I couldn’t have planned a more fortuitous simulpost.
Sailboat: People are racing by you because they believe that you are going to be more slow and frustrating while backing than the people who frustrate the OP while backing in.
Rear cameras, rear sensors and beeping aren’t enough to stop people from backing into things in parking lots. These aids should keep all but brain dead drivers from hitting non-moving objects but they aren’t working, which suggests that drivers are backing into moving people and cars. To prevent that, carmakers are installing automatic braking for reverse. The Next Big Thing In Car Safety Is Automatic Braking In Reverse
You people backing out of parking spots are the real problem. It’s not like you’re strangling kittens for sport but you could be better.
Even worse, many of the parking lots where I live have slanted spaces. Pulling into them is fairly easy, but it would be impossible to back into one in your lane of traffic. You’d have to back up into the space on the opposite side, blocking both lanes, and then be pointed the wrong way when you leave.
I will never understand how regular-sized 4-door sedans, when turning, suddenly become 18-wheelers that need to swing wide (often veering slightly into the lane of the traffic that is not turning, which is very much like someone changing lanes in front of you without signaling or looking).
This, too. There is literally nothing that car can do except block my view.
Related: the driver turning left on a green arrow who either isn’t paying attention or feels the need to trail 3 car lengths behind the vehicle in front of him, not being aware that the light has a sensor and will change sooner rather than later if it thinks turning traffic has slowed/ended. That dude usually gets through the light, but screws several of the cars behind him.
Seriously. Why can’t everyone just drive like me?!?
I’d be terrified if I drove a Smart Car, too. Hell, my lights on my car are so low as they are, I don’t think people notice when I keep my brights on. And it’s cultural where I am to not use turn signals anyways. So I’m bad, too. Also I drive like everything’s a race car. Oops.
How on earth do you rationalize not using a turn signal (bolding mine)? That’s both illegal and incredibly, incredibly dangerous. Are you one of the guys who hovers next to the lane they want to be in expecting that people will magically know you want to switch? Please, please tell me that you leave lots of room between you & other cars.
My pet peeve is the pickup that routinely pulls on through from the parking spot diagonal to me to the one right next to me when I get to work. I generally leave a space between me and the car next to me because I usually walk around to grab my stuff out of the passenger side of the car where it’s sitting on the seat. Given my grace, I’m paranoid I’ll scratch up someone’s car opening the car door. Having someone park as close to me as this guy usually does (guess he can’t see all of his car’s dimensions?), I wind up having to drag my laptop bag, lunch bag and gym bag over the console and pile them in my lap, which irritates the hell out of me.
My hatred of other drivers burns too hot and too long for me to list but one I don’t think I see mentioned here is people leaving giant gaps between them and the car in front of them, when stopped at a light. WTF? It’s rush hour, and everyone is taking all the same routes. They know people will be wanting to get into left turn lanes yet they still just stop . . .wherever , and it takes three cycles to make the turn because they couldn’t be bothered to look up from there phone and move forward.
Old fart here that remembers the days without tall SUVs or tinted windows when you could reliably look through the windows of the other cars to see traffic coming.
most impacts have been in the 5-10 mph range. A trailer hitch will go through a lot of fairly soft stuff (plastic bumper, grill, radiator) before hitting something solid. The hitch receiver is also almost flush with the rear bumper. Any significant impact will damage the frame with or without the hitch in place.
As I’m approaching a stop sign, the driver that’s making a left hand turn into the lane next to me doesn’t make the turn wide enough so that as I’m about to stop they’re coming partially into my lane head on! I have to stop short to avoid hitting them. UGH
People who fling open their doors open and ding other cars in parking lots accidentally or because they simply don’t give a shit.
I’ve worked hard for the money to buy my nice cars and I put in a lot of sweat equity keeping them nice. I love my cars. Whenever possible I park in spaces far away from others or park next to another well-cared for car.
You understand that by “brights” he meant high beams, right? He was not talking about shutting off the headlights but kicking down to low beams. Far from “driving blind”.
I interpreted Nava’s comment to mean that he’s blinding the other drivers. He does, after all, say he doesn’t turn his high beams off, not doesn’t turn them on.
Here 15% of the time they’re not paying attention to anything and just staring into space, 10% of the time they’re fiddling with their stereo, and 75% of the time they’re fucking with their phones, which aren’t even supposed to be in their hands by law.
That would be correct. I’ve seen plenty of slanted spaces, but never seen someone back into them. It’s stupid enough that I’d like to think I’d remember it.
We have one store here where all the diagonal spaces are on a parallel, so it could happen and make sense. But the other store near it has the diagonal spaces in a herringbone, so all the parking lanes are one way and no one ever backs into one of those or takes a sprew.
