Road Positioning - sirionman

It has vexed me greatly as to why I see poor road positioning by other motorists. I have a theory though.

Firstly though, I have seen countless times an inability of another driver to place a car in a filter lane and thus leave a chunk of the back end sticking. Or when turning right off a single carriageway the car is abandoned at an angle waiting for oncoming traffic to pass before turning thus blocking following traffic.

And don't even start me on car parks. I think diabled parking actually means being diasbled at actually parking.

Anyway my theory for all of this is the offenders of poor road positioning are actually positioning themselves i.e. the seat they are sitting in and not the whole car. You watch the next time it happens and it is as if they are driving the seat and not the mass of steel around them.

Regards.

Road Positioning - RT

It's called "lack of spatial awareness" - most people have it - those who don't can go on to very great things in science or technology.

Driving standards is all about the lowest common denominator - and it's VERY low !!!

Road Positioning - Durelli_tyres

Can you explain your first example some more.

1. You are in a filter lane, near the back, and the back of your car is sticking out?

If there is room to move into in the filter lane then are you suggesting people aren't moving into it?

If there isn't room to move into what can be done to stop the back of the car being out of the filter lane?

cheers

Durelli

Road Positioning - unthrottled

In all fairness I often struggle to know where the end of the car is in some newer cars. Steeply raked wind screens, bulbous dashboard, sloping bonnets don't make it easy. Must have a XX chromosome in my brain somewhere...

Road Positioning - Bobbin Threadbare

RT is right. Think about the most stupid people you know. Can they drive? There's your denominator.

A lot of people don't know how large their car is. You see lots of people in 4x4s and estates struggling with parking spaces, or driving slightly in the cycle lane. Also, a lot of people don't use their side mirrors properly. My driving instructor taught me to have the white lines in the middle of the road going 'in' to the bottom corner of my windscreen. It works quite nicely.

Unthrottled! Oi. As the only regular XX-chromosomed poster and a scientist to boot, I must point out that I have never bumped or scraped a car, passed my test first go and manage fine driving a large-ish vehicle :-P

Edited by Bobbin Threadbare on 06/01/2012 at 12:39

Road Positioning - RT

regular XX-chromosomed poster

What are the other types of XX-chromosomed posters?

Road Positioning - jamie745

A lot of people don't know how large their car is. You see lots of people in 4x4s and estates struggling with parking spaces, or driving slightly in the cycle lane.

In fairness though most parking spaces now are only big enough for ethically sourced bicycles and politically correct supermini's. Cars are getting bigger yet planners make parking facilities smaller.Most people who drive Estates and MPV's do so because they have to, not because they want to so therefore are busy and slightly bitter people who couldnt care less about something as trivial as parking. Plenty of modern cars are like driving a postbox and you dont really know where you've parked it until you get out. As for the cycle lane thing, plenty of them are put in on roads which simply arent wide enough, probably to qualify for some sort of eco friendly grant but the fact remains you used to have to use that section of the road in certain places before they painted a cycle lane and you still have to use it now. My instructor always told me to use it (providing its broken line, not solid of course) if required, to blindly plough on going 'my cars in the middle of the lane' while ignoring the parked bus and the overtaking lorry on the other side of the road is stupid.

Also, a lot of people don't use their side mirrors properly.

I find a lot of people dont have them properly adjusted, this is most common in shared cars when the two drivers are of different heights, neither bothers to change them to suit them.

Oi. As the only regular XX-chromosomed poster and a scientist to boot, I must point out that I have never bumped or scraped a car, passed my test first go and manage fine driving a large-ish vehicle :-P

Ive crashed a car into a tree, passed on my third attempt and drive a rather large vehicle which has prompted me to impliment a 'dont care about anybody' policy and i drive/park/leave/abandon it wherever i damn well please.

Road Positioning - Bobbin Threadbare
ethically sourced bicycles and politically correct supermini's.

Superb :-D