Red_V_Roger

Left foot braking....

Keeping your right foot on the accerator pedal move your left foot and just touch the brake so your brake lights come on but you don't slow down....see how quickly they back off.

PaulandNic

Light touch of the pedal does the same

PaulandNic

ta da!

DeadVim

Great advice if you are 19 and don't care about the consequences.

hotfuss

That's crazy! I live in Sydney in a VERY built up area and have come across quite a few people driving with the full lights on in recent weeks.. How can these people not know when to use fulls and when to use dims?!!

lou1003

And they really can't use roundabouts here either.... !
They sit, waiting until the whole roundabout is clear of traffic!

Broad Shoulders

I think so much of it just comes down to the tuition. Nearly all drivers were taught by their parents in this country it seems. There is just no discipline whatsoever in Australian (especially QLD) drivers. They are lazy (no indicators before they manoeuvre), impatient (deliberately running red lights, driving down hard shoulders in traffic, deliberately driving down one way streets because it is "quicker"), belligerent (turning right to cross single continuous white lines on road and subsequently holding up traffic behind them), ignorant (sitting in outside lanes when not overtaking anyone or there is no one to be seen ahead or driving with no lights on in the dark).

I've said it once and I'll say it again, you would think you were in some third world country where driver's licenses were handed out in exchange for a police bribe.

Broad Shoulders

You've never been to QLD, right?

steve`o

the M1 white knuckle ride

DeadVim

The lights are a bane of my life, if it isn't full-beamers/fogs then it's the badly adjusted mob ... living out in the sticks you can't really avoid it ... I reckon the lack of a yearly roadworthiness test is to blame.

And then there is the drink driving ... some of things you see ... it really is like rewinding 20, 25 years compared to the UK.

I like my life out here but the driving standards are shocking.

DeadVim

I reckon the Southbound stretch from exit 24 down to whereever is just freaking Wacky Races ... 110 limit?!

steve`o

dosnt help when even the courts dont take drinking and driving seriously
if your over the limit and banned you can get a work licence to drive to and from work get caught speeding to many times and your walking for 3 months wtf is that about?

hotfuss

I've never driven in the UK but before anyone else points it out I feel that unfortunately I have to admit that Irish drivers really aren't all the hot either!

I guess the whole getting a provisional license simply because you're 16 and being able to drive on the open road even if you have never driven before didn't help

The system has changed there in recent years but I do remember a huge pile up on a main motorway in Dublin some years back where a woman was actually killed simply because there was horrendous fog and people didn't know how to adapt their driving to suit the conditions..

lou1003

I spent 3 months in QLD, but never drove there!

Certainly in the NT, they have no clue how to use a roudabout - give way to the left, not the whole thing! Everyone just sits there waiting for everyone else....

Not in QLD?!

And yes they are VERY lazy - and seem not to understand the whole "signal and manouver" process - just do what you want, don't let anyone else know when you're changing lanes, turning... etc.

There was a guy killed here just outside Darwin a couple of days ago (3rd one in a year, at the same intersection), a roadtrain collided with a car. Someone ran a red light, but they don't know who, yet, apparently.
Last June a 21 year old girl was killed in the same situation, here.

ABCDiamond

Did you know me in the UK ?