ctenidae
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2 words for you: Brake Check
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Top things that other drivers do that annoy you
- Thread starter billski
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2 words for you: Brake Check
Been in that same exact situation more times than I care to count!
Snowstorm tailgaters don't seem to respond to the famous "brake check". I find it annoys them more than anything, and they don't back off. Maybe that's a NY thing.
I had a guy snowstorm tailgate me years back on 87 up around New Paltz. It was snowing hard and there was already about 6" down on the road. I was in the right lane going about 50 and he zooms up behind me and starts flashing his brights. Some knucklehead in a BMW. So instead of passing me the chicken sh*t just camps there with his brights on. So I try a brake check and it doesn't work. He finally got pissed off enough to move left and pass.
Now the guy is about 3 car lengths ahead of me behind a tractor trailer going the same speed as me in the left lane and he does the brights thing with the truck driver. The trucker ignored him, so he darts back into the right lane to pass the truck. That's about the time the BMW let loose and started fishtailing in front of the truck. That turned into a full 360 into the center median. Car was buried up to the tops of the wheel wells.
Idiot.
drjeff
Well-known member
LMFAO!! Cten this statement is SO true in my car!!
Geoff
Well-known member
3 words for you (requires rental car): Emergency Brake Check
Another thing that annoys me when I'm driving the VW GTI:
In heavy traffic when I'm in the left lane, it really pisses me off when some asshat in a huge SUV barges in front of me from the lane to the right. I normally try to follow cars I can see over, through, or around. I can't see over, through, or around an Escalade.
kickstand
Member
And that's when I drop the cruise control to 71. Give it a few more minutes, if they're still there....70. Still there in another 3 minutes? 69. And it drops 1 mph every few minutes. Mind you, the whole time, I'm in the middle lane and there is no one to my left. They just refuse to move. If they do move, I'm right back up to 72, maybe even 73. Make them hit 80+ if they want to pass quickly. If there's any justice, there's a statie not far away. I don't travel it often, but I remember that stretch of 93 being particularly brutal for speed traps.
The one that gets me - and I see this a lot on 16 going to Conway - is the person who does exactly the speed limit when it's one lane, but jumps 10-12 mph when it opens up to 2 lanes and you have a chance to pass. You can't get past them, unless you jump to 75 or so, and they drop right back to the speed limit when the lane drops.
I remember when I was in Hawaii on my honeymoon, I was so typical new england. everyone else is just chilling out and enjoying the ocean views and I'm all wound up about sitting at a red light. The thing turns green and if the guy in front of me doensn't hit the gas in 5 nanoseconds I'm pounding on the horn.
My wife looks at me and goes, "Seriously?". We both laughed and from then on I slowed down a bit. At least on vacation while she is in the car :evil:
My wife looks at me and goes, "Seriously?". We both laughed and from then on I slowed down a bit. At least on vacation while she is in the car :evil:
I was behind a guy yesterday who wouldn't go even 1MPH over the 50MPH zone we were in (most people travel this lonely stretch at 60+). As soon as we turned onto a different road, a fairly densely populated residential street with a speed limit of 40MPH, he started going 55MPH. :blink:
spring_mountain_high
New member
Honourable Mention: The jackass who speeds up after he moves out of the left lane on the highway...refuses to go 60 in the left lane, moves right and speeds up to 75...extend this one to anybody who speeds up when you have a chance to pass and slows down when you are stuck behind them
#1 assbag on the road is the moran who is in enough of a hurry to pull out in front of you, causing you to have to slam on your brakes, but not in enough of a hurry to go the speed limit once they've pulled out in front of you...these people should be forced to walk everywhere for the rest of their lives
#1 assbag on the road is the moran who is in enough of a hurry to pull out in front of you, causing you to have to slam on your brakes, but not in enough of a hurry to go the speed limit once they've pulled out in front of you...these people should be forced to walk everywhere for the rest of their lives
ctenidae
Active member
People who pull out in front of you when there's no one behind you, and then stop to make the next left turn. Wait 15 seconds, douche, and let me get by.
People who honk at you to go on a green light despite there being 50 pedestrians in the crosswalk.
Guy today was in the right lane as I was getting on the highway, and sped up to sit just of my front left, blocking my entrance, so I had to slow down to pull in behind him. The on ramp switches to an off ramp, and dipshit put on his brakes to take the slot I departed so he could make the exit. Easier would have been to not be an ass and let me in front of him so he could slide out behind me. But no, he got 1 space forward, and then converted some precious gasoline into wasted heat with his brakes.
People who honk at you to go on a green light despite there being 50 pedestrians in the crosswalk.
Guy today was in the right lane as I was getting on the highway, and sped up to sit just of my front left, blocking my entrance, so I had to slow down to pull in behind him. The on ramp switches to an off ramp, and dipshit put on his brakes to take the slot I departed so he could make the exit. Easier would have been to not be an ass and let me in front of him so he could slide out behind me. But no, he got 1 space forward, and then converted some precious gasoline into wasted heat with his brakes.
billski
Active member
Flashing lights
Tailgating as a communications method to get you to move over.
This I don't get. Back in the day, when FDR was in office, the custom in other states was to flash your lights keeping a safe distance. That way s/he gets to communicate their impatience without endangering anyone.
Someone told me that in these parts, flashing your lights is considered obnoxious. Educate me please.
Tailgating as a communications method to get you to move over.
This I don't get. Back in the day, when FDR was in office, the custom in other states was to flash your lights keeping a safe distance. That way s/he gets to communicate their impatience without endangering anyone.
Someone told me that in these parts, flashing your lights is considered obnoxious. Educate me please.
Edd
Well-known member
Bingo. This is a stupid move.
drjeff
Well-known member
My theory, pretty simple. If the person behind me is closer to me than I am to the person infront of me, then I get out of the way :idea:
ctenidae
Active member
My rule- if the person ahead of you is getting further ahead, move over.
bigbog
Active member
Often you have No idea what's going on. Often he's watching a problem driver in front of him, he's not watching you... This creating a two-way battle...is what can get one into trouble...it's not just him and you, you're not even in his equation if the driver in front of him is doing strange stuff. The car in front of you may be mimicking what's going on in front of him...
Example:
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I once rear-ended a car in Boston suburbs in evening..late winter...rain, fog..etc..after a 3-hr drive from SundayRiver and skiing for hours = I was going too fast without noticing it & hydroplaned into him. I'll tell ya' after trailing him for ~100yds...I was at the boiling point...cuz I thought he was dogging it...well..the car in front of him was the culprit.....goes to show you...often times you really don't know....
$.01..fwiw
drjeff
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Dare I say that it's a sign of maturity (I KNOW my wife would argue that one! :lol: ) but I'm way more likely nowadays, when I feel my blood starting to boil over the actions of the F%^&ing A$$h(*$ idiot behind the wheel of the culprit car, to just pull off the next exit/convience store/rest area and just chill out for a minute or 2, especially if my kids are in the car. I hope that's not a sign of weakness for my keeping of my man card! :lol:
billski
Active member
I don't get this "rule by intimidation" thinking. Entirely selfish.
ctenidae
Active member
What's intimidating about that? If the car ahead of me is getting further away (ie, going faster than me) then I move over so that those behind me can go as fast as the car in front. That's not selfish. If the car in front of you is going slower than you, then you can move to the left, just move back right to clear the lane if there are faster people behind you.
Driving slower than the people behind you want to and refusing to acknowledge they are there by moving over a lane is selfish, in my book. Not recognizing that there are other people on the road is selfish.
On the watching the guy ahead of you point- it's not the car in front of you that you should be focused on- it's the four cars ahead of him, as well as the activity at the next curve, and what's going on in the lane next to you and at the upcoming on ramp that you should be paying attention to. There's a curve on my way in to work that always slows down. You can see it coming about 1/2 a mile away, and if you moderate your speed correclty you can get there as it clears, which means the people behind you don't have to slow down when they get there, either, thereby clearing traffic.
Edd
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billski
Active member
I'm strictly talking about tailgating.
