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Only time I've been close to road rage was when a Mercedes CL had a really bright LED strobe light installed inside it's front grill and he activating it, if somebody was in his way.
It wasn't a cop or other emergency vehicle. Just an asshole.
I was lucky to be in front of him for 15 minutes when traffic got compacted enough to prevent lane change.
For a moment I considered hitting the brakes on that particular tailgater.
I do this and then wonder why the fuck the asshole honking won't just pass.
Love reading threads about driving cause everyone is very upset for no discernible reason.
Neither driver here is in the right.
Have you ever slipped and accidentally honked at someone?
Oh yeah. At a stop sign or traffic light, slow traffic, kinda rested my arms on the wheel and hit the horn on accident. Felt like an ass.
How is that even possible?
Very possible st stops. I've done it once, shocking myself more than the other driver.
70 in a 50 zone. Doesn't matter if its km/h or mph, that's just idiotic.
I live out in the sticks, and if I don't go 70, it will take me forever to get where I need to go. Also everyone else is going 70, so the people doing 50 are creating an unsafe situation. It's the wild west out here.
I disagree. There are two roads near me with a limit of 55 mph, and traffic on those roads regularly moves at 75-80. Driving 55 becomes dangerous when all of the other traffic is going so much faster, because nobody expects you to be that slow. You risk getting rear-ended, and if traffic is heavy, people who end up behind you now have to merge into a much faster lane of traffic to get around you.
Why don't they confiscate driving licences and imprison all the criminals who are driving 20-25mph dangerously over the limit?
Throw people in jail for driving too fast? That seems pretty extreme.
It's hard to police speeding on a highway. Typically if you do get pulled over for speeding, it's because you're going way faster than those around you. So even in a 55, if everyone's doing 80, you've gotta be doing 95 or more for a cop to single you out and arrest you. (Or maybe the cop has a quota to meet.) And where I live, local cops can't use radar, so it's hard to prove how fast you were going.
And then if you do get arrested, you're most likely to get a ticket and points on your license. Get enough points and they'll take away your license, but that means you've been caught repeatedly. And points expire eventually, plus if you go to your court date and plead not guilty, a lot of the time the judge will just remove the points. So a speeding ticket from years ago generally won't have any bearing on your life except for the cost of the ticket.
So within reason, you can pretty much speed all the time consequence-free ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Because the road design at fault, not people.
Make roads narrower, and people will drive slower
You ever tried to pull over an entire freeway full of cars at once?
A single cop car on the side of the road can get everybody to magically follow the speed limit.
For a minute, maybe. Foot goes back down when the cop’s out of view in the mirrors.
That's really dependant on location. I have had plenty of road trips up and down the I5 where groups of cars pass cops on the side of the road going 80, and no one slows down and the cops do nothing. Source: I'm one of those drivers.
exactly, the engineers should never have made a road with that big of a discrepancy between safe speed and listed speed limit
The engineers only make the designed safe speed. Government officials make the listed limit. It used to be EXTREMELY popular for government official to knock 20-25% off the design limit of the road, ironically so they can tell everyone how safe they were.
Everywhere in my town was 25mph until about 10 years ago.
A local politician got a few speeding tickets and went nuts over it, now it varies from 25-60mph. Engineers were brought in to advise on safe limits.
Him getting those tickets was one of the best things that ever happened to me. It was so miserable driving so slow on big open roads. I could probably sit down and figure up an insane amount of time I’ve saved over the last decade (if I weren’t an idiot).
Traffic engineers in the US make too wide roads that psychologically encourages speeding, the posted speed limit doesn't matter unless police dedicates significant resources to enforcing it
Yeah, honking at me. And those flashing lights on the roof of their car are really annoying.
All fun and games until you get someone willing to escalate 😁
A pit maneuver is easily defendable as an accident if nobody is looking.
The only reason I accept to not let these people pass is if it forces you do something unsafe, like throwing yourself over to the next lane and slamming on the brakes to match speed with the other cars. Otherwise just give them the lane and let them be a reckless ass somewhere else away from you. Safer that way. It's not your job to enforce traffic rules.
Exactly. You have no clue why they're speeding either. Sure it could be some a-hole, but it could also be someone with a medical situation, or someone that's about to poop their pants.
When I was younger I used to stay in the lane. Now I move over if it's safe, and let them pass. Not worth the chance of accidentally upsetting a psycho.
I agree it’s safer to let them pass, but a medical (or personal) emergency does not give you the right to endanger other people on the road by driving fast and/or recklessly. That’s why they paint priority vehicles in bright colours and put flashing lights on them - to make it safer for everyone.
If you have a medical emergency, you call an ambulance. Yes, they will have to drive to you first, but care starts when they arrive. If the emergency isn’t big enough to get an ambulance, there’s no reason to drive fast either.
Being in the US, I’d order an uber before I call for an ambulance. Even with insurance I’m afraid to test that debt machine.
Have you seen how expensive an ambulance ride is?
