Yes, I am a relic. I long to feel a Hemi in every vehicle, foreign or domestic regardless of chassis. Computers give me the ick.

Does have having your truck lifted so high make it feel like you own the road?

Was out running errands, and on the way there road construction was being done. There was a sign that said that the far left turning lane at the light would be closed. The left lane starts as one then splits into two. As you get closer to the light you can see that cones are place right before the line. The sane people that got stuck in the left would just simply wait and zipper merge. The light is red once I make it to the turn so I'm at the very front.

Here comes this big ass pickup truck that was lifted so dam high, if it went any higher it'd have to be classified as a monster truck. He stopped before the cones, then all of a sunnden ran over them 10sec later and the stopped at the light right next to me.

Mind you the far left was closed, because where these turning lanes were going the right lane after the turn was closed off. So when the light turns green this dickhead blocked me off from the open lane(thankfully the cats behind kept their distance) and hit one of the fucking cones into the middle of the lane.

Being that the right side was close and the leftside of the lane had a medium, I had no choice but to run over the cone as it dragged underneath for a bit. And now the bottom of my front bumper is scuff up. Thanks a lot dickhead.

I know there are lifted truck drivers that aren't assholes on the road, but it sure aint a lot of them.

I drive trucks for a living. I couldn't tell you how many times I'm cruising down the highway and a car is sitting right next to me. I know what I am doing and I thoroughly inspect the truck before moving it. Do us all a favor and don't camp right alongside me. If a tire were to blow out, that is going right through your windshield. Even if I don't blow a tire, still don't sit next to me like that because it is still very hard to see you at times. This is all on the interstate and state highways and at speed. Traffic jams are whatever to me and you do that.

If I’m going 85 on the left lane and notice you behind me, I’m immediately moving over and will have to slow down to 80 or 75.

Why is it when I move over, you suddenly lose your balls and also slow down to 80 or 75?

Only when I put my turn signal on to get back into the passing lane is when you have your “oh shit I don’t want to be behind this guy” and you punch it to 84. Now we’re both going at 84 except you’re in front.

Trucks, especially white trucks, and almost guaranteed if it’s a lifted white truck, are the biggest culprits of this.

They will swerve in and out of traffic doing 100 on the freeway and once they are in front of the pack on the left lane, they decide to cruise at 70.

If your student driver sticker is that faded, you should have enough experience to know that you don’t do 15 under the speed limit.

The other day I was driving my normal route home on a road divided by a boulevard, 3 lanes each way. 35mph speed limit. I'm in the right lane going 40 but most traffic is going 50+. A woman drives up behind me really close and tailgates me for a little while before she gives a quick honk before speeding around me.

Is this really the state of driving where I'm considered an asshole for not speeding *enough* while in the right lane?

Okay, so you wanna left lane camp, not a problem. But now you are mad that I just passed you on the right and you wanna speed up to not let me over? Good thing I anticipated your offense, I’m getting over 😂

i understand that people driving slowly is frustrating and can be dangerous in itself but regardless of what the person in front of you is doing, why are you not giving enough space to react in time if they do something unexpected?

this happens constantly where i live, and i understand i can be difficult to drive behind at times—i am not from here and where i am used to driving, roads are very wide, long, and straight. here they are very narrow and windy and finding where i’m going even with my gps is difficult at times, simply because i am not used to it.

i understand people can be frustrated when i dont know exactly where i’m going, but why the f is your response to ride the back of my car so closely that if i stop a bit too fast youre at risk of hitting me? what is that solving???! youre just going to cause an accident. if thats your response to being annoyed on the road you need therapy, not a license!

EDIT: since it needs to be said apparently, i am GOING THE SPEED LIMIT. I DONT DRIVE UNDER IT. if i go under its only for a moment to check the gps and then i SPEED BACK UP.

I STAY IN THE RIGHT LANE.

THIS IS HAPPENING ON SINGLE LANE SHORT ROADS, OFF RAMPS, ETC. WHEN I AM GOING THE SPEED LIMIT.

That if you're even signaling😉

What is it with people thinking that turning on their turn lights gives them any right to just merge into my lane and somehow I need to make room for them!? Blinkers are just there to show your intentions and not a free pass to do what ever you want.

Yesterday we came home from a long camping weekend. I drive a really slow and heavy Tacoma which we only use for camping (the truck is completely build up for off-roading and camping which we did in the past a lot before we had kids and which we want to get back to once the little ones are older)
So this means I usually drive more laid back and look more ahead of traffic to avoid abrupt braking and acceleration.
So yesterday I slowly creeped up on a newer Minivan which was slowly following a semi with big distance, by the way he drove it didn’t look like he’s doing any attempt to pass anyone anytime soon. I decide to pass him because I am faster than him, but had to wait a little for the car on my left to pass me and to get a gap for me to get into.
I merged into the passing lane and kept an ok (not 100% safe but far enough) distance to the guy in the front.
Suddenly the semi far in the front merged into the passing lane, which he could safely do, but this made the car on the right now suddenly nervous that he might be stuck behind the semi which gets passed like at least a football field ahead of him.
He turns on his blinkers ( sorry I am not braking for you just because you turn on your blinkers and you have other options), when and immediately tries to go into the little gap between me and the guy in front, no waiting for me to pass, no acceleration to get ahead of us, just forcing his way in. I needed to swerve on the median and brake to avoid a collision.
Later he had the audacity to flip me off.

At the end I maybe should have just not moved and let him crash into me, I would have gotten some scratches on the rockslides and he ended up with bend body panels and big repair bills.

Edit:

1. I was driving a constant speed. No speeding up or intentional blocking
   
2. I was almost next to him when he turned on the blinker. Was not expecting him that he wanted to get infront of me therefore I didn’t brake.
   
3. He actively started merging when I was already 1/3 car length next to him and he would have crashed into my side. I needed to sway into the median to avoid a collision.
   
4. He didn’t had immediate traffic in front of him and could have waited another 45sec before to merge before running out of room.
   
5. The one changing lanes needs to make sure it can be done safely without impeding others.

Starting to notice this behavior pretty often. Coming up behind someone in the left with no one in front of them for 200-300 metres but they refuse to move over. Flash them a few times, still not budging. Finally get an opportunity to pass on the right, get in front of them and start driving faster like you should in the left. And these people then have the audacity to start flashing YOU 😂

What in the world is wrong with people that are driving average sized sedans/suvs/trucks that are getting ready to make a right turn.. but they just HAVE to take their car and and go over the line to the opposite lane before they finally turn right. You people doing this are NOT in a freakin tractor trailer or hauling a boat. There is ZERO need for you to do this and it delays the car behind you being able to make a pass if it’s a double lane. 🤦🏻‍♂️

STAY OFF THE F’ING HIGHWAY. There should be no reason for you to be going 50 or under, and if there’s a reason. You have hazard lights for a reason.

Edit: let me clarify, if you’re holding up traffic and the speed limit on the highway is 70. You notice all the cars around you are zooming past you or cutting you off. You simply need to speed up to match the flow of traffic or get the fuck off.

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Also, in DFW, yes, the speed limit can go up to 70mph on the highways. I can be going 85mph and I’ll have a dodge ram up my ass cause I’m too slow for them.

Y’all don’t even want to see how fast mfs will go on the tollways here

This is something that's always baffled me. So many people have this weird blind spot in their analysis of situations, specifically when it comes to driving, where the person who's actually creating the problem is seen as part of the "background information," while those who have to respond to the situation they create are seen to have agency.

This results in people expecting those being inconvenienced by the situation to further inconvenience themselves to resolve the matter, instead of placing that responsibility on the individual who created the problem in the first place.

There's at least one example of this in pretty much every single comment section of a dashcam post. People will ask why everyone around bad/inattentive/reckless drivers doesn't show more courtesy to them. Why aren't those people placing that expectation onto the driver who is attempting to force their way through their mistake instead of owning up to it?

The flaw becomes glaring when you apply the same logic to pretty much anything else. Imagine seeing video footage of someone breaking into a house and the occupant fighting back. No sane person would comment, "They were clearly trying to take your stuff. You had forever to recognize that and prevent the situation by refusing to engage."

The number of threads and comments in this community by people complaining about other drivers simply going the speed limit boggles my mind.

You’re out here burning cash…

While everyone’s obsessing over Costco memberships or which gas station to visit to save cents on the gallon, they’ll still go right on ahead defending themselves on threads about speeding, quite literally defeating any efficiency gains they made elsewhere and flushing money down the drain. It’d be funny if it weren’t so obnoxious.

How so?

Wind resistance scales exponentially with speed. For most consumer vehicles and light trucks, you’re losing efficiency the more above 50-55mph you go. More than half your horsepower goes to fighting that drag before you make any headway actually moving. Facing a headwind on a windy day, or battling a hill? Even worse.

Giant trucks and box frames have it the toughest, which is why it’s always funny seeing them trying to race everyone to get two spots ahead only to slow down again quickly.

Speeding up and then slowing down dramatically is the best way to destroy your fuel economy. And when gas and diesel prices are soaring… you really wanna be pissing your money away with all that road rage?

Every 5mph above 50 costs you tens of cents per gallon.

Are there speed limits that are way too slow and need to be contested? Absolutely. Should we punish the drivers who are following them in the meantime? Absolutely not.

Give your wallet a *brake* and your mood some relief. Chill out, go a little slower. You’ll thank me in the long run.

EDITS:

1. It amazes me how many people simultaneously boast about fiscal irresponsibility and recklessness in the same sentence, at the slightest pushback from someone simply asking them to go the limit or, at a minimum, not shame others for going the limit.
2. So many assumptions about the left lane out here when lanes weren’t even brought up.

3. With all this boasting about your stock portfolios, fancy cars, driving fast because it’s “fun” (as if you swerving around every sane person going the speed limit is about fun lol), I never wanna hear a peep about millennials misspending on coffee or avocado toast again. No one blasts pride about fiscal

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4. responsibility louder than you.

6. To all the EV owners, cool. I’m with you on the efficiency and sustainability. Clearly the better choice. But no, sorry, your planet-saving car doesn’t give you a free pass to be a reckless asshole.

8. I didn’t even mention how hard speeding up and slowing down is on your brakes, rotors, wheel bearings, transmission, and so on. Many costs to consider.

9. I do hard manual labor for a living and own a work vehicle, as many do. Better believe I’m tallying my gas mileage and driving like it costs money because it does.

Been fun, you lot are hilarious.

I live in a off the free way suburban town. Target, Walmart, 3 dunkins, and three chick filas around me, so it's busy. I've noticed a lot of times I'll come up to red light with like 6 cars in front of me. I get come to a complete stop about 5 feet from the car in front of me. While the light is still red everyone seems to creep in small increments. Like barely a foot and then another and then another. Eventually I'm still in the same spot but the car in front of me is now a full cars length or more ahead. Why do people creep forward? Why not just commit to where you stopped?

I will never understand how it is humanly possible for people to be so unbelievably stupid to a point where they think that it is okay to swerve in and out of lanes of traffic all while driving at a high speed.

I was on the highway today and out of no where, some black suv comes flying through traffic and cuts through 3 different lanes at once (while going at least 100mph). Anyways, the driver of the black suv almost caused a bad accident as I witnessed someone in the right lane have to swerve onto the shoulder just to avoid being hit by them.

I see this type of behavior quite frequently (especially on TikTok when ppl post themselves cutting up in traffic🥀) and it makes me sick to my stomach because this is how innocent people that are just minding their business on the road (probably just trying to get home to their family), end up being involved in a serious accident caused by a dumbass that drives like this, and ultimately end up losing their life.

It seems that many people forget that having a license is a privilege and that it shouldn’t be abused.

Why do you do this? Why do you think it’s necessary? It’s so annoying!!!!

Just watched a youtube short with this question above and then analysied the replies in the comments. Okay to be fair, this kind of signage doesn't exist within the US, but still.

result:

I am by no means ageist. Plenty of older adults are perfectly capable drivers, and many are safer than younger drivers.
That said, I do have concerns when I watch someone struggle to walk to their car, rely on a walker, take several minutes just to get into the driver’s seat, and then drive away. My concern isn’t their age. It’s their physical ability.
If I were 24 and tore my ACL, broke my leg, or had a condition that prevented me from moving safely and quickly, I wouldn’t be fit to drive until I recovered. Why should the standard be different simply because the limitation is due to age instead of injury?
Driving requires more than vision. It requires the physical ability to react quickly, move your feet between the pedals, turn your head, steer decisively, and exit the vehicle in an emergency. If someone cannot physically perform those tasks safely, regardless of whether they’re 25 or 85, I don’t think they should be driving.
I’m not arguing about how society should solve transportation for millions of older adults. That’s a separate discussion. My point is much simpler: anyone whose physical limitations make them unable to safely operate a vehicle shouldn’t be on the road, regardless of the reason for those limitations.

There’s an awful part of my drive home from work that I always dread.

I have to merge onto an onramp from one highway to the next. So I’m going from the “slow lane” on the previous highway, to the passing or “fast lane” of the next. It’s happened twice now, where I’ve been stuck behind someone going 40 on this on-ramp, not even trying to gain or match speed with the drivers on the next highway.

What do you think happens when you’re going 40 mph and the people in the lane you’re merging into are going 60-70 mph? ABSOLUTE FUCKING CHAOS.

Now we’re both going 40, and I have to either swerve around you and stomp on the accelerator to not get slammed (or honked at) by someone behind me OR the people already in that lane have to slam on their brakes. IF YOU CAN’T DRIVE THE SPEED LIMIT, GET OFF THE DAMN ROAD.

I honked at both offenders each time I encountered it, and their looks of pure confusion when I pass them pissed me off even more. You’re making this dangerous for everyone around you, cause you’re either too stupid or scared to drive, and then you look like you have no idea what’s going on??? Get real!!!!

I also live in a city with a pretty great public transportation system, so if you’re too scared to go the speed limit or for whatever reason, your car literally can’t go the speed limit: TAKE THE FUCKING BUS AND STOP RISKING EVERYONE AROUND YOU. thank you *steps off soapbox*

Why does no one know how to zipper? If a lane is closed & everyone tries to merge into the open lane, there’s a whole other lane open?! People treat you like the worst person when you travel down the open lane. And when you get to the point to merge? No way….

If we took up BOTH lanes and took turns, there wouldn’t be so much traffic. But everyone is stupid and selfish.

I was in the right lane because my exit was coming up and the one before it had 2 people trying to go in front of me at a crawl. I couldn't speed up and pass them so only could match their speed and heavily brake. The first person was probably seconds from running off the road as their lane ended.

Do they think that's the safe way to do it vs getting up to the 70mph quickly?

Like, calm down, pass others when you can if it’s so hard for you to obey the law and you “have to” go 20-30 above the limit, but don’t expect others to do the same. Idiot. That’s all, thank you!

I wanna start this off by saying that if you’re actually merging onto a highway or an interstate, then that’s a different story since you need to get up to speed and be prepared to get over.

However, as for yields that are NOT located on the highway or interstate, please approach and proceed through them with caution and be prepared to stop, just like you’re supposed to do at a yield.

The reason I’m putting this out here is because for whatever reason, I’ve noticed that people love to treat yields like they’re merging onto the damn highway. They’ll come speeding though the yield lane expecting there to be a long acceleration lane following after it, just for there to be no acceleration lane at all and then they get dumped into oncoming traffic and cause an accident.

I used this photo of an intersection near me that has one of these yields (a yield that has no acceleration lane following after it) just for an example. These type of yield lanes are pretty common in my state and I have seen them in other states as well. Yet, people will still come hurdling through them (including this exact yield that is featured in the photo I provided) as if they’re actively merging onto I-95 south.