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Paranoid passenger (who contradicts himself)

  • 06-04-2015 3:22pm
    #1
    JamboMac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,953 ✭✭✭


    So the person I practice with is my father, who always contradicts himself and his instructions are vague most of the time.

    One thing that annoyed me was on the old dublin airport road, where you can go 80, I wanted to overtake this car which was doing 60 in front of me and her driving was quite unpredictable. The first time I indicated first to overtake this car just before the last 2 cars coming towards me passed me and then I made my move.

    The car behind them would have been about 500 metres behind so I would have made but he started freaking out, the second attempt he tells to get into 3rd, but in this attempt the moron in the car I'm trying to overtake decides accelerate as I try and pass, so that pass had to be aborted, I'm sure whoever was behind me thinks I'm a weapon.

    P.s my dad had issue with indicating prior to the cars coming towards passing, even though I had no intention of trying to overtake before they had passed.

    Is their a test centre that Indian drivers go to pass or are they allowed drive under their Indian licence here. As this is the 3rd one that's nearly caused an incident. The other 2 never looked right as they where trying to get across the road in their car. As in they where coming from the road on my left as I was carrying on straight, so I had to hammer the breaks as they just went across the road and looked for oncoming traffic to the right.


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  • #2
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    What about getting some lessons from a professional instructor? While it is great to get free lessons from dear old dad, the down side is that many well intentioned family members are often (a) crap drivers themselves (b) crap drivers who are crap teachers (c) decent drivers who are just not good at communicating (d) all of the above.

    In this case, I'd tend to side with your father. If the driver in front of you was acting very erratically, I'd hesitate to over take them, as God knows what they would do while you were overtaking them. Be patient, hang back and if you wind up stuck behind the other driver for an excessive amount of time, just turn off and go down some other road.


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