Irish drivers.

Pedestrians are completely something else, the light is red but this guy with the girl start walking regardless and when they see the bus they start running right in front of it. Zero survival instinct. I've seen that video where the bus ran over a woman on patrick street like month ago? So weird, why crossing the road when you're not supposed to? And walking right in front of a bus like that. Special kind of stupid.

25th of December is a good time to go for a spin. Or any late night is good too (after midnight mid week). The NPC's are out there in full force usually between 10am-8pm usually doing their stupid thing with their stupid cars/vans/buses etc. After 8pm the chances to come across an idiot are lower and lower.

L drivers used to be ok before covid, but since the covid finished (2022 I think?) it's getting worse. L plates are now unpredictable too, they're mostly a hazard on the road. N plates (whatever that means) same.

Well, lots of foreigners from third world countries too have their L plates now.

Irish drivers well behaved, courteous and considerate? Don't make me laugh! People are indecisive, they crawl along causing a rolling roadblock, nobody indicates, nobody uses mirrors and they are obsessed with the "fast lane"

I've driven in France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands and all (except the ring road in Luxembourg, Paris and Rome) were more relaxing to drive on compared to Ireland. You knew what people were going to do, they indicated and were decisive in their actions. Yes the speeds were higher and you learned lane discipline driving through rush hour traffic in Munich....

I've family members who find it a lot less stressful driving through the middle of Spain in a motorhome compared to driving here.

I'm not mentioning driving in Tanzania (rules, what rules?) UAE (like here but more expensive crashes), India (don't hit the cow) and Vietnam (go with the flow while sitting on the horn).

Edit - Don't ever thing about speeding in Denmark. Camera are EVERYWHERE so people all obey the speed limits....

lane hogging, another Cork classic.

last year in May, 6AM. Literally no traffic anywhere around, only this van and this lorry.

he's doing 100 in the right lane, when the lorry that's quite far away is doing like 90? It would take him forever to overtake that lorry.

In this case I went around him, because what am I supposed to do? stay behind him till he notices me and moves aside? or what? I'm not waiting, I don't want him ahead of me blocking my path. He probably thinks because there's no traffic it doesn't bother anybody.

no, I wasn't doing the speed limit of course.

Three cars.

They would not survive on Autobahn with this kind of driving, they would be actually dangerous there. I had cars overtaking me on their limiter at 250 km/h couple of times. 170-200 km/h and more is standard there. Imagine these morons driving there, hopefully cops would take care of them. Thr way Autobahn works you really are danger and in danger if you're lane hogging. You see a car far in the distance in the mirror, few seconds later he's right behind you because he's doing 200+. I would not recommend a low IQ Cork driver going there.

My experience on Italian motorways.

You see a fiat 500 overtaking a lorry then suddenly dart to the slow lane because a Ferrari or whatever is flying in the fast lane. They would get beeped/flashed out of it if they didn't. I've seen/heard it many times.

Here it's like they own the lane or something. Idiots and dangerous.

I hear an advocate for lane hoggers?

You have to carry on at the speed limit in left lane, yes!

Options? Beep and flash them from behind? Too much hassle sometimes.

Ok I misread it then. They leave you no option but to pass on left, unfortunately.

most dithering Irish idiots would be ploughed out of it on the continent where traffic moves quickly yet competently

I think the Irish Driving Licensing should involve a week of driving in Germany after the N period. It would be really educational. Only the thickest of the thickos would not learn the "you have no rights, only responsibilities at the overtaking lane".

I have started to call the useless drivers "Special Needs" to calm my nerves on the road. These are the types that drive at 59 km/h regardless of the actual speed limits. The ones whose car has apparently about 10 BHP when pulling off the lights or during acceleration towards their 59 km/h after they just sloooowly pulled in front me when I was doing 100 a couple seconds before. These are the ones that have absolutely no situation awareness and just bumble (well not really, more like fluctuate) about in their own world and are always totally shocked when something happens, like they meet a walker or another car comes by. That's when they turn into the disco drivers whose brake lights start to flash a merry tune. These are those that have no visibility when it rains as they don't know how to operate the HVAC system.

Leaf on the road: Brake! Corner on the road: Brake! Somebody gets a point in the Sunday game: Brake! Another car: Brake! The traffic starts to move: Stay on the brakes for another five seconds leaving a huge gap and cause the traffic lights to change back to red as they detect no more cars coming. Then break the red light.

The opposite is the aggressive driver who always tailgates the car in front regardless of when speed the car in front does and how long a queue there is ahead of the car in front of them. Tailgate mercilessly even if the car in front is 20k over the limit. They are also the original disco drivers as they drive so close to car in the front that they nervously tap the brakes every couple of seconds. And they keep missing all the overtaking opportunities as they are too close to the car ahead of them. I just usually indicate and pull over and let them to attach themselves to the back of the car front of me.

That expressway bus has to straddle 2 lanes by Victoria cross as it's too narrow to take the corner.

Cork city, definitely the biggest village in Europe.

guy just sits there in the car like this, like why?

Or this, what is this?

First of all this woman was driving slow AF and then at the lights she stops like this? Another spa.

N driver completely missing the fact that his/her light is red and starts accelerating suddenly with our two lanes that go straight. I beeped, rest is up to them I guess.