Here's two of my big pet peeves, though I totally agree with yours: 1. You've got a car parked in your lane and a car's coming the other way. As is proper, you slow to a stop before said parked car to allow the oncoming driver through. Just as you've almost stopped, driver of oncoming car, for whatever irrational reason, decides "nah, sod your courtesy, I'm gonna stop and wave you through instead", even though they had right of way and you've already stopped. All they had to do was keep driving! 2. Cars parked/waiting on the wrong side of the road with headlights on facing oncoming traffic. So many do it, and seem totally ignorant to the fact they're blinding all oncoming traffic, as their dipped beams are now directed right in the eyes of approaching/passing drivers. Nearly as bad is when they park without lights on & facing wrong way at night. Now you can barely see the parked car until you're on top of it as there are no reflectors on the front. At risk of sounding like a total 'flute, more and more folk seem to be getting very lazy and thoughtless in their driving (I know we all make mistakes, of course). I suspect it's in part due to how coddled folk are by their nanny state appliance on wheels, to which they've handed over all power of intelligent thought and personal responsibility and become utterly complacent and disengaged from the act of "driving". I'm only 40, but will do anything I can to keep my pre 2006ish, DPF-free, smaller, lighter and easy to maintain sub £1000 cars going for as long as possible. Hoping to god I'll never have to buy a car with "lane keep assist" or "automatic braking" etc. (While the globalists still allow us to drive them, and fuel's still available in any case!) Cheers!
H8 that Especially in a street full of kids. You are trying to walk to school and have absolutely no foot path. Also work vans parked on the full pavement grrrr
Massive car... I can understand to a degree this peeve; generally around town - if I indeed must use the car around town - I take the Ka but I also have a full fat L322 Range Rover which despite its size, both footprint and engine (4.4 TDV8) is very economical, at times even more so than the Ka. I am often alone in the Range Rover but it serves a function; it can pull a 3½ tonne trailer...which it does; but obviously not every time because I don't always return to the point of departure with the trailer. Further, 4 people in the Ka is cramped, 5 in the RR is very comfortable; I'm not going to buy a third car somewhere in between the two because the RR is "large"
When you come to a roundabout and every one just stops because no one seems to understand you give way to traffic from the right. And the one that gets me the most, at a junction when your wanting to turn off the main road crossing oncoming traffic and the oncoming traffic will just keep coming even when its standing traffic and they cant go anywhere rather than let you over they have to have that 10 feet of space blocking the junction they would rather bring a town to a standstill rather than give up 10 feet for a minute.
@ It can become a huge problem in my hometown because some streets are very narrow, there was this knob in his huge Mercedes GLE with 22inch wheels that left his car with the wheels fully turned, the whole street was blocked
You need to get a tape measure mate. If people park with their tires turned outwards, it’s usually just a couple of inches width, to say it’s about a foot which is 12 inches and I think is a big exaggeration.
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Here's two of my big pet peeves, though I totally agree with yours:
1. You've got a car parked in your lane and a car's coming the other way. As is proper, you slow to a stop before said parked car to allow the oncoming driver through. Just as you've almost stopped, driver of oncoming car, for whatever irrational reason, decides "nah, sod your courtesy, I'm gonna stop and wave you through instead", even though they had right of way and you've already stopped. All they had to do was keep driving!
2. Cars parked/waiting on the wrong side of the road with headlights on facing oncoming traffic. So many do it, and seem totally ignorant to the fact they're blinding all oncoming traffic, as their dipped beams are now directed right in the eyes of approaching/passing drivers. Nearly as bad is when they park without lights on & facing wrong way at night. Now you can barely see the parked car until you're on top of it as there are no reflectors on the front.
At risk of sounding like a total 'flute, more and more folk seem to be getting very lazy and thoughtless in their driving (I know we all make mistakes, of course). I suspect it's in part due to how coddled folk are by their nanny state appliance on wheels, to which they've handed over all power of intelligent thought and personal responsibility and become utterly complacent and disengaged from the act of "driving".
I'm only 40, but will do anything I can to keep my pre 2006ish, DPF-free, smaller, lighter and easy to maintain sub £1000 cars going for as long as possible. Hoping to god I'll never have to buy a car with "lane keep assist" or "automatic braking" etc. (While the globalists still allow us to drive them, and fuel's still available in any case!) Cheers!
Parking a car on the pavement when there's an empty driveway, and pedestrians have to go onto the road coz they've blocked it.
H8 that Especially in a street full of kids. You are trying to walk to school and have absolutely no foot path. Also work vans parked on the full pavement grrrr
Massive car... I can understand to a degree this peeve; generally around town - if I indeed must use the car around town - I take the Ka but I also have a full fat L322 Range Rover which despite its size, both footprint and engine (4.4 TDV8) is very economical, at times even more so than the Ka. I am often alone in the Range Rover but it serves a function; it can pull a 3½ tonne trailer...which it does; but obviously not every time because I don't always return to the point of departure with the trailer. Further, 4 people in the Ka is cramped, 5 in the RR is very comfortable; I'm not going to buy a third car somewhere in between the two because the RR is "large"
When you come to a roundabout and every one just stops because no one seems to understand you give way to traffic from the right.
And the one that gets me the most, at a junction when your wanting to turn off the main road crossing oncoming traffic and the oncoming traffic will just keep coming even when its standing traffic and they cant go anywhere rather than let you over they have to have that 10 feet of space blocking the junction they would rather bring a town to a standstill rather than give up 10 feet for a minute.
I'd say then there's a fault in teaching because one of the main 1st things, even non drivers, know is give way to vehicles from the right
I don’t know how you explained all of these that calmly, the first one especially drives me insane😂
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@ It can become a huge problem in my hometown because some streets are very narrow, there was this knob in his huge Mercedes GLE with 22inch wheels that left his car with the wheels fully turned, the whole street was blocked
@ ikr! I hopeless near us. Cars have got really wide too
You need to get a tape measure mate. If people park with their tires turned outwards, it’s usually just a couple of inches width, to say it’s about a foot which is 12 inches and I think is a big exaggeration.
6 inches both sides?
I've never ran into the wheels being the problem. Only the bloody big car.