Driving Truisms

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

99% of the people on the road are doing something else when driving.

A few years ago I was overtaken on the N11 by a car doing at least 80 mph and the driver had a sheet of A4 paper resting on the steering wheel and was reading it while she was driving. :eek:

the beer revolu wrote: »

But what about cyclists breaking lights???
I saw a cyclist gingerly break a light and this really pisses me off because I can't do this.
Death to all cyclists.

Cyclists p1ss me off far more when I'm a pedestrian than when I'm a driver. I've even encountered a few mannerly cyclists who give a thanks or thumbs up then I hang back to let them make a manoeuvre across a lane. When driving I don't tend to notice their red-light-running so much, but as a pedestrian I've come close to being injured by it on several occasions.

The cycling behaviour that I find the most inconsiderate is driving two abreast on country roads where overtaking is difficult, condemning you sit behind them while they pedal along having a nice chat. Some slip into Indian file to let a car go past, but not many. It's not the commuter cyclists who do this, however, but the weekend cyclists.

Loving the Trolling from AVON, its AHs Folks.

RiderOnTheStorm wrote: »

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.

Anyone who overtakes anywhere, and takes a left turn a 100m later!

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!

Three leters, R.D.S

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!

Any of them sound so much better though with a degree of Vulgarity .

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.

Only problem is though, when that motor bike turns out to be a car with one working headlight!

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

Eat hot food in my car, your walking!

:P

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

Every other driver on the road, is sh!te!

If you are held up by somebody stopped in traffic (sometimes they could still be moving) - do not attempt - I repeat, do not attempt to distract them from checking the news/facebook/instagram or face the wrath of them waving their fists in an extreme manner and shaking their head.

Audis are equipped with a high-powered magnet hidden behind the front badge, this is the reason why they are to be found driving to within half a metre of the back of every other car on the motorway, not the fact that the drivers are utter c*nts.

When you flash me to allow me to merge into a lane, I will give you a courtesy flash of my hazard lights but then due to a combination of noise and being an idiot I will let them flashing and you'll think that I'm really really thankful for letting me in.

storker wrote: »

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

When you're driving in heavy urban traffic, with your empty armchair and empty couch taking up all that valuable space, do you pull over to let faster cyclists through?

Silly comparison really. There's a difference between a bicycle overtaking a slow-moving car car in urban traffic and a car stuck behind two side-by-side cyclists on a narrow country road.

What's the difference?

Other than the cyclists using much less space, I mean.

greenspurs wrote: »

And motorbikes that squeeze up between cars in traffic, and driving without a light on extremely dangerous!!!

Don't think I've ever seen a motorbike without a light on in the dark, they need to see too!

Idiots that drive in pitch black with just front DRLs though, die.

Nixonbot wrote: »

Don't think I've ever seen a motorbike without a light on in the dark, they need to see too!

Even in daytime ! Cars have DRLs now, so why don't motorbikes ??? And why don't the pilots of bikes turn on their lights in the day!

Baron de Charlus wrote: »

The size of the SUV will be in inverse proportion to the owner's ability to drive it.

And it'll be inverse to both the distance they need to travel and the likely hood that they will go off road.

So the very biggest will be used for dropping Sorcha, Fiachra and Uachtarreoite to the school that is 5 minutes away.

AndrewJRenko wrote: »

No, they're waiting to finish reading the latest WhatsApp thread on their phone.



When people are trying to get to work on time, cyclists are generally faster than motor traffic.



OF course you can do this - just like all the other drivers;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc5VGuJvOVk

What amazed me most about that video was the number of cyclists deliberately putting themselves illegally in places that could get them killed. Sailing through red lights, or turning illegally while expecting every car driver to anticipate their illegal actions and not kill them. Bizarre behaviour as if they had a death wish.

Uriel Ambitious Retirement wrote: »

Of all the vehicles that broke the red light, you focus on the 1 cyclist that did it?

And not the dublin busses