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Didn't you hear? Just staying below the maximum speed limit is all that one needs, regardless of lane.
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Can I get an Amen on that people?
I do NOT appreciate, however, the person in the right lane accelerating to make sure I cannot enter the highway.
In WA anyway, the merger must yield.
LOTSA pissed off drivers trying to get around, but this person was very adept at blocking all but the most powerful cars, for about 100 miles before I got to my exit.
Fortunately for me, I was not interested in dueling with this person.
Oh, to make it even better, the RAV4 had a "CO-EXIST" bumper sticker...
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I don't think staying on the collision course is a good idea. Having the right of way only helps in terms of assessing blame AFTER an accident. I'd rather avoid an accident in the first place than get to use the "I had the right of way!" argument.
If I can do so safely, I will move left to give the merger some room.
LOTSA pissed off drivers trying to get around, but this person was very adept at blocking all but the most powerful cars, for about 100 miles before I got to my exit.
Was this person in that Oregon/Wisconsin "queueing" mentality, trying to protect "his spot" in a sequence to pass a slower vehicle that may be half a mile up the road? Stupid, I tell you!
Lots of LLCing and queueing on I-65 in Indiana on Friday, actually a lot more than I remember from ~15 years ago when I last lived and regularly traveled that far north.
Worst offender was a "Patriot" brand motorhome towing a car, at the 167/405 interchange. He got down to about 20mph, by then at least 20-30 cars were stacked up. When I passed him, I saw why - phone to his ear. Should be a reckless driving charge in something like that. If the driver was a real "patriot", he'd have the responsibility enough not to engage in such behavior.
Other than creating some seriously dangerous moves by others trying to pass, I saw no reason for his "co-existing" behavior. Not defending other's dangerous moves, but this guy was risking being shot, in my opinion.
He was one of those people that would gun it to stop a right-lane pass, and with the number of large trucks on the road, he was able to successfully block people for a long time. At times there was over a mile in front of him.
Insane.
I was way behind them before the ramp started, but I could not take the ramp at a reasonable speed due to their ineptitude and sleepiness at the wheel. I'm sure the TL could have navigated that turn at 60 with no squealing rubber.
No excuse for the BMW driver, even the car salesman said something must be wrong with their car, but we both knew it was the driver.
I was out earlier today - saw a speed trap in kind of a small valley, the low point at the bottom of two steep hills. Motorcycle cop was somewhat hidden, but I saw him before it was too late. End of the month, nope, no such thing as quotas.
Not really a special ticket unless your going 100 MPH, which they can deem reckless. So stay in the 90 to 99 MPH range and the ticket will be rather ordinary.
Of course, if you go 95 MPH when it's raining, at night, then perhaps the ticket could be more severe, although both the perpetrator and the chaser better have good new tires.
Years ago I encountered one A-hole just like that. Wouldn't move over, wouldn't allow himself to be passed on the right. First encountered him just north of Carmel, IN on US 31, and he proceeded to block me all the way to Kokomo, which is a good 30-35 miles.
when i'm exiting the highway and people are entering, i will merge into the entrance/exit lane asap, always *behind* whoever is entering, generally ignoring any white lines, and sometimes surprising other drivers by getting into the exit-lane way early while it's still mostly an entrance-lane. (i won't cross yellow but i will often ignore the white lines since they are merely advisory in my state.)
The same with two left turn lanes. Plenty of times there will be two left turn lanes at a traffic light to merge onto a highway, with the far left lane full of cars but the left turn lane on the right empty, such that some of those in the far back of the left, left turn lane won't even make the light.
It's like people would rather wait in a huge line of traffic or miss a traffic light rather then have to merge like they're supposed to.
There's nothing more dangerous than a driver passing a stopped (or nearly stopped) line of cars at a 20+ mph speed difference. It only takes one car changing lanes for all hell to break loose. :sick:
I was sitting at a traffic light, second in line (I'm in the red circle) in the leftmost lane at the intersection pictured below, waiting to make the left. Cars in all three lanes. The light goes green, and the traffic starts to move. The driver in front of me, driver's window open, has a cell phone propped against his left ear with his shoulder, steering with his left hand, trying to light a cigarette with his right. Naturally, the air movement from the open window makes lighting up difficult, so he lets go of the steering wheel to shield the lighter flame,and the car stops turning and bangs off the car next to him in the other turning lane. As Bugs would say, "What a maroon!"
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At least it turned out to be minor. Hopefully the dufus that caused it learned a solid lesson.
I saw the result of a fender bender this afternoon, a Cruze and Corolla got tangled. Couldn't tell who was at fault - Corolla took the brunt of the crash.
And lots of phone yappers/holders as usual - that combined with famously negligent traffic controls always makes for a fun drive.
I love the dopey suburbanite truck drivers here, so skilled. This place has to be second only to Texas in the amount of truck commuters.
Never ask a question you don't know the answer to
The person asked me what happened, and (pointedly) asked how I knew that the other driver had run a red light if I was driving in the opposite direction. Similar to PF's story, I told him that I had driven through that intersection countless times in both directions, and I knew definitively that the opposing direction does not have a green light unless the direction in which I was going that morning also has a green light. My light was red; ergo, the at-fault driver's light was also red. Not only was it red, but it had been red for several seconds before that driver ever arrived at the intersection.
My thought then was, lucky for this guy I wasn't packing and of a mind to use it... in self defense, of course.
With irrational people like that, I prefer to keep them in front of me vs. behind me.
Now, a couple of studies, one in the U.S. and another from the U.K., appear to provide statistical evidence that BMW drivers are, to be polite about it, complete jerks.
In the older study, by researchers at the University of California, BMW drivers were far less likely to stop for a pedestrian who had just entered a crosswalk, the New York Times notes.
“In our crosswalk study, none of the cars in the beater-car category drove through the crosswalk. They always stopped for pedestrians," researcher Paul K. Piff told the paper. He added that not only were "fancy cars were less likely to stop," but also that "BMW drivers were the worst."
Drivers of BMWs and other high-status cars (including Prius hybrids) were also more likely to cheat at four-way-stop intersections, according to the research.
In the second study, in the U.K., motorists were asked to identify the make and color of the car from which they have most frequently suffered road-rage incidents, the Daily Mail reports.
The study of 2,837 motorists found men between the ages of 35 and 50 driving blue BMWs were most likely to be reported as having engaged in road-rage behaviors such as aggressive driving and swearing. ...
Some 300s could be equipped with the paltry 2.7 possibly, not a great engine.
And I got a rock chip on my bumper thanks to the supposed engineers at WSDOT who decided to make a ~5 mile stretch of a state highway loose gravel - no warning signs or online posts, I would have taken another route if I would have known. Absolutely ridiculous. Oncoming traffic in trucks, typical inbreds, was going ~40 and sending rocks flying across, I was driving on the shoulder to avoid it, no LEOs patrolling any of it. I am seriously thinking of sending the repair bill to the bastards. Disgusting negligence.
That's where you and I differ for sure buddy! I prefer to keep them idiots behind me. That's why I prefer cars with over 200 HP.
That happened a long time ago to my wife when we were headed toward the Kenai Peninsula. We were in the left lane, the right lane ends, and she was driving a little faster than a car on the right. She had passed it by about a half car by the time the merge started. At that point, this other car speeds up even with us, then starts honking and swerving. I told her to ignore him and let him deal, but she freaked out, pulled to the far left shoulder and slowed down.
"Happy" for us, he then settles in to exactly 55 on the windy, 2-lane road ahead. Since she's not much of a passer, we were stuck behind that yahoo for about 30 miles. I'm not sure if I was more annoyed with that driver or my wife....
Also saw a minivan weaving through traffic, passenger (female, of course) reclined with foot hanging out the window - wouldn't be pretty in an accident.
The odd thing out in the southwest are some of the speed limits. We camped ~10 miles from Canyon TX at Palo Duro Canyon last night. The access road was a typical two lane with one or two stop signs and lots of driveway entrances. The speed limit was 70 for part of the road and 75 the rest of the way. 60 seemed plenty adequate.