Perhaps I notice more as I travelled on two wheels for years, and that tends to sharpen the focus when it comes to danger of course, but it's just *so* frequent.
Exacerbated by my being in a rural area too possibly.
Anyone else notice this? Perhaps I'm paying too much attention to the road and not my phone, who knows... grumble grumble... shakes middle-aged fist at passing cloud...:-)
The best scenario is if I happen to be following the local bus. He clears the path for me.
One time I was following a bus and two consecutive cars passed with smashed mirrors - the bus was way inside our lane, but I guess the first car was over the line and the second was just following them. Needless to say the bus didn't stop, just a normal pair of idiots and no point in making the passengers late.
Then of course they pull alongside the cars they've been filtering with their wheels on my side. If you can't get back inside your lane and have to stop in the oncoming lane, you're doing it wrong.
As for the OP, this is always happening, and I've seen people either take corners with too much speed and not enough precision, or drift over easy bends because they're not paying attention.
Of course I am perfect in every way.
In an 80Km/h zone, I had the driver of a big black German SUV come straight towards me on the wrong side of the road. He saw me at the last second when he looked up from his mobile phone and swerved but I was read to dive off the road down an embankment.
My question afterwards would have been - if I had driven off the road it probably would have damaged the car quite a bit.
I wouldn't have hit the another car.
How would an insurance claim (and the Police) have see this (if the other car hadn't stopped)?
Without the other car, it was basically an accident with no other vehicle involved.
I'm seriously thinking of getting a dash cam after that.
From a more minor point of view, but still frustrating, was just a couple of weeks ago having to move so far to the side to avoid yet another racing enthusiast that I clipped my wheel on the side of a drain with a prominent concrete cover.
It made the loudest bang, and you can imagine the state of the alloy after.
Doubt that would be of interest to the police or insurers. But perhaps a more serious incident such as the one you nearly had would be.
Our grandchildren will one day laugh at the fact we used to manually drive our cars.
The temerity to discuss the merits (or lack thereof) of dashcams?
The prediction of self-driving cars in the future?
That I didn't jump over the car Dukes of Hazard style instead of a conventional method of avoidance?
The mind boggles. :-)
Apparently, he can't cope with that.
Oh yes, just spent a few days driving in the Gantrisch (Fribourg) mountains and Bernese Oberland and a huge proportion of cars coming downhill were over line and more!
*high hat*
Guess they own the roads there.
He doesn’t systematically target certain posters and repeatedly groan them he see groans to express his opinion and he shares them around amongst everyone.
He actually thanks way more than he groans but nobody ever mentions that.
That is, as far as I am aware, against forum rules.
Sometimes he adds a few irrelevant words explaining how it is done in Ticino.