Team-BHP - Bad Drivers - How do you spot 'em

I see more drivers needlessly honking these days. I tend to believe that nowadays the basic threshold for attaining adequate skill to become a licensed driver has plummeted towards an abyss. So more and more drivers make up what they lack in driving skill by honking away to glory.

Sometimes we have to engage a temporary driver and I have seen this trait in almost every professional driver. I get the feeling that if a person somehow learns to manage the technical part of driving, he gets a DL and is out on the road behind a wheel. What is never emphasised is that driving a vehicle on public roads is a combination of technical mastery over the vehicle and demonstrating appropriate social skills relating to driving etiquette, public behaviour and being considerate to others. Most drivers display excessive ego and try to go ahead first even when traffic rules make it clear that he should give way in his position.

The long term effect manifests as poor (can be real bad actually) driving habits, being rigidly ignorant about proper behavior and etiquette, and an unwillingness to learn. Our driving schools should take up the responsibility to teach social skills and driving manners first before going on to lessons on reversing and parking.

Maybe not under this thread. Maybe a new thread-

Circus buffoons on a suicide mission:

Well if it was a guarantee that only their lives will be lost, fine. Could have led to a couple of trucks overturning and absolute carnage :mad:

https://youtu.be/nUbZ_tr5XjA

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Originally Posted by Nalin1 (Post 5464620)

Circus buffoons on a suicide mission:

Yes indeed! But also a wonderful lesson in expecting the unexpected to be just on the other side of the big thing we can't see through.

Thank you. Well worth watching.

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Originally Posted by Nalin1 (Post 5464620)

Maybe not under this thread. Maybe a new thread-

These two gentlemen are the luckiest people I have seen in recent times.

There are numerous videos of lucky commuters on the road, which are collection of incidents which may be a decade old.

Kudos to both the heavy vehicle drivers, some ignorant guys are still alive because of them.

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Originally Posted by Nalin1 (Post 5464620)

Circus buffoons on a suicide mission:

They are a threat to just about every road user. I had a couple of evil thought pop up in my mind, before sanity and humanity kicked in. They should be stripped of their motorcycle and their DL, that is if they have one!

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Originally Posted by AtulC (Post 5457373)

This woman is DANGEROUS.

While she was definitely wrong in barging in despite the traffic controller holding a stop sign, she was well visible in your horizon, yet it looks like you did not slow down until you were close enough. Plus, the video at 10s showcasing an aggressive overtake and a sharp braking doesn't seem to do your case any favor either :-)... I have learnt the best action in such cases is just to stop being stressed about such stupid drivers. Like George Carlin famously quoted, never underestimate the power of stupid people...

This was on NH48 while we were returning back home. The truck ahead was cruising at 80-90kmph in spite of pipes protruding from it's left side, I was maintaining a safe distance and this happened in a matter of 3-4 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL1P9NJm5KU

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Originally Posted by ron178 (Post 5316159)

I'm confident this is a big reason for the growing popularity of sunroofs in the first place, and I also think most consumers think this is its designated use.

Exactly! Everyone in my family thinks the sunroof is for sticking your head out. Kids, adults, everyone. When I say that's not the intended use, the immediate retort is, then what's the use of it? I tell them it's dangerous, and they counter argue why it is not. I had a hard time making my daughter understand that she can't stand and stick her head out from the sunroof in a moving car. I finally relented and let her stand for a couple of minutes on an empty back road and drove the car at 20. I told her this is the first and last time. People understand why poking your head or hand out of a moving car's window is dangerous but they don't apply the same logic to the window in the roof.

The truck driver with his presence of mind saved two moron bikers, undecided when or where to go. The truck driver it is evident has sacrificed his own safety while crossing over just near a road divider cut.

https://twitter.com/rushlane/status/...nWjXww7gw&s=19

Few habits of bad driving, as per my 15 years of driving experience.

1. Driving way above the speed limit, contributing to around 70% of road accidents.

2. Dangerously overtaking.

3. Unnecessary honking.

4. Installing modified LEDs, which make onlookers blind for a moment.

5. Driving with a high beam even if it is not required, and never switching to a low beam.

6. Never using turn indicators for their intended use. Using them as aesthetic accessories.

7. Letting their kids poke out of the sunroof. I once saw a full-grown man sitting on the roof of Ecosport with his legs inside the sunroof opening.

8. Parking their vehicles on road, blocking everyone.

9. Keeping their ORVMs folded.

10. Driving on the wrong side even on four-lane highways, just to save a few seconds of their time. Life is cheaper for them I guess.