What is your pet peeve as a motorist?
People who don't use turn signals as if I'm a psychic and know they're going to make a left and now I am trapped behind them when I could have gone around had they given advance notice.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Probably the lack of signalling, often but no means always, on roundabouts, where they seem to imagine you can guess their vague-seeming intentions from their position.
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I do NOT object to people sticking to the speed limit, whether on a single-carriageway urban road or on the motorway, where is no such thing as a "fast lane". (The road is essentially a dual carriageway with an extra overtaking lane.) I am though vexed by someone wilfully driving for long distances at unreasonably well below the speed-limit, in a car and in conditions both reasonably safe even at the limit. An odd trait of some of them is driving at 40mph in a 50 limit, but keeping to it when reaching a 30mph limit.
One queue I was in behind such a driver, was over a mile long, shown by a glance in the mirror when breasting a low hill at the end of a long straight stretch.
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Motorway and dual-carriageway users who drive as fast as they can down the outside lane then cut sharply across everyone else at the last moment to take the exit.
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Cyclists who flout all the regulations in the book, often deliberately and dangerously using pavements to do so. A common one is using either no lights at all, or an extremely intense spot-beam, often flashing, headlamp set to dazzle anyone coming the other way.
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Pedestrians! Not all of course, but those who have no road-sense or consideration, and not just to drivers but even to fellow-pedestrians on the same pavement!
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I do NOT object to people sticking to the speed limit, whether on a single-carriageway urban road or on the motorway, where is no such thing as a "fast lane". (The road is essentially a dual carriageway with an extra overtaking lane.) I am though vexed by someone wilfully driving for long distances at unreasonably well below the speed-limit, in a car and in conditions both reasonably safe even at the limit. An odd trait of some of them is driving at 40mph in a 50 limit, but keeping to it when reaching a 30mph limit.
One queue I was in behind such a driver, was over a mile long, shown by a glance in the mirror when breasting a low hill at the end of a long straight stretch.
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Motorway and dual-carriageway users who drive as fast as they can down the outside lane then cut sharply across everyone else at the last moment to take the exit.
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Cyclists who flout all the regulations in the book, often deliberately and dangerously using pavements to do so. A common one is using either no lights at all, or an extremely intense spot-beam, often flashing, headlamp set to dazzle anyone coming the other way.
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Pedestrians! Not all of course, but those who have no road-sense or consideration, and not just to drivers but even to fellow-pedestrians on the same pavement!
