MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Totally agree with the lot. A friend in Melbourne has a pressurised bottle of skydrol under the rear of his car and when he presses the extra button on his dash it sprays skydrol on any tailgating car and totally destroys their paint. I like the sentiment but it does not fix the problem as the other cars driver does not know why their paint is destroyed.
As for merging, the morons who are our elected reprehensible's in Qld changed the simple "whoever is in front has right of way" rule to three different rules that depend on the situation but did not do anything to let the public know of the changes - presumably for revenue raising purposes.
My two biggest bitches on driving in general are those who stick in the fast lane even when the slow lane is empty (though on the Tulla tollway in Melbourne I found I could usually do the speed limit in the slow lane during rush hour while the sheeple in the 3 or 4 "fast" lanes were crawling) and @#$%^& who turn from the far lane (as in turn right from the left lane etc).
One revenue raising thing that Qld has just bought in that I fully support is they have created reputedly over 100 miniature speed camera mountings that fit behind school zone signs and they officially have six cameras they rotate through these mounting catching people speeding during school zone times. Officially there are only 55 housings but given there are three in a small rural area we regularly transit through I think think the reputed number is low and the official number possibly missing a zero off the end.
Down in Victoria 1kmh over the speed limit gets you a speeding fine which means most people are spending too much time watching their speedo instead of the road and that is far more dangerous than one lousy km over the limit.