You fucks know who you are. You think your brains are sophisticated computers capable of doing calculus on the fly. You approach an intersection with the intent of turning. You see me coming from the left and instead of stopping (and bowing to my fucking right-of-way), you coast into the intersection in an attempt to glide past me within a few millimeters tolerance.
Trouble is - I don’t know you or your driving skills. I have no idea if you’re some
asshole who can’t stop and is about to collide with me. So I have to react and either swerve away from you or gun my motor to ensure that I pass you.
Hey fuck-wad. I have the right of way. You’re not supposed to do anything that makes me have to change my velocity in anyway. You’re supposed to STOP if need be to allow me to pass the intersection.
This also goes for you humps who think right-on-red means “slide in if I can beat the on-coming traffic”; nevermind that they’ll have to jam on their brakes or swerve away.
Well listen up schmucks! I now slow down when I see this situation brewing.
So you’ll either have to slow down/stop or hit me; and if you do hit me I will fucking “own” you. You will be my pissboy for the rest of your life. I’ve checked with my lawyer and you will be assessed 100 fucking % of fault. You will put my kids through college and/or pay for my boat.
So think twice, pricks! I’m out there and I’m itching to get your money!
The idiots who proceed away from stop signs or right-turn on red after looking ONLY in the direction from which I am NOT approaching them.
Those who roar away from stop signs long before I’ve cleared the intersection.
I’ve often said that one day I’d get up the guts to turn off the ignition when one of these impatient jackoffs is approaching me from the right.
I’d have to make the car “unexpectedly die” rather than slam on the brakes or some insurance investigator would figure out that I staged this.
What stops me is fear that despite my well-laid plans, I might actually hurt myself.
Drivers who don’t bother to signal while refusing to yield when turning left. Just one of these behaviors is bad by itself but together they’re an accident waiting to happen.
And of course, there are everyone’s favorites, the people who, when they see the lane they’re in is coming to an end, drive right to the end and force the people in the next lane to let them merge rather than moving over earlier and being courteous.
Not to mention the ones who role through an intersection, or come out of an alley never bothering to look the other way, to see if there are pedestrians walking in front of them. Hey, as long as there are no cars approaching from the left why worry about people on foot crossing in front of them from the right?
Or it could be that your “lawyer” is completely full of shit. Failure to act when a crash is clearly avoidable may very well get you half the blame. And even if you are right, you’ll get the insurance company’s money.
Err, no. If you get T-boned (smack dab on your passenger/driver door) what is the other guy going to say? He didn’t see you? And what are they going to say to you? That you should have known he was going to run into the side of your car?
If you happen to T-bone someone, and you have right-of-way (ROW) you might get into a little trouble but it would depend on factors like the speed of the road and visibility.
And you will collect money…but only if you get injured. I believe you really don’t gain much if you just damage your car.
Just to add another mini-rant…when you’re in the fucking left lane, at least MAINTAIN SPEED AND DISTANCE from the next fucking car! It’s not fucking rocket science. I fucking hate it when I get in behind some loser left lane camper who then backs off 50 car lengths in moderate traffic and then allows 55 cars to fill the gods damn gap. If you’re too scared to maintain a 2-second following distance from the next car, get off the fucking road.
Add to the list the fuckheads who pull up to an intersection, stop, but then slowly allow their cars to roll forward into an intersection (despite the fact that they’ve got a red light or equivalent) as if hoping no one will collide with them or notice them if they SNEAK into the intersection. Hey, asshole! You’re driving a fucking car! Everyone can see you, and putting the first third of your vehicle into the intersection only makes things tougher for everybody. You’ve got brakes, use 'em!
Stop Sign Followers, can we include them? Oh good, cause I hate these fuckers who stay right on the bumper of the car that actually stopped and just follow em on through the intersection, rather than stopping themselves.
Assnuggets that are parallel parked on the right, then suddenly do a U-turn with no signal, no warning, and apparently no looking.
Taking a cab into work this morning, we almost got into two horrific accidents because of people doing this. Both times ended with squeeling brakes and a miss by mere inches.
At least I got a lesson in how to say “Squid-felching son-of-mother-fucking assbomb!” in Haitian. So I guess it wasn’t a total loss.
How about fucking cunt bitches who can’t stay in their own goddamn lane on the highway so they run into your car doing their best impersonation of ‘police officer about to spin out the getawa driver’ so that your precious baby geekmobile gets damaged and then they leave the scene of the accident so that the very nice witnesses people have to follow them to get the license plate number so that the state police can find the car and tell the fucking cunt bitch that she has to pay for the damage that she did to the car driven by the innocent geek or she will get arrested for leaving the scene of the accident?
Oh, wait, that was my Saturday evening.
Yup, worse than being just mere assholes, these types have such a blatant disrespect for the rules of the road that they will actually not only attempt to occupy your lane while you are in it with only a few millimeters of tolerance, they will do the fucking calculus wrong and hit your fucking car.
Those asswipes are not only bad for other drivers, but for pedestrians as well. Ever have to walk out into the middle of the intersection just so you can cross the street? The temptation to key their hoods is overwhelming sometimes.
Yeah, thats kinda what I’m getting at. I am having a hard time grasping what the OP is about actually. There is either enough room to pull out or there isn’t. I guess folks round here don’t try to “sneak” out onto the road. If they did, we would call it “pulling in front” of you. “Rolling out of intersections into the flow of traffic” seems to discribe the correct method for merging, if you ask me. Then its simply a matter of horsepower and how fast it takes me to be going faster than you.
For example: The road that dumps onto the highway where I live has about 12 miles visibility to the east and at least a mile to the west. If I’m approaching the highway and I glance east and see Dorko McSlowly holding up 15 cars, and its clear to the left, I nail it, blow that “STOP” sign and get ahead of the idiot and the long line of his victims (because if you don’t, you’re stuck there for 10 miles, going sub-speed limit). I smile quietly to myself as they disappear in my mirrors. Actually, I rarely need to even run the sign. I gots mo’ power than I need to easily get out ahead of the RoadTurd. If it “freaks” him out, too damn bad! The truth is, he was never in any danger
Now that I think about it, I thought the OP was about people making say, an unprotected left turn without actually waiting for a break in the traffic. I’ve seen plenty of idiots press into the first few lanes while cars are wizzing by trying to complete the turn. The proper way is to simply wait for a break and then peel out into the road
The trouble around here is that many people are afraid they’re going to blow up their car if they press the gas too hard. I mean, come on! I’ve driven Corolla’s so I know what they can do, and they will not explode if you accelerate!
I also will do what I must to get in front of slower and, IMO, more dangerous drivers. At the ramp I use to get onto the highway there’s over 100 meters of road on the ramp (300 feet) yet almost everyday I get trapped behind someone doing half the limit trying to merge. I do my best to merge quickly (I back off, and then zoom up to the merge point) and then pass them (in the merge lane). These fuckers need to go back to driving school.
This thread makes me glad I’m working at home now instead of driving upwards of 100 miles a day…
Yesterday: I’m on a straightaway, there’s a merging lane to my right with a “Yield” sign. I pass the merge, look to my right and there’s a huge SUV sharing my lane. :dubious: Driver looks at me like I’m crazy, apparently expects me to yield.
Also yesterday, a lady pulls out of a driveway and turns left, not noticing me in the other lane - my brakes are very good, yes they are, but I had all my roommate’s and my own musical gear (heavy amplifiers, cabinets, drums etc.) behind me. If I had hit her, well, I probably wouldn’t be posting this. BTW, roommate teaches driver’s ed for a living, when this scene unfolded he said “I’ll make sure to include that one in my lessons”…
Badmana, we have those turkeys too - gee, I’m getting on the freeway, I’d better not go faster than 25mph until I’m fully into my lane! :smack:
I won’t even start on my motorcycling experiences…
Sorry but you are the A-hole here, this is what is suppose to happen. The lane is OPEN till the merge point, and they should stay in it till that point. Merging sooner caused congestion and an ‘unfair’ advantage to people in the lane that is closed ahead to boot. You in the other land should not be driving bumper to bumper but allow enought space in front of you so the person in the lane and your lane to merge smoothly.
What gets my goat is those who think they way to make a left turn is to gun it when the light turns green, cutting off all those in the oncomming lanes.
I am a courteous driver, and I hate it when I need to switch lanes, so I move up to where there is a space in traffic and put on my turn signal and then glance over again to see that the car that was behind me has now sped up to close the gap, because GOD FORBID someone get in front of them. :rolleyes:
I also hate it when I am driving along in the right hand lane and someone comes barreling out of the parking lot, stopping right before they hit the street. I never know if they don’t see me and are going to drive right out or if they’re going to hit the brakes at the last moment. Oh, and people who drive out of parking lots, making a left turn, but only making it as far as the left turn lane because traffic is thick. Then they sit there, holding up traffic in the turn lane until they can move over into a driving lane.
Ahem. And the fucks who pass a half mile line of people obediantly waiting their turn to exit only to attempt to get to the front of the line. You fucks can sit your ass in the middle of the highway with your blinker on cause that gap ain’t gonna open up for your arrogant ass.
So in other words assholes like you can continue to break the traffic laws, and the rest of us have to constantly be on edge trying to avoid an accident? I think not.
onto the road. If they did, we would call it “pulling in front” of you. “Rolling out of intersections into the flow of traffic” seems to discribe the correct method for merging, if you ask me. Then its simply a matter of horsepower and how fast it takes me to be going faster than you.
