Had one doing that while I was going the same speed as the 10 cars in front of me on the highway during traffic time. He was flashing his lights and when there was an opening on my right he changed lane and then I saw… The guy was in a full size truck and was pulling a 20’ trailer and was trying to pass me on the right and squeeze between me and the car in front of me so he would have been stuck behind them instead. I didn’t give him enough space, he got back behind me even more angry than before and 3km later reached his exit so he wouldn’t have saved a single second if I had let him through.
It’s crazy to me how many pickup trucks with trailers drive so recklessly, it’s like they don’t know they are hitching something. I see other cars being accommodating to them by slowing down more than usual to let them merge in.
I’ve seen one stuck sideways on the highway with his trailer flipped on its side and another driving in the middle of the night in the fog without any working lights on the trailer… Maybe they should require an exam before you can tow…
Was driving on the highway and it was packed. It wasn’t stop go, but we were under the speed limit with cars lined up as far as you can see.
I look in my review and I can’t even see the headlights of the guy behind me over my bumper. (I’m in a sedan, not a high bumper by a long shot). This is a dangerous situation so I ease off the gas and move over as soon as I get a chance.
This guy then proceeds to pass me, move in front of me, and slow down. I’m sorry, I thought you were in a rush considering how much you were riding my ass, but looks like you have plenty of time to be an asshole.
Next gap in the left lane and I pull over and accelerate, he doesn’t have room to get in front of me, and doesn’t have room to get behind me again due to all the cars.I have no idea how long he had to wait to get back into the left lane, but for someone so impatient he was very effective at wasting his own time.
It’s funny how the ‘acceptable’ amount to go over the speed limit is always 10. No matter if it’s kph or mph. It’s 10.
nice round number
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
— George Carlin
It’s the same when there’s a BMW, Audi or MB behind you. You can’t go fast enough to get them in your neck.
Time to engage cruise control on exactly the speed limit.
that’s just how i drive normally, makes life very easy. only costs a couple minutes.
On most cars I’ve used that would mean a real speed of around 4-5 km/h under the actual limit.
I do +5, just below fine limit. Haven’t had one in years.
You bet your sweet ass if youre driving like a dick, im slowing down. Flash your light? I flash the little red ones on the back of my car to let you know that i saw you. Every time your lights come on, so do mine!
The one thing that I really care about is consistency. If you want to do 60 in a 65 on the hwy, and you’re in the right lane, that’s fine. What I hate more than most things is when you pass me doing 75 in a half mile, and then I pass you again after that. I hate that so much, I just want consistency and predictability.
Couldn’t agree more. Consistency and predictably; I wish more people would think - and drive - like that.
I used to have a longish commute on the highway and would use cruise control the entire way. It’s bizarre how often I’d encounter some that we would pass each other 3 times because they can’t decide what speed that want to go at. My speed hasn’t changed.
at night with brights. how about 10mph until they rage on by.
I just realized the meme says 10 MILES above the speed limit.
10 km/h above the limit is pretty standard here in Canada.
10 m/h over is crazy.
Pretty standard where I’m from.
If the speed is 55, most people are going 65. Cops won’t mess with you for it unless you give them a reason. You know, having a dead tag, a dead sticker, being black, brake lights are out, something like that.
People in cali (at least norcal) go 80mph, some go even faster (like 100 lol) on the highway
Socal is always a traffic jam so probably not applicable there
10 mph over is completely standard in most of the US. Less so on residential roads, of course.
10 MPH over the signed limit on the highway is very typical here in the US. And yeah it’s not great, lots of car fatalities here.
I’ve had people tailgate me in the right lane for miles before deciding to pass, even with a completely open left lane. And it’s usually a pickup.
most people are brain dead cruise control zombies. i stay as far away from all cars on the highway as possible.
… there’s nothing wrong with cruise control
no there isn;t. there’s a problem with zombie drivers though
Why not just pull into the empty left lane and have them pass on the right? One less thing for you to think about.
Because the safest thing for everyone is to drive predictably, and that means following the rules and you don’t pass in the right lane.
you don’t pass in the right lane
Unless you’re in Houston, where you often get passed on the right even when you’re in the right-most lane.
Being able to drive safely also means being able to prioritize. It’s not to anyone’s benefit to be so blinded by the rules that you’d drive into a brick wall if one appeared in the road.
Spineless drivers are nearly as dangerous as arrogant drivers.
Who said anything about being spineless.
FYI, everyone who drives near you hates you.
Definitely not true. I drove a cab for 12 years, it went great. I don’t tailgate, I don’t get in people’s way, and I don’t drive like a feckless confused imbicile.
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I did this recently, scared the shit out of them and they quickly found a spot to turn off and park. I think they thought I was trying to do some kind of pit maneuver to get behind them or something, when I just wanted them off my ass.
In Europe, its either a BMW or a Porsche, like this behind you. Blinking their lights, ever there is no space for you to move.
They can flash their lights as much as they like, when I am cycling I don’t have mirrors so I won’t even see it. Then they start revving. Yeah I don’t care. I am here, won’t kill you to wait for the children to finish crossing the road.
The trucks will often flash their lights as well, often blinding drivers of sedans and smaller SUVs due to height difference and poor regulations for headlight height.
I want a mirror whose only purpose is to force SUVs to turn off their high beams. Somebody’s gonna be blinded either way; better it be brief than constant.
I find the night mode on my rear view does okay at reducing the high beams light, but my side mirrors become blindingly bright if they get hit at the right angle.
At least those I can rotate back up at the offender.
I’ve been in situations like that, where I was more than happy to pull over and let them pass, but I missed all the safe spots because I couldn’t see them while being blinded. I had to drive slower because they made it harder to see ahead on dangerous mountain roads, too. Bloody idiots.
Move out da way
This but me going the legal limit on an e-scooter on a road-bikelane with a truck riding half of the lane right behind me.
I do not miss driving. Public transit forever.
But when I did drive, after my reckless youth, I’d usually just chill in the right lane. I don’t care. Fly by at 120mph. I’ll be here going with the flow of traffic, or about the speed limit if I’m alone.
I do remember one time in the suburbs when I was visiting my parents, I was driving to the grocery store. It’s a short drive (because it’s the suburbs, you can’t safely walk to the supermarket), no highways. About 10 minutes to get there from driveway to parking lot. Some guy behind me started absolutely losing his shit, screaming, and passed me dangerously by driving onto the shoulder. He pulled into the same parking lot. I parked well away from him because I didn’t want to deal with crazy.
I’m not good at math, but if the entire trip was about 10 minutes, I feel like the time difference between me going about the speed limit and me speeding is, at most, what, 2 minutes? 5 minutes? The guy probably took more than 5 minutes off his life being so angry.
It’s a short drive (because it’s the suburbs, you can’t safely walk to the supermarket)
It’s funny that suburbs get touted as safer, but you can’t even expect your kid to walk to the supermarket alone until they are well into their teen years. Usually because it’s over a mile away and across a state highway (and likely one without any nearby crosswalks, either).
It’s like pedestrian safety isn’t considered safety at all.
Sure, it’s safe enough for a young kid to walk or ride their bike around their cul de sac, sure…but it gets exponentially less safe the further you travel out from there…and that’s where their friends and everything else are…
My childhood home was 1.2 miles away and across such a state highway from literally anything. No sidewalks or crosswalks along the entire path.
I could walk to a bus stop without crossing a state highway, but I’d be walking along it with no sidewalk for most of it…and after 5.5 miles, I’d get to the bus stop. And I did do that a couple times in the summer before I got my license, to get to work.
If I was raising kids, I absolutely would not want to do it in the suburbs. It’s isolating and limiting. I was always so jealous of the kids I knew that lived in the city. They could do things. I was stuck indoors , or walking for like 90 minutes to get anywhere.
In an ideal situation you’d save maybe a minute. But in the real world with stop lights and signs you’d probably be closer to 20-30 seconds.
my radar detector says time to let them by
I’m a school bus driver and I love to be tailgated … because I can’t even see a fucking car when it does this. I don’t know what these dipshits imagine they’re accomplishing.
I love my Mustang for this one reason. People don’t ride my ass and get out of my way. It’s nice.
I drive a NV200 (compact cargo van).
I could be driving warp 7 in a school zone and I swear people would be passing me and flipping the bird. It’s like they see that is not made for speed, so they’re required to treat it as slow.
I’d say those are hard to see around. So people are passing you to clear up their view.
It’s really not, though. It’s what New York uses for Taxis.
Does it have windows or metal doors and sides?
