Dumb things seen on the road. (Page 3 of 3)
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Originally Posted By YourAlterEgo: Pisses some off, but with a performance model tesla, passing and moving on down the road isn’t a request, it’s just what’s going to happen. Originally Posted By YourAlterEgo: Originally Posted By CastleBravo91: Originally Posted By ceetee: I was driving into work a couple of days ago. I caught up to a car doing the speed limit. That's fine. His choice. I usually have my cruise control set to 9 mph over, so when I approached him, I just moved over, passed him, and kept going. I guess he figured this was an insult or something, because he floored it, passed me at about 20 over, and then matched my speed all the way to my exit. He must have been one of those drivers that just can't handle having anyone pass them. I got stuck behind a guy doing 45 in a 55 for 2 miles. Finally get to a passing zone, NOW he wants do 60 as I'm trying to pass. Then he tailgates me as I'm doing almost 65 for a bit before backing off. Pisses some off, but with a performance model tesla, passing and moving on down the road isn’t a request, it’s just what’s going to happen. Lol, exactly! My car has a turbo, so he wasn't going to win that, but he tried. 
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Originally Posted By CastleBravo91: Lol, exactly! My car has a turbo, so he wasn't going to win that, but he tried. Originally Posted By CastleBravo91: Originally Posted By YourAlterEgo: Originally Posted By CastleBravo91: Originally Posted By ceetee: I was driving into work a couple of days ago. I caught up to a car doing the speed limit. That's fine. His choice. I usually have my cruise control set to 9 mph over, so when I approached him, I just moved over, passed him, and kept going. I guess he figured this was an insult or something, because he floored it, passed me at about 20 over, and then matched my speed all the way to my exit. He must have been one of those drivers that just can't handle having anyone pass them. I got stuck behind a guy doing 45 in a 55 for 2 miles. Finally get to a passing zone, NOW he wants do 60 as I'm trying to pass. Then he tailgates me as I'm doing almost 65 for a bit before backing off. Pisses some off, but with a performance model tesla, passing and moving on down the road isn’t a request, it’s just what’s going to happen. Lol, exactly! My car has a turbo, so he wasn't going to win that, but he tried. I used to live in a neighborhood where some folks liked to walk in the middle of the street. You would no believe how quickly people reassess their decisions when they hear a waste gate dumping to atmosphere starts asking how much they want to play. High stepping and nothing but the whites of their eyes. 🤣 |
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Originally Posted By imq707s: I saw a lady on the highway once that was parked in middle of one of the lanes, trying to catch her dog that somehow got out and had ran under her car.....while traffic was wizzing by at 70+ mph. I was in the mountains of Arkansas driving through some twisty roads when I came around the corner and some old guy was parked right in the middle of the road, with is door wipe open, out in the opposite lane picking up a turtle that was crossing the road.......about couldn't stop in time, luckily I didn't hit him. Seen plenty of these "meth" cars in Missouri that just drive around and pick up/steal anything they can find and stack it on their car/trailer. This one isn't even the worst I've seen. ....that's it https://i.redd.it/866htmss6u2a1.jpg That hitch situation is amazing
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Originally Posted By tonysoprano150: In Kentucky, and I believe some other states, right of way at a 2-way stop is handled like a 4-way stop. First at the intersection is first to go regardless of which way you are going. Originally Posted By tonysoprano150: Originally Posted By dangerranger61007: Where I grew up there seemingly weren't many 4 way stops. Where I live now, 2 way stops are pretty rare and know one knows what to do at them. Almost every time I'm turning left and there is someone across from me turning right, they try to wait or motion me to go because I was there first. I just sit there, and sometimes they get extremely mad about it but refuse to take their right of way. Or I'm turning right and the person across thinks they have the right away to turn left because they were there first. If I'm in my shitbox I just make my turn and cut in front of them. In Kentucky, and I believe some other states, right of way at a 2-way stop is handled like a 4-way stop. First at the intersection is first to go regardless of which way you are going. When the cross traffic doesn't have a stop sign? Thats the most inefficient way to handle it. You'd have to sit and wait to make a right turn until those turning left find an opening in traffic. |
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Originally Posted By 1911fan: @50-140 this advice comes from years of working at car dealerships that had body shops, and several insurance agents I worked with. Hit the deer. That buck was just as likely to jump in front of you as away. If you hit the deer, you have body damage and an insurance claim. Swerving to miss the deer will put you on your side in the timber at 60mph, into the rocks at 60mph, upside down at 60mph, or hauling ass through an orchard at 60mph in the dark. All of these have happened to my clients. If you hit the deer you are still right side up, on the pavement, and most often still in control of your vehicle. Originally Posted By 1911fan: Originally Posted By 50-140: I almost murdered a deer today. On the road at 60mph clip, a buck comes into the road. I've got a log truck behind me and in the oncoming lane is a pickup truck. I only had one option which was to swerve right, I'm not quite sure how the deer didn't get tagged but when I looked at my drivers side mirror I saw him bound back into the woods from whence he came. @50-140 this advice comes from years of working at car dealerships that had body shops, and several insurance agents I worked with. Hit the deer. That buck was just as likely to jump in front of you as away. If you hit the deer, you have body damage and an insurance claim. Swerving to miss the deer will put you on your side in the timber at 60mph, into the rocks at 60mph, upside down at 60mph, or hauling ass through an orchard at 60mph in the dark. All of these have happened to my clients. If you hit the deer you are still right side up, on the pavement, and most often still in control of your vehicle. Unless you're already going around a curve. My dad clipped a deer in April this way and wound up rolling his car. I guess because he was already in a turn, hitting the deer unbalanced the car enough to get into the ditch and catch a wheel. He came up with a decent tree about two feet from the driver's door. No injuries (to him, the deer probably had a bad day). He didn't even see the deer before he hit it so he didn't have time to swerve or anything. |
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Originally Posted By YourAlterEgo: I get sent collision videos for about 120 signalize intersections. At first I thought it would be a bunch of people trying to beat the yellow light, nope almost none of those. Most are, WTF, where was your mind at. Most claim the other guy ran the red light or was at fault, minor or totaled vehicles. Some are, “hope whatever you were doing other than driving was worth it, you just died” There’s a big push nationally for “vision zero”., mostly pushed by planner types. Kinda pisses me off. I’m an engineer, not a magician or God, I can’t take the wheel or pull people’s heads out of their own asses. Planners, this is how I would like the world to be. Engineers, this is the reality of the world you live in. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/334456/IMG_0061_jpeg-3831621.JPG Welp. That's fucked up, and explains a few things. |
| I saw an old F150 (green, of course) with some kind of custom extra tall rack that extended over the cab. It was piled at least 15 feet high and stem to stern with rolls of insulation. It was swaying back and forth just driving straight ahead. I thought it might tip over at any moment. I couldn’t see how it could possibly make a turn and stay upright. |
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I live 4 miles north of the mexican border and having to deal with the morons with sonora, mexico plates on their cars. They just cannot drive and for some reason have to drive 10-15 mph below the speed limit. And this is what it looks like when more than one vehicle is at a 4 way stop: 
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My ex was hit head on by a wrong way driver , who was an illegal alien with a stolen car and fake ID. My car was broken into and my wife's wallet was in the car. An illegal alien who got into a car wreck was caught with my wife's id. I wonder what percentage of car wrecks are illegal aliens? |
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My latest pet peeve is people who get up to the merging zone of the freeway going 10-25 under the speed limit. I-69 here is 65 through town and all the ramps have plenty of distance to get up to speed. People will coast down a very long ramp and merge area then expect to get into a travel lane going 40-45 
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Originally Posted By NCUrk: Today, I pulled out of our local Walmart. Heading West on a 4 lane, divided highway. Speed limit is 55. I get in the fast lane, get up to 55 and the guy in the slow lane pulls in front of me , to avoid hitting a car in the slow lane. He then proceeds to stay directly beside the car he almost rear ended, at 45 mph. Did this for about a mile. The car in the slow lane pulls off the highway and a school bus pulls out into the slow lane. Car in front of me slows to 35 in a 55. Refuses to pass the bus. The bus then turns it's yellow lights on and starts to slow down. The car slows down and puts a little distance between its front bumper and the back of the bus. The bus's red lights start flashing and it comes to a stop. The car then turns its left blinker on. Goes in the center lane, comes close to side swiping another bus, stopped with its lights on, going the opposite direction, then turns his right blinker on and comes back into the fast lane of original travel ... Times I wish I had a dash cam..... What dumb things have you seen today. Other than me writing a terrible paragraph? Hopefully buses in your state have cameras and that guy can get a ticket. The most frequent gripe I have with local traffic are the people who want to pull out into the lanes of travel from driveways and side streets with approaching traffic that's so close it's unsafe to do so. People should not have to hit their brakes to avoid having a collision. |
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Originally Posted By redseven11b: I saw a truck filled with dryers, while pulling a trailer stacked with dryers. I counted 48 dryers. It was incredible. when i lived in lakeland fl, i guess there was a pallet recycling yard. i saw a 98-11 ford ranger with pallets in the bed stacked 10' high, and pallets pn the roof stacked even with the bed pallets. the truck was squatted so low from the weight a speed bump would have tore the frame out from under it. there is no money like crack money.
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Originally Posted By southeast_scrounger: The sheer number of people that can't comprehend a 3 or 4 way stop. Traffic circles are worse. |
Extorris, because he's a heartless cunt. The purity of his apathy is laboratory grade, and I sleep well knowing that he's out there somewhere,
not giving a shit about anyone or anything.
not giving a shit about anyone or anything.
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Originally Posted By Koa: Every once in awhile I'll see a couch cushion. Wouldn't that suck when you're moving and you get to the new place and one (1) cushion is missing from the couch?! When I was 15 we moved out to a rural area, and one of our cushions flew out on the interstate. Several cars ran over it. My stepdad stopped and walked back to get it. It had a tire mark on one side and a hole on the other from road rash. We kept the holey side flipped over and kept using that sofa for years. 
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Originally Posted By tc556guy: Hopefully buses in your state have cameras and that guy can get a ticket. The most frequent gripe I have with local traffic are the people who want to pull out into the lanes of travel from driveways and side streets with approaching traffic that's so close it's unsafe to do so. People should not have to hit their brakes to avoid having a collision. The buses have cameras. Through blind chance, it seems I know the driver of the bus, her kid plays football with my kid. She has turned the video over to the Admin, who is supposed to turn it over to the LEO. She said the other school bus driver also has the footage and done the same. |
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