Road peeves

[schnitzer teil-jäger]

1. You are driving along on the interstate doing 80-85mph. You see a car in the right hand lane nearing an overpass. You casually drift into the left lane in anticipation of the pass, since the car you are overtaking is only doing 50-55mph. Right before you pass the other vehicle, I mean RIGHT BEFORE, LIKE 15 FEET BEFORE overtaking the vehicle. The other driver quickly moves into you lane. You stand on the brakes, dive to the left into the warning track and try to stay out of the median. After you control the decent to 50mph without contacting the other vehicle you become aware of why.
The other vehicle decided to pull into your(85mph) path to yield to a vehicle moving down the onramp at 45mph. The person actually doesn't look just assumes they are the only person in that space. The whole eastern seaboard does this.

2. You are proceeding down an on ramp. looking over your left shoulder at the traffic below. Adjusting your speed to 55-65mph to fit into the flow of traffic when you reach the bottom. Look ahead, look over shoulder, great found a space and my speed is right, look forward, SOME IDIOT IS STOPPED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RAMP! The sign says yield not STOP and cause and accident!!!! Worst area for this is Charlotte, NC.

3. You are in the city with a 5 lane avenue. You pull into the turn lane and signal for a left turn. about 3 car lenghts in front of you is another car with the left blinker on. You pause trying to figure out where they intend to turn and have no clue. they are 4 car lengths past the point of entry to the left. Then oncoming traffic clears and you start your turn. About 1/2way across the lanes you notice the car that was WAY past the entry is trying to make a 140' turn into the same drive. WTF is with this. The whole time since I recieved my license I was never able to figure this out. Then I lived in florida for a few years and found out why. Almost all florida roads have the yellow stripes curve left at the end of the road to allow traffic to spread out and make 2-3 lanes in the last 20-30 feet (florida panhandle atleast). Think of a funnel with the line making the entry one lane wide, and the exit 3-4 lanes wide. I guess it is thier road engineering??? So beware florida tags tend to go past the logical point of entry due to training, I used to think they were just stupid and old.

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[E30godz]

good ole' NC baby.

[randomtask37]

1. people that ride your ass at night with there brights on.
2. people who dont gradually slow down for turns... u know the ones i mean, your following them down the road and all of a sudden they just slam their brakes for no apparent reason, then when they turn left/right u realize what they were doing. the least they could do is use a signal.
3. cops that ride your ass really hard, then when u speed up a little to get them off u... they pull you over. (i learned the hard way, luckly no ticket)
4. people that dont yield for the right of way

... im sure theres more, ill get back to this when i think of some.

[OldUser1]

Okay well there is this one part of town that usually gets me the most.

-Coming off of the first street overpass, headed south-east at about 35mph downhill. About 100 yards ahead is the North highway on ramp. The turn from south-east to north highway is very tight, angled highly inward. I love to really get on the throttle here and blast through that turn. My biggest peeve, is when people ahead of me, merge onto the highway at about 25mph, and don't reach the speed limit for another mile or so.

[ColdAccord]

well i moved from buffalo, to amherst (the suburb of buffalo where the university is located). they all suck. takes about 40 seconds for all the cars to get moving after a red light turns green

also, they all drive 5-10mph under the speed limit

people who drive slow in the left lane

but nothing is worse than being on a motorcycle. these fucking idiots cut me off every time I'm on my bike. One time I was on my ninja, my buddy was next to me on his vfr. this old bitch turns left, cutting me off. I lay on the horn, so does my buddy, and this bitch doesn't even look over

[Brew]

SOME IDIOT IS STOPPED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RAMP! The sign says yield not STOP and cause and accident!!!!

I hate that! Anyone ever driven on the Long Island Expressway? Its 2 lanes with constant 75mph traffic and the onramp actually have STOP SIGNS at the end of them. You are FUCKED if you are driving a slow car, as I was the last time I drove down there (an 87' Merc 300TD wagon). Plus, you are dealing with the worst of the worst drivers on the planet.

I get so heated when I drive because of all the idiots that surround me. I think my biggest peeve is when people are overly nice, like when you are driving towards an intersection, with a yield sign directed towards you, and the car coming the other way, with the right of way, decides that he is going to STOP in the middle of the road and let you go. Thanks a lot, douchebag. Its even worse when you are driving behind people like that.

I actually almost enjoy when people tailgate me though, because I just slam on my brakes and keep slowing down until they back off. Seems to work almost every time.

Hmmm, other annoying things....
-When people are in front of me on on- or off-ramps. :twisted:
-When people try to "chase you down" after you pull out of a stoplight or stop-sign quickly, just so they can shake their heads at you.
-When old, infertile, menopause-stricken bitches in their Audi A4's lay on their horn when they are behind you in the drive-thru, try and pass you in the parking lot, then try and pass you on the RIGHT SIDE on a 1-lane road.

Jeez, I need to go for a drive.

[M-technik-3]

[quote="ColdAccord"] they all suck. takes about 40 seconds for all the cars to get moving after a red light turns green
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I drove thru your neck of the woods three days ago. I90 to Michigan.

On your note about the light in EU we get prompted to get ready just prior when the yellow light flashes just prior to green. Wish they did that here in US.

[Brew]

On your note about the light in EU we get prompted to get ready just prior when the yellow light flashes just prior to green. Wish they did that here in US.

Ahh yes; they have that in Canada too. Good stuff.

[Jonathan M3]

I hate tailgaters, and I finally got my revenge at one just last week!!! :twisted:



The other day I was driving my M3 through a subdivision at night doing 35 in a 30 when a camry gets right up on my ass and won't let up. It really starts to piss me off so I slow down to about 25 just to piss mr. camry off somemore.
I then see about 200ft ahead that there is a trash can in the middle of the road and an idea pops in my head :D . I know that theres no way the camry behind me can see this trash can since he's so damn close to my car, and just to make sure I shut off my low beams to make it harder to see(yet I can still see it with the street lights) and then speed up to about 40, the camry speeds up with me and continues to stay on my ass. I then knew I had him hooked.
I head straight for the trash can like its not even there but at the last possible second swerve around it, just missing it, but the camry behind me nails it head on!!!! :mrgreen:

Maybe he learned something from that.

[nando]

I hate people that go slow on onramps and try to merge into traffic at 10-20mph below the speed limit.. especially when the onramp is a mile long, downhill and straight as an arrow. Come on, my car can't be that much faster than yours..

I also hate when I'm getting on the freeway, usually at or above the speed limit, and the idiot next to me tries to accelerate.. sometimes it's fun though to put them in their place.

The thing that probably drives me the craziest are people who ride their brakes, either when following closely behind somebody (just slow down moron!) or when going around corners/down hills. Brakes are for stopping, damnit! just let off the gas pedal..

I get the occasional fucktard to tails me, but that never lasts long with a good ol' brake check. You gotta be careful about that though, it tends to piss people off. :twisted:

Oh, recently people have been flashing me as if I have my brights on.. I KNIOW my sealed beams aren't that bright, and the lows *are* aimed correctly. My highs are not, so I like to return the favor with a blinding flash of my miss-aimed drivers side high beam which points right at their face. I'd aim it properly but sealed beams don't work very well with euro grilles..

[AndrewBird]

What I HATE the most is when you are following someone and they will not stay at a consistant speed! They'll go from 45 up to 50 then back doen then up to 65 and then back down to 50 and so on. Then why you try to pass them in a passing lane, they speed up! That pisses me off more then ANYTHING.

People who will slam on their brakes to turn off the road into a driveway from high speeds, not use their turn signals, then take FOREVER to turn off the road so you can get by.

Andrew

[808BMW]

I hate people who sneak through red lights, or think they have the right of way when you do.

Or cops that never turn their lights on, until they pull you over (in hawaii all cops have personal vehicles with a blue light slapped on top, at night you can't tell if it's a regular car or a cop car).

Last night on the way home, I was doing about 65 in a 55, and all of a sudden some headlights come up from WAY back (at least a mile). I figure he must have been doing at least 80-90 to catch up to me. Then all of a sudden he slows down to 55, turns on his blue light and lets the gap increase :P Luckily I can usually catch pacing before it is too late and I can slow down and not get busted.

[SickE30]

1. Winston Salem down to Raleigh, NC that's my main driving peave right there

[TheyCallMeDale]

I hate tailgaters, and I finally got my revenge at one just last week!!! :twisted:



The other day I was driving my M3 through a subdivision at night doing 35 in a 30 when a camry gets right up on my ass and won't let up. It really starts to piss me off so I slow down to about 25 just to piss mr. camry off somemore.
I then see about 200ft ahead that there is a trash can in the middle of the road and an idea pops in my head :D . I know that theres no way the camry behind me can see this trash can since he's so damn close to my car, and just to make sure I shut off my low beams to make it harder to see(yet I can still see it with the street lights) and then speed up to about 40, the camry speeds up with me and continues to stay on my ass. I then knew I had him hooked.
I head straight for the trash can like its not even there but at the last possible second swerve around it, just missing it, but the camry behind me nails it head on!!!! :mrgreen:

Maybe he learned something from that.

that is truely awesome. I salute you

and not going to lie, every single person over the age of 60 should not be on the road. Call me ignorant or whatever, but they always seem to be the cause of every road peeve Ive ever had. Them and stupid 16 year olds who have had their license for maybe a day and rev at anyone at a stoplight, it doesnt matter if its heavy traffic, school zone, or a parking lot.

[Jon325i]

Where I live (Sacramento, CA) there are some horrible drivers. The more notible habbits of my fellow local motorists includes....

1. Those who drive 70mph in the #1 lane of a freeway when everyone else is pacing along at 80+. Its like they think they're deputized by the local authorities and they want to do the cops' work. All too common here.

2. Owners of SUVs/trucks (all the same) that tailgate at night. Their much taller ride height puts their headlights right at eye level for me and fill all my mirrors with blinding glare. They may or may not be aware of this....but its irritating nonetheless.

3. On the freeway, you have an 18-wheeler in the right lane and a motorist ahead of you who seems to have a phobia of passing any semi. They just sit there, two car lengths back in the next lane.....not passing the truck. Its like they're affraid the truck is going to jump out and bite them. Pass him already!!!

4. Tailgaters in general. I'm like WTF? This isn't the Mr. Goodwrench 500 so stop drafting my ass already!!!

5. The straightliners. This what I call the motorists who have no issue blasting along at 80+.....so long as the road is straight. However, when a bend/corner comes up they get on the brakes hard and take it at a considerably reduced speed. But once the road striaghtens out, they've got their load pedal stuffed into the carpet again. I take pleasure with these motorist (particularly those posers in newer cars) who think that just because they drive a newer car, they are totally capable if whipping my ass. I will follow along with them...pacing them...and then when a transition ramp comes along and they start getting on the brakes, I down shift, pass them (providing there's a lane to) and then rocket for the corner...only lifting off the gas slightly to set up for the turn and then nailing it....and watching them become smaller and smaller in my rearview mirror. Afterwards I let them catch up and take a glance at them....many times they don't look back.

6. Last one. Those talk on the phone while driving. I hate that the most.

Jon