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I notice this more and more. It's natural to not see your turn ahead. If I see my turn at the last second, I'll just continue on until I find a safe place to turn around. More and more I'm seeing people slamming on the brakes to avoid missing their turn. This is very dangerous. The most recent example nearly caused a chain reaction multicar pile-up. Two lane road with a center turning lane. This person slammed on the brakes in the south bound lane to make his/her left turn across the center turn lane and north bound lane. We also had to slam on our brakes to avoid hitting this vehicle. Thankfully we had been maintaining a safe distance for the speed and didn't hit any vehicles.
When I get on my brakes, the first thing I do is look in the mirror.
Same here. But I do see a lot of what the OP describes here where I am; it is infuriating and quite dangerous. Another annoying thing I see are drivers moving into my lane before making a right turn as if they can't make the turn any other way I really don't know how some people get their license.
nothing new here, people have been doing stupid things like this while driving for decades. i have actually seen people stop in the middle of an interstate, and back up to get to their off ramp. i have seen people dive across three lanes of traffic to get to the off ramp. i have even seen people stop at the top of freeway on ramps.
Then you have the morons who will back up on the interstate after they've missed their exit. Or stop on a high speed expressway so as not to run over some ducks.
nothing new here, people have been doing stupid things like this while driving for decades. i have actually seen people stop in the middle of an interstate, and back up to get to their off ramp. i have seen people dive across three lanes of traffic to get to the off ramp. i have even seen people stop at the top of freeway on ramps.
This happened when they opened the HOT lanes on I-495 here. People wound up in the lanes, stopped, and tried to back up past the divider to get back onto the main lanes. Caused a massive accident on the first day. I absolutely think if you stop on an interstate for any reason other than traffic in front of you or a breakdown, you should automatically lose your license. Too many times I've seen an idiot backing down a ramp because they took the wrong exit - had it happen to me once. Young lady wound up on the ramp to the HOT lanes on I-95. Stopped in front of me and tried to back up, with traffic stopped up behind me. I didn't move and she couldn't make it around me and the cars behind me. She was quite upset a having to pay a dollar to get off at the next exit (and whatever the fine was for not having an EZ-Pass, I think it's like 12 bucks the first time around?)
Then you have the morons who will back up on the interstate after they've missed their exit. Or stop on a high speed expressway so as not to run over some ducks.
It's either back up or fly across three lanes of traffic to make the exit, hoping that everyone else manages to get out of the way. You know, even though the next exit is 1.5 miles away.
This post won't be popular here, but this is why we're all taught to allow ample following distance between us and the car in front of us. You never know how bad or deranged of a driver the person in front of you is. They may slam their brakes to make a turn or to save some ducks and if you want to be a good driver, you'll have left ample space to react and slam and your brakes too.
If we're tailgaiting and the sudden braking is a problem, we're every bit as irresponsible of a driver as the person hitting the brakes. And who knows? Maybe they hit their brakes for something reasonable like a child or a chassis-shattering pot hole - but I agree, 4 times outs of 5 it's because someone forgot their turn/exit/etc.
A bit of responsible, attentive driving with use of your turn signal prevents these issues 80% of the time. Adequate following distance prevents the issues the other 20%. - Yes, I totally just made these numbers up, but they sound reasonable.
The worst I saw was a moron who was in the far right but saw there was left exit to where he wanted to go. The problem, they were already right about where the exit begins, just three lanes over. What did they do? They came to a stop, changed one lane, and stopped again, then changed one more lane, then stopped again, then took the exit. This was at night in fairly busy traffic. The worst part was that there was a right exit going to the same road just a little ways up (1000 feet). That was the original exit before they installed the left exit, so there are two exits to the same road, in the same direction. Yes, there was a sign.
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I really don't know how some people get their license.
