Oblivious Idiots on the Road!

Daaryl

Okay so i have two things to mention in this post..

So i'm on the motorway twice a week, Why do idiots not turn their full lights off when you're coming towards them? Also i over took a mercedes benz at about 80-85mph, Passing the person anyway seen they dipped their headlights for me and then as i'm infront of them they put them back on are some people really that ignorant?

Also i was driving in town today and was travelling to my friends house and had to go through a few roundabouts, Now as i was in the right lane on 3 of those roundabouts i got cut off by 2 old people and a young girl, Now how can't people notice a bright purple car with orange fog lights confuses me.. And they have the cheek to look at me as i'm in the wrong when i beeped at them!

Supergurrier

You would love my job OP

Daaryl

Supergurrier wrote: »

You would love my job OP

Spill the beans :P

Pov06

Must be the colour of your car.

If I saw a purple car I would be thinking "what in the bleedin jayziz was this lad thinkin?!"

Daaryl

Pov06 wrote: »

Must be the colour of your car.

If I saw a purple car I would be thinking "what in the bleedin jayziz was this lad thinkin?!"

It's a fancy purple color changes to a sort of bluey in the night :pac:

Supergurrier

Get the fancy purple baxtard

whupdedo

Maybe learn to live with it , it won't ever get any better as their will always be idiots on the road , their no point getting worked up over it , sit back gear down and let them at it

Pov06

Daaryl wrote: »

It's a fancy purple color changes to a sort of bluey in the night :pac:

What you need is some neon lights. The burds love them and other drivers will think you're steering a hovercraft.

colm_mcm

Do you drive around with your orange fogs on all the time, do you think there might be a link with drivers you overtake leaving their full lights on?

Daaryl

Pov06 wrote: »

What you need is some neon lights. The burds love them and other drivers will think you're steering a hovercraft.

Yeah that's a plan, You buy em i'll do it :rolleyes::pac:

Daaryl

colm_mcm wrote: »

Do you drive around with your orange fogs on all the time, do you think there might be a link with drivers you overtake leaving their full lights on?

Yes i drive around with the foglights on but they're a dull orange it's like the bulbs are about to go in them so i'm 99% they don't blind people as they're not hids and the glass is only painted.

colm_mcm

Are the headlights HIDs?

Daaryl

colm_mcm wrote: »

Are the headlights HIDs?

Nope, Just standard bulbs is all.

colm_mcm

Weird so. There can't be that many idiots

Pov06

On a serious note though it's something you have to live with. It happens every day to all of us here and there's not much you can do.

Lane hoggers drive me mental, especially on the N81... You always see a Micra with an L-plate doing 60 in the right hand side lane and they just don't move out of the way, never mind the fact that they're driving unaccompanied. I mean I don't really have an issue with it if people are feeling confident and actually try and learn rules of the road but sure most people just hop in and drive in whatever way the car rolls.

Daaryl

colm_mcm wrote: »

Weird so. There can't be that many idiots

It's nearly every 2nd car on the motorway to be honest

colm_mcm

Maybe it's your overtaking technique?

Supergurrier

Daaryl wrote: »

It's nearly every 2nd car on the motorway to be honest

Might be 100% of them as you can't speak for the ones travelling in the other direction

Daaryl

colm_mcm wrote: »

Maybe it's your overtaking technique?

Not many cars on the motorway at about half 10-11 in the night dude it's mostly cars coming from waterford to dublin side if you get me

Supergurrier

Merc could have had fancy radar detection front auto lights and when you went a small bit ahead them came back on

neverwrong

breaking speed limit,orange fog lights!sounds like more than likely he was the prat in wrong lane at roundabout,, oh look at me with stupid foglights on .obvious feckin moron,should be banned from boards and from driving.gob****e!


Mod, user banned

Sam Kade

Daaryl wrote: »

Not many cars on the motorway at about half 10-11 in the night dude it's mostly cars coming from waterford to dublin side if you get me

Describe exactly how you overtake a car?

Pov06

neverwrong wrote: »

breaking speed limit,orange fog lights!sounds like more than likely he was the prat in wrong lane at roundabout,, oh look at me with stupid foglights on .obvious feckin moron,should be banned from boards and from driving.gob****e!

Jeez you're stretching the truth of your username with these kind of posts!

Daaryl

neverwrong wrote: »

breaking speed limit,orange fog lights!sounds like more than likely he was the prat in wrong lane at roundabout,, oh look at me with stupid foglights on .obvious feckin moron,should be banned from boards and from driving.gob****e!

Go cry somewhere else

Daaryl

Sam Kade wrote: »

Describe exactly how you overtake a car?

Look in my mirrors to see if there's anything coming, Indicate, Pull out, Build up speed to safely over take, Indicate back in and carry on with my journey..

Supergurrier

Daaryl wrote: »

Go cry somewhere else

Read the original post bucko !

We are pro "Crybaby" for entertainment purposes

Sam Kade

Daaryl wrote: »

Look in my mirrors to see if there's anything coming, Indicate, Pull out, Build up speed to safely over take, Indicate back in and carry on with my journey..

You forgot to drive a safe distance ahead of the car you are overtaking before you pull back into the left lane, hence full beams

colm_mcm

And you left your indicator on.

ShatterProof

Any chance your back fog lights are on also?

InTheTrees

Living in the land of the americans I have to deal with this stuff every day. Lane discipline means nothing in the US. Most motorists get on to a motorway/freeway and immediately get into the middle lane. And turn signals and mirrors are not used.

Anyway...

I wonder how much american tourists in hire cars are causing standards to drop on Irish motorways?

When you next witness a (new) car performing an inexplicably oblivious maneuver on the motorway, maybe its a yank? A tell tale sign would be the inability to use turn signals correctly. In the US when people do use them they tend to use them AS the vehicle is actually turning, not before to warn other drivers but as they're physically turning. Makes it almost pointless, but Id guess if you see vehicles doing this then they're probably americans.

Cruising along in the middle lane with no other traffic around is also a sure fire sign.

Give them a wide berth.

Knine

On the M50 last week an older woman stopped & indicated to change lanes......... she nearly caused a pile up.

BTW why the hell are your fog lights on?

Daaryl

ShatterProof wrote: »

Any chance your back fog lights are on also?

Nope never puts them on only in heavy rain or fog

inb4 somebody says that's what your front fogs are for too :pac:

Hachiko

people using foglights are idiots, do they think it makes the car more cool or something. I have fog lights, and never actually used them, why? I have never been in foggy situations (aside from getting hoofed out of threads here). As for the idiots not dimming full beams, I just leave my on full too, they are very bright also.

dr.fuzzenstein

Knine wrote: »

On the M50 last week an older woman stopped & indicated to change lanes......... she nearly caused a pile up.

BTW why the hell are your fog lights on?

Excuse me, am i reading that right? :eek::eek::eek::eek:
Can you elaborate? My eyes tell me that this woman stopped on the motorway to change lanes and immediately my brain refuses to believe it. What lane was she in? It's almost unfair that she wasn't creamed by an 18 wheeler.

Worst thing I've ever seen was a car on the M18 going towards Shannon from the Limerick direction. In the outside lane, doing about 40 km/h, followed by a MASSIVE tailback that several cars nearly crashed into and refusing to move over. So cars built up behind it, the car right behind would beep and flash to indicate to them to move the fcuk out of the way, give up and undertake, but having to be careful not to get hit by cars not bothering and just undertaking anyway. I tried myself, got in behind them, beeping, flashing, gesturing them to move over...nothing. The whole time there was absolutely no reaction from the car that indicated that they were in any way aware of the presence of any other car on the road, despite a massive tailback, huge chaos, beeping, flashing, swearing, etc... When I undertook I had no time to look over, I was concentrating on not getting hit by other drivers flying past on the inside, so I don't know who was driving.

InTheTrees

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Worst thing I've ever seen was a car on the M18 going towards Shannon from the Limerick direction. In the outside lane, doing about 40 km/h, followed by a MASSIVE tailback that several cars nearly crashed into and refusing to move over.

Going towards Shannon huh?

See my post #30

:mad:

Into The Blue

Knine wrote: »

On the M50 last week an older woman stopped & indicated to change lanes......... she nearly caused a pile up.

BTW why the hell are your fog lights on?

Was she driving a silver yaris?
Last Thurs, m50, light enough traffic. Offside lane empty bar an Ambulance fairly tipping along with his beebas on. All grand, till yer wan sees him and hits the anchors in lane 2..

savagethegoat

Knine wrote: »

On the M50 last week an older woman stopped & indicated to change lanes......... she nearly caused a pile up.

BTW why the hell are your fog lights on?

what relevance is her gender and age?

Special Circumstances

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Worst thing I've ever seen was a car on the M18 going towards Shannon from the Limerick direction. In the outside lane, doing about 40 km/h, followed by a MASSIVE tailback that several cars nearly crashed into and refusing to move over. ..... When I undertook I had no time to look over, I was concentrating on not getting hit by other drivers flying past on the inside, so I don't know who was driving.

Doesn't matter who was driving.... If the car was less than 15yrs old then it's grand grand grand.

JBokeh

I saw someone stop in the overtaking lane, and reverse a bit because they missed this junction :eek: https://goo.gl/maps/J7nox

It was a Fairly quiet sunday, but still, that is the most stupid thing you could do. I wasn't exactly under the speed limit either, so that would have made some mess


I used have a lowered car, it looks like everyone has their full beams on, it is just that your mirrors come under his headlight cutoff. If you've crappy springs with no real thought put into spring rates chances are she bounces a bit, looking like you're flashing the oncoming cars

Pov06

JBokeh wrote: »

I saw someone stop in the overtaking lane, and reverse a bit because they missed this junction :eek: https://goo.gl/maps/J7nox

It was a Fairly quiet sunday, but still, that is the most stupid thing you could do. I wasn't exactly under the speed limit either, so that would have made some mess


I used have a lowered car, it looks like everyone has their full beams on, it is just that your mirrors come under his headlight cutoff. If you've crappy springs with no real thought put into spring rates chances are she bounces a bit, looking like you're flashing the oncoming cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXCGtvL___M

This was posted in the dashcam thread weeks ago

Knine

savagethegoat wrote: »

what relevance is her gender and age?

Because of all the stupidity on roads I have found that women are more guilty of it then men & btw I am a woman.

It was a red car & I could hardly believe it. I'm only sorry I did not take her reg.

_Kaiser_

I was coming home late last night - about 11ish - and on the 3-lane stretch of the N7 an inbound bus started flashing headlights rapidly.

Thinking there was a camera van ahead I eased off, but then I saw what he was flashing at.. a car in front of him with NO lights at all (must have been drunk/on drugs I assume)

dr.fuzzenstein

Knine wrote: »

Because of all the stupidity on roads I have found that women are more guilty of it then men & btw I am a woman.

It was a red car & I could hardly believe it. I'm only sorry I did not take her reg.

And now you're ragging on red cars!
Actually its only sexist when you say it was a woman. Had you said "this daft old bastard", it would have been perfectly acceptable.
Tish pash and nonsense to all this PC crap. The driver was a woman and there's no law against you saying so. So the PC police can go back in their box.
Personally I think it is daft old bastards who do the worst things. They usually do something stupid or ignorant, but as soon as anyone beeps or flashes them, they usually get thick and then will slow down, move out and block everyone.

RandomAccess

Scary moment this morning, was at the north circular crossroad in phibsborough this morning when an ambulance approached the junction with lights and siren on, he came to a complete stop at the red and a Micra flashed past at speed towards finglas.

I've seen a cyclist do the same across the front of a squad car which was in a really serious hurry she just sailed across oblivious.

I reckon its headphones and daydreams that are to blame in both cases, but just speculation.

whiterebel

Its a frigging epidemic now on motorways and dual carriageways, people leaving their full lights on as if they think that people on the other side can't see them. I don't remember it ever being as bad as the last couple of years.

StudentDad

whiterebel wrote: »

Its a frigging epidemic now on motorways and dual carriageways, people leaving their full lights on as if they think that people on the other side can't see them. I don't remember it ever being as bad as the last couple of years.

To be fair to the people leaving their lights on. It isn't their fault or their problem that you have a problem with their beams. If you have a problem with lights on the other side of a dual carriage way, that's down to poor road design not inconsiderate driving on the part of drivers who expect to be able to use their lights on a dual carriageway.

SD

ScottStorm

Purple car, orange foglights, do you wear comically large shoes and spray water from a flower pinned to your lapel?

Pov06

Pov06 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXCGtvL___M

This was posted in the dashcam thread weeks ago

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I thought what happened to me recently was bad enough - some tool stopped completely at a junction off a motorway. It was a few cars ahead so I have no idea why but I can only assume they realised last second they were in the wrong place. Nearly caused a pileup as it's a tight enough area in general

whiterebel

StudentDad wrote: »

To be fair to the people leaving their lights on. It isn't their fault or their problem that you have a problem with their beams. If you have a problem with lights on the other side of a dual carriage way, that's down to poor road design not inconsiderate driving on the part of drivers who expect to be able to use their lights on a dual carriageway.

SD

You do understand that cars coming around a bend with the headlights full on, or cars in the overtaking lane drive past a gap in the median are going to blind cars coming the other way? Maybe you should drive in the dark sometime to see what they are doing, and see if your opinion changes

dr.fuzzenstein

StudentDad wrote: »

To be fair to the people leaving their lights on. It isn't their fault or their problem that you have a problem with their beams. If you have a problem with lights on the other side of a dual carriage way, that's down to poor road design not inconsiderate driving on the part of drivers who expect to be able to use their lights on a dual carriageway.

SD

Idiotic. If there's a bend, even a slight one, the lights will shine across to the other side. Design has nothing to do with it, unless a 2 meter high wall was built in the middle of the motorway, which is just a daft idea.
But if you think I shouldn't have a problem with your lights, surely you won't have a problem with mine, enjoy!

Voodoomelon

Pov06 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXCGtvL___M

This was posted in the dashcam thread weeks ago

I'd forgotten about that one, makes my blood boil. Even months on I tried to get the reg there to email it to trafficwatch, can't make it out though. I get so full of rage watching arseholes like that. :mad: