Traffic pet peeves...
#1
I am generally a pretty easy-going guy in traffic and let others' transgressions slide...but sometimes it is just too much to take quietly. These are a few of my most-hated peeves:

Drivers who do not understand the "right of way" and how it helps to prevent accidents:

Sometimes I will be at a stop-sign on a side street feeding onto a major 4-lane road and someone driving down the road will come to a complete stop in a continuous lane of traffic to politely let me pull into the road. They may be trying to be nice, but that is a completely dangerous move for many other drivers around. Another driver will rightly assume that the car in front of them is not going to just randomly stop for any oddball reason and will continue in his lane as he is supposed to do...never having a chance to see the car that is going to pull right in front of him from a side street before it is too late, all because the car in the neighboring lane was trying to be "nice".

Or when traffic is flowing in a smooth flow on the freeway, and a cop car is seen up ahead on the side of the road and several drivers SLAM on their brakes in a knee-jerk reaction. This really can cause an issue!

I am sure there are many other issues that bother you guys here (and gals too). What are they?
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#2
Where do you start?
1) Drivers on the road you wish to turn in to who don't signal, turn into the road you are on and so prevent you from moving off.
2) (OK this is KPH numbers) Drivers who do 95 in the 100 zone and 90 in the 80. Or any other combination you like.
3) Drivers who push in at a blending point instead of joining the queue.
4) Idiots who think a green light means 'GO'.

That will do for now. There are others.
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#3
I have to agree with everyone. My biggest pet peeve is a section of road not too far from where I live and grew up where two lanes merge into one. People will just pass on the right even when the two lanes become one. Not sure if it is just plan ignorance in knowing how to drive or just lack of courtesy. Never had a problem there when I was a kid. Back then people new how to merge from two to one lane or there was just more courtesy on the road.

I am glad I got the chance to vent this frustration...thank you!
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#4
Here's a good one. You're driving along someone makes a bone headed move, pulls out, cuts you off, and then when you look at them, they cuss you and give you the international gesture, for peace and good will, "The Bird". When they caused the problem! to begin with! JTS 71 Mach1

PS Some people in this world are alive simply because it's against the Law to Kill them! Not really but it makes you lose hope in people.
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#5
What about when they pull out from a street on the left (Australia ) nobody behind you so they could have waited a couple of seconds for you to go by then stop and decide to turn right across a congested road so you have to wait till they can go
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#6
Or how about the morons who drive along the center turning lane for 1/4 mile? If anyone else wants to turn the opposite direction they risk a head-on crash.
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#7
How about this one. A guy bumps into my Jeep pulling out of a his parking place and he yells at me while I am having lunch outside watching him...what up???
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#8
Mike, that's where you pull out your paint ball gun and shoot him right between the eyes! When he manages to collect himself, you ask him, Now what was your problem? Might make him think??? before he acts like an ASS! JTS 71 Mach1
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#9
(08-29-2015, 07:06 AM)JTS71 Mach1 Wrote: Mike, that's where you pull out your paint ball gun and shoot him right between the eyes! When he manages to collect himself, you ask him, Now what was your problem? Might make him think??? before he acts like an ASS! JTS 71 Mach1

First of all, he was an "older gentleman" in a brand new Jeep and I politely told him his driving judgment was way off. But WTF, he starts yelling at me, who was just sitting outside enjoying a sandwich with a fellow veteran. Listen, all I have to say is not everyone in this world is as nice as me, so you better be careful who you p**s off! And...thank the man above it wasn't my Mustang!!
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#10
Man guys, I don't know what to say.

I live in Mexico. :)
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