I want to get a bumper sticker for my car that says “Not Responsible For Anything”. Then when I crash into someone at 110mph while intoxicated, I can show the other driver and the police officer my bumper sticker absolving me of all responsibility, and then go home and beat on the old lady…
Gah! Thanks.
That’s not entirely true. It depends on the lane markings. If the broken line that has been running between the lanes just stops at the beginng of the merging area, then that rule applies. If it changes to a series of fatter, shorter broken lines which continues on and eventually meets the side of the road, then the car that must cross the line has to give way to the car travelling in the other lane if there is a chance of collision, regardless of who might be a little in front.
The former is more common in Melbourne, and the latter is more common in Sydney, but you can find either type anywhere.
Yeah, me too. You get the sticker, and I’ll get a t-shirt and we can be a two-person irresponsible army.
If you can’t stand to slow down for 5 seconds for people turning right into driveways, just stay the hell to the left, huh? Stop swerving around like an excited gerbil and make a lane choice. I rarely see people doing that that actually make it more than a car length or three ahead of where they were, but meanwhile they’re cutting people off and slowing down everyone else that has to brake for them.
It’s not something that usually bothers me so much, but driving home today I almost ran into a dumb shit who couldn’t wait for the guy in front of me to turn. We slowed down for maybe 6 or 7 seconds and just as he turns and I start to speed back up, the moron behind me can’t stand it anymore and swerves around me.
Now, that in itself I don’t understand, but it isn’t really that big a deal. I mean, if you’re going fast enough to pass me then whatever, you’re a second or two ahead of where you were and we move on, but this one decides that when she’s just barely halfway back in our lane is the perfect time to slam on her brakes. Just… why? Why would anyone do that?
If you are being chased by the police, don’t run down a road construction flagman and close the TransCanada Highway.
The left turn lane is a left turn lane from the roadway only. It’s not an acceleration lane so your impatient ass can turn left out of a parking lot into. We’re on the road, and we want to turn left, not run into your lousy driving. Too busy to turn left for your taste? Well, turn right, you damn fool. Then you can either drive around the block, or make a U turn.
Oh, also, when you’re at the Michigan left controlled by the stop light, and it turns green, the law says you’ve got to wait for those of us coming out of the neighborhood to complete our right turns first. The county even recognizes that some of you don’t know all of the laws, and posted a big friggin’ sign there telling you to yield for traffic, for crying out loud.
An, finally, when there are two lanes to turn right, and you’re in the rightmost lane, and I’m in the leftmost right turn lane, it means you must turn into the inside (rightmost lane). I get to pull into the second lane. Don’t assume that I’m automatically crossing to the 5th lane to make a Michigan left. I know what damned lane I’m turning in to. Why don’t you?