The Other Driver!

[ales]

Originally posted by gang$tarr


i've never seen anybody do that... why don't they just flash the highbeams?

Actually, it's more likely to be done when you're driving on a 2-lane road, and a faster car approaches you from behind, and you want to courteously let it through, you turn you right turn signal on, move to the right, and when the car behind you starts overtaking, lift off the gas pedal a bit. After that the person who overtook you might flash emergency lights a couple of times to say "thank you". That's courteous yurp for you

[Moppie]

Originally posted by Seraph
Yes..so true
The ultimate road hazard is a 20-something asian girl driving a Landcruiser 100VX in traffic, thats a goddam lethal weapon. . Welcome to Auckland rush-hour traffic

Especialy when there in the far right lane on Ti Rakau drive and decide they need to be in the far left lane, wether theres a little Honda civic beside the or not!!! Damn im glad my car has good brakes.

I have to drive through East Auckland, and then fight all the remuera house wifes dropping thier private school kids off to get to Uni. Its a rather scary drive.

[Seraph]

I have to drive through East Auckland, and then fight all the remuera house wifes dropping thier private school kids off to get to Uni. Its a rather scary drive.

Ah yes. The infamous Remuera housewife, how could I forget. A showcase for the fact that women are better at doing many things at once than men. This one manages to be packing her 4 kids lunches, changing her CD, lighting up her cigarette, putting on makeup, and discussing plans for lunch on the cellphone(without a handsfree kit) simoultaneously while piloting the Ford Explorer (aka Remuera wagon) through narrow, winding streets of Remuera. Needless to say sometimes they forget their priorities and the Ford is left to decide it's own course of direction, which is often contrary to what the road markings advise, and it drifts into the opposite lane to the shock of the innocent and unsuspecting driver there. They also seem to misunderstand the whole concept of traffic lights and the fact that when you see yellow that means stop, not accelerate straight ahead, especially when the car in front is clearly slowing down for the yellow light (which by now has turned to red). However when it turns to green they wait until at least 3 other cars from behind sound their horn, and only then do they get going

[nubiannupe]

I can see where that would stress U out! All I know is that if someone came up behind me flashing their lights, I'm hittin the gas!! I've heard too many war stories of that headlight flashing thing!!

[gang$tarr]

Originally posted by ales


Actually, it's more likely to be done when you're driving on a 2-lane road, and a faster car approaches you from behind, and you want to courteously let it through, you turn you right turn signal on, move to the right, and when the car behind you starts overtaking, lift off the gas pedal a bit. After that the person who overtook you might flash emergency lights a couple of times to say "thank you". That's courteous yurp for you

i know that, i'm not an idiot... re-read the post he said signalling people in front of them, not behind them

unless i misunderstood that, but he said when you're driving up to somebody, you put your signal on, to tell the person ahead of you to moveover

not the other way around, you being the slow person signalling for someone to pass

unless i misunderstood that

HEEP explain!!

[Heep]

I meant:

I pull up behind someone going slow in the fast lane, and I blink my left signal to tell them to move over.

But Seraph has a point that was well taken by me.

[gang$tarr]

really?! i've never seen anybody doin that.... maybe cause i don't drive slow

if i was drivin slow in the fast lane and you did that to me, i'd think you're an idiot or somethin and forgot to turn of your turn signal, lol

[Heep]

That's why you flash it irregularly so people know it's just not on. It works about as often as highbeams do.

[gang$tarr]

Originally posted by Heep
That's why you flash it irregularly so people know it's just not on. It works about as often as highbeams do.

coolio, i'll try it sometime