When I turn my blinker on to change lanes and the car next to me speeds up so I can't get over. I hope they choke on a pickle.
I am in the turn lane off the freeway, I have been in bumper to bumper for the last 2 miles and right before I exit some jackhole dives down in front of me and slams on his brakes because he/she could not be bothered to wait in line like the rest of us
invariably, when traveling at speed and a slower driver puts on their blinker to enter the lane I’m occupying, I will speed up to let them slide in behind me as a courtesy to that driver. I’ve found that vehicles driving at a greater rate of speed than I am usually neither bother with—nor need to—utilize their blinker. If they are going faster, they won’t impede my progress. Blinkers should be utilized in heavy traffic. But if you’re puttering around on the freeway, and try to use your blinker to change lanes and get in front of someone who is going even marginally faster than you……YOU’RE the *******.
If we all just followed the rules, there wouldn't be any problems. That drives me batshit crazy as well. People think they always want to be nice, but man, if someone comes from behind and slams into them because they are being nice while I'm crossing and I get killed, then what? Come on man. Use common sense. This thread really grinds my gears.
Am I the only one who thinks Houston drivers aren’t that bad? I know every city claims they have the worst drivers on earth, but the actual worst without question in my experience have been in LA I ain’t never seen so many people running red lights with so much speed or not even checking if there’s a car next to them before changing lanes on the freeway…I’ve almost died out there my biggest annoyance these days is people driving too slow…if you’re on 59 doing 50 mph, I’ve got something for u another annoyance is reckless driving around the neighborhood…there’s these kids who like to go like 70 through the neighborhood while cranking and revving their engines…they do it late at night too
Every city with freeways and and a large enough population to create traffic is populated with sh!!ass drivers. Then you get the city people out of the city (weekends/holidays/summers) and they try to pull off their city ways in non-city places and it's just obvious which dumbasses need to go back to Dallas/Austin/Houston/etc
Lately, I've been running into a bunch of people who think "merge" means they should jam on the gas at the last minute and drive on the shoulder to get in front of the car they were supposed to be merging behind. And then they procede to slow down and drive 10mph slower than I had been when I was in front of them. The new ways that people find to drive like a-holes are legion and nearly infinite, and as soon as you become desensitized to the crappy driving they were doing last week they find a new way to be offensive.
I feel for you. It's one good thing about driving a bigass truck...nobody (mostly nobody) will challenge your lane space. But there's always idiots.
Very timely thread bump since I'm Mr. Mom this week while my wife is at a conference so I'm driving at peak hours way more than I'm used to. I'm convinced that the crazy and the r****ded only drive in the morning. Edit- r****ded is a bad word? That's ****ing r****ded. @Reeko Houston drivers are great. It's the suburbanites and out of towners that **** it up for everyone else. Driving isn't personal. You don't know the other people and they don't know you. It's a social agreement. LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING ONLY. This means the fastest cars are in the left lane. If you're in the left lane and look back and see you're leading the parade, get over, *******. If you pull out in front of someone and they have to change their speed or trajectory due to your actions, you are cutting that person off. You will eventually get shot at in Houston for this behavior. You do not have to stop at a Yield sign if there is no one to yield to. If someone honks at you because you are engrossed in your phone and not moving after a light has turned green, the only person you should be mad at is yourself. Don't speed in school zones. Not even a few miles over. If you are sitting in exit traffic for two miles and get mad at people merging in front of you, that's your problem. People who sit on their phones and don't go when traffic moves forward create gaps in the traffic for people to merge in to. You should be mad at the people in line front of you for being terrible, inefficient drivers. If everyone drove properly this wouldn't be a problem. Using a turn signal is tactical, especially in Houston. Only use it when you know victory (the turn or change of lane) is certain. Otherwise, people will cut you off because their experience is that people who get in front of them are slowing them down. But absolutely use your turn signal. If you get passed, don't get mad. Again, it's not personal. If I pass you going 30mph (the speed limit) in my neighborhood when you're going 15-20mph it's completely legal. Don't follow me to my house then puss out when you see who you followed. Stop signs mean STOP. They don't mean slow down to 2mph. And you should stop behind the stop sign, not eight feet in front of it. Cops could hit their entire month's worth of ticket quotas in a day just waiting for people to roll through stop signs in my neighborhood. The same ****ing people who go 10-15mph below the speed limit. Merging should be done in a zipper formation. You go, I go, you go, I go. If everyone did that, you would barely need to reduce your speed.
I’m guilty of some of these things if there’s a clear opening, I’ll change lanes without using my turn signal all the time if I’m at a stop sign and there’s no cars or pedestrians in sight, sometimes I’m rolling on through
Yo brehs If you miss the exit , it’s ok to just drive down to the next one you don’t have to cut 3 lanes and almost cause a 10 car pile up to get it
When you're entering a street ( like, from a parking lot). You only need ONE LANE. You don't need three or four lanes of traffic to be open in order to pull your car into the street.
What if, after leaving the parking lot, you want to turn left at the traffic light 100 ft down the road?
Turn into one lane. Then (using your turn signal) change lanes and start moving over to the lane you need to turn from.
So instead of being stopped in the exit from the parking lot, you want them to turn into the one lane, stop and signal to change lanes, get over to the next lane, stop again, signal, wait for an opening to the next lane, and then do it again (assuming a four lane road in this example) in the 100 feet between the parking lot exit and the next street? That seems much more disruptive to traffic than just waiting in the parking lot exit for a clear spot to get all the way across.
Related, I find people right-turning-on-red onto the freeway feeder seem to think they have right-of-way for all 3 or 4 feeder road lanes, and get pissed off when the guy in the U-turn lane tries to exercize their right to turn into an open lane, rather than letting the right-on-red take a 5 lane swing turn into the far left feeder lane. Thats not strictly how thats supposed to work.
