Why don't you just put your foot incredibly lightly on the brake?

My dad does that all the time, he puts it on lightly enough to activate the lights but without putting pressure on the disc. Good fun is had by all who aren't tailgating.

I hope you don't mean he drives around with his left foot on the breake as a full time thing. That is super [bleep]ing annoying to drive behind, no matter how far back you are. It also means if you ever do actually hit the breaks, the person behind you is going to ram you even if they were like 100m back because they can't see your brake lights change.

 

Oh, and people who don't turn their [bleep]ing blinkers off! I've been behind people who left them on for like a kilometre after making a turn. It's like the whole brake light thing too. It causes people stress because now everyone knows they probably aren't going to get a signal before your lane change, plus its really annoying to look at. Now, I might hate blinkers a bit more than most people. If I'm not at the front of the left turn lane I don't normally turn them on till the light goes green (assuming its left turn only. If its a combo, then the peeps behind me need to know so on they go).

Anddd I failed my test. Damn highway entries :(

 

Oh well.

Why don't you just put your foot incredibly lightly on the brake?

My dad does that all the time, he puts it on lightly enough to activate the lights but without putting pressure on the disc. Good fun is had by all who aren't tailgating.

I hope you don't mean he drives around with his left foot on the breake as a full time thing. That is super [bleep]ing annoying to drive behind, no matter how far back you are. It also means if you ever do actually hit the breaks, the person behind you is going to ram you even if they were like 100m back because they can't see your brake lights change.

This. Tapping your brakes is fine by me, but riding on them is stupid and dangerous.

Left foot breaking seems like an alien concept to me. Right for gas/break and left for clutch. Suppose it's different if you don't have to worry about the clutch.

Even with an automatic transmission, there are still instances where you need to put your feet on both pedals at the same time. I have to do it regularly at a couple of intersections around town that are uphill so I don't roll backwards when the light changes.

I get road rage, I wouldn't think twice about throwing stuff at other cars, like bananas so they crash. I should really consult a psychiatric doctor for help.

 

Total driving time = 23 months

Total collisions caused = 2

Total vehicles written off = 1

Total drivers pissed off = 7billion?

Total damage to my car = £0 :D

 

Pretty good ratio i'd say

Why don't you just put your foot incredibly lightly on the brake?

My dad does that all the time, he puts it on lightly enough to activate the lights but without putting pressure on the disc. Good fun is had by all who aren't tailgating.

I hope you don't mean he drives around with his left foot on the breake as a full time thing. That is super [bleep]ing annoying to drive behind, no matter how far back you are. It also means if you ever do actually hit the breaks, the person behind you is going to ram you even if they were like 100m back because they can't see your brake lights change.

As in he lightly presses his foot on the brake pedal whilst accelerating to make the tailgaters slow down.

Dear Tailgaters,

 

If you wish to continue along above speed limit, simply overtake me, staying behind me easing up to my bumper is not the smartest thing to do, as I will proceed to ease down to 20mph under speed limit until I see a police car or you overtake me. Choose wisely.

 

Your enemy, a trolling kid in a busted jetta.

 

Sometimes I randomly tap my breaks to make them freak out. It usually works too. =p

meh, brake checking usually just makes people freak out and continue tailgating at a slightly farther distance. slowing down is a lot more subtle, it makes people RAGE pretty hard over time...

I don't see too many bad drivers normally but when driving home from University sometimes I see bad drivers on the motorway.

 

I actually had an accident about a week after getting my car and passing my test (about 3-4 years ago) which wasn't my fault and actually really annoyed me. I was going to my dads work (he's a mechanic) for him to have a look at the brakes as they were squeaking and about 100m before his work there is a small, but not mini roundabout. There was nobody coming from the right so I just went straight around it without slwoing down too much, about 20mph. A young woman then decided to pull out right in front of me, so close that I barely had time to press the brake. I went straight into the side of her car, writing my car off while hers was still drivable. What annoyed me though is that I can remember her not even looking in my direction as I went into her car, she didn't look as though she had looked to the right at all.

 

At the moment I'm getting annoyed with people who can't park at all. There is a BMW which parks in the spot to the left of mine here at my flat. Our spots are directly opposite the entrance to the car park from the road so once you are in the car park he doesn't have to turn to get into the spot, yet he somehow cannot park in the middle of it. He always manages to park as close to the white line on my side as possible, sometimes even being over it with his car at an angle. Recently I've started just parking as close to the left of my spot now just to piss him off so he can't get in his car, but even if I park in the middle of mine most people would struggle to get into his car.

 

I wish there was a way to easily report drivers talking on their mobiles. It's illegal yet I see so many people every day doing it, it really frustrates me as I know just how dangerous it is.

I wish there was a way to easily report drivers talking on their mobiles. It's illegal yet I see so many people every day doing it, it really frustrates me as I know just how dangerous it is.

A lot of helmet cam cyclists catch drivers using their mobile phones clearly on camera and the registration of the car is very clear. I think police should look into these videos and issue some tickets/warnings. There are tons on youtube but I suspect the police would just drop charges due to "insufficient evidence" because they are plonkers.

I wish there was a way to easily report drivers talking on their mobiles.

I wish there was a way to report police officers doing this. I see it all the time.

I wish there was a way to easily report drivers talking on their mobiles.

I wish there was a way to report police officers doing this. I see it all the time.

Agreed, it's really bad where I live.

 

One thing I dislike is Semi's. I just hate being around them, and REALLY hate being behind them. It's just something I dislike :mellow:

meh, brake checking usually just makes people freak out and continue tailgating at a slightly farther distance. slowing down is a lot more subtle, it makes people RAGE pretty hard over time...

Dropping the subtlety and losing 10/20 km/h really teaches them to back off.

One thing I dislike is Semi's. I just hate being around them, and REALLY hate being behind them. It's just something I dislike :mellow:

 

Trust me, they don't like being around you either. Constantly having to make sure that something not even 1/10 the size of you isn't where you're about to be, or making sure that there's nobody in the other lane when you need to turn, or having to try and maintain a safe braking gap when people just merge into it as soon as the gap is big enough so you don't ram the person that was just in front of you is not fun.

Down the country with friends two or three years back. A friend that lives down there owns a Citroen Saxo rally car, something like this:

 

 

Two seats and a roll cage. Narrow country roads; high speeds. They barely fit two cars on the two lanes. Hearing "If a tractor comes around this corner, consider yourself dead." wasn't really music to my ears.

 

Nor was it fun going 70MPH+ while he's steering with his knees to write a text.

 

Country life. :thumbup:

I live in the UK so for me the worst drivers are:

 

1. 
    
   
2. Audi and BMW drivers - Total disregard for anything including speed limits, hogging the outer lane, double parking and not knowing what that stick is called "indicators".
   
3. Van drivers - As with Audi and BMW except most are genuinely thick. The last one who pranged the back of my car didn't even know he'd done it!
   
4. Mobile phone drivers - As ignorant driving as they are when not driving. The type who'll you'd talk to and they'd start texting or answer their phone in the middle of the conversation without a simple "excuse me". A real menace to safety.
   
5. The park anywhere - As if using the hazard lights while being double parked magically permits you to do it.
   
6. Those with "child on board" stickers in the back window - Always seem to be breaking the speed limit, cutting up traffic or doing their hair/makup in the mirror. Not sure if the stickers are to remind 'them' they have kids in the car.
   
7. The "must get ahead" car - The one that nearly causes an accident by cutting up traffic to get ahead by that magical one space.
   
8. The "must exit motorway at last possible second" car - Same as above but causes no end of problems on motorway slip road exits.
   
9. Mind the gap - I like to keep a reasonably safe distance from the car in front when on a motorway. Some drivers interpret this as "oo thanks for leaving me that spot that will 'just about' fit my car in". Red lights, red mist, blue language.
   
10. None-disabled parkers - Lazy arses who illegallly use disabled parking spaces because they can't seem to walk an extra 10ft.
    
11. Know your limit - Its a 40mph zone, not 20mph if you bother to read the signs
    

 

Just my tuppence worth :lol:

[*]Van drivers - As with Audi and BMW except most are genuinely thick. The last one who pranged the back of my car didn't even know he'd done it!

Totally reminded me of this:

[spoiler=some NSFW language]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jk3s-bFc1c

 

"It's a four ton truck, Tyrone. It's not as though it's a packet of...peanuts, is it?" :lol:

 

[*]The park anywhere - As if using the hazard lights while being double parked magically permits you to do it.

I think that's a problem everywhere. My dad was a by-law enforcement officer for a few years and he loved people who did this. To him it was a big flashing sign that said "I'M PARKED ILLEGALLY!". :lol:

1. Audi and BMW drivers - Total disregard for anything including speed limits, hogging the outer lane, double parking and not knowing what that stick is called "indicators".
2. Mobile phone drivers - As ignorant driving as they are when not driving. The type who'll you'd talk to and they'd start texting or answer their phone in the middle of the conversation without a simple "excuse me". A real menace to safety.
3. Those with "child on board" stickers in the back window - Always seem to be breaking the speed limit, cutting up traffic or doing their hair/makup in the mirror. Not sure if the stickers are to remind 'them' they have kids in the car.
4. The "must get ahead" car - The one that nearly causes an accident by cutting up traffic to get ahead by that magical one space.
5. The "must exit motorway at last possible second" car - Same as above but causes no end of problems on motorway slip road exits.
6. Mind the gap - I like to keep a reasonably safe distance from the car in front when on a motorway. Some drivers interpret this as "oo thanks for leaving me that spot that will 'just about' fit my car in". Red lights, red mist, blue language

 

Congratulations, you've just described every Australian driver with these ones. We also have the worst road rage issues. Truck drivers are about the only nice drivers we have.

That's it. When I get a car I'm attaching a battering ram to the front, and spikes to the back bumper.

 

That way I don't need to worry about this crap.

I took the liberty of illustrating part of my drive home today:

[spoiler=2 lane road changing into one lane while driving on the right side of the road ('merica)]

 

-Poorly drawn orange thing = cyclist riding in the road instead of the bike lane

-Scattered blue dots = rain (riding your bike in the rain, really?)

-Pink = idiot lady on her cell phone

-Red = obnoxious guy who cut me off, only to turn 30 seconds later

 

Michigan drivers are pro

All you guys complain about bikers who don't use bike lanes.

 

I wish there were bike lanes in my town. :(

All you guys complain about bikers who don't use bike lanes.

 

I wish there were bike lanes in my town. :(

This. Seriously, we bikers don't try to hog the road. I know I try to give drivers as much space as possible with out harming myself.

On the stretch of road I was referring to, there really is a bike lane. The only excuse the guy might have had was avoiding puddles. On normal roads, I make sure to give bikers plenty of room.

Bikers are allowed on the road even though they have a bike lane. They're not forced to use it. If I was a biker and there was bike lanes in my town (which there aren't) I'd go in the middle of the lane if I need it, to prevent dangerous passing as the one you seem to have seen there.

 

Although it might depend on where you live as well though.

All you guys complain about bikers who don't use bike lanes.

 

I wish there were bike lanes in my town. :(

 

You won't say that when someone didn't see you and opened a door.