Stupid Drivers

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So with the recent dumping of snow we got here on the Northeast, I would only expect the *weekend* drivers to piss me off.



Just today, 2 Cars ( BMW 3 series and Acura RSX ?) RACING - playing cat & mouse on the freakin highway.



I see another driver cut across 2 LANES at the last minute to get out of a exit just to save 10 seconds from actually getting into the merging exit lane earlier on.



4 Lane Highway - 2nd lane from the Left. Driver just stomps on the brake when there is at least a 5 car clearance in front of him and traffic is moving at a 60 mph pace.



All witnessed in a 1.5 hours drive !
 
I hear ya'. Some woman today was driving on I-30 through Arlingtion, plodding along at around 40mph with a death grip on the steering wheel, totally oblivious apparently to all the traffic backing up behind her. I regularly see people merge slowly on to the freeway and cut off other drivers and make a beeline for the left lane where they plant themselves until 1/10th of a mile from their exit. Cops never pull them over either, even though the left lane is for passing only. They'd rather sit on overpasses and collect revenue via speeding tickets when traffic is light and the 60mph limit is unreasonably low for traffic conditions.





Just FYI, cops were all over 30 through Fort Worth as well, so heads up those of you in the DFW area who use 30 from Aledo to downtown Cowtown. Both Fort Worth and State Troopers were out.
 
Anyone passengers ever complain about your driving :eek:





my GF thinks I may drive aggressive at times, but the truth of the matter is, I just want to spend as less time on the roads as possible with all the idiot drivers these days.
 
+1 chefwong

i think some of the drivers that are too timid and oblivious to the rest of the world are worse than the crazies who swearve in and out of lanes



my peave is on my way to work there is one major road that makes a gradual 90 degree turn to merge in with another major road. they've done a good job to give about 2.5 lanes of width so people making the turn can keep going and easily merge in. However, every day there is one person in the row of cars making this turn that will just stop. Even the immediate honking of horns by all the other drivers that encourage this bonehead to look up the word yeild and start moving again don't help. I just don't get it...
 
I drive up to DC quite often, and the worst driver is "lonely in the front guy." He is the punk who rides your bumper for one mile until you let him pass. Then, he realizes you were taking the ticket, were law enforcement present, so he slows down to the point where passing is necessary.



Repeat until knuckles are white.



I'm also vehemently against those who stop at the end of on-ramps. 0-65 in the 4-banger Accord just isn't fun.
 
I built a little kit radar device back in aeronautics school. Its emits a steady RF signal on the lower end of x band. It pegs radar detectors for about a thousand feet or so. It keeps me sane on the roads when someone bugs me. If they have a radar detector (getting rare these days) I just mess with them. Let them speed up and then hit em, watch them slam on the brakes. Resume normal speed and repeat.



On my drives to florida I can tail some nutcase aggressive driver from a dafe distance and make the guy nuts for hours. In my younger days I was the type to confront people like that but now I just let it slide.
 
The cure for stupid drivers is to buy a plane jane Crown Vic, tint the windows and put a cell phone antenna on the roof. Everyone will get out of your way. :)
 
Tuesday. Maryland Rte 5 (Branch Avenue). 6 - something pm rush hour. Three lanes of heavy traffic. Woman in a Volvo in far left lane signals and begins to come over onto a Mercedes. The Mercedes owner tries to swerve but has nowhere to go, since the far right lane is occupied. Volvo woman realizes her mistake in time and pulls back into her lane.



My passenger (my wife) takes this all in. "She was probably on a cell phone!" my wife shouted.



The Mercedes was directly alongside the Volvo and was NOT in its blind spot. Volvo woman should have seen the Mercedes clearly before attempting her lane change.



The Mercedes owner should have been aware of the car in its right lane. I suppose the Mercedes swerved rather than braked because they figured if they braked they'd get hit by the tailgater behind them. What they didn't realize was that I was behind them, and I never (well, almost never) tailgate. The Mercedes should have braked.



Volvo woman eventually came over all 3 lanes and exited off the highway.



Charles
 
rjstaaf said:
The cure for stupid drivers is to buy a plane jane Crown Vic, tint the windows and put a cell phone antenna on the roof. Everyone will get out of your way. :)
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My Grand Marq looks like a Crown Vic when I'm behind someone, and they CLEAR THE LANE. Then, when I pass them and they see the Mercury badge, they get pissed and pass me again... :D



Charles
 
FalconGuy said:
I built a little kit radar device back in aeronautics school. Its emits a steady RF signal on the lower end of x band. It pegs radar detectors for about a thousand feet or so. It keeps me sane on the roads when someone bugs me. If they have a radar detector (getting rare these days) I just mess with them. Let them speed up and then hit em, watch them slam on the brakes. Resume normal speed and repeat.



On my drives to florida I can tail some nutcase aggressive driver from a dafe distance and make the guy nuts for hours. In my younger days I was the type to confront people like that but now I just let it slide.
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:lol :lol :lol Thats a good idea! You should start selling them! Too funny!
 
The Kit is called the Zapper, I bet you can find someone selling the kit online?



The FCC Stopped the retail outlets but im sure there are some underground people that would take the risk as the risk is so small.



It runs on one 9 volt battery and is about the size of a pack of smokes. One red led tell you its on. The range can really drop if the batt is dying, only down side. I swear it made highway driving fun back when many more people had detectors.



To be honest im amazed at how few people that are driving tripple digits dont have a detector. on my trips to Florida I can spot a car at well over 100 and when I see them pass I hit it and I can see they have no detector, crazy. I guess people like that arent the ones to expect being smart.



If I can grab a digital cam to borrow I will snap a pic of if.
 
rjstaaf said:
The cure for stupid drivers is to buy a plane jane Crown Vic, tint the windows and put a cell phone antenna on the roof. Everyone will get out of your way. :)
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I have a customer with a black Marauder with a GPS on top of the dash...looks very much like a radar unit in your rear view mirror. He says cars can't get out of the left lane quickly enough when he approaches them. :up
 
crobinso said:
Don't get ME started, chefwong...I live/drive in the D.C. area.



Charles
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I've spent a lot of time in the DC area. Believe it or not, driving there is heaven compared to the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Around here, the idiots are multiplying faster than their own stupidity can kill them off. Morons will pass you in the turning lanes and shoulders quite often and 99% of the drivers tailgate 99% of the time. A woman I work with just totalled a $50K Mercedes SL because she was tailgating while it was raining. Nobody seems to understand that you can't go as fast when it's raining, and if there's ever snow or ice you'd best stay home if you value your life.
 
Pondscum said:
Nobody seems to understand that you can't go as fast when it's raining, and if there's ever snow or ice you'd best stay home if you value your life.
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Conversely, there are those who seem to think when it is raining they'd better slow down to 30 mph on LBJ.



The biggest problems on the Dallas freeways are the random slow drivers, plodding along well below the speed limit and causing traffic to bunch up around them. If those morons would go with the flow of traffic, the speeds would be more equalized and the idiots who pass on the shoulders wouldn't feel the need to do something that stupid.
 
Scottwax said:
Conversely, there are those who seem to think when it is raining they'd better slow down to 30 mph on LBJ.



The biggest problems on the Dallas freeways are the random slow drivers, plodding along well below the speed limit and causing traffic to bunch up around them. If those morons would go with the flow of traffic, the speeds would be more equalized and the idiots who pass on the shoulders wouldn't feel the need to do something that stupid.
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Sometimes it is wise to go 30 if it's raining extremely hard. If there's enough water on the road and you go too fast, you will hydroplane. Water doesn't compress from a vehicle's weight. So if you're going faster than your tires can get rid of the water, you hydroplane. That's the main reason why there's always dozens of wrecks every time it rains. Occassionally I'll see a grandma on the highway screwing everything up, but for every one of those I see 100 who think it's a great idea to zip in and out of heavy traffic rather than going with the flow. They don't get to where they're going any faster, but they cause people to put on their brakes which has a snoball effect on traffic. I've been to Germany where they have 10 times the traffic, but it moves 10 times better because old people stay off the roads and they have more sense than to zip in and out of traffic. Also slower people actually stay in the right lanes and nobody passes on the right. Instead they flash their lights and people know to get over. Here you flash your lights and people just sit there with a dumb look.
 
I understand but I am just talking about general light rain where it is safe to go the speed limit. Some people slow down excessively and those coming up behind them don't realize how slow they are going.
 
Actually, here in Cali...Bay Area. You flash your lights...sometimes they move sometimes they dont...but ALL the time, you will get a middle finger...even if they dont move out of your way...So great. I wave thank you to the ones that move =). To the ones that dont...i just piss them off by passing slowing, letting them try to pass...then i zip off. lol. (i probly shouldnt do that)
 
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