here's a good one. i've only seen this done in the mountains of E Tennessee and surrounding areas.
you are third in line on a country hwy/road. 55 mph
the first person signals to make a left turn and begins to slow down.
the SECOND person signals to make a left turn and of course now all three are slowing down, no problem.
i see the 2 folks in front of me turning left into a rural drive way.....they must be following each other?
i gently pull around the right to carefully pass them and......
the first car pulls into the driveway and the second car accelerates straight ahead and now i'm on the shoulder or whatever wondering WTF.
My E Tennessee buddy said that's common, the second person was just telling me the first person was turning left.
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I'll bet they do that in TN because otherwise too many people start to pass the second car on the left. We live off a two lane 50 mph road and a couple of the neighbors have had people pass them on the left while they were slowing down to turn left in to the shared driveway. Around here less than 1/3 of the drivers back off when you put your blinker on, the rest ride your bumper right up to the turn. Some even honk because your slowing down to drive through potholes somehow ruins their day. Clearly those drivers lack the cognitive ability to plan ahead when they see a blinker. Um, blinker-->um, means the guy will turn-->um, means he'll be slowing down = I should slow down first to make some distance between us so I don't have to slow down as much as if I ride his ass all the way down. Wow, that
is too much work to figure out without you tubing it on the interwebs first.
I find that people that complain about tailgaters, tend to poke along UNDER the speed limit and actually believe they OWN the road.
Ahh, Michigan, were tailgating is the rule and not the exception! It has always dumbfounded me to see a car going 50 mph down a rural two lane road with another vehicle only one or two car lengths behind them and no one else around. Either pass them or back off, duh. But hey, they were going slower than the other person wanted to go so its ok to tailgate 'em, right?
Perhaps, in NY “poke along” means anything less than 10mph above the speed limit.
At speed limit would be pretty much be considered “stopped in the road”.
Same applies here in Michigan.
The lack of patience today is a huge problem. I see an increase in the number of people who can't be bothered to stop at stop signs or when making right on reds. They just slow down enough to make the turn with no intention of stopping or yielding.
A few years back I was at a plant when a worker had their child killed that day because someone passed a line of cars by driving down the right shoulder. I'm sure the hit and run driver had a good reason for not waiting, something like: had to get home to have a beer or maybe he just wanted to save some gas....
