Driving inadequacy; why is it so hard for people to pay attention? - General

what kind of car do you have

[QUOTE=Penis Colada;29728688]Car accidents only happen because of dumbasses. They should make cars that detect if the driver is a douche and then turn off the airbags[/QUOTE] hahaha

It really annoys me to see ANYBODY text or talk while driving. I mean fucking seriously, you can't wait until you get to where your going to tell your BFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF that your hungry and then to twitter it afterwords, all while on speakerphone with your mother wishing her happy mother's day while driving 60. And why is it always almost either young women in their late teens/early twenties in Chevy Aveo's or mothers in their 40's talking to God knows what in their husbands F-150's and Chevy Tahoe SUPER EXTENDED Edition.

These things get on my tits: * People pulling out of junctions on major A roads (60mph speed limit) - when i'm far away and i can see you wanting to pull out, you should pull out. Don't wait for me to be nearly on you and then pull out. * Motorway lane discipline. If my bonnet is along side your near side rear wheel, no amount of indicating will save you hitting me. * Stupid overtaking. I don't fancy a head on collision, do you? * Corner cutting. Yes, I do it, when I can see the other side of the bend, and when it's safe. Not on a blind corner, you tit. * People who have to travel at a constant speed. 50mph in a 60mph limit, ok, its a bit annoying, but never mind. Then it changes to 30, and they are STILL driving at 50mph. Tits. Etc...

What I can't stand are assholes that sit at a green light because they are texting and are not paying attention. Or worse, when they are on the highway.

[QUOTE=Marineio;29729246] * Motorway lane discipline. If my bonnet is along side your near side rear wheel, no amount of indicating will save you hitting me.[/quote] bonnet like a hat? one that stereotypically gets bees in it? [quote]* People who have to travel at a constant speed. 50mph in a 60mph limit, ok, its a bit annoying, but never mind. Then it changes to 30, and they are STILL driving at 50mph. Tits.[/QUOTE] i absolutely hate the opposite, when its a 30 zone and it turns to 50 and the person in front is still fucking going 30

Average idiot who drives an oversized truck and thinks he owns the road. Lots of those around here.

[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;29730051]Average idiot who drives an oversized truck and thinks he owns the road. Lots of those around here.[/QUOTE] ooh this too, and overly aggressive drivers in small cars, especially when its around semis and shit

People get complacent when they drive, specially if they've never been in an accident or just think they're king of the road.

[QUOTE=Taepodong-2;29730051]Average idiot who drives an oversized truck and thinks he owns the road. Lots of those around here.[/QUOTE] or when they drive on the shoulder and kick up a shit ton of rocks.

I have a friend who drives like a suicidal maniac but he's really good at not crashing and killing us. He speeds on the highway and cuts off people and squeezes through gaps in between cars while travelling at around 150km/h. It's fucking stupid, but he thinks it's awesome. I admit I like the rush of narrowly missing a most likely fatal car crash (what's fun about a game that you can't lose in?), but it's a hazard to other drivers.

[QUOTE=Turnips5;29725465]Also I saw someone literally almost die on the road trying to overtake a street sweeper, what compels people to do that...[/QUOTE] One time in super snowy conditions a semi was going like 80 mp/h and since he was an retard he wanted to pass me. One the opposite lane (which he was on) there was a huge snowplow coming and If I didn't slow down they would have crashed and died in a crazy crash. I pretty much had this guys life in my hands.

[QUOTE=killover;29730455]One time in super snowy conditions a semi was going like 80 mp/h and since he was an retard he wanted to pass me. One the opposite lane (which he was on) there was a huge snowplow coming and If I didn't slow down they would have crashed and died in a crazy crash. I pretty much had this guys life in my hands.[/QUOTE] Haha, same shit happened to my dad once when I was in the car with him. Except my dad almost hesitated too long to still make the decision. He's in a better place now.

[QUOTE=THEMikeDurham;29730512]Haha, same shit happened to my dad once when I was in the car with him. Except my dad almost hesitated too long to still make the decision. He's in a better place now.[/QUOTE] Sorry for your loss. :love:

[QUOTE=THEMikeDurham;29730422]I have a friend who drives like a suicidal maniac but he's really good at not crashing and killing us. He speeds on the highway and cuts off people and squeezes through gaps in between cars while travelling at around 150km/h. It's fucking stupid, but he thinks it's awesome. I admit I like the rush of narrowly missing a most likely fatal car crash (what's fun about a game that you can't lose in?), but it's a hazard to other drivers.[/QUOTE] This is exactly what my car exceeds at. I have my share of fun but I know when I'm taking it too far.

The absolute worst thing that sociopathic drivers do on the road is this: You're driving down the highway at the speed limit (60), some idiot comes up behind you going 80 and starts tailgating you. After three hours he realizes that there is an entire left lane for him to move into and pass you, and he does so. After passing you, he then changes BACK into your lane, and then SLOWS DOWN TO 40! Even better, when you move into the left lane and accelerate to try and pass him, he immediately speeds up and starts driving alongside you for three miles until you back off and change back into the right lane, and then he slows down again.

[QUOTE=Duckmeister;29731710]The absolute worst thing that sociopathic drivers do on the road is this: You're driving down the highway at the speed limit (60), some idiot comes up behind you going 80 and starts tailgating you. After three hours he realizes that there is an entire left lane for him to move into and pass you, and he does so. After passing you, he then changes BACK into your lane, and then SLOWS DOWN TO 40! Even better, when you move into the left lane and accelerate to try and pass him, he immediately speeds up and starts driving alongside you for three miles until you back off and change back into the right lane, and then he slows down again.[/QUOTE] why the fuck do people do that? is their life really so boring they have to get entertainment by annoying the shit out of other drivers

I am perfectly satisfied with the conclusion that people are just stupid herp derp

[QUOTE=yawmwen;29731784]why the fuck do people do that? is their life really so boring they have to get entertainment by annoying the shit out of other drivers[/QUOTE] Just shows that people on the highway have been trolling before the internet even existed. I've had to deal with guys who specifically block me from entering the turn lane. I've had to deal with people who sit at the light until its yellow so that they're the only person that gets through. I've had a guy match my speed as he was entering the highway, and then try to merge into the side of my car when the onramp lane ran out.

Oh, OP, I know how you feel. I live in the Maryland/DC area. You know what that means? Outside of big cities, we have the worst drivers. Anywhere. Ever. [b]EVER[/b]. I live near MD-29, a mostly-straight road with a few stoplights. It's basically a highway with stoplights. The average speed limit is 50 MPH, though everyone does 60 or more. Usually. It seems that when it gets a [i]little[/i] cloudy, or a pebble happens to be somewhere on the road within five miles of me, or the stars are out of alignment or some shit, everyone proceeds to ram their heads up their asses and go 40 MPH whilst gripping the wheel til their knuckles turn white, and they lean forward like an old lady who just found out that you can actually see out of the windshield. I shit you not, it's commonplace to find people going 30 MPH in the left lane in the middle of a dry, sunny day, on a stretch of road with no construction, no places for cops to hide and tag you from, and a host of signs that say 55 MPH. You know what I wanna do? I wanna go up to these people's car at a stoplight, tear them from their vehicles, toss them on the ground, and stomp on their stupid hambeast necks til they die. I hate stupid drivers with a burning fucking passion. I wish them [b]NOTHING BUT PAIN[/b]. If my anger could be translated into a tangible entity, I would use it to [b]smite these dickmongering fucknuggets[/b].

I hate when I'm driving in a 55-60 and people decide they only want to go 45-50. I usually don't overtake unless I know the driver is just a moron. In that case I wait until I get dashed lines and go for it. My trip to work is around 20 miles, so I usually need to be going the speed limit to get there on time, especially since I pass through three major intersections, and spend a lot of time on windy roads. So I generally go five or so over the limit, and I can't stand being stuck behind someone who goes ridiculously slow for no reason. I am patient with people towing cars/trailers/big loads but when it's anyone else I'm just annoyed.

I was driving today, noticed this person who decided that in order to turn she had to stop, yet she had no stop sign, but thats not the worst, she didn't bother to stop for the next stop sign, and then she did the stop with no stop sign thing again, I mean whats with people

[QUOTE=viperfan7;29732563]I was driving today, noticed this person who decided that in order to turn she had to stop, yet she had no stop sign, but thats not the worst, she didn't bother to stop for the next stop sign, and then she did the stop with no stop sign thing again, I mean whats with people[/QUOTE] Around here, there are people who make a complete stop at speed bumps, go over them at 2 MPH, stop completely on the other side, and continue along. The only fitting punishment for this is death by immediate removal of the heart.

[QUOTE=viperfan7;29732563]I was driving today, noticed this person who decided that in order to turn she had to stop, yet she had no stop sign, but thats not the worst, she didn't bother to stop for the next stop sign, and then she did the stop with no stop sign thing again, I mean whats with people[/QUOTE] maybe it was opposite day and no one told you

The worst driving experience I ever had was on a highway. I was going on a curve that was about a quarter-mile from an overpass, and there was an exit ramp from the overpass leading to the highway I was on, but the onramp came just after the curve. Due to the curve, you could not see any of the drivers on the onramp until they were just about to merge. I am going along the curve, and just as it begins to straighten out, I see a minivan going left across 4 lanes of 70mph traffic ahead of me. This means the lady driving the minivan stopped on an onramp, and turned 90 degrees to the left as if it was an intersection. How insane do you have to be to think that that is the correct thing to do on a highway? We were so close that even if I braked I was going to hit her at at least 45mph. I was actually able to swerve to the right, into the median separating the highway from the onramp, and avoid the collision. As I'm driving away I see her turn left AGAIN, now going the wrong way on a 70mph highway. The look on her face as she saw me about to crash into her is one I will always think of when I think of complete, absolute, total, utter stupidity.

One time I was driving home with my friend from doing some shopping for my mom and there was a car sitting in the suicide lane trying to make a left over my lane (If you don't know what the suicide lane is, it's a 2-way lane between the two directional roads for turning onto or off of the road). Long story short, the other car was occupied by two college girls who were more concerned with getting to the ATM at the bank so they could suck their precious daddy's bank account dry than checking to see if another vehicle is coming at them at 30mph. They turned over my lane before I had enough time to come to a stop, so I slammed on my brakes and downshifted to try and avoid collision, but I ended up smashing their front axel and their passenger door couldn't be opened. My car just had some damage to the bumper, then once the cops showed up they went to talk to the girls first, then the cop walks up to me, asks my friend and I for our IDs and my vehicle registration, and then tells me that I'm free to go once I exchange my information with the girls father who was on the way because after hearing the girls side of what happened they decided that it was clearly their fault and they'd have to show up in court and all that bullshit. But when the dad showed up I almost shit myself, the guy was fucking huge and pretty much all muscle and driving a pickup. So I walked up to him with my information expecting him to be some apeshit crazy overprotective father convinced that her little girl could do no wrong, but the first thing he did was apologize to me for having to be sitting there so long (from the crash to leaving it took about an hour for me, they had to wait for a tow truck because their car was totaled). Apparently that was the second accident the girl had been in in a week and the car had literally JUST gotten out of the shop.

I remember one time I was drivin home with my mum from the grocery store, and this lady was driving STRAIGHT TOWARDS US. I swear, this fucktard was driving the the opposite direction in the lane, we had to swerve away and she then turned the wrong way down the road. To this day I still dunno what the hell happened to her, probably got pulled over or crashed in a blazing inferno. Then this other time we were driving on the highway, on the far left lane, and this guy was entering the highway on the far right. When he got on he continued going left, acting as if he would go through us. We freaked the fuck out and sped up to get out of the way so he wouldn't push us OFF the highway with his car. Funny thing though, it was some chinese guy with a badass look on his face wearing shades.

[QUOTE=CjienX;29732789]Apparently that was the second accident the girl had been in in a week and the car had literally JUST gotten out of the shop.[/QUOTE] wow. some people should have their license revoked.

There's this bitch at my school who drives a silver Mustang 2010 with pink racing stripes, and she's the worst fucking driver in the whole school. She rips in and out of the lot everyday with a reckless disregard for human life.

People who don't turn down their lights when driving in the dark and you are about 100 metres away. I can't see for shit except for two blinding bright lights that could merge into a one big light that you would pass through after you die.