#baddriving — Public Fediverse posts

Slateford Rd this evening, British Gas van can't quite fit down straight on lane, decides not to wait on right turn lane to move, so mounts two wheels on pavement and drives straight at me, causing me to jump out the way.

Driver looked at me & laughed as he did so, illegal driving and reckless endangerment are clearly highly amusing to this absolute arsebag. Beyond bad & illegal driving, that's bloody psychotic behaviour. Too fast to get the reg plate.

#BritishGas #BadDriving

Slateford Rd this evening, British Gas van can't quite fit down straight on lane, decides not to wait on right turn lane to move, so mounts two wheels on pavement and drives straight at me, causing me to jump out the way.

Driver looked at me & laughed as he did so, illegal driving and reckless endangerment are clearly highly amusing to this absolute arsebag. Beyond bad & illegal driving, that's bloody psychotic behaviour. Too fast to get the reg plate.

#BritishGas #BadDriving

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #483: The World's Most Expensive Speeding Ticket.
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#baddriving #speedingticket #speeding #switzerland #sweden #finland #scandinavia #supercars #jsutrichpeoplethings #europe #webcomic #comics #facts #funfacts #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #483: The World's Most Expensive Speeding Ticket.
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#baddriving #speedingticket #speeding #switzerland #sweden #finland #scandinavia #supercars #jsutrichpeoplethings #europe #webcomic #comics #facts #funfacts #didyouknow #strangebuttrue #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Effing Tesla driver. Parking in a charging bay, no intention of charging (he's the wrong way round) even though there are plenty of parking spaces.

Plus, when he left, he turned right against a "no right turn" sign.

Are Teslas the new BMWs?

#tesla #BadDriving

What a dick. In my younger years this asshole would have two flat tires to deal with #asshole #baddriving #parking

What a dick. In my younger years this asshole would have two flat tires to deal with #asshole #baddriving #parking

Apparently today was an eventful day for white Teslas in #portalberni 😆
This parking job in the very same very tight/busy parking lot earned this white Tesla a post on s**t parkers of #portalberni FB group today (not by me). 😂 #tesla #baddriving

And going back to our x-Can trip with the near exact same trailer, we never once blocked a travel lane while charging. 😝 This is a skill/courtesy issue. 😝 There isn’t even anything in the trailer, that tarp is going to blow away! 😂
#bchwy4 #bchydro

Apparently today was an eventful day for white Teslas in #portalberni 😆
This parking job in the very same very tight/busy parking lot earned this white Tesla a post on s**t parkers of #portalberni FB group today (not by me). 😂 #tesla #baddriving

And going back to our x-Can trip with the near exact same trailer, we never once blocked a travel lane while charging. 😝 This is a skill/courtesy issue. 😝 There isn’t even anything in the trailer, that tarp is going to blow away! 😂
#bchwy4 #bchydro

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #337: Oedipus' road rage.
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#oedipus #roadrage #baddriving #greekmythology #tragedy #prophecy #thebes #oedipusrex #murder #crime #wtf #funfacts #facts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #337: Oedipus' road rage.
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#oedipus #roadrage #baddriving #greekmythology #tragedy #prophecy #thebes #oedipusrex #murder #crime #wtf #funfacts #facts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

To the driver of huge SUV who pulled off of Snell Ave into a gravel driveway specifically to drive bomb ass through it and kick up a huge plume of dust for those on the street, please let me be the first to wish you a very pleasant head gasket failure.

#SanJose #California #BadDriving

Woman accidentally drives her Porsche SUV off the third floor of a parking garage... rescued. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/porsche-suv-left-dangling-from-parking-garage-in-coral-gables/3517812/

#baddriving #porsche #parking #cars

Woman accidentally drives her Porsche SUV off the third floor of a parking garage... rescued. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/porsche-suv-left-dangling-from-parking-garage-in-coral-gables/3517812/

#baddriving #porsche #parking #cars

If everyone is forced to drive, and most people don't want to do it, you're going to get bad drivers, distracted drivers, pissy drivers, ignorant drivers, psychotic drivers, etc. Don't require crazy to be put behind the wheel of a multi-ton vehicle as a minimum barrier of entry to public life. Leave it only to those who need or want to drive.

#driving #publictransit #transit #transportation #baddrivers #baddriving #Textinganddriving #urbanism

If everyone is forced to drive, and most people don't want to do it, you're going to get bad drivers, distracted drivers, pissy drivers, ignorant drivers, psychotic drivers, etc. Don't require crazy to be put behind the wheel of a multi-ton vehicle as a minimum barrier of entry to public life. Leave it only to those who need or want to drive.

#driving #publictransit #transit #transportation #baddrivers #baddriving #Textinganddriving #urbanism

I’ve also noticed more people following a line when driving - like having their wheels following the bike lane…like they’re drunk. It’s just weird. Every time I go in the car I expect to see some weird behaviour by drivers. What used to be a once a year type event is now an every-single-trip event.
No wonder car insurance is going up. #covid #baddriving

I’ve also noticed more people following a line when driving - like having their wheels following the bike lane…like they’re drunk. It’s just weird. Every time I go in the car I expect to see some weird behaviour by drivers. What used to be a once a year type event is now an every-single-trip event.
No wonder car insurance is going up. #covid #baddriving

Anyone noticed more bad/aggressive driving? People overtaking when you’re doing the speed limit. Not indicating. Going really fast in slow areas like car parks.

Yesterday a car following me moved into the left hand lane approaching a roundabout -to turn right (as I was doing) just so they could get in front of me!
#baddriving #covid

Anyone noticed more bad/aggressive driving? People overtaking when you’re doing the speed limit. Not indicating. Going really fast in slow areas like car parks.

Yesterday a car following me moved into the left hand lane approaching a roundabout -to turn right (as I was doing) just so they could get in front of me!
#baddriving #covid

Are drivers in #Singapore inconsiderate? Yes say observers
"biggest pet peeves incl #drivers recklessly cutting lanes & queues, inattentive cruis'g, & a lack of basic #courtesy – not giving way, not conveying gratitude when others give way, & not apologising for inconsiderate actions.. Observers said the #baddriving habits stem fr a culture of “always rushing” tt many Singaporeans follow.. always rushing, always competing… mindset & behavioural culture need to be changed"
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/traffic-accidents-singaporeans-bad-drivers-road-etiquette-culture-deep-dive-podcast-4337661

On my 7km ride home just now, I saw two driver's-seat occupiers holding phones in both hands and texting while their cars drove along the road without a driver 🤦‍♂️ 😠
#BadDriving
#NZ

On my 7km ride home just now, I saw two driver's-seat occupiers holding phones in both hands and texting while their cars drove along the road without a driver 🤦‍♂️ 😠
#BadDriving
#NZ

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #337: Oedipus' road rage.
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#oedipus #roadrage #baddriving #greekmythology #tragedy #prophecy #thebes #oedipusrex #murder #crime #wtf #funfacts #facts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #337: Oedipus' road rage.
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#oedipus #roadrage #baddriving #greekmythology #tragedy #prophecy #thebes #oedipusrex #murder #crime #wtf #funfacts #facts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

"What the f**k you riding your bike there for?" https://youtu.be/wdtE9HBOCj0?si=lGNGA6kghesZ-izm

#cycling #coventry #baddriving #mgif

"What the f**k you riding your bike there for?" https://youtu.be/wdtE9HBOCj0?si=lGNGA6kghesZ-izm

#cycling #coventry #baddriving #mgif

'some senior Garda officers believe roads policing is “damaging to the [Garda’s] relationship with the local community”.' A man who planned a full and loving life with Gabrielle, his beloved girlfriend, has seen the result #CyclistDeaths #BadDriving #BadPolicing #Ireland https://www.irishtimes.com/transport/2023/11/11/cycling-deaths-on-the-roads-i-was-searching-for-her-and-then-i-found-her-in-the-ditch/
We really need a *separate* *independent* Roads Policing force @OisinOConnor @ccferrie @clickhere

'some senior Garda officers believe roads policing is “damaging to the [Garda’s] relationship with the local community”.' A man who planned a full and loving life with Gabrielle, his beloved girlfriend, has seen the result #CyclistDeaths #BadDriving #BadPolicing #Ireland https://www.irishtimes.com/transport/2023/11/11/cycling-deaths-on-the-roads-i-was-searching-for-her-and-then-i-found-her-in-the-ditch/
We really need a *separate* *independent* Roads Policing force @OisinOConnor @ccferrie @clickhere

Stupid is as stupid does. Prius driven onto the CalTrain tracks at Churchill and Alma, Palo Alto, CA as I was biking home Saturday. I let out a louder than intended expletive and the responding Palo Alto police officer answered with a "Yep" lol #darwinaward #prius #stupid #baddriving

Stupid is as stupid does. Prius driven onto the CalTrain tracks at Churchill and Alma, Palo Alto, CA as I was biking home Saturday. I let out a louder than intended expletive and the responding Palo Alto police officer answered with a "Yep" lol #darwinaward #prius #stupid #baddriving

Alright nerds, today I’m going to tell you about how video games probably saved someone’s life this weekend.

Specs that matter: I have a full size SUV at 6000lbs+ loaded, with another 3500lbs of RV trailer behind me. I’m towing less than half my rated capacity and I have properly configured modern load balancers (load lifters), robust anti-sway, and a brake controller for the trailer brakes.

I’m on a Sonoma highway, 55 posted, doing an easy 55 and enjoying the fact the coast isn’t 100&death degrees. Coming down a hill making a long sweeping left turn I see a car at a cross street. I take my foot off the gas because there is always a chance they do something stupid and I want to be ready.

Sure enough, they do something stupid, they start to roll. At this point they are within my stopping distance but if they accelerate I’ll be fine. So I go on the brakes and start decel.

Then things go from stupid to “I have a death wish” because they weren’t joining traffic. They were making an unprotected left. Right in front of me. I now STAND on the brakes. If they get their foot in I should be able to buy enough time that I don’t hit them.

Mastodonians, it is at this point they decide “today is a good day to die” and they stop. Blocking my ENTIRE LANE. Because the driver finally saw me and went full deer in the headlights.

This, this is where video games save the day. I have logged hundreds of hours playing rally and racing games. I have a sim wheel and pedals. As soon as I saw them stop my brain just fucking autopiloted. To the right of their car I can see nothing but trees, to the left I can see road and no cars. I know I can’t stop in time.

So I lift off the brakes and tighten my existing left turn. Across the center line, onto the LEFT FUCKING SHOULDER to clear the deathwish driver. All 38’ of my car and trailer flash in front of their vehicle.

Thankfully it’s a nice long left of road so I have room to catch the trailer weight and prevent it from trying to wheelie. I can hear both the trailer wheels and my rear wheels screaming in complaint about this.

The two cars behind me had time to get on their brakes and I assume deathwish got out of the road because they didn’t hit them.

I hit my flashers and pull over to the side of the road processing the physical effects of all my adrenaline going off like a NOS shot into my blood. Then give my car and trailer a full safety check.

Fucking look both ways before turning into traffic, and if you have to do something stupid at least COMMIT TO IT.

Tl;Dr I pulled a moose test while towing my RV because someone wasn’t paying attention and if the road hadn’t been a turn I would have plowed almost 10,000lbs into them at near 50mph directly into their driver door because I had no other choice.

Stay safe out there, play more video games.

#towing #rv #rvs #baddrivers #baddriving #racinggame #rally

Alright nerds, today I’m going to tell you about how video games probably saved someone’s life this weekend.

Specs that matter: I have a full size SUV at 6000lbs+ loaded, with another 3500lbs of RV trailer behind me. I’m towing less than half my rated capacity and I have properly configured modern load balancers (load lifters), robust anti-sway, and a brake controller for the trailer brakes.

I’m on a Sonoma highway, 55 posted, doing an easy 55 and enjoying the fact the coast isn’t 100&death degrees. Coming down a hill making a long sweeping left turn I see a car at a cross street. I take my foot off the gas because there is always a chance they do something stupid and I want to be ready.

Sure enough, they do something stupid, they start to roll. At this point they are within my stopping distance but if they accelerate I’ll be fine. So I go on the brakes and start decel.

Then things go from stupid to “I have a death wish” because they weren’t joining traffic. They were making an unprotected left. Right in front of me. I now STAND on the brakes. If they get their foot in I should be able to buy enough time that I don’t hit them.

Mastodonians, it is at this point they decide “today is a good day to die” and they stop. Blocking my ENTIRE LANE. Because the driver finally saw me and went full deer in the headlights.

This, this is where video games save the day. I have logged hundreds of hours playing rally and racing games. I have a sim wheel and pedals. As soon as I saw them stop my brain just fucking autopiloted. To the right of their car I can see nothing but trees, to the left I can see road and no cars. I know I can’t stop in time.

So I lift off the brakes and tighten my existing left turn. Across the center line, onto the LEFT FUCKING SHOULDER to clear the deathwish driver. All 38’ of my car and trailer flash in front of their vehicle.

Thankfully it’s a nice long left of road so I have room to catch the trailer weight and prevent it from trying to wheelie. I can hear both the trailer wheels and my rear wheels screaming in complaint about this.

The two cars behind me had time to get on their brakes and I assume deathwish got out of the road because they didn’t hit them.

I hit my flashers and pull over to the side of the road processing the physical effects of all my adrenaline going off like a NOS shot into my blood. Then give my car and trailer a full safety check.

Fucking look both ways before turning into traffic, and if you have to do something stupid at least COMMIT TO IT.

Tl;Dr I pulled a moose test while towing my RV because someone wasn’t paying attention and if the road hadn’t been a turn I would have plowed almost 10,000lbs into them at near 50mph directly into their driver door because I had no other choice.

Stay safe out there, play more video games.

#towing #rv #rvs #baddrivers #baddriving #racinggame #rally

A car driver (without registration) ran a red light "at speed" and hit a 10-year-old cyclist, knocking her over the windscreen and "through the air". The driver then immediately drove off, abandoning the car a bit later, and running away.

Amazingly, in Bolton Crown Court, a £1600 fine and 12-month driving ban was considered enough.
https://road.cc/content/news/hit-and-run-driver-avoids-jail-child-cyclist-collision-301707
#cycling #baddriving #uk #bike #car

Only a car driver would be treated like this in court, as the first commentator notes:

A car driver (without registration) ran a red light "at speed" and hit a 10-year-old cyclist, knocking her over the windscreen and "through the air". The driver then immediately drove off, abandoning the car a bit later, and running away.

Amazingly, in Bolton Crown Court, a £1600 fine and 12-month driving ban was considered enough.
https://road.cc/content/news/hit-and-run-driver-avoids-jail-child-cyclist-collision-301707
#cycling #baddriving #uk #bike #car

Only a car driver would be treated like this in court, as the first commentator notes:

The new #TopGun movie, or #IronEagle...

You'd think it would be a hard decision, but nope. Iron Eagle it is.

#LateNight #80s #Movie with #RayBans #BadActing and #BadDriving - #FuckingA

Global News BC: Dangerous pass on Westside Road caught on dashcam https://globalnews.ca/news/9644580/dangerous-pass-okanagan-westside-road/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DangerousDriving #centralokanagan #DangerousPass #WestsideRoad #WestKelowna #baddriving #Okanagan #Traffic

Global News BC: Dangerous pass on Westside Road caught on dashcam https://globalnews.ca/news/9644580/dangerous-pass-okanagan-westside-road/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #DangerousDriving #centralokanagan #DangerousPass #WestsideRoad #WestKelowna #baddriving #Okanagan #Traffic

Roads are getting bad and will likely get worse as more ice starts to build. Seems like a black ice kind of an afternoon. So all of the bad CT drivers who are bad in good weather will be exponentially worse because they’ll be freaking out at the sight of snow flurries. New England has forgotten how to ‘winter’.

#weather #roads #ice #baddriving #Connecticut #NewEngland #snow #Winter #driving #becarefuloutthere

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #260: Prawo Jazdy.
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#prawojazdy #police #ireland #polish #ignobel #ignobelprize #garda #gardasiochana irishpolice #racism #casualracism #baddriving #baddrivers #funfacts #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselsssfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #260: Prawo Jazdy.
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#prawojazdy #police #ireland #polish #ignobel #ignobelprize #garda #gardasiochana irishpolice #racism #casualracism #baddriving #baddrivers #funfacts #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselsssfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

This car liked travelling incredibly close to the centre line in the face of oncoming traffic.

When there was no oncoming traffic it liked travelling on the other side of the centreline.

#BadDriving

I must have missed the memo about today being “Let Your Blind Centenarian Relation Drive To Church In Their Massive Mercedes Day” 🚗🤷‍♂️

#driving #baddriving #road #roads