Bad Driving - Nov 2025

Описание: Laws should match real-life behaviour. If a law isn't being followed then, depending on the situation (and other constraints like budget), we should change the law, enforce the law, and/or redesign the environment. For example, if drivers aren't stopping at a particular stop sign then change the law to allow them to do this (bad idea, yield signs fill this purpose already), put up a camera with automated ticketing (relatively simple, would pay for itself and/or stop the behaviour), or replace the stop sign with a yield sign or with a roundabout (or make the street car-free).

Pedestrians not using the right half of the crosswalk? Remove that law (yes, this is a bylaw...). Cyclists treating stop signs as yield signs because studies show that it's safer? Make it legal (several US states have done this). Drivers not giving enough space when passing cyclists? Separated bike lanes.

A few subtitles are the default placeholder, and I wrote "reversing over intersection" instead of '...over crosswalk" once.

I can't distinguish between drivers who aren't going to stop and are about to accelerate into my path, vs drivers who are going to stop a car-length beyond the stop line. Just stop at the stop line, it's there for a reason and makes it clear that you've seen me and gives me more reaction time if you haven't.

I've scaled back the number of types of clips that I compile. For example, at this point I don't usually include anyone stopped or parked in 'generic' no-stopping or no-parking zones. But this happens all the time everywhere I go, I see literally hundreds of these through-out the month. Similarly, I saw plenty of illegal reverse turns but omitted most of them. Etc...

For many many months now I've intended to stop making these videos, but it's just so frustrating to nearly get hit, see drivers parked in bike lanes, have drivers not even look both ways when failing to stop at a stop sign, and not being able to tell whether a driver is about to hit you or is just stopping several meters after the stop line.

0:00 Yielding incorrectly
1:16 Blocking bike lanes
1:44 Lane restrictions
2:26 Passing too close (less than 1m)
5:19 Speeding
5:56 Red lights
8:05 Ignoring stop signs
9:27 Blocking crosswalks
10:30 Blocking intersections
13:58 Reverse turns
14:32 Not signalling
15:07 Misc.: distracted, reversing, etc.
16:15 Stopped/Parked improperly (a few representative clip)

Reminders:
It's illegally for a car to use/park in/stop in a bike lane (except to turn right, and only when it's a dashed line).
You must give at least 1-1.5m of space when passing cyclists - measured from the extremities, i.e. side mirror to handle bar.
If you can safely stop for a yellow light, you must do so. You must stop for a red light (even when turning right).
Turn into the nearest (right-most or left-most) lane, unless otherwise marked.
Pull over and stop when there are emergency vehicles with sirens.
Yield to pedestrians in (marked or unmarked) crosswalks. Don't reverse over a crosswalk or into an intersection.
Don't enter an intersection or marked crosswalk unless you know you have space to exit it.
Don't park/stop within 5-6m of fire hydrants, crosswalks, and stop signs.
In Vancouver, you can only do a reverse turn at roundabouts or dead-end streets.