Driving Truisms

RiderOnTheStorm

Dont want to post this in Driving Forum as they are very argumentive over there and want that special AH feel ....

Thinking about when I gave my children driving lessons, and explained the rules of the road. Now I am driving all day and with decades of experience (good & bad) I have observed some "rules" that are not in the books.

Rural driving - when a car pulls out of side road in front of you, they will only stay on your road for a few hundred yards and then pull into side road.

Various radio stations claim to be "national" but you have to keep retuning your radio if you are going on long journey. And sometimes it just disappears!

Always have a supply of insults ready for use. You might not be able to think of good ones in heat of the moment. Vulgarity not necessary. eg what shade of green were you waiting for? Did you learn on a bus? Save it for you sister? Pick a lane, any lane!

On quiet country roads, at night, keep out from the ditch. Middle of a small road is safest. Lots of feckers still walking in dark clothes. And you can see oncoming cars by their headlights and get back on your own side.

Dogs walking at side of road will will usually look at you and stay where they are. Cats are mental and will dart across in front of you even if their own side was safer & better.

Eating chips while driving on long journey at night is one of life's secret pleasures.


What are your driving truisms?
(Lets keep car v bike out of this one. Ta)

wexie

Never expect people to signal correctly on a roundabout and act accordingly

brevity

Expect the unexpected

Let people merge

Don’t look at other drivers

Check your mirrors

Indicate

Drive with purpose

storker

"It's green! Are you waiting for a written invitation?"

Captain Red Beard

Your 2 tonnes of metal can wipe out the life of a person on foot, horseback, a bike, wheelchair, pram etc. in an instant. Yet put 99% of the population behind a steering wheel and they suddenly think the above are merely a nuisance whose safety is to be ignored.

Wibbs

A third of drivers are mentally challenged and shouldn't on the road.

An appeal to tiny women of excessive blonde(with optional small kids): Maybe buy a car that you can at least see over the fooking steering wheel of, not the SUV Sherman tank you think makes it look like leafy suburbia is your birthright.

Anybody wearing any form of hat in a car is to be avoided like the plague rats they are.

Wibbs

storker wrote: »

"It's green! Are you waiting for a written invitation?"

Oh Christ yes. So much this.

RiderOnTheStorm

Wibbs wrote:

Anybody wearing any form of hat in a car is to be avoided like the plague rats they are.

+1000

TCM

brevity wrote:

Drive with purpose

storker wrote:

"It's green! Are you waiting for a written invitation?"

Captain Red Beard wrote:

Your 2 tonnes of metal can wipe out the life of a person on foot, horseback, a bike, wheelchair, pram etc. in an instant. Yet put 99% of the population behind a steering wheel and they suddenly think the above are merely a nuisance whose safety is to be ignored.

99% - that's completely untrue.

castletownman

Cyclists are immune to any form of criticism regarding their manner on the road

RiderOnTheStorm

When I see someone in another car singing to same tune I have on radio, i smile. Makes me think we are all the same. Then I get to a roundabout and my bonne homme evaporates in a flash. There are lanes on a roundabout folks!!

Sycamore Tree

BMW drivers are a law unto themselves and are to be avoided. Many are quite arrogant as a result of being nouveau riche.

wexie

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

When I see someone in another car singing to same tune I have on radio, i smile. Makes me think we are all the same. Then I get to a roundabout and my bonne homme evaporates in a flash. There are lanes on a roundabout folks!!

yeah but they're only for other people, I know where I'm going!!!

Always amazes me how many people can't figure out roundabouts. Truth be told I still haven't settled on 'can't figure out the lanes and signaling' or 'don't give a **** about anybody but me'

Harry Palmr

The car that is indicating is not turning, the car that is not indicating is turning.

StupidLikeAFox

My car has a cool feature called "Park Anywhere" mode. It is activated by pressing the red button with the triangle on it and you can tell when it's enabled because all the indicators flash at the same time

doolox

Not turning off their indicators and causing a hold up because the car on the overtaking lane immediately behind and to their right will not proceed on his way presuming the indicator forgetter is going to pull out at any moment ......forever.


But he doesn't.


And all the cars behind pile up waiting to get by the pair of them.

SBPhoto

The lights have just changed to red, sure i still have enough time to go through before the other side turns green.

wexie

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

It is activated by pressing the red button with the triangle

that's the diplomatic immunity button!!!

Melodeon

The use of indicators is considered to be 'Passing information to the enemy', a crime punishable by summary execution!

The Pheasant2

If someone waits and gives you right of way and you drive past them without acknowledgement (even a barely perceptible raising of the index finger will do), you are a twat..






















...and possibly a woman.

wexie

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

If someone waits and gives you right of way and you drive past them without acknowledgement (even a barely perceptible raising of the index finger will do), you are a twat..
...and possibly a woman.

Is that worse than the people that just barge in and then give ya a friendly wave like you politely let them in rather than stomped on the breaks to avoid t-boning them?

Yer Da sells Avon

If I'm driving at the legal limit in the fast lane, you can be guaranteed that some prick will start flashing there lights at me.

Ken.

There are 40 shades of green and to some people 2 of them are orange and red.

coffee_cake

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

If I'm driving at the legal limit in the fast lane, you can be guaranteed that some prick will start flashing there lights at me.

Because its the overtaking lane not the fast lane
Overtake and gtfo

Sky King

When merging onto a motorway the temptation for a nervous driver is to go slower but in fact it's much easier to accelerate, match the speed of the traffic and filter in, especially if it's very busy. This can seem quite counterintuitive

At ten to two the bus is due.

wexie

Sky King wrote: »

When merging onto a motorway the temptation for a nervous driver is to go slower but in fact it's much easier to accelerate, match the speed of the traffic and filter in, especially if it's very busy. This can seem quite counterintuitive

eugh.....hate the people that very cautiously drive to the end of the merging lane and then stop and wait for a gap in traffic.

THAT'S NOT HOW YOU DO IT!!!! :mad::mad::mad:

(thankfully you don't see them often)

Yer Da sells Avon

bluewolf wrote: »

Because its the overtaking lane not the fast lane
Overtake and gtfo

Your wrong.

Harry Palmr

Sky King wrote: »

When merging onto a motorway the temptation for a nervous driver is to go slower but in fact it's much easier to accelerate, match the speed of the traffic and filter in, especially if it's very busy. This can seem quite counterintuitive

Nearly everyone moves from the driving lane into the overtaking lane when they see someone on the slip if they can. And rightly! On the modern motorways there is no excuse for not being at the right speed and the right place so long are the merging zones...and yet it happens

The Pheasant2

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

If I'm driving at the legal limit in the fast lane, you can be guaranteed that some prick will start flashing there lights at me.

There's no such thing as the "fast lane" - overtake and get back in lane snail.

Yer Da sells Avon

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

There's no such thing as the "fast lane" - overtake and get back in lane snail.

Your wrong to.