Overtaking Manoeuvre

krahsrekop

Anybody see this great piece of driving online

http://www.joe.ie/life-style/video-this-is-one-of-the-worst-overtaking-manoeuvres-ever-attempted-in-ireland/495577

Special Circumstances

It is a well known fact* that dropping a gear and revving your car so that you spend less time on the wrong side of the road is the number one cause of death in Ireland.
Of both people and engines.

*Not in fact a fact.

Geniass

krahsrekop wrote: »

Anybody see this great piece of driving online

http://www.joe.ie/life-style/video-this-is-one-of-the-worst-overtaking-manoeuvres-ever-attempted-in-ireland/495577

Forgot his Porsche 911 was in the garage that day. It happens.

ice.cube

At the guy pulling the trailer giving him/her plenty of room, the trailer couldn't get any closer to the ditch!!

jimgoose

A chronic shortage of 6-litre V12s is a major road-safety issue in this jurisdiction.

frozenfrozen

I think we found the answer to how much bhp is not enough

pheelay

Perhaps the driver confused the road with a dual carriageway and was merely driving in the "fast" lane

Also, the other end of that dashcam mount appears to be driving the cam car.

Mister Jingles

You'd be surprised of the amount of people out there, elderly in particular, that are either afraid to drop it into third and floor it or just forget to take it out of fifth or sixth when goin to over take.

Summer wind

A dodgy pilot.

s15r330

That should result in a ban for life. The number of people who shouldn't be on the roads is ridiculous. Recently i've been meeting eejits coming around corners on the wrong side of the road a lot, nearly a daily occurence now.

the_syco

Who the funk BRAKES whilst overtaking??? :eek:

frozenfrozen

the_syco wrote: »

Who the funk BRAKES whilst overtaking??? :eek:

they were breaking for the turn coming up :pac:

H3llR4iser

Mister Jingles wrote: »

You'd be surprised of the amount of people out there, elderly in particular, that are either afraid to drop it into third and floor it or just forget to take it out of fifth or sixth when goin to over take.

You'd be surprised about how many of them are actually not elderly at all. A lot of Irish drivers are deadly afraid of doing any more than tickle the pedal, and have absurd notions about saving fuel - even when it is clear they are doing something dangerous, like overtakes that need a year and a half to complete.

Long convoys behind a slow vehicle - nobody overtakes, but the cars get so up each other's bumper it is impossible to reasonably plan an overtake from a couple of places back, as you would need space to clear the whole line.

Also, the smart guy(girl?) shooting the footage: potentially dangerous situation and, instead of concentrating on the driving to be ready to take evasive action, they think about "documenting" somebody else's fault.

Brilliant mindset, really.

Alanstrainor

You would be surprised with the amount of people I've met who believe the higher the gear, the higher the speed, so will shift up when they want to "go fast". Its quite terrifying when you realise that there must be a significant proportion of the population that believes this... Only answer is a v12 of a full electric car with all that torque...

jimgoose

Alanstrainor wrote: »

You would be surprised with the amount of people I've met who believe the higher the gear, the higher the speed, so will shift up when they want to "go fast". Its quite terrifying when you realise that there must be a significant proportion of the population that believes this... Only answer is a v12 of a full electric car with all that torque...

Oh yes, you get that alright - "High gear's faster, innit?!?" :pac:

Special Circumstances

Shift up at 2k or sooner if possible.

Never gear down when moving unless car is absolutely bucking.

Under no circumstances must you exceed 3k rpm. Here be dragons and certain death or possible imprisonment.

At the end of your journey brake the car to a stall in gear.

Return to step 1.

Noccy_Mondy

You'd be surprised with the amount of times I've seen something similar, or doing it myself, obviously nowhere near the length it took them to complete the manoeuvre. Trying to overtake wide trailers on narrow roads is daunting enough, I nearly always beep to be sure that they know I'm passing one side of them. It's happened me/seen it happen far too often that an oblivious person pottering along with their wide trailer just wander out past the white line oblivious to the fact that they are nearly sandwiching the overtaking car between themselves and the far ditch. I travel a notoriously narrow stretch, which is straight, and have to deal with this situation daily, as do some of my colleagues. I've been overtaking and the jeep/trailer would just swerve out causing me to in turn have to pull out even further, sometimes onto the verge. How my left mirror has survived I don't know. I'm kind of gone off on a tangent to the main topic now though.

Alanstrainor

Whatever about the way the person in this video went about the overtake. Overtaking in those circumstances is risky enough as is, and I personally wouldn't have attempted it seeing how narrow the road is, and how unpredictable trailers can be.

Noccy_Mondy

Alanstrainor wrote:

Whatever about the way the person in this video went about the overtake. Overtaking in those circumstances is risky enough as is, and I personally wouldn't have attempted it seeing how narrow the road is, and how unpredictable trailers can be.

Normally I'd be the same, but I have a fairly long drive home in the evenings/mornings, I travel about 10 miles of road similar to that. If I come upon a rig like that going at 50/60kmph, which is what they generally do, then I can't be stuck behind it for 10 miles, or else I'd never get home...not to mention all the traffic that'd build up. All the while the trailer driver is either oblivious/too thick to notice and take action.

quadrifoglio verde

H3llR4iser wrote: »

You'd be surprised about how many of them are actually not elderly at all. A lot of Irish drivers are deadly afraid of doing any more than tickle the pedal, and have absurd notions about saving fuel - even when it is clear they are doing something dangerous, like overtakes that need a year and a half to complete.

Long convoys behind a slow vehicle - nobody overtakes, but the cars get so up each other's bumper it is impossible to reasonably plan an overtake from a couple of places back, as you would need space to clear the whole line.

Also, the smart guy(girl?) shooting the footage: potentially dangerous situation and, instead of concentrating on the driving to be ready to take evasive action, they think about "documenting" somebody else's fault.

Brilliant mindset, really.

My brother put a his car in neutral at 60 mph to save fuel.....