The official idiot driver thread

[Zorba]

Left lane drivers must have a totally different mentality. I recall years ago on a nearly deserted stretch of divided 4 lane highway (2 lanes each direction) there was a car/woman driving in the left lane up ahead of me, she moved over to the right lane to let a faster vehicle go by, then then she moved back over into the left lane. Didn’t make any sense to me.

I've seen that. I like 3 (or more) lanes in each direction. Most of the time, I can stay in the middle lane, not deal with pokies in the right, and people getting on/off in the right, yet let the maniacs fly by to the left. Which brings up another idiocy: People who get onto a 70 MPH freeway at 45 MPH!

 

[Zorba]

Have you ever let someone in front of you from a side street at a light only to have them stay stopped in front of you with their turn signal on when the light turns green and make you wait out the whole green light because they want the next lane?

HORN...

 

[KennethS]

Around here it's pretty much getting to be that way, partly because the roads are so crowded now. Bumper to bumper on I-17 between Flag and PHX and on I-10 between PHX and Tucson.

Yeah, but I wasn’t meaning when there was so much traffic all lanes were filled up. I was meaning light traffic, like 2-3 vehicles in sight, and they’re all in the far left lane.

 

[KennethS]

Which brings up another idiocy: People who get onto a 70 MPH freeway at 45 MPH!

Years ago I was going home from work, getting on I-10 and there was a car STOPPED at the end of the on-ramp with the left turn signal on waiting for a gap in traffic. Either a complete moron or a new driver. Maybe both.

 

[Zorba]

Years ago I was going home from work, getting on I-10 and there was a car STOPPED at the end of the on-ramp with the left turn signal on waiting for a gap in traffic. Either a complete moron or a new driver. Maybe both.

I had a car do that to me once, 2 cars ahead of me. Car I was driving swapped ends I braked so hard. No damage, no carnage, no injuries. I have absolutely ZERO tolerance for idiots who fucking STOP in the middle of the road. I'm going around with horn blaring ASAFP.

 

[MountaineerTom]

Left lane drivers must have a totally different mentality. I recall years ago on a nearly deserted stretch of divided 4 lane highway (2 lanes each direction) there was a car/woman driving in the left lane up ahead of me, she moved over to the right lane to let a faster vehicle go by, then then she moved back over into the left lane. Didn’t make any sense to me.

I will say I’ve done something like that a handful of times on specific roads, if traffic isn’t heavy. There have been some places where the right lane was rough and had lots of jarring potholes. Left lane would be pretty smooth.

If the traffic was heavy, I’d just tough it out in the right lane at a slower speed.

 

[Rickyd]

I like 3 (or more) lanes in each direction.

My country must be coming out,but i prefer one lane in either direction

 

[CMBD]

People that don't know how a four way stop works, people that merge onto the highway 25 below the speed limit and then speed up, people that slow waaay down to make a right turn into a parking lot from the traffic lane and not the turn lane, you should be able to shoot at these people.

Not to kill or anything, just sort of "at"

Or if one of my dailys could be a big late 70s early 80s big Ford wagon in demo derby trim and just be able to nerf the shit out of these people. I would be good with that as well

 

[steelhd]

Left lane drivers must have a totally different mentality. I recall years ago on a nearly deserted stretch of divided 4 lane highway (2 lanes each direction) there was a car/woman driving in the left lane up ahead of me, she moved over to the right lane to let a faster vehicle go by, then then she moved back over into the left lane. Didn’t make any sense to me.

I've seen people do that when the right lane becomes rutted and in need of some repair/resurfacing.

 

[B1Toad]

I moved left because there was a HP car with lights flashing on the shoulder only to have a lady pass between me and the HP car on the right.

 

[KennethS]

I will say I’ve done something like that a handful of times on specific roads, if traffic isn’t heavy. There have been some places where the right lane was rough and had lots of jarring potholes. Left lane would be pretty smooth.

If the traffic was heavy, I’d just tough it out in the right lane at a slower speed.

Yep, I’ve done the same when the lane is rough. This one wasn’t, though. Both lanes were smooth.

 

[KennethS]

you should be able to shoot at these people.

Not to kill or anything, just sort of "at"

George Carlin had an idea for that - shoot the car with a suction cup dart with a DumbAss flag on it. When a vehicle amassed a certain number of DumbAss flags, the cops would pull them over and write them a ticket for being a complete DumbAss.

 

[Rickyd]

George Carlin had an idea for that - shoot the car with a suction cup dart with a DumbAss flag on it. When a vehicle amassed a certain number of DumbAss flags, the cops would pull them over and write them a ticket for being a complete DumbAss.

He also had a saying that anyone driving slower than you is a moron and anyone driving faster is a maniac.

I think about that saying often whenever I get pissed at other drivers

 

[B1Toad]

Always seems like everyone in front of me is in no hurry and everyone behind me is.

 

[lBasket]

Always seems like everyone in front of me is in no hurry and everyone behind me is.

OK but sometimes that's true, either someone's on your ass when you're already going 10 over or someone is going freakin 10 under

 

[B1Toad]

It's illegal to cross multiple lanes at once here without stopping in each lane and signalling. It just makes sense,especially when in an intersection or going 80mph on the freeway...

Lane changes within a certain distance or within an intersection used to be prohibited here, or so I thought, but to my surprise when I looked it up it is not prohibited. The only prohibition is if the lane divider line is solid. I still think it's a bad idea.

 

[Zorba]

Ok, here it is...

Surely to Goddess people will see this fucking thing now.

As for pet peeves, I honked at not one, but TWO Florida corner cutters today - one of them was completely in my lane, the other was only partially.

 

[KennethS]

Well I almost got in a wreck on the way to work this morning. Was on a 3-lane each way road, far left lane, first in line at the traffic light. Light turned green, I took off, and a woman in an SUV with California plates on the road to my right turned right on red, went across all the lanes to the far left lane (where I was), and I had to brake hard to prevent her from hitting me. And then she started cussing me out. I guess because I was in her way?

 

[Apparition]

Well I almost got in a wreck on the way to work this morning. Was on a 3-lane each way road, far left lane, first in line at the traffic light. Light turned green, I took off, and a woman in an SUV with California plates turned right on red, went across all the lanes to tje far left lane (where I was), and I had to brake hard to prevent her from hitting me. And then she started cussing me out. I guess because I was in her way?

I’m seriously considering a train horn on the Superduty for all the people who pull out in front of a red 1 ton truck with the full LED, always on in some way, package. Tailgating them and the puny horn doesn’t cut it and using the strobe lights in this instance would probably get me arrested.

 

[Zorba]

Well I almost got in a wreck on the way to work this morning. Was on a 3-lane each way road, far left lane, first in line at the traffic light. Light turned green, I took off, and a woman in an SUV with California plates on the road to my right turned right on red, went across all the lanes to the far left lane (where I was), and I had to brake hard to prevent her from hitting me. And then she started cussing me out. I guess because I was in her way?

"California plates..."