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[rangerfredbob]

Yeah, people are dumb lately, I've gotten cut off more in the last couple months than the last few years... If at all possible I leave reasonable following distance, but if there's no one behind me and I'm going 55-60mph and you pull out in front of me and I have to slow down to 40mph you are going to get honked at or tailgated (for a SHORT distance, I only have ~20 seconds of patience for that) or passed (not many passing zones on my commute). My blood is going to boil even more if you take the next turn in a mile and make me slow down AGAIN.

I followed someone the other morning going 45-48 in a 55 zone for 8 miles, when they were going 40 at the start of a 45 zone and hit their brakes I lost it... blared my horn and passed them in a merge zone... not my proudest moment, it did NOT help that it was monday morning, and I was so worked up when I passed I down shifted to 2nd gear and missed third on the up shift... I understand seeing in the dark is hard with cataracts (my mom has this problem, but she avoids driving at dark), but when you have 20 cars behind you and you are going 10 under, maybe pull over every now and then?

 

[Jstpssng]

We had a bad fatal crash down the road from me last week... a pickup crossed the centerline and collided with a loaded log truck. The news report said it was attributed to "Driver fatigue". \
Coming up the interstate Saturday PM the road was covered with several inches of slush and most were traveling at a sane speed... including me for the most part. We started getting bunched up so I decided to pass; that lane was worse of course. I got back in line and a few miles later saw blue lights flashing, one of the motorists who had passed us was sitting there waiting for a wrecker. A couple of miles later I saw another way off in the median strip waiting for the same. The road conditions weren't conducive to stopping, and the driver seemed OK anyways, sitting there with that "Ah,RATS" look on her face...

 

[gstrom99]

but when you have 20 cars behind you and you are going 10 under, maybe pull over every now and then?

People that drive that way (afraid?) never seem to look in their mirrors. They also seem to always drive in the left lane. Why is that?

 

[bcp]

People that drive that way (afraid?) never seem to look in their mirrors. They also seem to always drive in the left lane. Why is that?

It is much easier for them to judge their position in relation to the edge of the road when they are in the left lane.

Bruce

 

[fried1765]

And they truely believe they are saving your life & that of untold numbers of others by preventing you from driving like an idiot.

Yup....speed limits are set for safe vehicle operation,..... thus to save your life, and the lives of others.

 

[LD48750]

Yup....speed limits are set for safe vehicle operation,..... thus to save your life, and the lives of others.

And they believe the speed limits are far too fast for safe driving EXCEPT under PERFICT conditions which NEVER exist.

If nothing else, the FACT that there is another vehicle on the road or may be, makes it unsafe.

 

[kenmbz]

I dislike artificial speed limits (traps) which we have around here on many downhills.
Almost got clipped by a cruiser taking off after the person in front of me doing 35 in a 25 in the middle of a steep down hill.

Engineered speed limits make sense (yellow signs to warn about suggested speeds in bad weather).

Most of the rest are set for perceived safety (not a bad thing) or revenue generation (a bad thing).

 

[BigBlue1]

I've been driving for 35 years, much of it in a major metro area. I can tell you that you will never figure out the psychology behind what motivates some peoples' driving habits. Some of them you can puzzle out, such as the ones speed-matching in the left lane at or below the speed limit because they feel they are a morally assigned extension of the police, but the vast majority just make no sense. One of those is the type of person who drives 5 mph under the speed limit on a 2 lane road but when a passing lane comes up they increase to 10+ over, making it difficult to get around them. Then they are back to slow when it goes back to 2 lane. If drivers ed class would emphasize being respectful and courteous to others I think so many of the issues would be reduced. But too many, as in the rest of society, want to impose their own ideas on everyone else.

 

[DavesTractor]

I wonder if most people really don't mean to be jerks and aren't aware of what they are doing. Obviously, there are the idiots that are messing with us, or just poor drivers, or folks that think they are the moral police. But there are some common things that happen so frequently I expect it is some sort of inadvertent inclination. Examples are people driving 55 in a two-lane 65 zone, then when you get to the passing lane they do 75. Every stinking time! Another is when you are on an Interstate doing 70 in a 70 zone in the #2 lane, someone will come up in your blind spot to the left and just camp. The other I observe often on the Interstate is when you overtake a person doing 65 in a 70 they often speed up as you are overtaking them and speed match you, causing you to have to raise your speed to shake them loose so you can get back into the right lane. All of this is so very common, and often the driver is someone not being aggressive or trying to mess with you. Often you can see folks texting or otherwise distracted and I think their personal radar just wants to go with the flow. Kind of makes me wonder if anyone has ever done a study of this.

 

[cqaigy2]

I wonder if most people really don't mean to be jerks and aren't aware of what they are doing. Obviously, there are the idiots that are messing with us, or just poor drivers, or folks that think they are the moral police. But there are some common things that happen so frequently I expect it is some sort of inadvertent inclination. Examples are people driving 55 in a two-lane 65 zone, then when you get to the passing lane they do 75. Every stinking time! Another is when you are on an Interstate doing 70 in a 70 zone in the #2 lane, someone will come up in your blind spot to the left and just camp. The other I observe often on the Interstate is when you overtake a person doing 65 in a 70 they often speed up as you are overtaking them and speed match you, causing you to have to raise your speed to shake them loose so you can get back into the right lane. All of this is so very common, and often the driver is someone not being aggressive or trying to mess with you. Often you can see folks texting or otherwise distracted and I think their personal radar just wants to go with the flow. Kind of makes me wonder if anyone has ever done a study of this.

I bet you're right. Like where the passing lanes usually are, the roads straighten out and they can see farther down the road.

 

[dodge man]

There is a speed people are comfortable driving based on the road and what’s along it. In most cases I bet people tend to drive to fast by a little bit but everyone is different. Like mentioned I don’t think most people are being speed cops but when the road goes straight they tend to speed up.

 

[deezler]

All the rural highways in Michigan are like this also, someone will go 50-55mph, and then when the extra passing lane appears, they zoom up to 70 making it super hard to get by them. Passing lane ends, they drift back down to 50. Drives you mad.

It can't all be intentional... must be a subliminal thing. Still, pay attention to your speed you dummies. :irked:

 

[Jstpssng]

Years ago I was last in a line of cars doing 45 in a 55. We came to the only truck lane in 60 miles, and they all moved into the passing lane, still at 45. Friday afternoon and I'd been away from home all week so I went by them in the driving lane. I came up to the lead car, and he pulled over, straddling both lanes to keep me from passing. He was doing 45, I was doing 65 trying to get by before the lane ended. WTF?

A few years later, similar situation. Traveling at 10 mph under the speed limit until we hit the truck lane. I had my foot to the floor trying to get past him, with my little Dakota maxed out at 75 on that hill, yet for a mile and a half I couldn't catch him. When the truck lane ended he slowed so fast I had to slam on the brakes.

Neither of those were "accidental".

 

[bcp]

Some people just want to be first in line.

Bruce

 

[goeduck]

Some people just want to be first in line.

Bruce

At the morgue

 

[s219]

My new truck has that smart cruise control where it can maintain distance and slow/accelerate automatically. It works very well but really highlights the inability of other people to maintain speed. Quite a few people yo-yo speed while I am just cruising along at constant speed. I don't get it.

One of my other pet peeves is people who will delay getting off the line when the light turns green because they are not paying attention, then they will speed like crazy and probably run the next light as it turns red, while they made the rest of us miss it.