[Closed] What do these drivers think will happen in this situation...

Hedge needs cut.

What do these drivers think will happen in this situation

What did happen ?

Tv ariels are of impressive proportion.

you make the mistake of assuming he [i]thought[/i] at all...

Footway needs resurfacing,

Nice black Beamer.

Telephone pole has a bit of a lean.

Looks like a 3dr S5.. that's the Audi nobber sweet spot.

On Sunday we met a friend and went for lunch at a pub in the Chilterns. The car park in the very pretty little village was up a road wide enough for 2 cars which had a row of parked cars down one side. A woman driving a large Merc coupe was coming down the road, so I waited just by a large space so that she could continue on and get past. She sat and gesticulated, waved, shouted, did more of that then eventually managed to drive up to the front of my car, then slowly edged it into the 15m long space next to me, still shouting, swearing, and gesticulating. What's that about? I thought I was being polite and letting her through - maybe she wanted to have a head to head massive argument and I'd spoiled her day?

Has he forgotten to turn off the magnets that allow Audi drivers to sit 30cm behind other cars on the motorway?

So the situation is that the van was already coming through the gap and the Audi somehow thought he could muscle through and now won't back down?

If I was in the van I'd turn the engine off, get out, apologise to the people behind and explain what was going on then just sit around till he/her moved. No confrontation with the Audi driver, just let their slow brain eventually realise what they will have to do.

I used to carry a book in the glove box for this sort of Mr Entitled eventuality. (I gave up after one bloke jumped out of his van, pulled open my door and punched me in the face, so I wouldn't necessarily recommend it.)

Try leaving Watford FC via Cardiff Road after a match. Hundreds of cars leaving and there's always someone who insists on going against the flow. Parked cars both sides of the road and room for just one down the middle.

It happens often enough that you'd think they'd learn.

Got any pistols?

Has he forgotten to turn off the magnets that allow Audi drivers to sit 30cm behind other cars on the motorway?

A long time ago I had someone refuse to reverse when I was driving a large flatbed with an equally large trailer.
I broke the deadlock by getting out and offering them the keys to the truck.

That street has some HUGE spiders living in it...

He reasonably expected the van to pull into the enormous space on his side of the road ? He had not seen the line of cars behind the van (obscured) or they weren't there originally ?

White Van on the Audi drivers road. How very dare he. The cad, the very thought of it.

Ross noble has a great story where he was driving along a country road, meets someone coming the other way, he tells them to back up, they refuse. Then the tank that he was driving ahead of (he was having it delivered) turns up...

'You sure?'

See it more and more.. Maybe a psychological evaluation is needed every 2 years otherwise your licence expires.

Bring on the automated car revolution.

Some bint in a Honda 4wd did much the same to me yesterday. I was up against the kerb with kids next to me. I stopped to let her go though a gap to go though sideways but it wasntvbig enough. I guess she needed more than a yard between her and the flat grassy unoccupied verge. The queue behind me were very patient for about 30 seconds and a pedestrian eventually convinced her to pull over after a motor bike had passed in in that gap.
Women 🙄

[b]@jam bo[/b]

Got any pistols?

Legend.

Why is it always Audi drivers?

I was most of the way through a narrow section of road where I had to give way to oncoming traffic.Nothing was coming when I entered, but before I'd got through the narrow section I was met with an Audi that came round the corner and sped head on towards me to make his point.

When it was obvious that he wasn't going to back up, and I certainly wasn't going to back all the way through the restricted section I was 90% of the way through. So I got into the back of the camper van got the kettle out and offered him a cup of tea. He backed up shortly after. I think from the hand gesture he wanted Nescafe 😀

He reasonably expected the van to pull into the enormous space on his side of the road ? He had not seen the line of cars behind the van (obscured) or they weren't there originally ?

Total Balls.

Audi driver should have pulled into the (massive) space behind the other Audi, and let the driver of the larger vehicle pass.

HC Rule 221

He couldn't have reversed into the space as it's reserved for the queen in her State ceremonial dress

😆

I was on my trailer test and a van pulled out in front of me on to a narrow residential road lined with cars on both sides, no passing spaces. The tester called him something and we sat and waited... and waited...

Regularly get caught on the back roads to the farm, usually when towing a caravan for storage. Most of the time it would be quicker for me to back up, but it is amusing watching people try to reverse straight down a B road.

2 tractors with bowsers head to head with a logging lorry and pick-up with stock box was an impressive bit of manoeuvring. Don't know what would have happened if there had been an Audi in the mix.

Neither of the drivers in the OP's photo can reverse 🙄

Did they think it would turn into an online debate between middle aged would be cyclists?

Why is it always Audi drivers?

Jealousy, mostly.

I was just walking through to get to the park 😆

Having looked at the picture again the woman on the left is the driver of the van - which would explain why she was on the phone to the police (I overhead her conversation to them). The huge guy driving the audi was very agressive shouting abuse to her from the car, but by this point residents were wandering out onto the streets hence not stopping to ensure her safetly (not that I could have done anything 😆 )

Could hear the beeping of the cars stuck on either side all the way from the park 🙄

perchypanther - Member
That street has some HUGE spiders living in it...

whitestone - Member

Neither of the drivers in the OP's photo can reverse

Well the van driver can't as there's a queue of cars behind, looks clear for the audi driver to reverse, unless the cars behind are invisible.

But it's an A5 so there's not a lot more to say really.

I always felt that the A6 was the nobber sweetspot, but I'm happy to be corrected.

Why is it always Audi drivers?
Jealousy, mostly.

Someone at work with an A3 said similar to me, he bought it on finance and lives with his mum.

Over 9000 miles of cycle commuting last year, i got quite a feel for who acts a complete knobber around you, and yes it is BMW/Audi/taxi man...

BUT what i found was that they weren't the ones that would hit me, they were the arrogant ones that would look straight at you, know you were cycling towards you and still overtake/pull out of junction etc, BUT they had seen me, it was the disrupted mum on school run, the elderly person etc, the ones that hadn't even seen me that knocked me off.

But it's not jealousy, as for some reason Mercedes/ Jaguar/ Volvo/ Alfa on anyone else that makes a half decent saloon don't seem to inspire the same knobber levels of driving.

"[i]Why is it always Audi drivers?[/i]"

Because, bizarrely, they managed to pitch themselves right into that market when they did the advert where a shouty winker test drives an Audi and then throws the keys back saying it's not his style (or words to that effect). Taxi !

Before that Audis were for beige middle aged folk looking for something German & reliable, but scared that a diesel Golf might over-stress their pacemaker.

This reminds me of an incident a few years back outside our office, there were roadworks which closed the road down to one lane with traffic lights at each end maybe 300 m apart. As usual there were the amber gamblers and a few red light jumpers but nothing that unusual... Until one day a guy in a jag thought he would jump the lights from the left when the right hand direction had already gone green and cars were in the lane. He was about 50 m in when he came head to head with a black bmw. We saw all of this due to him blowing his horn, flashing his lights etc and making MANY gestures the guys in the BM. We nearly died with laughter when they responded with flashing blue lights and directed him to our car park and watched as he tried to talk his way out of it!.....

"Pride"

One of my major frustrations I seem to be involved in lately is the two lane entrance to roundabouts, left lane signed for left turn or straight on and right lane signed for right turn only... And you guessed it.. the right lanes always try to drive straight on and cut up the left lane exits off the roundabout.

An incident early this year caught me out, I'm in the left lane going straight on Mr Angry in a New CRV in the right lane try in vain to go straight on too.. only the council have widened the little triangle narrowing the lane down to one car.. purely because of this nasty behaviour emitting from Mr Angry...

And yes he did bounce over the kerbed triangle into a car entering the roundabout from the other direction... You'll ask "why did he do that and why didn't he slow down or why not just go around the roundabout and exit again"? but hey... there are some proper knobs on the roads these days.

Its not always Audi drives

I had the same thing happen with a BMW X5.

Met him coming the other way at an obstruction caused by roadworks.

I pulled over as far as I could (far enough to let a normal sized car through) But he just sat there waiting for me to, I don't know, evaporate or something. I would have had to reverse back about 100m, when all he had to do was put one wheel on the wide low empty pavement, then the queue behind me and the queue behind him could get on with his day.

I wasn't in a hurry and couldn't go anywhere anyway. He literally waited 10 minutes, not doing anything, not gesticulating, not shouting just waiting which was probably the oddest thing of all. Before giving up and using a bit of pavement which his massive SUV dealt with admirably it must be said. He put the window down and told me he was reporting me to the police.

I'm still waiting on them coming to the door!

Most of us would back down even if we think we're in the right wouldn't we? I do so whilst tutting and shaking my head which makes me feel better....

We have a few lanes round here that really are just a bit too narrow for a white line but they are there. It gives me great pleasure, when meeting something coming the other way, to ensure that my wing mirror is just my side of the line. That does entail stuffing the car up the bank a bit, which looks scary to the oncoming wimp. However as its an old Land Rover who cares. My attitude is that that side is their and this is mine. They can get by if they do as I do. If they are not prepared for that, tough. Same applies to big stuff except tractors, milk lorries etc as they are important in a rural area and have more right than me to be there. Tesco delivery vans and big wide black BMWs are not. I can be a grumpy sod at times.

Sadly I know of one local lady who will not reverse for anything. She can't. Not disable, just bloody useless. Seen her sit with a layby big enough for an artic right by here back bumper and refuse to move when a queue approaches. Its not even here RoW. Eventually she cries and a passing local moves the car for her. I actively look for reasons to report her to the law but things like this don't count.

Only 10mins 🙄 - drivers were out and pleading with two motorists to sort themselves out after a 40min impasse under a railway bridge in Reading 18months ago

mattsccm - Member
Sadly I know of one local lady who will not reverse for anything. She can't.

@mattscm - I thought that being able to reverse a car was part of the driving test? From memory (my driving test was over 40 years ago) there's at least two manoeuvres that require you to be able to reverse the vehicle. If she can't do that then she falls below the standard expected of a licensed driver.

I think Range Rover drivers are in the process of replacing Audi drivers, in the same way Audi replaced BMW as the archetype of nobbish road behaviour.

[quote=mudshark ]Most of us would back down even if we think we're in the right wouldn't we? I do so whilst tutting and shaking my head which makes me feel better....

Depends how much time you have and how rude and entitled the other driver is being. The last time I had this situation the answers were plenty and very. I got out and offered to reverse their car for them if they couldn't manage it - they did eventually remember how to.

I think Range Rover drivers are in the process of replacing Audi drivers, in the same way Audi replaced BMW as the archetype of nobbish road behaviour

It will go on forever. The complete lack of self awareness of the nob means that they don't realise they are the very nobs giving the brand the bad name they want to move away from.

Ahh memories of being in someone else's car in Scotland on a tiny lane and coming head to head with a landrover and trailer. My "friend" was being a n@b and refusing to back up, yelling etc. so the farmer opposite just calming takes out the makings and begins to roll a smoke... Everyone in the car just started laughing at the driver. Almost made me wish I smoked just so I could emulate such a move.

Most of us would back down even if we think we're in the right wouldn't we? I do so whilst tutting and shaking my head which makes me feel better....

I dunno about that. I'm genetically predisposed to pushing back against bullies and have an underactive self-preservation gland. It's going to get me into trouble one day.

We joke about driver stereotypes like X5 drivers, but I think there's a definite correlation between vehicle size and driver attitude. I've noticed it when driving courtesy cars, I get a lot more folk trying to barge me off the road when I'm in a Micra or an i20 or something than I ever did in a Mondeo.

the road I live on is one of 'those' roads, cars parked down both sides leaving a single width lane up the middle.

It's also a cut-through between two bigger roads, so is used as a short cut a lot, especially since there is a school at the top of the road and at the bottom there is a school to the right about 500 yards, and another one to the left about 800 yards so you can imagine how frequently we get this.

The worst ones are those who urn into one end of the road, when there's traffic* already more than half way along, it's just bonkers, and often when they meet in the middle, someone else will have followed both of them in so now multiple cars are going to have to reverse (back out onto a bigger road) no matter who caves in.

*even more annoying when they do it to me on the bike, and rather than wait 7 seconds for me to get through they just assume because I'm on a bike they can squeeze past, I normally stay slap bang in the middle to force them to stop and then take great delight in making a big song and dance of wobbling my way past while clumsily knocking their wing mirror and scraping along their door 😈