Your top three driving pet hates...

[MDC250]

Middle lane hoggers on the motorway

Indicating right at the last so you are stuck behind

Using the outside lane of a roundabout to try and go for an exit which blatantly you should be in the inside lane for

 

[John Jones Jr]

Oh, DM I just hate it. It's one thing that really reflects badly on any driver and fcuks me off big time.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Yes, deaf people should be able to drive.

Fixed doh!

 

[frog-n-flymo]

There are a million and one of these, let's go for my top three incidents:

1) filtering, legally, on the M3 on my ZX9 a car in the outside lane suddenly veered across the motorway 20 feet in front of me. Not the poor guy's fault, sometimes you can catch your broadsheet on the steering wheel when you try to turn the page;
2) whilst moving house I hired a box van, in going back for the second load I spent 3/4 mile trying to pull back in front of a TIR lorry, that accelerated to block me, when I finally managed to pull in he tailgates me for the next 1/2 mile until we needed to stop with alacrity on the M3/M25 junction, he failed to stop, pushed me into the car in front, was the cause of a major pile up (detail really not needed) and then tried to tell the police I was guilty of dangerous driving - there's a skip somewhere needing his body parts to stick out;
3) me, yup, I messed up, going up the A5 in a serious thaw,I thought I'd follow a car 1/4 mile in front and match his speed, a car pulled across in front on me in the other direction, turning right, I couldn't see the turning and tried to stop, 150 yards of skidding and I hit them at 30mph, not their fault, mine, but I thought I was behaving sensibly, guy's realise you're really dumb in your 20s

 

[C36fan]

Yes, deaf people should be able to drive.

what are you saying??

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[Stratman]

Another three

Turning on sidelights but not dipped beam in fog. Why?

Drivers who are in the right hand lane at traffic lights but only start indicating when the lights go green.

People who don't know how to indicate at roundabouts.

 

[Dieselman]

Turning on sidelights but not dipped beam in fog. Why?

Presumably you see their sidelights, in which case it's not really foggy enough for more lighting.

The opposite is more of an irritation for me.
People that need to illuminate their cars like it's a football stadium for the tiniest bit of mist. It smacks of over dramatism.

Roundabout indicating doesn't bother me as road positioning normally shows the intended maneuver.

 

[MancMike]

By that logic deaf people shouldnt be able to drive...?

Headphones in are most likely for hands free calls.

No, for music, otherwise they're having very one sided conversations...

Also, deaf people are few and far between and have no choice but to have their hearing impaired, they've also had a long time to get used to it and make better use of their other senses.

I've seen a lot of occasions an ambulance stuck flashing, beeping, sirens, etc behind a car who's got earphones in. They just don't hear it. Listening to music in the car is fine, as you can still hear external loud noises.

 

[del320]

I agree with much of the above and may even be guilty of some crimes but what grips me in town and at speed in the country is when the driver ahead repeatedly looks left at the passenger s/he is conversing with.

Eye contact is not required!

 

[Wheelsnuts]

* People who fail to indicate.
* Middle or outside lane hoggers.
* People who accelerate when you try to overtake them on a perfectly safe stretch of road.
I could go on..............

 

[MancMike]

when the driver ahead repeatedly looks left at the passenger s/he is conversing with.

That's an odd one. It's not something that i've noticed to be honest. Certainly not something I do... but agree.

 

[RKC-benz]

1. I hate those places where roads cross and there's red, orange and green disco lights but no music.

2. I hate farmers blaming motorists for dead badgers by leaving corpses by the road.

3. I hate the car drivers who pretend cyclists have less right to the road than them.

 

[epervier]

I have none! but do treat all other road users as idiots, to get safely through my journey.

 

[MancMike]

I have none! but do treat all other road users as idiots, to get safely through my journey.

That seems like quite an oxymoron. Surely if you're defensive driving, you're aware of the things you're defending yourself against?

 

[epervier]

That seems like quite an oxymoron. Surely if you're defensive driving, you're aware of the things you're defending yourself against?

if that were the case, it still wouldn't make any of them my top three driving pet hates, as in the OP's title "Your top three driving pet hates"

I haven't got any pet hates, you just don't know what's coming next.. the other day a saw a women putting make up on while driving, She came so close to my car I had to swerve out of the way, in doing so my cigarette fell out of my mouth and landed inside my shirt, making me jerk about to stop the burning, in so doing spilt my coffee all over my meat and two veg, scolding them to possibly 3rd degree burn status, and broke my iphone having dropped it out of the drivers side open window at 60mph trying to to send a text, pet hates? I don't have time for pet hates. I haven't got time for oxymorons..I'm too busy trying to get old enough to be an oxygenarian.

 

[Minz]

People that drive with their seat so far reclined that all you can see is their eyebrows or the peak of their baseball cap, innit.

Anyone that drives wearing a hat, why? Do they not trust their roof?

As already mentioned, those that drive with their sidelights and front fogs on to make their car appear wider.

 

[Dieselman]

As already mentioned, those that drive with their sidelights and front fogs on to make their car appear wider.

I didn't realise that's what it was for...no wonder you don't see women with tail lights illuminating their rears...

 

[Mat B]

1) Lack of use of indicators on roundabouts.

2) Staying in outside lane when there's nothing on the inside lanes and doing a lot less than speed limit (dual carriageway)

3) Doing 40mph in a 60 zone then when entering a 30 zone still doing 40 mph

 

[IanA2]

1) drivers joining motorways thinking they have right of way
2) undertaking to get 1/2 cars infront
3) bloody quene jumping

Yup...infuriating. And dangerous.

 

[Dieselman]

Yup...infuriating. And dangerous.

Not if you're driving a big lorry...just make sure it has a dashcam.