What's annoying me today

At least he means what he says, which these days is a start.

Thanks for sharing, agree entirely.

We've had a week of sunshine here in Wales. Glorious again today, despite the forecast saying clouds.

People who take a wrong exit off (of) a roundabout, usually having not payed full attention to SatNav and then immediately stop and attempt a U-turn.
Just take your fucking punishment and find an appropriate place to turn around further down the road you cunt.
(See also, people who nearly miss their exit off a motorway/dual carriageway and do an emergency exit from lane 2)

I wondered if this constituted me becoming a grumpy old man. But I think it is just extremely dangerous fuckwittery which is becoming more commonplace. When I become king of the world, this would be an immediate 6 points on a licence with a new code: FW6.

Rant over.

There definitely seems to be an increasing number of peple who, whle they know how to physically drive a car, don't actually know how to drive on roads in a way that's safe and considerate.

Or maybe we are just getting old.

GPS has made us less capable of functioning as drivers. Chat-GPT is trying to do the same thing for thinking.

*I should add that I use GPS when I'm in a town for a rare visit, and it means that I still find it harder than necessary to navigate Christchurch, although the earthquake did rather cause a few new routes.

People were always shit at driving, because we don't do it to the same standards. Some are faster than others, some are more decisive than others, some are less patient than others. Because what you might do in any given situation can differ from what I might do in any given situation, other drivers are by definition unpredictable.

Technology isn't the cause of shit driving, it's the cure for it.

Not what I'm saying, but go for it. GPS makes some things easier, and makes us (in general) less capable of navigating without it. And some people make worse choices because of it.
There is enormous variation in driver quality, meaning that statistics plays a hand, and the increasing number of drivers means we need either better roads or incentives to not drive.

See, I don't agree with that at all. A GPS that is effectively positioned in/on dashboard and issuing verbal instructions is vastly less dangerous than trying to squint at an AtoZ while driving. People who are not paying attention to their GPS and making bad decisions as a result would have been as bad or worse with a map propped up on the steering wheel or lying open on the passenger seat.

Plausibly. I use it and like it, but I know it makes me lazy when it comes to planning and remembering routes.

You don't need to be able to know where you are driving in order to drive safely and well though?

The fact that people have become more geographically challenged as a result of GPS is one issue.

The irritant is that when people realise they’ve gone wrong, they just stop and try and turn/turnaround. Particularly irritating on immediately exiting a roundabout. Rather than reasonably pulling over or looking for a safe place to correct. It would be an immediate fail on a driving test and is far more dangerous than driving at 33 in a 30 which would get you three points.

GPS are actually very quick to reroute when you miss a turn or make a mistake so there so no real excuse.

I’m of the view that all this will go away with self drive cars and idiotic humans are take. Out of the equation

Been putting off doing my expenses and now they're really overdue. There is nothing in this world that I hate more than doing my expenses.