There is a lot of aggressive driving that I have noticed increase over the years. My main bugbears are...

 

You are on the motorway, speedcontrol is set at 70mph. You are in the inside lane. You approach a junction and the numpty cuts you up at the very last minute by diving out of the outside lane across the 2 other lanes and just barly makes the sliproad..Argghh

 

Then as you go under the junction and come on to the on-slip road the numpty does 90mph+ off the sliproad and without look shoots across 2 lanes just so he can get to the outside lane. argghh. The number of near misses I have seen come into the hundreds.

 

Then you get the people who are in the inside lane doing 50mph who without looking just thie indicator on and immediately swerve into the middle lane regarless of what is their or what may the approaching at a higher speed.

 

Then you get the people who just do not indicate at all and just move immediately whenever they feel like it.

 

Then there are the middle lane hoggers. What do you do when the hogger is in the middle lane going 50-60mph and you are approaching quickly in the inside lane? Do you just undertake them which is illegal or do you have to cross 2 lanes to move out into the outside lane and when immediately indicate and move back across 2 lanes to the inside lane. argghh.

 

Then there is the white van man who is tail-gating the car in front trying to get the front person to move out of their way.

 

Then their are the possible drunks as the car is all over the lane?

 

All this is from just being on the motorway and I am sat their thinking where are the Police to police these bad drivers. Relying on cameras is silly especially when the numpty fancy tweaking the spacing on the number plate and adding coloured screws to make up different letters. Why can't these cameras then send a report to the Police for prosecution of using an illegal number plate.

 

I fear for my wife and myself's safety at times especially with the very litigious attribute that most people seem to be just for a few pounds.

 

Mind you the Police are not that intrested in police car crimes unless it's speeding. I know of a driver who has no licence, no tax and no insurance and she drives the same communte everyday from Bristol to Birmingham on the M5 but the Police do not stop her even after everyone at work rang/reported he to Police/Crimestoppers many many many times and she has never been stopped or even been contacted the Police over the year and she is a terrible driver.

I have 2 plans of action for these idiots dependent on who is in my car at the time.

If it is me alone and I am travelling briskly on a motorway for instance, and someone is up my arse, I move over. Simple, far too dangerous for my liking.

Country roads and 30's, 40's? The driver best hope his/her reactions are quick and their brakes are better than mine, because I will slam my brakes on and I honestly couldn't care less whether they hit me. Luckily UK insurers will see it as their fault 100% of the time.

Zeanie - paragraph 268 motorway laws. Read into that as you will, I'd say that's down to interpretation.

I tend to find that the most people were quite respectful when I was out in the golf and I didn't get hassle. The skoda however seems a red rag to bulls in some instances.

Be content to let the idiots do what they want. Leave a bigger reaction gap if they tailgate or let them through if they're desperate. And be content in the knowledge that they're probably a couple of inches short on confidence

purchase a rear facing camera for the back screen.  I seem to find people back off when they end up spotting my camera in the screen  

this also work when you can access the picture and display it on your rear view mirror screen, as I have done on many occasions (having a clear light bar on the parcel shelf helps as well)

When I was riding motorbikes this would make me really angry, and would wave at people to suggest they drop back - or overtake the car in front to get away from it.

 

In my fab, I now just flip the mirror so that I'm not distracted by it and ignore them till they go away (or give them space to go past me if they are out in the middle of the road).  It's the distraction part that's probably the most dangerous, as eyes need to be forward 95% of the time.  I can still see blue lights etc in my side mirrors, so it feels the safest way for me.

 

Always seems to be either Audi drivers on A roads, or Range Roger sport drivers on the motorway...

I often find myself hugging other people's cars not intentionally but because of the dsg, instead of breaking I tend to take my foot of the accelerator to slow down instead but being an automatic its in the highest gear possible and then slows down a lot slower then the car in front..

I've been in cars with people who don't even realise how dangerous tailgating is. They will sit 4" off a big vans bumper, pretty much completely eliminating any visibility ahead and its terrifying. 

I had a civic type r sit inches off my rear bumper today,i was in the mini doing 55 mph on a 60 mph road following a 4 x 4 towing a horsebox,id left a safe distance from the horsebox as the mini has all round drum brakes & requires planning ahead when it comes to braking yet the civic driver wasnt happy with this so he thought him sitting inches off my rear would make me go faster........idiot.

We were on the way to a wedding in Hull yesterday.  Our two year old was fast asleep, the other two children were singing to the radio and I was quite happily sticking to the 50mph speed limit at the time.  An energetic young man in an Audi S3 thought it might be a good idea to follow me with the equivalent of a fag paper between my rear bumper and his front splitter.  He seemed very annoyed that not only was I sticking to the speed limit but also that his attempts to make me go faster were failing. In the end, he showed me the error of my ways by overtaking me and the three cars in front.  I now feel that he showed me good and I must be more aggressive in future.

A little childish I know but I was tail-gated by a young lad in an Audi A3 on the A34 today. Single lane section due to roadworks and a 30 mph limit imposed and moving along in a queue of traffic. Not much I could do but he kept dropping back and racing up to the rear bumper.

 

Soooooooo in a more childish moment I obliterated him on the returned to NSL- he eventually flew passed on a 40 mph section of the road in 1.6 litres of his fury  

A little childish I know but I was tail-gated by a young lad in an Audi A3 on the A34 today. Single lane section due to roadworks and a 30 mph limit imposed and moving along in a queue of traffic. Not much I could do but he kept dropping back and racing up to the rear bumper.

 

Soooooooo in a more childish moment I obliterated him on the returned to NSL- he eventually flew passed on a 40 mph section of the road in 1.6 litres of his fury

 

Have had a few of these over the years: if you time it just right as they hit the peak of acceleration in the gap, just lose a couple of mph off your speed and watch the panic.

I had a civic type r sit inches off my rear bumper today,i was in the mini doing 55 mph on a 60 mph road following a 4 x 4 towing a horsebox,id left a safe distance from the horsebox as the mini has all round drum brakes & requires planning ahead when it comes to braking yet the civic driver wasnt happy with this so he thought him sitting inches off my rear would make me go faster........idiot.

 

Saw a bumper sticker you'd like then.................."Disc brakes are for sissys!"

Top 3 worst offenders (from my experience)

1) Audi.

2) Range Rover.

3) BMW.

 

Most considerate.

1) Skoda (of course) but not all are so well behaved.

2) Mini (old and new but excluding new Cooper S).

3) Toyota (especially any Hybrid).

Prius drivers are some of the most inconsiderate and desperate on the road from experience. Desperate to show what their car can do and just how much betta than yow they are. 

Have to agree with Sparks - hybrid drivers - especially Prius drivers by a country mile - are some of the most aggressive "something to prove" or "eager to disprove" drivers on the road. 

As someone said previous iirc in the thread: I seem to attract race types due to the 'vRS' on my boot and grill.

Always good fun to 'edge forward' at a set of lights next to someone wanting to race, then as soon as the lights go to green, just pull away in a standard economical and ordally manner.

JRJG