We, as a society, have lost the ability to merge into traffic, either speed up or slow down to merge into traffic without disrupting the oncoming flow of traffic or the stack of cars waiting behind you. Further complicating things is the ability to see two steps ahead. Said person needs to merge and get two lanes over. Can they merge twice? Nope. They wait until they can get all the way over the two lanes in one fell swoop. A pox on society. Go!
Driving Grievances
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For me it is simper than that. The next SOB I get behind that's going 10 below the speed limit, swerving from side to side (in rush-hour traffic) while staring literally down into their lap at their phone (I don't give a $ if they are texting, tweeting, reading, talking, taking a GD selfie or watching porn) is going to get a rub on their left rear bumper that will send them careening into a light pole. I'll be at fault for some reason but WORTH IT.
#1 driving grievance: citizens of ohio
Look up zipper merging. It's 100% the correct way to merge, but nobody does it. Unfortunately, everyone has to be on board with it or it doesn't work.
The gist is to use all available road to keep traffic flowing. For instance, when you see people on a 3 lane highway get in the far right lane a mile and a half before their exit, it causes that lane to get clogged and stop. Then the cars in the middle lane can't get over without slowing way down to find a spot to squeeze in. This impacts the flow of the middle lane and eventually screws up everything.
The correct way is to have both the right and middle lanes go the speed limit until you get close to the exit and then the people in the right lane each let a middle lane car over like a zipper closing.
But people are stupid and get mad when you try to merge late because their dumbasses have been sitting in the right lane for 20 mins and think it's unfair that you are "cutting" in line.
The gist is to use all available road to keep traffic flowing. For instance, when you see people on a 3 lane highway get in the far right lane a mile and a half before their exit, it causes that lane to get clogged and stop. Then the cars in the middle lane can't get over without slowing way down to find a spot to squeeze in. This impacts the flow of the middle lane and eventually screws up everything.
The correct way is to have both the right and middle lanes go the speed limit until you get close to the exit and then the people in the right lane each let a middle lane car over like a zipper closing.
But people are stupid and get mad when you try to merge late because their dumbasses have been sitting in the right lane for 20 mins and think it's unfair that you are "cutting" in line.
No one in Lexington knows how to use a 4 way stop. Are they not common around the US? Somehow we’re better at roundabouts than 4 way stops. This is not a racist or prejudiced statement, but there is not a single Hispanic person that I’ve ever seen use one correctly. They’re very kind and will let you go before them, but dammit, just use it right. Don’t get me started on women ....
This is the correct answer to any question related to poor driving.
The person in front of me who stops short of the line in a sensor-equipped left turn lane and can't for the life of them figure out that they need to pull forward to register on the sensor in order for the light to turn green.
I live on a rural highway and have to slow down to turn in my drive. Just now almost got run over by a woman that is under the impression I could turn in at 60 mph. Then she stopped as though it was my fault.
I hope she has a crappy Christmas.
Two months ago I was ran off the road by another vehicle. The woman stopped as I was also stopped. She got out and proceeded to scream that she had me on video driving straight towards her. Her right tire was almost on the yellow line. I told her that yes I was driving towards her because she was in my lane. She said that didn't matter because I was driving towards her and she had a dash cam. Dumbass. I documented her black marks. About 80% of her vehicle was in the wrong lane. Luckily I had a shoulder to drive on.
I would wish her a crappy Christmas too but she's a Jehovah witness.
Women. Let somebody else drive.
I hope she has a crappy Christmas.
Two months ago I was ran off the road by another vehicle. The woman stopped as I was also stopped. She got out and proceeded to scream that she had me on video driving straight towards her. Her right tire was almost on the yellow line. I told her that yes I was driving towards her because she was in my lane. She said that didn't matter because I was driving towards her and she had a dash cam. Dumbass. I documented her black marks. About 80% of her vehicle was in the wrong lane. Luckily I had a shoulder to drive on.
I would wish her a crappy Christmas too but she's a Jehovah witness.
Women. Let somebody else drive.
This is an interesting concept. I looked it up and it’s interesting to me. I wish I could read some of the studies so I better understand the benefits. The thing that confuses me about an increase in traffic flow is that unless it somehow increases the traffic speed through the bottleneck it will not process anymore vehicles than a single line of traffic. For example, if the traffic flow of a single line of traffic through a bottleneck is 10 mph, it will allow the same number of vehicles through the bottleneck as two lines moving at 10 mph that merge before the bottleneck. I would like to understand better why zipper merging increases the number of vehicles per minute or hour that goes through the bottleneck. I don’t know why, but it’s a fascinating idea to me.
+1.
Even worse: Ohio Navy on I-75 from Memorial Day weekend all the way through Labor Day weekend. Those m'fers pulling boats = most head-up-*** populace on Planet Earth.
I'm certainly no expert, but I think the trouble with non-zipper merging is the stopping and starting of people backed up in the right lane. If everyone is going a consistent speed up until the merge point and then start zippering properly, folks slow down to merge, but it doesn't take as long if everyone does it correctly. It would also help the people in the middle lane that are driving through.
Drivers who refuse to get out of the left lane while driving slower and not passing anyone is by far the biggest offense of stupidity I see on the road on a daily basis.
Tailgating! Tailgating! Tailgating! Every morning some idiot wants to drive so close behind me that I can't see their headlights.
People that want to make a left but refuse to get into the center turn lane until the last possible second. And then they end up with their rear end still in the through lane.
people SLOWLY entering the interstate and when you get past them, they’re on their effing cell phone,. It should be legal Toruń them off the road.
people SLOWLY entering the interstate and when you get past them, they’re on their effing cell phone,. It should be legal Toruń them off the road.
That makes sense to me, but it doesn’t compare a zipper merge to a single line of traffic that isn’t impeded by people who bypass the line to try and merge. If a single line moves just as fast, why are they touting the zipper method over the idea of staying in a single lane? They probably cannot ever convince everyone to do either of the two. There will probably always be people who do what they want instead of what promotes good traffic flow. I would just like to understand better why two lanes merging into one would process more vehicles than a single lane with no one merging? It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but maybe there is good rationale for it.
Honking at me from behind to "GO!" simply b/c I understand that I'm not supposed to proceed thru any intersection that I can't completely clear until traffic allows and you do not.
People driving downtown who aren't used to driving downtown and forget that pedestrians exist and collect in groups at crosswalks for a reason and that they don't have the right-of-way to plow over/honk at folks in the crosswalk simply b/c their turn light was green.
Getting hung for 2 cycles in what is known as a short-light turning lane b/c someone is on their phone and screwed up the trigger timing.
People have absolutely no idea how to properly make a left-hand turn at an intersection. Progress forward to the apex of your turn, which is near the middle of the intersection, then start turning left, as you will be better aligned with the road lines... Nope. 45* angle point-to-point is what you're gonna get, f*ck your front bumper.
Lazy ******** who leave an empty shopping cart in a parking lot, (tucked in close on the other side of my truck) so that as I backed out turning left, I ran over it and dented my passenger-side door and destroyed the cart.
And just for good measure, the little twerp my wife picks up for school as a favor to a friend, who used his backpack to lean backwards up against the door to close it, denting her brand new SUV. B/c door handles are for suckers.
People driving downtown who aren't used to driving downtown and forget that pedestrians exist and collect in groups at crosswalks for a reason and that they don't have the right-of-way to plow over/honk at folks in the crosswalk simply b/c their turn light was green.
Getting hung for 2 cycles in what is known as a short-light turning lane b/c someone is on their phone and screwed up the trigger timing.
People have absolutely no idea how to properly make a left-hand turn at an intersection. Progress forward to the apex of your turn, which is near the middle of the intersection, then start turning left, as you will be better aligned with the road lines... Nope. 45* angle point-to-point is what you're gonna get, f*ck your front bumper.
Lazy ******** who leave an empty shopping cart in a parking lot, (tucked in close on the other side of my truck) so that as I backed out turning left, I ran over it and dented my passenger-side door and destroyed the cart.
And just for good measure, the little twerp my wife picks up for school as a favor to a friend, who used his backpack to lean backwards up against the door to close it, denting her brand new SUV. B/c door handles are for suckers.
BTW- instead of getting mad at folks for the dumb **** they do... Just clap for them. OMG, it pisses them of something fierce.
If you drive in Somerset, you are taking your life into your own hands.
Nobody stops or even remotely slows down when the light turns yellow, oh no, on the contrary, they speed up! Gotta hurry up and beat the light all the while texting or looking at Facebook.............
You see it every day, people burning through intersections like their head is on fire !
Nobody stops or even remotely slows down when the light turns yellow, oh no, on the contrary, they speed up! Gotta hurry up and beat the light all the while texting or looking at Facebook.............
You see it every day, people burning through intersections like their head is on fire !
I'm in Somerset and I agree, it's insane here. In the past year, I've personally witnessed several wrecks. I was right behind a car that pulled out from Realty Drive onto Monticello street right in front of a car and got its front end taken off. A few weeks ago I saw a car smash into the back of another car on 27 right in front of White Castle. A few days ago I saw somebody absolutely fly through the red on 27 going south at the Oak Hill intersection, and if the car a few cars ahead of me hadn't been lagging going through the green light, it could've been awful. I've seen at least three cars driving south down north 27 over the past few years, I've had cars rocket past me on on Thurman Road more times than I can remember, I had to lay on the horn a few days ago beside Popeye's because a woman right to my left tried to merge into my lane without looking. She probably came two feet from sideswiping me. When she got behind me she honked and honked as if it was my fault.
A woman recently passed a stopped school bus right in front of a friend's house on Bourne Avenue (she got caught, thank goodness). The same friend and his son were almost hit by an empty truck that rolled backwards down the hill from the piano store and across 27.
Another friend was recently hit by a car downtown at a four-way intersection because the city had taken down the stop signs for some reason! The city quickly settled with everyone involved. Nobody was hurt but they all got a nice payday.
The worst thing I've recently seen was at Wal-Mart. A few months ago, I saw a woman get run down by a car right in front of the grocery entrance. It was horrific, but I heard she lived.
I could go on and on. I've seriously thought about getting a dashcam and making a show about the driving here.
I can't really complain too much about driving around Lexington. I really think it's the best driving in the state.
The worst thing I've seen recently was one evening on 127, south of Frankfort. I was in the right lane following another car, no other traffic in sight. The car ahead started slowing, no brake lights, so I hit the blinker and begin moving toward the left lane to go around. Before I can get out of my lane, a car going the wrong way flies by about a foot from me. The angle of the road didn't let me see that some dickhead was going the wrong way. I was literally one second from a head on accident. By strange coincidence, that's the same stretch of road that first lady Bevins aide got caught doing the same thing, and a DUI, about a week later. Honestly, the more I drive, the more I dislike it.
The worst thing I've seen recently was one evening on 127, south of Frankfort. I was in the right lane following another car, no other traffic in sight. The car ahead started slowing, no brake lights, so I hit the blinker and begin moving toward the left lane to go around. Before I can get out of my lane, a car going the wrong way flies by about a foot from me. The angle of the road didn't let me see that some dickhead was going the wrong way. I was literally one second from a head on accident. By strange coincidence, that's the same stretch of road that first lady Bevins aide got caught doing the same thing, and a DUI, about a week later. Honestly, the more I drive, the more I dislike it.
Zipper merging is the communist theory of traffic, as it does not apply to the dog-eat-dog world of real life. For every pleasant, by the book, one-for-one merge, there would be three to five ******** in Civics dive-bombing in front of every semi, no matter what.
Michigan requires their drivers to spend a high percentage of their life in the left lane holding up traffic. They apparently obey the law absolutely
My biggest issue with merging is when you see a sign that says left lanes closed in a mile (like 2 of the 3 lanes for instance) and idiots have to wait until the lane actually ends before they decide they should get over. So you have the 2 left lanes fighting to get over while those who heeded the warning a mile ago and were already over get stuck in stop and go traffic for 15 minutes because of it.
Part of the issue is on the construction crew. They should start by closing the far left lane first after like a mile warning. Then another mile down the road, do the middle lane. That way you can force people to merge over sooner instead of there being 2 lanes of traffic having a free for all to get over to the 3rd lane at the same time right as their lanes end.
Another bad issue with merging is what happens everyday in Louisville at I65N at the I264E ramp. You have to merge over about 3 lanes I think it is while avoiding cars from the on ramp from Preston Hwy also entering on to I264. Of course some of them want to go West so you have crisscrossing there. Then with semis also getting on the ramp, it ends up with one lane backing up all the way back to I65N.
The worst part are all of the idiots who think they don't have to wait in line and proceed to fly past everyone and force their way over right as they are about to miss the turn. This ends up backing things up even more. I will refuse to let those idiots get over if they come up next to me. They will just be forced to stop in the middle of the road and wait for being a d!ck.
Part of the issue is on the construction crew. They should start by closing the far left lane first after like a mile warning. Then another mile down the road, do the middle lane. That way you can force people to merge over sooner instead of there being 2 lanes of traffic having a free for all to get over to the 3rd lane at the same time right as their lanes end.
Another bad issue with merging is what happens everyday in Louisville at I65N at the I264E ramp. You have to merge over about 3 lanes I think it is while avoiding cars from the on ramp from Preston Hwy also entering on to I264. Of course some of them want to go West so you have crisscrossing there. Then with semis also getting on the ramp, it ends up with one lane backing up all the way back to I65N.
The worst part are all of the idiots who think they don't have to wait in line and proceed to fly past everyone and force their way over right as they are about to miss the turn. This ends up backing things up even more. I will refuse to let those idiots get over if they come up next to me. They will just be forced to stop in the middle of the road and wait for being a d!ck.
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Need clarification from those that claim Ohio drivers are the worst.
I've spent half my years driving in Kentucky, and half my years driving in Ohio. Am I a good driver, or a bad driver? Or half good and half bad? Do I change from bad to good when I cross the border over into KY?
Or am I "Schrodinger's driver", where I am seen as both good and bad?
I've spent half my years driving in Kentucky, and half my years driving in Ohio. Am I a good driver, or a bad driver? Or half good and half bad? Do I change from bad to good when I cross the border over into KY?
Or am I "Schrodinger's driver", where I am seen as both good and bad?
I don't like adaptive cruise control. I find it dangerous. Previous vehicle would not allow the driver to completely disable it, and this was a deciding factor in choice of the vehicle that replaced it. Even on the closest setting, you have to start coming out around to pass with 8-10 car lengths of gap (w/o slowing down and getting trapped) and that puts you out in a faster lane sooner and longer than you want to be, now making you the ******* impeding everybody. Otherwise, you're forced to constantly be messing with the cruise control, rendering it virtually useless b/c the pedal is easier.
Do you consider driving in the passing lane to be your birthright?
My #1 pet peeve is people who drive in the left lane on an interstate while not actively passing.
#2 is people who see a sign that says "left lane closed in 3 miles" and immediately go to the right lane. I wait until the last minute because that's exactly what 50% of the cars should do, and because I can always get in. Waiting is for stooges.
Pricks who speed up to pass you just so they can turn off right in front of you.
I take Polo Club to cut across to Winchester road quite often. The speed limit is 35. I rarely every go right at Winchester, so I just stay in the left lane for when I have to turn. I typically go ~50MPH. Without fail, someone ALWAYS speeds past me on the right, then gets over in front of me to make the left. And we usually sit at the stop sign together waiting. Makes me want to get out of the car and piss all over their hood.
You already know if you have to ask.....
If you've ever possessed an Ohio drivers license, you are a ****** driver. There is no getting that stink off.
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Oh hell yes! I thought about getting out of my vehicle to strangle a woman that did this recently at the US 27/Hwy 150 intersection.
Spica Orbit
These are known as ‘Fayette Mall shoppers’.