Another Pointless Road Rage Incident
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Sometimes road rage can boil up from absolutely nothing, and this was certainly the case in this incident.
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All that nonsense, and he ends up behind the Fiat 500 where he started.
@TheMrDavidSir
That's generally the way it plays out.
People make too many decisions based on raging hormones rather than brain cells (me included).
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Brilliant 🙏🏽 Namesteh
Nearly crashing into it!
So funny... twat gained nothing ..
@@PercivalBlakeney wholesome very true think 🤔 first S
Why do road ragers always move from "I'm in a hurry" to "I have all the time in the world to hold you up and tell you off" so quickly?
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Always leave plenty of extra time for your journey. You'll be amazed how less stressed you'll be.
So true!
Yes I agree 100 %.When you're driving for your job I guess workload doesn't allow for this, sadly.
@@zimbazacks1744
Five minutes late in this World, is a whole lot more productive than five minutes early into the next.
Easier said than done mind, but always worth knowing.
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@@zimbazacks1744 If you are driving for your job. Then maybe you should be extra careful not to do anything that'll get points on your license.
These kind of pond life should be realistic with their journey times.
You’re not wrong there Tom I’m one of them weirdos who would rather be an hour early than a minute late. Lack of punctuality is a pet peeve of mine and I think people who are always late are arrogant self important cunts who seem to think their time is more important than everyone else’s. I used to have my own business until I had an accident and was paralysed I had in their contract if they were more than 15 mins late don’t bother turning up that day and lose a days pay.
Makes me think that some sort of assessment of how easily triggered you can get should form part of the driving test.
This wouldn’t work. Usually the people being triggered so easily are the more experienced drivers with years of miles under their belt. New drivers, just past their test, are just happy to be driving, at first. But you build up intolerances to certain actions, eventually you grow to hate those things when they happen often enough.
Clearly the two involved here are the case too. A 4*4 driver is not a new driver and is probably similar to the luxury German car driver. Thinks they have arrived at the apex of car ownership and are better than others on the road. The white van driver is again another experienced driver with many miles on the clock. Road intolerances are often accelerated when you spend more time on the road for a job.
So a test to check for how easily triggered one would become by other road users as part of the driving test would be easily passed by all. After driving for 10 or 20 years I suspect such a test, if it could be devised, would be failed by many!
It kind of is. If you show aggression, ranting or shouting etc, they can give you minor faults. If you get enough minors for the same thing they become a fail.
Are you mad. Just because Ile shoot you in the foot with a Hilti nail gun when you try to merge instead of turning left at the navigator in the swan. Has nothing to do with my driving ability.
@James Stewart points on their licence for having a bad day? Taking it a bit too far there mate. Everyone makes mistakes, nobody can say with honesty that they haven't lost their temper at least once in their life. As long as nobody gets physically hurt, life goes on.
@Sequor0830 spoken like a true leftist. Lmao.
Everyone is always in a rush to queue at the next set of lights 🚦
It's the British way.
I see this comment a lot, including by Ashley if I remember rightly, but I have been overtaken in a 30 zone by someone exceeding the limit , to see them get through the next set of lights & then I don't....the injustice of it all.
@@zimbazacks1744 there’s no injustice in driving in sensible manner
Though the queues at lights would be lesser if people didn't pull away so slowly at them. Quite often, I see someone delaying, and several vehicles fewer get through on the green than should be able to. The 4x4 was the bigger dick here, but the van holding people up on green contributes to queues.
@@collinslfc It's the British way... keeping it trashy
Little blue Fiat was brave. I have rarely met a driver of a crew-cab pick-up that wasn't a total knob.
Wouldn't be surprised if he didn't have a go at the Fiat driver at those lights.
half the vehicles in Australia are twin cab utes...
@@MrPomdownunder Yes and?
Yeh, they're pretty much built for knobs.
Tragically, the top five best selling vehicles in NZ last year were _all_ double-cab utes. Apparently the new name 'wanker tank'!
I'll respond to this slowness by going slower but in front of the guy whos driving slowly... so he'll be driving slowly.. I see.. genius.
Thats the thing, If im in a genuine rush and I get annoyed at someone going slowly, the last thing I would do is then slow down in front of them, it serves no purpose.
See it all the time as a cyclist. People are too impatient to wait a few seconds to overtake the cyclist safely, but have all the time in the world to try and start a fight.
And it's astonishing how often you pass them again too!
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Ironic that you call yourself the "angry" cyclist.
"Angry Cyclist" always someone else's fault right?
I know exactly what you mean happens far often.
We hear you ✌🏽💚✊🏽
I've said it many times on youtube, but you CANNOT control what other people do, you can only control yourself.
The 4x4 driver is an impatient idiot. I see people like that all the time. Best thing to do, don’t react let them go.
They both idiots - as stupid as each other
Exactly. Just drive safe and be vigilant. If someone wants to cut you off, just slow down and let them go.
@@kavishgour3267 I agree, but there have been occasions where I have blocked them out and made them wait, which has worked in both directions, made it flare worse, or made them see the stupidity of their actions
@@Keithbarber agree, escalating it did nothing. Pointless
Agree there. Pointlessly undertook and went in the wrong of the roundabout to then cut across to go around. I know Ashley is against this but ive gotten into the habit of reporting bad drivers to the met police. Some people purposely drive in a silly way like this and they need to get a good fine for them to understand
Wow, and I thought you had to be an adult to get a driving license.
@Plex
In the end, all of us really are just children in grown up skins.
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No to be a knobhead is what's required
@mel grant
I'd probably best hand my licence back now then.
No seriously...
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@@PercivalBlakeney 😊😊
@@melgrant7404
Thanks Mel. 😋
He wasn't saying: "You should have been in lane one." But, given his later lane change: "I shouldn't be in lane one."
Going back to the hand signals when the indicators fail. :)
Was giving him the middle finger
@@johnmitchell2269 thats the joke
@@johnmitchell2269 Jesus Christ! Really???
Who thinks the 4x4 driver would probably take exception to the fiat beeping him at the end of the clip, for the numpty to start again.
Given the way he cut across from lane one to follow the Fiat, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was because he did take exception.
That's ridiculous. How can they be so easily triggered?! There must've been something else prior to the slow start? Maybe they've seen them on a mobile? I swear driving is so bad for some people's mental states. Far too quick to violence and aggression.
Those were'nt hand gestures, it was a naked pupped show.
The bigger the car the bigger the knobhead, 'you're driving too slow and I'm in a rush', procedes to cut in and drive slow, happens all the time, and they drive even slower if you pip at them when they cut you off, I just laugh.
To be honest I didn't see anything particularly surprising in that clip. The Chelsea tractor driver expects priority in every situation and white van driver reacts just as you'd expect one to.
Nicely done Ashley, wise words as always. The 'lane 1' comment made me laugh out loud!
2:35 “Lane one”😭😂🤣🤣🤣😅
I'm afraid this was just the warming up. The real road rage wil happen out of sight between the 4x4 and the blue Fiat.....
I wondered same total idiot in 4x4 will have to show he’s big man 🙈
I get this happen to me all the time being a bus driver. The shocking state of drivers these days you wonder how they still have a license. I just smile and wave at them and get on with my day, no point making a knobhead ruin your day.
Then I hope you can laugh at this: I was once honked at by a bus driver because I was yielding to a pedestrian in a crossing. Let the irony soak in.
@@philipabelanet5476 I don’t see the irony, maybe you haven’t understood the reason he honked at you, maybe you cut him up and braked suddenly be you seen the pedestrian, let that sink in. ... you see. I can also spin it to fit my narrative
@James Stewart not aggressive at all.. I’m just simply pointing out anyone can play the victim, maybe the bus driver was driving like an idiot... I can only speak for myself that on a daily basis I have to put up with bad drivers who undertake/overtake, cut me up, turn without indicating. As I said I just smile and wave no point moaning about it.
@@philipabelanet5476 Another bus driver here wading in.
A few years ago I was stopping for a girl about to cross an uncontrolled zebra crossing on a dual carriageway. Saw the Audi in my offside mirror approaching from behind at around 30mph with no intention of slowing so leant on the horn for a good 3 seconds to warn the girl who had already started to cross. The girl stopped walking and turned to give me the 🖕 which saved her life, as she then continued walking across as the Audi went blasting past and missed her by an inch!
Maybe the bus driver could see something that you couldn't.
Thanks Ashley, I loved the comments 'I have been guilty of this myself' and 'look how pathetic this looks' were both excellent and have helped change my behaviour. Yes, I have also driven and become angry with other drivers. I don't think I'm at a point yet where I won't ever get triggered but every time I resist the trigger effect from another driver is now a moment of quiet, zen-like joy. I am less stressed (and cause less stress to others), my driving is MUCH safer and driving to avoid conflict or accidents and encourage politeness is a skill I wish to constantly improve and hopefully, demonstrate to others.
As a CPC holder I have to constantly remind myself (with varying degrees of failure)... a good attitude compensates for poor skills, far better than good skills compensate for a poor attitude (and *everyone* genuinely believes that they've got the skills).
"If I'm in the right, I can afford to keep my temper; if I'm in the wrong, I can't afford to lose it." - Gandhi.
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... and that cut across two lanes, to continue around the roundabout (2:53)... Far key knell!!... even I drive better than that. 😵
I was driving in a motorway once doing 70mph. I was in the middle lane as the left lane was busy with Lorries. I was approaching another lorry so i decided i will overtake. I looked at my mirrors, there was a white van coming on the right most lane, i can see a gap though (i was doing 70 mind you) so I signalled and started moving to the right lane, apparently he didn’t like what I did so he beeped at me, i then came back to the middle lane after overtaking. This same van, accelerated (so he’s now doing over 70) so we’d be side by side. He beeped at me for a good 10 secs, i was poker face the whole time, didn’t even bothered to glance his way. That probably pissed him off a evenmore so he accelerated to overtake me. When he was in the middle lane in front of me, he hit the brakes subsequently slowing me down to 50mph, i still didn’t react, i just kept looking at the road ahead and he just drove away. 😅
4x4 driver was a knob plain and simple and we all have the ability to display our inner knob just depends what buttons get pushed lol
About a year ago I was in lane 2 on the M6 and a foreign coach came speeding up behind me, I couldn't change lanes at the time he wanted me to so I stayed in lane 2. The coach driver flashed his lights but I still couldn't move over to lane one, at this point they decided to overtake me in lane 3 and then pull in front of me. I then slowed down to give the coach room and as soon as they realised what I did they slowed down all the way to about 10MPH. I have a 0.8L 52BHP Daewoo Matiz and as it's not the most powerful car I didn't want to risk getting in anyones way by changing to lane 3 I stayed in lane 2 behind the coach and kept as much distance between me and the coach as possible. When the coach driver had enough of me they sped off and did it to a car about 1/4 mile in front of me. There were only the car that was to my left at the time the coach came up behind me and the other car that was bullied by the coach within viewable distance so the only reason I see this coach doing what they did is because they didn't like my car being in lane two for whatever reason
I was coach driver. What you problem? I was trying watch video and light my cigarette. Also drive coach very fast at same time. You no like? In my country this is permitted. I love Manchesters Uniteds.
@@kasimsultonfan 😂😂
‘So I put my window down ... for some free entertainment’ 😂
The 4x4 driver is a disgrace. Only intention the driver has is of getting in front of any vehicle in its way regardless of traffic conditions. This seems pretty typical driving though for that type of vehicle. I am always wary if there is one driving near me. The reaction of the van driver is a bit pathetic but understandable all due to the !diot in the 4x4.
I dont get why people have this mentality, I bet they would jump the queue in a bar.
The words 'pointless' and "chocolate fireguard" spring to mind here. Really nothing to add here as the clip plus analysis says it all.
Stay safe and calm everyone 👍
Fair play to you Ashley, admitting that even you are guilty of feeling frustrated by other road users. Your content has helped me to re-evaluate my own attitudes and behaviours and has helped me to be a safer and calmer driver. Thank you👍
I’ve been guilty of it a few years back but as now I drive a taxi with my information all over it and if someone decided to drive poorly and I reacted they would be the first person to phone my licensing authority claiming victim so I just don’t bother to even partake in any issues anymore..
Hmm yes, the other day I was at a large roundabout and this driver had stopped in the middle for no reason. But, rather than beeping & getting angry I just moved out of his way & left him to it. It was baffling to say the least.
It's amazing how much of a hurry a roadrager is until they can act like a self-abuser and harass someone else. Then they have all of the time in the world. You're correct about how it looks and no one got any further ahead than they would've otherwise.
Ashley: " this is a hazardous, emotionally charged situation, i should keep back and take extra care in case something unexpected or hazardous happens"
Also Ashley: "This will make for a fantastic video"
Hahah
We'll never eradicate these types of drivers until the police / courts / government hand out stronger penalties. Me personally, i'd take away the license of the chap in the 4x4 and never give him the opportunity to re-sit his test. He'll definately do it again, cause those drivers never learn and think the roads belong to them. Maybe next time he won't be so lucky and pick on a much bigger vehicle who's willing to lose a few bits of paint to prove a point or a driver who's angry enough to get out and belt him one.
Funny how pickup trucks feature disproportionately in instances of bad driving. Wonder why?
Sorry to stereotype, but I stay well away from those pick-ups. More often than not they are aggressively driven by angry knuckle draggers.
I don't understand why people ALWAYS want to overtake cars in the 30/50 zone. Is it even worth your while? You're likely just going to be stuck behind lights once you pass anyway. On top of this, you're probably breaking the speed limit to complete the overtake.
I've found your videos very useful in helping me deal with driving incidents calmly. I used to get a bit wound up but now I just assume that something will happen along the way, and concentrate on anticipating when that will be.
It always interests me... these people in a rush to get places, or letting such a tiny thing cause them massive amounts of inconvenience leading to impatience - only for the person who's "in a rush" to then slow down or get out or start moaning - taking time up...
I guess logic is a luxury.
TBH I used to get triggered at the slightest offence when I was driving, a few times even pulling stupid little stunts like the driver of the 4x4. I've since realised, "what's the point?". Best case scenario, you drive away unscathed but pissed off and it puts a spoiler on your day. Worst case, your stupidity and anger causes a crash n then you'll be *really* pissed off
I never thought I'd think this, but the roads would be a far safer place once human emotion is taken out of the driving process.
Autonomous cars are the way forward.
I keep a wide birth of aggressive drivers. These are probably the same people that would start a pub brawl over a spilt pint!
In all honesty, if someone behaves like a p***k when they’re driving, the chances are that they’ll behave like that when they aren’t driving, too.
Life really is too short.
If the Nissan Truck had just “undertaken” and continued accelerating away then fine go for it, but unfortunately it didn’t work out that way...
Hi Ahley, I was looking through some older videos yesterday and stumbled across one of the driving fail ones. As always, I headed to the comments and found a lengthy discussion about someone entering a mini roundabout in front of you. And several people were blaming you 😂. Needless to say I left a comment, and said it was rather concerning that so many people had that opinion. I feel it might be similar to zipper merging, in the sense that far too many really have no clue of the correct way of handling it.
Anyway, you were clearly in the right, and I really still cannot understand what they were arguing about. I thought give way to the right was as well understood as stop at red lights.
Daniel Fay (I believe your name was). I sincerely hope your driving has improved over the last year, although I am rather doubtful.
I suspect some of those commenters are from Australia where the rule is 'give way to vehicles already on the roundabout' and the 'give way to the right' rule is treated as a misconception, even though I think it's just common sense. Unfortunately they seem to think that the rules in their country apply everywhere in the world.
Australia was actually a little earlier to making roundabouts and they already had rules in place to make them work. Until the mid-1970s, the default rule at all intersections was to give way to vehicles approaching from the road to your right. It is still the rule at unmarked crossroads. Roundabouts were no exception.
One problem was that, at the time, a lot of crashes happened because the phrase 'give way' in Australia used to bestow an absolute right of way to the driver with priority. It did not matter if the the driver was travelling too quickly through the intersection or failed to take their own precaution to avoid a crash. The driver who failed to give way was always at fault. There was this attitude: 'since I am on the right (side), I am always in the right'. Victoria was first (1978) to introduce a special roundabout rule where priority is given to those drivers already in the roundabout and approaching from the right. They decided to add the phrase 'already in the roundabout' partly to get rid of this 'righteous' attitude from Australian drivers who were used to the old give way rules.
@@nuntius1933 Certainly. I'm happy for those old rules to go.
These days i usually dont look at these road rage videos any more when i realized that these drivers often behave the same to others outside their cars in society. And if they lack self control outside that car imagine how it gets when they are driving.
When I was young I was this pathetic too on occasion, getting irritated when others were being total assholes on the road. At some point I developed a brain and thought wtf am I doing, people make mistakes, others will not learn their lesson anyways, all I am doing is putting myself at risk over nothing.
Life is much better if you are less mad over meaningless things.
So Sensible of you but when the red mist descends it's not so easy to see reason !!! Yes, i have been Guilty of being stupid :-(
So the 4x4 puts himself into the wrong lane at the final exit and risks causing a collision when he cuts across other traffic. I can just imagine the reaction of his insurance company if they saw the video.
When I see this sutuation I keep well back and well away. If this turns nasty I don`t want any part of it. As I have said before I manage my life to limit stress and frustration so I do not have the embarrassment of being on U tube for the wrong reason.
"... seeing how pathetic it looks...". Bang on mate! Really pathetic - makes me not want to drive with so many sad, angry, idiots on the road 😢
Thanks for the lesson 👍
I never want to annoy on purpose, you don’t have a clue who the other driver is or what they are capable of!
Who taught them to drive? I bet it wasn't you! Thanks for the video.
"ignore the idiots." One of your famous quotes from a blocked junction video, and I follow that mantra now.
The van was ok to exit the roundabout from lane 2, but the Nissan should not have gone around the outside.
Pointless, totally pointless
As much as the 4by 4 driver may been seen as a 🦲 by undertaking. The van driver should have kept up flow of traffic in the first place. And not get triggered by the undertaking 4 by 4 driver. I undertook a taxi once on dual carriageway. It then chased after me for 3 miles to my work. Where I parked up. Got out to walk into work. And the taxi driver stopped beside me to shout his indiscretion to me. All while with a paying customer in the cab.
I triggered someone once by doing something that, as a foreigner, I would've never considered a bad thing. But now I understand why the other party reacted to my driving the way they did as clearly someone like the driver of the 4x4 in the video didn't just want to get somewhere quick (like I did back then), they just wanted to piss someone off.
Oh dear,! That incident could have so easily ended in a collision.
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. Specially for people with ego problems. Not allow other ruin your internal peace. The real test of your nirvana is on the roads
We hear you 🙏🏽 Namesteh
0:50 How do we feel about the Mitsubishi pulling into the cycle lane like that?
Meanwhile in countries with lots of sunshine, low traffic and high levels of vitamin D road rage barely exists
Road rage is rarely about someone worrying about being delayed getting from A to B, its usually about rudeness or aggressiveness that people take exception to, so they've always usually got time to argue about it
What was the outcome?
Well... Right where you started. Stopped at a red light behind the blue fiat. 🤣
I've noticed that pickup drivers are fast becoming the new stereotype. Rarely do I see one not being driven terribly; aggression, tailgating, undertaking, intentionally poor lane discipline, etc. I always think "here we go again" when I see one flying up behind me, and usually I'm right to think so. I don't know what it is about driving a 2-tonne, wheezy, roly-poly truck that makes people feel like King of the Road. I guess you'd need to drive one to know!
I partially blame workload some of these drivers are given.
They're failed HGV drivers.
That's true, it happens to the best of us. Once I was driving in a sprinter for work and there was a guy tailgating me so bad, we would take a turn and he would still be half a car length from my car. I started slowing down I moved over so they could overtake, they never did and just followed me onto the highway. Before getting to the onramp I put on my brakes and held my middle finger out the window for like 7 solid seconds, it felt so good. I'm not proud of it but that guy was an absolute nob-end.
Seemingly triggered by the current standards on British roads - people not paying attention to their surroundings
But yes if it was all about the Nissan being held up for 5 seconds then why go slow after ;)
Both very special people
I would hope that the merc van just said “yeah sorry mate I wasn’t paying attention” but he probably thought he was unnecessarily cut up -
I've never understood drivers who are in a hurry then they still have the time to want to stop their car and fight, I mean where is the mentality?. If people started taking full personal responsibility for their time and plan ahead of time then there would be less road rage. My wife and I were almost killed a few years ago because of an impatient twat. He ended up hitting us head on. Stay safe and stay calm folks.
Respect to you Ashley for admitting you've been guilty of such things. I admit I've also done it. I've got better but sometimes still catch myself starting to get agitated, then remind myself that nothing good ever came out of it. Far more satisfying to drive competently and arrive safe and calm.
Not just in this but so often you see those whose brake lights keep flashing on because they're tailgating and don't have the space to adjust their speed. Really poor driving
When my son was learning and we saw that sort of thing I told him to be courteous, hold back and not interfere - so they could enjoy their accident ininterrupted.
Was sort of thinking that it's a shame that the cops are never around when half these type of incidents occur, but then there ARE dashcams?
I had someone pull out right in front of me and into the path of a police car coming the other way. I couldn't help smiling as I saw them get pulled over in the rest view mirror.
I really like the observation that neither of those two drivers (and possibly others who witnessed it or like the FIAT were going to become unwitting participants) weren't concentrating on the things they were supposed to be focusing on. That is so true. In many ways, it's worse than texting because the intent is to disrupt the safe progress of others. As you say, it looks pathetic from outside the cabs.
I mean it's a pretty obvious observation. If you act like this you should be banned from the roads.
Quick suggestion for all the drivers here. Don't bother for pick a fight or upset yourselves because someone else. Stay calm, anticipate the next movement will do the "idiot" and be safe.
About this clip, I feel so sorry for the blue fiat 500. Him was somehow " involved" in that awkward situation in the roundabout
Ok, i saw the road markings on this dual carriageway( my assumption). Assuming nothing else, arent you supposed to only be in the right hand lane if you are intending to turn right or overtaking? Yes, i see that as you come up to the roundabout you need to be in the correct lane. But couldnt half of this whole stupid incident have been averted by people sticking to the rule of staying in the left land unless required?
A case of "when two knobheads meet" if ever I saw one. The pickup driver was being impatient and driving like a spanner, but the van driver was taking his time about his driving right up until the point he decided someone was "pushing in". Driving much more slowly than is reasonable and legal, but then speeding up, flashing lights and tailgating when you perceive a sleight by someone driving faster than you is the corollary to going hell for leather, then brake checking anyone who gets the hump when you pass them. Both obviously poor driving, but they defy logic in exactly the same way... you can't simultaneously be in a hurry AND have the luxury of time to waste. It's all about power and control to people who feel they have neither in their life.
Poor driving from both.
Both these idiots should be made to drive for a week on the island of Penang, Malaysia. It's quite an eye-opener... everyone is so relaxed... a queue of traffic, someone drives down the outside in the "wrong" lane then cuts in... they must be in a big hurry or very important, so they just get let in. Whoever gets to a road junction first has right of way.... driving is certainly not in accordance with the rules of the road, but nobody cares, everyone just lets "things happen" without grudges or retaliation. It's quite an eye-opener AND it does make for safer, less stressful driving
Typical bloated 4x4/pickup bully tactics - unfortunately all too common now.
I understand the van driver being annoyed - the pickup was pretty close pulling back across the nose of the van.
(to me it didnt look like the van accelerated to cause an issue, more that he was slower away from the lights and still playing catchup when the dodgy undertake happened - feel free to correct me if i'm wrong)
It's really quite simple. It's all down to a lack of manners, respect and common courtesy. Do we really want childish people in charge of a vehicle on our roads? This is why I do not drive and never will. You can be the safest driver on the planet but you have absolutely no control over those drivers who are unsafe. My favourite uncle was killed by a dangerous driver. The lunatic driver got 7 years jail time (out in just over 4) and my uncle got a fatal ruptured aorta.
2:40 Reminds me of Murray Walker (RIP) commentating on BTCC when a driver gave the finger to a competitor: "'I'm going for first!' he says."
I used to have a lot of rage until I started riding a motorcycle. Then I realised the vulnerability ALL road users unknowingly face and tbh that calmed me down real quick, being inside a metal box gives false security and that’s all I’m saying.
ha ha ha ha, had a loon under take me on a roundabout and pull infront of me yesterday 02/07/21....had a shout at him with my window up (as you do) and give him a blast of the horn....he slowed down a few times thinking I would bite and get angry, I just laughed and let him play his games....with me not biting or flashing lights or use the horn again. He knew what sort of a driver he'd been, I didn't need to tell him again. ha ha ha
I can understand both sides really, because there's an unwritten rule that you should keep up with traffic when moving off from a traffic light so you don't get the people behind you caught in another red light. But then again, where did it get the pick-up driver... I'm sure the white van driver certainly didn't learn his lesson. Selfish twats on all sides.
The van driver is a bigger idiot here, but not by much... If he was in such a hurry that he got upset the 4x4 cut in front of him and then continued to drive slowly, why was he barely moving before the whole thing started? You want to move fast, then move fast. You want to move slow, move slow. But don't be upset when people cut in front of you for moving slow in the outside lane.
Then again, it can also be argued that if the4x4 was in such a hurry that he felt the need to overtake on the left then cut in front of the van, why did he then started driving so slowly? Just go about your life.
But the real reason why the van is the bigger idiot is that he's risking an accident where he will be found at fault for not maintaining adequate distance.
Overall, a bunch of idiots with nothing better to do. Best to stay well clear of them.
Crappy driving from both of them. The van looked like he was doing something else that took his attention away from traffic moving. Best off not reacting like this, could be an uninsured or unlicensed driver because we all know they drive like crap, you really don’t want to be in an accident with one of them because you’ve reacted to their driving. Just chill and get to your destination stress free 👍
Not only did they hold themselves up but others, & their lack of consideration to others could easily lead to innocent parties getting involved in an RTC.
When last in Oz, my brother told my aunt that he generally holds two fingers up at drivers, well below the window. Within 20mins my aunt, driving, was cut off by a large ute, and she was egged on to do the hidden two finger salute, which she did, finding not only that it was a suitable vent, but also had all of us in stitches. Far better than an open signal, that may be confused for something else, or even read by someone other than the intended target thus involving someone else into the fray.
Does it look pathetic yes, is it entertaining (educational) on youtube yes - so are these videos useful - who knows but lets hope we all learn something. I know I now back off from situations and smile while only swearing under my breath.
Needs a pickup to carry the ego.
Van was slow off the mark, perhaps looking at his phone, perhaps had left it in 3rd and had to change to 1st to move away. Whatever, he'd just shown he was not fully aware, so not a good idea to get close.
Overall, a win for the Fiat.
Yep, was just thinking that: totally pointless given the heavy traffic. Oh well. Perhaps a course on 'Driving and the Art of Zen'?
All the white van drivers fault, if you don't want people to pull in front of you then don't drive slow, the Ute did nothing wrong. Guys that drive white vans have very short fuses and are easily to get triggered, probably overcompensating for something
All the white van drivers fault, if you don't want people to pull in front of you then don't drive slow, the Ute did nothing wrong. Guys that drive white vans have very short fuses and are easily to get triggered, probably overcompensating for something
At 2:45 the Fiat closes the gap aggressively. I'm sure Ashley would say making a bad situation worse. Then it bails out of what looked like was intended to be a straight on into lane 2. And it looks like the Nissan followed, possibly also from an intention to go straight on?
I wonder if this escalated after we lose sight of those two?
Unbelievable, I had an idiot in a 4x4 tried bullying me I simply ignored him and let it go, unless there’s a genuine need to have a 4x4 eg Farmer, live in rural areas etc they should have a super tax because in my view many think can drive them like bullies.
"Don't defend your ego" - Active Self Protection
Nissan driver is a right wanker. Apart from causing all of this in the first place - why did he move to the left lane at the roundabout only to need to move to the lane he was already in alter? for the sole reason of being able to argue with the van driver? I can only guess why he drives a big car.... 99.9% probability the van driver was on his phone at the first lights
see it all the time. Slow people in lane 2 overtaking absolutely nothing holding up traffic, i see why the truck driver got annoyed. Shame people tend to turn a blind eye to it and go straight for the people that react to these useless pricks that don't know how to drive. If you're gonna go slow stick to lane 1 unless signs say so.
What i find funny is that thise SUVS are quite heavy and big and slow, the opposite of SPORTY .
It's mental how people act in their vehicles..... They trigger themselves, or others, for no apparent reason. It's like they become different people at the wheel, and for what?
Speculating on hand gestures!!! Is that a case of UA-cam rage .... and exactly the same reason for road rage .. ill informed speculation...
I rage sometimes in online games, I slap the keyboard the odd time. But I never drive with emotion or rage. That's how people get killed, if you rage on the roads, get off them.