Thee are quite a few MORE that should be on the list. Most of them can be summed up simply: NOT knowing traffice laws and/or generally accepted rules of the road.
Forinstance, use the Left or passing lane to pass and then move back over especially if you see someone coming up behind you who may want to drive faster than you and pass you.
Which brings up another problem other than just knowing the laws, it's called driver judgement. Too many people can't judge relative speed of other drivers. It's a safe bet that if someone is coming up quickly behind you on an interste that they are driving faster than you are so you might want to consider moving to the right if and when safely possible.
People using "turning lanes" which are generally a one lane portion inbetween a 2 or 4 lane road. they are supposed to be for TURNING and you should enter and slow down and perhaps stop and then turn. They are NOt another lane for peole to drive long distances in.
2) A driver in a cross street who turns onto my lane in front of me when there are no cars behind me. Why couldn't the driver wait another 15 seconds for me to pass before turning onto the road?
1) Drivers who toss cigarette butts out the window onto the road.
-PJ
#2 is is caused entirely (well, mostly) by those violating #3.
On a two-lane, when you look in your rear-view mirror, and see 5 to 10 cars lined up behind you, you are doing something wrong! Pull over and let us pass!!
Don't care much about cell phones. There aren't as bad as eating or doing your nails. ;)
#2 is #1 with me.
I have come to the conclusion that the roads here in Hampton Roads, VA are full of dehydrated idiots. If you add water, be it gaseous (fog), liquid (rain), or solid (snow, sleet, ice) all the idiots appear. People either drive like nothing is wrong (i.e. NASCAR on steroids mode) or slow down into Granny scratching her nose on the steering wheel speed when any precipitation is present.
And a notice for tailgators.....the closer you get, the slower I go.
Nothing is more frustrating than planning a trip across town and giving yourself an extra 15 minutes in order to not be late to your destination only to have some halfwit that doesn't give a rat's rear about you or your valuable time boxing you in or in some other way working his/her tail off to keep you in your place: BEHIND him/her.
Honestly... I believe that I can understand rode rage in cases like that. And the kicker? According to the law if you are one of those that gets frustrated with one of these boorish, discourteous, unceremonious a**h**es then you are the one that is the criminal.
Of course this is my opinion only and is not meant to reflect the viewpoints of or to be an endorsement by Free Republic.
#2 is the primary one, and is a direct cause of #'s 3, 4, and 7.
No. 12.......Drivers who blow off the "merge ahead" signs, ride the empty lane at top speed and then put on their blinkers to cut into the front of the line.
Leni
No 1 should have been people who stay in the left lane on the interstate forcing people to pass on the right.
My pet peeve was not listed: Jerks who can't/won't politely merge into traffic. When a lane is closing down or when traffic backs up at an exit, these jerks go straight to the FRONT of the line and expect to be let in. Instead of waiting their turn at the back like everyone else does. I have a cardboard sign in my car that says "Cutting in line is juvenile!". I flash it when one of these idiots wants me to let them in near the front of the line.
The biggest root cause of traffic jams are cops pulling motorists over for a ticket. The gapers just don't seem able to help themselves. *%&$#* the cops and the people who give them a quota to fill.
Okay, this maybe true--but the converse is as well.
I'm one of those jerks who drives the speed limit, mostly. I tend to keep to the slower lanes. What peeves me off the most are self-righteous jerks who tail gait you in the slow lane when you're still going about five miles over the posted limit.
So even if I'm going 60 in a 55 mile lane, and the passing lanes are free, GUARANTEED, there's some jerk-wad gunning behind me (often in one of those crappy little rice mobiles). Do they pass me? Heck no.
No, of course, its all men's fault - us grooming on the way to work - since I see that very often.
I often see men sticking their electric razors into their cigarette lighter sockets and getting a good shave. Though, it is far more irritating to see them with the basin and straight razor as well.
Then there's men using their blow dryers too. Boy that cheeses me.
Yes, men are the problem with grooming.
Women, however, are never applying their war paint as they are going down the road, smoking, drinking coffee AND talking on their cell phones. That never happens twice in a commute at least . . .
There seems to be some kind of kneejerk response to cell phone use while driving. I know people who live on their cell phone in the car who complain every time they see another person do something on the road they do not like. They will automatically assume the offending person is on a cell phone.
#2 is a big reason for traffic bottlenecks and accidents. A person has to be a complete and blithering idiot to be driving in the left lane if the two lanes to your right are full of drivers passing you, honking their horns and flipping you off.
They teach you in driver's education that the left lane is a passing lane. If you're holding up traffic and they're passing you on the right...please get a clue.
The penalty for number 2 should be death by public hanging, on live TV.
It's a question of courtesy. You don't have to drive fast if you don't want to but at least have the courtesy to get out of other people's way.
RE: 10 - See it every day. And the dopes are 10-20 mph slower than traffic flow.
No. 4. They are what make the roads dangerous.
3. You look in your rear-view mirror and see another car driving within inches of your rear bumper. If you were to stop suddenly, the driver behind you would no doubt be meeting you in your front seat for lunch.
How about seeing a member of the Kennedy clan behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. That has to rate somewhere.
If the #2s out there would get their fecal material aligned, the incidence of #3 and #4 would be drastically reduced.