight angle the car becomes a washing machine.. bouncing all over the place or rocking side to side.

Absolute joke whoever installed them...

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

Ok, how about speed bumps that are stupidly spaced apart?

Revesby Coles in Sydney has an underground car park. Just as you exit the book gates they have 2 speed humps at about 2.7m apart - you know, about the distance of the average car wheelbase.

When attacked straight on or at a slight angle the car becomes a washing machine.. bouncing all over the place or rocking side to side.

Absolute joke whoever installed them...

Top ryde shopping centre is the worst for speed bumps. My car is not lowered, yet these behemoth speed bump scrape the crap out of the underside of my car. So i just dont go there. And thats inch up, inch forward listening to the scrape...

[FroudeyBrand]

People who indicate right on a roundabout then indicate left to exit roundabout but are just going straight like ffs.....

This whole blink off roundabout thing does my head in.... use left for left and right for right and going straight don't indicate at all

[FoxtrotGolfXray 5.0]

Originally Posted by FroudeyBrand

People who indicate right on a roundabout then indicate left to exit roundabout but are just going straight like ffs.....

This whole blink off roundabout thing does my head in.... use left for left and right for right and going straight don't indicate at all

I appreciate that it is a long thread and that some may not have been following it form the start, but to save going over the same ground again, start reading at post #21.

[Bossxr8]

People who drive around with their rear fog light switched on when it's not even foggy or raining.

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

People who drive around with their rear fog light switched on when it's not even foggy or raining.

And the d**** that drive around with both headlights and fog lights on that the same time,knowing that is illegal.They used to be called “look at me lights”dunno what they are called now ( probably p*** you off lights)

[Bossxr8]

Originally Posted by Tassie f100

And the d**** that drive around with both headlights and fog lights on that the same time,knowing that is illegal.They used to be called “look at me lights”dunno what they are called now ( probably p*** you off lights)

DRL's have legitimized that now though. Since every second car has lights on, the police probably don't even recognize the ones that have fogs on, and don't have DRL's.

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

DRL's have legitimized that now though. Since every second car has lights on, the police probably don't even recognize the ones that have fogs on, and don't have DRL's.

Yeah but it is also illegal to have DRLs and headlights on at the same time.Pretty sure original fitment DRLs switch off when headlights are switched on,although some of these LED parklights are quite bright

[danzvtil]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

DRL's have legitimized that now though. Since every second car has lights on, the police probably don't even recognize the ones that have fogs on, and don't have DRL's.

Even car dealers dont know what they are, one secondhand yard i know of lists them as "spot lights" when they are clearly factory fitted fog lights

[PooDog]

Wannabe formula 1 drivers that overtake my fuel tanker then cut in front of me to just make the off ramp then as they slow i overtake them on the motorway again .....i guess they must gain about 3/100ths of a second

I give them the look when theyre the same height as my cab as they go up the off ramp

[mick taylor]

Originally Posted by Rallye Sport

I think you've explained what was going on perfectly. Just look at it from a different angle.

So you passed the first speed sign and further up the road the traffic controller was putting out another. Sounds like they were still in the process of setting the site up.

And there was no workers to be seen. Well they don't set foot on the road until the relevant controls are in place. Why? Hopefully by then people won't be doing 40 over through the site

I have seen such signs many a time, I assume just forgotten. I have driven like 10km and f ing nothing to be seen and 5000 cars have over taken me.

This one I did say 5km from the sign looked up the road over the hill could see over the next hill and nothing then more KM and then a hidden unmarked cop car and then the ute plodding along with signs in the back.

They are pathetic ! and this has nothing what so ever to do with safety at all. but a C act. a Nazi type of attack on innocent people.

Fact is a true cop car would be better serving any such a situation sitting at or around the start of the signage and not hiding in an unmarked car that is clearly an out right revenue raising tactic in fact.

Hell I drive 50.000km a year I drive more than 90% of the population I know what goes on I am not ignorant, sure I see ignorant people on the roads all the time and I know a few road workers and their story's of idiots that they have dealt with over the years. and I also know the political jerks and their disregards as to reality, talk about being rude the fact is that they are clearly not truly openly totally honest about road safety at all, they hide behind smoke an mirrors and make mountains out of mole hills.

It's all about 1km over Nazi type nonsense and devoid of reality of what truly causes all the problems, people are not paying attention, I am amassed at how far most people only look ahead 40m if that in the daylight ? and that's it I am sure if that. on them hills I was talking about is easy 1km that I could see.

I drive about town and use the high beam when I can and people say why, well it's because I am looking up the distance of the high beam and they claim that I am joking, claiming why are you looking up their for ?

The road rules have to change with that ABC eye chart, can they see 400m ? I think not.
One mate was 20yo and sat at the T road and I said what are you waiting for ? he can not see cars clearly or judge the speed of the cars in fact.
My Father in law drives 80km/h on the highway f is that dangerous to do, I had to lead him the way, never again ! you could be safer siting on 200KM/H I am sure, at 80 the cars on that 4 lane highway were cutting in front you name it, it was bedlam. but to the ignorant

[mick taylor]

Originally Posted by Tassie f100

Dunno about Police states like QLD but here you MIGHT get a caution the first time, but if you get caught again automatic 3 months of walking/ thinking time for being 35+ over the speed limit.Been a couple of roadworks people killed or seriously injured in the last few years so the law takes a very dim view of speeding idiots

You know who are the biggest idiots who run down roadwork's people, it's old people who plod along like Mr Magoo that's what the road workers have said to me, not to mention ones who have been run over.
Young brat un licenced kids in stolen cars come next. followed by mums picking up the kids in a rage and not watching the bloody road.
Then comes the self absorbed clowns who totally disregard everyone 24/7

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by mick taylor

You know who are the biggest idiots who run down roadwork's people, it's old people who plod along like Mr Magoo that's what the road workers have said to me, not to mention ones who have been run over.

Yes, experienced jmping over the armco fencing out of the way of a little old lady (not from Passadena) we called ET once or twice while on Stop and Go duty.
She would wave at us with a skeleton like hand as she totally ignored direction.

[galaxy xr8]

People who don't know the difference between "Form one lane" and "merge right" or Zip merging as it is referred to by Vic roads.

On my daily commute there are a few of these "Form one lane" areas which are clearly sign posted and as the traffic is always congested at this point or a few hundred metres in front of this point, there is always one hero that comes flying up from behind on the inside lane believing that they have right of way!!!.

The annoying thing is this part of the road is just 50 metres through/past a set of traffic lights where the traffic is to form one lane, and then just another 20 metres up from the sign there is a turn right lane only, so in actual fact even though the lanes merge together , its different to normal merging lanes as usually its the outside lane that vanishes more so then the inside but quite the opposite in this case. So even though the signs posted say "Form one lane" which for anyone that knows the road rules means that you have to give way to any vehicle that is in front of you in the other lane, Every time I drive this part of road I see someone trying to force the decision that because they are in the right lane or inside lane that they have right of way even when coming from behind.
I laugh then when they can't merge as they then either get caught behind a car turning right in that right turning lane or people force them out.

I've had it done to me once when I was traveling in two lanes (I was in the outside lane) and there was a car just slightly in front of me on my right (in the inside lane), then we hit the "form one lane" signs again, and some idiot that was very much behind me but in the same lane as the car just slightly in front of me thought he would speed up when the lanes merge into one as he believed that it was his right that I had to give way !!!.
At this point as he sped up he was along side me but behind but as I had cars parked on the edge of the road and really by the time this all happened the lane had turned into one and the room was narrowing I was forced to pull behind.

Clearly there are people that have no idea on the road rules and think it's there right in which ever way they choose to see fit.

[Hobby]

I call them flog lights. I know a guy who was pulled over because of them. He had been drinking so lost his licence and fined for that as well as using flog lights. I have no sympathy for him. You only need to give the wallopers an excuse to chat and he did it.