Random question about driving

[Colonel Hogan]

You mean to tell me you were hogging the left lane, and wanted to slam the brakes on someone wanting to get by faster?

Or you probably just got in the left lane suddenly to get by the car that was in front of you, not making sure a car was coming at a faster rate on that left lane, and you pissed him off?

You better not have the misfortune of driving near me. I'd find a way around you, get in front, and slam on my brakes till you change lanes to the right.

It is semi-frustrating on the Interstate when you've got it on cruise control and you swing into the passing lane to pass the semi-trailer truck, and the car in front of you doing the same thing isn't going as fast as you are and you realize he isn't going to complete his pass before you are into his back seat unless you hit the brakes and then have to reset your cruise speed after everything gets all sorted out. *sigh*

But that's still no reason to be a doofus to the guy. He is under no obligation to be in as big a hurry as I am.

 

[Not Normal]

People who use their lights like that are douchebags, and probably have untapped levels of road rage. I prefer to not tap that keg, but, yes, I have been tempted.

This

I have slowed down and blocked a motherfucker or two...

 

[RobDownSouth]

Somebody local here in Texas got acquitted on "unlawful discharge of a firearm" recently when somebody brake-checked him.

 

[Not Normal]

Somebody local here in Texas got acquitted on "unlawful discharge of a firearm" recently when somebody brake-checked him.

They have "unlawful discharge of a firearm" in Texas?

 

[Colonel Hogan]

Somebody local here in Texas got acquitted on "unlawful discharge of a firearm" recently when somebody brake-checked him.

Given that it was Texas, I am assuming that was explicit enabling language under the "self defense" statute.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

They have "unlawful discharge of a firearm" in Texas?

Okay. Yours was better.

 

[FGB]

They have "unlawful discharge of a firearm" in Texas?

Sure.
Anything in public as in city limits not...

Self defense, someone stealing Irreplaceable items, Stealing your vehicle at night at home... and many more. Shooting someone trying to use deadly force without cause on someone else. The list go on...

 

[EternalFantasies]

It is semi-frustrating on the Interstate when you've got it on cruise control and you swing into the passing lane to pass the semi-trailer truck, and the car in front of you doing the same thing isn't going as fast as you are and you realize he isn't going to complete his pass before you are into his back seat unless you hit the brakes and then have to reset your cruise speed after everything gets all sorted out. *sigh*

But that's still no reason to be a doofus to the guy. He is under no obligation to be in as big a hurry as I am.

You guys don't have "Slower traffic keep right" signs?

There is a general syndrome of people thinking if they are driving the pseed limit, then they have every right to keep the left lane.

They cause traffic jams, along with a set of other frustrating moves with their assumptions.

But some morons find those expressing that frustration with high beam lights - coz it intimidates them - to be road rage.

I'll admit driving with stupid drivers around - especially when you have something important to get to - can give road rage yes. That much is true.

They have "unlawful discharge of a firearm" in Texas?

That was funny.

 

[thør]

I was the passenger with a friend going on a hike who did the brights thing. I was trapped! Mind you this is a two lane, foggy road at 6 in the morn. I said what the fuck are you doing? She said they're going too slow. Okay they were going 5 miles under the speed limit, but it was foggy. I told her to slow the fuck down there are moose hiding in those ditches ready to scamper out, I'd drive from now on. I can't abide for idiot driving.

Saving 5 minutes on the road isn't worth dying for. Too many people are dying on the roads around here. Damn near every one of them is because someone is in too much of a hurry. Some people don't understand that the speed limit is the maximum legal speed your vehicle should be traveling on that road. It is not the safe speed for all conditions.

 

[EternalFantasies]

Saving 5 minutes on the road isn't worth dying for. Too many people are dying on the roads around here. Damn near every one of them is because someone is in too much of a hurry. Some people don't understand that the speed limit is the maximum legal speed your vehicle should be traveling on that road. It is not the safe speed for all conditions.

Ouuu.. Now, that's narrow & indoctrinated thinking.

You can always go 20 over without getting a ticket. And those who drive exactly by the rules as you say are generally the worse and more dangerous drivers. Who cause with their stupidity the majority of accidents.

You'd get a nervous breakdown driving in Germany. They also have among the least road accidents.

 

[Fala]

Ouuu.. Now, that's narrow & indoctrinated thinking.

You can always go 20 over without getting a ticket. And those who drive exactly by the rules as you say are generally the worse and more dangerous drivers. Who cause with their stupidity the majority of accidents.

You'd get a nervous breakdown driving in Germany. They also have among the least road accidents.

I assure you...we are all hoping you live in Germany.

 

[thør]

Ouuu.. Now, that's narrow & indoctrinated thinking.

You can always go 20 over without getting a ticket. And those who drive exactly by the rules as you say are generally the worse and more dangerous drivers. Who cause with their stupidity the majority of accidents.

You'd get a nervous breakdown driving in Germany. They also have among the least road accidents.

I was fine in Germany.

Let's see you always go 20 over on the road that Aqua was talking about.

 

[Wrong Element]

I drive the speed I want to go. If it's too slow for other drivers, it's their fucking problem.

I just want people to act predictably on the roads, and not to pick up their goddam phone every time they're at a red light.

 

[EternalFantasies]

I assure you...we are all hoping you live in Germany.

That was funny.

I was fine in Germany.

Let's see you always go 20 over on the road that Aqua was talking about.

You are right, I re-read it. That was stupid driving on such a road, which wasn't clear in your post. My bad too for not double checking.

But as a general rule, and not to say it's ok to always drive fast etc, but hogging the left lane is just anal.

 

[thør]

That was funny.



You are right, I re-read it. That was stupid driving on such a road, which wasn't clear in your post. My bad too for not double checking.

But as a general rule, and not to say it's ok to always drive fast etc, but hogging the left lane is just anal.

The left lane on most roads outside of town here have oncoming traffic. There are only a very few miles of divided highway.

 

[RobDownSouth]

You'd get a nervous breakdown driving in Germany. They also have among the least road accidents.

Worked on an ambulance crew in the Army in Germany.

Turn on the flashing red lights in Deutschland on the Autobahn, and something strange happens: Cars get in front of you and accelerate quickly, flashing their lights continually at traffic ahead.

Found out they think they are helping you by "clearing the road".

 

[Hypoxia]

We encountered Canadians at Chichen Itza, not long off the Cancun plane, who hadn't been trained in (polite) Mexican driving. Whenever they signaled for a left turn, following vehicles would pass on the left. That's because a left signal-light means it's safe to pass and a right signal-light says 'unsafe'. To actually indicate a desire to turn, stick an arm out and wavc. Or, as we saw a bus driver do, just cross yourself and spin the wheel. Vaya con dios, amigos.

Another Mexican quirk: STOP signs don't always mean STOP and often don't look like STOP signs. Their USA meaning is more like YIELD. And outside of cities, speed limits are sick fantasies. And highway tolls are murderous.

Meanwhile, a cousin who regularly drives between the SF Bay Area and Guatemala City says the most dangerous roads and drivers on that route are in... Los Angeles, where firearms are sometimes used as turn signals.

 

[Sean]

Worked on an ambulance crew in the Army in Germany.

Turn on the flashing red lights in Deutschland on the Autobahn, and something strange happens: Cars get in front of you and accelerate quickly, flashing their lights continually at traffic ahead.

Found out they think they are helping you by "clearing the road".

I was coming back from Italy one night in a Mercedes Sprinter. Foot to the boards doing 95 on the Autobahn. Blue lights in the rear view mirror and the paranoia kicks in. It's the weirdest feeling when the Dibble pass you at 95 as if you're stopped and they don't even give you a second glance.

 

[coachdb18]

It is semi-frustrating on the Interstate when you've got it on cruise control and you swing into the passing lane to pass the semi-trailer truck, and the car in front of you doing the same thing isn't going as fast as you are and you realize he isn't going to complete his pass before you are into his back seat unless you hit the brakes and then have to reset your cruise speed after everything gets all sorted out. *sigh*

But that's still no reason to be a doofus to the guy. He is under no obligation to be in as big a hurry as I am.

I drove the autobahn for four years, and LOVED it. German drivers drive FAST, but are the safest drivers on the planet... you know EXACTLY what they plan to do, and then they do it. I routinely drove 150MPH (or about 250KPH), and got where I was going safely. Their roads were wonderfully maintained, (some of them were designed to serve as aircraft runways for wartime use), and if you had a slower driver in the left hand lane, you simply flashed your lights and they were REQUIRED to move over. I love that. Here in the US, I can't tell you how many times I've seen some dumbass signal a left hand turn from the left lane, and then make a right hand turn across and in front of four lanes of traffic.... DAMN

 

[Aquagal]

Ouuu.. Now, that's narrow & indoctrinated thinking.

You can always go 20 over without getting a ticket. And those who drive exactly by the rules as you say are generally the worse and more dangerous drivers. Who cause with their stupidity the majority of accidents.

You'd get a nervous breakdown driving in Germany. They also have among the least road accidents.

Are you high?...you should post in my thread!

I got a ticket, my one and only, for going 6 miles over the speed limit. Weather was not a cause. I remember I had two fuckers in the back seat whispering as I was talking to the Trooper, "I'll give you a dollar if you just slowly drive away right now."

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I drove the autobahn for four years, and LOVED it. German drivers drive FAST, but are the safest drivers on the planet... you know EXACTLY what they plan to do, and then they do it. I routinely drove 150MPH (or about 250KPH), and got where I was going safely. Their roads were wonderfully maintained, (some of them were designed to serve as aircraft runways for wartime use), and if you had a slower driver in the left hand lane, you simply flashed your lights and they were REQUIRED to move over. I love that. Here in the US, I can't tell you how many times I've seen some dumbass signal a left hand turn from the left lane, and then make a right hand turn across and in front of four lanes of traffic.... DAMN

Not only that, but in Germany, one LEARNS not to drive in the left hand lane. I would never continually drive 150 mph in the left lane of a German autobahn for the simple fact that someone will almost certainly come up behind me doing 155 mph.

When I got back in the states, I was depressed for a week.

 

[EternalFantasies]

Worked on an ambulance crew in the Army in Germany.

Turn on the flashing red lights in Deutschland on the Autobahn, and something strange happens: Cars get in front of you and accelerate quickly, flashing their lights continually at traffic ahead.

Found out they think they are helping you by "clearing the road".

They probably thought if you have a patient inside, they'd cover for you that way.

And they got the cars to do it.

 

[Shagly]

RADAR detectors are legal in the States yet in Canada they are illegal.

They work great for finding a McDonalds drive Thru.

 

[EternalFantasies]

I drove the autobahn for four years, and LOVED it. German drivers drive FAST, but are the safest drivers on the planet... you know EXACTLY what they plan to do, and then they do it. I routinely drove 150MPH (or about 250KPH), and got where I was going safely. Their roads were wonderfully maintained, (some of them were designed to serve as aircraft runways for wartime use), and if you had a slower driver in the left hand lane, you simply flashed your lights and they were REQUIRED to move over. I love that.

Very much this. Ahhhhh.. Lovely.

Are you high?...you should post in my thread!

I got a ticket, my one and only, for going 6 miles over the speed limit. Weather was not a cause. I remember I had two fuckers in the back seat whispering as I was talking to the Trooper, "I'll give you a dollar if you just slowly drive away right now."

He probably suspected you were high and stopped you

But 6 miles over, you can contest it and easily beat that ticket.

 

[oggbashan]

Whenever I drive in France I have to change more than the side of the road.

In the UK we drive on the left. At roundabouts traffic already on the roundabout, or coming from my right, has priority.

In France they drive on the right. But at roundabouts traffic coming from my right STILL has priority. Unless otherwise stated by road sign, ALL traffic coming from my right has priority even if it is a tractor coming out of a farm track on to a main road.

On Autoroutes, the French equivalent of UK motorways and US freeways, traffic MUST keep to the right hand lane at all times unless actually overtaking another vehicle. So drivers pull out to the left to overtake, pull back to the right as soon as they can, and out to the left to pass the next vehicle, repeating this several times in a kilometre if there are several slow vehicles in the right hand lane. In the UK to pass three slower vehicles I would stay in the fast lane until I had passed all three.

Speed limits are in kilometres per hour. If you pass a town or village sign, unless there is a speed sign mandating a higher limit, the speed limit is 30 kilometres per hour until you pass the same town or village sign with a red line across it to show the end of the community. 30 kph seems very slow, but do 35 and you'll get a ticket to be paid in cash on the spot. No cash? Your vehicle is seized and you are dumped at the roadside.

Also in France you have to have:

A fire extinguisher
Enough hi-vis jackets inside the car, not in the trunk, for the driver and passengers.
A First Aid kit
At least two breathalyser test devices. If the police ask you to demonstrate that you are not alcohol impaired you must still have another breathalyser.
A warning triangle
Spare bulbs for all driving lights and the knowledge to fit them.

In other European countries the requirements vary.