National drivers feedback week

badabing106 · 10-06-2016 07:11PM #1

I have noticed that 4/10 drivers do not indicate on roundabouts. Is this a new thing?

Are there any driving trends that you have noticed?

LDN_Irish · 10-06-2016 07:14PM

It's the strongest argument for the death penalty that I can think of.

SEPT 23 1989 · 10-06-2016 07:16PM

Women never let you out

10-06-2016 07:25PM

People that pulling out of parking spaces without indicating.
Changing lanes with indicating.
Not indicating in general really!

No lights on in the evening/heavy rain.

aujopimur · 10-06-2016 07:31PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Women never let you out

Normally they don't let me in as well.

s4uv3 · 10-06-2016 07:46PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Women never let you out

I do!!
When the other driver looks like they have their wits about them and will see your gesture and move, rather that stare at you like my dog does when I ask him what he thinks of the Brexit debate.

Drivers who stop dead on the main road outside the shop in my village. Just stop. No indication, no realisation that there's a car behind them, nothing. Someday I'll roar so loud that I'll be the mad aul wan.

myshirt · 10-06-2016 07:56PM

Double dashers on the car = I can park anywhere

SEPT 23 1989 · 10-06-2016 07:59PM

s4uv3 wrote: »

I do!!
When the other driver looks like they have their wits about them and will see your gesture and move, rather that stare at you like my dog does when I ask him what he thinks of the Brexit debate.

Drivers who stop dead on the main road outside the shop in my village. Just stop. No indication, no realisation that there's a car behind them, nothing. Someday I'll roar so loud that I'll be the mad aul wan.

Male drivers are staring at you in stunned disbelief

Heckler · 10-06-2016 08:06PM

Between my place of work and a local garage where a lot of people go for lunch there's a school nearby. A lot of people park on the road going to pick up the kids no problem. Its a fairly wide road.

Driving back from the garage a few weeks ago i stopped behind a car thinking there was a problem/they were letting someone cross etc.

Nope. On a road where if someone parked to the left there would still be plenty of space to pass without crossing the middle line this idiot parked and left a car with the drivers side wheels on the dividing line. No hazards (not like thats any excuse). Nothing. Just parked and left. If I hadn't been late back to work I'd have waited and torn strips. I hope someone did.

Inconsiderate clowns. And yes, I'll lay odds it was a woman.

Mr. CooL ICE · 10-06-2016 08:15PM

Cars with disease awareness stickers on the back usually drive so slow, they're actually travelling backwards in time.

CFlat · 10-06-2016 08:20PM

I was driving around the Laois area this afternoon and the rain was pelting down and visibility was quite bad. The amount of vehicles that didn't have lights on was shocking. Oh and by the way side lights are f**king useless. You'd be better off having a candle on your dashboard.

And the biggest offenders from my experience of driving like this are truck and bus drivers who you would have thought would no better.

10-06-2016 08:28PM

I always indicate on the roundabout but I'm not always sure if I'm doing it at the right times. Off I go anyway and hope for the best.

CFlat · 10-06-2016 08:37PM

AFAIK you don't indicate going onto a roundabout, you only indicate when you're leaving. If that's wrong then I'm one of the 4/10 'cause I do notice a lot of drivers indicating before they enter roundabouts.

Capt'n Midnight · 10-06-2016 08:48PM

CFlat wrote: »

AFAIK you don't indicate going onto a roundabout, you only indicate when you're leaving. If that's wrong then I'm one of the 4/10 'cause I do notice a lot of drivers indicating before they enter roundabouts.

The only time you don't indicate when entering a roundabout is if you are taking the second exit.

Sonics2k · 10-06-2016 08:51PM

People who stop in the yellow grid/box. You are the main reason traffic is now backing up as you've just caused a massive clusterfúck for everyone else.

Anyone who drives in Cork around Mahon knows how bad this can be.

To Elland Back · 10-06-2016 09:02PM

badabing106 wrote: »

I have noticed that 4/10 drivers do not indicate on roundabouts. Is this a new thing?
?

And none of them indicating properly. At least the 6/10 doing nothing aren't trying to kill you with their ignorance

crosstownk · 10-06-2016 09:08PM

A high proportion of drivers use their phone while driving. Some hold the phone normally but others just put it on speaker and hold it front of their face for all to see - mostly women from what I see.

This explains the lack of use of indicators as they are using the right hand to hold the phone......

whiskeyman · 10-06-2016 09:12PM

CFlat wrote: »

AFAIK you don't indicate going onto a roundabout, you only indicate when you're leaving. If that's wrong then I'm one of the 4/10 'cause I do notice a lot of drivers indicating before they enter roundabouts.

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The only time you don't indicate when entering a roundabout is if you are taking the second exit.

I thought everyone knew you beep the horn a short sharp 'parp' while holding up your middle finger on approach to the roundabout to let fellow motorists you're taking the first exit.
2nd exit is 2 beeps with 2 fingers and you keep the horn pressed for final exit while frantically waving both hands

CFlat · 10-06-2016 09:14PM

whiskeyman wrote: »

I thought everyone knew you beep the horn a short sharp 'parp' while holding up your middle finger on approach to the roundabout to let fellow motorists you're taking the first exit.
2nd exit is 2 beeps with 2 fingers and you keep the horn pressed for final exit while frantically waving both hands

I clearly need to get the updated version of The Rules of the Road....

crosstownk · 10-06-2016 09:15PM

CFlat wrote: »

I clearly need to get the updated version of The Rules of the Road....

Then you can B Sharp.

CFlat · 10-06-2016 09:17PM

crosstownk wrote: »

Then you can B Sharp.

Ah very good. Major score for you there.

corner of hells · 10-06-2016 09:21PM

CFlat wrote: »

I was driving around the Laois area this afternoon and the rain was pelting down and visibility was quite bad. The amount of vehicles that didn't have lights on was shocking. Oh and by the way side lights are f**king useless. You'd be better off having a candle on your dashboard.

And the biggest offenders from my experience of driving like this are truck and bus drivers who you would have thought would no better.

Have you ever tried keeping a candle kit in a dashboard ?
I'm telling ya, it's no mean feat.

diomed · 10-06-2016 10:30PM

A very high proportion of women and old drivers only use the centre lane on motorways.

Minderbinder · 11-06-2016 01:02AM

Driving around at 8pm the other evening and I'd say 50% of drivers had lights on. Some people just always have lights on. Unless it's raining heavily there is absolutely no need for it.

Jack Killian · 11-06-2016 01:07AM

Minderbinder wrote: »

Driving around at 8pm the other evening and I'd say 50% of drivers had lights on. Some people just always have lights on. Unless it's raining heavily there is absolutely no need for it.

Some cars have running lights these days ?

Speaking of lights, the idiots who leave foglamps on (back are worst but front are a major pain too) and those who have spots wired so that they are on with the dips, instead of only with the headlights.

And +1 re those who can't use roundabouts or block junctions (regardless of whether or not there's a yellow box, which is purely a reminder of the rule that applies at every junction anyway)

Heckler · 11-06-2016 07:44PM

Minderbinder wrote: »

Driving around at 8pm the other evening and I'd say 50% of drivers had lights on. Some people just always have lights on. Unless it's raining heavily there is absolutely no need for it.

Disagree. The amount of people who don't put their lights on just because its daylight hours and never mind the circumstances is crazy.

Like volvos i reckon all cars should have the lights come on automatically when started. Does no harm and could do a lot of good.

Agree with the heavy rain. Silver cars with no lights are practically invisible in heavy rain.

Fr_Dougal · 11-06-2016 07:50PM

People hogging the fast lane.

carzony · 11-06-2016 08:21PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

People hogging the fast lane.

No such thing as fast lane..

Barry Badrinath · 11-06-2016 08:25PM

carzony wrote: »

No such thing as fast lane..

You know what the Priest meant.

The zoom zoom lane....overtaking lane.

I came off the M50 at Carrickmines today, got halfway up the slip road and I was greeted by an aul one driving down it.

Not the first time its happened either, idiot.

Fr_Dougal · 11-06-2016 09:01PM

carzony wrote: »

No such thing as fast lane..

There is, they have them in places like Dublin. Couldn't believe it either until I saw them for myself.

Sir Osis of Liver. · 11-06-2016 09:14PM

72% of Irish drivers dont know this but if a car breaks down or stalls in front of you,you should beep your horn and wave your arms frantically.

This should help the car start and send them on their way.

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