When I got my Prius I noticed that this kind of thing started happening a lot. I remedied it by making sure that I was close enough to the car in front of me to not let some clown push in.
But it isn’t just me. The Mr. Roadshow column today was about freeway exits that get backed up, so that there is a long line of cars in the right lane. Often some idiot zooms up to near the head of the line in lane 2, where cars are moving at 60, and then stops and tries to get in. I’ve seen the same thing on a surface street where the left turn lane gets backed up for blocks. It appear the idea of going to the next intersection and making a legal U-turn is beyond these morons.
Because Florida has insanely, absurdly short yellow lights, best measurable in milliseconds. (As of when I was there, about 30 years ago. Are they still like that?) Srsly, what’s the logic of that?
BTW: I read in one of those “How Stuff Works” type of books, many years ago, why yellow lights in the eastern states are so much shorter than yellow lights in western states (yeah, apparently that’s a thing), but I’ll be damned if I can remember what the explanation was. Anybody have any ideas?
This might vary from one state to another. That way you suggest is certainly how it’s done in California (although I don’t know for sure if it’s legal). I think it’s not legal in Oregon – if you are still in the intersection when the light turns red, you can get a ticket for that. I think. So don’t enter the intersection until you are sure you can get through it while the light is still green (or yellow).
What we need is Driver Ed and Driver Training approximately as rigorous and thorough as Private Pilot training. I had about 10 hours of private pilot training when I was a senior in high school (about 45 years ago) plus ground school and passed the FAA written exam on the first try, and I’ve also soloed in gliders, so I know how much more detailed it is than driver training. It’s what we need for driving a car.
And more to the point, I think, it appears the idea of waiting your turn at the drinking fountain is an alien concept to these morons. Or maybe they think the drinking fountain is the only place you need to wait your turn in line.
The same thing happens at on-ramps with a long merging lane, where you have a steady stream of cars in both lanes. Giving credit where it’s due, I’ve seen that most drivers do the polite zipper-merging thang, but there’s always a few jackasses who don’t.
I’m pretty sure it is legal because red light cameras are set to only go off if you enter the intersection after the red. And yeah, we have really long yellows.
And when only 5% of all citizens pass this training how exactly do you expect the US economy to function?
There would also need to be something like BFRs but with a graded checkride to ensure people remained on the straight and narrow.
People who drive at high speed while refusing to use blinkers. No, Baldy, You AREN’T A Cop.
Neither is that Fat Chimp with the $5 sunglasses following you & driving the same way.
Drivers who are waiting to pull out onto a major roadway (turning right) and wait until I am approaching-as the lone vehicle, mind you-and pull out right in front of me. This causes me to brake hard and it makes no fucking sense, as they could have just waited two more seconds for me to pass and had an entirely empty roadway to pull onto.
Oh, and every-fucking-thing under the sun getting slapped with a “gluten-free” label. It’s gotten just offensive, I mean how fucking stupid do companies think consumers are?! Gluten-free water?! Do they simply assume people will have no goddamn idea what gluten is? Just, gluten=bad, therefore gluten-free product=good.
I was casually glancing at my energy shot bottle and noticed a “GF” adorned on the label. I thought, “you’ve got to be fucking kidding me”. But nope, my energy shot contained no wheat proteins. Sweet.
About weird driving antics: I was on one occasion cruising along the freeway at a legal and reasonable speed. Guy behind me seems quite content with our travel speed. There is very little other traffic in the vicinity. I signal to shift one lane left. Guy behind me jams the gas and swerves into the destination lane to cut me off. WHY?
Another peeve lately: the Weather Channel apparently does not allow female presenters to wash their hair. They all have clumpy, greasy-looking hair. Ew.
They will not be kept down by the man! Yeah anyway, no matter what turn they will make in front of you, they do not want to be behind anyone! They always think you are going too slow no matter what speed you are going
As well as the idiot that is waiting to turn in the intersection, they have to do it in front of you, two reasons, no one is behind you and you gotta be going way too slow for them…oh and again, they have to be in front of the line not in the back
The reason they want driverless cars are so that “they” want to further control our lives!
My all time pet ongoing all encompassing peeve: STUPID PEOPLE. Cant stand them!
Isnt that what turns on the male population? 
Judge Judy obviously doesn’t drive in a real city.
I just noticed the other day that the corn starch I bought is labeled Gluten-free. Luckily, it still has all the GMOs and toxins one expects.
Listening to my neighbor’s music in my own house. And they are not suburban neighbors either, I’ve got a field between us.
Actually my pet peeve is loud neighbors in general - loud kids, loud dogs, loud music, loud arguments, loud general conversations. And I’ve got it all next door. They even have loud horses!
Bah.
My pet peeve?
When threads about pet peeves somehow get caught in a loop of all the peeves being about drivers/driving. Hello?? Listen up people; driving is not really the topic of this thread.
My other pet peeve?
Junior modding by posters who aren’t even the OP. The sheer effrontery of some people. Sheesh!!
I’d be creeped out if their horses really say “Bah.”
I’ll be different and give some non-driving pet peeves.
People who stand on the walking side of the escalator.
People who walk up the escalator but stop right at the end when it levels out before stepping off. Seriously, why?
People who walk too slowly up stairs.
People who dawdle onto the train when the doors are about to close and then get annoyed when I have to push them out of the way so I don’t die.
Those really loud announcements reminding me that I’m in the quiet carriage.
People who press the “next stop” button on the bus as it’s leaving the curb because they want to get off at the stop walking distance from the one we’re already at.
My wife bought face wash, which I saw in our shower. It was prominently labeled “gluten free.”
I shit you not.
I saw gluten free dog food once.
Dear god. I’m waiting for some “gluten free” Fruit of the Looms. Or “gluten free” porn. Because America! Why The Fuck Not!