[edit] ASSHOLE DRIVERS

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What a sh*tty thing to do in response to a comment taken out of context.

I don't think so, the last thread was locked...
no offence intended or though granted this is quite stupid..

I remember that smash down country where the driver and paseengers of the car that was at fault (they were asian, decide for yourself if that matters) sat on the side of the road texting their friends and parents while the people in the other car lay dying. They didn't even call an ambulance.
I think they were just assholes,.... in fact delete this topic now, this is embarrassing

Perhaps they could just change the name to "ASSHOLE DRIVERS".

That is some pretty cold blooded sh*t. Its a shame there's no legal duty to try and help people in that kind of situation.

i wish I could change the topic title to that, I just didn't think at the time...

Asshole driver: sickness beneficiary (not asian) who, while openeing a bottle of coke with both hands, killed a young women about to cross the road.
At the trial this person hurled abuse at the parents, as she was convicted of manslaughter

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No worries - understood.

You wish these people would rather just kill themselves on the road, rather than other people. Unfortunately it isn't that simple.

Identifying race with this lack of concern for others lives is way of targetting -some quite justified - hatred for these sorts of people. It lets individuals off the hook, unless you could argue, that as a culture, 'asians' don't have as much respect for life, at least on the road. (Maybe some of the japanese , they can be really racist, and funnily enough more towards the chinese than us)

//That is some pretty cold blooded sh*t. Its a shame there's no legal duty to try and help people in that kind of situation.

From the Official New Zealand Road Code 2005: Driver Responsibility / Crashes / reporting a crash . . .

“If you are involved in a crash while driving and you are not badly injured, the first thing you must do is stop and check to see if anyone is hurt.
If someone is hurt, you must tell a police officer as soon as possible, and no later than 24 hours after the crash.
If no one is hurt, you must give your name and address (and the name and address of the owner of the vehicle you are driving) as soon as possible but no later than 48 hours after the crash to:
*the owner or driver of any other vehicle that has been damaged
*the owner of any property that has been damaged
If you can't find these owners, you must tell a police officer as soon as possible and no later than 60 hours after the crash.
If your vehicle is insured, tell your insurance company as soon as possible after the”

It’s a bit vague, but in regards to the 1st sentence would this constitute as legal duty?

also not to defend anyone who would not call an ambulance . . . but shock is a mutha fucka of a thing

bugger, the Asians............. what about old people?
good god and they are about to make it easier for them to carry on driving................ Twice yes that is 2 times in the last 24 hours i have been mere cms away from serious accidents cause directly by the shocking driving habits of the elderly

they go slow,..really slow, how is that dangerous? It's only dangerous because bastards in SUVs want to shave 5 mintues off their travel time, and won't to pass safely.

it's not just the slowness though - there's the whole loss of physical co-ordination thing going on too. My sister just about got killed when a lovely old lady (who only ever used her car for popping down to the shops at 20km/h and was thus never a threat to anyone on the road) forgot which peddle was which, accelerated through the window of the shop, and pinned my sister to the wall. It was only through sheer luck that she didn't lose her legs (or worse).

Personally I reckon everyone should be re-tested every 10 years until they're 50, every 5 years until you're 70, and then every 2 or 3 years after that. Or something.

Not every oldie is slow .. a few years ago the house across the road from work was being done up, and the builders used to stop everytime they saw my boss ( who's in his late 70's ) backing out of our gate, he had an old rolls royce think it was a 7 litre engine, he'd slowly back out, get the car facing the right way then floor it, the car would shoot forward with and unusually loud roar which is someting a rolls isn't really known for, he'd be gone in a flash, he gave me a lift once this time he had a Bentley another large car and he drove quiet safely though I did panic alittle when he decided to change lanes and the car beside us decided not to move so we just kept going into the lane till he backed off .. it was in central London so no real speed was involved .. he also holds the record for knocking our gate off it's track, to be fair it was narrow before being widened, and he was always sorry about it, but we'd see him pull up to the gate on the camera and start opening it ( Electric gate )and before it was fully opened he'd creep forward abit, just enough to catch the front bumper on it and knock it off, it would take 3 or 4 of us to lift it back on track ..!! he's much better now it's wider .. I could tell you a couple more stories I've been told but in fairness to him and the other oldies I won't ...

the fact that the oldies may drive slow doesn't make it any safer if they are morons, there was an elderly lady around where I used to live that drove her mobility scooter thing on the road at a max speed of 5km, fine maybe if this was a straight flat road where you could see her a mile away, but in wellys its all hills and corners, it was a terrifying experience to come around a bend and to end up right on top of her . . . nearly had a few heart attacks because of this old hag . . . pretty much everyone in the neighbourhood had spoken to her trying to explain just how dangerous it was and to get her to use the footpath, but she was a moron and kept on using the thing on the road, she just figured that as her scooter had a motor it was a road vehicle, scary stuff and there was never any excessive speed involved.

i say we take all the bad drivers off the road for good.

wow, when I first saw this topic it was titled one of dantheman's pet hates...
now...well, it sounds like the other demographic dantheman loves to hate!

Everyone (who drives) is an arsehole driver at some stage, yes even you !!!
It's the drivers who are consistantly arseholes that are the problem, but wadda'ya gonna do, they're arseholes??

what annoys me more are the arsehole cyclists - the ones that cycle in the middle of the road, the ones who cycle side by side taking up the road, and the ones who cycle on the road when there is a cycle lane right next to them . . . arseholes!!

I used to cycle from mt wellington to orakei for a while, nad you don't know fear until your on a bike with two tonne trucks hurtling past barely missing you. Then there's the people who toot when they go past (I'm well to the left) just to see if they can make you fall. Assholes

This morning I had my own stereotypical prejudices confirmed when I witnessed not one, nor two, but three separate incidents of either arrogant and/or dangerous driving by BMW drivers.

(1) - Driving through Happy Valley towards town, BMW driver #1, having tail-gated me from Owhiro Bay, overtakes me in a 70k zone (I was doing 70), barely avoiding oncoming traffic in his by swerving in front of me. We were in a convoy of about 10 cars, so for his efforts he gained ... a car length.

(2) - Lambton Quay - BMW driver #2 stops his car in a bus lane, jumps out, and wanders off somewhere, leaving me, several other cars, and a queue of buses with nowhere to go. The sunglass wearing be-suited arsehole returns a couple of minutes later, failing to acknowledge the tooting and hollering coming from the dozens of people he has just held up.

(3) - Customhouse Quay. BMW driver #3 completely ignores a red light, veering between crossing pedestrians as he races to ... the next set of red lights.

BMW - Bloody-Minded Wankers.

When I get my jaguar I'll be the most polite driver ever.

the overtaking to gain a single car length in a cue is something I'll never understand? almost funny when they try to race off and when they come to the next stop (red light etc) you still pull up right behind them

BMW driver are just pissed that they can't afford a decent Merc yet

It Is uncanny the Beemer drivers are such fuckwits by default - them and SUV drivers with small cocks or insecure women who wish they had cocks.

the trend these days, is to leave a giant gap between you and the car infront when stopped at traffic lights or well any intersection for that matter , has anyone else noticed this??

you leave a car sized gap between you and the car in front, sometimes more, now I dont mind this IF you close this gap up when the lights turn green and its you turn to start moving away frrom the lights BUT these people dont do this, they then wait to 2 second rule and the gap is huge and before you know it the lights are orange turning red again and only 3 cars have gotten through the intersection, and what once took one change of lights to get 10 cars through now takes 2 or if you unlucky even 3 changes,

the lights at the intersection comming from bucklands Beach ropad heading on to either avimore drive or turning left on to the pakutranga highway is a great place to observe this, the cars sometimes get backed up so far because of these gaps that it takes an eternity to get through the lights but not only that the left hand lane for the left hand turn on to the higway gets blocked off too,

Can someone please explain why people insist on leaving these stupidly huge gaps??? are the afraid of getting to close to the car in front because its gona revderse back on to them or what???

This must be an Auckland thing - it's not something that seems to happen in Wellington (where leaving a gap - especially on some of the steeper hills - would probably a sensible idea - I've seen two hill starts gone awry that have resulted in reverse fender-benders).

Maybe their spatial sense is so terrible that they can't tell where the end of their car actually ends?

you are supposed to be able to see the bottom of the back tyres on the car in front of you when stopped on the road behind them . . .

//Maybe their spatial sense is so terrible that they can't tell where the end of their car actually ends?

It's hard though if you're used to driving a van and you switch to a car or vice versa, because the distance in front of your car is so different.

///you are supposed to be able to see the bottom of the back tyres on the car in front of you when stopped on the road behind them . . .

are you supposed to be able to see the bottoms of the tyres of the car 3 cars in front of you?
yes leaving a gap is fine, but its the gigantic size of the gap is the thing, honestly the size of the gap between the car in front of me and the one in front of them was so huge I could have pulled out and parked in between them

So who ends up being an arsehole driver just to annoy another arsehole driver . . . I have to admit I'm shocking at this . . . if someone starts tailgating me, man I'll just slow right down, or if someone pulls out right in front of me where they shouldn't, instead of going for the horn (cause I alway hit the wrong part of the steering wheel anyway) I'll line em' up and try to give them a wee bit of a fright . . . bad I know but I'm an arsehole . . .

hahaha yes I do it too

you arsehole

guilty as charged. but, you know, they started it.

hahaha this is always way more fun when driving my older car around, its all beat up anyway and I don't really care too much about it . . . and that person in their new beamer whos just done a sneaky in front of me at the round-a-bout knows I don't give a fuck crashing my peice of shit . . . Mwahahaharr

merging i think is one of the majors especailly in auckland

and talking about pulling out in front of people

me and my mate were on our way down to Gisborne for New years, travelling at around 100-120, some lady sees us coming pulls out in front of us we go around her in the end, no damage done...

But the thing that made this so stupid is, there were no cars behind us, she must have known she couldnt get up to our speed in 100-200 meteres there were before we reached her, and yet she still pulled out, it was just stupid, and because we went around her and passed her she ended up in the same place as she would have been if she had waited that extra 5 seconds for us to go passed and there wouldnt have been the chance for an accident,

things like that really get to me because they are just stupid, and un needed,

shouldn't have been speeding dantheman

haha lug head i cant say i have actaully ever endangerd my own car to get at someone, but the horn gets a blast , which is almost embaressing because my horn sounds so stupid, almost like the road runners meep meep

it was an open road lughead 100 speed limit,

yeah thats right not 100-120 ?!?

// Has anyone seen a road marking that looks like this /////////// ?

I saw a lot of them in Sydney. When I asked, my driver said it was probably to do with terrorism, but then he is known for his sense of humour

Yeah I agree Lug im pretty good when it comes to merging now, more than I used to be, I do tend to speed in places, but only on roads I am confortable with, but I dont speed when I got passengers in the car though and my friends have commented on this also " you dont like driving fast do you?" they say, I reply " only when I'm by myself" and even then its only like 60 on roads that really should be 60 anyways and no faster than anyone else on the roads, BUT it's still above 50 so its speeding still i guess

the thing with speeding dan is that although you maybe a good confident driver who knows the road like the back of your hand, you still don't ever know what that driver ahead or the kids on the footpath will do in the next second, its all about maximizing reaction time.
I get a bit ancy about speed cause I've been in a major accident where I was hit by a speeding driver, he was ONLY going 125km but both cars were written off, I had slowed down as had the car in front of me for another car that was crossing the road and he came behind me and wasn't able to stop, if he had been travelling at 100km as the front car and myself had been it would have been no problem, we were lucky that everyone walked away because of air bags etc, but we were all pretty banged up all for an extra 25km per hour

yeah, Im pretty good about it, and keep to a safe speed in residential areas,

I hope you get caught dan, I really do, you're willing to put other peoples lives at risk cause of your ego. NZ is full of good drivers who kill people and I couldn't give a shit about your right to speed....

aah easy rdor where the fuck did you get that shit from??
im not gona get caught coz I dont speed, and when i drive im not putting ANYONE else at risk and I dont have an ego either so what the fuck are you going on about ?

ah nothing really, just as much directed at cunts who do speed. like christian fundamentalists, don't ever get in a car with one driving, it's the only fun they can have, and they go crazy behind the wheel.

meh wasnt me driving so I wasnt speeding, come on 100 when theres not a car insight (except for the the stupid lady who wants to pull out in front of you), it could be worse we could have been doing 140

I'm a terrible driver, fighting off road rage at every intersection...I find the best way to combat road rage is to make a conscious effort to be extra courteous to other drivers where possible, it's like an elixir for road rage when someone gives you a wave of thanks or smiles.
Either that or just pull out the beretta from the glove compartment and start taking pot shots at the window you can see the "baby on board" sticker in.

//I find the best way to combat road rage is to make a conscious effort to be extra courteous to other drivers where possible,

yeah I've found I've mellowed with age, I'm definatly way more patient on the road now than when I was younger, I don't tend to rush everywhere, and don't mind waiting or letting people in, came to the realisation that its better to get to your destination late than not at all

I have never quiet understood those "baby on board" signs

Do they expect that you wont care if the pull out in front of you or if they are doing 45 in a 60 zone just because they have that sign,

Has anyone seen a road marking that looks like this /////////// ? I saw one on Saturday comming back from Coxs Park and have no idea what it means...I did do a search on it but didnt find anything