r/DrivingAustralia

I recently got my licence after putting it off for 8 years and every time I drive it feels like everyone is viciously angry at me for driving the speed limit. Why are you in such a hurry?

What driving habit annoys you the most these days?

As titled.

Ive really struggled to drive around at night these days because of all the bright head light everyones got.

Incoming and from behind me.

Hell i cant even see the road with the light shining into my eyes through the mirror.

Do any of you have any idea how to manage it? or am i doomed to be stuck at home forever now. I drive a hatchback and doesnt have issues with eyes except wearing correctly prescribed glasses.

I see so many motorbike riders wear singlets, skinny jeans, shorts etc. They have a helmet, but still.. not enough?

It's literally a death trap.

If a car or truck hits them at even 60Km/hr. That's very serious injuries.

You’re literally blocking the turn lane for everyone behind you

Like most of us do, I drive through a significant amount of school zones. It’s quite easy to notice the drivers who breach the rules because they’re the ones who pass you. At the start of the year I decided to conduct an informal study of those who speed through school zones, and shall provide my findings. I live in the Illawarra in the Shellharbour district.

The demographic of drivers who disregard school zones the most from my research are females who drive late model or expensive vehicles. Age or ethnicity have no part to play - it seems to strictly be the gender and wealth. The majority zoom past me as if the school zone isn’t even there.

Second is men of an ethnicity other than white Anglo. They drive any sort of vehicle, and will often travel just over the 40kph, as if they’re aware of the school zone but maintain a speed just over the limit.

Third place surprised me. I would be sure that P platers would feature as a majority in my top three, but it appears to be young, white men in tradie style utes - toolboxes, ladders etc. loaded up with a company/cintractor logo on the vehicle. This is equally surprising as I figure that tradies spend a significant amount of time on the roads, and would adhere more to the rules.

My conclusion is wealthy women harbour a sense of entitlement that is dangerous on the road.

Hi all,

I just had a random shower thought. If you’re driving and say it’s 2:28pm and there are none of those flashing school zone signs around, but you pass through a school zone near a camera at 50km as the clock strikes 2:30pm, would you get booked?

I know there’s like a 1-2km/hr leniency with the speed cameras most times. But if you’re not constantly checking the minutes, could you argue you weren’t aware of school zone timings?

I hate this habit where people just indicate for 0.5 to 1 second and then turning.

I honestly think that’s not long enough, especially for trucks and larger vehicles.

In no universe can a big truck that has lots of inertia break that quickly if doing higher speeds.

I’ve seen trucks on the side kerb because that’s the only place they had to do after having someone “indicate” like that.

I’m driving in a 60 zone doing 66, when i was doing 66 i was fully behind a car so the camera couldn’t see me a car coming opposite then flashed me to say there was a camera so i slowed down then saw the camera, will i get a fine?

What is it with these damn cyclists that instead of using the 1 meter wide bike lane and riding as far away from the road as they can, they instead like riding right next to the road forcing drivers to go into the opposite lane to get past them?

I had this today where some bloke in the full spandex shebang was riding right next to the road despite having an entire bike lane and he made a huge queue behind him because none of us could overtake without hitting oncoming traffic.

A few minutes down the road a kid on an ebike is using their brain and stick as far left in the bike lane as they can allowing us to drive past.

Like is it just a cyclist thing that they enjoy pissing off drivers?

Edit: The road in question is david low way by the state school, sunshine coast. The bike lane is always and was at the time completely empty with no hazards in the way hense why i mentioned the kid on the ebike on the same stretch of road having zero issues keeping left and out the way.
I am fully aware that lots of roads force cyclists to ride closer to the road due to hazards etc but in this case and alot of other times these cyclists do it anyway despite having no reason to do so.

Hi everyone,

I had a scary near miss in NSW this afternoon and wanted to ask for general advice.

Around 6 pm, when it was already dark, I was driving through an intersection/road section with traffic lights. My vehicle light was green. This was not a zebra crossing — it was a signalised pedestrian crossing controlled by traffic lights. I was not speeding or using my phone.

As I approached the traffic-light-controlled crossing, I suddenly noticed a teenage school student in a light blue uniform very close in front of my car. I braked hard immediately and avoided hitting him. There was no contact and no injury. I stopped for a few seconds because I was shaken, then drove off after the cars behind me honked.

I reviewed my dashcam footage afterwards. It confirms my vehicle light was green. It also shows a bus stopped on the opposite side near the crossing, with bright headlights facing my direction, which may have affected my visibility. I only clearly noticed the pedestrian when he was already very close to my car.

I’ve saved the dashcam footage and written down what happened.

Since there was no collision or injury, is there anything I need to report or do? Also, if a collision had happened in this type of situation, how is responsibility generally assessed in NSW?

Thanks.

Im 21 and in a bit of a predicament. I got my L’s a few years ago but I have only gotten about 30 hrs of logged time (most of those being instructors hours), and I just ran out of the 3 for 1 lessons. My mum is refusing to let me drive her around despite my instructor saying I am a good driver for where I’m at, I don’t have any other family/friends who are able to supervise me in a car.

I cannot afford to spend $80 per hour for the rest of my hours, it would take me 3.5 years and $7,200… does anyone have any advice for how I would be able to practice driving for a low cost even though I don’t know anyone who can supervise me?? I am really stuck.

Do they use the same data set? So if someone reports something on Waze, it will go through to Google Maps? I know Waze was purchased by Google and they imported the Waze feature of user reports.

I've used both recently and I feel like I get more user reports with Waze although it might just be my own bias