Driving standards

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Dear Grandoldteam Grandoldtour.com,

Thoughts on contemporary driving standards? Getting better? Worse?

I have noticed a trend where road users drive way below the speed limit. 20 in a 30 in good conditions, no hazards. Some may argue reducing speed is no bad thing, however I would have had matks against on my driving test for 'failing to progress'.

Thoughts my fellow James May and Clarksons?
 

A lot of slow drivers going around it's maddening, you don't need to be going 60 kmph in a dead straight wide road with a 100 kmph speed limit.. you dont ennd to go at the 100 but at least get it up to 80.. 60 is just far too slow..
 
Cars are bigger, there's more of them & too many people rely on the tech to bail them out rather than fully concentrate. I consider myself a competent driver but not long ago i reverse parked a car with no parking sensors for the first time in years & I got to say, it was an eye opener on just how comfortable I had got with the sensors.
As for speeds, I'm almost certain some people do the speed limit their car tells them the road is rather than look at the road signs.
 
Stephen Gibson said:
Cars are bigger, there's more of them & too many people rely on the tech to bail them out rather than fully concentrate. I consider myself a competent driver but not long ago i reverse parked a car with no parking sensors for the first time in years & I got to say, it was an eye opener on just how comfortable I had got with the sensors.
As for speeds, I'm almost certain some people do the speed limit their car tells them the road is rather than look at the road signs.
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Quite quite possible. Wouldn't trust that feature on my car as far as I could throw it. Reckons some 20mph roads are 90s!
 

20 in a 30 zone. Absolutely clear both ways so I overtake and they speed up. What you doing? Did you just realise that you were dawdling because you weren't paying attention? Speed up after being passed then ya dope.

Also there seems to be some problem with hybrids slowly accelerating almost as if the driver are giving maximum attention to their economy rather than the growing queue of frustrated motorist behind them.

Also yesterday there were 2 incidences with emergency vehicles coming from the other direction whilst I was at the traffic lights. So I stopped like you're supposed to as did the people from the other direction allowing the ambulances go through the lights on the wrong side of the road without being hindered. But both times the car in the left hand side on my direction just drove off causing the ambulance to have to come to a halt. Again lack of care and attention to what's going on is my guess.

Yep, rant over.
 
Rita_Poon said:
The only standard on the road is that there are none. When I travel now I get chance to watch others, the sheer number of people using their phone at the wheel is frankly outrageous, it's not one or two, it's the majority.
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I took the coach from Norwich to London a few years ago so had a couple of hours to take in the countryside and look at car and lorry drives from an elevated position. Texting while driving seems to be quite widespread but the scariest thing was lorry drivers watching films on iPads perched on their steering wheel.
 

I've been abused twice in about the last year when stopped at a 4 way intersection and I'm going straight through by the person opposite me who's turning right as if they have right of way. The age of the self entitled is in full swing nowadays, want to merge in to the next lane - yeah right most people are too arrogant to let you in as it might add 3 seconds to their journey.
 
cronullasharks said:
I've been abused twice in about the last year when stopped at a 4 way intersection and I'm going straight through by the person opposite me who's turning right as if they have right of way. The age of the self entitled is in full swing nowadays, want to merge in to the next lane - yeah right most people are too arrogant to let you in as it might add 3 seconds to their journey.
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In my part of Europe, right of way goes to whoever has the more expensive BMW or Mercedes. Bonus points for them if it's a BMW or Merc SUV.

I do my best to let people in and expect the same or similar treatment when available (as sometimes you can't obvs) - no point to be a knobhead. A few days ago I had to merge so I'm out of the turning lane and we stopped at a red light, the knobhead in the other car almost rammed straight into my front wheels when the traffic light turned green as I hadn't fully merged due to, well, red light, then shouted at me for about 10 sec. I had the indicator on for a solid 30 sec while it was red and he was looking at me doing the maneuver :lol:

I don't get some people. Romanians are equally as fantastic as ours for going 20-75kmh above the speed limit and driving like they have absolutely nothing to lose in this life or the next.
 
Stephen Gibson said:
Cars are bigger, there's more of them & too many people rely on the tech to bail them out rather than fully concentrate. I consider myself a competent driver but not long ago i reverse parked a car with no parking sensors for the first time in years & I got to say, it was an eye opener on just how comfortable I had got with the sensors.
As for speeds, I'm almost certain some people do the speed limit their car tells them the road is rather than look at the road signs.
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Mine only has the parking sensors, no rearview camera or all that, but I've driven a temp car with the cameras and top-down view and all the bells and whistles, still parked mostly via mirrors.

My sensors also tell me I've crashed just about every single time I reverse anywhere as anything that could be remotely in the way lights up as potential incident - a tiny weed, the curb that it comfortably goes over, some stick on the ground. Does my head in.
 

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