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re: Why are Houston drivers such scumbags?
Posted on 9/17/26 at 9:12 am to NorthTxLSU
Posted on 9/17/26 at 9:12 am to NorthTxLSU
I don't know, but I found out last weekend they love to go from the left lane cutting across traffic to an exit at the last second... Seen in a number of times in a 2 day period... 
Posted on 9/17/26 at 9:13 am to NorthTxLSU
I drove for an oilfield supply company for a while and Houston was the scene of 90% of my close calls with idiot drivers. It's the demographics.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 9:17 am to blueboy
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It's the demographics.
Lots of Asian women drivers there?
Posted on 9/17/26 at 9:18 am to NFLSU
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In Austin, you can just expect people to pull out right in front of you without a care in the world or watch them suddenly cross 3 lanes to make their exit but it's okay because they put on their blinker while they were doing it.
You probably are the type that decides to speed up to close the gap when you see the blinker come on. Then gets mad.
If the gap is there, then it’s open to get into.
I hate it when people can’t just flow into the gap once they put the signal on.
This post was edited on 9/17/26 at 9:19 am
Posted on 9/17/26 at 9:24 am to HagaDaga
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You probably are the type that decides to speed up to close the gap when you see the blinker come on
Nope.
Austin drivers are just clueless and forget there are people around them. They're not assholes, they're just retarded.
The amount of women I see in Austin doing their makeup while driving is unlike anywhere else.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 9:25 am to theliontamer
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Houston is the culmination of pretty much everything liberals hate about conservatives. Unchecked capitalism, middle class commuters, sprawling suburbs, heavy traffic because everyone is rushing somewhere to make money, little spent in public beautification projects, oil and gas industry, technical and business minds. The drivers are just a side effect of all of that.
You forgot little to no public transportation.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 9:28 am to HagaDaga
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You probably are the type that decides to speed up to close the gap when you see the blinker come on. Then gets mad.
That's why you cant use your blinker in Houston......gives away your next move and they will definitely move up to cut you off. Sucks but true. I was a believer in signals until I started driving in Houston. Its like showing your hand when you play poker in that town.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 9:35 am to NorthTxLSU
How early do you go to work that the loop was moving?
Posted on 9/17/26 at 9:48 am to NorthTxLSU
Your first problem is driving in the single worst traffic spot of Houston. The western side of I-610 near Westheimer/Galleria/Post Oak area is the worst traffic I've ever driven in. It's stand still traffic 7 AM to 10 PM.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:00 am to FliesByNight
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You kind of get used to it and it's just easier to say they are idiots and let them fly by. You have to be cautiously aggressive driving Houston. I use 610 and 45 in and around downtown daily and it's just crazy with how some people speed around. I personally just get over when I'm able to. I want to get to where I'm going, but I'm not in THAT much of a hurry.
i drive a lot for work in Houston visiting jobs and customers daily. Been that way for nearly 10 years now. Ive calfified to the jackasses on the road now.
225, $ 45 between beltway and 610 are the worst areas to drive in Houston for needless aggression. Along with any mildly confusing "which lane do i need to be in"
The shepard bend on 45 will never cease to confuse people.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:03 am to NorthTxLSU
Houston is absolute madness on the hwy, mad max thunderdome shite. Dogs flying out of truck beds, lawnmowers too, beat up trucks with drunk illegals, charger clowns, randos racing.
I know people from Los Angeles, Apelanta etc all admit Houston hwy is a life threatening experience
I know people from Los Angeles, Apelanta etc all admit Houston hwy is a life threatening experience
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:07 am to NorthTxLSU
This happens in all large cities. You can be driving cross country in a leisurely manner and when you get to a city, someone can and will kill you if they don't like your driving.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:12 am to NorthTxLSU
We have zero traffic enforcement here. Finding a job where you don’t have to get on an interstate will make your life immeasurably better.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:19 am to Sam Quint
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they werent prior to 2005
I was telling a guy this the other day. We moved to N Dallas in 2006. Traffic was considerably lighter and drivers were much better than south Louisiana. That all changed when CA started emptying. Now people will try to run you off the road if you’re going 5 mph over the speed limit and can’t stay in their own lane.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:21 am to NorthTxLSU
As a city Houston grew up very fast it was a smaller City until the seventies and a lot of the population growth took place out in the suburbs.
So a lot of the people that grew up here had to travel a lot of Farm to Market roads, freeways that had not much traffic .
We learned to drive as if there were no traffic and then the '80s suddenly there are more cars, but we didn't stop driving the way we learned how to drive. And that just became the way Houston drivers drive
So a lot of the people that grew up here had to travel a lot of Farm to Market roads, freeways that had not much traffic .
We learned to drive as if there were no traffic and then the '80s suddenly there are more cars, but we didn't stop driving the way we learned how to drive. And that just became the way Houston drivers drive
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:25 am to NorthTxLSU
Texassholes
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:27 am to NIH
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We have zero traffic enforcement here. Finding a job where you don’t have to get on an interstate will make your life immeasurably better.
cops are there to clear accidents, not prevent them. You have to really want to be pulled over on the freeway for them to do anything
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:44 am to NorthTxLSU
Sounds like he was in a hurry.
Unlike the morons in North Dallas where every fifth car has a NEW DRIVER sticker on the back, and most aren't teenagers.
So you can imagine the bullshite we have to put up with
Unlike the morons in North Dallas where every fifth car has a NEW DRIVER sticker on the back, and most aren't teenagers.
So you can imagine the bullshite we have to put up with
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:51 am to NorthTxLSU
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I get in the far left lane
Here is your first problem. If you have someone come up behind you, then you need to change lanes to the right. You are going TOO SLOW.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:52 am to NorthTxLSU
Every time I've driven through Houston it's like Mad Max, absolutely no rules or police enforcement.
But when I went back across the border on I10, I had a dumb baw doing to me exactly what you described.
But when I went back across the border on I10, I had a dumb baw doing to me exactly what you described.
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