You read a couple of paragraphs and missed the point completly, but being done with you is fine by me.
You mean the content that explicitly says they replaced smooth roads with higher speed limits with cobblestones to make people drive slower? Or where they explicitly point out that these are small towns (less than 15,000 people)? Or where they mention that this is only in very small sections of the roads (typically only a few hundred yards of central-town area)?
Your lack of substantive responses to my points is noted. We're done here.
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You're really supposed to merge when the lane is ending, not before. People getting over early aren't doing anyone any favors, and just causing angst when someone zooms up the empty lane. If it's free flowing get over when there is an opening, but bumper to bumper...
Reading comprehension fail! "doing 84 in a 70" / "heavy traffic" / "passing everyone in the right lanes" / "another 500 cars".why didnt u let him pass you then drive behind him? you couldnt just stay in the right lane for few secs to let that guy go by you?
The problem is when someone tries to merge in and there isn't room for them they end up slowing way down or even stopping and then merging. Then they end up slowing everyone behind them down, you get that happening a couple times and you have stopped traffic. Where it could have been avoided just by merging a little bit before you get to where the lane ends.
You read a couple of paragraphs and missed the point completly, but being done with you is fine by me.
That works both ways. I can't tell you how many times I come up on someone with the cruise control on, move over to pass and suddenly I am no longer overtaking them. I speed up to pass, move back over and drop back to the speed I was originally traveling. Obviously I was going faster than them or I never would have come up on them in the first place.
Since this thread sorta turned into "What you hate that people do on the roads", I hate people who STOP at a freeway exit, especially when there isn't even a yield sign.
There is just as much room. Its just some self-righteous jackhole tries to block them from a normal merge. If people actually cooperate, end of the lane is the right place to do it. Can't fix the jerks though.
You aren't supposed to stop at yield signs either, if you don't have to.Since this thread sorta turned into "What you hate that people do on the roads", I hate people who STOP at a freeway exit, especially when there isn't even a yield sign.
You aren't supposed to stop at yield signs either, if you don't have to.
You know, some of us just really enjoy driving.
I mean DRIVING. Not cruising. Driving. Using all aspects of your vehicle, sometimes with reservation. Saving tires and brakes is great and all, but they ARE consumable items and will need to be replaced. Maybe a year or two earlier with harder driving.
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I've rambled on long enough, I reckon.
There is just as much room. Its just some self-righteous jackhole tries to block them from a normal merge. If people actually cooperate, *end of the lane is the right place to do it.* Can't fix the jerks though.
Bullshit! there's a reason why there is nearly a 2 mile warning when a lane is going to end. We, the alert, conscientious, courteous drivers heeded the warnings, and in an orderly fashion merged over in such a manner as to not disrupt the flow of traffic as the engineers so designed. It's not that we purposely try and maneuver to block you, it's just that anytime you put a big sign on your car saying, I'm an asshole, nonconformist, trying to beat the system, and you will do my bidding, you should expect some people to push back a wee bit. I have to admit, I do get a little giddy when I see someone at a standstill, at the end of their lane, and their rope all because they tried to squeeze every last foot out of a lane they knew was about to end. Face it kiddo, out on the roadways of America, it can't always be just about YOU. And here's your sign;----
LEFT LANE ENDS IN 2 MILES, PLEASE MERGE RIGHT.
Oh, and have a nice day
I really hate it when people don't use their turn signal and seemingly get peeved when you don't mind read what they are intending to do. I had this happen today on my drive home. Traffic seemed unusually backed up for that time of night, so once I could get into the long turn lane to get onto the road that I live on, I took it. I noticed the Escalade that was in front of me wasn't really moving that fast and had a huge gap in front of her (now I know why we had bad traffic...). My guess? She wants to get into the turn lane. I keep moving, and she merges in behind me. I get close to my apartment complex, and I put on my signal (at the proper time), merge into the turn lane as soon as I can (there really isn't much room because it's a shared turn lane), and all of a sudden, I hear this horn just start blaaaaazing! Now, when I hear a horn like that, I start getting a little worried that something bad is about to occur, but no... it was just the idiot driver in the Escalade most likely honking at me for no apparent reason.
I've been thinking about it for a long time, but I really much prefer the British term for a turn signal: indicator. It's the only rational explanation that I can figure for why people never use the turn signal... because the name confuses them! I am in the south after all. Now, if you called it the indicator, they would realize that it also indicates that they wish to switch lanes, and maybe they would not resort to mind reading.
this is all of your post that i read. lookup the definition of concise
Signal lights say: I'm not drunk or checking facebook, I'm intentionally drifting into your lane because I intend to drive in that lane. Keep doing what you were doing, don't honk at me, don't accelerate.Turn signals are pretty useless for the most part:
The person who should be using it would rather surprise you and lurch ahead of you suddenly and dart in front and TAKE it from you rather than ask, which is what signaling is. Signaling is like asking permission, and people are too self centered to ask rather than take by force. Taking by force without asking gives them an ego trip.
It seems to depend on traffic. If there's a gap, using your signal tells other people to close the gap, so it's best to start signaling as you are already changing lanes (see above: telling other drivers that you are not checking facebook, this move is intended). When traffic is really heavy, people will nicely let you in if you signal. It's weird but I guess it works.Or the other way around, if they do signal their intentions, another driver may react by closing the gap and not let them in so much of the time people HAVE to make surprise moves to be able to get where they need to be.
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Sorry, driving a 5 year old used BMW or chromed out lifted truck with a shitty sounding exhaust doesn't make you better than everyone else or give you free reign to take cuts and shove everyone else aside when you feel like it. You will get behind me for being a douchebag and trying to cut through everyone who waited. And if you threaten me with your 4000 lbs deadly weapon when you don't get your way like a spoiled child, I will respond in self defense against a road raging aggressive maniac who won't be around to make up another side to the story.
This goes beyond driving.
I am so sick of people's aggressive pushy self centered alpha posturing chest beating attitudes in public in general. You can't go anywhere without everybody whipping their dick out at everybody else that walks or drives by. I have zero tolerance for it. It's like insignificant lizards doing push ups at each other, it's disgusting.
iSuch is the primate way of life. It's rather ingrained in our species. We may have nice and fancy things and do ridiculously awesome stuff that other animals can't even begin to understand, but if you strip it all away, we're no different than the rest of the primate family with our pissing contests, tribe mentality, and desire to be the one at the top with the pregnant women in tow.