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Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. 
You've got issues...
I can spot an Indian driver a mile away...Being a "good Christian Boy" stops me just short of being completely racist...
and yes. I should have mentioned the lorries that take a test to overtake. INFURIATING!OH MAN. I have racked up a lot of miles lately and have loads of these, and just been waiting to vent about it.
- People who don't indicate at roundabouts. WTF is wrong with these people, the amount of potential accidents caused by this selfish flaw is unbelievable. That is my ultimate number one pet peeve. It's not bloody hard to flick the stalk just so people know what you're doing.
- Tailgating on the motorway just because someone is impatient. Usually this happens in the fast lane, and ALWAYS only because there are so many cars in the same lane all going the same speed there's no point letting them past. It's so damn dangerous and stupid, i hate being tailgated so much.
- People who undertake, just cause they're, again, impatient. Hope they learn their lesson the hard way.
- Lorries that take literally 5 minutes to overtake another lorry. Yeah, i know, why don't you take up a whole lane and cause a bottleneck in overtaking traffic just to get 5 minutes off your journey. Idiots.
To group people unfairly, i have determined that the people in the following cars are more often than not (let's say 75% of em) are moronic drivers:
- 3 series Beemers
- C-Class Mercs
- Ford Mondeos
- Vauxhall saloons (eg Insignia)
- Any Audi
It's always people in modern cars too for whatever reason.
So yeah, i entertain myself on the motorway with road rage... pretty sure that isn't healthy.
Doesn't help that the roads in the UK are so utterly horrendous. See this HS2 crap? They should spend the money sorting out the damn roads and possibly getting an autobahn-type setup sorted, that would solve a lot more problems than some stupid railway.
OH MAN. I have racked up a lot of miles lately and have loads of these, and just been waiting to vent about it.
- People who don't indicate at roundabouts. WTF is wrong with these people, the amount of potential accidents caused by this selfish flaw is unbelievable. That is my ultimate number one pet peeve. It's not bloody hard to flick the stalk just so people know what you're doing.
- Tailgating on the motorway just because someone is impatient. Usually this happens in the fast lane, and ALWAYS only because there are so many cars in the same lane all going the same speed there's no point letting them past. It's so damn dangerous and stupid, i hate being tailgated so much.
- People who undertake, just cause they're, again, impatient. Hope they learn their lesson the hard way.
- Lorries that take literally 5 minutes to overtake another lorry. Yeah, i know, why don't you take up a whole lane and cause a bottleneck in overtaking traffic just to get 5 minutes off your journey. Idiots.
To group people unfairly, i have determined that the people in the following cars are more often than not (let's say 75% of em) are moronic drivers:
- 3 series Beemers
- C-Class Mercs
- Ford Mondeos
- Vauxhall saloons (eg Insignia)
- Any Audi
It's always people in modern cars too for whatever reason.
So yeah, i entertain myself on the motorway with road rage... pretty sure that isn't healthy.
Doesn't help that the roads in the UK are so utterly horrendous. See this HS2 crap? They should spend the money sorting out the damn roads and possibly getting an autobahn-type setup sorted, that would solve a lot more problems than some stupid railway.
The point you made about overtaking on the inside lane (it's not undertaking). I used to think this too - people overtaking on the inside used to irritate me. Then one day I thought logically and realised that it should be physically impossible to overtake on the inside. The only reason you are physically able to do that is because somebody, or lots of people are sitting in the middle lane like zombies. The correct way to drive on the motorway is to drive on the inside, move out to the middle, and ultimately the outside lane to overtake until there is a gap on the inside and move back in. If you are able to overtake on the inside, then the car you're overtaking in the middle lane should not be where it is - pure and simple, it should have already been in the inside lane.
I try to avoid doing this as much as possible, BUT when there is a car in an otherwise nearly deserted motorway sitting at 60mph, in the middle lane, where the limit it 70mph - why should I have to swing out across the middle then outer lane, to overtake, then return back across the middle lane to the inside?! It's not ME that's at fault there I'm afraid...
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. In the US we can overtake on the 'inside' legally - helps a lot to avoid all these idiot outside lane huggers.
In the US we can overtake on the 'inside' legally - helps a lot to avoid all these idiot outside lane huggers.
If the concept of the left lane being only for overtaking is difficult for the masses to understand, imagine the difficulty in grasping the concept of an acceleration lane to merge into a highway?
At least Americans have an excuse, any pimply 16 year old that spends an hour memorizing a twenty page pamphlet with 50 questions, and then takes an 8 minute driver's test will get a license. The biggest challenges of this "test" are keeping your hands at the ten and two positions, stopping at the stop sign and then parallel parking in a space where you could fit one and a half Hummers.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. In the US we can overtake on the 'inside' legally - helps a lot to avoid all these idiot outside lane huggers.
If the concept of the left lane being only for overtaking is difficult for the masses to understand, imagine the difficulty in grasping the concept of an acceleration lane to merge into a highway?
At least Americans have an excuse, any pimply 16 year old that spends an hour memorizing a twenty page pamphlet with 50 questions, and then takes an 8 minute driver's test will get a license. The biggest challenges of this "test" are keeping your hands at the ten and two positions, stopping at the stop sign and then parallel parking in a space where you could fit one and a half Hummers.
You just aged yourself here, it's now 4 and 8 position
4 & 8 seems dangerous, in the UK it's 2 and 10
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. 4 & 8 seems dangerous, in the UK it's 2 and 10
Here's the explanation
That position also helps fighting arm and shoulder fatigue on long trips.
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