Parking and Driving the Cheeses me off!

[Dutch77]

A few things in Adelaide which borrow from above:

Roundabouts - as per prior comments, but especially at the infamous Brittania roundabout which seems to confuse far too many people.. seriously it has its own wiki page, that's telling you something.

Bus lanes - I understand why we have them in places, but the move to destroy an entire lane across the CBD was ridiculous and driven by our anti-car pollies

Southern Expressway - we built a one way freeway, so for almost 10% of the day it is shut so it can change direction.

Fortunately I don't actually have to encounter any of the above areas except for the odd journey here and there.

[Tim]

The single most annoying thing on the road is drivers that dont understand the flow of traffic and are unable to think a couple of steps ahead.

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?)
Drivers who do 80 in a 100 zone and then speed up to 120 in an 80 zone. Seriously WTF?!

At the end of the day life is pretty stressful. People just need to put on some funky toons and chill out a bit. We all just wanna get where we are going

[Dubba]

lmao its funny, it doesn't even save any petrol. Your car uses more petrol starting up than when it's in idle.

People who turn their engines off at traffic lights to save half a breath of fuel and take forever to move ROFL

[Hillbilly]

lmao its funny, it doesn't even save any petrol. Your car uses more petrol starting up than when it's in idle.

Well that contradicts or renders useless VW's Bluemotion system doesnt it.

[wai]

Well that contradicts or renders useless VW's Bluemotion system doesnt it.

Stop/Start systems are designed to meet the fuel consumption targets in various countries. This is measured on a dynamometer where the vehicle has to traverse a cycle in the standard. If you have ever witnessed a test being carried out, you will realise why such favourable consumption figures are achieved.

[wai]

Well that contradicts or renders useless VW's Bluemotion system doesnt it.

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!

[MGV]

He either knew he wasn't going to sell it to you, or is never gonna cut it as a car salesman!

Always thought those batteries must be expensive suckers!

[wai]

He either knew he wasn't going to sell it to you, or is never gonna cut it as a car salesman!

Always thought those batteries must be expensive suckers!

He knew he would not sell it to me

[ParaBul]

Drivers who do 80 in a 100 zone and then speed up to 120 in an 80 zone. Seriously WTF?!

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.

[ParaBul]

lmao its funny, it doesn't even save any petrol. Your car uses more petrol starting up than when it's in idle.

That will depend on how long you leave it to idle, and it won't take long before it becomes more economical to turn it off.

I can't speak for a petrol vehicle, but I've done some testing in my diesel. If I drive sensibly, and have a good run with traffic lights, my consumption for the trip to work is typically around 4.6 - 4.8 l/100km. If I turn the engine off at lights I can easily get below 4.0 l/100km.

But feel free to continue laughing your ass off as you idle.