Driving pet peeve

[i386]

We have a lot of 2-lane roads here with an occasional "passing lane". When the passing lane ends, the right lane runs out and you merge left. Cars in the left have the right of way. I never have problems in this situation.

There's one area in town however where a 4-lane turns into 2 lanes. The LEFT lane runs out and the sign says to merge right. People race to the merge point and will run you off the road (and give you the finger) if you're in the right lane. I about ready to buy a $500 beater pickup truck to maintain my lane in. I've even been ran off the road there while on my motorcycle.

 

[crunch]

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How about the person that forgets their rush after the passing lanes end?... or the guy that wants to race once you start to pass

55 before.
80 in.
55 after.

Can you shoot them?... I really feel this should be a justified, self defence...... K, a "feel good" crime

 

[WillyBWright]

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I don't use that highway anymore, but there is a heavily travelled 2-lane that has those passing lanes as you describe. Slower traffic is supposed to move to the right and the left lane is the passing lane. Years ago it was the other way around, but some idiot at the DOTcouldn't leave well enough alone. At first after the change, I used to move right, even though I always drove a bit over the speed limit. But I got tired of having to be the one to slam on the brakes because some joker grannied along 1/4mph faster than me in the left lane and didn't have the decency to move ahead of me. Far as I'm concerned, doing 58 in a 55 doesn't qualify as "Slower Traffic" even if everyone else is doing 63.

My pet peeve is people driving daytime with their parking lights on. They call them Parking lights, not Driving lights. Sheesh!

 

[JB]

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Wow, WillyB. We do see a couple of things differently.

In TX if you are going 70 in a 70 speed zone and some other guy is going 73, you are going slower and are the slower traffic required to "keep right". A better rule for those zones is "Left lane for passing only". People seem to understand that more clearly. Some, of course, don't understand either.

A car with any lights on, even parking lights, is easier to see, even in clear, sunny weather. I am sure you know that in Canada the law requires headlights on at all times. They claim that law has reduced accidents.

In TX the law requires headlights on any time the wipers are on. That is when the lights make a real difference in visibility of your car to other drivers.

I drive with headlights on at all times and always use the right lane in passing zones unless I am passing. When I pass I do it with my foot in it. Few vehicles could stay with me if they wanted to race.

In fairness, I am rarely in any traffic to speak of in those situations and most of the other drivers I encounter are neighbors who don't have a chip on their shoulder.

Driving in congested rush hour traffic would be a whole different environment. Those situations turn normal, friendly people into homicidal maniacs. I try very hard to avoid those situations.

 

[BoatBuoy]

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I don't understand anyone driving with their parking lights on either. If the conditions warrant any lights at all, turn on the headlights. Are the folks that are driving with only parking lights on trying to save their electricity?

 

[aspeck]

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I just hate it when other people are using the same the road I am on! :devil:

 

[Vlad D Impeller]

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I just hate it when other people are using the same the road I am on! :devil:

Me too.

 

[Mike722]

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Illinois had "Left lane passing only". Now it is against the law to hold up the left lane for more than a certain distance, I believe a half mile.

if you are holding someone up doing 73 in a 70, both of you will get a ticket.

Dad thinks you should be given 2 missiles each time you renew your license. His problem is that he would use them both during the first week and have to wait 4 years for two more.8)

 

[BoatBuoy]

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Isn't a grenade launcher standard equipment in Iraq? Maybe they know something.

 

[sid the squid]

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There are alot of things that **** me off on the road but one of the worst is when you get stuck behind some moron in the left lane passing another car going just slightly faster than the car being passed then after passing the car the idiot moves back into the right lane and floors it and takes off, WTF

 

[treedancer]

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Where I live south of St Louis there is a lot of state roads/single lane roads. one of my pet peeves is when on one of these twisting roads ,especially if your not familiar with it, one of the local rubes will get right on your tail about two feet from your rear bumper and hang there. I guess in his dungeon of a brain he is thinking that will speed you up. It sure doesn’t do that for me, in fact if anything, it gets my foot off the gas and sometimes on the brake rather suddenly.

Another pet peeve is the people that like to drive in rain with no lights on. :devil:

 

[snapperbait]

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Bright headlights on.........................In daylight hours, no less....

"Sport bike" riders whom seldom obey traffic laws, and thats usually ONLY if there's a cop in front of or behind em'... I do get satisfaction in knowing that they will eventually plaster themselves onto the side of a bus or other immovable object...

Un-necessary use of the horn.....

$100 car (with no muffler)....................$5000 audio system...
always pleasant to share a long red light with em'.. great music too... "f-this, f-that, you f-ing f"....might be more pleasant if the liscense plate did'nt rattle with every thump.. i dunno...

Pre-occupied drivers... Cell phone conversations, yelling at the kids.. yaknow....

Ya.. I got alot of peeves....8)

 

[dolluper]

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Just gray or blue HAIRS!!!

 

[BoatBuoy]

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Just gray or blue HAIRS!!!

Careful there. You may be talking about many of the perfect drivers on this forum.

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

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Just gray hairs !!!

Hey, I resemble that.d

 

[dolluper]

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OK I retract that:? only blue hairs that can bearly see over the steering wheel

 

[Reel Poor]

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I like the ones that pull out in front of ya when your doin 60 mph, you know the ones that makes ya hit the binders pretty hard. Then they drive 30 mph for a few hundred feet then turn onto a side road, and it's always a left too, with oncomming traffic 100 yards away and they won't turn now so both of ya sit and wait, and wait and wait. The worst part about that is, there was nobody behind me. Why couldn't they have waited just a couple of seconds longer for me to go by?

 

[jtexas]

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Tailgaters. Especially when there's traffic in front of me. And when there's two or three other open lanes. I figure, since they aren't maintaining a distance appropriate for the speed, it's up to me to maintain a safe speed given the distance between us.

 

[tommays]

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I hate right on RED you cant cross the street OR ever get a break to make a turn because traffic NEVER stops


Tommays

 

[JRJ]

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Truck drivers that block the passing lane while they inch by another truck taking forever to pass.