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I was driving to work the other morning, 5:30 or so, and the one other car on the road was behind me, with his brights on. I could barely see, they were bouncing off my mirrors and blinding me, making me see spots everywhere. He stayed behind me all the way to the stoplight. While I was parked I turned around in my seat and gestured like a maniac towards him but no dice. When we reached the next red light I did the same thing, with no result. When the light turned green I kept my car there, just turned around and staring at him, gesturing. When I finally moved he stayed behind me. We turned onto a multi lane road, he stayed behind me. I changed lanes and slowed down until he was next to me. I looked over and it was some dopey idiot who didn't even turn his eye, just kept driving straight ahead with his brights on. I got behind him and tailgated with my brights on him but he didn't seem to notice. I still am not sure whether he was being malicious or just half asleep. Either way, that drove me nuts more than any other driving thing ever has.
Those that change lanes or turn without signalling.
Those that pull out into traffic and basically stop, if you are going to pull out into traffic, GO.
Those that don't seem to understand speed limits(especially on city streets) are NOT suggestions.
1. When I'm cruising down the road and you quickly turn off of a side street or out of a shopping center right in front of me, then proceed to accelerate really slowly and drive 10 mph under the speed limit. Be aware that if you pull this little stunt, I have no legal obligation to break to avoid hitting you. It is incumbent upon YOU to yield to oncoming traffic as I have the right of way. If your turning impedes my right of way and a collision occurs, you will be found 100% liable for any damages or injuries that result. So do so at your own risk.
2. People who think they can defer other people's right of way. Let me clarify... Let's say I'm traveling southbound down a main thoroughfare. Let's say you're waiting at a shopping center with no traffic signal to make a left hand turn onto the southbound side of the road. Let's say some "nice person" traveling northbound on said road and stopped in front of the intersection waves you on to go. Let's say you accept their waving you on and go just as I'm approaching on the southbound side. What do you think is going to happen? (FYI this did happen to me when I had been only driving for a few months. No I wasn't the one who turned into oncoming traffic, but my car was pretty messed up and I was pretty shook up seeing as I had been driving with my permit only a couple months).
3. People who crawl up a freeway entrance ramp and try to merge with 65 mph+ traffic at 35 mph. If you don't know how to merge properly, then just stick to the surface streets. It's people like this that cause deadly crashes.
2: super s l o w right turns (where there os any type of hill or dip and the idiot feels it nessacary to go slow because they think they will tear up their car.
1) You're stopped at a light in a dedicated left-turn lane. You're about the 5th car back. The light turns green and you're ready to go, but the four cars ahead of you are spaced so far apart, or in no hurry to turn, that it causes you to MISS the green light and now you have to sit through another cycle. For crying out loud, people! Bunch up!
2) "Lane Closed Ahead" signs mean that you should merge NOW, not wait until the last possible moment, thereby causing a bottle-necked traffic jam and longer wait for the people who merged when they first saw the sign.
3) Semi-trailers that have to go VERY FAST down the hill because they need all the momentum they can get to creep UP the hill. I realize they can't help it, but I'm usually driving along with my cruise control set, and it's so frustrating to get sandwiched in between trucks that can't keep a steady speed.
1. Driving in the left lane on a highway (or any 4 lane road), next to someone in the right lane going the same speed. Hey, rocket scientist, the left lane is for PASSING! And no, it should not take 10 miles to slowly inch up and pass.
2. Tailgating. Just can't say that one enough.
3. Folks who run up the shoulder of a highway to get to the exit instead of waiting in the right lane like the rest of us.
2. Pulling in front of me on the right lane and not turning at intersections where there is no dedicated right turning lane while I want to turn. If you want to go straight on, then why get in front of me when I slow down to make a turn?
3. Not giving space and rather speeding up when I flash my turn signals to change lanes.
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