And the No. 1 thing that drives motorists mad ...

The Daily Bulletin ^ | 7/17/2006 | Michelle Groh-Gordy, DriveTime

[RunningWolf]

How about the people that think they need to suddenly slow down to 5 mph to make that turn into the shopping center.

If there cars behind me and the intersection is clear with no pedestrians I do most of the braking into the turn itself.

Then how about all the pedestrians that seem to believe they have the right to simulate cattle?

W.

[RunningWolf]

I hear you but sometimes its an honest mistake because they don't know the road, usually you can tell though.

The worst is the guy that swerves across 3 lanes of traffic to make his exit. If I am not in position for the exit I just give it up and look for the next one.

W.

[Skooz]

427 Cobra.

[taxed2death]

Read my previous posts. I split lanes in CA, not CT.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Ah, Vague Movie Reference.....

[Protagoras]

So it's legal in Ca?

It's dumb everywhere.

[taxed2death]

"It's dumb everywhere."

Opinions differ FRiend.....some see being stuck in traffic needlessly as "dumb"

;)

[Cobra64]

I looked at the 427. Too nose heavy and too much power for such a light car. My 289 FIA builds 325 bhp which is sufficient to get you in trouble in a 2,300 lb. car.

[RockinRight]

I have another one that trumps them all.

When you're sitting in traffic...driving down the highway...and traffic is backed up for miles at an odd time of day. You FINALLY get through the jam and what's the cause?

There's an accident ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DAMN HIGHWAY (as in, NOT IN OUR WAY!) and people are STARING at it like they've never seen a wreck before. They might as well ask the cops to bring pieces of the car over for them to look at.

[Clemenza]

THREE things that drive this New Jersey resident NUTS!:

1. TRAFFIC. Specifically, sitting in it.

2. TOLL BOOTHS: New Jersey should change its nickname from the Garden State to the tollbooth state. I spent 30 minutes waiting to get through a toll booth near Giants Stadium on Sunday.

3. POORLY COORDINATED ROAD CONSTRUCTION: Yes, lets shut down ALL BUT ONE LANE on the turnpike extention from Bayonne/Jersey City to Newark, THE ONLY WAY OUT OF TOWN to the rest of the state! Note the the NJ DOT: schedule all such construction LATE AT NIGHT, or at LEAST keep more than ONE FRIGGIN LANE open so that I can go more than four miles within an hour!

[CherylBower]

I agree when it comes to young recruits. However, my husband switched careers to become a sheriff's deputy, when he was 36. He doesn't feel he has anything to prove, so he's not on a power trip. This is the job he was born to do, he just found out late.

[nonliberal]

You would think my coming up on their rear end, honking, flashing my lights and flipping them off would be a signal. The ones who block traffic are dense.

[nonliberal]

I should have taken the opportunity to get his name and complain about his conduct

Wouldn't do any good. They all protect each other.

[nonliberal]

the majority of Asians can't drive for crap either.

The college I went to was overrun with Asians. I STILL drive with one hand on the horn because of it.

Every day the police blotter looked like the menu at a Chinese restaurant.

Chang Fong collided with a vehicle driven by...
Wang Ho collided with a parking meter...
Abrjraoieriaon Broeuouejordfklj hit a parked vehicle owned by...

[-YYZ-]

The latter. In most of the world, including Europe, it's just assumed that motorcycles and the like will continue to move forward when possible, riding on the line between the lanes when traffic stalls, and in the city moving to the front of the line at traffic lights.

[metmom]

What's that got to do with people who use the *slow traffic keep right* lane to pass someone already going the speed limit or over when the left lane is free?

[Cobra64]

The point is, people do not keep right. They go whatever slower speed they want in the left lane, causing people to PASS them on the RIGHT. If dopey pokeys would KEEP right, then others could pass on the left. It's really a simple concept.

Speed limits are set for the lowest common denominator of people who don't even know how to signal, and are mystified by the tachometer.

[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

Stay off of Colonial/50 in O-town.