Florida Drivers (Tampa: schools, airport, moving)

[Ft Laud Guy]

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

Seriously I have been passed by drivers on the shoulder of freeways twice in my short time here. And yes I was going the speed limit. Is this a thing? It is illegal and dangerous but outside of Massachusetts have not seen it. Is this normal driving behavior in Florida?

At the end of the day, here's what matters:

1) Do whatever it takes to avoid a collision.

2) Install a 2-camera dashcam that records both forward and backward at the same time, with a removable memory chip for evidence.

3) Carry on.

[engineman]

Originally Posted by MortonR

This is true in much of the U.S. nowadays.

We should have a system like MOT (United Kingdom) or TUV (Germany) and it would probably take 40% of the cars off the road...

RM

We used to have state inspection here. It was discontinued because it was not cost effective.

[engineman]

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

The lack of turn signal is probably the worst I have seen in the u.s, and I travel quite a bit. Atleast in another aggressive driving state, California, they seem to signal and generally obey the rules. I returned my rental car this evening and thanked God it wasn’t damaged.

In California if you were rolling along the freeway doing the speed limit, some ijit would pull out of the entrance and poke along in front of you at 30 MPH.

[LKJ1988]

Originally Posted by engineman

In California if you were rolling along the freeway doing the speed limit, some ijit would pull out of the entrance and poke along in front of you at 30 MPH.

Not me. With my modded C6 Vette i can get up to 150+ in a flash.

[Edvard]

The text tards are the worst. A 19 year old text tard just ran over a kid as he tried to board a bus in Manatee County Wednesday. I almost got hit by a SCHOOL BUS driver running a red light while she was texting Friday morning. Another hit a cement mixer while taking a selfie last week. This is much worse than the drunk driving problems late at night. These morons kill people.

[TBMorgan]

Originally Posted by Edvard

The text tards are the worst. A 19 year old text tard just ran over a kid as he tried to board a bus in Manatee County Wednesday. I almost got hit by a SCHOOL BUS driver running a red light while she was texting Friday morning. Another hit a cement mixer while taking a selfie last week. This is much worse than the drunk driving problems late at night. These morons kill people.

Seeing it a lot - had to dodge a BMW the other day while walking, clearly saw his face in his phone.

[MortonR]

Originally Posted by engineman

We used to have state inspection here. It was discontinued because it was not cost effective.

The inspections required in the Tampa bay area were required due to a mandate on air quality (ozone, specifically, if I recall correctly) by the EPA. When that mandate was rescinded, inspections ended. It had nothing to do with costs.

RM

[MortonR]

Originally Posted by TBMorgan

Seeing it a lot - had to dodge a BMW the other day while walking, clearly saw his face in his phone.

^^^^^^
This.

I want to take their phones and smash them on the ground.

RM

[LKJ1988]

I know we have the tech to make a phone not work while a car is moving.

[jambo101]

There are lists of most dangerous states to drive on Google ,Florida while being up there is not the worse state for traffic fatalities. California and Texas have more fatalities than Florida =
https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api...ication/812603