What kind of person beeps a learner driver?

13-04-2021 7:02pm #1

You deserve a special place in hell if you beep a learner driver when they've cut out.

Strumms · 13-04-2021 7:12pm

You do it once, you are a cock... for life.

Apoapsis Rex · 13-04-2021 7:14pm

It's training them for the real world of driving! People do get beeped at. I'm doing them a favour. I usually beep a 2nd time just as they re start the car for some extra teaching.

Speedline · 13-04-2021 7:15pm

It's a lousy thing to do. Some people can be right cnuts when they get behind the wheel. I bet they wouldn't roar at someone in Dunnes to get out of their way.

JibJabWibWab · 13-04-2021 7:16pm

Tell me you're a learner driver, without saying you're a learner driver...

the beer revolu · 13-04-2021 7:17pm

While beeping at anyone who has cut out is a stupid and ignorant thing to do, due to our strange laws around learner drivers, one has no idea whether a car with an L plate is being driven by a learner or not.

peasant · 13-04-2021 7:21pm

People who can't drive (yet) have no business being on the road.
Unless they are in a proper instructors car with dual controls, with an instructor who will eventually lend a helping foot if there is no progress being made.

iamstop · 13-04-2021 7:23pm

Probably the same type of person who beeps a cyclist for cycling at the correct side of the road.
I've never had this happen in Ireland but here in Canada some people in pick up trucks like to beep at cyclists for a laugh. Idiots.

YoshiReturns · 13-04-2021 7:30pm

Sexually frustrated people beep more.
And road runners. beep beep
And sexually frustrated road runners beep a lot.

KaneToad · 13-04-2021 7:33pm

The same type of person who shouts at cyclists to get into the cycle lane. Usually a person of lower intelligence.

Mrs OBumble · 13-04-2021 7:36pm

peasant wrote: »

People who can't drive (yet) have no business being on the road.
Unless they are in a proper instructors car with dual controls, with an instructor who will eventually lend a helping foot if there is no progress being made.

Does that include people using bicycles?

Shred · 13-04-2021 7:39pm

I did it once and her passenger started going mad gesticulating through the rear window at me. What the díck didn’t realise was she had been rolling backwards towards me and would have hit my car had I not beeped. Nice teaching there fella :rolleyes:

But in general I agree, don’t beep learners - we were all there at one point!

peasant · 13-04-2021 7:43pm

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Does that include people using bicycles?

Well, not in the original sense of my post.

But hey...if you can't drive your bicycle (yet) you'll soon learn the hard way that you shouldn't be on the road*

*And by road in that sense I mean the type with real life traffic on them...just for the pernickety type who deliberately needs to misunderstand

13-04-2021 7:56pm

peasant wrote: »

People who can't drive (yet) have no business being on the road.
Unless they are in a proper instructors car with dual controls, with an instructor who will eventually lend a helping foot if there is no progress being made.

Ah yeah, I'm sure you were never a learner. You must have come out of the womb in a caravan ready to get on the road.

Galwayguy35 · 13-04-2021 8:01pm

peasant wrote: »

People who can't drive (yet) have no business being on the road.
Unless they are in a proper instructors car with dual controls, with an instructor who will eventually lend a helping foot if there is no progress being made.

Hopefully you followed your own advice when you first starting driving.

peasant · 13-04-2021 8:06pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah yeah, I'm sure you were never a learner. You must have come out of the womb in a caravan ready to get on the road.

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Hopefully you followed your own advice when you first starting driving.

As it happens, I did my learning in an instructors car with dual controls and only after I passed my theoretical test...anything else would have been illegal.

As for beeping at learners, I beep at them as much or rather as little as I beep at everybody else. Everybody gets to make a mistake, L plate or not. Sure I make them myself, every now and then.
But my patience does have limits.

Sonics2k · 13-04-2021 8:08pm

peasant wrote: »

People who can't drive (yet) have no business being on the road.
Unless they are in a proper instructors car with dual controls, with an instructor who will eventually lend a helping foot if there is no progress being made.

Okay, but in what possible way does beeping at said learner driver help?

I've been on the road nearly 20 years and it never occurs to me to beep at an L plate. They're learning, and beeping at them serves no good at all.

Atlantic Dawn · 13-04-2021 8:09pm

Apoapsis Rex wrote: »

It's training them for the real world of driving! People do get beeped at. I'm doing them a favour. I usually beep a 2nd time just as they re start the car for some extra teaching.

Tomorrow stick an L plate on your car and drive as normal, you will see the abuse you get despite driving the same as normal.

On a side note I've noticed the standard of driving has gone to complete sheite in the lockdown, people jumping red lights, driving right up your hole, not waiting at junctions, reaction times of a dead person etc etc, people are either up to their gills on happy pills or have other things on their minds.

peasant · 13-04-2021 8:11pm

Sonics2k wrote: »

Okay, but in what possible way does beeping at said learner driver help?

It might just give them the idea to practice their hillstarts and general clutch control in a quiet area a bit more until they know what they are doing

KathleenGrant · 13-04-2021 8:11pm

A cnut.

Galwayguy35 · 13-04-2021 8:13pm

peasant wrote: »

As it happens, I did my learning in an instructors car with dual controls and only after I passed my theoretical test...anything else would have been illegal.

As for beeping at learners, I beep at them as much or rather as little as I beep at everybody else. Everybody gets to make a mistake, L plate or not. Sure I make them myself, every now and then.
But my patience does have limits.

Do you drive a BMW by any chance?

antodeco · 13-04-2021 8:14pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Tomorrow stick an L plate on your car and drive as normal, you will see the abuse you get despite driving the same as normal.

On a side note I've noticed the standard of driving has gone to complete sheite in the lockdown, people jumping red lights, driving right up your hole, not waiting at junctions, reaction times of a dead person etc etc, people are either up to their gills on happy pills or have other things on their minds.

It's always been like that. Just with less traffic on the road, they are more "free" to be made aware of

Government buildings · 13-04-2021 8:15pm

Good professional drivers don't beep aggressively or offer ignorant hand signals or get angry with other drivers who make mistakes.

peasant · 13-04-2021 8:15pm

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Do you drive a BMW by any chance?

Haha ...no ..pretty much the exact opposite

YoshiReturns · 13-04-2021 8:17pm

I wonder will we be allowed to beep in self drive cars ? "Alexa, please beep that person in front."
"I can't do that Dave."

Feisar · 13-04-2021 8:18pm

peasant wrote: »

People who can't drive (yet) have no business being on the road.
Unless they are in a proper instructors car with dual controls, with an instructor who will eventually lend a helping foot if there is no progress being made.

Don't they just have a break and a clutch pedal? PLUS it'd hardly be wise to accelerate when someone else has the wheel.

Green Mile · 13-04-2021 8:22pm

I’ve been driving 15 odd years, I’ve never beep at anyone in my life.

13-04-2021 8:23pm

peasant wrote: »

As it happens, I did my learning in an instructors car with dual controls and only after I passed my theoretical test...anything else would have been illegal.

As for beeping at learners, I beep at them as much or rather as little as I beep at everybody else. Everybody gets to make a mistake, L plate or not. Sure I make them myself, every now and then.
But my patience does have limits.

You do realise you can drive a car legally with a fully licensed driver?

I really don't understand that reasoning, a learner deserves more patience, as... they're learning.

13-04-2021 8:25pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Tomorrow stick an L plate on your car and drive as normal, you will see the abuse you get despite driving the same as normal.

On a side note I've noticed the standard of driving has gone to complete sheite in the lockdown, people jumping red lights, driving right up your hole, not waiting at junctions, reaction times of a dead person etc etc, people are either up to their gills on happy pills or have other things on their minds.

I genuinely feel if I took them off I wouldn't be tailgated by every single jeep on the road.

peasant · 13-04-2021 8:25pm

Feisar wrote: »

Don't they just have a break and a clutch pedal? PLUS it'd hardly be wise to accelerate when someone else has the wheel.

Err no ...

They have all three pedals.
And legally speaking, in an instructor's car, the instructor is the legally responsible driver, steering wheel or not. They are the one with the licence. They also are the one to pay the bill if an accident happens.

At least that was the way when I did my driving licence nearly 40 years ago.

Paul Pogba · 13-04-2021 8:28pm

What if they’re beeping at the selfish clown in the passenger seat who has filled their brutally skilled offspring with false praise in their driving ability. Especially when you’ve sat behind them at a roundabout for ages without any other car approaching and multiple cut outs.

What kind of person beeps a learner driver?

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