OFFICIAL: Driving Pet Peeves Thread~

[churchdoesmatter]

i hate it when drivers tailgate me~!

 

[Burnt]

I don't like it when my parents see the green light ahead and start to slow down anticipating the red light

 

[VirusDub]

I hate it when people ride the exit lane on the freeway right until the offramp, then try to get back into traffic. I also hate when people switch lanes right in front of me (where I have to slam on my brakes to avoid rear-ending them) without signalling.

 

[C'DaleRider]

I hate all these defective cars out there...........should all be recalled. You'd think the auto makers would be able to make cars with turn signals that work!

 

[lesch2k]

in simplest terms

peple who don't know what a stop sign means
(stop and then go in the order you reached an intersection if it is clear)

a stop sign does not mean stop and then go for all you under age of 16.

and if you do not have a stop at an intersection, and others do then dont friggun stop.

 

[slunk]

- Drivers who cannot stop at stop signs (these ususally tend to be middle-aged drivers)
- When two cars on a two-lane highway or road remain next to each other for long periods of time
- Drivers who do not allow other drivers to change lanes by speeding up so they cannot enter
- Drivers who cannot move from the passing lane when they are driving so slow
- Drivers who do not obey school zones

A friend of my girlfriend was killed a few days before Christmas due to a man who was driving 60 mph in a 20 mph school zone. He's fine.

 

[fastz28]

<< i hate it when drivers tailgate me~! >>



I hate it when people don't move over even when you tailgate them for miles.

 

[conjur]

Drivers who use the emergency lane to get past a long traffic jam (Note: but twice I saw them get pulled over after passing a cop! )
Drivers who try to merge into crowded traffic w/o a turn signal
Drivers in front of me who decide to take an offramp (same one I'm heading for) and try to cut in at the last second in front of me w/o a turn signal. Many a time I will not let them in. (I'm supposed to read their freakin' minds?)
Drivers with no brake lights or with the backup lights stuck on!
Drivers with high beams on, esp. in the daytime!
Drivers who slow down to watch yet another fender bender (WTF is so damned interesting in the same damn thing you've seen a bazillion times before???)
Drivers who tailgate...#1 cause of accidents, imo
Drivers who see a raindrop/snowflake hit their windshield and instantly drive 1/2 the speed limit
SUVs 'nuff said
Drivers reading/using cellphone (w/o handsfree set)/playing drums (w/drumsticks)/etc. while driving
Asinine personalized plates (I don't give a rat's smelly a** wtf your initials are
Ricers 'nuff said
Rednecks with that Calvin pissin' window sticker
Tractor-trailer drivers who pull into the fast lane at about 40 at the bottom of a hill right in front of me!! They couldn't wait 3 seconds?!?!?!

I could go on for the rest of the night but I have to get to bed...

 

[Jeff7]

Hmm, let's see...tailgating, people who don't use turn signals, people who drive like there's no one else on the road, people who drive like everyone on the road should yield, people who don't give a damn about stop signs, people who speed excessively, people who suddenly change their minds and swerve into another lane without looking first.....the list goes on.....

 

[fastz28]

<< Drivers who slow down to watch yet another fender bender (WTF is so damned interesting in the same damn thing you've seen a bazillion times before???) >>



Yep, hate rubberneckers. Especially when the accident happened on the other direction.

 

[JC]

- left laners
- people who don't wait their turn at 4-way stops
- oldsters
- people who have to pass one more car before they cut them off to exit the freeway :|

I could go on and on. Maybe I will later

JC

 

[Linux23]

i hate Tractor Trailers. :|


if i had a Tractor Trailer missle installed on my car, i would blow each and every truck up. and there always seems to be a sh!tload of them when i have to get to work. :|

 

[AreaCode707]

Being behind two cars on a one lane highway, first car wants to go really really slow. Then you come to a passing lane and car two passes car one- - going a mere .3 miles an hour faster. Car two passes car one, passing lane ends, you are still stuck behind both cars.

 

[TonyG]

Hmm, I would have to say the truckers that decide to be @ssholes, I am not saying that all are, most are very good drivers. This one trucker decide he was going to play some type of stupid game with me, I was attempting to merge onto the interstate, and the road was clear except for the trucker, who did not change lanes, and would not let me get onto the interstate util he had almost ran me off of the road. As I was coming up the on ramp he sped up the slowed back down to speed blocking the lane that I had to merge into, so I slowed down, and he slowed down also as I did, I was almost at a dead stop on the end of the ramp before he sped back up and went on. I saw him do this to about 3 other peope

Of course there was also the lady who was driving behind me in her little sports car. I put on my blinker and started to get over to the next lane, when she stepped on the gas and flew up right next to me, after I was already about halfway over the dividing line, effectly forcing me back into the other lane that I was trying to get out of and I barely missed side swiping her car because of her little stupid move.

Yes, I will come out and say that I am 16years old, and received my license last April, but why do others think they haft to be such @ssholes, or are they just that stupid?

 

[Bobomatic]

TonyG maybe that girl liked you, and I also hate when my parents anticipate the red light, I do not think they have ever been right about the red comming, and they do it at EVERY light.

 

[hoihtah]

i hate drivers that think that they are all that behind the wheels.

for example.
this past christmas eve,
i was walking out of a mall nearby.
i proceeded to where i was parked.

all of the sudden, this one lady from behind stops very abruptly.
i suppose her last minute shopping wasn't going so well.

i turned back to see what was happening.
who the driver is.

and that was when she said stuff inside her car... with her hands up in the air.
assuming what she just said wasn't so polite...
i walked up next to her window and asked...
"what?!!!"

and she all of the sudden became very quiet.
she appologized... and then drove away.

if she was going to appologize anyhow...,
why put up all the fuss?

 

[Imported]

- I hate people who won't pull over into the other lane on a highway so you can pass them.. Especially when they're going like 5MPH below the speed limit..
- Also hate those who tailgate..
- And those who don't use a turn signal to change lanes on a freeway..
- People who purposely speed up so you can't pass them..

 

[Ramses]

Oh boy, one of my love hate topics. Driving.

I've hated almost everyone/thing on the road at some point in my life I think, and been hated by alot for various reasons.

I'll elaborate. I drive an 82 VW Diesel Pick-UP. It's small, very very slow, not very atractive, smokes as a diesel should, I piss people off alot with it, unintentionaly, most of the time. I have always though the world would be full of much better drivers if they all had to drive a VW diesel for a given amount of time every year, it teaches patience, planning and looking ahead, courtesey, many things.

I cant accelerate very fast, I mean it takes ages to get up to 70mph, and you would never know how many on ramps on the interstate are uphill either. People behind me get pissed cause I'm not going fast enough, people no longer know how to get out of the lane I'me trying to enter, people cut infront of me once they swoop around me running 85mph. It's usually just amusing, they get even more upset when they look at me and notice the chuckeling going on, but that isnt always the case, my patience has limits also.

Why is everyone in such a hurry.

Things werent always this way though, I drove a 78 Lincoln Continintal for along time. This is a car, a man's car, a real car, a car that nothing and noone short of a rig pushes around. 6Klbs+, 20feet long with truck bumpers and a 460. People tailgate, nail the brakes, I've been hit in the rear and distroyed more plastic "bumpers" than I can count. Cut me off, push them out of the way. Wont let me pass? Not likely, been clocked at 138mph and rising, and I will push my way in. In the grand scheme of things it never made any difference, but I always felt better "educating" other drivers about their errors and inappropriate attitude. One has social obligations after all.

But that was years ago, I was young and idealistic maybe, but I still have the Linc..

The truck is cheap and gets 40mpg+, has 545,000 miles on it, never dies, just keeps clanking along.
Funny part is, people usually freak out and turn chicken when they realize your willing to hit them instead of makeing way for their arrogance and rudeness on the road.

Hmm.. I've always wanted to put railroad tie bumpers on the Lincoln....

 

[gentobu]

Drivers who do not allow other drivers to change lanes by speeding up so they cannot enter
I HATE it when people do this!:| It happed to me today. There was a minivan in the other lane driving at a perfectly normal speed (about 55), and the moment I put my turn signal on the bastard speeds up!:|:|

 

[eyecandy]

Drivers who don't know how to drive in rain!

Chels <----- Doesn't like most CA drivers

 

[dionx]

when slow cars occupy the fast lanes for no reason. i have more driving pet peeves but im quite busy right now... i'll post more later.

 

[Phunktion]

I hate it when people in stop and go traffic have to keep stopping then speeding up to 25mph to get right on someones bumper then stop then do it again, (especially pisses me off on downhill areas, save your gas morons and coast slowly).. for the love of god these people need to learn to pace so the traffic doesn't stay stop and go but crawls along, you get there faster anyway by not stopping and going.. that way no one wears out their clutch because of the stop-and-go morons..

 

[James2k]

Drivers who do 35 in a 50 zone on a two lane street. I swear, they're one of three people: tourist, women, or old people. The worst is when you're following them and can not take an alternative route. Would it kill you to do the legal speed limit instead of me rolling up to your bumper everytime we hit a mild downslope.


<---------Hopes he never drives bad, but realizes aging is a process he cannot avoid yet.

 

[abaez]

Why is everyone in such a hurry.

I always wonder this myself. Those people who accelerate super fast, when there is a stop sign one block ahead of them?? Then they break really hard and then accelerate super fast to the next stop sign one block ahead. Do they realize the wear and tear they give on their car? I piss alot of people off because I think driving is supposed to be relaxing, so I don't accelerate very fast. And I brake pretty early if I know for sure that I will have to stop at a stop sign or light. People just need to slow the hell down. Relax its driving lean your head back and take it easy. The only thing that really pisses me off is when there is a huge line to get onto a certain freeway, and they take the right lanes to pass all the cars, and they EXPECT you to let them in at the very last minute. Like if simply turning on your signal allows you to cut in front of everyone that has been waiting. I hate people who do that.

 

[conjur]

<< Why is everyone in such a hurry.

I always wonder this myself. Those people who accelerate super fast, when there is a stop sign one block ahead of them?? Then they break really hard and then accelerate super fast to the next stop sign one block ahead. Do they realize the wear and tear they give on their car?

<<

Heh...they don't care. Here, on Broadway in the evenings, the timing of the lights change to match a 25mph speed instead of 35 mph. I'll use the little-used right lane and drive a steady 25mph and by the time I'm at the next light, it turns green and I go on through and the other two lanes are filled with jack-rabbit starts and they blow by me and then hit their brakes 10 secs. later only to have me pass them again!

Some people just can't pick up on traffic patterns or changes in patterns. I can't stand the lemmings who will fill up one lane of a two-lane left-turn, for example, as that popular lane leads to the easiest way into, say, a shopping mall. So if I come to the intersection late, I'm forced to stay on the main road and the left-turn light is usually red when I get to it. Use both lanes, people!! :|