Always leave room in front of you when stopped >>

Edited by Mookfish on 05/12/2008 at 18:29

Edited by Fullchat on 05/12/2008 at 20:54

leaving a motorway extra quick look to the right for eejits crossing two lanes of traffic to exit at very last second.

Right of way rules are generally misunderstood and there are situations where rules may not be clear to everyone. If uncertainty is there about a particular vehicle one should have a vehicle and right to way which can be given to other driver.

It's ok Sid, Mr cloutier appears to be a bot and is generating nonsense postings. Quite amusing nonsense though!

Calm down, it is no quicker if you get past the guy in front.

My defensive driving quandry is whether to trust indicators. ie if you're waiting at a junction and, happily, an oncoming car is indicating left which gives you just the break in the traffic you need. The only snag is that it looks to be approaching the turn a bit fast...

If he doesn't turn-crunch!

But if you wait until the car actually starts to turn left, then pull out, the car behind will accelerate round it and-crunch!

Or you can just sit at the junction until you run out of fuel. Difficult.

I don't waste time worrying* about the competence of other drivers-they don't want to claim on their insurance any more than you want to claim on yours.

* but I do spend hours criticising what I perceive to be sloppy or inconsiderate driving practices. My driving is of course faultless.

Or hats. Anyone driving a car whilst wearing a hat is out to kill you.

My next door neighbour is getting on for 90 and he wears a trilby type hat. I regularly wince at hearing him rag the gears of his Perodua. I shall attribute this to the hat.

Edited by Bobbin Threadbare on 18/07/2011 at 15:04

You can control the amount of space in front of you and to some extent the amount of space either side of you, but you can't control the amount of space behind you.

If someone is agressively tailgating, as opposed to just following a bit close, sometimes the safest thing to do is to gradually slow down. This gives the tailgater a chance to pass or, if they don't, at least their stopping distance will be less if there's an emergency and if they do run into you the impact is likley to be less.