10 Things that Make You Look Like a Massive Idiot while Driving

[PorkChopSandwiches]

similar for me....exit ramp off one major road onto another...the other road has two lanes....the off ramp merges onto the right lane (of course) and in that lane there's no where to exit right for about 3 miles...yet every day I'm merging into the lane and guys in the left lane come over right when I'm merging into the right

there's no reason for you to move from left to right...at that particular point in time you fckn mooks

These people just stop and watch the traffic drive by when the oncoming traffic has no way of entering the yield lane, its an open lane. You cant just dart across all 3 lanes, but the right lane is for you buddy.

[Hal-9000]

These people just stop and watch the traffic drive by when the oncoming traffic has no way of entering the yield lane, its an open lane. You cant just dart across all 3 lanes, but the right lane is for you buddy.

all cities have their shit stories but I can't imagine driving in yours....we got a million people, smaller footprint but we enjoy the rep of some of the worst drivers in the country

my pet peeve is 'the wave'...some mook does the 3 lane dart over thing at the last minute, causing other drivers to double foot their brakes...and then they give this pacifying weak wave like it makes everything ok

ffs I have no patience for people who do a lane change 10 meters before their exit and cut off 30 other people...you know damn well you have to turn there, it's not a surprise

[redred]

sorry you just have to deal with 9 , you get told a mile back are you meant to leave a whole clear legal lane for a mile ,rather than the jam right away you have a mile to sort it out

[Hal-9000]

sorry you just have to deal with 9 , you get told a mile back are you meant to leave a whole clear legal lane for a mile ,rather than the jam right away you have a mile to sort it out

we have a lane reversal which cuts off a lane, complete with 3 yellow crossing bars (think border crossing gate) that block the lane, complete with lights for a kilometer before that saying BIG RED X, LANE CLOSED, and signs... and this occurs about 500 meters after an intersection.

yet every day....guys race up to the crossing bars and try to cut in...one day I watched a guy pile into and take out the first crossing bar because no one let him in

[Godfather]

I can tell instantly whoever wrote this never lived in a ghetto, because only people who live/d there follow the golden rule of leaving space between you and the car in front of you at a red light. Makes you a sitting duck for car jackers/robbers/theifs.

The paranoid person in me does this in bad neighborhoods.. even though I've never heard of a car jacking where I live. They taught us in driving school that you should just be able to see road in front of you between cars when stopped at lights, I think that's plenty of room.

[Noilly Pratt]

As a corollary, if it looks like you're going to miss your turn, just go around the block and try again. Do not slam on your brakes, cross 3 lanes of traffic, and then block another lane when you can't immediately get into the turn lane. You are inconveniencing everyone else because you don't want to drive another block

Oh yes...saw this yesterday on my way to North Vancouver. Idiot goes off on the wrong offramp so she stops, does a hard left onto the shoulder, so her car is nearly perpendicular to the traffic between the offramp and the freeway (which of course is going at full tilt) and just slooowly edges her way into the slow lane. After I stand on the brakes as safely as I can without getting rear ended (threshold braking they called it in driving school when Anti-lock wasn't a thing, or much of a thing), she comes in front of me. I hang back a bit more than normal...she's shown her awful driving skills and there's no chance for me to get into the fast lane.

Next exit she indicates she's going of, so off she goes, but no. Much flailing of arms from her passenger ensues (co-driver apparently - at least the brains of the operation anyway.) and thankfully because I see this, I hesitate, because next she hauls it back into the slow lane in front of me, then decides that no, this IS the exit, and hauls her way into the offramp traffic. She was serenaded by mine, and a few other horns from people in the slow lane.

We're all going so slow now we in the slow and exiting lane have time to make eye contact and shake our heads.

[DemonGeminiX]

I live in a small town, so...









.... everybody drives like a fuckin' idiot.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I do number 1 to wanr the fucking texters that dont see me when its clear out that I am still there in the heavy downpours. And I do Number 9 because I refuse to sit in a make believe traffic jam that just isn't there..

Number 9 happens because of people like you, just sayin

[FBD]

as if things would magically flow smoothly if people didnt do that. that's a myth...

[Pony]

as if things would magically flow smoothly if people didnt do that. that's a myth...

It's not magic, ever notice that once everyone is single file in the construction zone traffic moves along smoothly at around the posted speed? Only thing that's changed is there are no longer idiots cutting people off trying to merge forcing all the traffic behind to slow to a crawl.

[FBD]

it happens pretty much every time there is a reduction in # of lanes

[Muddy]

Number 9 happens because of people like you, just sayin

I totally understand.. But Im not gonna be the poor sod left in the back waiting..

[minz]

How about singing at the top of your lungs in the car alone, does that make you look stupid?

[Muddy]

How about singing at the top of your lungs in the car alone, does that make you look stupid?

I see some brothers full on dancing out there, in their cars..

[DemonGeminiX]

I do number 1 to wanr the fucking texters that dont see me when its clear out that I am still there in the heavy downpours.

OK, is it clear out or is it raining?