I apologize, I shouldn’t have generalized. Maybe I’m lucky and it’s local to my (Madison) area! I wouldn’t be surprised, these are the worst drivers I’ve ever seen (in the States) and I’ve lived and driven a lot of places. Everyone I know who has moved here from elsewhere says the same thing. You’re welcome to come visit and join me on my daily commute! I swear to you I am not making it up.
Around here, we have people that slow down for green lights. The streets are all straight, wide, 4 lanes plus center turn lane. Visibility is excellent. Speed limits are 45.
Yet there are a large number of people that slow down for green lights. They don’t just back off the throttle-they use their brakes. But, they only slow down to around 40. What are they doing?
In a situation where someone runs the red light and t-bones you, that small speed change isn’t going to make any difference.
Enough people do this that I figure they MUST have been taught to, but where? And why? Ever seen this?
Perhaps they are worried that if the light changes they may not have time to stop before an overzealous cop tickets them for running a yellow light?
This is only to unsubscribe, see you, it has been interesting.
A driver once did that in front of me, and the guy I was driving with yelled out the window, “It’s a stop sign, not a riddle!”
Good one, and I concede that if I’d been the one in front, I’d have deserved that. :o
I’ll play!
If I’m passing you in the fast lane, please do not move to the left so much that your tires are in my lane as I pass. Is this an intimidation tactic? If so, I’m still gonna pass you!
Why are people not able to stay in their own lane? My husband, pulling our trailer, is capable of coloring between the lines. Why can’t you? And doing this on a blind curve is just daft.
Mr. Truck… I know you have a hard time getting up hills and need a head of steam sometimes to get there. But if you are doing 45 and the other truck in front of you is doing 44, cutting off the rest of traffic so you can keep your 1 MPH difference is just stupid. Our entire line of cars has to slam on our brakes to deal with your slow ass. This is a 65 MPH road!
I commute 108 miles round-trip per day. The crazy I see is just…
I’ve lived in Madison over 10 years and have never seen this happen. Maybe you could describe the circumstances. The only time I see anyone “stop on green” is if traffic is inching along and they would block the intersection.
I see the “stop on green” frequently in Minnesota, but it’s usually an out-of-state driver who’s trying to figure which way to turn. Where I live, there’s a saying to look out for Iowa plates!
This isn’t a rant towards any driver, but one towards certain apartment complexes. I went to visit a friend- the complex has its stop signs mounted on rustic woodwork that match the trim on the buildings. Upon approaching an intersection, one can see the stop sign for one’s own car, but NOT the ones for the other three corners since the signs are mounted on the woodwork and can’t be seen form the other side. I annoyed a couple of resident drivers the first time I drove in there because there I couldn’t see the other 3 stop signs. A “four-way” tag under the stop signs would fix the problem.
All four-way stop signs should have notices to that effect, in my opinion.
I don’t know that it’s a Midwestern thing, but I not infrequently experience the Extremely Timid Four-Way Stop driver.
This person stops at his sign, sees me coming a couple hundred feet away on the intersecting street (which also has a stop sign), and instead of proceeding onwards waits for me to get all the way up to my stop sign to make absolutely sure I am going to stop (and not barrel through and hit him). This ensures that I am delayed (he could have been long gone by the time I stop, instead I have to wait for him to muddle on through the intersection).
One of these days I am going to slow to a stop, then roar through the intersection and ram one of these idiots. It’ll serve them right. :mad:
In Winnipeg, where I live, there is a tendency for drivers of very large vehicles, with huge tires and enormous grilles, to rush through 4 way stops without waiting their turn. It’s fucking dangerous. I narrowly got by this one dude, as I was turning left, and he was going straight through, but it was MY turn, but he just had to start going through the intersection.
He was so,pissed he started tailgating me, and I mean, my rear view was full of his huge chrome grille. That’s all I could see. I was going the speed limit and it was single lane, 2 way traffic, in a residential area even, but it made him madder and madder that he couldn’t get ahead of me. I thought, Fuck him, and I kept to the speed limit, because there were school zones and pedestrian zones, and I was damned if I was going to act like him and speed just to get him off my back. Fucker didn’t even try turning anywhere, he just wanted to ride my tail. I didn’t get mad, I stayed calm until I reached my street and slowed to make my turn.
Asshole. It’s always the ones in the huge trucks.
Tracy Morgan would agree.
On Sunday, I was stuck between two motorcyclists who were traveling at 35-40 miles per hour in a 45 zone (which in Connecticut means 55). They were just driving along, smoking cigarettes in sync with each other, completely oblivious to the 10 car line forming behind them.
When the road split from two lanes to four (adding a passing lane in both directions), they decided to take up one lane each. :smack:
Betcha a dollar they were the exact opposite of oblivious.
Sometimes it’s the ones on motorcycles.
Yes, this is infuriating.
Another pet peeve of mine is people would drive in the shoulder for dozens of feet before their turn, going much slower than the rest of the traffic, but also still taking up most of the travel lane.
I don’t know what to tell you since this just happened to me last Thursday, and I thought of this thread when it did.
Right here: Google Maps
Coming south on S. Park street at the right turn by Mex Muffler, where exists a street light with an arrow, and said light was GREEN, and the car directly in front of me decided to STOP and check for traffic before continuing through.
This isn’t really the sort of thing I’m going to make up, internet anonymity or no.
Sorry-missed your comment last week.
That may be why they are doing it, but it’s still stupid. They only slow down like 5mph. That won’t help much. And we don’t have overzealous red light cops. There are enough speeders to keep them busy.
It’s real easy to go 55 on some of these main grid streets. And before anyone gets all righteous on me about the dangerous drivers, take a look. Put the little google guy on a street. You can see a mile or more clearly. It’s practically the country in some areas out here. The houses against the grid streets don’t access through them-there are 6 foot walls along the street. And nobody walks in Mesa, so pedestrians are rare.
It might help to see a typical intersection.
Four lanes, perfectly straight. And if you switch to bird’s eye view, the solid section of the turn lane (in white) is, I have found, usually the right length that if you are going 45 when the light turns yellow you get through the intersection before it is red. So there is plenty of stopping room. I don’t know if that was a deliberate feature, but it is pretty consistent.
I’m a pedestrian, and I think it should be legal to shoot any driver who is blocking any part of the road’s pedestrian walkway with their car. Is that really going to get you there faster?
Is it more polite to open their car door and walk through it, saying “Excuse me” or climb over their hood?