These people have to be the most brain damaged, self-entitled, and just scummy types of drivers to deal with on the road. Anyone who does this, genuinely please tell me what is wrong with you?
If i’m cruising on the right most lane lets say 5-10 over the limit in no traffic and I come across a car in the middle lane going the speed limit in a 3+ lane highway, should I A. perform 4 lane changes to go around him and back to the right or B. just keep cruising?
I feel like passing him correctly is the safest as he might not expect me on the right but I feel no one really does this. What would yall do?
The first pic is how I go about making a left turn into somewhere (that’s located just off of a main road) when there’s 2 separate sets of double solid yellow lines in the area that I’m going to be turning from. The 2nd pic is how I see a lot of other people go about making the turn.
In a situation like this, the reason why I choose to just stay on the outside of the lines is because most of the time when there’s that little space in between the two sets of double solid yellow lines (like shown in the pic), you won’t even be able to fully fit your car into that space anyways, so people coming up from behind you are still going to have to come to a complete stop and then get over into the right lane when a clearing comes about (unless they’re fine with waiting for you to turn before proceeding forward). Otherwise, if they were to keep going, they’d clip your car to some degree.
So realistically, it’s not really gonna make a difference by pulling your car into that little space located between the double solid yellow lines given that your car is still not gonna be completely out of peoples way. Unless this were to be on a single lane road, the people from behind you cannot simply just go around you as they’d end up conflicting with the traffic that’s traveling in the right lane.
However, my point is, because of how frequently I see people do what is shown in the second picture, I’m curious to know if how I’m going about making left turns into places in this situation is wrong, or if it’s ok.
(Sorry for the yap)
I've been pulled over multiple times now by cops from both my town and one town over for the dumbest reason. My spouse doesn't drive but their name is on the vehicle for ownership reasons. The cops scan my plate, something dings in their system, and then they tell me that my spouse has an "expired license". My spouse has never had a driver's license. Their state ID is up to date. I'm getting tired of being pulled over for something this dumb.
What are my options? Each time I've given my license to the cop but if they don't have a reasonable suspicion of a crime then in my state I don't have to ID myself. Can I just tell them to F off and ask if I'm free to go next time? Do I need to take my spouse and their ID to the police station and get them to fix whatever is wrong in their system that keeps getting me pulled over?
I am seriously considering just refusing to give them my ID unless they have a citation, warrant, or articulated suspicion of a crime. On the upside I get a little less freaked out when pulled over now because my go-to assumption is they're on some BS.
Edit: I am first on the registration for the vehicle with my spouse being second. They are on the vehicle despite not driving so that if something happens to me they can easily sell the vehicle. Also because the money for buying the car initially came from my spouse's dad. His stipulation for buying us the car was that my spouse's name be on the car as well as mine.
I don’t have a large car - just saying that up front. Regardless I got curious about the claims that reverse parking makes is easier to pull back out. So for a week I’ve reverse parked at every opportunity.
I don’t think it’s easier or safer. Here’s why.
When I reverse park, I need to pull so far forward to see around d the adjacent vehicles that I’m already in the lane. If someone is speeding down that lane, I could pull out in front of them before I know they are even there.
Maybe it’s easier in a lifted truck to see over those adjacent vehicles, but in my normal sized car that’s not the case.
However, my car, like most newish cars, has a wide angle reverse camera mounted on the furthest point at the rear of the car. My camera has an approximately 170 degree field of view, meaning it can “see” pretty much everything coming in either side of the car. I can inch back slightly and be able to see everything and everyone in the lane well before the back of my car is in their way.
Again, I don’t drive a a monster truck so maybe the utility of reverse parking is different due to the height, but I don’t know.
Backseat drivers are annoying enough when they're correct, but they're so much worse when they are completely wrong! I never encountered any until I moved to a large enough city with decent enough public transit that plenty of people decide against getting a driver's license. That's actually rather lovely; I'm really enjoying only needing/wanting a car for the weekly grocery run.
I just got home from a Costco run with a neighbor who never learned to drive. I thought it would benefit us both: he could take home all his stuff in my car, and I'd get some gas money. Plus I was planning to go to Costco today or tomorrow anyway, so he might as well tag along, right?
There was so much backseat driving that was flat-out wrong. The best example was him raising his voice to repeatedly tell me to go because the light was green. Wouldn't even let me get a word in edgewise to point out that traffic was backed up and unmoving. There wasn't enough room to clear the intersection, and the light could change at any time. In fact, it did change before traffic started moving.
Another person kept telling me I was slowing down too much at interstate intersections and the other drivers would be pissed off. So firstly, I admit that I do slow down a bit more than other drivers, but I'm still usually above the speed posted on the yellow sign. Secondly, I'm pretty sure going too fast through a turn, losing control, and crashing would slow things down a hell of a lot more.
I'm adjusting to power steering which I never had until a few months ago (my old Echo finally gave up the ghost). The feel of the road, especially through turns, is different. I'm sure I'll be more up to speed once I get used to it. Furthermore, I get the strong impression that he is comparing me to a childhood friend who races cars as a hobby and whose everyday car is a high performance sports car. Better car, better driver, better familiar with the local roads? Of he can safely take turns faster than I can!
The most bizzare one was the person who told me I should have stopped at the "stop sign back there instead of just slowing down for the turn." It was a yellow yield sign, and there was no oncoming traffic at all. This person is legally blind, so I really don't get that one. (Legally blind around here means that vision is 20/200 or worse with maximum correction). Of course, they don't quite fit my topic of people who never learned to drive since they owned and regularly drove a pickup truck (in a sparsely populated area, thank goodness) without a license for several years without incident. What a terrifying thought!
I think I should stop offering people rides.
This discussion should start with the question "what does a *safe* following distance mean?".
A safe following distance means that there is almost nothing the driver in front of you could do to cause you to collide with them.
So let's run the scenario: You're driving along 60 mph, 2 seconds behind another vehicle. 60mph = 88 feet per second, so this is 176 feet. *some* driving schools consider this to be the absolute minimum safe following distance - most of them will say 3 or 4 seconds.
*Something* happens that causes the driver in front of you to emergency brake - my first question: What happens if your response takes 2 seconds (IE you begin emergency braking 2 seconds after the vehicle in front of you).
In this case, since you both were going the same speed, and your response took 2 seconds, if both vehicles have the same braking capability, then you will stop *exactly where the car in front of you stops* (you will collide with them).
At this point, most people will say "my reaction time is much better than 2 seconds - it's nearly instantaneous". The best answer to that is that yes, if you're anticipating having to brake quickly, you can get reaction times better than 2 seconds - but the reality of driving is that this is well studied and understood. The NHTSA investigates crashes, and the average reaction time for all motorists in these situations is around 1.5 seconds.
All things being equal, a 2 second following distance will on average mean you can use emergency braking to *just barely* avoid crashing into the vehicle in front of you if they should suddenly brake hard - but there would be no room for error - and if (for example) the lead vehicle had better braking than yours, that could make it impossible for you to stop without hitting them.
There was a time when driving schools taught calculations based on "carlengths" - which is really redicilous. Over the years, I've occasionally asked students to estimate distance using carlengths, and almost no one can do this with any useful degree of accuracy. Measuring by time adjusts the distance automatically, whereas measuring by "car lengths per 10 mph (or whatever) is somewhat complex, and most people who claim to do this likely don't bother".
My experienced reality is that most people either have no awareness of safe following distance, or they simply want to crash. I don't think I've driven anywhere in the US and not been tailgated multiple times.
Even law enforcement seems to be ignorant (in general) about following distance (which is probably why most people don't seem to maintain a safe distance). Statistically, about 1% of tickets are written for FTC (most often after a crash), whereas around 25% of tickets are written for speed.
I encounter this intersection a lot when getting on the freeway that seems to cause a lot of conflict/confusion. If it’s not clear, those turning right onto the on-ramp have a yield, after which the lanes quickly merge.
If there’s a steady flow of traffic on the left side, should those with the yield sign hold and wait for a gap, or slowly move forward and merge when there’s an opening?
I’m usually going straight here and deal with a ton of people from the right who blow through the yield and either match speeds with me or floor it to try and get ahead of me. I also see people hold at the yield sign to wait for traffic to clear (it’s a fairly short green light cycle for the other side, so it usually doesn’t take long), then have people behind them going ballistic.
Not sure who’s right, but it seems like maybe there should be a happy medium.
I’m going 45 in a 50mph zone bc of this curve and this idiot just decides to blow past a yield sign. How the he’ll?? No Florida plate driving in NJ. I guess thats why they have one of the highest insurance rates in the nation. End rant sigh
But seriously don’t I have the right of way???
Two simple things go through my head every time I drive.
Drive for everyone else, not yourself.
Its not my job to enforce the laws of the road.
I believe if people recognized these 2 things, we could all drive a little safer and better together.
Really, Californians are such friendly drivers. I was at my current city and this asshole in his Mercedes rides my bumper in my apartment parking garage and all the way to the road. I almost slammed by brakes intentionally. Had I done this, he would have hit me. I hate tailgaters. Makes me appreciate how great California drivers are. Even Arizona drivers dont tailgate in parking lots or overall.
To go to the store, and drove into a ditch
Thats the story.
26, Netherlands. Geeting a DL is such a painfully slow process here! Roughly:
So obtaining the license could be typically between 8.73 to 16.23 months. Thats ridiculous. That it takes about 1 year between texting a driving school and obtaining the license.
After having waited half a year, I'm currently in the process of the driving lessons and have no clue how many hours i'm going to need. I hope to have my license by december.
I just want to drive a car, I like driving, why does it have to take so long?
How embarrassing is it to crash into a utility pole and then it causes road to be shut down and and a power outage because of texting while driving?
either that or it seems like LED lights are making headlights a lot brighter and super blinding.
hi guys!! i have my drivers test today and i feel really good about it. this’ll be my 8th try. wish me luck lol
Hey yall, my drive test is this Friday and this is one of the roads on my route. Basically it’s a one lane road that turns into two during the right turn. At the end of the two lane road I have to turn left at a stop sign. With my instructor and mentor I typically just turned into the leftmost lane instead of the right lane and then merging left. But now I’m having second thoughts. This is California if that matters. Thank you!
Sorry for the double post. Video posted. I didn’t know I could post videos to Reddit.
Why not? If you’re going 120, and 10 people pass on your right, why do you think you’re dictating the maximum speed? When you start noticing a ton of people passing in the right lane, do you not think you should move over? I’m not talking if there’s trucks around or trying to get by a slower group on the right, when all the lanes are clear, except you going, whatever speed you like in the left lane, why do you refuse to move over when people come up on you? I seriously want an answer.
Edit - I should add: 401 is in southern Ontario, from where you cross at Detroit heading east. Speed limit where is was is 110 kmph- so my post is not referring to miles for those of you who thought we could drive in hyperspeed lol. The hwy was otherwise clear, not passing a bunch of trucks or slower drivers. People would come up the left side and immediately pass on the right with no waiting for clearance. They could have easily maintained that speed in the slow lane and passed the odd car they came up on-and everyone would be able to drive properly without passing on the right.