In the last 10 years, I've had the same thing happen twice. It is one of the scariest things one can experience. I also witnessed a four-car head on accident. The last car came within feet of hitting my car
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SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST TOO DARN IMPATIENT
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That's why I'm glad I live up here now. Minimum traffic. 50 + years in the Denver metro area mostly. Won't even consider going back. Everybody is either in a hurry or too important to pay attention. Then add in the idiot sport bike riders and there is the recipe for disaster.
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Regrettably, impatience and rude and dangerous behavior on the road have become essential elements in the daily lives of many. Their actions are manifest in a variety of ways, the most common of which is probably tailgate bullying.
I am with you guys. I used to travel a fair amount in my work. Houston, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, anywhere in California, Buffalo, it is all the same. People are just more aggressive behind the wheel today. I am a product of the watch out for the other guy school of driving and think about what could happen if I do this or that while behind the wheel. They must believe it can't happen to them, which I understand. Anyone who has survived a serious auto accident learns how quickly and violently things occur.
I try to avoid certain areas if I can. Best we can do is reduce our risk of being a statistic.
I try to avoid certain areas if I can. Best we can do is reduce our risk of being a statistic.
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The favorite thing in Vegas right now is hit and run on pedestrians. Thing is, when you examine the circumstances, 75% or more of the time the pedestrian is the one at fault! This tells me that the runners have no license, insurance, and/or are DUI.
I drove over 2million miles over 34 yrs before I retired. Every thing you've seen, I've seen it twice. The most bothersome thing was the recklessness today's inexperienced CDL drivers display. I see them working the traffic like they're driving a Ferrari. They are completely unaware. We were the good samaritans of the highways. Today, not so much.
I set my cruise control for the maximum allowable speed limit, and stay in the rightmost lane unless I'm passing someone slower...On the interstate I drive at 55 MPH...Get as mad as you want, I'm not driving any faster because that's where I get my best fuel mileage...If I need to reach my destination any faster I'll leave the house earlier...
...Ben
...BenVehicle to vehicle hit and runs happen here all the time. Probably everywhere. Someone gets rear ended, gets out to look and the criminal takes off.
Agree, no license, no Reggie, no insurance, might be a stolen car, prohibited felon, outstanding warrant, DUI. Might be all of the above.
I drive 95 often, poor me. Some of today's truckers are rude as hell. Tailgating (right up on bumpers, how are people going to move over safely) and switching lanes at breakneck speed. I have never seen it this bad.
I do not have your miles, but I too have seen a lot
. After retiring from my union to kill time till my wife retired I drove CDL truck delivering building supplies for a few years. The class of many of the truck drivers out there has dropped into NO class. I think many got their license for a couple hundred bucks from some person in a back ally that knows how to run a copying machine!
They dress like their getting ready to go to bed. Flip flops, sweats that are about 2 weeks overdue to being washed or possibly thrown away. Hygiene its easier to go between the wheels when parked than go into a restroom at a truck stop.
For way too many English is not a first language, sign reading don't make me laugh.
If you got the time check out-- Bridge hit again in Glenville NY.
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As bad as it has gotten, and it has gotten much worse, look for videos of public bus drivers in Asia. They use the throttle like a toggle switch. On or off, nothing in between. Narrow roads with blind corners? They pass as soon as they catch another vehicle regardless of circumstances.
With uncontrolled immigration we are getting drivers from undeveloped countries with low regard for human life and no driver training.
videos of public bus drivers in Asia - Search Videos
With uncontrolled immigration we are getting drivers from undeveloped countries with low regard for human life and no driver training.
videos of public bus drivers in Asia - Search Videos
The road my neighborhood is off of is a 2 lane road with a theoretic 45mph speed limit. There is a center turn lane for the neighborhood on the other side for I'll guess 25 yrds. It's otherwise well marked as a no passing zone.
I've learned to be very careful pulling out in front of a slower moving car anywhere that center turn lane as it's likely some ahat will be using it for a high speed passing lane and will be blocked from view by the car it's passing.
People like that shouldn't get a ticket. They should be pulled from their car and given a good beat down and a warning.
I've learned to be very careful pulling out in front of a slower moving car anywhere that center turn lane as it's likely some ahat will be using it for a high speed passing lane and will be blocked from view by the car it's passing.
People like that shouldn't get a ticket. They should be pulled from their car and given a good beat down and a warning.
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A lot to unpack there.
I drove up until just before CDLs came along.
Sure, there were dirt bags then, but they were not the norm.
The majority of drivers had personal and professional pride.
When a public restroom still reeks of toxic BO even after a driver walked out a couple minutes ago is memorable.
Driving a big truck is hard work. It's long hrs, horrible schedule and very stressful. On top of that, companies don't want to pay anything. That narrows the potential employee pool down . Companies hire from the bottom of the barrel because that's all they can get. Some people are not cut out for it.
Once and drove into my subdivision....
...and signaled left to turn into my driveway, and the guy behind me passed me on the left as soon as I turned my wheel.
...and signaled left to turn into my driveway, and the guy behind me passed me on the left as soon as I turned my wheel.
I know it wouldn't seem fair but unless it was a no passing zone you would have been the one to get the ticked should a crash have occurred.
Regarding Hit & Run accidents...
It is now estimated that in the greater Houston/Harris County
area 42% of the drivers are unlicensed and uninsured.
It is now estimated that in the greater Houston/Harris County
area 42% of the drivers are unlicensed and uninsured.
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In Mexico, and probably other countries as well, putting on your turn signal is literally telling a following vehicle to pass on that side! Really!
See! I told my wife there was a reason I don't use my turn signals.
True story, when we drove to Houston in June I bet my wife that I could do all my driving (we split the time 50/50) without using my turn signal once.
Bet was dinner in our favorite Mexican restaurant.
She had to buy.
Can't believe you're bragging about being a poor/un courteous driver. Please stay away from here, we have too many just like you as it is...
