On a Friday, Saturday and Sunday night i deliver Pizza's for a well known company and i am amazed at the stupidity i see on the roads. I was out on my first delivery at about 7.10 last night (so it was dark) and low and behold some one over took me doing about 50-60mph with no lights on!!!! i followed them and flashed my main beams until they turned their lights on. How can people do this???
2007-11-02 22:50:05 · 26 answers · asked by michael2k_18 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
I live in South Wales (caerphilly) and was on a stretch of Road called Nantgarw Hill
2007-11-02 22:55:29 · update #1
Sundog- I'm afraid it is stupidity, apart from anything else you cant see the instruments, so you dont know how fast you are going!! I'm sure that if someone ran down a member of your family because they didnt have thier lights and couldnt be seen, or couldnt see you wouldnt be quite so apathetic!!
2007-11-03 07:03:49 · update #2
Sorry to quite a few of the answerers above, but forgetfulness or setting off from a brightly lit road is not an acceptable excuse.
We all have a duty to see and be seen, it should be part of your normal routine when setting off in the dark to check your lights.
Why are people stupid on the road? Because they think the Driving test is the end of the learning curve and after they pass it then anything goes. If people maintained the standard they have to work so hard to reach to pass, then there would be far fewer accidents and incidents on the road.
2007-11-03 09:22:08 · answer #1 · answered by Trevor h 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately poor driving has been going on for many years and it is very difficult to come up with a positive solution.If you put more police on the roads then the cost would be very high and the general public would not accept it. Best way is more driver education via television etc, but only use very short clips or people will just switch over. Road safety is for all the other fools on the road not ME, is the old story.
2007-11-03 02:58:23 · answer #2 · answered by focus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don`t know about stupidity but there is a well known pizza delivery firm who have their drivers running around in small black`bubble cars`....one of these guys is really mental.Have seen him overtaking at 60-70 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour zone...........is he really that worried that the pizza will be cold by the time he delivers it?
2007-11-02 23:00:27 · answer #3 · answered by mookno1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Why is there so much stupidity on the road??"
1) Because the driving test is too easy (this means that dangerously incompetent people can still pass).
2) Because we don't get retested every 5 years (this means that people who become dangerously incompetent aren't found out, until they cause a crash).
3) Because we don't have IQ tests for drivers (to find out if someone is mentally competent to drive).
2007-11-03 19:33:43 · answer #4 · answered by Nightworks 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only people with an IQ greater than 125 should be allowed behind the wheel.
Brain-dead morons, that's what most drivers are. Sheep, lemmings, whatever you wish to describe them as! The worst bunch are those who insist on driving right up my backside at 75 mph on the motorway - are they all trainee proctologists? I always leave sufficient room in front of my car - for ME, not some numpty who wants to halve my personal safety margin. It's no wonder there are pile-ups on our roads!
2007-11-02 22:56:35 · answer #5 · answered by Modern Major General 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not putting your lights on is easily done if you've just left a brightly lit supermarket car park but I think somebody would be clued in fairly quickly in the dark. If you want to have your say there is a BBC Wales web page called "Travel Talk - Road Rage"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/yoursay/topics/travel_roads.shtml
2007-11-02 23:04:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I waited until I was 18 to take my driver's license test, mainly because I never had time AND money at the same time before that.
When I arrived at the testing site, the girl ahead of me was hysterical, having just failed her test.
I thought, "oh great. Must be a picky one."
I got in the car, and started my test:
1. Turn right.
2. Park.
3. 3-Point turn.
4. Turn right.
5. Pull up to that sign.
Congratulations, you passed.
I looked at the examiner, and asked, (in a state of disbelief) "That's it?!?!?!?"
He said that was all there was to it. I looked at him, shook my head, and said, "I want to thank you."
"For what?" he asked.
"If the girl before me failed the test you just gave me, I want to thank you for not letting her behind the wheel of a car!"
He laughed.
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I think that pretty much sums up the qualifications for people to be on the road.
2007-11-02 23:02:16 · answer #7 · answered by Darklighter 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If he's like me, he probably got in his car someplace that was well lit. It's easy to not notice you haven't got lights on in that situation. However, when I do that I typically notice within a couple seconds after getting someplace with no street lights.
If that was the case, then yes, you were dealing with an utter moron.
2007-11-02 23:12:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because all people are different. If you think you are going to be the decider on how everyone else should be driving, you are going to have a very frustating life. stop worrying about what others are doing and just do the best job you can driving your own car
2007-11-03 05:11:02 · answer #9 · answered by bungee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen driving instructors doing things wrong - stopping on box junctions for example, my partner has seen police drive badly. What hope is there for the rest of the road users.
2007-11-02 23:11:10 · answer #10 · answered by Grinning Football plinny younger 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋