I've lost count of how many times in the past week alone I have been driving along at the speed limit for a roadway and saw someone catching up in the rear view mirror.?ÿ For some unknown to me reason, too many of these people decide that after they catch up, there is no need to use the PERFECT passing opportunities to go around.?ÿ Instead they just hang out between almost too close and too close to my bumper.?ÿ What is even more idiotic is that this doesn't only happen on two lane roads, but also occurs on four lane roads where there is zero excuse not to go ahead and pass.
Have they stopped administering a driving test before licenses are handed out?
Duh....
They're engineers for sure.?ÿ Obviously they're drafting to save fuel.....
jk.
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Now, now, Jon.?ÿ We wouldn't want to injure anyone's fragile ego by refusing to issue them a license upon their request-----------even if they were born without eyes.
@holy-cow :?ÿ Is that why drive-up bank ATMs have Braille on their buttons?
Back when I was a kid I learned to stay out of the left lane except to pass (so the rest of us idiots can drive like hell and hurry up to wait)
No way would I print the actual verbage my 'ol man used at left lane drivers, it would shock Larry Flynt.?ÿ
Update to modern times:
Drive slow in the left lane and get shot at. Probability of getting hit by one are slim but possible.?ÿ
Left lane bad driver then this...wonder why the windshield didn't shatter??ÿ
My biggest complaint about drivers around here is that they have no idea how to merge onto the 4-lane.?ÿ I can be sailing along in town here at the 60 mph limit or maybe 65 (right lane so the 70's can zip past me) and someone comes up a ramp doing 50, not looking to see if a spot is clear for them (10 car lengths clear ahead and behind me), timed so we would intersect if I don't change speed or get into the busy fast lane.?ÿ Nearly every time if I manage to get past them before they hit me they will then join the fast lane and pass. But the idea of matching speed and fitting in an ope slot seems foreign to them.
On 2-lane roads I have to pull over often to let the parade go by because I'm only going 5 over the limit and they want to go 10 over.
When I'm on a divided 4-lane I will be in the left lane more than half the time.?ÿ When I'm not the fastest one on the road it's because some fool is intent on being the next arrival in Hell.?ÿ I'm normally passing someone, even if they are a quarter-mile ahead of me.
My biggest complaint about drivers around here is that they have no idea how to merge onto the 4-lane.?ÿ I can be sailing along in town here at the 60 mph limit or maybe 65 (right lane so the 70's can zip past me) and someone comes up a ramp doing 50, not looking to see if a spot is clear for them (10 car lengths clear ahead and behind me), timed so we would intersect if I don't change speed or get into the busy fast lane.?ÿ Nearly every time if I manage to get past them before they hit me they will then join the fast lane and pass. But the idea of matching speed and fitting in an ope slot seems foreign to them.
On 2-lane roads I have to pull over often to let the parade go by because I'm only going 5 over the limit and they want to go 10 over.
I blame it on ramp metering. Before ramp metering people knew how to get on the freeway. After ramp metering we have these fools sliding into the right lane at 35mph in front of someone such that the driver already in the lane has to brake, a failure of lane merging in my opinion. Then they go 500 to 1000 feet down the lane slow before they finally gun it and zoom away.
A lot of drivers don??t seem to be able to steer and accelerate at the same time. The rest have their face looking down in their lap looking at their phone. A geezer friend likes to yell at them DRIVE IT OR PARK IT!
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I can see the metering being a problem, but these are usually locals and I don't know where to find a metered lane within a few hours drive of here.
I had to look up ramp metering.
We do a fair amount of driving around the northeast and I don't think that I've seen it.
My biggest complaint about drivers around here is that they have no idea how to merge onto the 4-lane.?ÿ I can be sailing along in town here at the 60 mph limit or maybe 65 (right lane so the 70's can zip past me) and someone comes up a ramp doing 50, not looking to see if a spot is clear for them (10 car lengths clear ahead and behind me), timed so we would intersect if I don't change speed or get into the busy fast lane.?ÿ Nearly every time if I manage to get past them before they hit me they will then join the fast lane and pass. But the idea of matching speed and fitting in an ope slot seems foreign to them.
On 2-lane roads I have to pull over often to let the parade go by because I'm only going 5 over the limit and they want to go 10 over.
Now try it pulling a 30+ foot travel trailer.?ÿ There are those (quite often) that will drive down the breakdown/emergency lane just so they won't have to be behind a trailer.?ÿ I will move over to let them merge when I can but if there is traffic in the left lane it's just not possible.?ÿ I watch in my right side rearview mirror when passing entrance ramps to see IF one is going to overtake/pass me.?ÿ Brakes don't work as well pulling 8-10 thousand pounds behind you.?ÿ I have much greater respect for tractor trailer drivers now.
Andy
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People who go 5-10 mph below the speed limit, until you get to a hill with a slow traffic lane, and they either refuse to ride in that lane, or they go like a bat out of hell so you can't pass, and then go back to their usual speed once the lane is gone.
You with the CT or NY plates driving west of Brattleboro, you know who you are
Dave ?? you forgot the idiots on the entrance ramp (aka: ACCELERATION LANE) that instead of speeding up to merge stop at the end. ?????ÿ
