Worst Driver(s) You Have Experienced

[Stu35]

- Their new-built freeway, which goes north-south through the country, has the entrances just before the exits. The net result is you have cars trying to merge onto the motorway trying to come left while those trying to leave it cross them to the right.

Isn't that normal? All the ramps here work that way. All of them... o_0

I think it's more normal for the exit to come before the entrance - so people filter off the motorway/autobahn/freeway/whatever you call it, then a few hundred yards later people are joining the motorway (ideally into the space created by those who just left).

That's the case in the UK anyway. In Germany I remember all the junctions being Petal shaped, but can't remember much else about them.

 

[shootthebandit]

There are a pair of roundabouts at Newark that are incredibly poorly designed. I understand that few people truly know what to do at them. That said however, some common sense would be appreciated people! The roundabouts do in fact follow normal road laws there even if they are poorly designed like, for example, not pulling straight onto the roundabout when there is traffic coming from the right. I've nearly been ran off the road so many god-damned times there as well as having to stop suddenly on the roundabout because some lorry driver can't be bothered to stop and just pulls straight onto it. Those roundabouts are just death traps.

is that the big one that goes onto the A46, the A1 and A17?

Its far too close to the A1 exit which means its sometimes queued back into one of the lanes. I live 15-20 mins from this roundabout and every time I still fear for my life

 

[zarguhl]

I'm an awesome driver. I can negotiate a busy roundabout while talking on my phone, while holding it to do a Google search, and eating a sandwich. In a manual car. While speeding.

Not that I'd ever do that. Because people who use phones while driving should be tortured to death for being the scum of the Earth. Totally. That's just how I feel...

 

[RoonMian]

I think it's more normal for the exit to come before the entrance - so people filter off the motorway/autobahn/freeway/whatever you call it, then a few hundred yards later people are joining the motorway (ideally into the space created by those who just left).

That's the case in the UK anyway. In Germany I remember all the junctions being Petal shaped, but can't remember much else about them.

Well, as a German I don't think I have ever seen a ramp that was not a tangent, meaning on and off ramp form a half circle which the highway practically shares for a couple hundred meters, making people going on and off switching lanes with each other... Damn, I really don't know how to better explain it...

 

[MiskWisk]

There are a pair of roundabouts at Newark that are incredibly poorly designed. I understand that few people truly know what to do at them. That said however, some common sense would be appreciated people! The roundabouts do in fact follow normal road laws there even if they are poorly designed like, for example, not pulling straight onto the roundabout when there is traffic coming from the right. I've nearly been ran off the road so many god-damned times there as well as having to stop suddenly on the roundabout because some lorry driver can't be bothered to stop and just pulls straight onto it. Those roundabouts are just death traps.

is that the big one that goes onto the A46, the A1 and A17?

Its far too close to the A1 exit which means its sometimes queued back into one of the lanes. I live 15-20 mins from this roundabout and every time I still fear for my life

Yes. Whoever designed that roundabout system needs to be fired.

 

[shootthebandit]

There are a pair of roundabouts at Newark that are incredibly poorly designed. I understand that few people truly know what to do at them. That said however, some common sense would be appreciated people! The roundabouts do in fact follow normal road laws there even if they are poorly designed like, for example, not pulling straight onto the roundabout when there is traffic coming from the right. I've nearly been ran off the road so many god-damned times there as well as having to stop suddenly on the roundabout because some lorry driver can't be bothered to stop and just pulls straight onto it. Those roundabouts are just death traps.

is that the big one that goes onto the A46, the A1 and A17?

Its far too close to the A1 exit which means its sometimes queued back into one of the lanes. I live 15-20 mins from this roundabout and every time I still fear for my life

Yes. Whoever designed that roundabout system needs to be fired.

When you come from the A17 to the A1 north you end up having to switch lanes in the middle of the roundabout to get on the outside for the second one. At busy times you can be sat for ages waiting for the smallest gap to appear. Fortunately I dont have to drive it a lot but I drive it often enough to know how bad it is.

You usually have to just floor it and hope for the best as soon as you get even the smallest gap. The problem is that the lorries cant pull out fast enough

 

[Henkie36]

Just a few days ago, I came up to a set of lights. There was one for going straight, and one for turning left. I am very familliar and know the lights going left are very slow and don't turn green very often, or very long. So, straight it is for me. When I came up ther, there were a few cars in both lanes. Then one guy decides that he doesn't want to go straight, but left. He was the last car for both lines, so he starts to wiggle into the lane for left, but there was no way he could make a turn that short, so he decided to just block the lane for straight ahead, when that light turned green, forcing everyone behind him (first me, then at least 5 more) to wait until the other light turned green as well, and like I said, that light is never in any fucking hurry.
Another set of lights: One lane for going left, straight and right, fairly typical. I wasn't at the lights yet, but I couldn't see any cars from the other three directions, so I was sort of counting on them turning green. There was one car in the lane for going left. I made my approach at 80, which was the legal speed limit, and right on cue, both our lights turned green. Then, The guy in front out of nowhere pulls out to the right, gunning it as hard as he can to go straight ahead, no indicators or anything. I nearly rear-ended him because he didn't look in his mirrors.
There are also the usual annoyances, trucks and caravannists overtaking, people going 100 in the middle lane on the highway, not indicating when they are about to leave a roundabout (my biggest annoyance), yobbos using the Autobahn as a racetrack because ''it doesn't have a speedlimit ergo racing is allowed'' (I should probably stress this will cost you your license in Germany, if not your life) and of course, people who think texting is so important, it absolutely can't wait until you are at their destination.

 

[generals3]

There are so many people driving like shit. For me the toppers are:

A) That one idiot, usually in a BMW X1/2/3 standing in the middle of an intersection stuck due to traffic. Because i guess they expected that the traffic would magically disappear if they would engage in the intersection.

B) That one person who thinks the left lane is for slowpokes and stays on it despite the middle lane being empty. Forcing me to pass by from the right.

C) Those people who think signaling is for weaklings and shift lanes without signaling it ,which has almost caused me an accident a couple of times.

D) Those vans who tailgate you and even make light signals despite the fact you're stuck behind a line of 100 cars yourself. As if me switching to the right lane will suddenly make all that traffic in front of me disappear.

E) That taxi driver who almost ran over a motorcycle when i was in the cab. This guy was also following his GPS and still managed to take the wrong turns. A real professional cab driver.

F)And the absolute best must be:
That one friend who molested her car by staying in first/second gear way too long (because switching gears and lanes at the same time was too much multi tasking), she would ask questions like "Where do i need to stop for the red light?" (apparently that white line wasn't clear enough) and she also even started driving in the wrong direction (as in against traffic, luckily it was 1am and there was little to no traffic). Luckily i was drunk and was simply laughing the whole time, if i was sober i think i would have shat my pants a couple of times during that ride.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

A few years ago I had the worst taxi ride I've ever had. I was in a hurry to get to this dental clinic in Stavanger and I had no escort, so I called for a taxi after I get off the ferry. Then I spotted this other cab rolling up and decided I'd just have to take that one.

The driver was not an ethnic Norwegian, suffice to say, and he didn't know the address of the clinic. So along with having to stop multiple times to look at his shitty map-in-a-catalogue, he repeatedly drove into oncoming traffic, went dangerously fast and generally just swerved. I literally feared for my life. I was maybe 5 or 10 minutes "late" and just had to leave the requisite 200 NOK bill in his hands and run out without any change.

In hindsight I should have complained. It could have been a pirate taxi with really convincing work on the car.

 

[Major_Tom]

There some people who wait a bit too long for the coast to clear when taking a right turn. I have no problem with those people. I DO however have a problem with the impatient assholes 5 cars behind who keep their fat hands on the horn the whole time, and then they decide they can go in the opposing lane, pass 5 cars in front of them and then take the right turn FROM THE OPPOSING LANE. They deserve to be beaten with an E-tool, which is convenient since I keep one in my car.

 

[shootthebandit]

Myself.

My fist driving lesson was me, driving through a straight, empty country road at 60km/h. I was clutching the steering with both my hands, terrified, visibly trembling. My driving instructor had o swap out with me when we drove into a town.

Several months later, at the test, I was freaking out. The car died on me several times, the examining officer had to guide me and give me hints when I was parking, I was a nervous wreck. I passed. Barely. The guy only gave me my license on condition I would never sit behind a steering wheel again. It's been 4 years. I have kept my promise.

"The guy only gave me my license on condition I would never sit behind a steering wheel again" - I, er, how the hell does that work?

Some people aren't meant to drive, the bird I am seeing at the moment is awful at it, failed 5 times for different stuff each time. It's like me and the Total War series, I like the idea, I can see it's brilliant but I cannot play it, oh no.

I all fairness I failed loads of times and im a confident driver. I just hate being in a position where someone is watching me and assessing me on something. It makes me panic and think "what does he want me to do here" rather than just driving. When I was doing a test you could put me in a car on my own and ask me to drive somewhere and Id do it flawlessy. Put someone next to me with a clipboard and ill panic especially since these people are usually so rude and ignore the most basic pleasantries

Learner drivers kind of annoy me too not because they are slow but mainly because my street must be a test route and is always filled with them. Im trying to get into my house and theres someone reversing round a corner blocking the road

The people i hate most are tractors. I live in a rural area and work for one of the largest employers in the area. I dont see why the farmers decide to take their tractor out during morning rush hour and have a queue longer than one of charlie sheen's lines of coke behind them. Surely they have all day to bob up and down smugly in a tractor with making hundreds of people late for work. I suppose the people who NEVER overtake are worse. The ones who happily sit there behind said tractor and a gap appears wider than kim kardashains lady garden and they have clear visibility yet they dont overtake

 

[nightmare_gorilla]

My favorite bad driver ever happened a few months back. this was so amazing i'm not even mad at the guy. three lane road i'm in the right lane as we come to an intersection. the light turns red and everyone stops, the guy in the middle lane, after stopping at the red light. guns it and turns right from the middle lane. not just barely red, but a stale red light the guy turned right from the middle lane. I just sat there watching it laughing at the whole thing. what he did was so wrong it almost became right again.