Rules of the road - come add your annoyances

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A good driver looks in their mirrors every few seconds. Right mirror, straight ahead, left mirror, straight ahead, rear view mirror, straight ahead. You should be constantly scanning and looking in your mirrors at whats approaching and whats around you. Its good defensive driving.

I have NO idea how a person could just sit in the left lane without a care in the world with people behind them. If I have people behind me, I KNOW about it. And I get over as soon as I can.
 
the car that has to pull out in front of you, even though nobody is behind and won't require you to brake to avoid rear ending the fool. Often they will loaf along at or under the speed limit. Second gripe is people who follow too closely in city traffic and end up gridlocking an intersection. when the light changes. Third, again in city traffic, using the horn, even though nobody is moving due to the gridlock.
 
If you want to pass somebody, for crying out loud, pass them authoritatively and get it over with quickly! Don't tell me you are already breaking the speed limit and don' want to go any faster to complete the pass. I give you 2 seconds per car to make your pass complete.
 
oh a good one: Stay in your lane and Keep in your lane (waving over the lines into other lines does not count if you : text, play with phone, gps, girlfriend, gloves compartment, driving with one foot out the window )
 
Originally Posted By: bubbatime
A good driver looks in their mirrors every few seconds. Right mirror, straight ahead, left mirror, straight ahead, rear view mirror, straight ahead. You should be constantly scanning and looking in your mirrors at whats approaching and whats around you. Its good defensive driving.

I have NO idea how a person could just sit in the left lane without a care in the world with people behind them. If I have people behind me, I KNOW about it. And I get over as soon as I can.

But, but, but, what about the little green elfs and them aliens and children in Uganda and fluffy clouds, and them bunny rabits...

...you get the point!

Now why it is quicker to take local highway roads than the express highway roads?

I think the ultimate insult is when your line of cars is passed by a semi! on the right!
 
The law in many states is that unless otherwise posted the MERGING car has the right of way on a limited access highway.
In practice, the brain dead will run you right into a bridge support rather than yield.
 
Too many to list. Getting on an on ramp just to pass 2 cars. Sitting at a red light and having someone pull up on your right. Instead of turning right they gas it and cut you off.
 
Originally Posted By: HerrStig
The law in many states is that unless otherwise posted the MERGING car has the right of way on a limited access highway.
In practice, the brain dead will run you right into a bridge support rather than yield.
not here. The merging car must yield.
 
When I am about to pull out onto a road from a stop sign at night and nearly get T-boned by a fast approaching dark car with no lights on.
 
I hate drivers on the phones texting. Or answering email. Or holding the thing.
I drive home between 10-11 every night, and not a night goes by I dont see a face illuminated by a phone while the driver texts or talks while flying 75mph in the left lane. I can only hope Darwin gets on the stick and puts them where they can't harm anyone else. Folks, it is illegal to hold a mobile device in Illinois. Pretty simple, put the dang thing down and drive.

Here is a recent discussion I had with my boss...

"Why didn't you reply to my e-mail?"
"I was driving."
"Answer next time."

Later that month...
"Why does your GPS tracker indicate you keep stopping while traveling to a service call?"
"I'm answering e-mails."
"Stop it, they can wait."
 
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Agreed on headlights in the rain/snow/fog. Heck, just turning lights on at NIGHT seems to be difficult for some folks, they drive along with no lights at all at night and can't take a hint from people flashing their lights.

Pretty sure I read somewhere that you're not supposed to enter an intersection if you can't make it through. Not nice to block the cross traffic if the cross traffic gets the green light and you're still stuck in the intersection.

Following along at a reasonable distance in the right lane, and somebody behind just has to get to that exit ramp a fraction of a second faster, so they pass me, squeeze in front, slow down, make me slow down, just so they can take the exit. Really, was that necessary?

Four-way stops are starting to drive me up the wall. That's gracious of you that you're waving at me to go first, but geez, YOU STOPPED, THEN I STOPPED, IT'S YOUR TURN, I'M WAITING FOR YOU. On the flipside, there are those that just slow down knowing that I'm about to stop, but they don't want to stop so they just keep rolling through. Then there those who think that since there are 3 or more cars stopping, and #2 is waiting for #1 to clear, then #3 is free to go before #2. Oh yeah, and there are the ones who seem to think that since they came to a complete stop behind the car in front of them, then they are free to go when the car in front starts moving. See that a lot when only a handful of people remember to treat malfunctioning traffic signals as four-way stops during a power failure.
 
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Be careful of right of way problems at stop signs. Be willing to wait someone out. Spend a few more seconds to avoid an accident. A wave of the hand or a blink of the headlights does not change the law.

If there is a fender bender the other party will not say, oh it's my fault I waved him through.
 
Originally Posted By: Dave Sherman
See that a lot when only a handful of people remember to treat malfunctioning traffic signals as four-way stops during a power failure.


When we had our last hurricane there were so many traffic lights out. The number of accidents was alarming. People are idiots. Apparently all you have to do in our society to turn it into chaos is just stop the traffic lights from functioning.
 
People who think just because they put their blinker on they can take your spot in traffic. This happened to me recently. This guy wanted me to move so he could move over. Ran me out of my lane.
 
People who stop at a corner where they do not have a stop sign. People who stop at a yield sign, wait 5+ seconds, and meekly creep out into the intersection as if to not offend the non-existent traffic. People who road rage because I only do 25mph in residential areas. People who come to a four way stop, have the right of way, and disrupt the predictable and safe flow of traffic by attempting to "wave you through". People who refuse to stay in their own lane when they make a turn.

I think the highways are relatively good
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There are a number of double left and right lanes at major intersections near my new job.
It just absolutely blows me away that so many drivers feel like they can switch which turn lane they are in on the fly and get mad when I don't get out of their way or beep at them when they are about to hit me. I take a right out of work, go over a bridge, and usually take a double left to get onto a highway just past that. People are CONSTANTLY turning right from the rightmost turn lane but crossing all lanes to be on the left to get on the highway, even when there is thick traffic in both turn lanes. It's like they think they are in the "dominant" right turn lane, or maybe just miss all the double right turn arrow markings on the pavement and hanging from the traffic signals.
 
Following TOO CLOSE. It seems not too many drivers understand the three second following rule. They need to take the National Safety Council defensive driving course. Three Second Count minimum with good driving conditions. Up the count as weather affects road conditions. Get your backside back there or pass. Nothing to see here folks.
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