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Why are there so many cranky f... err... people on this automotive forum? Man, I'm getting annoyed. "Not one stops at stop signs" "people pull away from red lights to slow"
"I can't believe people sleep when I drive" "why do people constantly brake?" "turn signal right, turn left"
What do you care what other people do? Does it affect you? Oh, it does because you insist on driving in the left hand, or as some call it the high speed, lane.
Get over it, stop worrying about every one else. This will lead to much less road rage, which IS a real problem in society...
I DO understand venmting but maybe if you just let this stuff roll off your back... you'd be a LOT happier.
My motto: Water off a ducks back. Think of that next time some random stranger on the highway ruins YOUR ENTIRE DAY.
I agree with you to a degree, but people driving slow in the fast lane are not allowing you to "stop worrying about everyone else" because they are getting in your way and dictating how fast you can go. Meanwhile they can instead drive in one of the slower lanes, so that they can drive as slow as they want and the fast people can drive as fast as they want. Then people can truly worry more about themselves than the other drivers.
Stay with the flow of traffic is the answer to this thread. Some people aren't skilled enough driving to do 80 in a 55. Some people drive with fear and might not even make it to 55 in a 55. Some can safely do 80 in a 55. The issue is the mix of all of these different driver types and not understanding how to safely drive on a limited access road. Slow cars keep right. Fast cars keep left. Simple.
People complaining about speeders need to get over it quite honestly - most roads aren't even signed up to the 85th percentile speed. Many are signed for revenue generation, particularly in certain states (hello Virginia!). It's not up to you to decide how fast everyone else goes. Just drive with the flow of traffic - if you're going significantly faster or slower than it, you are a problem!
Except that it's been proven that an accident at a high rate of speed is more likely to have fatalities than one at a lower speed. Those pesky, pesky, PESKY laws of physics that don't care how special you think you are or how much you NEED to speed in order to prove it.
The US highway fatality rate went down when the 55 limit was abolished in the mid-1990s.
It's not the speed limit that dictates whether or not one is a lousy driver. A lousy driver is one who insists that THEIR (in their own mind) capabilities/vehicle are just awesome and should be what dictates the speed limit (or the speed that they, personally, are allowed to drive on roads they share with others) rather than those of all of the people and vehicles that they are sharing those roads with. Period. It is a self-centered viewpoint of entitlement based on nothing more perceptive or paying of attention than "I wanna". It also usually (not always, but 90% of the time) means that they are nowhere near the quality of driver on the roads that they are in their own minds.
LOL.
Why don't you just keep to the slow lane and let those cRaZy speed demons have at it. No use getting all worked up over it
17 pages in and no one has recognized the fundamental problem in the United States: instead of trying to produce better drivers, we pursue the policy of trying to design roads and traffic signs in such a way that even the most incompetent driver cannot hurt someone or himself. It can't be done. Bad drivers will hurt people if you set the speed limit to 15 mph and arrange the roads into three-car wide lane, lined with styrofoam bumper pads.
We turned driving into a right. Do you know anyone who pursued a driver's license who didn't get one in the end? Our standards stink. Our driver's ed instruction stinks.
We won't change those things because that's the tougher thing to do rather than manipulating speed limits, creating more road furniture, installing green arrows everywhere and so forth.
Why don't you just keep to the slow lane and let those cRaZy speed demons have at it. No use getting all worked up over it
I have long held a hypothesis that people like her are the same ones who leave their carts in the middle of the aisle in the grocery store or walk three abreast across the bike trail.
We're all living in their world.
In all my years of driving, not once have I ever been bothered by someone going faster than me and I marvel at the people who do get upset about that. As Brock Yates wrote years ago in Car & Driver: "My number one job on the road is to stay out of the way of other people." It's bliss when you drive somewhere like that and, shockingly, it's safer. Conversely, it's hell when you have to share the road with self-appointed road nannies like Horse Lady.
I have long held a hypothesis that people like her are the same ones who leave their carts in the middle of the aisle in the grocery store or walk three abreast across the bike trail.
We're all living in their world.
In all my years of driving, not once have I ever been bothered by someone going faster than me and I marvel at the people who do get upset about that. As Brock Yates wrote years ago in Car & Driver: "My number one job on the road is to stay out of the way of other people." It's bliss when you drive somewhere like that and, shockingly, it's safer. Conversely, it's hell when you have to share the road with self-appointed road nannies like Horse Lady.
Yes, I don't get it either. When I see someone coming up fast behind me, I don't take it upon myself to try to teach them a lesson, I just move over and let him by.
Except that it's been proven that an accident at a high rate of speed is more likely to have fatalities than one at a lower speed. Those pesky, pesky, PESKY laws of physics that don't care how special you think you are or how much you NEED to speed in order to prove it.
Then why don't we reduce the speed limit to 35 mph? Why do you want to sacrifice lives for a measly 20 mph?
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