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GrogNerd
mean old man
learn to recognize the signs of ADD (A-hole Driver Disease)
if you or one of your friends has any of these signs, please get help
and stop being an a-hole
if you or one of your friends has any of these signs, please get help
and stop being an a-hole
jack13
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Thing is, though, sometimes you have no choice. If you don't go into the intersection and turn when it goes red, you'll never get to go at all (assuming a steady flow coming the other way). It's kind of a trap for a cop to give you a ticket for "turning on red" when doing so is your only chance to get through the intersection. Your other choice is to sit there through multiple cycles. So 5, 10, 20 minutes. Maybe much longer. Not realistic.
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GrogNerd
mean old man
I created my own metric for driving: MPA, or Miles Per A-hole.
except, driving around the DC Metro area, I realized I was counting the reciprocal...
I am actually measuring APM, or A-holes Per Mile.
except, driving around the DC Metro area, I realized I was counting the reciprocal...
I am actually measuring APM, or A-holes Per Mile.
Drive in China for a month if you want to see some really bad drivers. Hell, five minutes will probably do the trick.
Traffic's backed up? Drive on the other side of the road!
Missed your exit on the highway? Stop and back up!
Intersection camera wants to ticket you for turning left from the right lane? Merge over from the right lane ten meters before the intersection! No worries that you're blocking the right lane and preventing five cars from making it through the light, YOU're going to get where you're going a bit faster!
Two lane road congested because of a bottleneck up ahead? Forget the lane lines, let's make it four lanes of cars leading up to the bottleneck!
Have to stop your bus on the right side of the road in two hundred meters? You've got plenty of time to merge over to the left lane and then merge back over to the right!
Traffic jam? Drive on the sidewalk! (One time I watched this happen in plain view of two traffic cops. I pointed it out to one of them - a car driving on the sidewalk directly toward the cop - and he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "What am I supposed to do about it?")
Gotta run into the store? Park in the lane and do your shopping!
The passing lane campers usually go 80 km/h (about 50 mph) in a 110 km/h (about 70 mph) zone.
And all that's just scratching the surface... I know there are places where it's even worse, but there aren't many. That's what happens when you've got tens of millions of new drivers on the road after minimal training from trainers who should never have been given their driver's licenses in the first place.
On the bright side (if you can call it that), speed limits are lower here so you've got more time to react to whatever bonkers move the guy in front of you just pulled, and even if you do run into him, it's probably not going to be much worse than a fender bender. So there's that...
Traffic's backed up? Drive on the other side of the road!
Missed your exit on the highway? Stop and back up!
Intersection camera wants to ticket you for turning left from the right lane? Merge over from the right lane ten meters before the intersection! No worries that you're blocking the right lane and preventing five cars from making it through the light, YOU're going to get where you're going a bit faster!
Two lane road congested because of a bottleneck up ahead? Forget the lane lines, let's make it four lanes of cars leading up to the bottleneck!
Have to stop your bus on the right side of the road in two hundred meters? You've got plenty of time to merge over to the left lane and then merge back over to the right!
Traffic jam? Drive on the sidewalk! (One time I watched this happen in plain view of two traffic cops. I pointed it out to one of them - a car driving on the sidewalk directly toward the cop - and he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "What am I supposed to do about it?")
Gotta run into the store? Park in the lane and do your shopping!
The passing lane campers usually go 80 km/h (about 50 mph) in a 110 km/h (about 70 mph) zone.
And all that's just scratching the surface... I know there are places where it's even worse, but there aren't many. That's what happens when you've got tens of millions of new drivers on the road after minimal training from trainers who should never have been given their driver's licenses in the first place.
On the bright side (if you can call it that), speed limits are lower here so you've got more time to react to whatever bonkers move the guy in front of you just pulled, and even if you do run into him, it's probably not going to be much worse than a fender bender. So there's that...
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Amadeo38
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I’ll mention one that nobody else has (perhaps mostly a Florida problem):
Driving in the heavy rain with your hazard lights on.
This is particularly dangerous when your hazards are the same lights as your brake lights and I can’t tell if you’re braking in the rain at night.
Driving in the heavy rain with your hazard lights on.
This is particularly dangerous when your hazards are the same lights as your brake lights and I can’t tell if you’re braking in the rain at night.
That one drives me nuts. When I see hazard lights I assume that your car is stopped and in the way of traffic.
Hazard lights are what you use when you know you're going to drive bad.
Overconfident motorcyclists. I had one tailgating me on the highway recently and he squeezed past me on the off ramp then took a right turn at a red light trying to beat the cars entering the intersection and he ended up laying his bike down and falling right in front of the truck he was trying to cut off.
I have a friend who is a truck driver. This summer he had a motorcycle scream down an on-ramp, trying to cut across in front of him, and not make it. Shawn slammed on his brakes so hard that his load (plate glass) broke through the bulkhead and into the sleeper. He didn't find out until afterwards that the cyclist had realized his error at the last minute and ditched the bike, so nobody got killed but it was CLOSE! He sent me pics of the bike and it was barely recognizable.
GrogNerd
mean old man
& the a-hole who speeds up to tailgate the car in front of him so I can't merge into traffic from the on ramp...
Has a "coexist" bumper sticker
Has a "coexist" bumper sticker
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Abrayton
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Or those that won’t move over when a lane is open so that you can merge
What do you all think about this situation....
Moderate to heavy traffic on the highway. Right lane is going slightly under the limit. Left lane is going slightly over.
Guy is tail gating and flashing lights at people in the left lane.
Is the ahole A.) the guy who won’t move over because he’d have to slow down, probably below the limit and let many cars by, or B.) the guy expecting to be able to drive as fast as he can?
Moderate to heavy traffic on the highway. Right lane is going slightly under the limit. Left lane is going slightly over.
Guy is tail gating and flashing lights at people in the left lane.
Is the ahole A.) the guy who won’t move over because he’d have to slow down, probably below the limit and let many cars by, or B.) the guy expecting to be able to drive as fast as he can?
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Abrayton
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The answer is C all of the above
I encounter this quite a bit on I-70... i usually cruise at 77 in a 70 but there are a lot of trucks locked in at 65 in the right lane. If there's a long line of cars in the right lane i'll be goddamned if i'm going to squeeze myself into a slow spot in the right lane (since i am still technically passing on the left) to let someone pass me going way above the limit. However, once the right lane clears i move right over.
In other words, is everyone obligated to move over for a (much) faster driver, even when traffic conditions don't really permit it easily?
In other words, is everyone obligated to move over for a (much) faster driver, even when traffic conditions don't really permit it easily?
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Abrayton
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I see what you’re saying. I would not pull back into the right lane and slow way down to let a speedster go past. I would zip over and zip back if there were space
People that drive with their dog in their lap. How stupid is this? #1 it's a distraction.
#2 it blocks your view. #3 it makes it difficult to make a safe turn since the dog is blocking off the lower part of the steering wheel. #4 It's unsafe for the dog. If you get in an accident the air bag with definitely kill you stupid chihuahua!
Get that dog in a harness and belt it into the back seat where it is safe!
The left lane is not there so you can speed past everybody, just to move into a space not big enough for your car, then slam on your brakes to turn right!!! I see this everyday in a 35 zone. I do 5 over as a general rule. So at 40 mph I have people cutting me off at 50 just to stop and turn. Get in line like the rest of us moron!!! You are not more important than the rest of us. But when our names are printed in the paper because you caused an accident and killed me, your name will definitely be first then.
#2 it blocks your view. #3 it makes it difficult to make a safe turn since the dog is blocking off the lower part of the steering wheel. #4 It's unsafe for the dog. If you get in an accident the air bag with definitely kill you stupid chihuahua!
Get that dog in a harness and belt it into the back seat where it is safe!
The left lane is not there so you can speed past everybody, just to move into a space not big enough for your car, then slam on your brakes to turn right!!! I see this everyday in a 35 zone. I do 5 over as a general rule. So at 40 mph I have people cutting me off at 50 just to stop and turn. Get in line like the rest of us moron!!! You are not more important than the rest of us. But when our names are printed in the paper because you caused an accident and killed me, your name will definitely be first then.
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Abrayton
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How about when traffic is being funneled to one lane because of an accident, construction, etc... and the a-holes that zip passed the line of cars and try to budge in as far up as they can
Yes, I'm particularly enamored of folks that use acceleration lanes for passing stopped traffic...
My golden rule, it's the cars to the right, not behind me. If I'm moving faster than the cars on my right i will stay the course until clear and THEN change lanes to let someone behind me pass.
Then there's those who literally ride the shoulder to pass traffic. Once saw someone do that....right to the back of the squad car attending to the accident causing the traffic. If there's any cosmic justice I hope the driver was arrested for felony reckless.
I had someone a couple months ago do this flying out of an emergency vehicle service road, and full speed on to the onramp I was driving up. If I hadn't slammed brakes I would have been nearly t-boned. Driver then started weaving between lanes and damned near took out a motorcycle.
The a-holes are the people that line up single file and don't zipper like they are supposed to.
If people zipper like they are supposed to, no one can cut the line.
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Why, Prius drivers?
If there's enough room for you to move over for him to pass you and then move back to the left lane to pass the truck yourself without having to slow down, you should. Otherwise, he should deal with the fact that traffic's going slower than he'd like and he can't do a damn thing about it.
Same logic that I heard from an insurance company doing "safe driving" training to give your employer a break on rates.
"There's never an excuse to exceed the posted limit, ever". Except when the flow is 20mph over and you're in the right lane with cars dangerously weaving around you.
And "leave X amount of following room (whatever the figure is these days). You might be surprised when people don't cut you off". Except I'm not surprised when your 4 car lengths becomes space for someone else so always leaving that room means perpetual state of slowing down and then potentially getting rear ended or more dangerous weaving.
I get the theory. And in a perfect world that'd be the case.
Reality don't work like that. Some c*** wants to wait till the last minute, sorry but I'm not letting you in. Zipper or not.
There are spots around here where zippers actually work very well. There are far more where they don't.
The jerk who rides your ass in the left lane in heavy traffic as you’re passing cars in the right lane and a dozen cars in front of you are all on each others asses. You’re not getting anywhere even if I hit my brakes just to move over.
And the person who meanders in the left lane but then speeds up as you go to pass them on the right.
Lastly, the ******* that doesn’t pay attention at a traffic light and causes you to wait through another cycle.
And the person who meanders in the left lane but then speeds up as you go to pass them on the right.
Lastly, the ******* that doesn’t pay attention at a traffic light and causes you to wait through another cycle.
Then a game of chicken is it. I bet you don't let me hit you.... haven't lost that game yet.
There is a particular exit between home and work that has an accident EVERY SINGLE MORNING at between 7:45 and 8AM. It leads to a high school and a junior college. I have seen drivers STOP in the left lane because they waited until the last minute to get over and then couldn't.
Once you get past that exit, the freeway smooths out and everyone speeds up to 75-80mph. There are a couple of spots where you can see that all the cars for a mile ahead of you are going the same speed but the habitual tailgaters will get road rage because I keep 3 seconds of space in front of me. They zip around me and are stuck going the exact same speed until we both turn off 5 miles later. But they got to the stop light first...
It's about a 10 mile drive to work and over 8 of that is on the freeway. I can still remember the day in 2017 when I got to work astonished that I hadn't seen anyone do anything stupid on the drive!
Once you get past that exit, the freeway smooths out and everyone speeds up to 75-80mph. There are a couple of spots where you can see that all the cars for a mile ahead of you are going the same speed but the habitual tailgaters will get road rage because I keep 3 seconds of space in front of me. They zip around me and are stuck going the exact same speed until we both turn off 5 miles later. But they got to the stop light first...
It's about a 10 mile drive to work and over 8 of that is on the freeway. I can still remember the day in 2017 when I got to work astonished that I hadn't seen anyone do anything stupid on the drive!
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Amadeo38
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Four lane (two each side) 35mph road in the city. Two cars driving in left lane ahead of you approaching green light. You’re in right lane and want to turn right at the upcoming intersection. Light turns red and the second car in left lane moves over to right lane so they’re first in line, blocking all traffic behind them from turning right on red until the light turns green again.
I always honk and give them the bird, but they’ll never be considerate so it’s pointless.
I always honk and give them the bird, but they’ll never be considerate so it’s pointless.
Another thing that bugs me is when I am waiting to turn right on a red and a big truck pulls up to my left, as far forward as he can, so I am completely blind and can't go until the light turns.
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