Parking and Driving the Cheeses me off!

[ryana89]

When I start slipping the clutch and the AC compressor kicks in.....

I'm not very good at this.

[99_FGT]

People who have no idea how to merge, either pulling up to 100 to merge with traffic doing 50, or vice versa
And on merging, people who merge at the last possible second, or avoid the slow moving lane waiting to exit until the last second. Ever wondered why it is moving so slowly you dumb f...s
Al..

[Ben J]

I don't like it when you stop to let someone in that is trying to get out of a driveway into a busy street or merge into your full lane and they don't give a friendly wave or something. Seems rude. Also very annoying when you let someone in and they then proceed to do half the speed limit.

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[brad]

Other things that annoy are:
Drivers who speed up to specifically block you from merging into their lane or wont let you out into traffic when its extremely busy.
Drivers who are so aggressive that they feel the need to tailgate and get abusive because theyre in more of a hurry than everyone else (these people realise its a fun game to try and keep them boxed in in traffic right?)

Does not being the blocker in annoying behaviour #2 make you the perpetrator of annoying behaviour #1?

[brad]

By the way, on things related to consumption, I saw the first Prius being offered for sale with a sticker on the rear window and parked on the roadside. I happened to meet and talk to the owner and asked why he was selling it. It's the cost of the replacement batteries (something well over $10,000 as he put it), and you can only get them from Toyota!

Toyota gave an 8 year/160000km warranty on the battery pack. The first Prius arrived in AUS in 2001 & by 2010 they'd only replaced 3 battery packs. The battery pack is worth about $3500 plus fitting less core credit (batteries returned to Toyota for recycling) of ~$1300.
There's a Prius taxi up in Cairns that has done 650,000km.

[Gusman]

I don't often see that, but when I lived in Brisbane I used to regularly encounter cars travelling at 75km/h in an 80 zone, who would then continue to drive at 75km/h when the road changed to a 60 zone.

Lol, it's worse on the Sunshine Coast as I found when I briefly lived there. I call it the "80's good" syndrome, particularly prevalent on Steve Irwin Way but encountered everywhere on the SC. I'd follow a muppet (usually an old one) doing 80 in a 100 zone (I'm coating the inside of my windscreen with rant spittle), then 80 in an 80 (I think of it as accidental compliance), then er, hello you're doing 80 in 60 zone guy! Throttle modulation, who needs it?

[MGV]

Hahaha, 'rant spittle' !
Should have been the title for this thread!

[Arnold]

People who have no idea how to merge, either pulling up to 100 to merge with traffic doing 50, or vice versa
And on merging, people who merge at the last possible second, or avoid the slow moving lane waiting to exit until the last second. Ever wondered why it is moving so slowly you dumb f...s
Al..

I hate it on country roads when slower vehicles do merge earlier than strictly necessary preventing cars from overtaking before the overtaking lane ends.

When I am in the left lane that ends, I always follow the unbroken white inside line and put my indicator on about when the dashed line appears. I slow down a little, if need be, to allow any much faster car(s) past before merging.

Doing so causes one's car to merge automatically in the correct manner, with right of way, while allowing the greatest number of faster cars to pass.

I'd say only about 5% of drivers do this. The vast majority of drivers merge before the lanes merge and invariably hold up cars that would otherwise have made it past them.

[ParaBul]

I hate it on country roads when slower vehicles do merge earlier than strictly necessary preventing cars from overtaking before the overtaking lane ends.

I have a 4wd with all the typical off-road mods - including suspension lift & big tyres. It's not exactly a rocket, it doesn't corner too well, and the combination of weight, big tyres and the aerodynamics of a brick means that it loses speed up anything that even smells like a hill.

Coming home through the Adelaide Hills I got stuck in the middle of a long line of traffic - and there's not too many vehicles that can't travel through the hills faster than my 4wd. We all arrived at one of the few overtaking lanes, which is (of course) up a hill. No problem, I'm not going to overtake anything, so I stayed in the left lane. And ended up overtaking two cars that pulled out into the overtaking lane.

Hadn't intended to do it, wasn't flogging the thing up the hill. But two vehicles that did pull into the overtaking lane drove up that hill slower than me. And technically, I'm the one who broke the law.

[Arnold]

Some (most) people just don't think.

The driver of this car said they were "forced" (by the car in front!) to park the way they did, leaving "dead" space behind them for not much at all.

This is more like it! Trust a VW driver to look out for his fellow road users!!