Obeying traffic laws is becoming hazardous
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I could read this all day, unfortunately I have to go experience it.
I just ignore all the horn blowing, finger waves, rolled down windows, brake checks, and go on my merry way with my pepper spray and P365 at the ready.
Well I was on my way to work at about 7AM with my 2 day old brand new pick up truck. It was middle of a bad winter and we had huge snow banks pilled up. I was going down the 4 lane road at the limit. A school bus coming the other way slowed to stop and off course on come the Reds.
I had just made it past a cross street and stopped for the buss. A few seconds latter this beat up old PU truck had run the stop sign and came out to the main road and crashed into the back of my new truck. i was stunned by this turn of events and this yahoo comes running over and screaming you idiot why the **** did you stop in the middle of the road.
i said something like you see that bright yellow vechicle with the flashing lights stopped across the road. Driver wanted to take off but by luck a off duty LEO stopped and got the driver to swap driver information.
Three days later my truck was in the body shop for a week.
I had just made it past a cross street and stopped for the buss. A few seconds latter this beat up old PU truck had run the stop sign and came out to the main road and crashed into the back of my new truck. i was stunned by this turn of events and this yahoo comes running over and screaming you idiot why the **** did you stop in the middle of the road.
i said something like you see that bright yellow vechicle with the flashing lights stopped across the road. Driver wanted to take off but by luck a off duty LEO stopped and got the driver to swap driver information.
Three days later my truck was in the body shop for a week.
I am now 71 years old and have in excess of 2 million miles under my belt. I have every conceivable license to drive anything with wheels. The amount of poor driving I see every day is astounding. There are 2 things you can never tell anyone and have any effect. How to drive and how to use a gun. Their reply is almost universal. "I have been driving (or using a gun) my whole life and how dare you tell me I don't know how". Soon after I clocked one and a half million miles, there was NOTHING I didn't know. Readers Digest came out with an article titled "So you think you can drive". Twenty-five questions was all. Piece of cake. I got 3 correct. At this point I did for myself and all others drivers on the road, what drill sargents do in basic training. Strip you down to nothing, insisting everything you had learned to this point was wrong, and built you back a better man. Well driver in my case. It was amazing how little I knew and how poor of a driver I was.
venomballistics
Member
Observed in the wild, most of these cover the quarter mile in 6 to 8 weeks. Expect a fresh green light to be yellow before it clears the intersection.
This also applies to almost all F series trucks, though to a lesser degree.
Thing is, they make reasonable numbers under the hood. A rare few make use of those numbers so there's proof it's in there.
But what else is involved with these things to make them so laden with self loathing to do little more than mope down the road with a traffic jam behind them?
No telling how many people I PO'ed yesterday on my trip to the Dallas gun show...It's a 450 mile round trip and since I was in no great hurry, I drove at 55mph where my old truck gets its best fuel mileage...I stayed in the right lane all the way letting my cruise control take care of the pedal duties...I don't recall passing many folks, although the majority passed me at a considerably higher speed, some of them saluting me with their horns...Being the friendly sort I always returned the salute with my five 106 db train horns...
Some of the vehicles were recognizable as they passed me 2 or 3 times after having stopped for fuel or to talk to some of the friendly highway patrolmen stationed along the interstate to assist wayward motorists...I arrived at my destination on schedule and relaxed; if I had needed to get there sooner I would have left the house earlier...
Here's the view the bumper riders enjoyed behind me...
...Ben
Some of the vehicles were recognizable as they passed me 2 or 3 times after having stopped for fuel or to talk to some of the friendly highway patrolmen stationed along the interstate to assist wayward motorists...I arrived at my destination on schedule and relaxed; if I had needed to get there sooner I would have left the house earlier...
Here's the view the bumper riders enjoyed behind me...
...Ben
I don't know where you are seeing this pattern of driving by pickup owners. In the past couple of years I have driven coast to coast and several large urban areas and local rural & towns. Driving 5-10 over I have been passed by more pickups than any other type of vehicle. Only slow ones I see are the farm trucks hauling equipment or a load of baled hay.
venomballistics
Member
What makes?
Chevy's seem to hold pace, Dodge runs the gambit,
Ford.... Unless it's a raptor or lightning trim, it's usually too laden with self loathing to get out of its own way.
Even the imports seem to get with the program.... Except for the Nissan Pathgrinder.
Obviously you do not drive where I do. Many of the Diesel pick ups are quite snappy and can show you the short way to the next traffic light or go down the road at a decent speed. That's for the legal ones. Many I see are chip and other work done modified and will get you attention.
I live in a rural area. The local town(?) has a few developments outside it. Whilst on the way home I frequently find my rear view mirror filled by some tailgater trying to push me faster so they get home maybe 30 seconds sooner. I've found if I keep to the speed limit they generally back off. If they don't, there's a couple of interesting turns I go through at the same speed while they jump on the brakes (don't know how to go around corners).
My own personal beef is the idiots who cruise along in the left lane. Not a car in sight but they're in the left lane. This really peeves me when, if they were in the correct/right lane, I could pull out from another road. A few years back, the legislature decided to join most of the country and make the right lane the travel lane unless passing (or very heavy traffic). Wish it was enforced.
My own personal beef is the idiots who cruise along in the left lane. Not a car in sight but they're in the left lane. This really peeves me when, if they were in the correct/right lane, I could pull out from another road. A few years back, the legislature decided to join most of the country and make the right lane the travel lane unless passing (or very heavy traffic). Wish it was enforced.
Fastest and most aggressive: Ram, lots of those 5.7 Hemis
Close 2nd: Ford
Last Chevy
Obviously you don't like F series pickups of any ilk.
Doing the speed limit on a motorcycle, especially on a two lane road, is dangerous. I was “ holding up traffic” one day on a back road. A mustang pushing me. We got to a straight away but not a passing zone. He pulled out to pass and when he came alongside, he downshifted and punched it. He broke traction just as he got ahead of me. He got scared and jammed the brakes on as he cut back in front of me. I had slowed down when he started around me so his stunt didn’t really hurt me.
I will admit I’ll blow the horn if you sit there to long looking at the phone.
Red light runners and people that that ride the white line while trying to make a turn. They use the brakes blocking the straight lane all way to the light. Some don’t know the difference between merge and yield.
I will admit I’ll blow the horn if you sit there to long looking at the phone.
Red light runners and people that that ride the white line while trying to make a turn. They use the brakes blocking the straight lane all way to the light. Some don’t know the difference between merge and yield.
I've found the bow tie pick'em ups driven locally seem to cause the most wonderment on the streets.
Having driven enough to know how I found every conceivable situation is covered by two simple rules for me.
Always let the other guy know my intent.
If I need to think about it I won't do it.
Having driven enough to know how I found every conceivable situation is covered by two simple rules for me.
Always let the other guy know my intent.
If I need to think about it I won't do it.
Living where I do now is a piece of cake. Little traffic and most everyone stays close to the speed limit. When I went back to Colorado, I drove Hwy 85 in Wyoming. The first 150 miles there were 17 LEO's checking speed. I got stopped for doing 70 while passing a slow truck. Long open space, no vehicles in sight, no solid line for a couple of miles. Got a ticket for speeding. Got told to wait for a passing lane so I could pass w/o speeding. Money grubbing State anyway.
SnidelyWhiplash
Member
Here around Phoenix the use of turn signals is almost unknown...it's not just confined to BMW drivers.
There's an unofficial rule around here that if you see someone actually using turn signals you have the right to stop them and ask if they're OK or having a medical emergency.
There's an unofficial rule around here that if you see someone actually using turn signals you have the right to stop them and ask if they're OK or having a medical emergency.
venomballistics
Member
I drove a Fox body mustang for literally decades.
Brand loyalty has nothing to do with it.
Ram 1500 of 2020 model year is rated 260 - 395 hp
Chevy Silverado 1500 2020 model year 277 - 420 HP
Ford F-150 of 2020 model year 250 - 450 HP
With only a 27 HP spread among the base models, I'm trying to make sense of what I observe out there.
There's no appreciable difference between them.
From there we go into what used to be sports car and exotic kind of numbers.
A 2000 Porsche 911 was 300 HP in 2010 it's from 345 - 500.
Why do they merge at 40?
Faulkner
Member
Based on what I'm reading in this thread I don't feel my job security is the least bit threatened.
Alk8944
US Veteran
I just love to read how many who would claim to be good, law-abiding, gun owning citizens do not hesitate to BRAG about how they always drive 5-10 MPH over the posted limit! Traffic laws are real laws, not suggestions or requests, no matter how well they may be enforced in your area.
We had a few Officers on my department who wrote few to no traffic citations! Their reason? "I won't write a ticket to anyone for doing what I do!" Ain't that just wonderful!!!
We had a few Officers on my department who wrote few to no traffic citations! Their reason? "I won't write a ticket to anyone for doing what I do!" Ain't that just wonderful!!!
