Derogatory names for types of bad drivers

I don’t have a name for this type but I’m talking about the folks who go from the lane on your left to the lane on your right (usually a turn lane or freeway offramp) right in front of you.

I call them “Pacers.” Being “nice” (not my default setting), I realize that they’re just kind of zoned out and unconsciously “moving with traffic.” Which means that they’re usually camped out in my blind spot tagging along with me (or whomever they’ve chosen to “pace”).

Fortunately, I check my blind spots before changing lanes. And I speed up to get away from them. But they speed up to match me. So I slow down to let them pass. But they slow down to match me. Irritating, especially when I’m trying to change lanes so I can exit, or turn.

My offering: The Idiot Exit. The person in the fast lane who suddenly realizes THIS IS MY EXIT and tries to instantly cross three, four lanes of heavy traffic to make their exit.

He was never specific as to produce.

This is a “lane diver.”

Oh, how I hate being in a long line at a left turn lane. I feel, that when I’m the first in line I immediately step on the gas and go. I don’t get why it takes sooooo long for some people to move and it also seems like the second car in line is just as slow. I always like to look in my rearview mirror after I’ve proceeded from the arrow light. I’m already through the intersection and onto the next street while the next car has barely started to inch forward.

40 MPH People They have one speed, 40 MPH, and they drive it in all situations. In town they relentlessly tailgate you in 25 MPH and 35 MPH zones even when you’re going 5 over the speed limit. But once you hit a 45MPH zone you pull away from them and once it climbs to 55 MPH you never see them again. The flipside of this is getting stuck behind a 40 MPH person in a 55 zone, then you start questioning whether they can be classified as a “slow moving vehicle” that you can legally pass on double yellow lines. :wink:

Old and Tired/Drunk/Oblivious/Disabled People They don’t need lane marker lines, they drive in 2 lanes at once. They don’t need to signal, and they will turn right from the left lane. They slow down to about 5MPH for any turn. They go slow, they don’t look out for anyone else, “I’m doing what I want to do, it’s everyone else’s job to watch out for me.”

I’ll Just Be Here a Second People They pull out in front of you, often after watching your vehicle approaching for several seconds. You brake hard to avoid hitting them, then they turn down another road/driveway about 1/4 mile down the road.

Stick With the Plan People They have their own itinerary and cannot deal with any change of plans. If they can’t make their turn off the road because the road/lot they are turning into is blocked, they stop in the middle of the road fully blocking a lane (not a turn lane.) This is usually people trying to turn into fast food places with backed-up drive-through lines, but around here there is a train track next to a highway and they will block the highway if a train is blocking the road they want to turn on. I’ve always vowed that if I’m directly behind one of those people I will lay on my horn until they move. Go around the block, go somewhere else to wait instead of parking in the middle of the road.

How Dare You Pass Me People They go below the speed limit on the highway, but when you pass them they either speed up, or allow you to fully pass them and wake up and pass you. Even though you are on cruise control you play leapfrog with this person for miles/hours.

I call drivers that don’t know where they are going and drive like it, they are aliens from the planet Oblivion. And older drivers are called Grandma or Grandpa. I should stop that as I am a grandparent.

I don’t believe it’s been mentioned yet: the Last Second Signalers. These are the people who will slow down as they approach their turn, sometimes almost stopping, before engaging the turn signal. By then, of course, it’s too late to maneuver around them, so you’re forced to wait until they complete their turn.

And there’s the opposite type of driver, an analog to the ones who like to race to see how fast they can hit the red light. The ones that see your turn signal go on well ahead of your turn and take it as a challenge to see how closely they can tailgate you until you complete it, thus wasting their momentum when they inevitably have to brake when you hit your brakes.

There’s also Turn Lane Idiots. These are people who try to turn left in the turn lane against the normal flow of traffic. Let’s say there’s a big box store on the southeast corner of an east / west freeway with access road and a north / south arterial street. If they were going east*, rather than going straight past the light and turning right into the parking lot from the access road, these people will turn right onto the cross street, then immediately try to move into the turn lane facing the oncoming traffic, holding everyone up until someone finally lets them through.

*. It doesn’t matter what direction they were coming from, there’s no need to get into the turn lane against the flow of traffic in that situation. Going south? Then turn left at the light on to the eastbound access road. Going west? Then take the turnaround onto the eastbound access road rather than turning left at the light onto the southbound cross street.