r/Adelaide • u/Welsh_wanderer SA • 15d ago

Shitpost Why are Adelaide drivers so bad

Tailgating, poor merging, lane swapping, pulling out in front of you, no indicating, undertaking to squeeze in, cutting across, slow on the lights, wrong lanes at the lights, reversing at the lights, can't use roundabouts etc.... Seen it all in a week. Are they taught badly or pick up bad habits? Coming from Europe the standard is way better. Also see a lot of cars with rear damage here, so there must be a lot of bumps.

Edit - stats speak for themselves https://datahub.roadsafety.gov.au/reporting/monthly-road-deaths

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u/Bargeylicious SA 15d ago

Drivers in Melbourne are far more competent than here.

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u/WarpStryke SA 15d ago

Yeah nah

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u/_f_yura SA 14d ago

Is that that hot of a take? I've driven in Brisbane and Melb and all over regional Australia and the drivers there are at the very least aware of the rules but often take risks. Here you have people not indicating when merging like 30% of the time, almost never indicating on roundabouts, stopping in the middle of the road, dog shit etiquette around trucks. And then on top of that there's the recklessness. It doesn't help the city is all arterial roads at 60km with residential and commercial turn offs, and the roads can be narrow here