Drivers that really grind your gears

[MMarve]

It's the growing trend of drivers in the Left hand lane on Round-a-bouts turning right (say third exit or more). Not only frustrating but also dangerous. Where has that come from?

I drive a fair bit in Spain and this is very common practise. So much so that my (Spanish) wife believed how they do it there was correct. It took a very in depth and sometimes heated discussion of me explaining how it should work for the penny to drop and admit I was right. I hope to look back in several years and see this as a watershed moment in our marriage.

But to answer your point, maybe it's all those furriners still over here.

 

[Stivino]

I drive a fair bit in Spain and this is very common practise.

Tenerife is the same, my partner does it here. Another thing they do here is; if they are slowing for any reason, they put an indicator on. What's that about?
I'm not used to it and thinking the driver in front was pulling up, I attempted to pass. Nuts!

 

[EFLImpudence]

Another thing they do here is; if they are slowing for any reason, they put an indicator on. What's that about?

Can't find brake light switch. I thought I had better put a smiley emoji for the humourless.

 

[EFLImpudence]

It's the other way round in Portugal - although not everyone seems to know.

Only use the outside lane when leaving at the next exit.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

I chuckle to myself when I'm last to arrive at a roundabout and first to leave ... it shouldn't be possible

Example. 3 junction mini-roundabout. 1 car already sitting at each of the other 2 junctions. I arrive. Now 3 cars sitting with us all staring at each other. Stalemate cause at least 1 of said drivers doesn't have a clue. I get fed up so start moving ... and the others take that as their cue to do likewise.

Farcical.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

Drivers who think their car is 10' wide. Or at least it must be wider than the lorry in front of them which they have just seen get through the gap that they cant.
Drivers who think their car will get narrower if they slow down.
Drivers wanting to turn right into a road and want it to be clear in both directions - lets just wait here until we die of old age rather than go half-way.
Drivers who think they are entitled to 2 spaces in car parks.
Drivers who tow caravans.

 

[MMarve]

I chuckle to myself when I'm last to arrive at a roundabout and first to leave ... it shouldn't be possible

Example. 3 junction mini-roundabout. 1 car already sitting at each of the other 2 junctions. I arrive. Now 3 cars sitting with us all staring at each other. Stalemate cause at least 1 of said drivers doesn't have a clue. I get fed up so start moving ... and the others take that as their cue to do likewise.

Farcical.

This happens to me ALL the time. I find it embarassing for all involved.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Easy fix, fit a train horn!

Andy

 

[crystal ball]

We’ll rule 170 makes it clear you must stop and allow them to cross (give them priority). But in all cases a motorist has a duty of care that is not reciprocated. So if you could stop and don’t, then expect a nice personal injury claim heading your way.

We were in Vancouver visiting friends, when we went to the supermarket we walked, as we approached the exit road all the cars in the queue to leave reversed to let us past, same applied on suburban streets, if you looked as if you were going to cross traffic pulled up to let you over, it got quite embarrassing, same applies in Germany too

 

[conny]

I chuckle to myself when I'm last to arrive at a roundabout and first to leave ... it shouldn't be possible

Example. 3 junction mini-roundabout. 1 car already sitting at each of the other 2 junctions. I arrive. Now 3 cars sitting with us all staring at each other. Stalemate cause at least 1 of said drivers doesn't have a clue. I get fed up so start moving ... and the others take that as their cue to do likewise.

Farcical.

Yes, got one of those near work and I'm usually the one that keeps moving, albeit a bit slower, as I approach. Once they see one car going it's as though a light bulb has come on upstairs.

 

[motorbiking]

It's the other way round in Portugal - although not everyone seems to know.

Only use the outside lane when leaving at the next exit.


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Used to teach kerb (left), kerb(roundabout), kerb(exit left) for advanced motorbike test as long as its safe. It has the handy benefit of keeping you out of where all the diesel spills land.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Used to teach kerb (left), kerb(roundabout), kerb(exit left) for advanced motorbike test as long as its safe. It has the handy benefit of keeping you out of where all the diesel spills land.

Correct and is what I do in the car, when it is safe and after checking it really is safe to do so, it is also the fastest way through, but....

Someone who claimed to be an advanced driver was critical of my doing that in a car cam video he saw of my driving - as an attempt to loose an extreme tailgating driver.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

Stalemate cause at least 1 of said drivers doesn't have a clue.

Probaby true - the driver with nobody to his right has no reason to sit there, but dont be too quick to assume "doesn't have a clue" - can you be sure that the situation hasnt very recently changed? Can you be sure that the driver with nobody to give way to wasnt just checking that the one to his left hadnt started to pull out? Having right-of-way is all very well, but most people would rather avoid an accident then blindly rely on it.

I get fed up so start moving ... and the others take that as their cue to do likewise.

But yeah - the "Mexican Standoff" happens. Someone has to be the one to break it.

This happens to me ALL the time. I find it embarassing for all involved.

Not embarrassing, but it does bring another driver category to mind - one that chills me, not annoys me.

In the (usually mini-)roundabout situation, the driver coming round from my right who waves thanks when I give way. I always think "Why? Did you not know that I had to give way? If positions were reversed might you have pulled out in front of me because YDHAFC that giving way is not a courtesy?"

But then we all know that everybody here is a better driver than the rest of the country apart from me.

 

[fillyboy]

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Tenerife is the same, my partner does it here. Another thing they do here is; if they are slowing for any reason, they put an indicator on. What's that about?
I'm not used to it and thinking the driver in front was pulling up, I attempted to pass. Nuts!

Went to Egypt many years ago and had a white knuckle ride in a taxi one night. Bizarrely, when they meet a car coming towards them, they turn off their lights and start flashing their headlights at the oncoming car.