Back Beepers

Beta Ray Bill · 31-05-2008 12:36am #1

Hi All

Just a question for you to think about...

say something happens on the road like someone cuts you off or pulls out in front of you etc and you beeps them... why the hell do they beep back when they are in the wrong????????

and another thing

90% of the time its a woman that beeps back.

it's so pointless and make the person beeping back look like a fool
(My Girl friend does this... I Cringe when she does it when im in the car. i just hope to god that no one recognises me)

anyone here guilty of this?

jameshayes · 31-05-2008 12:40am

grahambo wrote: »

90% of the time its a woman that beeps back.

Are you not old enough to realise women are always in the right?:pac:

tiredmam · 31-05-2008 12:49am

I dont know why this is,i have seen it a few times, im a woman and i think twice about pulling out in front of someone. Your always in the wrong if you do that.
If a car is like a mile away and i pull out from a T junction or whatever and continue on at the speed limit, i look in the mirror and see an angry face. People seem to speed up to a person who has pulled out and NOT heed the speed limit at all. People ask for accidents to happen

colm_mcm · 31-05-2008 12:59am

think of it this way.
a short friendly beep would mean "sorry bout that",
a long angry beep means "what the hell are you beeping for!"

su_dios · 31-05-2008 1:09am

I was pulling into my driveway last sunday, I have to cross a buslane normally to get into my driveway and its just before a left turn and people often get confused so I have to use my hazards. I was driving up in the buslane being a Sunday and as I was slowed down and hazards on a car from the outside lane pulled into my lane then realised I was going into my driveway and then beeped at me and gave me a look so I beeped back as if "wtf are you beeping at?!?". Its not as if this all happened very quickly either. I was quite confused actually.

I suppose its like "sorry why are you beeping at me? You were in the wrong" type thing to beep back? Obviously a lot of the time the person in the wrong thinks he/she is in the right anyway so would beep back.

Hanley · 31-05-2008 1:13am

su_dios wrote: »

I was pulling into my driveway last sunday, I have to cross a buslane normally to get into my driveway and its just before a left turn and people often get confused so I have to use my hazards. I was driving up in the buslane being a Sunday and as I was slowed down and hazards on a car from the outside lane pulled into my lane then realised I was going into my driveway and then beeped at me and gave me a look so I beeped back as if "wtf are you beeping at?!?". Its not as if this all happened very quickly either. I was quite confused actually.

I suppose its like "sorry why are you beeping at me? You were in the wrong" type thing to beep back? Obviously a lot of the time the person in the wrong thinks he/she is in the right anyway so would beep back.

Lol I hate even trying to turn down that road because of the a-holes that come flying down the bus lane. I've often wondered how you manage to not get smashed trying to get into your drive way....

colm_mcm · 31-05-2008 1:15am

su_dios wrote: »

I was pulling into my driveway last sunday, I have to cross a buslane normally to get into my driveway and its just before a left turn and people often get confused so I have to use my hazards. .

the hazards are causing the confusion here. it's illegal to use them whilst moving, and you also give the impression that you're either in an emergency situation, or about to just stop on the bus lane. why not just indicate left, slow down and turn into your driveway. if you approach the turn off slow enough, there should be no confusion to the people behind.

su_dios · 31-05-2008 1:54am

colm_mcm wrote: »

the hazards are causing the confusion here. it's illegal to use them whilst moving, and you also give the impression that you're either in an emergency situation, or about to just stop on the bus lane. why not just indicate left, slow down and turn into your driveway. if you approach the turn off slow enough, there should be no confusion to the people behind.

I used to do it that way but people realy don't cop on to what you're doing. Most of the time its where people have just pulled in behind you into the lane thinking you're taking the same turn as them and then they get a shock. Pulling in slowly as well doesn't always work with all the buses and taxis flying down. Its a tough one really but the hazards do work most of the time and make people that bit more aware and alert them to the fact that I'm not taking the left turn ( I indicate left first then put the hazards on just as I come up to the driveway and pull in).

Approaching it slowly does work some of the time but as I said you get people coming into the lane behind you at speed. I wasn't aware it was illegal to use them while moving? In fact I'm nearly sure thats wrong? They are to be used to alert of a hazard... such an incident could be roadworks in the middle of the road meaning you have to pull out, thus alerting the cars behind that theres something ahead they may not be able to see. Using the hazards may cause slight confusion but make them more cautious and in turn not having someone rear end me coming into my house.

Also Hanley before I saw it was you I was like WTF how does this person know what road I am talking about.

zilog_jones · 31-05-2008 2:22am

su_dios wrote: »

I wasn't aware it was illegal to use them while moving? In fact I'm nearly sure thats wrong?

Rules of the Road says you can use hazards to inform people behind you of "traffic slowing down sharply".

ramanujan · 31-05-2008 3:22am

my advice for the day:

Do not back beep, back beepers.
I was on a roundabout, a car came onto a roundabout too close to me, and I had to jam on the brakes, no biggy, but in the wet it might have caused a problem. I decide to give a beep and say "sort out your driving", he immediately beeps back, and I see a finger in the back windscreen. so stupidly i beeped again. at the next lights i realised there is 4 lads in the car, 2 of them get out and berate me. luckily the lights went green before anything serious happened!!

back beepers are stressed out and or very angry

vectra · 31-05-2008 8:29am

grahambo wrote: »

Hi All

Just a question for you to think about...

say something happens on the road like someone cuts you off or pulls out in front of you etc and you beeps them... why the hell do they beep back when they are in the wrong????????

and another thing

90% of the time its a woman that beeps back.

it's so pointless and make the person beeping back look like a fool
(My Girl friend does this... I Cringe when she does it when im in the car. i just hope to god that no one recognises me)

anyone here guilty of this?

They beep back to simply say "What are you beeping at muppet"

Its so pointless to beep in the first place. :pac:

colm_mcm · 31-05-2008 1:05pm

if you have your hazards on, then you're not indicating left as you turn from the buss lane into your house. surely that's ridiculous?

ART6 · 31-05-2008 3:04pm

Are your hazards separate from your indicators? Mine aren't. My hazards simply flash both indicators, so I couldn't indicate and flash hazards at the same time.

tiredmam · 31-05-2008 4:50pm

It is not illegal to drive with hazard lights on. On a motorway coming to a slow down or emergency you have to use them.

Beta Ray Bill · 31-05-2008 6:19pm

girl friend did it again.

on the raheny road around the back of the firestation.
we're coming out of grange park onto the raheny road (turning right)

She stops in the yellow box blocking traffic going towards raheny village.

van has to stop and beeps
she beeps back
I cringe and sink into the seat.

luckily we all got moving again a second or 2 after that.

Masada · 31-05-2008 7:36pm

grahambo wrote: »

it's so pointless and make the person beeping back look like a fool
(My Girl friend does this... I Cringe when she does it when im in the car. i just hope to god that no one recognises me)

anyone here guilty of this?

Shouldnt you be a little more concerned with the standard of your girlfriends driving than the fact that she beeps at people?
It is pointless though, i suppose its just people who think no matter what they do on the road, they are in the right and you have no right to even think that they might not be perfect.,

Back Beepers

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