Road Rage????

[s0me0nesmind1]

there is absolutely nothing that makes brake checking a good idea. if you think brake checking is ever a good idea, you need to stop driving.

people who tailgate are really bad, but people who brake check are worse. if you're getting tailgated the correct course of action is to maintain speed and get over when you can.

Get the fuck out of here with your rational thought process. There is no place for that here at AT.

 

[LikeLinus]

there is absolutely nothing that makes brake checking a good idea. if you think brake checking is ever a good idea, you need to stop driving.

people who tailgate are really bad, but people who brake check are worse. if you're getting tailgated the correct course of action is to maintain speed and get over when you can.

Wrong, you should brake check everyone. EVEERYONEEEEE

Fyi, I was joking.

 

[Kaido]

How do you get into it in the first place? It takes two people and both think they are right. Best solution dont be a jerk. Example if someone is trying to cut in front of you let them, so what? You think that if you don't let them they will some how learn from that experience, never. And don't react to people being jerks on the road because all it does is stoke your ego. I was a road rage poster child in my younger years but I've learned not to react and be polite all the time. I'm a much happier person when I get to my destination but.

Yup:

1. Don't be a jerk
2. Be willing to let things slide

There are a lot of bad drivers out there, and there are a lot of angry people with short fuses who WANT a fight out there, as well. Like anyone else, I used to get upset about certain things that people did while driving, and eventually I just decided to let it go because being angry is such a waste of energy. I eventually realized that I didn't have to let other people dictate my mood, especially since I often spend up to 2 hours per day in traffic. It's easy to get irrationally angry when people do moronic stuff on the road, but all that does is waste your mental resources being angry in response to about it & make your day worse because you chose to hold onto it instead of letting it go.

I didn't understand it much until I experienced it first-hand...I had a girlfriend who had road rage. Totally normal person in literally every other aspect of life, absolute psycho on the road. Cursing people out, yelling at them, waving her arms, the whole deal. And not just over justifiable stuff, but if she even thought that somebody cut her off (on purpose or otherwise), instead of letting them in, she'd tailgate them & just turn red like those old cartoon characters who were about to blow up. She saw nothing wrong with her reactions; we had several discussions about it and I eventually came to realize that driving was extremely stressful for her & that the root cause of her behavior was anxiety - the anger was just a symptom. So her in-car freakouts were basically just a side effect of the anxiety from having to deal with crazy road situations. I dunno if that's the case for everybody (some people just are jerks), but I think that might explain a lot of the problems that people have with road rage...driving is stressful & it's easy to have a hair-trigger on your anger when bad things happen.

imo self-driving cars cannot come soon enough.

 

[brianmanahan]

imo self-driving cars cannot come soon enough.

agreed, i hope that they come in my lifetime and they are good enough that nobody is allowed to drive manually anymore

 

[LikeLinus]

Get the fuck out of here with your rational thought process. There is no place for that here at AT.

brianmanahan is a jerk and we know for a fact he brake checks grandmothers. GRANDMOTHERS.

For the love of god......

I've systematically decided not to brake check anyone but brianmanahan. He deserves it.

 

[brianmanahan]

brianmanahan is a jerk and we know for a fact he brake checks grandmothers. GRANDMOTHERS.

For the love of god......

these grandmothers are merely a notch on my belt

 

[dasherHampton]

I don't know.

There's nothing like pushing a nice car to it's limits imo. Its one of the great thrills of life.

 

[LikeLinus]

these grandmothers are merely a notch on my belt

I knew I liked you for a reason. I'm still brake checking you, bitch.

 

[Kaido]

agreed, i hope that they come in my lifetime and they are good enough that nobody is allowed to drive manually anymore

I went to a Tesla test-driven event & can tell you that the stuff they're working on is REALLY good. The keys will be (1) getting the price down, and (2) making it government-mandatory, just like how backup cameras are required on all new cars now. Once the tech gets to the point where it's trustworthy on regular roads, not just highways, I think we're going to start seeing a pretty big shift in consumer adoption...a lot of people are really hesitant, or dare I say fearful, of it now, but like anything else, convenience is king, and if your car can drive you to work while also removing the stress of driving, letting you catch a nap or shave or put on makeup or eat breakfast or whatever, that's going to be a huge selling feature.

 

[LikeLinus]

I went to a Tesla test-driven event & can tell you that the stuff they're working on is REALLY good. The keys will be (1) getting the price down, and (2) making it government-mandatory, just like how backup cameras are required on all new cars now. Once the tech gets to the point where it's trustworthy on regular roads, not just highways, I think we're going to start seeing a pretty big shift in consumer adoption...a lot of people are really hesitant, or dare I say fearful, of it now, but like anything else, convenience is king, and if your car can drive you to work while also removing the stress of driving, letting you catch a nap or shave or put on makeup or eat breakfast or whatever, that's going to be a huge selling feature.

You seem like the type of guy who goes for a test drive and then sets it to autopilot so you can check yourself in the sun visor mirror. Am I right?

Fyi, we are the only ones up, so no one will see this. Hence you cant ban me. Right?

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

brianmanahan is a jerk and we know for a fact he brake checks grandmothers. GRANDMOTHERS.

For the love of god......

I've systematically decided not to brake check anyone but brianmanahan. He deserves it.

Leave brianmanahan alone!!

I would buy him a beer if he lived anywhere near me

 

[LikeLinus]

You seem like the type of guy who goes for a test drive and then sets it to autopilot so you can check yourself in the sun visor mirror. Am I right?

Leave brianmanahan alone!!

I would buy him a beer if he lived anywhere near me

Look, you seem to confuse my profess of love for him to be something its not. YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE, HE IS NOW MINE. Beers are on me..... wait did I say that out loud?

Not that we are running over grandmothers together.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Look, you seem to confuse my profess of love for him to be something its not. YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE, HE IS NOW MINE. Beers are on me..... wait did I say that out loud?

Not that we are running over grandmothers together.

Now you're going to have to tell me where you live, because I will take up said beer. I can drive mother fucker...

 

[LikeLinus]

Now you're going to have to tell me where you live, because I will take up said beer. I can drive mother fucker...

You can drive, but you'll end up having someone rear-ending you and we will be having a cold beer laughing at you.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Nah, I take planes and ubers to get around. Now where is my beer damnit?

 

[Kaido]

lol same here. i watched one video like that a few days ago and youtube has been recommending crash videos to me ever since.

and i CANNOT look away

Stuff like this is awful because of the trainwreck effect, but combined with Jersey Shore or something...it's just such a spectacle to watch people act so dumb that you get sucked in watching video after video of it lol. And if you haven't heard of /r/InstantKarma, boy do I have a sub-reddit for you:

https://www.reddit.com/r/instantkarma/top/?t=all

How did that first dude in the video even manage to squeeze between the two cars that wrecked? The reflexes required for that move, dang!

 

[LikeLinus]

Nah, I take planes and ubers to get around. Now where is my beer damnit?

Hell, you're good. I need your address and a 6 pack will be shipped asap.

I still dont recommend that brianmanahan guy. He brake-checks grandmothers.

 

[Kaido]

I still dont recommend that brianmanahan guy. He check brakes grandmothers.

QFP. How he'll be remembered, Oregon Trail-style:

 

[LikeLinus]

QFP. How he'll be remembered, Oregon Trail-style:

Lol that's awesome. Why on earth do I feel the sudden need to play Castlevania? Brb guys.

 

[Kaido]

Lol that's awesome. Why on earth do I feel the sudden need to play Castlevania? Brb guys.

http://www.8bbit.com/castlevania

https://www.amazon.com/Zeato-Wireless-Controller-Rechargeable-Joystick/dp/B07BFB9ZNP

 

[LikeLinus]

http://www.8bbit.com/castlevania

https://www.amazon.com/Zeato-Wireless-Controller-Rechargeable-Joystick/dp/B07BFB9ZNP

I was luck enough to pick up an Snes classic. I dont need your links.

 

[Kaido]

I was luck enough to pick up an Snes classic. I dont need your links.

Ah yes, another of the ATOT Elites. Sorry the rest of us aren't in the baller's club

but I have a raspberry pi and that's okay too

 

[paperfist]

side note: there is nothing worse in the universe than people who brake check

I don't get it, those brake checking are oblivious to the car they just cut off or they are intentionally causing an accident?

I'd be really temped if someone did that to be to floor it and nose their quarter panel like on cops, but the logical brain would take over and say no there's probably kids in the car.

I did have parking lot rage once. Dude in jacked up truck was driving across the lines and me in a normal truck got pissed, gave him the finger and told him to learn how to drive. He stopped, I stopped, we both got out and started grunting at each other as his gf watched. He said if I did that again he'd kill me and I just kept saying learn how to drive.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Theres a reason why I drive a 400+ hp car. They cant stay mad If they cant keep up
.

The reason you drive a 400 HP car is that you're a sad, insecure manlet that's hung like a mosquito. It's the same reason guys collect guns, but that's a different thread. Most road road incidents are in heavy traffic and in bumper to bumper rush hour 400hp doesn't get you away any faster.

 

[brianmanahan]

I don't get it, those brake checking are oblivious to the car they just cut off or they are intentionally causing an accident?

i think the videos from russia might be doing it to try to get my by insurance fraud. i've heard that is quite common there, so people have to buy dashcams to have evidence.