8-10 feet is about half the length of my truck. How far back do you want me to be before you stop considering it "riding my ass"? 40ft, 60? Then you'll just have 2 or 3 small cars, or another large truck merge between us and really ride your ass.
Dear person behind me riding my ass way to clos...
BRAKE CHECK!
8-10 feet is about half the length of my truck. How far back do you want me to be before you stop considering it "riding my ass"? 40ft, 60? Then you'll just have 2 or 3 small cars, or another large truck merge between us and really ride your ass.
At 75mph your traveling 110' per second. If the person in front of you were to slam on their brakes for whatever reason, in a passenger car, which is most likely stopping in a shorter distance than your truck, would you be able to avoid hitting them if you're initially 8 feet behind?
I think it's accepted that the distance between cars for safe travel is 2 - 3 car lengths for every 10 mph, in good conditions. I say accepted as police will use this when writing tickets, not that this is the only acceptable distance that is safe.
Dear selfish, ignorant, moronic jerks who wait til the last minute to merge:
I hate you.
Thank you.
You're welcome
Love pissing people off.
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It really irritates me when they do it at intersections and try to race you off the light so they can cut everyone off. Those are turning lanes sir, nor your private go through.
It seems that most people feel using their turn signal gives them the right away, I say FUCK YOU, I wish it was legal to kill them.
Not always. Believe me, the way I drive has brought me through many an orange light and that moment I go through it and you're behind me I realize it was all worth it.Even funnier is that they think they'll get to work faster by driving like a maniac. You're going to probably get there at the same rate as everyone else. Assholes fly past me in the morning, but I always catch up with them at the same lights.
Even though I am a late merger, that is awesome.So a semi comes rumbling down the left side, and a guy in a corvette did what we all just sort of dream of doing: He pulled out into the left lane to block it. He was only 10 cars or so behind me; I could clearly see the whole thing. And he sat out there in the left lane, keeping pace with the traffic on the right until he hit the merge point.
I would have bought him a beer on the spot if I could have.
I see that a lot driving up to the cottage and around the GTA. What I don't get is, I know that one of the major contributors to the stop/go traffic in merge areas like that is the people that cant get in and stop at the end of the merge lane, so in an effort to alleviate that I ALWAYS leave a gap infront of me as I drive alongside a merge lane. Literally 3 or 4 car lengths, and yet 90% of the vehicles that pass by completely ignore it, drive to the very end of the merging lane and either try to force their way into a spot or come to a complete stop. I can be one car back from the end of the merge lane, and people will STILL pass that gap and try to get ahead of the one car ahead of me, which has not provided any gap.
I'll pretty much let anyone in any time for the greater good of not stopping a lane, but I get a bit pissed when people pass by my spot, form a line at the end of the merge lane and then end up causing the traffic lane to stop.
Ah well, the good news is that since we are in the early season of cottaging up here in Canada, the only people travelling up north are long time owners, so everyone knows how to drive and pass and not drive in the left lane.
This is one of the few things I enjoy doing while driving and in either congested traffic (i.e. ain't going to be getting through very fast) or when you have lanes decreasing...
I especially enjoy it when it is a punk ass kid who is doing it thinking they are sly...
I usually will cock block them when they try to get around me...because all they are going to accomplish is moving up past me and going no further...so screw them...
mind you...if I am in the open road and I am at that moment in someone's way...I always move over and let whom ever proceed...same goes with someone who unintentionally needs to merge...
The one's who think they are hot shit I LOVE blocking them...my favorite is in construction zones...right when you are coming up on a lane closure and 99.999% of the people respect the signs and merge to the left or right and slow down...there is always that 0.001% who fly up an extra 1/4 mile so they can 'merge'...it seems like the sensible people act in unison and allow NO space for those people...
Almost like a collective FUCK YOU.
When people are merging, they put on a turn signal. Sitting there going "I'm not letting you in!" just makes things worse.
Can I start a thread entitled "dear morons who block me from merging at a reasonable time, forcing me to go to the last possible moment to shove myself in"
When people are merging, they put on a turn signal. Sitting there going "I'm not letting you in!" just makes things worse.
It's pretty simple.
When it's two lanes merging into one, and it's slow/bumper to bumper traffic...utilize the entire lanes and merge at the point where the two lanes become one. Use the "zipper" method. This is optimal since it maximizes lane space/usage. There is no point in merging early and creating even more backed up traffic in one lane only. (anyone arguing otherwise is a complete retard)
When it's two lanes merging into one and there is light traffic, merge when it's safe to do so.
When you're on an on-ramp that is also an "exit only" off-ramp lane, merge as soon as possible, and when it is safe to do so. There's no reason to wait till the last second to cut someone off since you could be blocking others behind you who are trying to exit.
You then have 2 full lanes trying to merge one car at a time per side at the merge point.
That is only going to work in theory, imo.
In reality, it would be the slowest method. People do not want to wait even 2 seconds for another car to go first.
First, let me acknowledge that there are many situations (e.g. lanes closed by accidents) where you're unexpectedly forced to merge into another lane. I have no problem making room to allow those stranded cars to weave into the clear lane. But...
What really annoys me are drivers who don't think far enough ahead to take advantage of early opportunities to move into the lane they'll soon need to be in. Instead, they mindlessly continue in the wrong lane until they're nearly on top of the left turn or freeway exit they want. And then they flip on their turn signals as if they are Moses and the rest of the traffic must part for them like the Red Sea!
About two years ago a guy did something I never would have had the balls to do.
Everyone was dutifully in the right lane; the merge signs had been posted for a long time. The right lane was moving quite slowly, and sure enough: every so often a beautiful being would speed by on the left side. This was slowing things down even more, as we all had to wait for them to force themselves in.
So a semi comes rumbling down the left side, and a guy in a corvette did what we all just sort of dream of doing: He pulled out into the left lane to block it. He was only 10 cars or so behind me; I could clearly see the whole thing. And he sat out there in the left lane, keeping pace with the traffic on the right until he hit the merge point.
I would have bought him a beer on the spot if I could have.