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Post by V6 on Sept 21, 2016 13:53:56 GMT
The roads are completely littered with brain dead mongwits in their dulltarded sprog vans. Always dribbling along well under the speed limit in great long queues. Then emergency braking as a five degree bend looms into view, some five minutes away.
There is no way to overtake on winding country roads as there is no view around the corners. Even if you take your life in your hands and risk it, there are a hundred more half dead people just waiting for you.
I need to order some pop up machine guns and rocket launchers. Or accept the fact that it is pointless going for a drive in the day. When you can't even fully exploit a whopping 146bhp on the roads it really says something about the state of affairs.
Night driving for the win.
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Post by myothercarsa2cv on Sept 21, 2016 14:03:08 GMT
I know the feeling well. Try a 2CV. 29 incredible bhp. If you can't outrun that, you shouldn't be driving. Fact.
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Post by madbean on Sept 21, 2016 14:32:10 GMT
I just wish at night the twat coming the other would turn there full beam off
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Post by joeytalent on Sept 21, 2016 14:32:49 GMT
I know the feeling well. Try a 2CV. 29 incredible bhp. If you can't outrun that, you should get on a treadmill. Fact. Fixed that for you. |
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Post by Meerkat on Sept 21, 2016 14:34:33 GMT
I am regularly flabberghasted by the incredible numbers of imbecillic cheese-brains on the roads. Drivers are becoming more and more narcissistic and oblivious to the people around them. It's bad enough out on country roads where they tootle along at half the speed limit whilst gnawing on their fingernails and staring into space, but they then go floating around roundabouts, weaving across whichever lane they fancy, or sailing through junctions where they have no right-of-way, without giving a flying canoe about safety.
Then you have the botoxed yummy-mummies in their repulsive, bulbous 4x4s that they can barely even see out of, let alone drive safely, blocking up all the roads outside schools while they wait for their precious little snotty-nosed brat to emerge.
And if those weren't enough to contend with, you also have to defend yourself against arrogant 20-something chavs and drug dealers in their Audis and BMWs who push in, tailgate and shove you off the road at any opportunity, all while giving you a grubby finger for daring to hold your ground.
But despite this, amazingly I still love to drive. I guess I must be an imbecile too.
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Post by josho on Sept 21, 2016 14:53:08 GMT
I find that driving in the mindset that every other user of the road is a total lunatic who will happily drive into your car and try and blame you for it helps a lot when out and about.
I even had someone smash into my old daily in their van and they carried on like they hadnt noticed.
Once or twice Ive had the red mist descend and gotten out of the car and screamed abuse at the moron (both situations would have resulted in my car at the time being written off and me hospitalised if I had not reacted in time) Both of these were people simply pulling across in front of me without noticing my car til the last second and stopping in front of me. What really got me angry was that both of them said that they didnt see me. At the time I was in my old daily 106 which was Bright Red.
another recent one I had was some divvy bint in her brand new X3 in the wrong lane to pull into my lane and also into my car, she ended up cutting me up and going across another two lanes doing the same thing. Total moron.
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Post by atlex on Sept 21, 2016 15:06:56 GMT
I wish bad driving was actually prosecuted.
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Post by atlex on Sept 21, 2016 15:10:14 GMT
Sadly .. bad driving, as far as most prosecutions are concerned.. are speeding, crashing or driving in the wrong lane when a camera coguht you... and nothing in between. Barely anyone gets prosecuted for their would-be-fatal near-miss. .. and "barely acceptable" prarrie canoe driving that lasts a lifetime. the 30 in a 40, 40 in a 20, poor lane discipline, no observation of others, etc.
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Post by V6 on Sept 21, 2016 15:13:32 GMT
Believe me, I've assumed every driver was about to do something stupid since 1995. It kept me safe so far.
What I find frustrating is the sheer number of people on the road with zero interest in driving, or living life. There is an incredible and overwhelming number of suv driving zombies out there. Why don't they just go home and finally give in: dig a hole, take an overdose, then crawl in?
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Post by Rickster on Sept 21, 2016 15:15:26 GMT
It's because for most people driving is a chore that they have to do, coccooned in their charmless econobox or eurorepmobile, listening to DullFM, thinking about last nights EastEnders, they have no idea what's going on around them, If all cars were convertibles with little or no soundproofing and no aircon driving would be a pleasure for those willing to do it, the rest could Canoe off!!
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Post by josho on Sept 21, 2016 15:24:47 GMT
It's because for most people driving is a chore that they have to do, coccooned in their charmless econobox or eurorepmobile, listening to DullFM, thinking about last nights EastEnders, they have no idea what's going on around them, If all cars were convertibles with little or no soundproofing and no aircon driving would be a pleasure for those willing to do it, the rest could canoe off!! Very true, I've always thought if people were restricted to a really naff car for their first car, no modern stuff on it at all, No power steering or abs to dull them to what is happening with the car, wind up windows and that sort of guff. I think there would be a small improvement in driving, of course that is wishful thinking! Most people would drive it for however long needed and then finance some Econoprarrie canoeter. |
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Post by atlex on Sept 21, 2016 15:34:54 GMT
The people that self-driving cars are designed for  |
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Post by Meerkat on Sept 21, 2016 16:20:15 GMT
The people that self-driving cars are designed for Yep exactly. The worry is that if self-driving cars become globally accepted which is quite likely, the government will start putting more and more pressure on manual drivers to convert to driverless technology to improve their road-stafety statistics. I can imagine them putting huge premiums on road tax for manual cars. |
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Post by myothercarsa2cv on Sept 21, 2016 16:23:50 GMT
The people that self-driving cars are designed for Yep exactly. The worry is that if self-driving cars become globally accepted which is quite likely, the government will start putting more and more pressure on manual drivers to convert to driverless technology to improve their road-stafety statistics. I can imagine them putting huge premiums on road tax for manual cars. I can't wait to be an X Driver  |
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Post by V6 on Sept 21, 2016 17:07:36 GMT
I don't even want to think about a future like that. Ewww. I'd prefer a MadMax situation of hijacking tankers to get my petrol sports car fix |
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le sigh