Ehhh. You all drive aggressively to get there fast.
I drive aggressively because I like it when car goes Vroom.
We are not the same.
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I mean, the point is usually not to get somewhere faster. But to not drive behind someone that infuriates you in some way.
And since they are still in front of you, it doesn't matter. They will still start moving before you.
Did this with a Subaru WRX driver yesterday. He still had temp tags. Probably was a good driver before he got that thing.
Every time. I love watching them aggressively weave in and out of traffic, endangering everyone's safety on the road, only to take the exact same amount of time to get where they're going as the people driving the speed limit or slightly faster than the speed limit.
Entitlement is a disease.
Aggressive weaving is obviously wrong so I am not defending that, but sometimes I'm just driving +10 and have had folks go berserk. Cut me off, block a merge, etc. All I can do is give them space to perform their anger ritual.
If no one is in front of me, I'm going to go my preferred speed. My goal isn't to get anywhere faster but to enjoy the trip. Remember to grant others the same grace you grant yourself.
Anger is a health consideration whose outcomes are often on par with a disease. So don't let those dummies raise your blood pressure.
I love making fun of asshole drivers because they chose to pollute and they're making life worse for all of us normal people.
So you make fun of someone for driving a car while you're driving a car? You're a left lane camper aren't you?
Engines burn fuel to accelerate. Just, like, follow the logical train a little further from that with the context provided.
Bruh, I don't even have a licence
i just like driving fast
Me too, I love driving, I love acceleration. I will let it eat from just about every light. I don't care. If you're going under the speed limit or take half a mile to get to speed, yeah, I'm the asshole passing you for it.
as an expat in the US why do Americans think like this except the only time it really matters: merging on the on-ramp on a freeway?
In Europe we're taught to get up to speed (in the US this would be 65mph most often) by the time you're at the end of the on ramp, but most people I see merge at 40-50mph into a 65
why?!?!!
because some onramps have a speed limit of 15 mph because they curve tightly in a cloverleaf interchange. It takes a while to get up to 65 after you've been going 15 in a tight curve.
you say this and then tonight I leave my house, take the on ramp to the free way just before 7pm - open road, little traffic, guy in front of me, I shit you not, from the on ramp with no obstruction not even a light, continues driving at 40mph from the 40mph road until he is fully merged, still at 40. didn't change speed at all.
aaaagh agony to be stuck behind him.
Even worse agony, imagine what it feels like to BE him
These people need to lose their licenses. Like going 25 under the limit is more dangerous than going 25 over…
There were many days where I was stuck behind someone going 30mph in the on ramp and thought I was going to die. The on ramps I drove were always a straight shot and half the time people were taking their sweet fucking time
it's the framerule in Mario Bros
While I'm sure it feels good to cautious drivers when this happens, IME it doesn't happen enough for the amount of snarky memes posted about it. If it happens even 50% of the time, the other 50% aggressive drivers do get ahead.
I'm not an aggressive driver, and I see plenty of aggressive drivers I never catch up with.
I take a different tact. I learn optimum routes so I can get around faster at normal speeds. Favorable right of way, favorable light timing, more direct angled roads. Traffic patterns and hence route selection change by time of day. It takes time, trial, and error to figure out but it pays off. I can get to the grocery store 3 minutes faster than my wife (5 vs 8 minutes) by picking a better route.
There's an unavoidable overpass between me and where we get groceries with 3 lights on it. They're timed such that, heading in either direction, you'll hit one red if you follow the speed limit. They may have sensors, but they change with no cross-traffic as well. However, if you catch the first light in green, and speed by between 7-10 over the speed limit (35), you can get through all 3 without stopping. It's an overpass with no residential nearby; this is the only place I regularly blow through.
I have no idea what the civic engineers were thinking when they progammed those lights. I assume incompetence; what I think really happened is that at one time that stretch was 45, like both sides of the overpass, and they were programmed for 45, which would normally get you through with no stops. Then some asshat changed the speed limit of that stretch to 35 without reprogramming the lights.
Anyway, the point of my long story is that sometimes going around isn't feasible. When it is, it's a great tactic, though!
This. I’m happy for you that this red light gave you the satisfaction of one last look at me but once it turns green I most likely won’t be seeing you again lmao.
Sometimes the opposite happens, though. The aggressive driver hits the light just before it turns yellow, and everyone who didn't drive like a hooligan had to stop. Depends on how well timed the lights are.
That said, people in general need to start coasting to a red light at least twice the distance away that they do. I've gotten passed by people where I'm coasting, there's a red light ahead, and there's no reason at all to hurry. Coming to a full stop is a waste of energy, and you should set yourself up to avoid needing to as much as possible.
The coasting thing is how I ride my motorcycle. It's so satisfying when you don't have to stop and put a foot down for a light because it turns green while you're still rolling.
The real trick is coasting to a stop in an open lane next to the person in a hurry; then if the light turns green, you're still moving and you can zoom right by them, which is incredibly satisfying.
What about the guy behind you that wants to make the green turn light that you make him miss because you're coasting to YOUR light? Dick move that is.
Different lanes? Nonissue. Same lane? He would have had to wait for it to turn green anyway.
In what context does this even make sense?
You're blocking access to the turn lane by going slow a half mile before YOUR light. I don't know where you live but the major road through my city is like that. Right and left turn lanes at the light, two lanes leading up to it.
I choose to believe you are twelve years old
So now it's half a mile? Two lane roads like that aren't going to have dedicated turn lights, just a blanket green yellow or red for all traffic coming from a given direction, which is almost certainly what the initial user in this thread was talking about before you invented that left turn light.
And even if they did slow you down, so what? Waaaah you made my drive last another 30 seconds 
like big fucking deal, if you haven't yet figured out you should give yourself some buffer time when you plan your drive that's on you tbh.
Or you could drive like a normal person and drive the fucking speed limit instead of acting like you're the only person on the road. But hey, you do you, just don't cry when people like me fly past you. (we know you will, and your tears fuel my right foot)
Damn you're cool.
They should probably be using the lane that's turning right and has a green light, so there's no conflicts there.
Obviously use your judgement Amelia Bedelia, nobody said you must always cruise from far away.
That is a very specific situation you've invented in your head to he mad about.
This coasting trick works until there's enough of those assholes in a hurry that they all rush ahead to stop in every lane. Now all the sane drivers have to stop too. If I'm feeling plucky, I might honk and flash my brights at those "gotta pass everybody to stop first at the light" types like they're the slowpoke in the way, which they kind of are at that point. Usually I just keep quiet and imagine that they're in such a hurry because they are either about to or have just shit their pants.
Beware though, coasting past stopped traffic just as the light changes is a good way to get T-boned by another careless ass hat that just ran the other light.
It's about positions for the start and potentially fun. I ve never seen it be road rage in the wild.
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