HEY ASSHOLE, GET THE FUCK OFF THE ROAD
 

This should be pretty self-explanatory, what is it about all those fucking morons on the road pisses you off? Is it people who drive too slow or too fast? Turn signal deficient morons? Tailgaters? There's so many to choose from, so let's hear it here.

Oh, and cyclists? Just stay the fuck out of this thread.

fuck cyclists

Also: fuck sensor lights. There is a time and a place for everything, and for sensors, it's off-hours.

And fuck the guys who hit the brakes to slow down. thanks for making me disregard what you're doing when you brake before every curve and whenever a cop is around, douchebag.

Fuck the douchebags who try to weave in and out of rush hour traffic. Yeah, I have a good laugh when my lane passes you. Still, fuck your shit.

Fuck the wide left turners. You know who you are, you're the ones who nearly hit my car while I'm waiting for my turn.

Fuck grandmas who obey the posted 35 mph speed limit on a five lane road.

And those assholes who sideswipe me because they're too busy picking their noses? Double fuck you. You drive like a woman.

Oh, and my friend says fuck you to all the assholes who brake before merging into freeway traffic. Stop riding the short bus on the short onramp, assholes.

I drive with all 4 windows on my car down all the time so my one pet peeve (aside from a lot of the ones listed already) are dumbfuck pedestrians who get belligerent just because you have your windows down and they are clearly in the wrong.

You know the type, goddamnit! I'm talking about the beached hambeast who walks on the road that is generally reserved for cars and yells out, "PEDESTRIANS HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY, ASSHOLE!" when you drive close enough for your side mirror to slice some bacon off her back because there's no other place you can maneuver your car through... BECAUSE SHE'S TAKING 2/3 OF IT.

Yeah... I hate that cunt. Sometimes I want to hit her as fast as I can to see if she blows up like the Middle-America cattle in Cruisin' USA.

People who have severe road rage.

I suggest you stay the fuck off the road then. One of them crazy niggas might run you over.

Naw not even. If all they'd do is post a thread on the internet about it, i may just get a severe honking ]:

No but seriously, people who honk like it does anything and then pass you on the other lane and predictably turn their head and look at you are kind of lame. Calm down ~

People who come to a complete stop before making a right hand turn into a parking lot or driveway should be dragged into the street and trampled by angry horses.

This is all.

Wouldn't a mass of horses and trampling in the streets cause you even MORE trouble though.

Christ. I see myself as a god damn perfect driver in every way, so every Tom-Dick-and-Harry behind the wheel can piss me off given my mood.

My biggest things?
a) People who drive slowly. I was stuck behind someone in residential a few days ago (two lanes, one going each way) and they were READING a god damn book. A 30mph zone resulted in me driving for a couple miles behind a douche going 10mph. To top things off, they MISSED the left turn light at the very end of it when I was about to get in to multiple-lane roads. Fuck these guys.

b) Horn honkers. I've only honked my horn three or four times since I started driving. I only give a soft tap on the horn if somebody is sitting in front of a green light and not budging. Even then, I'll sometimes wait a bit in hopes they notice (usually do). When I was in Houston, you'd think folks were PERCHED on their horn buttons. The instant something goes wrong and HOOOOOOOONK. I get livid about other drivers, but honking just shows you're there in my opinion. If someone cuts me off and almost hits me, honking won't solve the problem. I'm sure they saw me and are just douchebags.

c) Multi-taskers. These guys slowly meander about in the lane. I don't know about ya'll, but I *always* use a blinker when switching lanes. Some folks just don't do it, so whatever. I'll see someone in the lane ahead and to the left slooowwwwly meandering in to my lane. I figure "okay, lane change, whatever." But then they scoot back over in to theirs. It happens repeatedly and makes me uneasy about proceeding forward, lest they hit me :mad:

Driver types I hate lean over in to personalities I despise. Horn honking is akin to my hatred of loud assholes. The other two are displays of folks who lack a sense of awareness. They only think about themselves and don't give two shits about anyone else. Know that person who blocked the way in the super market and ignored you all the while? They're probably a slow driver who swerves in lanes often.

Fucking TRUTH. Here are a few of my favorites that haven't been mentioned yet:

- People who HAUL ASS to cut you off and turn onto the road you're on, and then drive SLOW AS HELL.

- People who drive slow in the LEFT LANE on the highway.

- Anybody in Massachusetts with a valid driver's license.

- People who slam on the brakes when a cop is writing SOMEBODY ELSE a ticket. As if he's going to immediately hop back into his cruiser and chase after you!


This is the absolute worst, though, and it boils down to two words: CURIOSITY DELAY. The ignorant mouth-breathers who hold up traffic for MILES because they take it upon themselves to SLOW DOWN and look at an accident or something else out of the ordinary. This can sometimes be the fault of people causing the curiosity, however. I was once backed up for 5 miles because some prats were on top of a bridge holding up a sign that said "WELCOME HOME FAGGOT" or some other such name. Ugh, I can't tell you how badly I wanted a carpet bombing to occur right around that area.

In DA WILD WILD WEST (YO), this is kind of a tradition though.

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You see Miles?!?! I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS ABOUT YOU! :mad:

I like to think of myself as a very safe and conscientious driver, so naturally everyone on the road angers me. The worst is when some old fart is going nearly twenty miles per hour under the speed limit, holding up a huge line of traffic behind them. There's just got to be something psychological behind that. It's probably the same phenomenon that causes people to unload their shopping carts more slowly when they know somebody is waiting for their spot.

The next worst thing is when a driver puts on their blinker to get into a turn lane, but doesn't actually get in to the lane until the VERY LAST SECOND before their turn, forcing everyone behind them to decelerate with them.

I'm also severely peeved by people who, after failing to signal that they are taking a right turn, peel out and turn into the far lane, while others are trying to turn left. People turning right need to turn into the right lane so that people turning left can turn into the left lane. When the right-turning people start speeding up and jostling for position, it just slows down traffic for everyone.

Fuck you people. I have a list the size of Guatemala over here. I live in Massachusetts, so, you know, to be expected.

1.) Shoulders. Use them when you're making a fucking turn.
2.) Making a left turn? PULL AS CLOSE TO THE CENTER LINE AS YOU CAN. You're OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC.
3.) Use your goddamn signals, you PRICKS.
4.) Just because a slight curve in the road is coming up doesn't mean you need to slam on the brakes.
5.) CONNECTICUT DRIVERS: Get the fuck out of the left lane. (Connecticut drivers ALWAYS seem to think the left lane is the slow lane, what the fuck)
6.) Women: Don't drive SUVs and talk on your phone at the same time. I'll rip your throats out.
7.) Like Sprout says, if a statie already nabbed someone on the side of the road, don't slam on your fucking brakes.
8.) CHECK YOUR MIRRORS BEFORE SWITCHING LANES. You should also LOOK with your EYES, since most cars have fucking blindspots, you morons.
I have actually BEEN in a major accident because some bitch didn't know how to fucking LOOK. Since, I've been almost side-swiped hundreds of times.
9.) Don't get mad at me if I tailgate you in the left lane when you're going 60MPH. There are 3 other lanes open and a trail of vehicles behind me. Get the FUCK out of the left lane.

I could go on and on, but you know.

I've actually seen cops on 91 pulling people over for going under 70 in the left lane, now.

The cops were on the news saying that these drivers infuriate people so bad that the road rage causes serious issues. Better to ticket the assholes not following the rules. I can't tell you how grateful I was to hear this.

Road rage is probably my biggest thing ever. I expect everyone to fucking follow the rules of the road, I guess - not just MAKE THEM UP as they go. I hate inefficiency, and there's a SHITLOAD OF IT on the roads.

And Pom? Don't ever drive down here. If you drive like a moron, your chances of meeting someone in Massachusetts who will literally get out of the car and beat the shit out of you for being an intentional ass on the road is PRETTY FUCKING GOOD.

There's no middle ground here. You're either a rager like me who can actually follow rules, or you're a fuck-up who shouldn't have a license.

I was driving behind a presumably old woman who, while not going particularly fast, was at least going the speed limit, so I felt like I could live with it. Now, I live in Alabama, so keep this in mind.

This big ol' truck with its big tired, a big sticker of Calvin peeing on something and unnecessarily loud exhaust pipes which are certainly not their to impress anyone/compensate for their lack of skill during coitus decides to take to the goddamn turn lane to pass the both of us, around a corner. Meanwhile, his buddy (possibly partner-in-coitus, though they couldn't share that information due to the fear of being fag-dragged behind their own truck) was leaning out the window waving at us to express his excessive manliness.

In summary, I fucking hate anyone with an Alabama driver's license because they all act stupid as fuck.

Also, drivers who are not just scared, but cowardly when driving in the rain. I can understand being scared in torrential downpours, but light sprinkles that even Marry Poppins can still appreciate? Just drive, you fucking twits.

I absolutely hate this shit. On a daily basis I get no fewer than 8 or 9 of these cunts: A stereotypical "soccer mom" who traded their once modestly-sized minivan for the hubristic desire to drive gas-guzzling fuck-you-mobiles while talking on their cell phones and drinking their grande enema latte. Then they get INDIGNANTLY LIVID when you honk your horn at them because they are straddling two lanes with their fucking tank traveling 20 on a 35, which, (hey) wouldn't happen if they were paying attention to the road. Fuck you, bitch! Either get off the road or get off the planet; I'm not giving a third choice here.

I also get mad at folks who start off behind you, only to speed up, pass you, JUST to make a turn from the lane they started in. They could've sat behind you, going at your speed, BUT NO. A FEW SECONDS LONGER IS NOT SOMETHING I CAN WASTE.

I can understand passing someone who is going REALLY slow, but passing just to make a turn from that same lane a few moments later strikes me as odd.

Oh a few things, but a big pet peeve of mine can be summed up in one phrase: MIDDLE LANE WANKERS.

I don't know if this is something unique to the UK, but I hate them with a burning passion.

Yeah, OP, you might want to elaborate for us Yankees on that one.

DC traffic is pretty fucking horrible, so let me throw my list out:

1) If I can see the wrinkles on your ugly face you are TOO GODDAMN CLOSE to my car. I don't care if I'm going the same speed as the other car, we're both already 5 miles over the speed limit on a road constantly patrolled by cops, getting on my ass is only going to make me find ways to NOT let you pass.
2) I understand you have superhuman reflexes and are able to accelerate the car .0001 seconds after the light turns green, but please stop honking at me as if your life depended on it when I do not have the same ability.
3) If you are Indian or east Asian and over the age of 50, stop driving. Now. I am tired of seeing drivers at 10 below the speed limit with a strangely vacant smile on their face getting in the way of people who actually know how to drive.
4) Same with asian women of all ages, except replace vacant smile with PERMANENT EXPRESSION OF UTTER FEAR. Seriously, that starts to rub off on ME.
5) If the front of your car is about even with my trunk, and you want to merge over, I'm going to speed up to let you in behind me. This is polite. What's impolite is SPEEDING UP FOR AN ENTIRE MILE TRYING TO GET IN IN FRONT OF ME, DOUCHEBAG.

QFT. More frustrating than N+.

Just gonna also add the general does-not-use-turn-signal complaint. No one uses it, or they decide to turn it on when they're already in the middle of cutting you off. It would also be nice to use it when you're about to make a turn also and I'm behind you to let me know what's up. Even when I'm turning into my driveway, if there's a car behind me I'll signal.

Oh, I also hate when, say, there's 3 lanes to turn left onto a highway, and the car on the left lane starts drifting towards the righter lanes, not going into the lane he's supposed to turn into. I see that pretty much every other day, I'm lucky I haven't been hit yet. The stupid streets of MD/DC/VA have made me a very alert and quick-reactive driver.

Yeah, I have a few:

1. USE THE FUCKING TURN SIGNAL

2. DON'T CHANGE LANES 2 FEET IN FRONT OF ME WITH NO TURN SIGNAL, I.E., DON'T FUCKING CUT ME OFF LIKE A DOUCHE.

3. USE THE FUCKING TURN SIGNAL

4. GET OFF THE FUCKING CELLPHONE AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE ROAD

5. DON'T SPEED UP JUST TO TAILGATE ME. I WILL TAP THE BREAKS SEVERAL TIMES IF THAT WILL GET YOU INTO ANOTHER LANE.

*sigh* Okay, I feel better now.

Couple of pet-peeves in my area:

1. Move the fuck up. You're blocking the fucking jug handle.

Turning into my area there's two turning point on a jug handle. Left to go back on to Route 1 or right to turn into the residential area. I'd love to take the fucking right to go home, but then you get this insanely long line of cars trying to take the left to get to more residential areas across the street.

It bothers me that some people have shitloads of room to move up, but their depth perception is fucked, so they think they're too close to the other car, when in reality, you have MORE than enough room to move up and give way to the empty lane to your right. Pisses me off every time that happens since the stop light on Route 1 likes to be obnoxiously long.

2. I've given you more than enough room to pull out of your fucking spot. Quit bitching at me.

Not generally a road thing, but shit in the parking lot is equally as annoying. In a rather crude drawing, here's what I bitch about:

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3...winpaingb4.jpg

It annoys me, with a burning passion, pull out of a parking spot as illustrated on the left. Especially when there's no one else around.

3. And I'll agree with DN, Use the fucking turn signal.

I especially hate it when people don't use it in advanced and decide to use it the moment they turn or switch lanes. GUESS WHAT, ASSHOLE. I CAN'T FUCKING READ MINDS.

I pretty much despise people who slow way the fuck down for a merge.

95 to route 2 is an issue like that. People on route 2 are usually going 65-80 in the right. I don't need some jackass in front of mr slowing down to 25 before the on-ramp. You need some kind of velocity there. And if there's room, sure as hell I'll cut over to the left, speed up and cut back to the right to get around your slow ass.

Just a while ago when I was taking my mom to the doctor I saw another of my driver peeves: People (usually driving something "large and in charge") who cut through corner gas stations at top speed to avoid waiting for their opportunity to make a right turn. Just once I wish they would blow a tire right as they bump the sidewalk, lose control of their bathtub-on-wheels and subsequently veer into one of the pumps to cause a glorious apocalyptic explosion that burns them alive while trapped inside their Hummer.

No seriously... I really do wish that upon every last one of those fucks.

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I hate people that seem to be oblivous to what's going on around them on the road. Some examples...

1. When at an intersection I don't have a stop sign, but someone else does and either forces me to slam on my breaks or they have to slam on theirs cause they went through a stop sign. Then they proceed to look at me and yell at me like it's my fault that they went through a stop sign. It's a god damn stop sign, obey it before I beat you with it!

2. The exact opposite of the other one. When I have a stop sign and someone else doesn't. They for some reason will stop and yell at me to go. This is primarily old people.

3. Areas where the left turn lane turns green before the straight lanes. So many people are paying attention for the lights for the other directions and assume the minute they turn red, theirs will turn green and drive without actually looking at the light. So they drive straight through a red light and force people who actually had a green light to wait.

4. People who honk at you for not making a right turn on a red light when there is a sign right there that says no turn on red. I'm sure they do it all the time without getting caught, but the one time I did something stupid like that without realizing it I got pulled over. So screw you!

Props to you, that gave me a good laugh.

I'll have to agree that people with the no-turn-signals get on my nerves too. I don't see it nearly as much with actual turning as I do with switching lanes on the freeway. It's even more annoying for some reason when they change lanes rather quickly without signaling.

More things that bother me:

1. Trucks. Tractor trailers to be more specific. They're everywhere where I live and the majority of them drive like they own the road.

2. People who tailgate me when I'm already going 15 over the limit or more in the fast lane.

3. Pedestrians at night that give you that glare as they cross the road after you brake suddenly for them like they expect you to see them as clearly as you would in broad daylight, regardless of what color clothing they have on. (Though they're certainly easier to spot than darker colors, experience has shown me that lighter colors like white aren't as noticeable in headlights or peripheral vision as one might think.)

Are you high? White reflects light. REFLECTS. That means that the light comes back in your direction. I hope you can grasp that before your next post.

Tailgating, because there's really no reason for it. Yes, I drive one of the best looking cars on the road, and you are jealous, I get it. You can pass.

Where, mang.

Edison area, around Fords. I live between Menlo Park Mall and Woodbridge Mall.

I haven't had too much experience on the road, I'm getting my drivers license next month as a matter of fact. But, if there's something that pisses me off it is tailgating. I'm holding up to the speed limit, but they can't back the fuck off cause they think I'll speed it up more or something. It almost feels like when people are unnecessarily close to you on the road they're intruding your personal space. Heck, what if a kid/deer/cat or whatever would run over the road or something making me brake, there's no way they'd be able to brake in time, making them hit the back of my car and probably squash the kiddie who just ran over.

Well, it's a general consensus between me and my friends that motorcyclists over here should pretty much get off the roads, or have their own separate road network, because their presence has generally made driving a real pain.

Otherwise, there's these idiots who think they are F1/WRC pros and drive around at high speed (2x the speed limit), TAILGATING especially and pretty much putting everyone else's life in danger.

Sorry, just spotted this.

Basically, over here a lot of motorway is three-lanes. The idea being that move as much to the inside lane as possible so faster cars can pass easily. However, there's a lot of people (and I mean a lot) who seem to have this fear of the inside lane because no matter how clear it is they stick to the middle lane, which can tend to cause issues for cars wanting to overtake. These people are middle lane wankers.

People actually use turn signals? Most folks in my hometown don't. They just go wavy-wavy hands out the appropriate left/right window to signal a turn. :3:

I can understand the honking though. Here, a change from red to green in front of you will always activate the horns to your rear in 0.1 seconds.

No, I'm not high, and yes, I know white reflects light, but by comparison it's no reflective vest. The smaller town I live in isn't that well-lit outside of downtown.

Someone might have already said this one, but another thing that bothers me are people that turn left as soon as the light turns green when they're supposed to yield to oncoming traffic. One of these days the person in the oncoming lane is going to have just as itchy a foot on the gas pedal and things will go bad very quickly.

See but at least they signal where they intend to go. Cockmonglers over here don't give any of us that luxury and sometimes even our superhuman reflexes aren't quick enough to avoid a minor collision because some fuck cuts us off at the last second.

It seems like nobody up here in maine even read their drivers manual, let alone passed their drivers test but by some miracle obtained their license. Some bullshit I've encountered on the road up here:

• SLOW AS FUCK UPHILL DRIVING. I live in the downtown area of Bangor up here and to get anywhere in this shithole of a city you need to drive uphill. Now I don't know about anyone else but my car needs to be going ATLEAST 20 to 25 just to fucking crawl upwards. Anything less is fucking retarded and UNFORTUNATELY everyone up here is RETARDED.
• CUTTING ME OFF. I've been cut off by so many fucking tacky tramps in their SUV's it's bullshit. It's always been a woman that I've been cut off by, and every single one of them looks like they haven't realized it's not the 80's anymore. Get these fucking scags off the road.
• TAKING A LEFT TURN WHEN IT'S NOT YOUR TURN. People turning right on a green light have the right-of-way. People turning left on a general green (not a green arrow!) have the right to go IF NOBODY IS MAKING A TURN. These fucking people pull this shit all the time and hold up all the right-going traffic until they get a red light, and then they get their fucking green arrow.
• DECIDE WHAT LANE YOU WANT TO DRIVE IN. People drive in-between lanes all the time up here it's ridiculous. I myself have been a bitch and cut someone off because he couldn't decide if he wanted to turn left or go straight, and being that I was also driving uphill I couldn't slow down anymore to let him decide, so. ZOOM. He honked at me from behind and I gave him the finger.

Driving up here can piss me off so damned much sometimes, and it seems like every day someone is doing something stupid on the road.

I hate driving in general, but here are some things that I specifically hate about driving:

• Old people drivers: Goddamn, I hate them. They seem to always drive 10 miles below the speed limit and it's so annoying.
• People talking on their cellphones: If it's so fucking important to take a call while on the road, can't you just pull over to the side of the road or just pull into a parking lot or something?
• Slow drivers: Same as old people, but they should know better than to drive 10 miles below the speed limit, on the highway.
• Trucks: Why can't we just get rid of those big ass, annoying trucks altogether and just transport large loads of cargo and whatnot by helicopter, planes, and trains?

I don't understand this point. While I can understand being intimidated by trucks (they're big), as someone who travels on America's Highways pretty often and by many means, I'd rather be between two trucks than anything else.

Ahahahahahahahahaha. Are you serious? Do you understand the logistical problems with this suggestion at all?

Here's another type of flaccid-dicked driver that needs to be locked in his pickup-with-a-9"-lift-kit-to-compensate-for-my-manhood cab with a pack of rabid badgers that are high on cocaine:

Lifted pickup drivers who think that the 25 mph speed limit in a school zone only applies to the 6 feet before and after the school's main gate; everything else is of no consequence. They will drive well over 50 mph in a school zone just so that they can cum to the booming sound of their gas-gargling engine exhausting its fumes through their "sweet Flowmaster pipes" and then slam on their brakes before they reach the gates just to give the impression that they were obeying the applicable speed law which is, you know, in place for the safety of kids.

Those pricks deserve to have my students shove an entire sack of potatoes into their exhausts so that their engines blow up like fucking Bosnian land mines.

No, it's not that they're intimidating. They're just... well, annoying. Especially when they're on a small road or something.

No shit. Obviously there are places where it would be impossible for those vehicles I mention. Well geez... It was just a simple thought... :(

Fine, how about something more unrealistic like teleporters?!? :tpg:

Tailgaters usually bother me the most. I usually slow down even more when I see a car that happens to be sticking too close. Another one that comes to mind is people who don't use turn signals at all. I consider myself a very careful driver anyway so I'm normally aware of everything around me, but sometimes I encounter drivers who just don't use signals and end up turning dangerously. Finally, people who just drive too slow in general when everyone else is going at least 5-10 over the speed limit.

I feel your pain. I live in a truck town, they're all over the place here. It's even better on the highway when you have two of them just sitting there taking up both lanes, neither making any effort to pass the other.

Similar to people that don't signal when they turn or switch lanes, people that don't look behind them when they back up piss me off. With a huge multitude of things that could go horribly wrong as a result of this neglect, I can't imagine why or how someone could overlook this. And yet, some months ago I was at a drive-thru for a Wendy's and for some reason I don't know (maybe to get lined up with the screen so they could check their order), the person ordering in front of me starts to back up. I seldom honk the horn, but I swear this guy would've backed into me if I hadn't honked.

what else gets my goat are the assholes on a 3 or 5 lane road that indicate a left turn, then brake in your lane, before crawling into the left turn lane at the last moment.

Additionally, what bugs me is the 'no right turn on red' signs in areas where it's unnecessary. I just disregard those for the most part.

This bugs me too, because the area I'm from didn't do that. It was very sane: straight/right turning traffic first with the left hand lane blinking red, and then left turners go. There's no chance of that when the left hand people go first.

This is kinda similar to the SUV cell phone complaint. Women who do their make up while driving. Look, I get that someone women feel they can't be seen without several feet of coloured goo or powder on their face but at least wait for a parking lot or, gee I dunno, a red light even! If you're driving on the highway - or even just a road in general - put down the lipstick, stop trying to apply your foundation and for the love of god don't even consider the mascara brush again. This has happened to me so many times, it makes me ashamed to be female.

Lol, I totally did this the other day then I caught myself and I'm asking myself why.

Here in Idaho there are a lot of two lane roads, so when I'm stuck behind a line of people waiting for one person who's waiting make a left hand turn onto a street, when there's a dirt road to the right where people can pass this annoying bastard, it gets quite...annoying

Uh oh, I'm going to be driving with you for 2+ HOURS? Yikes.

Oh, and yesterday(i hate fucking Idaho), I was driving through a neighborhood and I was coming to an intersection and so was this other car. I had no stop sign so I assumed he did so I kept going and so did he. After taking another look there was no fucking stop sign for a 4 way intersection. ugh! and then my husband yells at me for not paying attention.

I hate people with cars. *jumps up and down shaking fist* Assholes! Driving their stupid cars everywhere, making it dangerous for the rest of the world to walk.

Seriously, angry, people.

Everybody drives different. It's hard to even sit passenger seat with somebody and not cringe and flinch quite a few time before the end of the trip. A LOT of people driving that annoy other people aren't really braking the rules, and the ones that do might have actually made an honest mistake, and some of them just might have a legitimate enough reason to break a rule or two.
Yes, there is dickheads, but what's flipping out gonna do? I bite my tongue a lot (not ALL the time, though).

Anyways, as anybody who's lived in Vegas will say, CAB DRIVERS are the spawn of fucking Satan and need to be exorcised.

And please don't tailgate me. If you give me maybe more than a measly 10 seconds to actually notice you're behind me, I might just move over and let you pass. Otherwise, find your own way around.

I usually don't get too angry when it comes to other people driving, because I expect people to do stupid things. I just try my best to keep myself aware at all times because especially when it comes to driving people are just plain stupid and we're all guilty of doing at least something stupid on the road once.

Where I'm living at the moment (Newfoundland), I usually don't have much to complain about. I find a lot of the drivers actually pretty civil. I'm not one for speed unless its a road I frequently travel on and I'm familiar with the surroundings. When it comes to a road or stretch of highway that I'm unaware of I usually drive the speed limit or maybe 5-10 km below it.

When I'm working out in Alberta thats a totally different story altogether. The stretch of highway that I have to drive on every day I have to work is Highway 63. To the entire province its known as the highway of death because since I've been working in Alberta that stretch of road has killed maybe 30 to 40 people.

There are two hatred I have developed toward other drivers especially since I've been working in Alberta.

1.) People who drive while talking with their cellphones. I can tolerate it if it's on the highway and there isn't much traffic, but I can't fucking stand it when people talk on their cellphones especially when they're driving downtown where it is more congested and there are more intersections. You have to be aware of your surroundings of all time. It absolutely pisses me off when people talk on their cellphones where traffic is tight and they switch lanes and don't even check their mirrors and end up pulling out of an intersection and don't bother checking in both directions.

2.) People who don't drive according to the FUCKING WEATHER CONDITIONS. I hate it that people think they're invincible on the road. Sure there might be freezing rain on the road and within a few hours that means there is going to be black ice. The drivers don't care; they'll still drive 140 KPH in 100 zone. It is these assholes who lack any patience who cause the majority of the accidents on that stretch of highway on the road. You know I'm not risking my life just to get home or get to work a little faster than usual. If it is snowing heavily/hailing heavily/ or a lot of ice on the road I'm going to slow down to 50 or 60 KPH because I'm not taking that risk to go into a ditch or slam into another car. If you fuckers don't like it since your behind me, then go ahead, you risk your life; I on the other hand want to make it home alive.

I tend to be very cautious when driving in Northern Alberta. A lot of companies are aware of many of the problems that come with driving up in this area and the amount of lives that are lost every year. My company is very strict when it comes to their company vehicles. If you speed, drive recklessly and get caught you get suspended without pay. The police are really cracking down with all the excess speeding in the area, sometimes coming home from work you can see maybe 4 to 5 people pulled over within a span of 24 kilometres.

Oh god, how did I forget this one? The worst I had was a couple weeks ago at night when it was really foggy. Idiots all had their brights on which actually makes it harder to see. So in the fog I got idiots with their brights on tailgating me and since their brights are shining past me, I can't see. So I'm just thinking "Hurry up and pass me already asshole so I can go back to being able to see."

I hate people who get way too worked up over the things people do on the road. Are you all really in that big of a hurry to get wherever it is you're going? Just step back and relax for a second. You'll feel much better for it.

I drive fast, but if there's someone in my way doing something wrong I don't get upset. I turn some good music on, and I enjoy the drive.

Driving in a light sprinkle is actually just as dangerous sometimes as driving in a flooding downpour.

If it's been a while since it rained, especially, the sprinkling water is enough to slick up all the oils and other slick chemicals in the road, but not enough to wash them away. This makes for a very slippery drive if you try and treat it like it's nothing. I know from experience.

I hate people who don't turn on their headlights when it starts raining. As a rule, if your wipers are going you turn on your headlights. Some cars are really hard to see when it's pouring, and these geniuses aren't making it any better by driving blind.

I'm cool with people who drive particularly slowly (given that they're in the right hand lane and all that), but I really hate moving to pass someone who's going really slow and discovering that the reason they're moving so slow is because they're on the phone.

Haven't had too many experiences with tailgaters or really reckless drivers, so I'm pretty lucky in that regard.

That's because you're too much of a wuss to go on the freeways. :mad:

Americans driving in Canada. Not all Americans, mind you. Some of you northerners are okay. But my god. I see a Cali plate and there's a half inch of snow on the ground, I know we're going to be driving 10 mph and looking panicked while people zip past us. Always funny.

I'm hella relaxed, this is just my baseline behavior.

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The one time I drove in Canada it was horrible. it was in Winsor, which is a lot more pedestrian than Detroit is, and as I recall there were a number of one-way streets. I was hitting my brakes as I notice some schmoe walk across the road, suddenly noticing no-turn signs almost before I turn, doing the slow way down and squint at the street signs newbie action, the whole nine yards. I'm sure I made many people RAGE that day.

I don't like to spend more time on the road with idiots than necessary, that's what.

The more time I spend with ASSHOLES on the road, the more likely I am to get hit by one of them.

Thus, I minimize my time on the road. I'm not out there to go Sunday driving. If I'm driving, I expect I'm trying to get somewhere. A to B, as efficiently as possible. I really dislike the attitude that you should spend ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD on the road. I've really got better things to be doing, honestly.

Deni, we drove with no trouble through that fuck-fest of a snow storm you guys had in Montreal in March. I ENJOYED how the Canadians weren't phased too much by the snow. It's REFRESHING. (Most Canadians seemed to drive well enough to not solicit road rage from me.)

And Anazai, I assure you, I am a very safe driver. You just close your eyes.

Irony. We Buffalonians gripe about the Canadians coming down to do their shopping and clogging up the roads with their rubbernecking. The only thing that slows us down in Ontario is that sometimes we come across dual-language signs. I know French, so I'm not really phased by that, but the Asian languages can be distracting. I've seen several different styles, which I can only assume to be both Chinese and Korean. But this has been largely within Toronto. Outside of the city, it's all francophone nonsense.

That must be it: in Buffalo, our signs are English-only. The Canadians are confused by the clarity.

But all my examples were from people on the freeways :(

Not my fault my car is extremely temperamental. You see, I can't get mad at the people who just drive slow because sometimes, that's me (cuz of the car).

Yeah, Sass, that's why I said southerners. Specifically Cali. Most northerners know how to drive just fine in the snow.

Also, man, that storm was great. My condo is a half-basement. Had to dig out my door. Like. 3 feet of snow piled up on it.

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Ok.

Another thing. Driving with my husband is terrifying at times, one of my biggest pet peeves with him is when he stops at a red light within 1 inch of the other cars bumper. That's quite heart racing because it looks like he's not going to stop and then he does so at the last moment.

Oh, and when you are sitting at a red light and people keep moving forward and braking, moving and braking, moving and braking, like that is going to make the light turn green any faster and the stupid people behind those fucktards do the same thing...erg!

All of the following types of motorist are retards and should be harmed with blunt weapons:

1: Anyone who spies an oncoming red light and attempts to conserve inertia by never actually stopping but instead slowing down at 200 yards away, then slowly creeping up on the light, dragging the last fifty yards out forever at a whopping 3 mph.

2: Any nimrod who recklessly cuts through a gas station to avoid a red light.

3: People who urgently blaze by you on a two-lane highway, only to immediately move one car length in front of you, then maintain the exact posted speed limit the rest of the way - just because they had to be first.

4: Old people for whom 90% of the windshield is wasted because they insist upon driving by staring through the gaps in the steering wheel.

5: People who illogically conclude that, because most parking lots are private property, the laws of traffic conveniently vanish and that pedestrians only have themselves to blame.

6: People who dangerously surge out of driveways and parking lots, practically cutting you off, then refuse to make a legal right-on-red because it's obviously too much of a moral dilemma.

7: Anyone who parks diagonally across two spaces because, God help them, nothing shall ever touch their precious, precious Pontiac.

8: People who willfully torture a "captive audience" at a crowded red light by blasting their horrible preference in music at levels that rival commercial jet engines.

9: Anyone who notices a cop with a pulled-over motorist and immediately "plays it safe" by travelling at least fifteen miles below the posted limit, as though it's an elaborate ploy and the real troopers are hiding behind the next building.

10: Anyone who remains at a stop sign in the middle of fucking nowhere for more than three seconds.

11: Anyone with handicapped plates and a "No Fear" sticker in the rear windshield.

A related occurrence is when people are so wired up and eager to go that they accidentally slam down the accelerator only to brake hard immediately when the left turn arrow comes on, because they saw the green color out of the corner of their eye and thought it was their turn to go, only to find that their light is still red. Then they begin moving forward and braking...

Fucking god. Some lady on her cellphone, driving her fat ass expedition decided to hit me, while she was backing out in the fucking PARKING lot. I honked for a good fucking straight 5 seconds. She stopped a second, and I thought "Thank god, she heard". But fucking Noooooooo, she still fucking backs out and fucking hits me, because of her god damn CELLPHONE. What the HELL?! Hope you fucking burn in HELL. But I got money from the dumb bitch. And Yes, I thought about backing up, but there was another car behind me, which is good since I had a witness.

And Three weeks later, some stupid dumb ass, decided to rear-end me. And surprise, the fucker was on his cell phone (and couldn't speak an ounce of english). Fucking assholes, if you can't walk and chew bubble gum at the same time, don't fucking drive and use cellphones. Just do one thing at a time if you're too retarded. Fucking two accidents, caused by cellphone wielding idiots. God damnit.

I might've misunderstood the scenario you're describing, but I think that's called engine braking and it's actually very energy-conserving. It reduces wear on brakes and you know, saves up on alot of fuel. And yes, braking does consume fuel - lots of it. If you have a fuel monitor installed in your car you can see how the consumption increases during acceleration and braking.

Anyway, I'll just chip in and say - old people. Get off the road. You can't drive for shit, you can't see shit, you don't signal, you never position the car properly and then almost ram me off the road every single time you finally decide where you want to go. That, and you always drive like 20kph below the limit.

What, you'd rather have them going fast and dangerous? As long as they get in the right-hand lane, slowing down is admitting that their facilities are reduced and I can respect that. I'm more terrified of the SUVs that pass me at 85 while on their cell phone.

Crash - slowing down to conserve momentum not only conserves a LOT of gas, for those of us with manual transmissions it saves a pile of wear on the clutch too, and those things aren't cheap. I won't be changing my habits any time soon.

Also, Killy, engine braking is downshifting to slow down, and it doesn't save gas, it burns it. What Crash is describing is simply slowing down a bit and taking your foot off the gas to ensure that when the light turns green you're still rolling and you don't have to do a full start from stopped again.

Ah, I was referring to the very same thing - I thought it was called engine braking. Is there another word for it?

Once again proof that people really weren't paying attention when they learned to drive or didn't read the manual.....Don't put high beams on in fog and snow. It impairs vision--not enhances it....

My pet peeves:

1) Use the turn signal, jackass. (#1 pet peeve)

2) Yes, there are two rivers in this town. Stop driving slowly to stare at them.

3) Hey, it's great that you have friends, but call them when you get home, don't talk to each other while in your cars, blocking traffic.

4) Do you see a stop sign? No? Then go, for God's sake! It's a two-way stop, not a four-way.

5) You don't need to wait for a green-arrow to make a left-hand turn, dumbass. You CAN turn when you have a solid light and no one's coming.

6) Blinking red lights=stop. Blinking yellow=go. NOT the reverse....

Not sure if you drive in as much of what could be considered backwoodsy areas as I did while living at home, but I would always slow down around roads where there was only a two way stop. We've had tons of accidents where people either blow through the 2-way stop (whey they were supposed to be the ones stopping), or they didn't see the oncoming car due to the way many intersections are laid out. I won't come to a stop, but I'll coast down to a bit under the speed limit (normally ~45mph) so I can react if I see someone's going to run it.

RR--This is the middle of town, a T-intersection. These people stop when they have right of way.

Yes, this one! I never really noticed it before I bought a hybrid, but my car shuts the engine off automatically to conserve gas when it comes to a complete stop. If the moron in front of me inches forward, then I have to go forward too, or else the people behind me will be pissed off; however, I have to get up to a certain speed for the engine to shut down again, so 9 times out of 10 I'm wasting gas because people can't learn to stop in the right place to begin with.

Nutty et al, more often than not I'm moving forward because the guy behind me is right on my ass and it's making me uncomfortable. Ie, suppose someone rear ends him, and because he's practically bumper to bumper, he rolls forward and rear ends me.

Other scenarios include, I've stopped but the guy behind me is approaching uncomfortably fast. And also inching forward because you see the opposite lights going yellow, in preparation for yours going green. Some larger intersections it's entirely possible to guess wrong and have some other light turn green instead of yours.

Finally, if the guy in front of you inches forward, you don't have to. You can sit right where you are, and people behind you can deal.

What pisses me off about traffic lights are the douche bags that either take awhile to start moving again, or accelerate way too slowly. Traffic lights can be great places to get around the slow fuck in the left lane that's been holding you up for 6 miles, provided you don't have a slow fuck in the right lane who's going to take his time pulling out of a traffic light.

Ditto for toll booths. Get through one quick enough and you've got a painless merge. Get some douche in front of you who thinks the 5mph sign actually means something, and you'll have hell avoiding the rest of everybody who's going faster than you.

And also Crash's mention of bumper stickers needs another mention here too. Christian bumper stickers are annoying as all fuck. Especially when the person driving them is going slow. It's bad enough I have to sit behind your fat ass, being unable to see any kind of traffic ahead because you're huge but on top of that, I have to read your tacky shit about how Jesus saves.

I'd say even worse are the deliberately crass ones, because I can't understand what possible motivation there is to use them. "I like to fart?" The kind of person that thinks he should advertise that is the kind of person with whom I don't want to share my planet.

Ain't your fault. Fucker's insurance pays for your repairs. Dumbfuck people make dumbfuck mistakes and you should take your money from the dumbfuck insurance company what were... dumbfuck enough to ensure them in the first place.

If you have a deductible of X many dollars, wouldn't you still have to cover that amount?

This actually brings to mind a question I discussed with someone (not in these forums) a couple of months ago: what if you were the person in the middle? Laws might vary from state to state (or province, what have you) on this, but would you be at fault? Theoretically if someone rear-ends you, causing you to rear-end the person in front of you, the person in front could hold you partly responsible because their jacka** lawyer would argue you wouldn't have rear-ended them if you had put enough space between you and the car in front. I know that may sound ridiculous with how you wouldn't have rear-ended them in the first place if you weren't rear-ended yourself, not to mention that you're the unlucky one that has both the front and back of your car to get fixed. But then, we hear of some pretty stupid lawsuits almost every day in this country. :><:

I think whoever started it would be at fault completely where I live (PA), but I don't know if the same is true everywhere else.

I think you're at fault everywhere.

Ditto what RR said. You're supposed to be in control of your vehicle at all times. If someone rear ends you and you slide forward five feet, then you fucked up somewhere.

Now, I mean I guess you could sue the guy who hit you for damages including whatever you had to pay out and see if you could win. I figure extenuating circumstances, a fully loaded van going 95 into the back of your car's going to move you forward no matter what you do.

Slowing down to conserve momentum saves gas when you're approaching a RED light about to turn GREEN, not the other way around, which is what Crash is describing. I'd be upset if somebody took five years to get to the damn red light, too.

Engine braking is leaving the vehicle in gear, or downshifting, in order to use the engine drag to slow the vehicle. This is definitely a SAFER prodedure when driving a big rig, but unnecessary in a passenger vehicle other than a bus, because the vehicle just doesn't weigh that much.

I don't engine brake. If you drive a manual, you should just throw in the clutch, and use the brakes to control your decline in speed, instead of downshifting each gear. If it's an automatic, the sooner you hit the brakes and starting slowing, the sooner it kicks outta gear. Some even kick out of gear fairly soon after just letting off the accelerator.
This saves you wear on the clutch AND the engine, and conserves gas. Brake pads are MUCH cheaper to replace than either the clutch or engine, or even for the price of gas nowadays.

So engine breaking means both. In any case, downshifting is hardly as gas-conserving as leaving the car in gear, since downshifting requires reving and synchronization. Of course, the faster you go the harder it is to time the engine braking with traffic ahead, but it's very useful if you're driving in dense traffic downtown, where you don't gain that much speed between stops.

10-4.

Actually... I had that case happen to me. I was in the middle car but the girl behind me was at the fault. To this day though, I'm thankful that the guy ahead of me stayed for the police because of his tiny dent shown enough proof that I did stopped and gave enough space ahead of me before that girl rammed into my car hard enough. (Imagine my back bumper of the car right front of her windshield.) Its just a terrible spot... and that's my first serious accident that was to be taken down on a police report. All of us were college kids heading home and the road was a two lane highway and the construction was going on for the left lane. :\ Going over the hill and coming down to see a LONG frozen line is what caused the whole series of accidents from there. This was in Texas by the way, I feel bad for the girl though, she lost her car (engine was smoking) but she was tailgating me the whole time.

And my biggest pet peeve? Tailgaters. :\

Maybe I translated it wrong to myself. I thought by "oncoming red light" he meant, like, the red light is coming...you know, maybe it's yellow, and the red light is still....COMING.

Fuck it.

Killy, you're an idiot. Just drive a fucking automatic. Lord knows I wouldn't want you trying to engine brake into my asshole.

Apparently there is a speed limit of +/- 90 km/h for trucks and I happen to like to drive at 90 km/h on the right lane.

Now these trucks seem to hate it that there is a little car between two trucks. I don't really know what the problem is though.

I guess one truck wants to pass the other and I'm preventing the truck to do so.

Ain't my fault you is a big pussy drivin' with auto, scared of sticks mm? I just want to save up on fuel and brake pads. I recommend you do the same and while you're at it, get a manual. Automatic is just... pussy.

No... I think he means that, from your description of what you think "engine braking" is, you obviously don't know how to drive a fucking manual car; therefore he wouldn't want to be the one in front of you when you attempt your fumbling fucked up braking at his expense.

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The next time I'm straddling the gearshift in my truck, I'll just remind myself how much it resembles your mother's phallus.

Right right, or both of you motherfuckers need to learn how to read. I don't "think" engine braking is something, I know what it is - the question was how you retards chose to define it. Letting go of the gas is engine braking, without downshifting - and it doesn't take magic to pull it off. That's how I do it and that's how I'll keep doing it. You pussies keep driving automatic.

Zeph, if you need to lick it like a monkey in order to analyse it and figure out how it works - go for it.

To satisfy whoever else isn't exactly sure why they're actually arguing.

Originally Posted by Arainach:
"Also, Killy, engine braking is downshifting to slow down, and it doesn't save gas, it burns it."


I don't agree, because when I engine brake I clearly see on the screen that the fuel usage is 0 l/100km. What do you mean by "it burns it"? (Unless the computer is wrong)

He's downshifting, hence the burn. The engine revs and needs to synchronize. If you're getting a 0l/100km readout, rest assured you're doing it right - all you do is take your foot off the gas. If you're driving down a steep angle and you need to maintain speed, downshifting works, but it burns fuel.