7am drivers vs 12pm drivers

[Exterous]

I shifted my in-office hours a bit due to some remote work I've been doing. I thought I would like driving in at noon instead of 7am. Sure I get to sleep in more but man the noon drivers are more irritating. Total traffic volume seems to be about the same but the 7am drivers move. 85mph+ in a 70mph zone and 62 in a 55mph zone is pretty normal. Noon drivers? Twice I've been stuck behind cars 3 abreast on a 3 lane highway going 68.001, 68 and 67.9998 mph respectively in that same 70mph zone. 62mph on that 55mph road? Try 49mph.

I miss my 7am peeps

 

[Six]

Yep. Rush hour drivers are the professional drivers. Non-rush hour drivers (except service and delivery folks, minus landscaping folks) are slow, don't give a F, and sometime make retarded decisions....like speeding through the parking lot to beat a large vehicle that's backing out.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I shifted my in-office hours a bit due to some remote work I've been doing. I thought I would like driving in at noon instead of 7am. Sure I get to sleep in more but man the noon drivers are more irritating. Total traffic volume seems to be about the same but the 7am drivers move. 85mph+ in a 70mph zone and 62 in a 55mph zone is pretty normal. Noon drivers? Twice I've been stuck behind cars 3 abreast on a 3 lane highway going 68.001, 68 and 67.9998 mph respectively in that same 70mph zone. 62mph on that 55mph road? Try 49mph.

I miss my 7am peeps

12:00 grandma and grandpa and the rest of the retirees come out.

Da fuq you life where you get the privilege of driving 85 in rush hour? That's not rush hour thas is supreme living.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

7AM? The local news stations classify the morning commute as being 5AM here in Atlanta. And then that morning rush hour doesn't stop until 11AM, sometimes Noon. Afternoon rush hour starts at 3PM and lasts until 10PM.

 

[rh71]

Twice I've been stuck behind cars 3 abreast on a 3 lane highway going 68.001, 68 and 67.9998 mph respectively

When the autonomous vehicles start hitting the road more, that's what you'll see all the time. Except at 55mph. Bank on it.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Da fuq you life where you get the privilege of driving 85 in rush hour? That's not rush hour thas is supreme living.

That. If traffic is moving during rush hour, you live in the sticks already.

Took me 2 hours to go home today. 29 miles.

 

[zerocool84]

12:00 grandma and grandpa and the rest of the retirees come out.

Da fuq you life where you get the privilege of driving 85 in rush hour? That's not rush hour thas is supreme living.

Evident by him saying traffic is the same at 7am and 12pm. This person does not deal with traffic.

 

[Exterous]

That. If traffic is moving during rush hour, you live in the sticks already.

I guess if you count near a city in the top 20 largest cities as being in the sticks. We're also fortunate to be near one of the busiest roads in MI that holds 2 of the top 10 most accident prone intersections.

Da fuq you life where you get the privilege of driving 85 in rush hour? That's not rush hour thas is supreme living.

Evident by him saying traffic is the same at 7am and 12pm. This person does not deal with traffic.

Agreed. I have had to deal with much worse in the area. It does help that 1st shift at most of the car and car related industries starts at 6am and second shift starts at 2pm so a huge percentage of the SE MI population is already at work by 7am. Being able to avoid 275 and 75 traffic is also key to a better commute

When the autonomous vehicles start hitting the road more, that's what you'll see all the time. Except at 55mph. Bank on it.

I can't wait. When I was younger I thought I would be sad if autonomous vehicles became a thing because I liked driving. But I now I'd rather take a nap or something on the way in and not have to worry about some idiot not paying attention

 

[purbeast0]

I purposefully look for jobs that are going the reverse commute direction. I also leave for work around 5:45 or so, so I also don't hit any traffic. Leaving around 2pm also makes for a no-traffic commute.

 

[NoCreativity]

When the autonomous vehicles start hitting the road more, that's what you'll see all the time. Except at 55mph. Bank on it.

And yet you will probably make it wherever you are going faster because your average speed will be the same or greater than it currently is during rush hour.

 

[RLGL]

Around here we have the 10 to 2 crowd, 40 in a 55 on a two lane road where passing is risky and don't even ask about a four lane, it's scary .

 

[Red Squirrel]

I hate driving around at 12pm because of lunch traffic. At 7am there's hardly nobody on the road so it's great. 8am it gets bad though. But 12pm is the worse, because while people may start work at different times, almost everyone goes for lunch at 12pm so that's when the traffic is almost at it's worse. Then there's 3pm and 5pm traffic. That gets pretty hairy too. 3pm because of all the soccer moms picking up kids from school and 5pm because most people finish work at or around that time and then go do errands. And I live in a small city... I don't know how people in big cities put up with the traffic there. I've been through Toronto area during rush hour before (thankfully not as a driver) and I would rather drink gasoline and set myself on fire than to deal with that on a regular basis. FTS.

I work mostly 12h shifts so the nice thing about that is that it's 7am to 7pm. At 7am there's not really much traffic and at 7pm traffic dies down a bit too.

 

[ultimatebob]

When the autonomous vehicles start hitting the road more, that's what you'll see all the time. Except at 55mph. Bank on it.

Except that nobody will care, because they'll all be busy watching Red... er... YouTube videos on their way to work

 

[zinfamous]

Except that nobody will care, because they'll all be busy watching Red... er... YouTube videos on their way to work

We're going to need plastic, self-washing seats in those autonomous rent-a-pods.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

We're going to need plastic, self-washing seats in those autonomous rent-a-pods.

 

[Mayne]

I just want to know why there is a million cars on the road at 10 in the morning? Who are these people that aren't working by now?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I just want to know why there is a million cars on the road at 10 in the morning? Who are these people that aren't working by now?

Illegal Immigrants.

 

[Mayne]

Illegal Immigrants.

quite possibly if I judged by their driving skills.

 

[Midwayman]

It was always interesting leaving Chicago on the tail end of rush hour. There was this window where traffic had started breaking up but the white knucklers weren't out yet. Very fleeting. But the drivers leaving 7-8 pm always seemed to have a disproportionate amount of terrible drivers, yet traffic wasn't thin enough to be able to get around them.

 

[mikeymikec]

At least in the UK I'd take noon drivers any day over typical rush hour drivers. The latter are the worst on Fridays, they truly don't give a fuck about anything but themselves, no manners and no patience.

My only problem with non-rush-hour drivers is that I'll encounter fairly often the silvertop-type: Old people who drive 45 along a simple 60mph stretch with tonnes of visibility, then when they reach the 30-stretch in a town, their speed dips down to 35-40: At which point my sympathy for an potential ageing dodderer who is nervous about doing 60 to someone who a) doesn't care that they're holding people up and b) doesn't care that they're risking the lives of pedestrians because reasons, let alone that their reactions are probably shit.

Admittedly I live in the country these days (and I am GLAD that people are somewhat less uptight in general). When I lived in London, my mind once boggled at the fact that at 6AM the rush hour drivers are already out as if it's about high-speed-dodgems.

 

[clamum]

That is a good point OP. Guess I haven't really paid that much attention to the speeds at those times. But for my commute, it's so backed up that you can only get up to the speed limit for a short distance on 275 (going south). And that's in the morning going to work. On the way back (north and then west)... HAH. Not even close; it's f'ing crap and I'll be really lucky to get up to even 60.

On a kinda related note, has anyone noticed that drivers seem more aggressive and dickish at night?