People who can't stay in their lanes

[Bossxr8]

Time for a rant.

Over the past few weeks i've been close to being smacked into at least 5 times by people who can't even manage to stay in their own lane. Its really getting on my nerves. It seems like just about every day I have to move over in my lane to avoid some tool who crosses into my lane, obviously taking their eyes of the road or not concentrating. Seems to be more prevalent by the day.

Anyone else starting to notice this lack of lane discipline?

Surely its not too hard to stay between the white lines is it?

[gtxb67]

it has been around for years - that is why i will only drive beside someone when i possitively have to. no overlap unless absolutely necessary

[vanman_75]

the smaller cars get the wider they think they are i reckon.

[StrikeTwiceXR6]

Originally Posted by Bossxr8

Time for a rant.

Over the past few weeks i've been close to being smacked into at least 5 times by people who can't even manage to stay in their own lane. Its really getting on my nerves. It seems like just about every day I have to move over in my lane to avoid some tool who crosses into my lane, obviously taking their eyes of the road or not concentrating. Seems to be more prevalent by the day.

Anyone else starting to notice this lack of lane discipline?

Surely its not too hard to stay between the white lines is it?

Lets rant on!
I have had my brand new beast for 5 weeks and already I have nearly been cleaned up by jerk-offs that can't stay in their own lane. One was a knob that exited off a motorway and was stopped at a set of lights that has two lanes that only go right, I was in the outside lane that goes right and this idiot decides that after he just came off the freeway that he would go straight back onto the freeway and nearly take me out (he was in a lane that has to go right). The second one happened 2 nights ago and once again it was two lanes that only turn right. I had a cab on the inside that decided to enter the intersection in the inside lane and then exit the other side in the lane that I was in. I think I will start taking the inside lane in these situations because that way I will have control over these "lotteries"
Rant complete and out of the system. I don't know if any of what I said made any sense

[Kryton]

I've noticed the real lack of intellect from a lot of drivers lately.
Some of the things ive seen people do amaze me - and its getting more frequent.

[JC]

I had one on the way to work this morning, and my passenger commented that the driver seemed to want to get in my car - LOL. Tooted him, and he stuck his finger up at me (but did correct back into his lane).

[StrikeTwiceXR6]

Originally Posted by JC

and he stuck his finger up at me (but did correct back into his lane).

That is how we say thank you these days isn't it?

[Yellow_Festiva]

Happens all the time. Does that include the people who think they need to swing out 1/2m opposite to their turn at the last second to perhaps 'get a better turn'????

Or worse still, the people who decide to sit in the centre of a 5-6m gap to turn right holding everyone up wanting to turn left because they don't have the bloody brain power to to realise that staying to the right would allow other cars to turn left???? (Happens every day at the bottom of my street and I'm close to going down there 1 night to paint my own white lines and turn arrows...)

[JC]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

Happens all the time. Does that include the people who think they need to swing out 1/2m opposite to their turn at the last second to perhaps 'get a better turn'????

Or worse still, the people who decide to sit in the centre of a 5-6m gap to turn right holding everyone up wanting to turn left because they don't have the bloody brain power to to realise that staying to the right would allow other cars to turn left???? (Happens every day at the bottom of my street and I'm close to going down there 1 night to paint my own white lines and turn arrows...)

Same thing happens here.....and I am also tempted to do the same thing.

[SteveJH]

Originally Posted by Yellow_Festiva

Happens all the time. Does that include the people who think they need to swing out 1/2m opposite to their turn at the last second to perhaps 'get a better turn'????

I do that......




....but only in carparks when pulling into a park...

[Ford_The_Win]

I have noticed the same thing actually, happened twice today - first time just driving along next to some bogue mother in her Toyota Kluger drifts over the line and I had to veer the car off to the shoulder so she didn't take me out - second time sitting at a set of traffic lights and there was quite a bit of backup, this tool in a silver AU XR6 wanted to squish into the turning lane beside me, so he mounts the kerb and guns it, he was within a centimetre of taking out my driver's mirror, scraping all his under carriage in the process.

[Silver Ghia]

Agreed, I've had this happen a number of times as well. Perhaps they are using their touch screens, or mobile phones? Or they're checking their speed.

Some also seem to drift over the extreme left or right hand white lines into the debris/gravel , kicking it all up behind them :(

Unfortunately there don't seem to be any police cars around anymore, so driving standards are dropping. But don't worry, everyone is still safe because we have the speed cameras

[FG_Frodza]

How about the people who apparently lack the ability to judge distance at all and come just about half way into your lane when passing a parked car on their left even though a bloody Hummer could easily stay in the lane while passing said parked car!

Yeah I rant.

[Jim Goose]

Most of the time when i see cars going from one side of the lane to the other, they are either texting, talking on phone, reading a map, changing cds, or leaning over to grab something from the passenger seat....

[93EB_SXR6]

I had a bloke today nearly clean my up when I was driving my dad's Commodore (oh, the shame!)
He was driving a white van (my guess is that he was a tradie) and decided to speed the wrong way up a one way road then call me a "bloody idiot!" when I tried to cross the road (T intersection).

[FG_Frodza]

Originally Posted by Ford_The_Win

he was within a centimetre of taking out my driver's mirror.

Off topic, but today a cyclist was riding past me in town while I was waiting at the lights and her handlebar fully smack my mirror into the 'bent backwards' position and she didn't even turn around to say sorry or wave or anything, even after I tooted her!

[93EB_SXR6]

Also, I HATE people that begin turning right when stopped at a stop sign (so that they block people from entering that street).
FYI people, you're supposed to start turning once you enter the street you're turning onto!
Nob-jockey's always do it at the end of my street!

[pauljh74]

Heading south down the Moorooduc Hwy to my parents' place, the average driving age tends to increase and going through the 2 lane roundabouts requires keeping fingers near the horn buttons as yet another grandad driving a Camry crosses into my lane mid-roundabout. I can run my car in my lane, inside or outside lane, yet pass them pretty much every time in the process of going through one of these roundabouts.

There's a road near my place with a kink just after the traffic lights where so many are just lazy and cross the lines into the next lane. If I can stay in my lane in a Falcon at 50km/h, they can do it in a small car at 40 km/h.

[AndrewR_AUII]

Notice it particularly on roundabouts.
The other thing I notice is a BIG increase in running red lights.

[Parkway]

Wow, this is strange because yes, this has happened quite frequently as of recent. Baboons slightly crossing into my lane to cut the corner a bit to reduce their g-force and dual lanes (particularly going around roundabouts) where people simply cannot keep within the lines.

I recently witnessed this P-Plater on the outer lane of a roundabout try and do a right turn and completely cut my friend off. C'mon people!

[|Nate]

Oh don't get me started on Moorooduc hwy and the bloody round-a-bouts...

EVERY time I am going through them in traffic, someone either decides to join the traffic but take a minute to get to barely 60km/h , causing me to slam on my brakes, trucks taking off thinking they can get their 10T load across the round-a-bout faster than me coming across it(Causing a slamming of brakes again)

Or the more than usual time when I have to mount the round-a-bout itself when idiots of all sorts try to save some G's and cut literally halfway into my lane.

Maybe I should open my inner book of rage from what happens on Nepean highway (Past Frankston) I guess I'd be on my way to writing a novel then...

[Autolite]

For me its the lazy b@stards that dont indicate when changing lanes. Western Ring Road and Mill Park area you are guaranteed to see this constantly.

[2011G6E]

Wandering into other peoples lanes? Come out here on the Capricorn Highway and have B-double and triple road trains do it, and you'll know the meaning of excitement...

[Ben73]

You get an instinct for who is gonna do it eventually.
I came up behind a car doing 40 in 60 zone in the right lane. I was cautiously about to pass him an he drifted into the middle of both lanes. I blasted him on the horn and he sat there for about 15 seconds then put his left indicator on and moved fully into the left lane. When I passed them I saw the driver was probably 90 years old and his passanger was about 30 and was smirking at me like a smart ***.

Corollas and other similar cars often need 2 lanes when turning left

[Fev]

I'd say they're all on FB on their Iphones. The worst is those who swing out to go around corners! So many idiots do this in Sydney - WHY?!! A Subaru IS NOT 40 feet long! You don't need to swing out 2 feet to go around a normal corner!

[utilise_bc]

I like how the Mums driving Landcruiser and Patrol wagons think they are in a roadtrain and need a lane and a half when turning a corner just so the back trailer makes it around alright.. End Rant.

[Dave R]

This bloke copped it.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NqEAP3kYk8

[aussie muscle]

on my way home from work the monaro highway joins the road i'm on. there's two lanes each way, and i've seen lots of cars that turn into it but don't know which lane to use, so they meander between the two while they think about it and change their minds a few times.

Aren't you supposed to turn into the lane closest to your side of the road? (ie if you turn right, you turn into the right lane?)

[Bushbasher]

I live rurally so I have a whole different set of gripes about idiots with wheatbix licences but I'd love to see one of you city slickers put a set of wrap around scrub bars front and rear on your work hack and let some of these morons run into you just so it leaves a nice reminder on their nice shiny car of just how brain dead they are behind the wheel. There's a great technique where just at the point of impact you lean on them for just a moment and brake at the same time then your scrub bar leaves a nice big gate stripe down their flank and if you get it just right, rips the rear bumper off too. If you carry an in car cam then when they try to tell the insurance company that you ran into them you have the video proof otherwise just like the one in the link above. Hope he had scrub bars.

Bushbasher

[NAK302]

up here in central QLD, the lane hoppers are in your lane coming towards you, more than likely having a microsleep after nightshift. fatigue issues are a major problem here with the amount of DIDO workforce that inhabit our locality now. scary stuff i can tell you.