What are your favourite motoring myths? Things that are belived by a lot of people but are in fact untrue, wrong or non existant, eg the concept of "Right or way"
R1Geezer Thurs 28/08/08 09:55
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That you don't need to indicate when turning a corner!!.
That it's ok to send a text message while driving at over 70MPH on the M1
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That people can use other peoples' disabled badges to park in disabled persons' parking spaces if they are shopping for them whilst the disabled person stays at home.
Not true at all.
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People always move out of john's way when he is driving his tank
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That parking on double yellow lines is ok if they put their hazard lights on! x
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Oh yes, bathsheba - that makes me laugh. They know they are causing a hazard because they put their hazard lights on, but it's okay because they are warning people
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I thought the first attempt had failed, sorry!
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another one that makes me laugh is the belief that a dual carraigeway must have 2 lanes!
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If an oncoming vehicle strikes you on the left side of the road (ur right of way) r u saying they're not at fault.....for invading 'ur right of way'?
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'the fast lane' on a motorway....no such thing...
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and hands up for a Geezer bonus point, who can tell me what "undertaking" is.
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Passing someone on their left, innit? x
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***Klaxon***Klaxon*** QI style!
anyone else want to have a go?
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Don't know about it being a myth but the amount of people who do no know whether they are driving on a duel carriageway or single track road astounds me - they then wonder why they got a speeding ticket
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not the opposite of overtake, might be wrong but i think its a word used in the wrong context in motoring
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No Undertaking is a legal manouvre, but it is not overtaking on the left. Some European countries such as Spain and Irleand have Undertaking lanes, on the left (right in Spain) where a slow moving vehicle or one that wants to be overtaken can pull into, undertaking is the process of pulling over to let a faster vehicle past. Somtimes the lane is only half a width but the undertaker is indicating to the faster vehicle that it doesn't want to or cannot go faster and that it's ok the go past.
Nearly always in the UK the word Undertaking is used incorrectly.
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I thought undertaking was to do with funerals?
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They think that they own the road. They don't............I DO!
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BMW drivers own the road, the deeds are in the glove box!
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that driving on business without business insurance isn't illegal
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That it is Ok to stay in the middle lane of the motorway at all times
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