{"id":4412,"date":"2014-09-15T07:46:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T21:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=4412"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:20:03","slug":"bad-driving-habits-that-press-your-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/driving\/bad-driving-habits-that-press-your-buttons\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Driving Habits That Press Your Buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post, I discussed road rage and how to avoid it.\u00a0 Now, in any discussion of road rage, there are two sides to the story, if not more.\u00a0 For nearly every incident of road rage (but not all of them), there has probably been a bad driving habit that has triggered it.<\/p>\n

Some things really press other people\u2019s buttons more than others.\u00a0 The ultimate way to avoid road rage, therefore, is to avoid these bad habits.\u00a0 Recently, I came across a survey from the UK that listed the ten most annoying driving habits that get other drivers steaming hot under the collar.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure how many of these ones are just as annoying here Down Under but most of them will be.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s confession time. How many of these bad habits, presented in ascending order of annoyance, have you been guilty of?<\/p>\n

10 Red light jumping.<\/b> This either refers to that person who believes that the orange light means \u201cspeed up so you can get to the other side before the light turns red\u201d or the person who knows that the light is going to turn green any second now and starts inching forward while the opposing light is still orange. Or else it\u2019s both of these habits.\u00a0 Can anyone else see the major crash in the making here?<\/p>\n

9 Being slow at traffic lights.<\/b>\u00a0 This is the reverse of the person who inches forward before the light changes. This person has been quietly chilling out at the traffic lights while waiting for the green light and is now away with the pixies. \u00a0Hopefully, they haven\u2019t been trying to check their phone while waiting.\u00a0 The honk of a horn behind them is what jerks them back into the real world in a flurry of acceleration and gear changing.<\/p>\n

\"driver<\/a>8 Hesitant or tentative driving.<\/b>\u00a0 OK, this is my bad habit, so I\u2019m more likely to forgive it in others.\u00a0 Put it down to years of being a cyclist and to downsizing from my responsive automatic big engined Ford Falcon <\/a>to a smaller engined and rather elderly manual Nissan<\/a> ute that is a bit slower getting off the mark.\u00a0 Hesitation is also a hallmark of half the people on L and P plates (the other half are way overconfident).\u00a0 Getting angry at nervous drivers, yelling abuse at them and the like is only going to make them more nervous.\u00a0 This strikes me as a situation where patience is called for \u2013 but I\u2019m biased!<\/p>\n

7 Overtaking on the left.<\/b>\u00a0 In most cases, this is illegal, unless there are multiple lanes (e.g. on a one-way street, in places where there are \u201cvehicles with more than one passenger\u201d lanes or bike lanes).\u00a0 It does happen when there is someone driving a snail in the fast lane on the right.<\/p>\n

\"brakelight\"<\/a>6 Sudden braking, especially at traffic lights.<\/b>\u00a0 This usually gives the driver behind the heebie-jeebies.\u00a0 However, I can\u2019t help viewing this \u201cbad habit\u201d in the context of Habit 10 and Habit 2.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, we all know that there are situations where sudden braking has to be done \u2013 and sometimes, the car can do it for us.\u00a0 If someone brakes suddenly at the traffic lights, give them the benefit of the doubt: they might be able to see a fire engine with lights and sirens going coming that you can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

5 Using the flush median as an extra driving lane.<\/b>\u00a0 OK, if you need to turn right and there\u2019s a flush median provided, you need to go there.\u00a0 But if you\u2019re just using it to overtake other drivers\u2026 don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

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4 Dangerous overtaking.<\/b>\u00a0 You know the person \u2013 the one that overtakes you and is about to overtake the car in front of you but then realises that there\u2019s a B-train coming the other way so he\/she cuts in between you and the car in front of you, forcing you to bang on the brakes to avoid rear-ending them.<\/p>\n

3 Not indicating or indicating incorrectly.<\/b>\u00a0 This would actually be at the top of my list and is the reason why I\u2019m tentative at roundabouts \u2013 you never know if that nut indicating left at the roundabout is actually going to go straight through or if the person who looks like they\u2019re coming straight through in the opposite direction to you is going to turn right at the last moment.<\/p>\n

2 Tailgating.<\/b>\u00a0 The flip side of Habit 6 and possibly Habit 7.\u00a0 Intimidates and annoys people, and if they have to bang on the brakes because a cat runs across the road, you\u2019re going to ram them and the insurance\u00a0company will probably consider you to be at fault.<\/p>\n

1 Texting while driving.<\/b> You may think that texting while driving only affects one person, but it\u2019s usually the cause of people failing to look before they enter an intersection, indicating late (or not at all) or being slow at the green lights.<\/p>\n

\"distraction\"<\/p>\n

So did this UK survey miss anything?\u00a0 What presses your buttons?<\/p>\n

Happy driving,<\/p>\n

Megan<\/p>\n

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