Bad Drivers

[Abrayton]

So what do other drivers do that piss you off the most. I know your list might be long but try to choose your #1.

I’m going with cruising in the passing lane.

 

[RPh_Guy]

Printer drivers can be a pain but I'd have to say bad wireless drivers are the worst.

If the network drivers are bad then you need to download them on another computer and then transfer them with a usb storage device.

 

[S-Met]

Printer drivers can be a pain but I'd have to say bad wireless drivers are the worst.

If the network drivers are bad then you need to download them on another computer and then transfer them with a usb storage device.

I hate when you update to a new driver that isn't tested and ends up buggy. You **** around thinking you are doing something wrong only to roll back to the previous version and it works fine.

As far as on the road, those fockers who zip past you, cut in front and slow the **** down! JUST DRIVE YOU DOUCHEFACE MCFXCKTARD.

 

[Pkrd]

Passing in the cruising lane really grinds my gears. Why do people do that to me?

 

[DU99]

The drivers who hog the road not doing the required speed and the ones that fail to indicate...

 

[GrogNerd]

Know where you're going, know how to get there

In this day & age of GPS units, map apps on your smartphone, even printed map directions from mapquest, there's no reason to not know when or which way to turn

 

[madscientist451]

Driving to work about a week ago, it was dark, rainy and foggy. I come around a curve on the interstate and there is a rollback truck stuck in the median with its tail end blocking the left lane. No lights, no flares, no way of seeing this death trap. The driver and another person were standing in the left lane, both talking on cell phones.
I stopped and shouted at them to turn every light they had on, set out some flares and then get off the #@*! road before they get killed.
Traffic usually rolls through this stretch about 75 mph, but that morning traffic was very light.
I put 40,000 a year on my car and unfortunately see moronic activity quite often.

 

[kh54s10]

I hate it when driving in the slow lane, going above the speed limit. No one is in the fast lane and the idiot behind me is tailgating.

 

[GrogNerd]

I hate it when driving in the slow lane, going above the speed limit. No one is in the fast lane and the idiot behind me is tailgating.

when they wait until they're right on your a$$ before changing to the passing lane

 

[Chorgey]

Going the speed limit or slightly over, they come around and cut in front of you, (because they have to be first) only to make a turn into Dunkin' that's less than 1/4 mile ahead.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Folks who think they're too special to queue up heading to an on/off ram or merge.p and try to force into the front of the line.

Yes, I understand how zippers are supposed to work. Theory and reality are different. Wait your farking turn like the rest of us.

And fast lane cruisers too. Local jurisdictions have made that ticketable but not really enforced.

Golden rule: if the traffic to your right is going the same speed or faster, you are not in the correct lane.

Oh, and folks who cut lights so close (read: run them) that you're stuck in the intersection well after a red waiting to make an unprotected left so you don't get t-boned.

Oh, and ALL the people (drive, bike, walk) who refuse to share. Bicyclists seem to be the worst but all are guilty. Walk sign? Pedestrians have the right of way and drivers need to f***ing wait. Don't Walk sign? Stay out of the f***ing street.

Wife and I have been damned near run over in front of our apartment more times than I can count

 

[jack13]

I'll pose mine in the form of a question.

You're making a left turn at an intersection with no left turn signal or delayed green (one where you just have to wait for an opening to make the left). Light turns green. Do you:

a) sit there behind the line, waiting for an opening. If none ever comes before the light turns red again, then either just sit there and wait for another cycle or make the left, technically running a red light,
or
b) move into the intersection, so the person behind you can also move in a little, so at least two cars (you and the person behind you) can get through the intersection?

This is mostly only relevant when the traffic is heavy.

 

[imnotcassie]

I'll pose mine in the form of a question.

You're making a left turn at an intersection with no left turn signal or delayed green (one where you just have to wait for an opening to make the left). Light turns green. Do you:

a) sit there behind the line, waiting for an opening. If none ever comes before the light turns red again, then either just sit there and wait for another cycle or make the left, technically running a red light,
or
b) move into the intersection, so the person behind you can also move in a little, so at least two cars (you and the person behind you) can get through the intersection?

This is mostly only relevant when the traffic is heavy.

"A" or make an opening.

 

[imnotcassie]

Dang! "B" is my answer.
(This forum doesn't allow edits to a post?)

Ahhhh I found an edit button!!!!

 

[Qhrumphf]

Depends on the jurisdiction. In the District of Columbia, B is legal and not considered "running", or at least that's the explicit enforcement policy of MPD (including cameras).

May not be the case everywhere.

I choose B. And relevant to my point about folks in the opposite direction running the light and preventing you from turning and clearing the intersection in a timely manner.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Ahh, misread. If you sit behind the line and wait, then yes you're running the light if you turn anyway.

 

[S-Met]

Dang! "B" is my answer.
(This forum doesn't allow edits to a post?)

Have you tried using the "edit" button? I'm not sure about all platforms, but the edit button is opposite bottom corner of the [reply/quote] and is left of the [report] on my device.

 

[imnotcassie]

Have you tried using the "edit" button? I'm not sure about all platforms, but the edit button is opposite bottom corner of the [reply/quote] and is left of the [report] on my device.

Ahhh i found the button. On my phone it looks like a wrench.

Trying it now.

 

[Lefou]

Come visit NJ and try driving here if you dare.
If you live here, you'll be p*ssed off five minutes after walking out the front door. Entitled jerks in expensive cars, tailgaters, shoulder riders, red light runners, people blowing schoolbus stops. I see it every day.
On my first day back to work after New Year, I'm heading to traffic court because some local decided to go around my schoolbus during a stop last summer. Nothing angers me more because it was a willful decision and he knows to contest and win, or it's 5 points off his license.

 

[Sailingeric]

I see this a lot around here- people either coming to a near stop to get into the turning lane or not using the turning lane at all to turn left.

 

[Abrayton]

I’ll add another one, the 4-way stop. Pretty simple concept, there first = go first. So don’t go when it’s not your turn, don’t wave other cars through when it is your turn, and a rolling stop does NOT count as a stop.

 

[jack13]

I’ll add another one, the 4-way stop. Pretty simple concept, there first = go first. So don’t go when it’s not your turn, don’t wave other cars through when it is your turn, and a rolling stop does NOT count as a stop.

Yep, happened to me just yesterday. ...to another poster's point, it was in Jersey and, yes, it was an expensive car. Just ploughed right through without compunction.

 

[brew703]

I commute 45 min one way to work and I see a lot.
The #1 thing that utterly pisses me off is slow drivers in the passing lane. I see it everyday to and from work and it irks me to no end.

The #2 is ******** texting and driving with their phones in front of their faces.

The #3 is people driving the same speed in the slow lane and passing lane.

State Police needs to start ticketing people holding up traffic in the passing lane. it's a law here in Louisiana but never gets enforced.

Not driving related but same thing for people wearing their pants below their butt cheeks. Another law here but never gets enforced.

 

[OG-wan Kenobi]

Doing 30 in a 55 will have me infuriated

 

[Lefou]

I run a 6-7 hour route during the school year and drive a bus/van during summer sessions, too.
The wife still wonders why I come home "spun up" about things and not wanting to so much as go 10 minutes to the store after work.

 

[Qhrumphf]

I run a 6-7 hour route during the school year and drive a bus/van during summer sessions, too.
The wife still wonders why I come home "spun up" about things and not wanting to so much as go 10 minutes to the store after work.

In my previous career I worked on the road. Can definitely relate to that.

 

[SEndorf]

I’ll add another one, the 4-way stop. Pretty simple concept, there first = go first. So don’t go when it’s not your turn, don’t wave other cars through when it is your turn, and a rolling stop does NOT count as a stop.

This.... I see people waving at each other to proceed. Don't know if they're just trying to be polite but end up confusing the hell out of everybody. Go when it's your turn. If two cars arrive at the intersection at the same time, the vehicle on the right is supposed to go.

2. People that think red lights are merely a suggestion. Lately, I've been waiting for a good 5 seconds after a light has changed to allow for the increasing amount of morons who try to squeeze out a light change.

3. People that don't know that a freeway entrance ramp is designed to get you up to speed by the time you merge. The putz ******s who enter a freeway at 40 mph are creating a dangerous situation.

 

[Lefou]

Reason Number Three and short merges conjoined with exit ramps was a big factor in getting a supercharger on my truck.

Once in a while I'd make a trek to Ft. Meade from Northern VA.
Near NASA/Goddard going south to VA, there's one area like this. At one time I lived near the golfcourse in Annandale and would avoid 495/95/66 mess and drive local to Ft. Belvoir, even though it was 40 minutes and almost 20-odd traffic lights - just to stay off the freeway.

 

[MaxStout]

Passive-aggressives who camp in the passing lane, thinking it's their duty to slow down traffic.

We need more of this:

 

[Abrayton]

Drivers who unnecessarily come to a complete stop before entering a roundabout