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/
“Driving on the wide shoulder in Texas to let others pass is now a thing of the past”
I had a guy pull over to the shoulder and let me pass yesterday in Chambers County.
11. My MIL.
We hosted a foreign exchange student from Germany back in the mid-80s. He was in the process of getting his license back then. I don't remember the actual numbers, but the cost just to take the training was outrageous. Plus if you failed, you had to take the entire class over again, not just re-test. They have a lot more to go through than most Americans ever did for their license.
Well, ya gotta turn right to go left (at least on dirt). ;-)
But in my opinion, it is ALWAYS safe to move into the right lane. I can’t think of a time where I’ve ever felt that a person in the left lane was trapped in the lane, with it being impossible to move over to the right lane.
IT’s not like we think you should instantaneously be out of the way. We just think that within a half-mile or so, you should be able to get your car from one lane to another on a highway.
So I don’t see how it would ever be “obvious” to me that you couldn’t move over, since I believe you can ALWAYS move over. You just have to signal, match speeds, and go. Maybe you have to slow down for a car or two in the right lane who decide they want to cut you off, or wait a minute to get past a few cars before one of them acknowledges your signal and slows down a bit.
Put me in the left lane, with one mile to get off the highway, and I’ll find a way across 4 lanes of traffic. I don’t think it takes much skill either. So I guess I just don’t understand the premise that you could be “stuck” in the left lane with no possibility of getting over.
“Don’t accelerate up to highway speed on an entrance ramp and expect everyone on the highway to deal with you merging in at 40 mph.
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I disagree with ya in this one. I call the right lane the “get on-get off lane”. Don’t be in it unless you are getting on or off. Get in the middle lane or the fast lane. And stay out of the way.”
Wow I was going to go off on this one, then I saw who it was, so I’ll tone it down.
The merging driver should be moving close to the same speed as the traffic they are merging into at the bottom of the ramp. Especially if it’s busy, people have to use the right lane, so everyong “get[ting] in the middle lane or the fast lane” isn’t always feasible. Near rush hour, it’s completely impractical and downright dangerous.
If the merging driver doesn’t match speed, they force people to slow down behind them when they do merge. That “slowed down” area persists until traffic eases up significantly. This can — and does — cause accidents.
An accident might not happen right away. It might happen 10 minutes or more later. But if one does happen as a result of the “slowed down” area, the merger’s actions are the one that set up the conditions that caused it.
These accidents hurt and even kill people. The irony is that the slow merger won’t be there and probably won’t have any idea what they have caused. But the people hurt by the slow merger’s actions are still just as injured or dead.
Not joking. What someone is doing by merging into 55 or 60 mph traffic at 40 mph is VERY dangerous and really does get people hurt and killed.
Not here where I live, it is simply a case of...?
Gotta be grew up that way.
13. Left lane drivers that think they’re enforcing the speed limit by driving the speed limit. I either give these types a heart attack when they have to slam on the brake when I re-enter the left hand lane a tad too early or they go into the ditch. Either way, they get out of the left hand lane. Pronto.
if you are doing 190 and a car comes up behind you, you had better move over or risk losing your license.
Some of the worst Autobahn accidents have been between the car doing 190 and the idiot who didn’t live in the rear view mirror while in the left lane doing 100 kph. In Deutchland, you had better pay way more attention than you might in the USA.
It’s called keeping your butt out of the passing lane unless you’re passing someone. Drive in the left hand lane, expect to be tailgated or ran off the road. Nice people opt for the former. I opt for the latter.
Bingo, and that’s because they are better drivers. Chevy even tested the C6 Vette on the Autobahn at 180mph.
Contrary to popular belief, I was never a speed nazi. It is called officer discretion and I am free to use it. You have to be reckless or talk yourself into a ticket with some LEOs, and esp. this former LEO. I'd prefer a safe driver going over the speed limit, rather than some "do-gooder" going EXACTLY the speed limit, forcing people to do unsafe things like pass on the right or tailgate.
Also, your examples like the woman in labor, etc., are not what I’m talking about.
Are you telling me you can interpret people's intentions through your rear view mirror?! Wow!
I’m referring to drivers who exceed the speed limit routinely. I’m not trying to enforce the law, but I do insist that tailgating is foolish and dangerous when someone in the left lane is merely waiting for a SAFE opportunity to reenter the right lane and let the fool by.
Wow...not only can you interpret their intentions, you can judge their character! Perhaps you should run for a political office. You'd be a perfect bureaucrat FRiend ;)
Yep, you are the problem. Keep out of the left lane if you aren’t passing someone. Be courteous and get over to let those going faster than you pass. Duh.
That is true, however, the driver doing 190 had some responsibility as well since reaction times at that speed are severely compromised, the driver was driving without regard to possible obstacles and emergency situations.
Yeah, I’m pretty good at sizing them up.
It’s seen as someone being nice and neighborly.
Same here in SD. but as you note, still a very dangerous practice, and the one practicing it will more than likely not be the one that has the accident, that their misguided niceness caused. It is why there is a drivers manual with the rules of the road, in each state.
but it does mean that I get to run idiots such as yourself off the road. It gives me such a thrill to see the back end of your car poking out of the ditch in my rearview mirror.
Obviously, your tailgaters have been far too nice to you as you have yet to learn your lesson.
I would call that attempted murder. You're deliberately trying to force someone into a ditch because they're not driving as you think they should.
I hope you're joking.
The niceness is especially dangerous when someone on a four-lane (in town with lots of traffic) stops short to wave someone oncoming to turn left in front of them, when there is another lane of traffic next to them with the right of way that has no intention of stopping or any warning that they will need to. It could be a fatal broadside collision.
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