What annoys you about other drivers?

[Rockstar]

Since this issue is something people are passionate about and it seems to be incroaching on other threads I'll start a VENT thread.
Into it.

Being a truck driver and spending 8+ hours on the road, I get annoyed LOTS!

People on phones don't really bother me as long as they can still drive. And a lot of people can. But my mate had a bad accident because a guy on a phone ran a red light. How do you run a red light? I'm on the phone most of the day and still drive fine. It seems to be a combination of mobile phone and 4x4 that makes it deadly.

Things that piss me off to no end:
People who do 90 on the highway. I don't have enough power to overtake you. Going 90 costs me 10 minutes for every 100km and I'm on a schedual. It costs me money.

People who will only go to 110 on overtaking lanes. Overtake as quickly as possible and GET THE HELL OUT OF THE OVERTAKING LANE. Let everyone overtake and don't take the entire lane to overtake 1 truck. (98SPORT will know what I'm talking about between Oakey and Toowoomba)

People who pull out in front of you like they're in a hurry then sit on 50.

People who don't indicate properly at round-abouts so your waiting for them and they go straight ahead!

People who think your not going to stop at intersection so they slow down "just in case" you don't whereas you've timed it right that if they maintain speed you'll pass behind them, but now they've slowed you have to stop, then try and get going again. Good work, idiot.

Hows that for a start?

[stylo]

buddy, being a truckie, I thought your list would be a lot longer than that !!

I am sure you see this a lot on the h/way

* tailgaters. Yes it takes more time to stop when you are going at 110 km/h .. duh !?
* you leave a decent gap from the car in front, only for it to be taken up by a goose who thinks you left the gap there for them to squeeze into

[Rockstar]

Tailgating bothers me in the car because I love my car and don't feel like spending the night in lock-up for punching a guy that fucked up my whip.
In the truck though I know they'll come out a lot worse off. Only time it bothers me is when they tailgate but don't overtake when they have a chance because I can't overtake them because I won't fit between them and the car they're following and have to take both of them! Which rarely is possible.

Yes my list is longer, but and random stupidity. These are the things that constantly put bugs up my butt.

Overtaking is the main problem. In town I go too slow for anyone to get in my way.

The other one is cars that won't overtake when they have the chance. People who don't know what thier car is capable of.

[ommeh]

I hate people who dont do the speed limit.

People who drive slow in the fast lane

Anyone in a shit car as you are driving a shit car you clearly have no interest in cars and if you have no interest in cars you have no interest in driving and therefore you are no good at it so DONT DRIVE.

[alba]

people that pull out of side streets onto main streets and proceed to pootle like grandmas

if you are going to pull out in front of someone, at least give it beans so we don't have to emergency brake to avoid remodelling their rear end

[Rockstar]

I've worked out the worst drivers list goes like this:
1: Cockies fresh from the sticks
2: White trash because they don't care about thier car or respect peoples property
3: Old people

Toowoomba is full of all three of these. Every corner has an old folks home, cockies come in for supplies and white trash love the cheap cost of living.

[alba]

in perth you can replace the cockies with inner-suburban dwelling mercedes drivers... they think they own the joint and are usually on international licences so they think they are still driving in some shitty over-populated stinkhole north of the equator

[0dd0ne]

when3 cars sit equal with each other across 3 lanes doing 80 in a 110 zone.
The rta putting more speed cameras in when slowing people down isnt solving their stupidity or the death rate.
People that have fucked head lights, i.e. One light doesnt work and they have the other on hi beam to compensate
assholes that take to long to get going off the line causing 4 cars to miss going througha green light.
Those shitty little tip trucks that seem unable to do anything close to the speed limit
dickheads that drive "fast" in traffic dodging in and out but end up getting no where further ahead but rather slow everyone else down cause they get scared.
The assholes that freak out in the m5 tunnel and thinkk they are going to hit the wall so they drive in the middle of 2 lanes at 50kmh instead of 80
the dickheads that do 40 past speed cameras instead of the normal legal speed.
Busses in general for being slow and pushy.

I could go on...

[Macca]

My massive rage is people who dont merge from an on ramp at the speed limit, if you try merge at 60kmh when everyone else is doing 100kmh YOUR GOING TO KILL SOMEONE!

KEEP THE FUCK LEFT UNLESS OVERTAKING

The speed I choose to travel at is my choice not yours

[LG1]

tailgaters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[steel]

Yeah, it shits me when people merge or pull out in front of me in such a way that it requires me to slow down so as not to run up their slow arse (as long as I am doing less than maybe 15 over the limit). If they did that shit on their driving test they would be penalised or failed depending on the extent of it.

[DamoMcTitz]

I hate fuckers who change lanes constantly just to get a metre further in the other lane, and keep swapping, or in bumper to bumper traffic, pulling out from behind you, and then trying to pull in in front of you after gaining one car length - ie yours - in the other lane.

All people driving commodores, all people driving taxis.

[odysseyesm]

South Australians who don't know how to merge or use a fucking round-a-bout.....

They scream up to the end of the merging lane and then jump on the picks...... WTF are you lot on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Round-a-bouts....... Fuck me, they think that if they look left then the other driverhas to give way because they aren't going to look right to see the oncoming traffic..... Fucking cockheads!!!!!

Oh yeh, then there is the "Hang-on-that-guy-trying-to-merge-I'll-speed-up-so-he-can't-get-in-my-lane" trick.....

Hang-on, I forgot about the "I'll sit at the lights with my thumb up my arse until the light goes green, wait until the person behind me is apoplectic then I'll put it in gear and amble off" trick. Meanwhile only 2 cars get through the change of the lights and the resulting traffic jamb kicks the Crows off the cover of the fucking paper to report on how shit the roads are"

Other than that, I quite like Radelaide.....
Glad I got that off my chest - prolly will get edited though.

[alba]

South Australians who don't know how to merge or use a fucking round-a-bout.....

They scream up to the end of the merging lane and then jump on the picks...... WTF are you lot on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Round-a-bouts....... Fuck me, they think that if they look left then the other driverhas to give way because they aren't going to look right to see the oncoming traffic..... Fucking cockheads!!!!!

Oh yeh, then there is the "Hang-on-that-guy-trying-to-merge-I'll-speed-up-so-he-can't-get-in-my-lane" trick.....

Hang-on, I forgot about the "I'll sit at the lights with my thumb up my arse until the light goes green, wait until the person behind me is apoplectic then I'll put it in gear and amble off" trick. Meanwhile only 2 cars get through the change of the lights and the resulting traffic jamb kicks the Crows off the cover of the fucking paper to report on how shit the roads are"

Other than that, I quite like Radelaide.....
Glad I got that off my chest - prolly will get edited though.

same shit happens in perth
i think its just old biddies and all the people who arent used to driving in heavy traffic
when i lived in london, it made me a better driver

[0dd0ne]

People that merge without looking is another one. I cant count the number of times ive nearly been killed because of this.

[skyrex]

Lol great vent thread.
I see my fair share of it too being an onsite consultant for a living. So glad I got the colt though, much more nimble to be able to zip around town and park where others physically can't :)

Speaking of parking, it's a little off the norm of venting but my vent is: people who swing their big ol' barge into a parking spot, leave it slumped in a position resembling that of a frikking beached whale, while somehow defying a scientific explanation of how 1 car can take up 3 end-to-end parking spaces!

Plus the usual, slow-ass nanny drivers, commitment-phobes, decorative indicator users (only there for decoration apparently, not for any form of logical use or use what-so-ever)...


Need a ricey sticker:
"Have you had your nice warm cup of commitment this morning before getting behind the wheel?"
http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/punch02.thumbnail.jpg

[Corosith]

Ooooh, I'm going to love this! Now where do we start - 1. My biggest hate is tailgating, I get this every morning with all the mothers wanting to get to the school at the same time to drop their kids off - with I had a rear mounted gatling gun!
2. Mobile phones of course, especially people that overtake you on the freeway and sit in the overtaking lane whilst having a yack about the best coloured paint for the lounge feature wall!
3. Women in their 4WD barges that can go anywhere, anytime without the use of indicators, any road rules - including speeding through the school crossing where they just dropped their kids off at.
4. Women (sorry ladies, but this is rife in Adelaide) in their 4WD's that will sit in the overtaking lane on the freeway for the whole distance into Adelaide, if you don't move out of the way then you get tailgated!
5. Same as Odyssey - people who can't merge, we all used to be able to do this, now it's a fight to see who gets to merge first (horsepower usually wins).
6. Roundabouts - even today a certain number of road user still do not have a clue about how to navigate them. They seem to just enter the roundbout, point the car and accelerate but somehow hope to end up at the other side. Flick the indicator any which way, doesn't matter of course!:rolleyes:
7. The virtual indicator - this is when someone wants to merge or change lanes, but refuses to use use an indicator. They just sort of point their car towards your lane or slow down and stare at you (telepathy obviously doesn't work), or they start wandering very close or into your lane - use your fricken indicator, that's why it's there dumbasses!
8. When people who are entering a main road from a T-Junction take five minutes to make the decision to pull out into the traffic, but then end up doing it at the last moment forcing all traffic to jam their brakes on to avoid collision.
9. People who turn into the devil when you beep them for doing something idiotic, they usually swear at you, give you the finger in the mirror, slow down on purpose just to piss you off! Sorry, but your'e the one who fucked up - get over it!
10. The guy in the commodore that roars past you and weaves in and out of traffic in the attempt to overtake 250 cars, then you you find 5 minutes later you are sitting next to him again!
11. This is something that causes a lot of rear end accidents - people stopping in the middle of the god damned main road to be curteous and let other cars in (usually does it at a moments notice), read the damned sign, they have to give way or they may well have a stop sign meaning they give way to you.
12. Lazy parkers - a pet hate of mine. Usually happens at the local shopping centre when somone pulls into a park at an angle and makes absolutely no attempt at straightening the car up. This results in one person not being able to get into their car, whilst the person on the other side can't reverse out .
13. Toddlers and car doors - these usually do not mix with nice cars parked next them. I can hear it now "watch out foo foo, you just bumped that mans car, be carefull next time", meanwhile they have left leaving you with a nice crease in the side of your door - no offer to fix it from the culprit! I had a new S14 and someone did this to my car only a few days after purchasing it - she even had my paint on her door, I wanted to come back with a sledge hammer and finish the job on her car.

Wow, I feel much better now!:p

[0dd0ne]

13. Toddlers and car doors - these usually do not mix with nice cars parked next them. I can hear it now "watch out foo foo, you just bumped that mans car, be carefull next time", meanwhile they have left leaving you with a nice crease in the side of your door - no offer to fix it from the culprit! I had a new S14 and someone did this to my car only a few days after purchasing it - she even had my paint on her door, I wanted to come back with a sledge hammer and finish the job on her car.



someone did this to my colt the week i got it.

[ommeh]

Seeing i am asian, Asian wemen in FUCK HUGE pajeros or landcruisers! Serz if you are SO scared of driving or getting hit then DRIVE a smaller car as its easier to park... Eastwood is PRONE to em and i've had my fair share of moments where i've almost hit some idiot asian lady who just randomly came out~

The assholes who try to steal your spot after waiting for 5 mins. Happened to me today when i was parking at work. Was about to reverse into a spot and some dickhead in a barina cuts in. It was a lady and she got in very nice was a decent park BUT i had my reverse lights on and i was signalling. I got out and vented and she just looked at me, locked her car and smiled with the comment "Sorry i'm late. Bad luck" and walked off. WTF?????!?!??!?! Now i dont do this but she REALLY deserved it. I found another spot somewhere up the road and when i walked past her car i made sure i left a mark on EVERY panel of her car.

[alba]

Happened to me today when i was parking at work. Was about to reverse into a spot and some dickhead in a barina cuts in. It was a lady and she got in very nice was a decent park BUT i had my reverse lights on and i was signalling. I got out and vented and she just looked at me, locked her car and smiled with the comment "Sorry i'm late. Bad luck" and walked off. WTF?????!?!??!?! Now i dont do this but she REALLY deserved it. I found another spot somewhere up the road and when i walked past her car i made sure i left a mark on EVERY panel of her car.

i would have punched her in the cunt

[Macca]

Sorry Tommy I hate people who wait for carparks! Just drive around and fine one don't block my way thru cause your wanting one thats taken!

PEOPLE WHO FUCKEN PISS ON TOILET SEATS!!!
ok its not driving but I just put upsome notes to the ass at work who keeps doing it. I out my name on it so I'm copping some flack haha.

[Rockstar]

As a general rule, I hate ANYONE driving an X5.

They're weight 5 ton, drive like a milk float, take up 3 lanes and the people driving them think that not only does thier shit not stink and they pay enough tax for the three people stuck behind them, but they are, in fact, God himself and that gives them the right to park where they want, drive how they want, in the oncoming OR outgoing lane, and stop at green light.

Heaven forbid you cut one off. You WILL be struck down by lightning from above.

[Rockstar]

Wow Coro. Your an angry little man!
I'm so glad I started this thread! It's the forum version of VIRAL VIDEO!

A few points on what I've read.

The zooming through traffic only to end up sitting next to them at the lights, I'm guilty of that.
It's not that I'm in a hurry or anything, I just like overtaking. I do feel like an idiot when I don't get anywhere, but I warrant that I'm having more fun than you. Mind you I don't do it in a dangerous way and I'm VERY curteous to others because I have so many pet hates about driving.

My toddler is VERY good with the car. I HATE people who let kids run rampant with thier single biggest investment, thier car. My little girl doesn't touch the glass, only closes the door uning the handle, not the paintwork, and watches the corner of the door and opens it til it's about 6 inches from the other car, balances it there, and then hops in. She's very good, and only 3!!

If you want to avoid accidents by stupid drivers, my advice is to do a Q-ride course to get a motorbike licence. These guys work on the fact that your on a motorbike. If shit happens in a car, you take it to a panel shop, no big deal. Shit happens on a bike, your in traction. So not only showing you how to ride safely they teach how to avoid dickheads in cars/busses/trucks and tractors. It's very good and since I did it have not had even a near miss yet. Just by watching other drivers and knowing what they're going to do by thier movements.

Two things I was taught that I will never forget, one, when you come to an intersection, don't just act the dude on the bottom of the screen in Wolfenstien with his eyes going over and back, actually move your head to look whats coming, and two, if your on a motorbike and a truck merges onto you, what do you do? Accelerate, I said, the instructor replies, DAMN HARD!!!! (i.e. emergency braking on a motorbike is something you want to avoid because a lock-up is usually catastrophic)

[briscolt]

Happened to me today when i was parking at work. Was about to reverse into a spot and some dickhead in a barina cuts in. It was a lady and she got in very nice was a decent park BUT i had my reverse lights on and i was signalling. I got out and vented and she just looked at me, locked her car and smiled with the comment "Sorry i'm late. Bad luck" and walked off. WTF?????!?!??!?! Now i dont do this but she REALLY deserved it. I found another spot somewhere up the road and when i walked past her car i made sure i left a mark on EVERY panel of her car.[/QUOTE][/I][/COLOR


LOL i probably would not of gone that far but i would of let down 2 of her tyres one either side at opposite ends of the car that is my favourite trick it saves actually damaging the car too much.

[ommeh]

Sorry Tommy I hate people who wait for carparks! Just drive around and fine one don't block my way thru cause your wanting one thats taken!

PEOPLE WHO FUCKEN PISS ON TOILET SEATS!!!
ok its not driving but I just put upsome notes to the ass at work who keeps doing it. I out my name on it so I'm copping some flack haha.

i wasn't waiting. I dive around I don't wait but this was an open spot I was just backing into. I hate people who do tht ><

[Macca]

Yeh its a fair dog act to do, I would have gone crazy at the slag!

[Corosith]

Wow Coro. Your an angry little man!
I'm so glad I started this thread! It's the forum version of VIRAL VIDEO!

A few points on what I've read.

The zooming through traffic only to end up sitting next to them at the lights, I'm guilty of that.
It's not that I'm in a hurry or anything, I just like overtaking. I do feel like an idiot when I don't get anywhere, but I warrant that I'm having more fun than you. Mind you I don't do it in a dangerous way and I'm VERY curteous to others because I have so many pet hates about driving.

My toddler is VERY good with the car. I HATE people who let kids run rampant with thier single biggest investment, thier car. My little girl doesn't touch the glass, only closes the door uning the handle, not the paintwork, and watches the corner of the door and opens it til it's about 6 inches from the other car, balances it there, and then hops in. She's very good, and only 3!!

If you want to avoid accidents by stupid drivers, my advice is to do a Q-ride course to get a motorbike licence. These guys work on the fact that your on a motorbike. If shit happens in a car, you take it to a panel shop, no big deal. Shit happens on a bike, your in traction. So not only showing you how to ride safely they teach how to avoid dickheads in cars/busses/trucks and tractors. It's very good and since I did it have not had even a near miss yet. Just by watching other drivers and knowing what they're going to do by thier movements.

Two things I was taught that I will never forget, one, when you come to an intersection, don't just act the dude on the bottom of the screen in Wolfenstien with his eyes going over and back, actually move your head to look whats coming, and two, if your on a motorbike and a truck merges onto you, what do you do? Accelerate, I said, the instructor replies, DAMN HARD!!!! (i.e. emergency braking on a motorbike is something you want to avoid because a lock-up is usually catastrophic)

Not angry, just amazed by what I see on the road these days, it was never this bad when I first got my licence. Had a laugh tonight when I came up to a set of traffic lights that were on green, and there was a car parked in the middle of the road about 3 car lengths back from the traffic lights???? Turns out the female driver was completely oblivious to the fact that the lights had turned green, and in fact had been green for the last 30 seconds. Anyone care to guess what she was doing - she was texting on her fricken mobile phone. How do I know, because she missed the green light and when I pulled up 3 car lengths in front of her, I looked back and she was still texting!! She's lucky no one ran up the arse end of her car, and she should realise a car is for driving, not a mobile office.

[0dd0ne]

As a general rule, I hate ANYONE driving an X5.

They're weight 5 ton, drive like a milk float, take up 3 lanes and the people driving them think that not only does thier shit not stink and they pay enough tax for the three people stuck behind them, but they are, in fact, God himself and that gives them the right to park where they want, drive how they want, in the oncoming OR outgoing lane, and stop at green light.

Heaven forbid you cut one off. You WILL be struck down by lightning from above.



haha my father owns one. Its like driving a panzer tank around. Epic 22 speaker sound system with 2 subs though (standard with the car)

[Rockstar]

Nice 20's too!

[lovecolt]

Hate people that's behind of me, overtake me and merge right in front of me (straight after the overtake). Especially pissed when its a shitbox or something i know that can't beat my rcolt.

[skyrex]

Had a gronk in a duel-cab do that to me on a cruse 2 Saturdays ago. I was doing ~5km/h over the limit as not to lose pace and lose the convoy, he's right up my kloo-ack-ah the whole way until there is a safe and legal break to make a pass so he does. Gets back in line right in-front of me and then proceeds at just a pooftienth under the limit, meanwhile the convoy is creeping away and another car pulls out in-front of him from a side street to make two cars between me and the convoy. He puts the speed on whenever a legal pass was available making it even harder and un-safer to pass him. I ended up getting jack of waiting, as soon as I saw a big enough and safe gap I got his bluff and punched past him and the car in-front of him.

In the Hunter Valley there was a massive increase in people "going green" - saving fuel by not indicating this weekend too.

[Blaze]

This always happens on the freeway or highway.

No matter how fast your driving. Other cars will still try and overtake you.

It's prob the look of the colt from behind. Looks so plain and and weak.

[0dd0ne]

People subconsciously hate to be beaten. Only exception is when they are driving really slow on purpose. If they are cruising and not paying as much attention they will always try keep in front. Try overtake somebody on a dual lane road. Pull up beside them, match their speed. They will speed up just cause you are there.

[pAuL]

i love the bike, if people do that i just downgear and leave them in 2 stroke smoke

[Llewellyn]

people who don't use turn out lanes.

[Rockstar]

Can't believe I didn't think of this til now.
The number 1 thing I hate about all drivers......
When I get caught off-boost! Especially by some Commodore of something I know I could smoke.

[Tedy Fury]

ppl who don't use blinkers
ppl who cut in front of you and then give you the finger
and every ricy nissan pulsar p plater who has to race

[DamoMcTitz]

wicked camper vans. those fuckers.........

has anyone mentioned commodore drivers ??? :)

[banana]

lol i had a bogan calling me ricer, asian cock sucker making cock sukin motions.. i was like WTF?? on hume highway. i drove right infront of him and hard braked, i blocked everytime he tried to change lane, he was sooo pissed off he tried to chase me for 10 mins in his ute. later we pulled aside got out my spanner and all he could do was shout. FUK U ASIAN COCKER SUCKERS lol. i was like stop talking n come out. i was with a mate that just got outta long beach for putting a dude in coma and he was rdy to knock him out. we did nothing to cause anything i wasnt even speeding or making excess noise. i hate aussie bogans. we did end up snapping his side mirror lol he was furious