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re: Master list of bad driving tropes
Posted on 6/22/22 at 9:37 am to TheIndulger
Posted on 6/22/22 at 9:37 am to TheIndulger
Putting your turn signal on AFTER you've already applied your brakes. 
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Posted on 6/22/22 at 9:43 am to Big Scrub TX
I both enjoyed and got completely engulfed in rage reading this post.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 9:53 am to Big Scrub TX
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Master list of bad driving tropes
Not sure how it is everywhere else. But I have never encountered a good driver with an Indiana license plate. We call them IP's on the interstate (idiot parades).
Posted on 6/22/22 at 10:42 am to Big Scrub TX
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Well, this depends on how slow the car in front is. A good driver will already be AT LEAST up to the speed limit on the interstate by the time it's time to merge. If the speed limit is 65 and they are still going only 40 when it's time to merge, I'll pass their arse every time.
Yep. People that aren’t up to the speed limit at least when at the merge point can get fricked
Posted on 6/22/22 at 10:46 am to TheIndulger
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When you’re on cruise control on the interstate, someone comes up from behind in the other lane, and proceeds to drive the same speed right next to you
I fricking hate people riding right beside me. Infuriating
Posted on 6/22/22 at 10:51 am to grizzlylongcut
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I both enjoyed and got completely engulfed in rage reading this post.
I may go pit someone to vent some rage.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 10:53 am to cable
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anyone that drives with aggressive acceleration annoys the frick out of me.
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my 8,000 lb truck
Lose some weight and maybe your Tacoma could accelerate faster
Posted on 6/22/22 at 12:48 pm to Big Scrub TX
I'll add another one: 2 lane highway, sometimes in hilly/mountainous areas. One RV or just otherwise slow vehicle with a line of 5-10 cars behind them...and they won't just give the courtesy pullover to let the bottleneck pass (even in designated spots for such).
Another similar one: 2 lane highway, every 20 miles or whatever it goes to an additional lane on one side to allow passing (i.e. easing of the bottleneck). 2 variants:
a)the bad driver DOES NOT GET RIGHT IMMEDIATELY when the new lane emerges
b)the bad driver gets right but then proceeds to go 20mph faster than when it was just 2 lanes, making it much harder to actually pass them
Another similar one: 2 lane highway, every 20 miles or whatever it goes to an additional lane on one side to allow passing (i.e. easing of the bottleneck). 2 variants:
a)the bad driver DOES NOT GET RIGHT IMMEDIATELY when the new lane emerges
b)the bad driver gets right but then proceeds to go 20mph faster than when it was just 2 lanes, making it much harder to actually pass them
This post was edited on 6/22/22 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 6/22/22 at 1:24 pm to Big Scrub TX
Folks who have to swerve out the opposite way before turning, meaning, if they are in the left lane and turning left they first turn out right to take a bigger angle...IN TRAFFIC...INTO THE RIGHT LANE. Okay, I realize you may need to do this to pull into a parking place, but NOT while making a regular turn in traffic!!!
It's particularly aggravating to me as in my measly 1 mile drive home from work there is an intersection where this seems to happen daily.
It's particularly aggravating to me as in my measly 1 mile drive home from work there is an intersection where this seems to happen daily.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 1:28 pm to Big Scrub TX
I have two:
- People treating a flashing yellow light like a 4 way stop when the traffic light is out.
- People not taking the right of way when they have a whole line of cars behind them (i.e., stopping in the lane and letting somebody back out of an angled parking spot, or yielding when the other driver clearly has a yield sign).
- People treating a flashing yellow light like a 4 way stop when the traffic light is out.
- People not taking the right of way when they have a whole line of cars behind them (i.e., stopping in the lane and letting somebody back out of an angled parking spot, or yielding when the other driver clearly has a yield sign).
Posted on 6/22/22 at 1:35 pm to Big Scrub TX
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b)the bad driver gets right but then proceeds to go 20mph faster than when it was just 2 lanes, making it much harder to actually pass them
I've had frickers I've been stuck behind for miles speed up to 80 fricking miles an hour, in a 55, trying to keep me behind at these things. They had been doing the speed limit or even less.
Want some road rage? That's how you cause road rage.
This post was edited on 6/22/22 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 6/22/22 at 1:51 pm to BuckyCheese
quote:Yeah. This underscores my general observation that the easy explanation of "well, they're just safer drivers" is false. They're incompetent, not safe. Not only does most of what they do make the roads less safe (including going too slow), but they seem way more quickly triggered by the good drivers dealing with them and being on their way. Flip offs, brake checks (this has to be the single stupidest) and other passive aggressive shite like you described.
I've had frickers I've been stuck behind for miles speed up to 80 fricking miles an hour, in a 55, trying to keep me behind at these things. They had been doing the speed limit or even less.
Want some road rage? That's how you cause road rage.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 1:56 pm to Big Scrub TX
Hazards lights on in a rain storm
Posted on 6/22/22 at 1:58 pm to Big Scrub TX
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--Never using cruise control, thus causing you to pass and re-pass them as their speed randomly meanders over the miles (despite your speed never having changed once)
I drive between DFW and Louisiana a lot, and this is my biggest driving pet peeve of all time. I'm pretty non confrontational, and after two or three of these occurrences I want to run them off the road
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:10 pm to ClientNumber9
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People who merge onto the interstate at 90 mph into the slow lane and think you're the dick for not immediately dropping everything to swerve out of their way.
The exact opposite is true as well... Idiots who try to merge into 55 or 70 MPH traffic from a merge ramp at a top speed of 45MPH and expecting everyone to accommodate them. Not to mention that it is especially frustrating for the other drivers behind them who would loooooove to be able to reach the proper speed to merge. (Gwinnett County Georgia is FULL of this type of driver.)
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:15 pm to jclem11
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You baws need to take the trainpill and all the driving and traffic problems will disappear.
And if train travel is nowhere close to being feasible in your area (you know, like most of the country)?
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:30 pm to Swamp Angel
quote:General incompetence is truly amazing.
The exact opposite is true as well... Idiots who try to merge into 55 or 70 MPH traffic from a merge ramp at a top speed of 45MPH and expecting everyone to accommodate them. Not to mention that it is especially frustrating for the other drivers behind them who would loooooove to be able to reach the proper speed to merge. (Gwinnett County Georgia is FULL of this type of driver.)
Posted on 6/22/22 at 2:35 pm to Big Scrub TX
Stopping to let people in of the driver's own volition.
Don't be nice. Be lawful. Same goes for when I have a stop sign on my bike and the cross traffic does not. Without fail, someone will see me on a bike at a stop sign when they have the right of way, and stop and wave me on. In Idaho the law states that bicycles can treat stop signs as yield signs, but if there is traffic in the intersection without guidance to stop, cyclists must treat the stop sign as an actual stop sign. If you stop to be nice, you're just being dangerous. Follow the rules of the road. If you don't know them, learn them. It's gotten to the point that I'll just look at the car and refuse to go. Follow the law.
Don't be nice. Be lawful. Same goes for when I have a stop sign on my bike and the cross traffic does not. Without fail, someone will see me on a bike at a stop sign when they have the right of way, and stop and wave me on. In Idaho the law states that bicycles can treat stop signs as yield signs, but if there is traffic in the intersection without guidance to stop, cyclists must treat the stop sign as an actual stop sign. If you stop to be nice, you're just being dangerous. Follow the rules of the road. If you don't know them, learn them. It's gotten to the point that I'll just look at the car and refuse to go. Follow the law.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 5:26 pm to Odysseus32
quote:Yes, another irony of incompetence. Instead of being over-triggered, they want to be the nice guy...again, sacrificing efficiency in the system that can never be regained.
Don't be nice. Be lawful. Same goes for when I have a stop sign on my bike and the cross traffic does not. Without fail, someone will see me on a bike at a stop sign when they have the right of way, and stop and wave me on. In Idaho the law states that bicycles can treat stop signs as yield signs, but if there is traffic in the intersection without guidance to stop, cyclists must treat the stop sign as an actual stop sign. If you stop to be nice, you're just being dangerous. Follow the rules of the road. If you don't know them, learn them. It's gotten to the point that I'll just look at the car and refuse to go. Follow the law.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 5:32 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Driving slow in the left lane is an obvious baseline, but here are some others that rankle:
Incorrect. Driving in the left lane when not passing is the correct answer. The speed is irrelevant. The left lane is for passing. It was so refreshing to spend 3 weeks in Spain and see this rule followed 100% of the time.
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