There’s an intersection a few miles away where it seems that drivers wait to make sure you’re close enough that you’ll have to brake, and then they pull out.
Ah, the joys of Thornport drivers.
They even put a light in because of it. They still do it. Grr.
I’m with you here, but at some unknown point the vehicle joining the traffic becomes part of the extant traffic…the OP sounds like a situation very near that fuzzy border. If the vehicle chooses to drive slower than the approaching traffic, at some point that traffic will have to slow regardless the clearance prior to the turn.
The other thing people forget is that yielding means the approaching traffic doesn’t have to change speed or direction to avoid hitting you. It doesn’t mean that they can accelerate as fast as they otherwise would have liked to. I see this a lot when two cars turn out of adjacent driveways at about the same time. Just because the guy in the back wanted to accelerate hard, doesn’t mean the guy in the front failed to yield. The guy in the back was NOT going fast enough to be an issue when the guy in the front made his turn.
Good onya. Consider that the other driver probably doesn’t have a radar gun, and that line of cars behind you likely indicates that the car at the front of the line is going slower than the “natural” speed for that bit of road. Not only would the driver have to wait for the procession to pass, but would then be at the very back, and thus unlikely to ever be able to pass the leader. I would point out, though, that you should not need to check your mirror after someone pulls out in front of you…you should have been checking it frequently and thus already aware of the traffic following you.
And no, I’m not bitching about slow drivers…I frequently AM one, as I often commute on one of these. Top speed of ~67 mph on level ground with no headwind, and I can’t make turns much faster than the number on the little yellow advisory speed signs. Beyond courtesy, I need to be aware of what is going on behind me for my own safety.
What really bakes my noodle is the times when you lay on your horn and they honk back like they didn’t do anything wrong.
Road Rage: I don’t condone it, but I definitely understand it.
Yeah, she/he didn’t get all the way up to the speed limit right away and I suspected it was punishment for me beeping. One stop sign and two lights all the way to work (11 miles); I shouldn’t have to rage.
My SUV has plenty of power and can outrun many pseudo-sports-cars. I don’t hesiatte to use it either when I need to get up to speed.
What pisses me off the most is when they are not even TRYING. There is no commercially made car that I know of that has a 0 - 60 time of 30 seconds or greater. Even the crappiest cars can make it in 12. It seems like it takes some drivers to get into the mindset of getting up to speed and it takes them time to contemplate what to do and then slowly work their way into doing it like it is some heoric challenge.
I’ll have to test this. My car doesn’t have much in the way of pick-up but then again that’s why I don’t take any chances in pulling out!