incompetent and/or inconsiderate drivers

[mightyboy]

fuck the 20 year re-test i think there should be a 5 yearly or less re-test/skills test that includes emergency braking and avoidance.
i would be quite happy one day out of every 5 years to go do a course and test if it made the roads safer.
It would more than likely create more jobs too.

Agreed! Obviously it's the first few years after you do the test that you usually remember the most, and having had my licence for 6 years now I'm starting to pickup on myself doing things I wouldn't have previously done.

I still remember doing my l's and p's on the bike as on of the most enjoyable and exciting experiences, which I actually learnt valuable lessons!

At least this way there would be an even spread of testing therefore fair for everyone and perhaps with greater driving skills across the board we could see (one day in the very very distant future) high speed limits, better roads and a greater understanding of every aspect of the motor vechicle..... or maybe i'm just daydreaming again :p

[tipper]

dont get me fucking started!

i drive from Brisbane to the Gold Coast regularly for work. a couple of months ago this dick in a commodore is in the right lane of 4 lanes at about 95 in the 110 zone. so i flash my lights at him. nothing. keep following, flash lights again, he moves over and then waves his arma at me as if to slow down, fuckwit! then as soon as i get past him he pulls back into the right lane and stops the guy behind me getting through. what a cock. what is with some people, he was causing more harm then good.

then there are those useless pricks who cant merge. i think fuck it and nail it over the arrowing looking traffic island lines most of the time to get up to speed and away from these wankers. seriously, when we are 2 years old we are taught that a square peg cant fit into a round hole, yet people still try and fit their car moving at 80 into a gap between 2cars doing 110kmph! and dont get me started on those pricks who dont move on lane to the right to let people in.

fucktards the lot of them.

[TonyJZX]

there's someone who posted about their adventures driving from Sydney -> Brisbane during the holidays? that one made me LOL literally

sometimes i don't know whether to laugh or cry

[piss98]

I ride a motorbike - everyone on the road is trying to kill me.

[smellytofu]

So I get even and jump in the Patrol 2 tonnes worth of turbo diesel lard, then the grandpa in the right lane thinks he can slam the brakes on 'to teach me a lesson' - fark i could have sworn that bullbar touched his car... trying to reel in the patrol with 4 passengers and a bootful of camping gear...

/end rant

Without going even into 2 ton vehicles, even commerical vehicles unladen is hard enough to brake. I've had a fuckwit in a Mazda 626 brake test me in the Hilux. I was so tempted to push the bastard into a telegraph pole because he cuts me off and thinks I am in the wrong (the proceeds to swerve at me when he does his wanker fly by)... to this date, I still remember his number plate and this was several months ago.

[twidenbar]

not sure why there arent speed cameras booking people for sticking in the right hand land and not overtaking, or even cops for that matter...

i drive to school every morning with my dad, its 78km or there abouts, from york to perth. fuckheads on the york road brake for every corner down to 90, then speed up to 120+ on the straights. we dont find it all that annoying as we have a resonably fast car (hsv senator). But then you get the mentally challenged people that drive in the MIDDLE of the road, half of their car in each lane, with cars coming towards them at 110km/h.

seriously thought about joining the cops next year for 6-12 months, gettin permission to cruise around the place, and book people for staying in the right hand lane and not overtaking, or for other bullshit.

also, everybody should be made to do 5 year driving tests, and not be allowed to teach their kids. had enough of retard P plater kids giving the decent P plater drivers a shitty name.

[JamesB]

Back in October, I steered a loaded Ford E-450 based U-Haul van towing a Dodge Caravan on a car trailer almost 6000 km across Canada. The truck had a Triton V10 engine with a 5 speed slushy, so on everything except hills, it accelerated quite well, but boy were there a lot of drivers that really let me test the rig's braking ability.

Most of the roads were just like the Pacific/New England/Bruce highway (multi lane freeways close to the big cities and single lane either way with the occasional overtaking lane elsewhere) ... and you got exactly the same idiots you see on Australian roads ... hold up traffic on the single lane stuff, and when they see a truck attempting to pass them in the overtaking lane, there's this mad acceleration to ensure that they stay in front of the truck, and then as soon as the overtaking lane ends, they slow right down again.

For idiocy in city traffic, the drivers in Montreal (in fact the whole of Quebec provence) really took the cake ... French driving attitude, arrogance, and patience, with access to USA sized vehicles. If you left a gap in front of the truck to allow for safe braking, 4 or 5 cars would immediately jump into that hole. We hit Montreal in afternoon peak hour traffic. It was three hours of stop go crawl with the occasional need to get the 42 foot long rig across three or four freeway lanes of bumper to bumper traffic to get to the right freeway exits (you couldn't predict what side the exit would be on, so you stayed in the middle lane until you saw the first exit sign). Thank god for big rig truck drivers, they'd slow down enough and block the other bastards to allow us to slip into the lane in front of them.

[dirtyrex]

JamesB knows the score.
If you think drivers back in Aus are bad, come to Vancouver. Most of the immigrants pay big $$$ to get dodgey licences so they can't drive for shit. Then in Summer, you get a huge influx of tourists from other countries who have no idea about the road rules.
Lack of skills and excess of caffeine (everyone is drinking a coffee or using their mobile while driving) = dangerously impatient drivers.
I fear for my life everyday on my bicycle :D

[V8Anus]

when i have to drive in peak hour, I take the 21 year old cast iron landcruiser.
I had some fat bitch in a mirage try to brake test me in the cruiser. i laughed, she gave me the finger, i laughed some more

[Calibrator]

Come and drive over here. The fast lane on the hway regularly comes to a complete and sudden standstill in peak hour traffic while the other 2 lanes are still doiung 120km/h.
I have never figured it ot but the right hand lane is full of skidmarks from all the multi car pileups.

Then you have the taxis and other indigenous types driving in the yellow lines and the wrong side of the road to pass the backed up traffic.
The only time you see the fat cops there will be 6 of them on a freeway onramp pulling people over for not wearing seat belts and using cell fones.

I harangued one the other day because he was ignoring an accident on the hway to ticket some twat in a BMW ( read take a bribe)
He was most offended when I told him to do his job and attend to the accident which he could see.
Of course my language and tone was not very polite. Fucking lazy corrupt fuckers most of them.

[SubbyRS]

I've given up trying to understand the fuctards that regularly cross my path during "rush hour".....
I leave 10mins before I have too, get into the left lane ASAP and try & pick the best average speed that results in the least amount of speedup/slow down "for no apparent reason". If someone fills the gap, I allow for it and completely ignore them.
Anyone who merges smoothly gets a polite wave and smile. Any dickheads get subtley blocked in. I rarely use my rear view mirror in rush hour traffic and never look at anyone who doesn't drive smoothly and politely.
It's working so far.....and my blood pressure thanks me for it....

[abuser]

why is it that when I am last in a long line of traffic someone will always try to cut in front of me? Usually on the western freeway heading into the toowong roundabout huge gap behind me (in the left lane) yet some tool always flys up in the right lane to squeeze into the 2 car gap in front of me instead of the 11ty billion car gap behind me

[F|sh]

freeway on ramp read powis street shits me to tears. all people in that area can not merge and are inconsiderent bastards. a freeway on ramp is to get you up to 100 not 60 and then 40 while trying to get over to the middle lane becuase your scared yu will have to exit so soon (read 2km's later)

NOR CBD DRIVERS SUCK BALLS!!!

[tinkerbell]

so many typcial opinions from a group of drivers who know that the road is there to share, and that ignorance and selfishness are extremely dangerous traits for a drvier to have.

we all seem to be well aware of the laws, and only break the ones that enable us to be safer...

i commend you all on your insights, as most 'other drivers' don't even realise how driving is as much as a skill, as it is a 'way to get to and from x to y'

sadly, all we can do is rant about it, as 'other drivers' will never wake up to the fact that they are the cause of much angst and dangerous situation creation.

keep on your toes boys (and girls) - always assume that the 'other driver' is ignorant and unaware...

[The Pupat]

I've given up trying to understand the fuctards that regularly cross my path during "rush hour".....
I leave 10mins before I have too, get into the left lane ASAP and try & pick the best average speed that results in the least amount of speedup/slow down "for no apparent reason". If someone fills the gap, I allow for it and completely ignore them.
Anyone who merges smoothly gets a polite wave and smile. Any dickheads get subtley blocked in. I rarely use my rear view mirror in rush hour traffic and never look at anyone who doesn't drive smoothly and politely.
It's working so far.....and my blood pressure thanks me for it....

No point getting worked up over the actions of others.