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Thread ID: 53359	2005-01-15 05:49:00	Kiwi Drivers...	manicminer (4219)	PC World Chat

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314435	2005-05-27 10:50:00	For anyone else who gets as sick and tired of tailgaters as much as I do, here's an excellent website offering some advanced driving tips on how to deal with the uneducated and agressive little so and so's. (actually there is no way of 'dealing' with these people at all unfortunately. The website tells you how to deal with the situation calmly and safely. Now if only this sort of stuff was compulsory on the driving test!). :thumbs: www.safespeed.org.uk Also have a read of the 159mph cop while you're there! :horrified www.safespeed.org.uk And a recent protest that I think the NZ Police/Govt should take note of... http://www.m4protest.org/ "There's more to road safety than just speed". :angry	manicminer (4219)
314436	2005-05-27 20:33:00	I can't believe the number of people who get the roundabout rule wrong. Considering the amount of TV, Radio and Newspaper advertising they put in to clarify the rule-change, I still see a huge number of idiots indicating right when they enter a roundabout, then left as they exit, when they're going straight though. Although I accept the merits of the new system, until people start following them properly, it's just going to cause more problems. I doubt the police would have time to enfore the new rule - if they did, they would be under a lot of public criticism for prioritising revenue gathering over their already overstretched detective work. {/rant}	somebody (208)
314437	2005-05-27 21:13:00	Even worse than that, are those that just continue to signal right when they are "going straight on" (ie a technical left turn) or when the shape of the island means they really are turning left. In these circumstances they completely lose their senses. It all comes back to what I originally said in the post earlier in the year when the rules were going to be made mandatory, ie, that the emphasis should have been on signalling the left turn off. A right turn signal makes little sense at an island because: 1. You have to give way to traffic coming from your right anyway. 2. Everyone, but everyone, has to travel clockwise around an island. It makes just about as much sense in signalling right at an island as signalling right when there is just a right hand bend in the road.	Terry Porritt (14)
314438	2005-05-28 01:25:00	I'd have to dispute number 2 Terry, I have seen someone going anti-clockwise around a roundabout . . . actually two different times, in Auckland, in heavy traffic, to get around a line of cars waiting patiently . And no, neither of them were police or ambulance . The funny thing was that they both indicated left as they entered the roundabout! Is it any wonder I drive a Subaru Outback, four wheel drive, air bags for Africa, lights on in the daytime and seat belt buckled across my pounding heart :-)	Shortcircuit (1666)
314439	2005-05-28 02:40:00	I have never had a prob at a roundabout in all my years,so fail to see what problem is.	Cicero (40)
314440	2005-05-28 03:17:00	I have never had a prob at a roundabout in all my years,so fail to see what problem is. Probably exactly what all those causing the problems will say themselves?	manicminer (4219)
314441	2005-05-28 04:34:00	Probably exactly what all those causing the problems will say themselves?I am sure it's the other fella ;)	Cicero (40)
314442	2005-12-28 09:07:00	Not sure how, or why, but Kiwis seem to be addicted to killing themselves (and others) on the roads this xmas. stuff.co.nz When will people learn, 1) that tailgating is dangerous and following 2m behind the car in front will not get them to their destination any quicker 2) to overtake only when it is safe to do so. ie not around blind corners or in the face of oncoming traffic 3) to keep as far to the left as possible 4) that the speed limit is 100km/h, not 110, 120 or more. 5) that the road rules apply to everybody, including them 6) those double yellow lines in the middle of the road - you're not meant to cross them 7) that getting to their destination in one piece is more important than getting there a few minutes quicker than everyone else 8) that it's not essential to overtake everything in front of them :illogical	manicminer (4219)
314443	2005-12-28 09:47:00	Well I just got back to Dunedin from Alexandra. For a very long period I watched amazed at a car ahead tailgate this other car (who did drive just over 80 km/h for most of the way). Maybe the tailgater was reading the newspaper of a passenger in the leading car :D I don't know how you can stand to be a tailgater. You can't see much of the road ahead (and we are talking roads along the edges of gorges here). Din't see nay crazy overtaking, but the prospect of sliding off the side of a mountain seems to stop this. Oh and the roundabout rules can get silly on some of Dunedin's smaller roundabouts (which is most of them). You must have all of 0.2 seconds to indicate left, if you are travelling straight through. Heh, and what do you do when you go around it more than once ;)	gibler (49)
314444	2005-12-28 10:08:00	"The untold story was that while about 400 people were being killed on the roads each year, for every death about 10 people were seriously injured, and people were having to live with lifelong disabilities. We not only have 10 families at the moment who are planning for funerals, we also have probably 100 people in our hospitals as a result of road crashes" well we have had locally here....a 4 car pile up, next weekend a 5 car pile up. in adition to all the 'usual' crashes. i thought it was funny as they where b*itching on the radio about the slow backed up traffic. one person even complained it was backed up for a mile out of town....hang on. its normally backed up 5 miles out of town. the traffic is somewhat light this christmas ! !	tweak'e (69)
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