Lane drifting is my biggest pet peeve. I’m one of those rare types who actually signals his lane changes, tries to stay in lane, and generally acts like the markings on the road mean something; not that I’m perfect, but I try not to be terrible. Every single time I leave the house, I see someone getting this wrong. If I’m lucky, there are multiple lanes in each direction and the idiot’s just lane splitting in an SUV, but more often it’s someone on residential streets who’s driving on the wrong side of the road, and gives me dirty looks when I get the (expletive) out of their stupid way.
There’s an intersection fairly near me, on a slight curve, and it’s the site of most of the really bad lane discipline I see. There are three straight-ahead lanes, and two left turn lanes. From the leftmost straight-ahead lane, immediately after this intersection, two left-turn lanes emerge to get on the freeway headed South, while from the rightmost lane, there’s a turn to get on the freeway headed North. There’s a slight right-hand curve across the intersection. Sometimes, I’m looking to get on the freeway headed south, so I get into the leftmost lane, and as I’m moving into the lanes for the freeway, inevitably I’m cut off by someone coming from the middle lane. Sometimes, I need to carry on straight ahead, for which I need to be in the middle lane. Whenever I do that, some imbecile drifts into the area I need to be in, just casually drifting to the right, and almost always then goes on to get on the freeway headed south. Usually with no idea where the honking was coming from as I tried to alert them to their attempts to hit me. Almost nobody seems to understand how to cope with an intersection with three lanes entering and three lanes leaving.
Of course, I am in California, and people round here get their licenses by sending in box tops…
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davidjosephsmith11 5:17PM Report
The thing that IRKS me most is when you are approaching a busy four-way intersection to turn left. During a green light the driver in front of you, turning left as well, DOESNT proceed into the intersection!!! The red light comes and we remain in the same position until the next green light!!! So on, so forth. PLEASE! You have the right of WAY!!!”
The person making a left hand turn has the right of way? Really? And you’re peeved because someone chooses NOT to block the intersection?
he person making a left hand turn has the right of way? Really? And you're peeved because someone chooses NOT to block the intersection?
What he's probably trying to get at is that in many states (and it varies state to state), it is perfectly legal to enter an intersection on a green light to make a left hand turn, and it is legal to complete that turn when the light turns red and you're already in the intersection. There's no blocking of the intersection. If you're at an intersection that is experiencing heavy oncoming traffic and has a permissive-only left turn light, that driver that refuses to enter the intersection could be stuck there holding up traffic for quite awhile.
Don’t like people who take up two spaces when they park? I’ll tell you what, boys. If you pay to fix all the dents and dings and scratches those inconsiderate clods put on my car I’ll park anyway you want. Otherwise you and the rest of the moonbats can kiss my …!
I’ll assume for the moment that you’re not trolling and that you actually believe what you wrote.
In the past, I have been sorely tempted to squeeze my beater into a spot half-occupied by some inconsiderate fool. By squeezing I mean giving it enough gas to push the offending car over with mine.
I never did that. I never will. But don’t bet on somebody else not doing it.
Its the timid, and hence inefficent, drivers that bug me the most; you know, the ones that:
start braking a half block in front of a green light because they are anticipating the yellow,
if they are making a right turn after waiting at a red light simply take their foot of the brake… and forget to give it any gas so they just kind of crawl through the turn,
enter the freeway from an on-ramp at 30 mph,
and those that will stop a car length behind the car in front of them at a red light… and then bit by bit creep up.
Well, I will try to keep my list short. First, there are those people who, at red lights will inch forward for the whole red light like they are going to jump out there when it changes, and then when the light does change, they sit there like they forgot where they were. And all those STUPID people who are incapable of reading those large signs that tell you that there is a lane closed ahead and everyone needs to get into the open one. They stay in the lane to be closed until there is no more lane. Like they are going to get to the ‘head of the line’ faster. Traffic would flow so much fast in those construction zones if they would get over right away, and not hold up traffic trying to force their way in at the last moment. I saw signs in Oklahoma that said the cars had to change lanes immediately or they would face fines. NO ONE got over! Yes, I was already there. And I too, hate those people with the bass so loud it makes my chest hurt.
They stay in the lane to be closed until there is no more lane. Like they are going to get to the ‘head of the line’ faster. Traffic would flow so much fast in those construction zones if they would get over right away, and not hold up traffic trying to force their way in at the last moment.
No. No. No. No it wouldn’t. We’ve covered this. In Minnesota they’ve even made a point of putting up signs telling you to use both lanes until you get to the merge, and that, it turns out, makes traffic flow faster.
The traffic will still slow down and eventually stop simply because you’re now trying to fit twice as many cars into one lane as it had before. That is going to happen regardless of early lane changes or one-by-one lane changes.
The traffic will still slow down and eventually stop simply because you're now trying to fit twice as many cars into one lane as it had before. That is going to happen regardless of early lane changes or one-by-one lane changes.
But if everyone merged early, traffic could go through at a steady, albeit slow, pace instead of people stopping to let the a**holes who think they need to speed to the end of the blocked lane in. I'm sure those people that do that are much more important than every other driver (in their own minds anyway).
My most annoying thing isn’t anything done that’s particularly dangerous. I don’t class people doing dangerously stupid things as just annoying; I have another catergory for them. But for pure annoyance, those who throw their cigarette butts out the window top MY list.
Another one… People who stop well behind the line at sensor-operated lights. And they wonder why the light doesn’t change. And the people behind them begin to get really annoyed.
The gas station is busy. You are behind a car, waiting your turn while he finishes filling his gas tank. After filling his tank he leaves his car and goes into the Mini-Mart and does not return for an extended period. I don’t know if he was buying something or using the bathroom. IF THIS PERSON IS YOU, PLEASE MOVE YOUR CAR TO AN ACTUAL PARKING PLACE…THE GAS PUMP IS NOT A PARKING SPACE!!!
Tailgating. It’s simply dangerous and doesn’t get you anywhere. Nearly had the rear end of my new Mazda bashed in yesterday when the person behind me was rear-ended by a tailgater… fortunately, the person directly behind me left enough space between us that he wasn’t pushed into me… but he came DARN close… :S
Multiple lane changes in one move. Sorry - when you’re in the far right lane of a 4 lane interstate, you need to signal, move one lane over when you have space, pause, check for your next lane change, then proceed and repeat. I regularly see people zip across three lanes without signalling in one fell swoop, not checking to see if the lanes are clear when they make the move… including idiotic moves like sweeping right in front of semis, where the person in the left lane can’t possibly see you coming until you pop out from in front of the semi…
Refusal to merge with traffic at an interchange - I constantly find that 90+% of all drivers do the polite alternating merge where they let traffic in, but then some fool decides they don’t want to merge with traffic, and from the on-ramp they blow past everyone else, half on the shoulder, half on the road, until they literally have no other choice but to merge - causing all the other traffic to hit their brakes and making the backup 10x worse…
Complete obliviousness to marked lines - passing when there’s a double yellow on a 2-lane road… or in the case of one interchange I pass everyday - there’s a LONG strip where a merging stream of traffic has its own marked lane that slowly approaches the main highway, with a nice expanse of pavement between the two lanes (the on-ramp and the rightmost lane of the interstate)… there’s no barrier, and people just cross those solid white lines at random… so instead of a smooth merge, its a quarter-mile of free-for all where people are paying NO attention to marked lanes.
1)People who think “loud” = “cool” when it comes to engine sounds. (vrrm, vrrm in a quiet neighborhood)
2)Smokers who diddle with their smoke instead of drive, exhaust noxious fumes out their open window into my open window or A/C intake, and toss their smoldering butts out the window into my car, onto the street, or into the brush along the road.
Depends…Are like the MILLIONS of smokers who just throw their cigarette butts out the window when done???..Or when the ashtray is full…just dump it out the window when waiting at a stop-light (which I’ve seen countless times).
