Thread: Road Rage, who gets it?

SenatorKang, I think the situation being described is a road with one lane in your direction; two in the opposite. The white lines on your right are broken your side:
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so you can cross them to overtake, with oncoming vehicles keeping left (allowing you to go up 'their' lane).



When I get annoyed, I try to remember that it's all good, I'm the one driving a Defender


Geoff

1. Yes I get road rage, it came from 8 1/2 years of driving around Melb/Vic doing onsite maintenance........I used to be pretty calm person

2. Arogance peeves me of the most, e.g. people that speed up when your trying to overtake them........arogant, doing less than the speed limit in any lane when you are capable of doing the speed limit......arogant...etc etc

2a. YOU WONT GET A SPEEDING TICKET IF YOU ARE DOING THE LIMIT.......There is no need to sit under the posted speed limit unless you dont check your speedo regularly and if thats the case then you should think about learning how to drive......no matter how old you are.....grrrr

3. No indicator......Grrrrr

4. Riding the brakes so the brake lights are on all the time......May as well not have them......Grrrrr

5. Not understanding that when trying to cross a road at a T intersection they dont have to wait until they cant see another car......when you can see 5kms down the road......Grrrrr

6. People who when turning decide that as soon as they have gone they will slow down so that nobody else can get through the intersection......Grrrr

there are dozens of other reasons I get heated so I decided to take a job where Im off the road......Im sure everyone else appreciates it and Im not going to go to jail for flogging some silly old grandpa that was driving at 55kmh in the right lane of an 80 zone towing a caravan, riding the brakes and then turns left without indicating across in front of me etc etc

i have to agree with all those points. i dont know if i'd call it arrogant for many of them. just plain oblivious and sometimes selfish. "me syndrome" seems to affect more and more people these days.

Actually jsust remembered the one thing that really bugs me.

People changing lanes over a solid white lines.

I think what annoys me is that they're probably so ignorant of the road rules that they aren't aware they're breaking them. Those solid lines are there for a reason (eg, before and after traffic lights, or when the road curves and inattention can cause you to drift into the wrong lane).

Risking an accident cause you don't know what the signs mean does bug me.

r

I try to not do stupid things whilst driving, but occasionally my human side sneaks through, and I stuff up . Not often, but it does happen. In these circumstances I tend to offer the offended driver an apologetic wave.
It's surprising how often it de-fuses the situation.

What really irks me is when some toolhead in a douff douff WRX (or similar) cocks up, then gives the offendees the finger ..

One thing that many people fail to realise is that when there is a broken centre line on your side you can use the centre overtaking lane for oncoming traffic if it's safe to do so - even if there are cars in the oncoming far left lane.

No its not legal....

Just lucky the cop didnt care...

Read your rule book... I just read the QLD one too...

In SA, its illegal and signs state "BOTH Lanes are clear"

Originally Posted by carjunkieanon

Actually jsust remembered the one thing that really bugs me.

People changing lanes over a solid white lines.

I think what annoys me is that they're probably so ignorant of the road rules that they aren't aware they're breaking them. Those solid lines are there for a reason (eg, before and after traffic lights, or when the road curves and inattention can cause you to drift into the wrong lane).

Risking an accident cause you don't know what the signs mean does bug me.

r

The law doesn't disallow this action.

Its a signifier that an intersection is nearby, nothing more...

Driving and riding is all about Risk Assessment...

Originally Posted by solmanic

I also used to get annoyed at poeple who blast up the kerbside lane at traffic lights until my mate simply pointed out that if EVERYONE did it then more traffic would actually make it through each change of lights. Now I am of the opinion that it's not so much rude to run up the left lane, as it is just plain stupid to sit there like a mullet in a right hand lane and queue. I'm happy if I get through the lights one change earlier and I'm also happy to sort out the merging on the other side of the intersection in a courteous and orderly manner. If I have the misfortune to get stuck behind a parked car then so be it. I just wait until everyone else is past then pull out. Needless to say there are usually dozens of people still queued on the other side of the intersection who didn't get through at all.

And what is it about the words "Form One Lane" that is so hard for people to understand? If I am in the left lane and someone is behind me in the right, I often get flashed or tooted at for merging across in front of them. It's not the same as "left lane ends" FFS! No-one indicates, you just move in turn and the car in front automatically has right of way. I could just as well insist that they should have indicated left.

for the first paragraph your ment to be in the left hand lane... get into the nitty gritty and your supposed to pull up in a pattern filling the left hand lane before starting on the right... think of the standard grid pattern for a race that starts with a left hand turn and youve got the idea...


the rules on merging change from place to place... depending on how the lane lines indicate the lane ends changes who has right of way... but generally when it gets down to the courts if your door mirrors are infront of their headlights you have right of way if your indicating.

Originally Posted by vnx205

Hand up anyone who thinks they could do a three point turn in a LWB Series I even on a normal road.

easy, first gear, low range, left hand down to lock, drive up over the kerb, into and through the shrubbery and onto the grass, right hand down to lock push over the fence, and head back towards the road through the next yards shrubbery. Bounce down off of the kerb to drive across the road, mount the next kerb and proceed over the rockery, ford the koi pond, up over the wood chipped mound seperating the yards and straighten the wheel, over the grass and as the right hand wheel drops back onto the black top crank it back to left hand lock as the other wheels come back off of the grass over the kerb then straighten it up....

whats hard about that?


For all be carefull with the mergin rules they still arent to a federal standard (though they should be) and the definition of who has right of way is a little loose...

as I mentioned before so long as you are significantly ahead of the vehicle you are trying to merge through you have right of way providing you are indicating and the laws on the meanings of the markings on the road are more to do with when 2 cars, for some reason, wind up along side each other at the same speed at the same time...

generally, when merging

the slower vehicle gives way to the faster one (this means you cant stomp it to get in front)
the vehicle behind gives way to the vehicle in front (about 1/2 a car length is the qualifying distance)
the vehicle on the left gives way to the vehicle on the right...


yes thats very general and I know that you can come up with lots of scenarios where it doesnt work BUT thats how I teach it when Im teaching beginners