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The Top 12 Things That Bother American Drivers The Most
With Memorial Day rapidly approaching and the onset of summer - and the inevitable spike in the number of drivers on the road, Expedia decided to poll American drivers to understand what really pisses them off the most. The 2014 Road Rage Report ranks "The Texter" as the most aggravating driving behavior beating out "The Tailgater". Perhaps most interestingly, 7 in 10 Americans report having been "flipped off" by a fellow motorist (while only 17% admitted to the aggressive act) and the rudest drivers live in the largest cities (71% rank NYC as the rudest).
Via The Expedia 2014 Road Rage Report:
The full list of driving behaviors ranked as "most annoying or offensive" includes (percentage identifies behaviors ranked in the top five):
The Texter (drivers who text, email or talk on a phone while driving): 69%
The Tailgater (drivers who follow others far too closely): 60%
The Multi-tasker (applying makeup, eating, reading, etc.): 54%
The Drifter (either straddling two lanes or weaving between them): 43%
The Crawler (driving well below the speed limit): 39%
The Swerver (failing to signal before changing lanes or turning): 38%
The Left-Lane Hog (drivers who occupy the passing lane without moving): 32%
The Inconsiderate (those who do not let others merge): 30%
The Speeder (driving well past the speed limit at length): 27%
The Honker (drivers who slam the horn at will): 18%
The Unappreciative (drivers who do not give a wave or gesture of thanks): 13%
The Red Light Racer (drivers who inch ever closer to the light when red): 12%
Despite the fact that Americans identify texting as the most offensive driving violator, 55% of Americans do admit to using their mobile phone at least some of the time while driving.
In addition, 70% of Americans also admit to having been guilty of aggressive driving behavior, including speeding (58%), tailgating (28%) and yelling and/or swearing at fellow drivers (28%). Men are only slightly more likely to admit to aggressive driving than women (74% to 67%).
The rudest drivers are found in the largest cities. 33% of Americans name New York City as home to the least courteous/most rage-inducing drivers. 71% of Americans put New York among the top five rudest driving cities. Los Angeles (22%) ranked second, while Atlanta (9%) came in third. Only 5% of Americans believe Boston features the country's rudest drivers, but 27% of Americans place Boston in the top five.
62% of Americans believe 16 is too young to drive
85% of American drivers are "always pleasantly surprised" to receive a wave of thanks from a fellow driver
Classic rock is the preferred road trip music for 40% of Americans, followed by:
- Country (28%)
- Golden Oldies (25%)
- Top Hits (24%)
- Pop (23%)
- Easy Listening (22%)
- Hip Hop (15%)
- Heavy Metal (10%)
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Get a load of them honkers...
WB - are you implying that such behavior is "bothersome".
or "hot and bothered"
Honk, if you like honkers
I would TOTALLY wreck that.
My top 3 worst drivers (and yes, it's OK for me to profile based on how you look):
1. Old men with hats.
2. Orientals (all of them)
3. Old men without hats.
What do you get when you cross a Mexican with an Asian?
A car thief who can't drive.
Thas ray cyst....
For whatever its worth, most Brit expats have told me that the most astonishing thing about US drivers is how courteous, polite and unflappable they are.
Depends where you're driving.
I'm surprised Left Lane Hog even made the list since it's been my experience not one single person in the US knows THE LEFT IS FOR PASSING - NOT CRUISING BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO FUCKING LAZY TO TURN YOUR HEAD AN 1/8th OF AN INCH AND LOOK IN THE 3 FUCKING MIRRORS MOUNTED ON YOUR CAR. IT'S THE PASSING LANE PEOPLE, NOT YOUR PERSONAL CRUISING LANE BECAUSE IT REQUIRES THE LEAST AMOUNT OF PAYING ATTENTION TO THE TRAFFIC AROUND YOU LANE.
and yes I'm that ass hole 3 inches from your bumper trying to clue you into the fact that YOU'RE FUCKING BLOCKING TRAFFIC !
#13: Obummer in New York City. When he visits, all traffic for miles around comes to a dead halt.
Driving with her top down again...
Metro NY aria during rush hours sucks balls!
We only have two types of drivers in traffic jams.
1, jammers, a jammer is an ass hole that will cut you off in traffic because he thinks your lane is going faster. And just keeps jamming people to find That now he's behind you.
And 2, gapping bastards, a gapping bastard thinks he needs 10 car lengths between him and the car in front of him when traffic is going 2 MPH. Jammers love gapping bastards. If you get stuck behind a gapping bastard everyone and his brother will jam him and you will go nowhere! The only thing that will make a gapping bastard close the gap is if you use your blinker to get in front of him. In fact if you are in traffic and want to exit don't use your blinker, the guy your trying to get I front of will not let you in with warning, a fool proof way to change lanes in traffic to exit is.......
First. Weave in your lane until you have everyone attention, then drop your head fast like your nodding out,
Everyone will think your wasted and back off and now your free to get off at your exit.
Works every time!
I so wish I could give you more than 1 +, Stackers
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"Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind..."
Over the years it's been my experience that cars with Pennsylvania plates make up a disproportionately high percentage of passing lane cruisers.
Of course, to be fair, it seems like a lot of Ohio drivers think the turn signal is an auxillary gear shift, only to be used in case the gear shift breaks off in their hand.
@ Stackers - you'll find that drivers in Texas, at least on the interstates out in the sticks, are pretty good about understanding the function of the left lane. If they're in it and see you coming up, it's been my experience that more often than not, they'll move over and let you pass. That having been said, if you really are "that asshole driving 3 inches from you're bumper 'cuz [how dare you inconvenience almighty me!!]", the fact is that YOU are the gigantic worthless dumbass dipshit in that equation, not them.
Grow up, little boy. Try to understand someday that your car *isn't* an extension of your dick.
You said it, "out in the sticks"... You obviously don't drive in Houston or Dallas, because if you did you would know that the left lane is blocked by cars usually driven by immigrants that have zero concept of driver's courtesy...
Toss in a bar-b-que grill in the middle of the highway, or a couple of painters laurel and hardying their way to get to a dropped ladder in the middle of 6 lanes and now you have an accurate depciton Houston traffic.
I live in Texas where people go flying over 5 lanes to the left as soon as they get on the freeway and then proceed to park off the back corner of some semi-truck in the next lane over going 5mph under the speed limit. If you're out in the middle of nowhere and on 2 lane highways then people are better about noticing other traffic around them no matter what state you're in.
And my dick dont need no extensions. And now I know who the ass wipe that thinks he's the only person on the road that can "drive in this lane if I want to at any speed I want" person is on the roads with me.
...and now *I* know who the asswipe that "is driving 3 inches from [someone's, but not mine: I do the speed limit + when I drive] bumper" at freeway speed is. So in your own words, **you create** a highly dangerous situation because someone inconveniences you. I'm sure you don't understand this, as you seem unable to comprehend simple linear logic, but that makes you a fucking idiot. Also, as I am from Texas, your moronic tone and laughable internet tough-guy routine, combined with your self-admitted jaw-dropping stupidity, leads me to believe you're not a native Texan. You might live there, sure, but stupidity of the kind you're proudly yammering about can only come from a northern or middle-western state that your fellow dipshits have already ruined. (and then naturally, like all ignorant morons, you move on to an unspoiled place - Texas - and go right back to your unthinking I'll-have-another-Iron City-honey!! ways in an unconscious attempt to fuck up the new place) So where you really from, manboobs? Mass.? Noo Yawk? Rhoe D'Ylund? Michigan? Gotta be something like that, because your slobbering fulminations just _reek_ of Yankee Dipshittness.
I use the Richard Petty method of persuasion on these dolts... In other words, I give 'em the chrome horn... That usually gets their attention...
Pretty girl, but I'd hate to see those honkers when she's 60, they'll drop down below her waist like a lead balloon.
I like courteous drivers but I prefer people that follow the traffic rules. The other day I saw an accident at an intersection caused by a woman who stopped without a stop sign, to be courteous. She waved the guy who had the stop sign to cross the intersection. He didn't have the right of way and caused an accident with another driver who wasn't expecting him to cross. The do gooder just drove away with her mouth open.
That was one of my major complaints about driving in Vermont when I lived there. I guess people thought it was rude or something to actually use their right-of-way.
#1 should be people who cant merge onto the freeway at the posted speed.
Oh God yes. I see this more often than I can count. Retards who are so unsure of how to merge that instead of speeding up to the speed of the traffic in the lane they want to merge into, slow down because they're scared and hoping someone will take mercy and open a space for them.
While we're on it: How do you blind a chinaman?
Put a windshield in front of him.
(It's OK, it's ok people... a Singaporean friend told me that joke)
It doesn't matter where you live. The fact is America is 80% borderline retards.
For example, the story on Yahoo about the teenager who "rescued" a 30 lb carp from his flooded street. He "jumped into action" to save the huge fish and LET IT GO IN A LOCAL POND!!!
I realize he is a dumb 17 yr old but his parents, neighbors, news crew , writers or editors were all too stupid to realize what this kid did.
I hope they write a followup story about the day the DNR and local sheriif show up with handcuffs or how the owner of the pond beat the shit out of the kid
So the stats suggest 1/6th of people are flashing the bird at 7/10 of the population...
Notice how Hip-hop ranks at 15% - about equal to the percentage of Black population in America.
Yet, from the way the MSM pushes rappers, you'd think that HH music is the top, or no less than second, rated choice.
This is an excellent example of the way the MSM propagandizes reality in favor of its social agenda. It does the same with the 5% - 7% that are gay; you'd think there is a gay in every family, that lesbians are the most common form of female interaction, and America accepts NFL football wannabes making out with their male lover on national TV.
In short, the MSM has distorted the truth so that what they project has no relationship whatsoever to reality.
So I have to ask - is it really the truth that America is infected with "low" information sheeple; or is the truth that America is infected with "reasonably informed" - but brainwashed with the Left Wing Looney Tunes 5% Fringe propaganda - sheeple?
-30-
You are almost there, now consider how many looneys come from the "right wing" as well. Then consider whose interests are always served well by all this horse shit.
If not, you are stuck in the trap.
As per the last census, gays are 1-2% of the population, not 5-7%. If it was 5-7% they would be way, way more noticeable in everyday life.
Everyone should have their own version of reality yet unsurprisingly most peoples reality is some variant of the top down view.
Most studies put the amount of gays at 10%. Has been that way since the time of the Romans.
Maybe your stats didn't count those that prefer to hide in their log cabins
Most studies show that you heard that number somewhere once (in fairness, I've heard it as well, usually voiced by pro-gay propagandists) and now you're claiming it as fact on the Interwebs.
The real number is most likely somewhere around 1-2%.
Most studies put the amount of gays at 10%.
Not good studies. That number came from an early sex study done largely in prisons.
Find a very large University of Chicago study from the 90s to get the real numbers. (2% or less.)
Oh, super: more homo chat. Was *hoping* this thread about driving would devolve into homo chat - 'cause you hardly ever hear that stuff anywhere, no matter how hard you look or how much you're hoping someone will go off on a gay tangent.
That girl has a nice set of.......... rims on that car.
which car are you talking about?
Honk, honk. Even if it is false advertising, they're not real.
1001 respondents does not an honest survey make.
If you can touch em they're real.
Those qualify her to drive in HOV lane during rush hour.
Now that was funny!
Cheech Marin: "It was like two puppies fighting under a blanket!"
happiness is (being) a warm seatbelt
Asian female left lane crawler: 100%
Come to NC, seems people are born in the left lane and refuse to move. Gets to be a lot more fun on 3 lane roads, as then the far right lane becomes the slow/merge/fast pass lane.
pods
Lot of Indians there ?
Iran and India used to be the two scariest places on earth to drive.
NC is a beautiful place, but every time I go down there I meet more people from Ohio then I do native Carolinians, and that is exactly how they drive in Ohio. You can flash your lights at the idiots and they still won't move over.
Living in Ohio, I can attest to this being true. Plus, we barely have any freeways over 60 mph.
It's been 65 on Ohio freeways since 1987. The turnpike allows 70 mph.
You really should get out more Doc.
WOOOOOSSSSSHHHHHHH. He's implying that you can't go over 60 because of idiots in the left lane going slow.
Indeed there are a few, but the majority of the ones I have to drive are 60.
As far as my knowledge, if there's no cops around, there's no speed limits.
Back when cars had real metal bumpers on them, I used to give 'em a little tap if they wouldn't move over for an extended period of time.
DO NOT TRY THIS WITH OLD PEOPLE. They will nail the brakes IMMEDIATELY when you bump them.
NC? Is that a synonym for Toronto and the QEW?
I despise the left lane blockers, as much as I despise the ones that use the right lane as cruising lanes preventing me from being able to exit and enter a freeway when there's more than two lanes. I really wish we would adopt the Autobahn’s rules of using the left lane for anything other than passing is prohibited.
That is so true. In Charlotte they'll just line up in the left going slower than the other two lanes. During rush hour the right lane is typically the fastest even where there are 4+ lanes. It's completely bizarre. Honking, flashing lights, and giving them hand signals doesn't seem to further their driving abilities no matter how hard I try. Many times they're too busy texting and going 10 mph slower than everyone else, and in the left-lane, to even acknowlege my efforts at training.
My favorite interaction was when a pickup truck in front of me had a flat tire and I honked at her and pointed to her tire as I passed her to let her know death was at her doorstep and about to knock. She was texting with both hands and driving with her elbows, but managed to free one hand long enough to give me the finger as I passed on along wondering how far her upcoming adventure would take her.
I had a similar thing happen in a parking lot. I'm driving, maybe 5 km/h at most, when some clueless broad pushing a baby in a baby carriage steps out directly in front of me from behind one of those big SUVs, cellphone glued to her ear.
I stand on the brakes and somehow manage to not hit the baby. Because I'm startled and intensely dislike hitting babies in baby carriages I hit the horn. She gives me the finger and keeps on walking, cellphone glued to her ear. She doesn't even look at the baby.
Hopefully, the idiot woman had a suprise meeting with Jesus that day.
Driving a UPS truck...
how to make chinaman blind put a windshield in front of him
There is a relationship between the crawler and the tailgater.
And probably texting.
Tailgater? As you floor the gas pedal lightly touch the brake pedal just enough to activate the brake light!
Lots of fun, but make sure the tailgater doesn't have someone in back of him, like with kids in the car.
Classical - Marc-Andre Hamelin or Geoffrey Tozer all day.
How about the ones with an inconsistent speed on the highway? Seriously, use your fucking cruise control.
Like the ones that set it to 10 mph below the speed limit and sit in the LH lane?
I vote for douchebags in giant pickup trucks (used for the daily commute, of course) who think it's ok to swerve across five lanes of highway without indicating or checking their blind spots because fuck you, that's why.
I vote for douchebags in tiny little smart cars who think it's ok to crawl along in the left hand lane on a five lane highway going slower than traffic forcing me to swerve around them, albeit while using my indicators and checking for blind spots, because fuck you, that's why.
I agree with you about the "big truck guys". I typically drive at or a little above the speed limit but that doesnt stop the dick head in the big truck from getting right on my ass. I live in GA so this is at epidemic proportions. If on the highway, I will move over, on single lane roads is where I get really pissed off. A couple months ago some jerk off in a big truck got right on my ass, throwing hands up in the air and yelling, which i saw in the rear view mirror. I am no slow old man driver either...the speed limit was 35, I was going about 45 and he was still acting like I as ruining his entire day. He didnt back off until I grabbed my 9mm from the console and chambered a round in his full view.
Let me clarify...I am talking about big pick up trucks not big rigs.
There is only one real Jugdish and I am him,
You can be the jugdish here, I will be the jugdish 787. Deal??
Truckers are generally good drivers, after all, they have to be or they can get in trouble. Not worth it for them. PLus, their vehicles are GPS tracked and speed governed.
Where I live we seem to have an above-the-statistically-expected-average number of the kind of guys, usually in lifted F-150s, who will cut from rightmost to leftmost lane at 80mph in one move.
If traffic's light I pull in front of them and do 15 MPH below the speed limit and give them the finger when they stare at me as they pass on the right.
Or the ones that keep randomly hitting their brakes, for no apparent reason.
They're just making sure you're paying attention.
Ahh those random breakers. You'll actually find that they learned to drive with BOTH FEET ON THE PEDALS, which is fucking insane. Their left foot just lightly touches the break pedal enough to hit the micrositch which turns on the break lights at random.
Dump trucks leaking gravel onto the freeway.
Junk trucks dropping ladders and mattresses on the freeway.
Flaming FedEx trucks that hit you head-on at 70mph.
Little old ladies driving 600 horsepower sports cars at 22mph who pass me at every light while I wait for idiots making a turn and still sticking their tails into my lane and blocking forty-seven cars.
Trees that know when you've been drinking and jump out in front of you.
NSA overrides of my car's drive by wire features.
I can't stand the inconsiderate pricks who stare in my car while I'm picking my nose or cleaning out my ears like this guy:
http://youtu.be/lfKlLNPz6mo
Who do they think they are?
Cyclists that don't wear enough clothing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taDgdQ9IDro
Now that was funny! The more shit like this I see the more I doubt that these elected leaders are all in on some grand conspiracy. These guys are just complete tools without a clue. How does this asshole not realize he is being filmed?? Reminds me of back in highschool the teachers that were totally oblibious that they had horrible BO, bad breath, pit stains on their shirts...or the idiots that would lean against the chalk board, not realizing when they got up they had chalk dust all over their ass and back. Fucking total morons...
NJ drivers are the most inconsiderate SOBs on the road...
I agree. They drive with a certain self-righteous malice.
Never confuse calculated malice with incompetence....
But bang on the mark with being self-righteous...
That may be so, but we have a bunch of retards driving the roads around here in Indiana. Mostly polite, but retards nonetheless.
I concur....
I regularly do a NYC-Chicago I-80 drive and Indiana drivers are as clueless as Missourites where the RH lane appears to have evolved into the passing lane...
Hoosiers are also befuddled by four-way stops. Nobody can figure out who got there first or whose turn it is, or anything. And then the 18 year old drivers just go barrelling through without slowing down.
I have to give it to Indiana cops, though. I'm usually doing 20 over, and they have just waved at me and let me go. I like this laissez-faire attitude...
Very true about the four ways. Everybody just looks at each other like... You first... No you go first ..... No really you. It's fucking annoying. As far as the cops you're right. They don't mess with you too much unless you're really getting stupid.
The best way to utterly confuse the average American driver is to point them at a roundabout/traffic circle...
My vote is for Maryland being the most inconsiderate drivers in the whole US. I take my Rot on walks to the reservoir and sometimes he pulls in front of me, and then slows down. I call him a Maryland Driver and pinch his side to get him moving again. If only I could do that on the road with my 45........
Crawlers in the fast lane ranks top with me. Get over, man.
Therein lies the problem.
Its the over taking lane, not the fast lane.
Most Americans would be dead in minutes on the autobahn.
I am sick and tired of the damned street nazis (aka police) that constantly shake me down for nonviolent code infractions that have harmed no person or property.
Driven through Virgina I take it?
pods
I hate the term:
"Summer Driving Season"
'OK everyone. let's get in the car and drive! After all, it's the season for it!'
lol wut?
Its a term the petroleum propagandists use to justify a systematic and regular price increase. Throw in a few "geopolitcal concerns," a few refinery fires or shut downs, a few rail car explosions, a few production cuts, and once again; you, in traffic with a tank of gold burning away with the added pleasure of the sun beating through to roof of the car.
Why don't people know its smoke, mirrors, and HUGE lies?
The price of gasoline mostly goes up in summer because summer grade gasoline is more expensive to produce than winter grade.
and here I thought it was because the vampire squid got its manipulating tentacles into the commodities.
Butane is a cheap cut in the winter....
How about "Sunday driver?"
Numero uno in my world: Gun and badge thugs trolling for $$$ behind every bush.
And their stupid fucking question: "Do you know why I pulled you over?" "Well yes, you, as a tool of the DC US and the banksters, have a quota of $$$ stolen via fines, and $$$ and property "seized" along with the careerist need to make a "felony" arrest. You also desire to make yourself feel better about your life and family life by taking it out on someone else who you can torture or kill at will. Did that nail it Officer?!"
"Do you know why I pulled you over?"
That always irks me. I like your response, though. I will probably stick to the "I'm sure the ticket/summons will tell me".
or this:
Fletcher: Here goes: I sped. I followed too closely. I ran a stop sign. I almost hit a Chevy. I sped some more. I failed to yield at a crosswalk. I changed lanes at the intersection. I changed lanes without signaling while running a red light and *speeding*!
Cop: Is that all?
Fletcher: No... I have unpaid parking tickets.
I answered a cop once by saying 'Yes I know why you pulled me over, it's because you're a pirate'.
He didn't like it much.
This answer nevers gets the conversation off on the right foot.
Piggy - Do you know why I pulled you over?
Me - Because your municipality has been frivilous with the looted cash from its inhabitants and your corporation needs more funds?
I wrote a song about it. Want to here it? Here you go - Piggy Piggy - By Family Rotten - http://www.reverbnation.com/familyrotten/song/20488912-piggy-piggy
As living standards fall, people get more intolerant, more impatient and just plain less polite.
And Canadians are becoming like you Americans, only worse. Everyone speeds, no one has any patience and no one gives another guy a break unless there's some law to obey. Talk about angry sheep...
>> you Americans,
Don't group me in with that bunch of blithering shitbags.
lol,
none of you Americans can drive,
Off Topic, but not totally.
http://www.vincelewis.net/unsoldcars.html
Apparently, Supply and Demand got divorced, and Supply got the car(s) in the settlement.
What really bothers me most about american drivers is that I can't legally install missiles on my car to blow them off the road.
#13 Rhode Island drivers
Boston drivers aren't rude. They're just stupid.
Speeding isn't aggressive driving, unless you're doing double the limit. The speed limits through much of the US are so low it's laughable. Here in the West, it's a little better. A few states have 80 MPH zones.
American speed limits suck ass.
1) Everybody that drives slower than me is a moron, and everyone that drives faster than me is a maniac.
2) I hate everyone that gets between me and where I wanna go.
These are the rules of The American Road.
The biggest annoyance around here are the "inconsiderate" drivers who refuse to allow others to merge. These people seem to think it's a sign of disrespect that another driver wants to merge. And these people are downright dangerous where left lane, high speed merges are required. I have a daily, left lane, full speed, 65mph merge onto I-95 that is always an "adventure".
Some people own the road; others just drive on it.
People who pull out in front of you as you are approaching them at a much higher rate of speed, causing you to hit your brakes and resetting the cruise control. These piss me off the most.
I enjoy that even in the city when that person immediately makes a turn, preferably a left turn, right after pulling out in front of you.
Well gosh, that's what they're waiting for...got to make sure to wait to pull out until they see a vehicle coming.
Cell phones and "smart" phones have hugely contributed to problems.
I still remember driving to work back in the late 80's on I-495 here in Massachusetts and it was beautiful. The left lane went 85. The middle lane went 75. The right lane went 65. Each lane was like a train, every car just over the minimum reasonable gap distance from the next. The discipline was terrific.
Then the mfing phones came in and now every third car is drifting into the next lane or driving with erratic bursts of speed. And no one can possibly signal a lane change because they have the phone in one hand and they're such dumb inflexible lummoxes that they can't slide the other hand down the wheel to move the stick to signal.
Phones fvcked things up.
There's a book out with a yellow cover called Traffic (and about a 20 word sub-title). In it, the author says that they did a sort of a test in a town in Holland where they took out all the traffic signs, all of them. Stop, Right Lane for Right Turn etc etc. And what they found was that the rate of accidents . . went down. The reason? When not continuously guided, people thought. They got actively engaged in their driving. And because they were thinking, they drove better.
Smart phones do not encourage anyone to actively engage in the driving process.
Waiting behind someone in a left turn lane, left-arrow signal turns green, car in front doesn't move and you can see the driver using a cell phone. While you sit honking your horn.
Have I done the same thing? I won't deny it. Please honk, although at the same time I'm getting an earful of "go go, menso, it's green" from the spouse.
Anyone driven through Little Saigon in SoCal?
HAHAHA! YUP! One of those things you have to experience yourself to truly appreciate. Turn signals and traffic lights are regarded more as 'suggestions' than anything else.
The Left-Lane Hog (drivers who occupy the passing lane without moving equates to the Tailgater (drivers who follow others far too closely.
I haven't been pulled over since 1999-2000, forget exactly. Wearing a seat beat, and driving the speed limit. This fucker was parked up on a hill as you depart from Richmond, IN into Ohio. Pulled me over for not having a front license plate. The car was too beautiful to destroy the front bumper. Paid the bill and moved on.
Having the luxury to drive in many states, don't miss Ohio. Florida, awesome. Can drive from Ft. Myers to Marco in 50 minutes. South Carolina, I adapted to the traffic rules. Initially, I was scared shitless getting drafted at 75 MPH.
Simple rules:
My scale of driving preference.
Now don't get me wrong, I like motorcyclists, I used to ride one many years ago and I know that auto drivers can be careless.....however.....
That doesn't explain the lane-splitting asshole on the 405 that screamed by on the right of my minivan (yes that's in the blind spot and all the anger in the world won't change that) at 90 while I was going with the flow at 80. More power to him, I know he owns the road and all, except he got a little close and slammed my right hand mirror (intentionally) and flipped me off while he zoomed ahead weaving in and out of the 80 mph traffic.
And yeah it was a fucking rice burner, not a Harley.
Of course its a given it was a davidson, since they are speed limited to 75mph by the water pump that powers them.
Agreed. Speeding is NOT aggresive driving. It is the intolerance of a-holes parked in the left lane. Please go to Germany, and witness the glory of the autoban, PLEASE.
The autobahn taught me the use of flickering your headlights as a friendly gesture. Some Americans understand, others do not.
Over here in Australia and NZ, flicking your lights at an oncoming driver means there is a cop with a radar trap up the road ahead of you.
My personal disgust lies with drivers who always hit the brakes whenever there is a slight change in direction or elevation in the road. Braking in every turn and hill climb contributes the most to creating traffic jams where there otherwise should not be one. Remember, if you hit the brakes you will cause up to 10 cars behind you to instinctively hit the brakes as well when they see red lights and the next 10 people behind them and so on.
The "turning brakers" are best avoided by commuting before 7:00am in my area. Before 7:00am traffic is thick but it still moves fast. After 7:00am you are effectively a hostage of the Stoopids.
Ahhh the weekend writers have arrived to ZH
Blue-haired crawlers who get out in the middle of rush hour and drive 30 mph under the speed limit, while constantly brake-dancing and simultaneously being unable to keep their vehicle in their own lane are the WORST!
* People who pull out in front of you, usually when there's no one behind you, and can't even reach the speed limit.
* Minivans in general.
* After a snowfall and the roads are narrow (or you just can't see where the ditch is), the giant douche you meet who won't move over, thus trying to launch you into the rhubarb.
Edit: Also, bicyclists who feel they deserve an entire lane and won't GTF out the way.
People who are shitty drivers even in a midsize sedan, but then go out and purchase the biggest behemoth money can buy and then can't drive it, let alone keep it in their own lane.
Maybe I would stop tailgating if you damn texters would put the fucking phone away and DRIVE!
I live in NJ and i see drivers all the time that possess all 12 of these bad qualities.
I hate living here. I hope to be out soon to the midwest or something.
My pet peeve is when I'm approaching a 4 way stop and there's a car already there & stopped and they wait for you to get there & stop before they go.
Sounds like when traveling on US 17 heading into Myrtle Beach. Two cars flow threw a green light, then its red for another 4 minutes. By the time I get to N. Ocean Blvd. places.. Just want to sit home to unwind on the stupidity of people who drive 25 MPH in a 35 MPH zone. Sometimes, I live in my ocean view palace. Don’t need a tourist driver delaying my travel postponement.
I think George Carlin said it best. "Ever notice how anybody who drives slower than you is an idiot and anyone who drives faster than you is a maniac?"
Forgot the quote. Thanks for the laugh. MB tourist have no concept of time. They think everyone in traffic has a hotel reservation held. Don't realize others have a non-hotel place to get home to.
"My pet peeve is when I'm approaching a 4 way stop and there's a car already there & stopped and they wait for you to get there & stop before they go."
Oooh, that's one of mine, too. I'll come to the stop, and can see the driver just sitting there, looking at me, waiting... if they wait another split second after i'm stopped, I'm on the gas and through the intersection.
Would have thought GM might make it into the top 12. Guess they didn't attempt data collection via seance. Probably an oversight.
BMW no longer installs turn signals in all cars shipping to Los Angeles and Orange counties.
I'm bothered by the neighborhoods that have stop signs put in every other driveway to discourage short cuts.
" " " Those drivers that thing right hand turn on red means they have the right of way.
" " " Those backing out of parking lot spaces without looking.
" " " Those crawling through a green light, seeing it turn yellow and then after red watch three more of them go through.
there are no motorists in nyc, only drivers
and there is no rudeness in it, it is all
work and business, motorist know better than
to take the wheel.
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Mean Streets 1973 - Ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA4FU79vXHA
Mean Streets (9/10) Movie CLIP - Where's the Rest? (1973) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92CKGAeQUY
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Phil Spector on Mean Streets, the be-my-baby sound and Brian Wilson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYBjOywJwLI
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Cream - "Steppin' Out - 1966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGJSKFZWM8M
I have noticed almost everyone driving a red car is an inconsiderate asshole. Do you have to be an asshole to buy a red car?