Posted on 08/23/2010 8:31:53 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
1. Drive really slow
2. Go first at an intersection when you were there first
3. Beep when you don’t instantly start after a green light
4. Tailgaters who easily could go around you
5. Don’t pay attention at traffic lights
6. Lane changers
7. Write text messages while driving.
8. Turn in front of you without using a signal.
9. Tailgate when you’re behind someone else.
10. Wave you through a stop sign even though they were there first.
Source: www.wedolists.com/2010/08/top-10-most-annoying-types-of-drivers/
There is sufficient information on the subject of courteous driving, fast driving, driving with a mission, to get where you are going safely, to fill volumes.
All of those and many other activities are able to be accomplished during any drive whether to the store or across country.
Slight exception to your comment — my house is on a busy street with a 40mph posted speed limit. My driveway is perpendicular to the roadway (no “wide-mouth” apron or anything like that), and it also has an incline at the bottom, so unless I want to wreck my front bumper or possibly whack into the borders on either side of the driveway, I have to take the turn relatively slowly.
My pet peeve would be the countless morons who tailgate me AFTER I’ve put my blinker on and started slowing down to make the right turn into my driveway, especially considering that I know how often this can happen so I signal and slow down with quite a bit of warning before coming upon my driveway. It’s especially annoying when they beep at me — sorry pal, but I signaled and slowed down, quit tailgating me and you won’t have a problem. I even had a woman pull her minivan over to berate me (never mind that people were beeping at her for stopping short on a busy road!) — I let a few choice words out about her ability to drive and she stormed back into her minivan (not mature on my part, I know, but I felt better!)
You fortgot the tie dies hat, John Lennon glasses and BIG HUGE bumper sticker advertising 55mpg.
To be fair, Germany probably has less drivers who are d***heads and egocentric than the US.
I was stationed there in the ‘80s and was amazed at how fast folks would go.
I've found that letting off the gas ever so slightly will remedy most of them. If they don't back off after that, I brake check them.
It’s more dangerous because you are driving faster, closer to the right lane where the really slow people are moving, and where people might be merging into the center lane to pass.
Worse, there’s a lot of people who drive on the left and just like to irritate others. You can see it because when the person behind them pulls to the right to pass, then the left-lane driver will immediately move into the center lane to block them.
But even those not paying attention, they won’t see you move over to pass, but they’ll notice the guy behind you who is now coming up quickly on their tail, and they will absent-mindedly move to the right, after a perfunctory check which won’t notice that in the next second you will be on their right in their blind spot.
The left side of your car is much easier to see than the right side. So it’s safer to pass people on their left, where they can see you, than on their right where it is easy to get caught by them changing lanes.
Genoa - I honestly believe people would have you side-swipe the car in the right lane as you move over from the left lane. Just so you are not in their way.
Every post - you state you will move over when it IS SAFE to do so. But safety is not on their mind. They are not happy doing 76 behind you? Too bad. They won’t be happy doing 76 behind the person who was in front of you. And the 10 people doing 76 ahead of that person.
Speaking of horn honking, I really enjoy driving in my small southern city. There is an unwritten rule that you do not honk the horn unless it’s a real emergency. Drivers are generally very polite and driving in town is pretty stress-free. Drivers here may have other problems, but laying on the horn is not one of them.
Mike: No, I'm not gonna move the car.
George: Jerk!
Mike: Oh, you're not?
George: Do you believe this guy?
Elaine: Come on, we'll put it in a garage.
George: I am not putting it in a garage, it's my space.
These same clucks, are the ones who upon reaching the interstate or highway on an on ramp, immediately go for the highway, ignoring the ACCELERATION lane, and thus blocking it for its intended purpose, and blocking the right lane of the highway as well. I figure their politics are about equal to how they drive.
ST. PAUL, Minn.— The Minnesota Department of Transportation’s new Dynamic Late Merge System instructs drivers to take turns when entering a single lane closure situation to help reduce delay time in work zones.
This “take-turn” strategy often referred to as the “zipper” approach is used when traffic is congested. In this instance, drivers should use both lanes all the way to the designated merge point and then take turns merging.
“Drivers can help reduce frustration in work zones if they follow the directions on the signs; otherwise, the system won’t be as effective,” said William Servatius, Mn/DOT’s workzone safety specialist. “In some back-up situations, the signs have instructed drivers to use both lanes up until the merge point, but we’ve seen drivers merge too early – probably in fear that they won’t be let in by other drivers.”
Exactly. If there is any way for me to get over, I will do it. Sometimes you cannot, or it is not practical.
I don’t usually do that though, since it is counter-productive. (It’s a trick you can use on line-cutters at theme parks. Let them cut. Wait a while, and when the line moves, simply cut back in front of them and whoever it was they “joined up with”. If you can get the whole line to do it, you can push a good 20-30 people past the line-cutters. And what are they going to do, complain to the park police that people they just cut in front of are cutting back?)
It is like reading a script of a John Wayne movie.
Yes, they will do that in almost any lane, and expect you to move out of their way, instead of just changing lanes and passing you.
Limited access highways are planned with only a certain number of on/off ramps per number of miles. The right lane, also officially known as a Travel Lane is not just for getting on or off and driver education training stresses that when merging on to a highway the merging vehicles are supposed to MATCH the speed of highway traffic.
When that doesn't happen the traveling vehicles must slow down to accommodate the merging vehicles and that creates the traffic jams we see around interchanges.
Drivers in the merging vehicles are supposed to look at the highway traffic where they will merge and then not only try to pick a spot to merge but adjust their speed to that traffic. 65 MPH traffic is not supposed to jam on their brakes to try to let someone merge who does not have the ability to safely drive their vehicle and merge properly.
On any highway, the left lane is officially known as the PASSING lane, not the "fast lane" and all other lanes are called TRAVEL lanes.
I'd love it if they'd actually do that. What, in reality, happens, is that every one moves over early, which, when done correctly, actually goes smoothly. Then, some a-hole with an "I'm better than you" mentality screams up the now-empty lane to cut everyone else off. Then everyone else is pissed, and slamming on the brakes because someone couldn't wait. I much prefer the zipper method, but what we have most is the dip method.
I believe in speed limits, I just don’t treat them as absolutes. Now, part of me wishes the limits WERE absolute, because I don’t like laws that are made to NOT be followed.
But the simple fact is that in most cases, nobody is expecting you to obey the speed limits. They are often set way below what is safe, or even below what they expect people to drive. For example, most roads are set 10 mph below what they want people to drive. Then, police only give out tickets to people going more than 10mph over the limit.
That way, you can’t really contest the ticket, like you could if the ticket was for 1mph over the limit. It’s not like you accidentally exceeded the limit by 25%. And then they will bargain with you down to a 1-9mph ticket, proving that they really wanted the speed limit 10mph faster.
However, I do follow speed limits on roads where the limits are slow (residential and local traffic roads). Where I tend to ignore limits are on the high-speed roads, where the limits are set either for the lowest common denominator of traffic and weather conditions (in which case if I’m driving at night in clear weather with no traffic on a road that is safe at 100mph, it makes no sense to force me to drive 65mph because some federal lawmaker once decided we should save gasoline).
I also tend to go the speed of the traffic. Since I like driving in the left lane because it is safer, that means I go the speed of people who drive in the left lane. i’m never the fastest car on the road, I’m following the faster cars that are driving in the left lane.
Is this you?
Are you the person who is in a left turn only lane at an intersection? You’re the first car in line, waiting for a gap in the oncoming traffic so you can turn left.
It’s not a lane with it’s own turn light, or if it has one, it doesn’t turn red on its own while the straight lanes next to you have a green light.
You wait for the gap that, sadly, never comes while the light is green. It turns yellow.
You don’t pull forward.
It turns red. You stay right where you are.
...a sarcastic “thanks” to you.
(It’s called “control of an intersection”)
No, and we don’t have access roads next to our freeways either. ;-)
Ain’t no school bus stops in the passing lane. It’s not your job to enforce the speed limit.
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