I was going to put this in the Improving Road Safety forum but it is not the right one. As we also have no Joke forum I thought it best to put it here.
As we all know a big part of driving is hazard awareness. It is also true, I think, that this improves with experience. We are able to better recognise developing situations as hazards the more miles we have under our belts, usually.
However I am seeing a disturbing trend amongst drivers around where I live in London. It is not a decline in the standard of driving around here. We think we have seen this since the day we passed our driving test
. But that is not it. What I am seeing is something far more disturbing.
What I am seeing is some drivers reliance on other road users to recognise their ineptitude
. These driver are now going so far as to advertise their plight. Not in the usual manner of driving in a way unsuitable for the conditions. They still do this, but sometimes they have to be fairly close, due to traffic conditions, to make it visible. Now they have taken to telling the world, in advance, that they will be giving you a fright, even before they are within a hundred yards of you.
How do they do it.
They now drive with the hazard lights going.
Since the new year I have followed 4 or 5 cars over several miles and as much as ten with the constant flash of dual indicators going
There is very little you can do apart from lay back at a safe distance and be vigilant. The one car I was able to pull up beside at a set of lights ignored my attempts to tell them of the problem.
How did we get to this situation?