How often do you signal or get mad at someone driving? And how often do you get horrible signals in the stream? It's not uncommon, is it? We face thousands of different situations at the wheel every day, and many of them are unpleasant and potentially dangerous. Such accidents piss us off. But often we ourselves become guilty of such situations and, consequently, the anger of other drivers. Today we will try to understand what our actions are extremely annoying for other drivers.
1. Driving too fast in bad weather or on bad roads
Not the most obvious reason to be nervous. But remember your trips with other drivers, when in conditions of, say, fog, they blink headlights and try to overtake some impatient driver. In such situations, you can often hear something like, "Well, where are you going, in a hurry to the next world, or something like that?
Such behavior makes many people angry, because excessively fast driving in bad weather is a sign that the driver does not understand the danger it entails. According to the Road Traffic Rules, the driver must drive according to the road conditions. On slippery and wet roads, if visibility is poor, the braking distance and driver reaction time are increased. Therefore, in such conditions, the speed should be reduced by 1.5 - 2 times, and the distance should be much greater than in normal circumstances. A driver who does not do this, and drives faster than the flow of traffic, endangers not only himself, but also the surrounding machines - and this makes the drivers of neighboring machines angry.
As for bad roads, there are no objective reasons for nerves. After all, the one who drives too fast in the pits - only destroys his car. However, it also makes you nervous. Apparently, it happens because most drivers simply do not like to be overtaken.
2. Restructuring without turn signals
Many professional riders note that driving on a country road in a normal car is much more dangerous than winding up laps on a racetrack at an extreme speed behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car. After all, on the track peloton rides in one direction, behind the wheel of each car - sits a professional, and on a regular road rides thousands of drivers, and each has its own road. We can't know what the car in front of us will do next. That's why we have created such means of communication between drivers as turn signals and stop signals. Every reconstruction without turn signals is an emergency situation, and it makes the neighbors in the stream very angry. For a good driver, turning on the turn signals must be brought to automatism.
3. Standing for green
People in cities are nervous. Everyone is in a hurry, every second is theirs. That's why a driver who doesn't move at once with the green traffic light on, immediately becomes an object of irritated exclamations. Such idling does not pose any serious danger, but it becomes a reason to create traffic jams, especially at those traffic lights where green light is on for a short period of time. Therefore, it is always necessary to be attentive and quick at the wheel.
4. Cutting on the road
Cutting is one of the most dangerous maneuvers. This is often the case in city traffic. Some people cut it on purpose, some because they are in a hurry, and some because they are newcomers and still can't drive in the stream. Anyway, the cutting drivers are extremely annoying and create an emergency situation.
5. Lack of parallel parking skills
Parallel parking is when a car needs to be parked between two cars standing by the side of the road. Novate.ru experts note that this is the most complicated type of parking, and it requires certain preparation. And, despite the fact that parking in big cities in this way is often necessary, many drivers, even with great experience, do not know how to do it. And as long as such a driver tries to park his car, he collects a whole queue of cars behind him, starts to be very nervous, because of this can crush or scratch the neighboring cars - in general, experiencing real stress. And where - during just parking.
Therefore, in order to save your nerves and not to become an object of aggression from other drivers it is necessary to practice in parallel parking to do it confidently and quickly.