People who bully learner drivers.
May 5th 2012, 9:49 pm
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May 5th 2012, 10:05 pm
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Re: People who bully learner drivers.
People who will moan about other people's driving and talk about it in a certain way really irritate. I can live with people stating what the issue is, and why it might be the case, undertaking etc, but people who say things like 'They can't drive, can they?' about many drivers here just sound rather limited, frankly.
I drive a lot more recently and I find the standard overall good - apart from undertaking, and the low limits creating less of a need to observe perfect and relentless lane discipline on highways. In fact, I'm quite lazy myself.
May 6th 2012, 10:00 am
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Re: People who bully learner drivers.
You have to treat others as if they are idiots/unpredictable if you want to avoid an accident. It doesn't mean they really are, but it makes you slow down and be more aware. Just because they are not indicating, doesn't mean they won't suddenly turn in front of you, having undertaken you, or (as happened yesterday) slow down and randomly speed up in a residential area, pull over to the kerb and then away again right in front of you. If I hadn't given them a bit of space, and NOT tried to overtake, like the person behind me did, then I would have been sideswiped like he was.
May 6th 2012, 1:17 pm
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Re: People who bully learner drivers.
You cant control how other people drive but you can control how you react to it. Just because someone else is being a dickhead on the roads, it doesnt mean you have to be.
If P Plater or learner driver is pissing you off, lead by example - a good one but driving like a twatage to prove a point makes you no better than they are, only they are learners and inexperienced and you (as an experienced driver) should know better.
If P Plater or learner driver is pissing you off, lead by example - a good one but driving like a twatage to prove a point makes you no better than they are, only they are learners and inexperienced and you (as an experienced driver) should know better.
May 6th 2012, 1:29 pm
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Re: People who bully learner drivers.
You cant control how other people drive but you can control how you react to it. Just because someone else is being a dickhead on the roads, it doesnt mean you have to be.
If P Plater or learner driver is pissing you off, lead by example - a good one but driving like a twatage to prove a point makes you no better than they are, only they are learners and inexperienced and you (as an experienced driver) should know better.
If P Plater or learner driver is pissing you off, lead by example - a good one but driving like a twatage to prove a point makes you no better than they are, only they are learners and inexperienced and you (as an experienced driver) should know better.
May 6th 2012, 2:43 pm
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Re: People who bully learner drivers.
You cant control how other people drive but you can control how you react to it. Just because someone else is being a dickhead on the roads, it doesnt mean you have to be.
If P Plater or learner driver is pissing you off, lead by example - a good one but driving like a twatage to prove a point makes you no better than they are, only they are learners and inexperienced and you (as an experienced driver) should know better.
If P Plater or learner driver is pissing you off, lead by example - a good one but driving like a twatage to prove a point makes you no better than they are, only they are learners and inexperienced and you (as an experienced driver) should know better.
May 6th 2012, 5:09 pm
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Re: People who bully learner drivers.
Hope you are joking?
A bully is a bully - no matter who it is, or what their status is as a driver and at the end of the day, a driver that bullies others is a twat.
Cause me to have an accident by their stupidity/actions, I would move heaven and earth and my entire stomach contents if I had to, in order to make the other driver pay - handsomely and with his home if I had to.
And if they did it to my husband, my god then they really would need the help of Jesus Christ himself. Why people cant drive with courtesy obey the laws of the road - is totally beyond me.
A bully is a bully - no matter who it is, or what their status is as a driver and at the end of the day, a driver that bullies others is a twat.
Cause me to have an accident by their stupidity/actions, I would move heaven and earth and my entire stomach contents if I had to, in order to make the other driver pay - handsomely and with his home if I had to.
And if they did it to my husband, my god then they really would need the help of Jesus Christ himself. Why people cant drive with courtesy obey the laws of the road - is totally beyond me.
May 7th 2012, 4:03 pm
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Re: People who bully learner drivers.
I turned the rear view mirror so it no longer gives me a view of the back soon after I got here. What I need to see can be viewed in the side mirrors but filters 99% of the monkeys out. Since then I couldn't give a shit how close they are. Had a copper comment on it once and I said to him, you guys start making an effort to stop tailgating and I'll start using the mirror... He didn't have a response to that one.
May 8th 2012, 7:03 pm
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Now I dont care whether some think this is surprising or expected or whatever but because I am in the UK and have already covered a few 1000 miles I can say with 100% certainty that the overall general standard of driving here is WAY higher than in Australia, Im sorry if that upsets people or doesnt fit their own agenda but it is very obvious once you start driving here. You get onto a motorway and it immediately hits you that people know what lanes are for, the one on the left is for driving slowly and the one on the right is for driving fast. Trucks stay left and pull in straight after overtaking.
Does that mean all drivers are better here ? No, not by any means. I have witnessed a few stupid things but GENERALLY drivers here are courteous and seemingly better trained.
Does that mean all drivers are better here ? No, not by any means. I have witnessed a few stupid things but GENERALLY drivers here are courteous and seemingly better trained.
May 8th 2012, 7:09 pm
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May 8th 2012, 7:10 pm
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I have no problem with you having that opinion and can't argue with what you see, feel, experience etc, but I have to say, in all my years of driving in the UK, I have never seen trucks staying in the left lane. From my experience only, obviously, cars tailgate here, lorries tailgate there in the 'fast' lane, generally with lights flashing as though they have the right to tell me to get out of the way even if I was driving at 70+.
Also, don't want to appear picky
but all cars in all lanes 'should' be doing the same speed. Just saying....
Also, don't want to appear picky
but all cars in all lanes 'should' be doing the same speed. Just saying....
May 8th 2012, 7:17 pm
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May 8th 2012, 7:17 pm
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