What pisses you off while driving?

LightningBolt

Sam Kade wrote: »

It isn't a fast lane it's an overtaking lane.

That annoys me when people point that out, we all know what they mean by fast lane.

I hate driving on 3/4 lane roads now. The left lane will be empty, the inside left someone will be flying, the inside right lane will have someone crawling and the overtaking lane will have a constant queue of traffic going by.

cyrusdvirus

LightningBolt wrote: »

I hate driving on 3/4 lane roads now. The left lane will be empty, the inside left someone will be flying, the inside right lane will have someone crawling and the overtaking lane will have a constant queue of traffic going by.

With those roads (and before i get flamed here i'm open to correction) but isn't the far left lane a feeder lane for the next slip road off, denoted by the reduced space between the white lines. The 'inside left lane' is the first driving lane, with the inside right and overtaking(far right) both being overtaking lanes??

Stark

It can depend on the signing, which is generally inconsistent in Ireland. When the M50 southbound first opened, it was signed as if the left lane was a slip lane that would disappear off and the right lane was the sole mainline lane. They've since corrected this. Likewise, the N7 was signed as if the far left lane would disappear off. They've since corrected this now as well.

The current situation is that you have 3 mainline driving lanes on the N7. A fourth slip lane will appear and disappear at junctions. The first driving lane will eventually disappear off towards Naas before you hit the motorway so you need to watch the signs for this. On the M50 you have 3 mainline lanes and a fourth lane that extends all the way between junctions, so in this case, the far left lane would be the feeder lane and the next 3 lanes are the driving lanes.

Then you have roads like the South Ring Road in Cork, which are a mix of two and three lanes with the third lane appearing and disappearing. I've seen this arrangement when driving in Spain, but the signing was much more consistent and easier to follow than Irish signing.

Big Nasty

Oh no - not again!

Bring back Greenbo for this one!

mise

Not indicating, esp on roundabouts.

On the way to work, there is a bus lane not in use that most people dont use as if everyone did it would mean longer delays. Anyway some people drive up it with their left indicator on as just as the end there is a small left turn, and then as soon as they reach the end of the bus lane dont turn left, they just skip the queue. Wrecks my head

robio

HelterSkelter wrote: »

Here are the top 10 things that piss me off when driving. List the things that get your blood boiling?

1. Drivers who hog the overtaking lane on a motorway
2. Drivers at front of queue who are asleep when traffic lights turn green
3. Drivers who break red lights
4. Drivers who block junctions (with or without a yellow box)
5. Drivers who don't indicate at roundabouts
6. Driving while on the phone
7. People who take up two parking spaces in car parks
8. Drivers who let queue jumpers back into the queue
9. Drivers who don't maintain a constant speed (slow down, speed up, slow down...)
10. Drivers who when coming to a queue drive really slowly up to it instead of driving up at a normal speed and stopping the car

they all annoy me, especially no. 2, its not that they're alway asleep sometime the idiots just take ages to take their hand break off, put into gear etc. then only 2 or 3 cars get through the lights even tho there was enough time for about 10 cars

i have devise two things that could resolve this issue. you could use both.

1. The Red light is on, then amber comes on as well to let the idiot know the lights are going to change so get ready. Just like in the uk. All cars in the queue then see the amber, get ready and when the light goes green everybody moves at the same time.

2. There are Giant bulldozers (or wrecking ball) at the side of the road and a huge hole on the other side. If the idiot doesnt move on time the bulldozer or wrecking ball smashes his car off the road and he falls into the hole. Then everyone else if free to move as the idiot is no longer in the way.
As this is a time of recession i think this is the best idea as new jobs will be created as someone has to man the bulldozer or wrecking ball

Problem solved. Thats why you should vote for me in the next elections, i will be a dictator but a fair one that will try to make everyone happy.

Here's another one that annoys me. The M50 roadworks, how long is that taking to complete ffs, What a joke!!!!!!!

Here is my solution:
There are thousands of people out of work, yeah?? They all claim about 200 euro off the dole, a lot of them would love to have the extra cash so why not pay them all 300euro or so a week but all of them have to go out an dig up and lay the new road. it would be done in hours

Stark

robio wrote: »

Here's another one that annoys me. The M50 roadworks, how long is that taking to complete ffs, What a joke!!!!!!!

Here is my solution:
There are thousands of people out of work, yeah?? They all claim about 200 euro off the dole, a lot of them would love to have the extra cash so why not pay them all 300euro or so a week but all of them have to go out an dig up and lay the new road. it would be done in hours

Not very cost effective paying a surplus of workers 300pw to watch asphalt dry. There are technical constraints that slow down the progress of the road. Trying to keep two lanes open at all time during the works contributes significantly to the time taken as well.

robio

Stark wrote: »

Not very cost effective paying a surplus of workers 300pw to watch asphalt dry. There are technical constraints that slow down the progress of the road. Trying to keep two lanes open at all time during the works contributes significantly to the time taken as well.

They will be chopping down the trees and digging not just watching asphalt dry. Anyway it should be all done during the night when hardly anyone uses it. And probably all in one night like in topgear

Penn

dunno if this has been mentioned, but Van drivers are my particular hate. Constantly tailgating, trying to overtake about 7 cars at once, even when their lights are dipped they blind you and they brake late.

Ok, so maybe not every van driver drives like this, but the majority I've seen the past few months do

Also, when you signal to let someone out and they don't notice, even though they're staring at you. Then you say **** it and go to drive on, then they pull out

electron

people who take up 2 lanes "just in case" - especially before roundabaouts :cool:

cooperla

HelterSkelter wrote: »

5. Drivers who don't indicate at roundabouts

This one really gets to me.

There's a roundabout on my way home from work. From the direction I approach there's two lanes (left lane marked for 1st and 2nd exits, right lane for turning right). Most people turn left (and never indicate) but I go straight. At least once every week someone pulls out in front of me on the roundabout and forces me to break.

electron

electron wrote: »

people who take up 2 lanes "just in case" - especially before roundabaouts :cool:

Sometimes on the smaller ****ty roundabouts I do this. Especially when there is an old battered japanese car in the lane beside me.
You get a sense after a while which cars are most likely to cut you up on a roundabout.

_Kaiser_

electron wrote: »

people who take up 2 lanes "just in case" - especially before roundabaouts :cool:

Well now given how so many drivers out there don't know what lane they should be in aproaching it, change their minds halfway through, don't indicate, or the roundabout itself is really only wide enough for 1 lane (N3 approaching Ratoath/Trim junctions for example) I can understand that one.

ManyQuestions

"1. who hog the overtaking lane"

Come on, lets get real here, we use them as the fast and slow lanes. I know i know, it is actually only to be used as an overtaking lane and is classed as such. Those of you that use it correctly as an overtaking lane, I'm sure you're happy in your extreme minority.

Put it this way, have you ever heard of someone being stopped by gardai for not using it as it should be used?

If you say yes, you're lying and trying to make a pointless point....and are probably part of that minority i mentioned.

Top 5 annoying things....

1-Q skippers
2-Inidcators not being used
3-Trucks that arent clean and have chippings bouncing off the road and chipping your bonnet.
4-Loud ('souped') exhausts on ****ty cars
5-People who dont flash the hazards when you do something nice.

electron

ronoc wrote: »

Sometimes on the smaller ****ty roundabouts I do this. Especially when there is an old battered japanese car in the lane beside me.
You get a sense after a while which cars are most likely to cut you up on a roundabout.

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Well now given how so many drivers out there don't know what lane they should be in aproaching it, change their minds halfway through, don't indicate, or the roundabout itself is really only wide enough for 1 lane (N3 approaching Ratoath/Trim junctions for example) I can understand that one.

what i meant was, suppose there's several cars stopped in the left-hand lane... the right hand lane should still be kept free for traffic turning right.

L1011

robio wrote: »

They will be chopping down the trees and digging not just watching asphalt dry. Anyway it should be all done during the night when hardly anyone uses it. And probably all in one night like in topgear

This is precisely how they do any work which requires closing a lane - at night when hardly anyone is using it.

Random people on the dole are going to be entirely incapable of speeding up a road building project; particularly one which is being done about as fast as engineering constraints will let it be done.

SV

ManyQuestions wrote: »

"1. who hog the overtaking lane"

Come on, lets get real here, we use them as the fast and slow lanes. I know i know, it is actually only to be used as an overtaking lane and is classed as such. Those of you that use it correctly as an overtaking lane, I'm sure you're happy in your extreme minority.

Put it this way, have you ever heard of someone being stopped by gardai for not using it as it should be used?

If you say yes, you're lying and trying to make a pointless point....and are probably part of that minority i mentioned.

Anyone who doesn't simply use it as an overtaking lane is an inconsiderate arsehole.
That's all there is to it really.


and it's not the minority either :rolleyes:

Zube

One thing that pisses me off is the number of cars with faulty lights. I passed a van last night on the dual carriageway, and he just vanished behind me: rear lights were on and working, but no lights working on the front at all!

Oh, and if your car is French (like mine), stand behind it and get someone to sit inside and try the brakes, indicators, reversing light and so on in all possible combinations. The number of Renaults with earth faults that cause the rear or brake lights to disappear when you indicate is shocking.

Jaysoose

cooperla wrote: »

This one really gets to me.

There's a roundabout on my way home from work. From the direction I approach there's two lanes (left lane marked for 1st and 2nd exits, right lane for turning right). Most people turn left (and never indicate) but I go straight. At least once every week someone pulls out in front of me on the roundabout and forces me to break.

I cross a roundabout twice a day to get into my apartment complex, the traffic coming down the snugborough road crosses over to get to the N3 or the shopping centre.

I have noticed two weird phenomenons, one of which is where i can be in the left hand lane to go straight across (without my indicators on) and can see the drivers looking directly at me....when i enter the roundabout my car obviously engages a cloaking device as the same driver that looked straight at me now cant see me and pulls out and is incapable of hearing my horn (obviously disengaged as part of the cloaking device).

The second is very simlar to the first but is more common in the mornings when leaving to cross to go towards the village, my cloaking device kicks in much earlier and the cars coming down the snugborough road cant even see me at all and will fill up the yellow box and stop trying to get onto the N3, although this morning my cloaking device failed as a lady who blocked all access onto the roundabout actually heard my horn and made the international "two arms up and pointed to the person in front cos its his fault im on the yellow box" sign.

Then again people could be muppets and generally inconsiderate to everybody around them but i like the way i see it best.

electron

Zube wrote: »

One thing that pisses me off is the number of cars with faulty lights.
.

extremely common lately, makes me wonder has the recession got so bad that no one has the money to buy bulbs?

Voodoomelon

ManyQuestions wrote: »

5-People who dont flash the hazards when you do something nice.

You mean the fairer sex. I let 3 women out yesterday and none of them waved or flashed or beeped. I let 2 women by today in a local estate and same thing, blank expressions.

Drivers not indicating on roundabouts and women not being courteous. I'm sure there are things men do more of or less of than women too, but that really p*sses me off. Everyday of the week it happens.
Can't beat the lads in the vans for getting a good wave.

TheNog

People who stop at a junction, look left and start nudging out.

PEOPLE WILL YOU LOOK TO YOUR RIGHT FIRST!!!!!!!!!

We are not driving on the continent so therefore we drive on the left hand side of the road.

qz

Without meaning to start another fog lights kerfuffle, for the love of Jesus would people ever switch them off.

P.C.

ManyQuestions wrote: »

"1. who hog the overtaking lane"

Come on, lets get real here, we use them as the fast and slow lanes. I know i know, it is actually only to be used as an overtaking lane and is classed as such. Those of you that use it correctly as an overtaking lane, I'm sure you're happy in your extreme minority.

Put it this way, have you ever heard of someone being stopped by gardai for not using it as it should be used?

Drive Left - Pass Right!

And I have seen people being given fines for driving in the overtaking lane, just not in this country. :eek:

Healio

People who's cars dont have handbrakes; blinding you with the blazing red brake lights while your stopped at lights.
Even worse the ones who start to roll backwards, and dont realise til you give them a little beep, then they drive up half a metre and the same happens again.

McSpud

Yellow box one might be the most annoying as there is no advantage - if you are stuck in the box traffic clearly isn't moving on the other side.

People who stop on pedestrian crossing. Why can't they stop at the white line?

People who edge up while waiting for green light - seen a guy recently & he edged up so far was almost in the middle of the junction.

CyberGhost

Voodoomelon wrote: »

You mean the fairer sex. I let 3 women out yesterday and none of them waved or flashed or beeped. I let 2 women by today in a local estate and same thing, blank expressions.

Drivers not indicating on roundabouts and women not being courteous. I'm sure there are things men do more of or less of than women too, but that really p*sses me off. Everyday of the week it happens.
Can't beat the lads in the vans for getting a good wave.

Hmm, that's odd, women wave to me... it's usually the foreigners that never show any sign of gratitude when you let them through.

mikemac

And if there are 3 guys in the van, usually they'll all wave at you.

Flicking cigarettes and rubbish out a window is what gets me

ergonomics

It drives me mad when you're behind someone going the speed limit, and then they randomly decide that they'd rather go 10/20km below the speed limit for no reason at all.

Voodoomelon

Healio wrote: »

People who's cars dont have handbrakes; blinding you with the blazing red brake lights while your stopped at lights.

Unfortunately this is fact with all automatics. I always wondered why they didn't introduce a mechanism that detects that the car isn't moving and deactivates the brake lights momentarily, or dim them at least. I'm quite conscious that i'm probably annoying drivers behind when you see their faces glowing bright red when i'm at lights. Not much you can do about it though.

Rovi

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Unfortunately this is fact with all automatics. I always wondered why they didn't introduce a mechanism that detects that the car isn't moving and deactivates the brake lights momentarily, or dim them at least. I'm quite conscious that i'm probably annoying drivers behind when you see their faces glowing bright red when i'm at lights. Not much you can do about it though.

Apply handbrake if you're going to be stopped for more than a few seconds?
That's what I do anyway.

Voodoomelon

I don't have a handbrake, it's just a parking brake that doesn't necessarily stop the car from moving.

Rovi

Is it a foot operated parking brake, as used by Mercedes-Benz?
They appear to be pretty universally carp, by all accounts.

_Kaiser_

Rovi wrote: »

Apply handbrake if you're going to be stopped for more than a few seconds?
That's what I do anyway.

Voodoomelon wrote: »

I don't have a handbrake, it's just a parking brake that doesn't necessarily stop the car from moving.

I'd imagine you have a B6 (05 upwards) Passat then like my own. I rarely press the button when at lights.
One thing I HAVE noticed though is mine (being an automatic) will roll back a bit on an (not very steep at all) incline if in D(rive) and I come off the brake onto the accelerator. Workaround I suppose is to apply the parking brake/auto hold control but my older auto B5 seemed to have more "pull" in forward crawl than the newer model. Anyone else experience this - assuming ye get what I mean?

Rovi wrote: »

Is it a foot operated parking brake, as used by Mercedes-Benz?
They appear to be pretty universally carp, by all accounts.

I'd agree with this one. I had the loan of a 00/01 era Merc C200 and an E200 while my last Passat was being serviced and the handbrake was the one thing I didn't like about the car.. well that and the C class was vastly less comfortable than the E class, and the (I presume) adaptive steering became just a bit too heavy at speed while too light in heavy traffic.

Voodoomelon

Rovi wrote: »

Is it a foot operated parking brake, as used by Mercedes-Benz?
They appear to be pretty universally carp, by all accounts.

It is indeed, its where the clutch in a manual car is.



To be fair, crap isn't the word you'd use to describe them, because the fact is they aren't meant to be used as handbrakes. They're specifically called parking brakes as that's pretty much the only time you're supposed to use them. You can drive with the parking brake on no problem, they're designed to keep the car stationary when in Park, not in Drive.

Stark

McSpud wrote: »

Yellow box one might be the most annoying as there is no advantage - if you are stuck in the box traffic clearly isn't moving on the other side.

People who stop on pedestrian crossing. Why can't they stop at the white line?

People who edge up while waiting for green light - seen a guy recently & he edged up so far was almost in the middle of the junction.

One day if there's no-one behind me, I'm going to stop behind the sensor and laugh at them while they try to figure out why the light isn't turning green.

Although I remember being in a taxi waiting for lights coming towards Cappagh hospital in Finglas before and some idiot had stopped forward of the lights sensor, and had one of those "stop 3 car lengths back in traffic" idiots behind him while a queue of cars steadily built with the lights staying red. Taxi driver turned around, took a roundabout route to come at the lights from the other angle and they were still waiting there while we went through!

P.C.

Voodoomelon wrote: »

Unfortunately this is fact with all automatics. I always wondered why they didn't introduce a mechanism that detects that the car isn't moving and deactivates the brake lights momentarily, or dim them at least. I'm quite conscious that i'm probably annoying drivers behind when you see their faces glowing bright red when i'm at lights. Not much you can do about it though.

MMMMmmmmmmmmm - let me think.

What about if you put your handbrake on.
It normally means that you can then take your foot off the brake pedal, and the brake lights will be off.

Not too much to ask.

Stark

I used to use the handbrake at lights when I drove an automatic. Having to keep your foot on the brake the whole way through a long lights sequence was annoying. I suppose it explains some of the idiots who drift forward through the junction while waiting at lights.

Voodoomelon

P.C. wrote: »

MMMMmmmmmmmmm - let me think.

What about if you put your handbrake on.
It normally means that you can then take your foot off the brake pedal, and the brake lights will be off.

Not too much to ask.

Did you not read any of this thread?

Pique

If you drive a slushbox, stick it in 'Park' ! That's alway's worked for me.

Numptys with no lane dicipline (eg 'straightlining the roundabouts') and not using indicators are my pet hates....

But the best has to be those people who don't overtake slow moving vehicles or drop back from them (allowing the next person behind them to do an overtake of them and then the slow-moving vehicle, and thus allowing everyone back in the queue to do the same, rather than trying to get a piece of road to overtake the 2 of them together equal to an artic!) are absolute dangers on the road as people then take chances overtaking out of sheer frustration and potentially cause accidents. In my opinion this is down to the first person behind the slow-moving vehicle (tractor, caravanner etc, who I have no problem with as they need to use the road too) not having the common courtesy (or simple cop-on) to think about the others behind them.

galwaytt

...there's a squeak coming from my hatchback - does that count, cos it sure as hell drives me nuts ! ??

Rovi

Pique wrote: »

But the best has to be those people who don't overtake slow moving vehicles or drop back from them (allowing the next person behind them to do an overtake of them and then the slow-moving vehicle, and thus allowing everyone back in the queue to do the same, rather than trying to get a piece of road to overtake the 2 of them together equal to an artic!) are absolute dangers on the road as people then take chances overtaking out of sheer frustration and potentially cause accidents. In my opinion this is down to the first person behind the slow-moving vehicle (tractor, caravanner etc, who I have no problem with as they need to use the road too) not having the common courtesy (or simple cop-on) to think about the others behind them.

Yep, "Number two makes the queue", as the old saying goes.

GreeBo

JoeyJJ wrote: »

Drivers pull up into aroundabout in the left lane and go straight ahead when there is only 1 lane available on the exit and always thinks its your fault when something has to give.

Erm, it is your fault?
linky

/edit

JoeyJJ wrote: »

sorry right lane...

Well in that case +1.
I class them in the same category as those taking the 2nd exit in the left lane but drive through the other cars attempting to take the 3rd exit.
Idiots.

flazio

Drivers who get the wrong bulb for the back lights of their car meaning that the brake lights are on constantly.

FearDark

People who drive with their fog lights on all the time, when you see them in your rear view mirror it generally means they will be up your hole until they get by.

Just one thing ive noticed.

• Drivers that like to sit right up on your rear bumper.

• Drivers that think they're in a scalectrix car and drive in the middle of the road.

• Drivers that cut bends.

• Drivers that overtake on the brow of a hill.

• Drivers that speed up when you go to overtake them.

• Car in front with a driver that doesn't indicate or suddenly brakes but seems to think that anyone that is behind him/her is pyhsic and you know when and where they will.

• Car in front with rear fogs on and no fog.

• Drivers that can only drive on a straight and 2mph on every bend.

• 2mph Sunday drivers.

• Car in front with kids not buckled in and them jumping around and pulling faces at you.

CarCity

Drivers who keep tipping the brake on straight roads - drive me nuts!

Voodoomelon

hellboy99 wrote: »

• Drivers that like to sit right up on your rear bumper.

• Drivers that think they're in a scalectrix car and drive in the middle of the road.

• Drivers that cut bends.

• Drivers that overtake on the brow of a hill.

• Drivers that speed up when you go to overtake them.

• Car in front with a driver that doesn't indicate or suddenly brakes but seems to think that anyone that is behind him/her is pyhsic and you know when and where they will.

• Car in front with rear fogs on and no fog.

• Drivers that can only drive on a straight and 2mph on every bend.

• 2mph Sunday drivers.

• Car in front with kids not buckled in and them jumping around and pulling faces at you.

You ever see the shinanegans at the Avenue Road roundabout Hellboy? Everyday I see someone doing something stupid. Also, the amount of people that break the red lights at Xerox and also coming off the Avenue Road onto the Hill Street Bridge is unbelievable.

bladebrew

might be up here already,
what about people who think their micra may go into drift mode on any corner,so drive at a normal speed until the see a bend then slow right down!! then come out the other side and go back up to a perfectly normal speed!

trying not to insult every micra driver but it does tend to be old people in micras:rolleyes:

Voodoomelon

Voodoomelon wrote: »

You ever see the shinanegans at the Avenue Road roundabout Hellboy? Everyday I see someone doing something stupid. Also, the amount of people that break the red lights at Xerox and also coming off the Avenue Road onto the Hill Street Bridge is unbelievable.

Forgot to add that, yeah it's unreal, must be a bad case of colour blindness going about :rolleyes: . As for the system up at Xerox thats like russian roulette.