Driving?

[jjskyline79]

Funny enough had a guy pull out on me today from a side road and he swore at me telling me im in the wrong and im the twat

errrrrr hang on you just pulled out on me wheres the logic and whos the twat?????????

[scotty014]

Funny enough had a guy pull out on me today from a side road and he swore at me telling me im in the wrong and im the twat

errrrrr hang on you just pulled out on me wheres the logic and whos the twat?????????

lol that happens alot and all it does is make me even more angry . if i do something wrong i quickly apoligise.

[saff_cossie]

Don't want to sound like a winging pohm,

You're giving us all a bad name, get back on the boat.....

[nice 28]

Funny enough had a guy pull out on me today from a side road and he swore at me telling me im in the wrong and im the twat

errrrrr hang on you just pulled out on me wheres the logic and whos the twat?????????

Daily occurrence in my side of town. It's funny how all the Toorak tractors out there all think they are big and strong. Hey try driving in my area while your on your L's. Everyday on my way to school I get people tail-gating and trying to overtake me, just keep a smile and laugh at them, then they really get pissed.

Melbourne driver's are a joke, laugh it up and you'll always be the one with a smile on your face when they going off their t!ts.

[brat81]

i've had a few people rage at me at lights, tooting their horns and giving me the finger because i rolled up to the lights at a slow pace when i know it's going to change when i pull up when i get there so i save my self the hassle of putting it back into 1st gear / neutral.

One women pretty much jumped over into her passenger seat just to flip me the bird i just smiled and waved

One thing that really grinds my gears is people driving 20k under the speed limit and you can't overtake i have this one old lady in a pintara every now and then i will get stuck behind her going down old wells road in Chelsea heights it's 70km down that road she will be doing 40k at tops.

[xALmoN]

Yes, people insist on stopping by the road, next to a no stopping sign, to drop off a passenger for 5 to 10 freaking minutes, hold up 10 cars or so behind it, chat with the passenger, and no one could change lanes because the traffic was going too fast...

You've gotta abuse them.... continuously beeping the horn.. =D

[UnCo]

For some reason when I read JJ's posts, I read it in my mind with a pommy accent..

I had some lady in a Commodore on Burwood Hwy in Boronia swerve from behind behind me in traffic, out around me and push her way back in front of me by indicating and moving over without caring there was clearly no room at all. All so she could take the turn on to Ferntree Gully Rd like the rest of us driving patiently were doing in that lane. I had to hit the brakes to prevent a collision. Then somehow I managed to find my way back in front of her through traffic and she switched lanes to behind me and drove so far up the back of my car, I could see the wrinkles on her face.. but not only did she do that, she swerved a bit to fill my mirrors and held the horn down.

There was clearly nowhere for me to go with cars in front of me, and even if she made it past me again she would've been stuck still!

I'll drive sensibly and if it bothers them so much, they can find a way around me.

That's not to say if I see a car coming up behind me quickly, that I won't move over to the left to let them pass.. just don't expect me to move when there's clearly no where to go.

People just need to cool it on the roads.

[Peter89]

basically because governments refuse to teach car control over here along with retarded road laws, people get annoyed with limited skills. thus you have poor decisions.

[scotty nm35]

Poor decisions? Ive seen my fair share of them.

A car does a u-turn in front of me at the end of the tunnel because he missed the kings way exit.

Another 3 times on Burwood hwy I've had cars coming towards me on the wrong side. Bloody scary when you're on a bike.

[funkymonkey]

A car does a u-turn in front of me at the end of the tunnel because he missed the kings way exit.

HAHAHA OMG I thought I was the only one who had this happen to em. Going down a long one way tunnel and seeing a pair of headlights coming towards you is a bit strange.

[Birds]

Everyone in this thread must be a good driver...or maybe a severe case of the better than average effect

Very few people are actually familiar with all the road rules/laws and I personally believe licence re-testing should be compulsory, no matter the expenses involved.

[Harey]

i agree with you 100%. also what annoys me is that when you want to overtake a slow vehicle and someone is doing the same in front they use the whole overtaking lane and just get past them in the end, you should quickly pass and move over as soon as you can to let other people get past as well.

Here Here!!! +11ty billion

This would help everyone on the road.

[adznight]

oh ahi, i drive a white van FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU all ill go where i want when i want kthx?

Hahahahaha!

[Harey]

Victoria is in no way over populated, it has a few bottle necks especially around new housing estate, but over populated is a huge stretch. Better driving as in driving at the speed limit and keeping left would solve many a problem, a lot of people are fearful of driving at the speed limit with all of the government wipe of 5 campaigns and all of the insane drivers on the road, then the same fearful people drive too slowly end up giving people the shits, people with the shits then do something stupid or illegal to get around said slow coach and it results in accident.

This is very true. All the advertising campaigns seem to have done is get people who drive slow to think they should take the law into their own hands and slow everyone down! eg doing 90 in the right hand lane is making the road safer cause noone is speeding grrr.

If they let people pass there would be less people around them and safer for them and everyone on the road. Every now and again you find yourself on a road with people driving intelligently and it is an absolute pleasure. Most of the times I have experienced it have been near peak times when most drivers drive frequently and know where they are going.

[jjskyline79]

OK i'm not the best driver in the world ill openly admit that

Everyone in this thread must be a good driver...or maybe a severe case of the better than average effect

Very few people are actually familiar with all the road rules/laws and I personally believe licence re-testing should be compulsory, no matter the expenses involved.

[alex182]

here in brighton you get the rich mums in there x5's and the like stopping in the road to have a chat outside school. Cars get backed up behind them and they just roll down the window and wave people to pass them. then theres the mercedes m-class that parks across the pedastrian crossing. i guess everyones out for the own nowadays

[Birds]

Fair point, but...you always hear everyone complaining about how terrible everyone else on the road drives...and no one really says they're a "terrible" driver, they will only ever concede they're not the "best". But there's gotta be a shitload of people on the other side of that bellcurve, so where are they?!?!

[FrangaR33]

Fair point, but...you always hear everyone complaining about how terrible everyone else on the road drives...and no one really says they're a "terrible" driver, they will only ever concede they're not the "best". But there's gotta be a shitload of people on the other side of that bellcurve, so where are they?!?!

I would love to actually see a graph of driver skill as a value, I know it would never happen because that would require massive retesting or honest participants, but it would be interesting. Your right most of us consider ourselves not the best driver, but god damn there must be some dishonest people out there. I really wonder sometimes if people are that bad because they dont pay enough attention driving or there just that f**king stupid. Like could they be good for 30 mins and pass a driving test again or would they all fail miserably.

[xALmoN]

lets have a cruise, and drive side by side on the freeways, at 80kmh

[gdogzgtr]

I think that ACA highlighted a big issue only few days ago with overseas people driving here whilst on visa's who have no idea about how to drive on our roads and how to abide by our road rules.

As i was going to serve summons on one overseas guest this week for drink driving (0.357) highest reading I have seen. We pulled up his neighbour driving along with 3 Y.O not wearing seat belt and driving on Learner's only without qualified driver and has failed our test 3 times then pulled out his punjab licence and tried to use that.