• Went out for my first 'real' drive. Other drivers are cunts.
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[QUOTE=Bad)-(and;23082747]it's funny. you say that they're all incompetent. but after a year or so of driving you'll be doing the exact same things.[/QUOTE] not really
I was driving along at 50mph, it was just a sideroad, dude came running in front of my car I had to slam on the brakes he looks at me and starts shouting, giving me the finger. I laughed and as soon as he saw that, he started approaching my car and I just swerved around him. People are fucking idiots on the roads.
Welcome to the driving world. Sounds like the guy in the first story didnt really do anything too wrong. A lot of people tailgate, especially when someone (i.e. you) is going under the speed limit. It's their way of telling you to speed up. Not quite sure why he didnt pass you though, maybe he actually wanted to follow the double yellow line law or something. You'll have to get used to dumbasses on the road though, there's definitely going to be worse situations.
I drive a heavily tuned Nissan Micra rallycross car, which gets a fair bit of attention, good and bad. For example, today I was driving in a dual laned 30 MPH road. I was on the left, and there was a people carrier on the right. We approached traffic lights, the people carrier was doing about 40, and I was sticking to the limit as there are speed cameras everywhere in the area. Anyway, the people carrier passed, drove through green lights and they changed to red before I could get to them. The driver saw this and flipped me off as he drove through the lights. I get a lot of dick heads in chavved up Vauxhall Corsas, Citroen Saxos and other shitty hatchbacks that tailgate me trying to make me race. I could take any of these retards, but I choose not to seeing as I don't want to lose my license. I get enough kicks racing on the track. All in all, drivers are dumb asses.
[QUOTE=Darkhorse01;23076092] 1, You don't actually start learning until you pass your tests. [/QUOTE] This. In the UK when you pass your test everything is so much different. You realise people don't follow the rules and you just generally experience a lot more of a variety of situations and you learn from them.
[QUOTE=Wilsonwiz;23084655]This. In the UK when you pass your test everything is so much different. You realise people don't follow the rules and you just generally experience a lot more of a variety of situations and you learn from them.[/QUOTE] Exactly, everything's a lot different when you don't have somebody sitting next to you to help you correct something. Nobody follows the rules in the UK. People drive to the speed limit but rarely indicate, have correct lanes or any of the basic stuff. You must always expect the unexpected.
[QUOTE=sltungle;23079750]Why not? That's the way things work back in the homeland (Scotland). That's the way things work in the rest of the UK for the most part (at least from everyone I've ever known). Why should I be a little bitch, some panzy, and learn in an automatic for a while THEN switch to a manual later on?[/QUOTE] I learnt in automatic, i have an automatic licence. I live in England. And actually, when you live in london, having a manual makes no sense. Half the time you will be in a traffic jam and crawling along in first gear...think of the clutch control.
always, ALWAYS give other stupid drivers the finger
My boss's friend likes to trick out cars and add cool things to them. So he put a PA system on one of his cars and rigged it so that when he blew the horn it would blast MOTHERFUCKER out of the speakers. I want that horn.
Truck drivers in the UK are normally either placid, well-behaved drivers that keep in the slow lane (the far left/hard shoulder here) or total asshats who drive like they've never seen a road before. We ran into one of the latter about a year ago on the M49 roughly eight miles from Bristol. There was roadworks and one of two lanes was blocked, the other narrowed. As we came up to the slip for the junction with an industrial estate, a pallet truck overloaded with pallets came up the sliproad towards us. I reckon it must have had about 30 or 40 pallets extra from what it was meant to have, because they were strapped double the height of the towing vehicle. I was a passenger, my dad was driving. We were driving at 60mph, the speed limit that roadworks signs instructed. The truck appeared out of nowhere to our left as we hit the merge and it didn't slow down even though we blocked its way out. It cut us up and my dad had to jam the brakes on. We stopped dead, ON A ONE LANE MOTORWAY. What's worse, the truck also slowed heavily when it hit the driver that he couldn't push us past. I actually thought the pallets were going to fall on top of us. So basically, we stopped dead from 60mph on a one-lane motorway and nearly got squished by a huge pile of pallets... and if anyone had been behind us there would have been a, what, at least 60 maximum of 120mph collision, and our poor little modeo would have been scrap with us inside it. Yes, other drivers are cunts. TL;DR we nearly crashed because of a tosser in a truck who thought he could pass us on a slip road.
I don't agree with road rage, but driving 20km/h slower is very very abnormal, even for a new driver. I drove at the speed limit, but now a days I drive 5-7 mph above. Even 10km/h lower is bad dude. Also good job on almost veering off the road, which is bad because you wouldn't know how to cope with that as a new driver. Like I said I don't agree with road rage, but put yourself in the shoes of someone seeing your driving skills. They would think you are drunk, or high, driving 20km/h slower and swerving. Go take a driving course, you are a menace to society.
I've had a couple of instances with people driving too close. I was on a dual carriageway, in the outside lane overtaking at about 80mph (Speeding I know, but shush). I then had some cunt in a Jaguar scream up behind me, at what must have been 95-100mph, and then sat about 2 meters away from my bumper. Another time, I was a single carriageway road, behind another car, meaning we were both doing 60mph. Again, another person screamed up behind me, and sat on my bumper. He actually moved out in to the middle of the road, and sat there for a good 3-5 seconds. We then got into a 30mph zone, by this time I had backed off from the car in front a little. I then, slammed on the breaks to scare the shit out of him. We then proceeded to flip each other off, as I turned into my driveway. Shame he won't learn from that, and probably end up killing some person, while probably walking away alive. [editline]11:44PM[/editline] [QUOTE=-Matt-94;23089379]I don't agree with road rage, but driving 20km/h slower is very very abnormal, even for a new driver. I drove at the speed limit, but now a days I drive 5-7 mph above. Even 10km/h lower is bad dude. Also good job on almost veering off the road, which is bad because you wouldn't know how to cope with that as a new driver. Like I said I don't agree with road rage, but put yourself in the shoes of someone seeing your driving skills. They would think you are drunk, or high, driving 20km/h slower and swerving. Go take a driving course, you are a menace to society.[/QUOTE] I agree with the fact the OP should maybe have done a couple of lessons with an instructor (if he could) before going out with his dad. However, if I had seen the L plates, I would have been fully aware there could be some erratic driving. The person behind was in the wrong also, and should have backed off, or overtaken.
[QUOTE=joe588;23082709]how the hell do they know if you've actually racked up 120 hours? can't you just lie?[/QUOTE] They give you a log book. You write down how long you drove for, what times it was between, and the odometer recording at the start and end of the journey. A lot of people DO just end up bullshitting the last 40 or so hours, though [QUOTE=-Matt-94]Go take a driving course, you are a menace to society.[/QUOTE] Hey. I managed to drive home through the entire suburb pretty much at the speed limit (5-10km/h underneath at one or two points) with only one fuck up; and that's when the 4x4 wouldn't let me switch lanes. I did a better job than half of the fucking drivers around me who ran red lights, broke the speed limit, and made turns without indicating.
You guys have to do 120 hours? Back in Indiana, we need to do 50. We used to only need to do around 10 hours. I've seen quite a few bad drivers, mostly on signalling. I hate having my parents freaking out at everything that moves on the road, because they think I'll hit it. We don't even have different plates, so you can't tell if someone is new to driving or not. I just assume they can't drive and expect the worst.
The first time I drove I almost got hit by someone driving down the wrong side of the road.
[QUOTE=JLea;23076057]oh man victorian fper here. manual driving in general just sucks, and so does the 120 hours. FUCK VICROADS[/QUOTE] South Australian here, I'd never drive an auto, manual for life. I find it so much [B]easier[/B], auto I want to fall asleep sometimes.. And the whole changing gears/working clutch thing is pretty easy to get the hang of, I don't even think about it anymore. Not sure what the hours in SA are, think they were 50 but are going up to 100 or something. You should see the traffic lights here in Adelaide... King William Road, big road right down the middle of the city... Worst road I've ever been on. 25 minutes to move about 500 metres.
I'm currently learning to drive. I had to pretty much jump right into populated roads because I live in an urban area.
Australian fp'er here, I live in Nimbin, and i tell you, please, don't get high before you drive...If you've been here before, you'll know what I'm talking about.
Closest I ever came to an accident was when I tried to pass a student driver who was going about 15 miles an hour on a 30 road, slowing to 10 every time there was a small turn. I'd been behind him for about 10 minutes, traffic was stacked up and honking and he refused to pull over even though there were tons of pullouts he could have used. It wouldn't have been so bad except that I was learning to drive a manual transmission, and he kept forcing me to change gears over and over, which was freaking me the fuck out. Finally I tried to pass him in the oncoming lane and he SPEEDS UP and starts honking at me. I barely made it past him and back into the right lane as a truck came around the next corner.
On my first drive, I was actually pushing the speed limit. My teacher had to yell at me to slow down (I slowed down a little bit, but I was still over the speed limit). On your next drive, try going a bit faster, you will find that it isn't that bad at all. Just watch out for those crazy drivers that go EXTREMELY fast. [editline]11:56PM[/editline] [QUOTE=TH89;23094602]Closest I ever came to an accident was when I tried to pass a student driver who was going about 15 miles an hour on a 30 road, slowing to 10 every time there was a small turn. I'd been behind him for about 10 minutes, traffic was stacked up and honking and he refused to pull over even though there were tons of pullouts he could have used. It wouldn't have been so bad except that I was learning to drive a manual transmission, and he kept forcing me to change gears over and over, which was freaking me the fuck out. Finally I tried to pass him in the oncoming lane and he SPEEDS UP and starts honking at me. I barely made it past him and back into the right lane as a truck came around the next corner.[/QUOTE] Damn, I would freak out too. I still don't know how to operate a manual transmission well.
[QUOTE=CSG172;23094651]On my first drive, I was actually pushing the speed limit. My teacher had to yell at me to slow down (I slowed down a little bit, but I was still over the speed limit). On your next drive, try going a bit faster, you will find that it isn't that bad at all. Just watch out for those crazy drivers that go EXTREMELY fast.[/QUOTE] I kept telling dad I wanted to go AT the speed limit but I guess he noticed I was still getting a feel for the accelerator and my speed was fluctuating a little bit on either side of the speed I was trying to travel at. I'll try to stay as close as possible (so long as I feel I can control the car adequately at that speed) from now on. It's not like I was going 20 under in the suburbs. Most I went under there was 10, and most times it was probably more like 2-5 under. I realise that travelling TOO SLOWLY can be as much a catalyst for accidents as travelling too quickly when there's a lot of traffic around.
[QUOTE=pike1337;23094521]don't get high before you drive[/QUOTE] I can't believe anyone would consider driving while high. :colbert:
Just got my N stage after the L stage barely passed my test,It gets better after a while just go the speed limit trust me the faster you go the funner it is. Hence the reason I go drag racing.
I quickly learned that no-one goes the speed limit and no-one turns into the first available lane.
Try driving in Las Vegas....
People in Australia fucking despise L platers.
[QUOTE=Faren;23097078]People in Australia fucking despise L platers.[/QUOTE] Even though they themselves were all there at one point or another in their life.
Go to the US and drive at an Asian plaza. This is where stereotypes are true.
Those assholes who speed up behind you and then stick right up your ass, now they're annoying I agree with you on that. You should check your main mirror around every 8 seconds. People rarely signal either and some tend to speed past you when you're sticking to the limit which is uncalled for. I stopped to do a bay park with my uncle the other day, reverse lights on right indicator on and then this bitch decides to pull up a mm away from the back of my car. WTF? Reverse lights are on and so are the indicators, eventually she decides to go past and then give us an earful for aiming for that space, what a bitch good thing I've got loud horns :) But yeah, the main thing is to ignore the car behind, if you're about to slow down check your mirror then put your brakes on, if they go into the back of you it's their fault not yours. Next time you see someone speeding up behind you slow your speed, then they are more likely to go past. Good luck on the road!
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;23094017]You guys have to do 120 hours? Back in Indiana, we need to do 50. We used to only need to do around 10 hours.[/QUOTE] It never used to be 120 hours(Used to be around 50 I think), but due to our government and incompetent P-Platers, they decided to change it.
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