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

OP you should have let the guy run into you then sue him like the asshole that you me and every other american is

When I had my old car I was dropping my mum off in a Morrison's (UK supermarket) car park. It must have been like, 15 seconds after she got out when this really old guy in a silver nissan just reversed really slowly out of a parking space into my car. I saw him coming but just thought "he's gonna stop before he hits me, surely" He didn't. After hits me he then stops, drives forwards back into the parking space, gets out of his car and walks into the shop without even a glance at the massive dent he's just put in my door. Old people really shouldn't drive...

[QUOTE=iron_skull;29747044] Old people really shouldn't drive...[/QUOTE] "maybe if I walk away he won't think I've dented his car"

[QUOTE=GeneralFredrik;29726007]This is why I want robots that drive or computers. They do it a million times more effective and dangerous situations can be avoided.[/QUOTE] At the very least we need a computer/robot to take control in situations where we would respond too slowly.

[QUOTE=Sgt. Khorn;29736447]I hate parking lots mostly. Especially when people leave carts in the middle of spaces. I was trying to park in a space, stopped due to a cart sitting right in the middle. Shifted in to reverse and began to slowly get out of the space. The car next to then began backing up and just drove slowly into me, just enough to dent my car. I manage to park, get out to check the damage. The woman rolls down her windows and insists nothing happened and says it's all fine. I attempt to stop her so I can get the info needed and she just insists nothing is wrong and speeds off. I got the plate number though before she disappeared.[/QUOTE] I was backing out, turn my head back around to go forward because I couldn't get a good view out of my mirrors to back up, and there's a fucking giant Hummer gunning it out of its space literally just about to destroy the whole front of my car (ok, so it had a few feet, but this fucking woman driving showed NO sign of slowing down and in order to become straightened out she'd have to be at least halfway into my car) so I pretty much hit my horn as hard as I could and waited for impact. Amazingly she didn't hit me, but she hit the cart that somebody was pushing across the road, pretty narrowly missing them before she sped off. I went into the store and told them what happened and gave them her plate so they could call the cops.

[QUOTE=blerb;29746496]I hate driving with my girlfriend so much. She's a good driver and everything, but she's way too cautious about [i]everything[/i]. She goes over speed bumps at 2km/h for BOTH sets of wheels and it's embarrassing, especially considering we have 4 different speed bumps at our high school. She doesn't know right-of-way, either. She cut two pedestrians off the other day while pulling out of the bank. She nearly hit one of them, too. She turned to me and was like "OMG did you see that? Those idiots almost walked in front of the car!" I raged so hard inside, but I knew it was better to leave it alone and not fight...[/QUOTE] i dont consider that good driving Please teach her driving basics before she gets someone killed.

[QUOTE=Isaiah Mustafa;29746595]OP you should have let the guy run into you then sue him like the asshole that you me and every other american is[/QUOTE] Actually, just the other day some dumbass in a really fucking nice Mercedes was about to turn while I was in their blind spot, and then after swerving back into his lane ended up doing the same thing AGAIN. I was fucking praying he would turn in and bump into me so I could sue the living shit out of his rich ignorant ass.

I'm a pizza delivery driver. Terrible drivers are something I deal with every day I work. I'll be honest - I'm agressive. Not super agressive, and I have manners, but if you drive like a dipshit it gets me cursing and wanting to honk my horn. Where I live, a LARGE amount of drivers on the road are absolutely terrible. They fall under: 1. Soccermom minivan drivers, 6.5/10 probably that they are terrible drivers 2. Beerbelly pickup truck drivers, 7.5/10 probability that they are terrible drivers 3. Elderly, 9/10 probability of being a terrible driver Here's things that the above (if they are a bad driver) tend to always do: 1. Never use turn signals. They are there for a goddamn reason. I don't use them if I'm in a place with little to no traffic and that involve lots of small turns (like getting into my pizza place), but on actual roads or where there is traffic? Hell yes I do. And I don't mean coming to an almost full stop then using your turn signal, you use the goddamn signal BEFORE you start to hit your brakes. 2. Stopping over in-ground railroad tracks. What the fuck people, the railroads are not speedbumps they embed the goddamn rails in the ground so the only thing that is there is a small crack. STOP GOING FROM 40MPH to 10 MPH JUST TO GO OVER THE TRACKS 3. Always 5 under, and/or never going the speed limit/5 over. I have no idea but there are certain sections of major roads here where people are terribly oblivious to the speed limits and always tend to go 5 under. These places are not cop traps either, I drive along them almost every day so I know where the cops hang out. 4. When going into turn lanes, they brake before they enter the lane, making it so the main flow of traffic has to slow down for their dumb asses even though they have plenty of clearence to brake in the turn lane. 5. I have no idea why but several times I've seen people with broken down cars in the middle of the intersection, and they don't have their hazards on at all. They are almost always involved with the above demographics of bad drivers. 6. Turning into traffic when they clearly have no ability to speed up in time for the car behind them. If you cant get up to speed before the traffic catches up, DONT TURN 7. On the other hand though, overly cautious when making left turns into roads. Yes, there is a car 300 feet away. No, you don't have to wait 10 seconds for him to pass before you are safe to turn into the lane. Stop blocking traffic and make the goddamn turn. If you are turning onto a busy road, turn into the center lane so you don't sit there for 10 minutes trying to wait for both sides to get 100% clear (which will never happen). If you don't have the guts to turn into the turn lane, then stop trying to make left turns on busy roads where there isn't a traffic light. 8. People who slow down or stop to drivers in the middle of the roadway to try and let someone out. I understand if it's rush hour and the cars are moving, then doing the above is common curtosy. But when traffic is moving and clear? Don't do that shit morons, you're stopping the flow of traffic.

[QUOTE=Isaiah Mustafa;29747351]"maybe if I walk away he won't think I've dented his car"[/QUOTE] Yeah that's what I thought too.

[QUOTE=DOG-GY;29747463]i dont consider that good driving Please teach her driving basics before she gets someone killed.[/QUOTE] I don't really have anything to say to that lol. Btw I thought I should mention that she was completely stopped before she left the bank parking lot. The pedestrians just began to walk in front of her, which she thought was wrong, so she went. The one guy was pretty close to the car, but if anything would have happened, he probably would have had minor injuries at most. Although I do admit she has to learn right-of-way. It's amazing to me because she's from Quebec, where you have to get 100% on the driving test to pass. I would have figured she'd know, but I guess not. oh well.

Here's a particularly funny situation I was in while on delivery. There's this one road I always take during busy hours as it tends to be a shortcut. It involves going up a big hill, then the road widens with the speed limit being 40MPH before it reconnects to the main road. So I turn onto said road, and it's about 10 minutes till my shift is over so I want to get this delivery over with. Guess what I get stuck behind? An SUV going 25mph under the speed limit. Thinking he's just taking his time getting up to speed before reaching the bottom of the hill. I just deal with it. Nope. If anything he slows down to a [B]whopping 10MPH.[/B] After him going this slow all the way up the hill and continuing doing so once the road evens out, this is where I start to ride his ass and I flash my brights to him to give him the picture that he should really speed up. He does this bullshit all the way to the main road. A section of road that normally takes 3-4 minutes to get through ends up taking 10-12 goddamn minutes. He also does a bunch of other terrible driving choices that really could cause an accident, such as stopping randomly and never using turn signals. Not to mention he spends at least 5-10 seconds at each (empty) stop sign. When we got to the main road and decided to make a right turn into it, he stopped in the middle of traffic before deciding to go again. So I do my delivery after all this bullshit, and once I get back I discover the fucker actually followed me all the way back to my pizza place I work at and began to bitch at me on how much of an asshole I was, and how he began to drive poorly because of it. I could tell his daughter in the car was embarrased about the whole thing considering he was making a fool of himself infront of the rest of the drivers I work with. Yes I was being an ass- but only after you decided to drive like a moron for several minutes. Felt rather good knowing I made an elitist SUV driver waste his gas and time just so he could try and feel righteous infront of a pizza place, while essentially self-admitting how terrible a driver he was and showing how much of a dick he was. [editline]11th May 2011[/editline] Heres another nice little story, short and sweet: [release]My tire goes flat in a parkinglot, so me and my friend pull into a the closest parking spot so we can put the spare on. All my spare equipment is underneath my subwoofer (came with the car as a nice surprise) so we had to take that out. We put the subwoofer in one of the many spaces next to us (the lot wasn't very full). In the middle of changing the tire we had some soccermom in a minivan roll down here window and call out to us. Thinking she was going to ask if we needed any help, she instead goes, "Hey, could you move you speakers out of that spot? I want to park there." Completely dumbfounded, we move the speaker. There were MANY other parking spots around us but she had to have THAT one. Why? Because it was the one closest to the Plato's Closet (some junky clothing shop), and she was too fucking lazy to walk the extra 3 feet by parking in the space where we were not working on changing our tire. What an asshole.[/release]

a few months ago when the roads got icy as FUCK my dad and I were driving down somewhere, we weren't on a major road or a side road but somewhere in-between when this jerkoff tries to pull into us. Fucker didn't even break, we were inches away from getting pit-maneuvered. We almost got t-boned, so I stopped the car and their car and got out and yelled at the guy, turns out it was a truck full of mexicans and they just laughed and drove off fuck is wrong with people

People are people, that is what is wrong with people

[QUOTE=JustExtreme;29748418]People are people, that is what is wrong with people[/QUOTE] If thats whats wrong with people, I guess I'm not people.

In southeastern Pennsylvania, lanes are irrelevant to some people. They either want to get around you and drive fast or they're paying no attention.

[QUOTE=.50 Cal;29732612]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]I have to do this with those nasty speed bumps because I have a broken strut. Do I deserve to have my heart removed?

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/Avary/Less%20Public/Facepunch%20stuff/baddrivers.png?t=1305075878[/img] And the worst thing is, these are my high school peers and their dumbfuck parents driving, so I can't flip them off!

[QUOTE=DanTehMan;29748752]If thats whats wrong with people, I guess I'm not people.[/QUOTE] Indeed, you're an individual. [QUOTE=George Carlin] I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to. [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Esrange;29726136]I was at target, getting into my car when a lady quiet literally smashed right into the back of my car. She was talking and drinking coffee (judging by the ruined cellphone and coffee on her shirt when she got out). I don't know what the hell she was thinking but after she hit me, she got out and screamed at me that I ruined her bumper. Fuck the what?[/QUOTE] If someone ever runs into the back of my car, I'll calmly get out and say "It's your fault :smug:"

[QUOTE=TheStabbyBunny;29749053][img_thumb]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/Avary/Less%20Public/Facepunch%20stuff/baddrivers.png?t=1305075878[/img_thumb] And the worst thing is, these are my high school peers and their dumbfuck parents driving, so I can't flip them off![/QUOTE] Or, for the benefit of us in the UK (or one of the other backward countries that drive on the left): [img]http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff288/st0rmforce/srevirddab.png[/img] It did actually take me a few seconds to work out what you were talking about.

When I was a kid i never understood why my dad got so angry on the road sometimes. Now I'm driving and I get mad more than he ever did. The standards that need to be met in order to be able to drive need to be increased substantially because in a proper evaluation many of the people on the road currently would not have passed

My country is fucking full of those gigantic bags of dicks that: never use indicators, cut into roundabouts at fucking highway speeds... and worst of fucking EVERYTHING, is how people seemingly everywhere, despite knowing they won't let someone trying to get into the road at an intersection whilst they are going straight, THEY STILL SLOW DOWN. same for crosswalks, IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO LET ME WALK ACROSS WHY IN THE FLYING FUCK ARE YOU SLOWING DOWN?

Seriously, if you have a friend who drives like shit, let him/her know. And by that, I don't mean telling him/her that he/she drives like shit, I mean really fucking drilling it in. People need to be taught not to drive like shit. I'm currently doing the required 24 lessons of theory that I need for my driver's license and even I realize this shit.

[QUOTE=nikomo;29796011]Seriously, if you have a friend who drives like shit, let him/her know. And by that, I don't mean telling him/her that he/she drives like shit, I mean really fucking drilling it in. People need to be taught not to drive like shit. I'm currently doing the required 24 lessons of theory that I need for my driver's license and even I realize this shit.[/QUOTE] Yeah, try telling that to your girlfriend and see how well it goes.

[QUOTE=Boom_Hedshot;29796179]Yeah, try telling that to your girlfriend and see how well it goes.[/QUOTE] 1) This is Facepunch we're talking about here. Most here haven't even touched a female. 2) Why would you want to date someone who is mentally retarded?

[QUOTE=nikomo;29796245]1) This is Facepunch we're talking about here. Most here haven't even touched a female. 2) Why would you want to date someone who is mentally retarded?[/QUOTE] 1. Like you? ;) 2. (most) Women can't drive.

Happened to me yesterday. Coasting down a hill into the outlet where I work, and a bitch didn't yield to me; pulled out in front of me, hit her brakes, and stopped broadside in my lane. My car bunnyhopped, I hit the brakes so hard. :| I was livid, particularly after her passenger flipped me off like it was my fault. Happened a few days ago in the same spot, old guy didn't yield, pulled his nose out into my lane and tried waving me by. Uh, dude. Half your vehicle is in my lane with traffic coming the other way. I can't get around you.

Sorry, I got distracted, what was this thread about again?

I plan on having a sack of ball peen hammers so that if I come across an idiot like that I can just throw it at their vehicle/them and haul ass out of there.

[QUOTE=blerb;29746496]I hate driving with my girlfriend so much. She's a good driver and everything, but she's way too cautious about [i]everything[/i]. She goes over speed bumps at 2km/h for BOTH sets of wheels and it's embarrassing, especially considering we have 4 different speed bumps at our high school. She doesn't know right-of-way, either. She cut two pedestrians off the other day while pulling out of the bank. She nearly hit one of them, too. She turned to me and was like "OMG did you see that? Those idiots almost walked in front of the car!" I raged so hard inside, but I knew it was better to leave it alone and not fight...[/QUOTE] THATS A GREAT WAY TO GET THAT THING SMASHED