What actions by other drivers really rot your socks??

[Doug_MPS6]

I'll start the list, in no particular order:

Drivers unable to merge lanes at speed but who slow or stop to await a space.

Drivers who won't pull as far as possible into the right hand side of a lane or centre median area in order to turn right, but who instead just prop in the right lane and block off normal traffic flow.

Those who cut across the apex of a roundabout, instead of holding parallel lanes.

Drivers who pull suddenly to the extreme right of a lane in order to give themselves space to make a left turn, thereby transmitting entirely the wrong cues to following traffic.

Inconsiderate swine who hog the outside lane when there is nothing to pass and an empty lane ahead of them on the inside, and/or sit 2km/h under the limit while doing so and/or who don't understand what mirrors are for and/or who ignore all signals from following traffic to move over or speed up, and/or who then express fury when passed on the inside.

A even worse form of the above who sits in the outside lane exactly at the same speed as someone else on the inside lane, especially those travelling 2km/h under the speed limit, thereby ensuring that no one can pass - ever.

People who drive while chatting incessantly to their passengers and turning their heads to look at them while doing so. Don't they realize that sound fills a space and can be heard by a listener regardless of the direction in which the speaker's mouth is pointing?

Drivers who wait for an eternity at an intersection to join a dual carriageway because they want the outside lane, despite the inside lane being clear for them to move into immediately.

Gutter hangers, drivers with one hand out the window down the side of the door, and those who drive with one wrist on top of the wheel. The look like dorks and are not in control.

People gassing on mobile phones while driving. Or those who eat, drink or do their makeup while driving. Don't they have kitchens and a place to eat at home, and mirrors in their bedrooms?

Drivers who pull up too close behind you when stopped at an intersection and who creep even closer while everyone else remains stopped, and persist in doing so when you inch forward into your own clear zone to increase your spacing to a sensible distance, thus risking pissing off the guy in front for the same reason.

Smokers. All of them. Everywhere. But especially those who mooch along half asleep in the outside lane, as above, having their early morning fagarette, one hand on the steering, the other holding the fag out the window to keep the smoke in someone else's air-con rather than their own, and then who chuck the butt onto the road surreptitiously hoping those behind won't notice or care.

Slow-witted drivers in front of you and with the reaction time of a foetus, who set off from a green light five minutes after it has ceased being red.

Police cars that deliberately and infuriatingly sit at 99km/h hoping you will pass at 101km/h so they can nab you.

Rude bastards who don't bother to indicate their thanks when you extend them some courtesy.

People who get a nosebleed at any speed greater than 50km/h or at any rate of acceleration greater than that of a glacier at the onset of summer (the elderly and infirm excepted).

[reags]

It bugs me when drivers merge from left lanes ending - you let them in and they don't acknowledge with a courtesy wave.

[gtc]

Some days other drivers merely being on my road gets my goat.

[Balthazar B]

Individuals who use their hazard lights when their idea of a 'hazard' is merely being stopped or justifying their parking in no standing zones.

Knobs.

[Enigma]

people who accelerate so as to not let the faster motorcycle overtake even though i will soon overtake you as i can fit in smaller gaps

People who yell at motorcyclists for filtering through traffic when no one is moving - not my fault you choose to drive a 4 wheel vehicle and have the privaledge of sitting in bumper to bumper traffic everyday

taxi drivers who stop anywhere they want without indicating but slamming on the brakes

people who let their kids touch other peoples motorcycles and even sit them on them without permission

thats just the ones i can think of now....

[reags]

Adding to Enigma's taxi comment - I can't stand taxi drivers in Sydney CBD, absolute jerks who think they own the lanes by cutting in and out 'expecting' the drivers to give way.

[zheng]

To make it worse, those same taxi's who cut in and out of lanes expecting you to give way to them then go ahead and decide to stop right then and there, leaving you stuck behind them waiting...

[Kikuchi]

I agree with everything you've said doug, minus the gutter hangers. I put my hand on the side of my car, cause it's cooler (temperature wise). I don't see why it should annoy you since it is their personal action and hardly affects you...
I absolutely hate ciggy smokers, full stop. Do they know how hot the end of the ciggy gets when they throw it out the window? >=[ Not to mention flicking the damn ciggy ashes behind them, onto my newly washed/waxed car >=[

I hate people who are parked on the side of the road, and swing their door as far as possible without looking at traffic behind them... Then proceed to mouth off at you when you honked them because you've just had to slam your brakes hard, to avoid either swerving into the car/truck next to you, or hitting their door/them.

People who don't change to the right lane in preparation for a merging lane on the left. Helps the person merge into traffic easier, and minimises chances of crashing...

People who go into a right turning lane, but leave most of their car in the middle of the road.

People who slow down to half the speed limit well before changing lanes into a turning lane.

People turning right (from the opposite direction. ie, into the road to your left) cutting you off, then getting stuck because they didn't see the pedestrian crossing the road, leaving you to slam your brakes or tbone them.

Cars that don't move into the intersection for a right turn, when it's a crawling light (no right turn green light).

Cars that don't turn soon enough when opposite cars have stopped already for a crawling light.

Cars that brake for no reason at all (not turning, nothing crossing the road, no tailgating).

Dumb drivers turning left at an intersection giving way to opposite direction cars turning right...

Not a driver issue, but pedestrians that cross at an intersection, when it is clearly RED stop walking light. Then take their time to cross.

Slow cars that change lanes at the same time as you try to overtake them. (Changing to right lane, when you change to right lane to overtake, making you execute an undertake instead...)

Cars that stop well pass the stop line at an intersection (I've seen a car stop with his boot well past the stop line, with no cars behind him, and had plenty of time to stop.

Bus drivers full stop.

Truck drivers that overtake on an overtaking lane on a highway, preventing anyone else overtaking.

Truck and bus drivers that stop RIGHT ON YOUR ASS at an intersection. Most of the time, with squealing brakes.

Drivers who turn out of a side road, cutting you off, but drives slowly. If you're going to cut someone off, reach the speed limit asap and not take your time dammit, you've already annoyed someone by cutting them off, the least you can do is speed up to the limit >_>"

Done for today. I'll add more when I think of it, or it happens to me.

Just another thought, my friend got hit while walking across the road, by a taxi turning out of a side road. Then the taxi driver blamed my friend for not looking. Friend was already half way crossed the road. I joined in telling the taxi driver off, and he sped off. We were tempted to report him for reckless driving, and leaving a scene of an accident, but we never got around to doing it =_=

[Apples]

I'll start the list, in no particular order:

Drivers unable to merge lanes at speed but who slow or stop to await a space.

Drivers who won't pull as far as possible into the right hand side of a lane or centre median area in order to turn right, but who instead just prop in the right lane and block off normal traffic flow.

Those who cut across the apex of a roundabout, instead of holding parallel lanes.

Drivers who pull suddenly to the extreme right of a lane in order to give themselves space to make a left turn, thereby transmitting entirely the wrong cues to following traffic.

Inconsiderate swine who hog the outside lane when there is nothing to pass and an empty lane ahead of them on the inside, and/or sit 2km/h under the limit while doing so and/or who don't understand what mirrors are for and/or who ignore all signals from following traffic to move over or speed up, and/or who then express fury when passed on the inside.

A even worse form of the above who sits in the outside lane exactly at the same speed as someone else on the inside lane, especially those travelling 2km/h under the speed limit, thereby ensuring that no one can pass - ever.

People who drive while chatting incessantly to their passengers and turning their heads to look at them while doing so. Don't they realize that sound fills a space and can be heard by a listener regardless of the direction in which the speaker's mouth is pointing?

Drivers who wait for an eternity at an intersection to join a dual carriageway because they want the outside lane, despite the inside lane being clear for them to move into immediately.

Gutter hangers, drivers with one hand out the window down the side of the door, and those who drive with one wrist on top of the wheel. The look like dorks and are not in control.

People gassing on mobile phones while driving. Or those who eat, drink or do their makeup while driving. Don't they have kitchens and a place to eat at home, and mirrors in their bedrooms?

Drivers who pull up too close behind you when stopped at an intersection and who creep even closer while everyone else remains stopped, and persist in doing so when you inch forward into your own clear zone to increase your spacing to a sensible distance, thus risking pissing off the guy in front for the same reason.

Smokers. All of them. Everywhere. But especially those who mooch along half asleep in the outside lane, as above, having their early morning fagarette, one hand on the steering, the other holding the fag out the window to keep the smoke in someone else's air-con rather than their own, and then who chuck the butt onto the road surreptitiously hoping those behind won't notice or care.

Slow-witted drivers in front of you and with the reaction time of a foetus, who set off from a green light five minutes after it has ceased being red.

Police cars that deliberately and infuriatingly sit at 99km/h hoping you will pass at 101km/h so they can nab you.

Rude bastards who don't bother to indicate their thanks when you extend them some courtesy.

My list is pretty much exactly the same though most don't bug me too badly.
I bolded the ones that really shit me haha.

[mazdamadmum]

Drivers who think that the right lane is the RIGHT lane to be in even though they are going slower than the left lane.

4 wheel drive drivers that think just because they're bigger than you they can push in/try to run over the top of you

Those wanks that go at 70-80 where you can't overtake on the highway and then take off on the overtaking lane either making you have to speed up to dangerous levels to catch them and get past them or they just leave your poor little fully laden 121 for dead and then at the end of the overtaking lanes they're going so slow again that you catch them again. Gotta be the worst drivers out here in the country to be stuck with.

Jerks who, when you pass them in your tiny little toy car, think that it's an affront to their manhood and their bigger car if some old fat woman in a small car with kids and a dog passes them and then speed past you only to pull in again and go under the speed limit again. Enough to evoke road rage honestly.

Truck drivers on the freeway who don't bother to look to see if someone is overtaking them when they decide to overtake and then try to squash above mentioned toy car.

Stupid women who decide that the give way sign is only a guide and go right through it at an intersection without looking. The b**** was lucky I was looking. She nearly t-boned me. She was coming straight at the drivers door too. When I screeched to a stop, in the rain, (thanks hubby for the new tyres) and she saw me she abused ME.

And what do they all need? Yep :hang:

That's enough for now

[Doug_MPS6]

Hi Kikuchi, I guess the gutter hangers get my goat as, unless they have been born with an extra arm and are biological oddities, it tells me immediately that they are only controlling the car with one hand.

It's one reason I hate automatics as it seems to encourage the practice. Most modern cars have air-con so the coolth issue should be easily overcome - and I hate traffic fumes and the racket outside anyway, so keep my windows up. I've seen folks lose arms by a variety of means too, including being clipped by a bike sneaking down the intervening white line between lanes. There is a rule about not having body parts projecting from cars for this reason especially.

I agree particularly with your comment about the people who get in your way, then move off slowly. A bit like the swine who pull suddenly out in front of you causing you to pull up sharply, then they drive a short distance and then pull in to a stop or turn-off - couldn't they bloody wait another 5 seconds??

If I think of any more I'll add to my original post.

[mafian]

Add another for the dirty 'butt suckers' that don't use their ash trays for their butts. Especially being a motorbike rider with less protection from the hot, still lit butt. A friend of mine once had a still lit butt go down the neck of his jacket whilst following a car on his bike. Yes, it did leave a burn mark on his chest and nearly caused him to fall off at highway speeds.

-car/ute etc drivers who think they are driving a semi everytime they have to turn left or right at an intersection. I honestly don't know why they think they have to swing out in the opposite direction before they make a turn.

-drivers who sit on 10km/h below the speed limit on a single lane road with no opportunity for overtaking only to speed up to 10km/h+ over the speed limit when there is an overtaking lane only to slow down again to 10km/h under again when the lane ends. Happens every day on the Warrego Highway between Toowoomba and Oakey.

-people who are following you on a dual lane + road/highway/motorway who pull out to pass and try get in front of you only a couple of hundred metres from the exit/intersection that they want.

-as above, people who can't stay in their own lane on a dual lane roundabout.

-similar to previous one, people who 'cut the corner' in a turning lane, especially the 'outside' lane in a dual turning lane. I thought the lines painted on the road were there to guide you...

I have a lot more, but this will do! I also agree with the majority of the previous posts. There are many people out there who shouldn't be driving!

[NAH_UH]

drivers that sit right up your tail at a red light or peak hr traffic

[Juggernaut]

In defense of the people who slow well before the turning lane, I wouldn't be able to stop if I didn't but I usually merge onto the shoulder to get out of the way before the lane begins.

Now mine:

-People who merge without checking their blind spots, sure I'm not behind you I'M BESIDE YOU!!

-People who think their reverse sensors will save them, my car was too low for the Landcruiser that parked on my bonnet apparently

-I agree with smokers deserving the death sentence, my paint is shit enough without ash burnt into it

-When you're pulled over on the side of the road (I broke down) you are clearly a hazard but they don't respect you enough to move over even slightly. My forward opening bonnet was almost torn off by people going 100km/h inches from my car.

- People who think that they can merge without indicating!!! (almost took out a Holden SV6 the other day cause she didn't indicate and then expected ME to care that I almost hit her precious car because it was MY FAULT... wish I did hit her, my $1.5k car would come best off over her 40k one any day)

-People who still sit right up your arse when you are indicating to turn leaving you NO room to stop, and still won't slow down

I will edit when I think of more

[Vaku]

when people almost cause an accident trying to cut infront/turn onto a road etc forcing other cars to brake when they could have just waited 5-10 seconds for it to be clear.

when people 'lag' to acknowledge a green light and because of this 'lag' you get pinned with a yellow/red and they drive off smiles and all.

people who dont let you merge

people who fail to ackowledge a gap/merge gap given, a simple wave goes a long way

people who tailgate

people who sit in the right lane doing 5km less than the speed limit

people who use high beams from a distance thinking its ok due to the distance

when trucks go into the right lane

when trucks use ALL 3 lanes and dont seem to be wanting to pass eachother, just matching speeds and flicking up rocks

when all lanes are free, and say your in the middle, and the other person comes FLYING up almost HITTING your freaking car and overtakes almost touching your car.

people who use the brakes on a highway constantly

people who change lanes right infront of you even tho they have been sitting in that lane for KM's before you get next to them, but as soon as you do.. BAM..

when people can move forward (sometimes up to 1M) to help the person behind them avoid being stuck in an intersection etc, but they fail to move forward.

[Muchacho]

Drivers who sit on KEEP CLEAR signs. Bloody idiots!

[phatsmurph]

Sorry folks, been guilty of a couple of these things, but been a victim heaps more often to some of these things! Worst is definitly the asses who speed up when an overtaking lane opens.

[CLLee]

Drivers who park right next to you, when there are tonnes of empty spaces. Worst still, they always try to park as close as possible too...

Drivers who make a right turn from a main road, into a smaller lane, and decided to stop at the mouth to look for direction, while I'm stuck behind him, right in the path of on-coming traffic.

Drivers who do U-turn wihout checking for cars. Indicate and turn.

Sometimes, you get a GREEN right turn light, and you proceed into turning, some pedestrian will decide to cross the road anyway (WALK-RED), and starts swearing at you.

All this happened to me this afternoon, in the space of 15 mins...
Maybe I'm just being picky...

[Apples]

Na, the peds crossing when they shouldn't be really god damn shits me too... So moronic.

[rustycaps]

The ones I find the worst are the ones that drive 10km/h under the speed limit, even when the road is probably good for 10k over, under normal driving conditions, with a long lineup behind them. As well as others have mentioned, also the ones who, as above, drive slow then speed up in overtaking sections - making drivers have to speed a lot more to get past.