Posted on 08/23/2010 8:31:53 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Exactly! I get that all the time.
A car is only going ‘slow’ if there is space in front of him that he’s not using.
Driving the speed of the guy in front of you is just doing what the traffic is doing. Not much I can do about going slow in the fast lane when traffic gets backed up.
Look at his post 238. I don't think he's joking. I think he's an idiot jerk.
I don’t really care. The reason we have to slow down to merge is because of the folks speeding along in that lane. I’d love to just get up to speed and be able to go, but it’s just not safe when the lane is busy.
You have to wait until you get an opening and then go, which leads to the stop and start behaviour.
This is why when you are getting to an exit, get out of the right lane, let the folks merging have a clear lane.
People who tailgate in the left lane when you’re already exceeding the speed limnit to pass someone in the right.
Sounds like you are talking about countersteering, for motorcycles. Simply stated you are putting a left input to the handlebars for a right turn, but unlike an automobile, the motorcycle does not turn left but allows you to overcome the gyroscopic affect of the front wheel to begin a right turn with the pressure on the left handlebar.
In the case of morons turning left before they turn right, it is a learned move that requires a steering wheel movement to the left, and another to the right, unfortunately it is not a move worth doing, and it is dangerous because while they are turning left they are looking to the right where they want to go.
People who play their stereos so loud you can hear them 2 blocks away. Ever notice those people always have the worst taste in music?
You’re right. We are all peons.
No argument there, and if I’m not mistaken the limits on the Autobahn now reflect that responsibility, sort of mandated by the ones who are always there to help US.
>>I cannot say enough good things about the drivers in the Boston area - they are by and large a fantastic group of motorists and I am very happy to be among them.
Really? Maybe Bostonians are fine, but the worst drivers I see on my local commute (a major route to the two casinos here in CT) have a MA plate. I just shrug and hope they don’t kill someone.
Friday afternoons are the scariest. I’m in the right lane going ~70 in a 65 and people are passing me like I am standing still, tailgating each other at 85-90, weaving in and out of traffic trying to get to the front of the pack, etc. Most weekday mornings *I* am the one passing people, still going at the same speed.
On those days if I come up another pokey local, I generally stay over in the right lane (it is a 2 laner) until I see no one in my rear view mirror.
Maybe it is just the casino patrons.
AMEN!
Situational awareness, something I was very close to in the aviation world, transfers to the driving world. It ought to be taught, that everywhere around you something is going on, and you need to be aware of every vehicle, intersecting road, traffic signals etc within a quarter mile of you.
An example if my figures are correct, at 60 mph you are traveling 88 feet per second 36 feet short of a football field in three seconds. Things happen fast, and texting is just one example of how people pay so little regard to something that can so easily kill or injure yourself, or others on the road.
Understood if you are waiting a few seconds and nothing happens, but I have had times when I was definitely paying attention to the light, didn’t have time to get my foot from the brake to the gas before *HONK*!! Or, when waiting to make a right hand turn and a pedestrian is crossing. I knew I should have run down the pedestrian so the guy behind me could get to his destination faster.
One day they'll mess with someone with a DOE bumper installed and that will be the end of THAT behavior.
After you, DC.
Speed limits are set for money and not for safety.
Good point. I was once told that the Interstate Highway system was rated safe up to 100 mph, exception of course being mountain roads and through cities.
By the way, DC, Ben was agreeing with me.
I call it cleaning the gene pool. They only get the pee-waddling scared out of them if they drive like Genoa or do the brake-check thing.
When my daughter was 4, I received a call from my husband telling me she had been hit by a car. I was over an hour away and in total panic mode. My husband said she was alive, conscious and crying for me. All I could think was that I needed to get there to hold her one more time before she died. I was in Commerce, Texas and needed to get to Plano, TX. Fast.
Naturally, I ran into one of the Genoa Nazis. If I tried to pass her on the left, she would move her car over to stop me. After about 5 miles of this, break-checking, her slowing to a crawl, etc., I passed her on the right shoulder. Not the wisest move, but the only option I felt I had at the time. After I passed her, she immediately pulled off to the side of the rode and I could see her dialing in my rear view mirror. I laughed (while calling her a few choice names) and hoped a police man did come that might would give me an escort to the hospital.
The policeman didn’t come, but my daughter was amazingly relatively unharmed after being tossed over the hood and roof of a car and slamming her head into the concrete. It was a miracle.
The next day, as I was traveling home on the same highway, I saw the policeman sitting on the side of the road. I knew he was there waiting to catch the maniac driver; so I pulled off the road behind him. He met me behind his car. After I told him how the woman had behaved and the reason I was driving as I was, he admitted he was there to catch the “bad” driver and ruefully told me the woman was his wife. He assured me she would be getting a “spanking” that night and would explain to her that it isn’t HER job to police the highways, but hers.
Yeah, I was kidding about running people off the road, but those such as Genoa should be aware, someday they will meet someone that isn’t kidding. One should always drive courteously. If not, expect to eventually find the POed lunatic that will teach one a lesson.
Responsibility2nd, to drivers such as yourself, indeed I am. I’m an evil “tail-gater”. He’s a she, btw.
Just wow! By the way, publana, speaking of courtesy, it’s always nice to ping the guy you’re flaming.
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