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I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" 2
#23419863 - 07/07/16 10:53 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I haven't ridden passenger with anyone in a while but when I used to, almost invariably when the driver claimed that someone cut them off, what happened was that the driver was going over the speed limit, and someone who was doing the speed limit changed lanes in front of them.
It's almost as if driver A, who consistently accuses driver X of cutting them off in traffic, thinks that driver X's primary consideration should be driver A's destination and safety rather than driver X's destination and safety.
It comes across as a very childish, self-centered attitude about the world.
I understand that sometimes people change lanes without any warning at the last second in order to make an exit. But let's be honest with ourselves. Who among us has not done this? We didn't realize an exit was approaching as quickly as it was, and we had to quickly change lanes in order to make the exit. Let him who has never done this be the first to accuse others of cutting them off.
Or am I missing something? It's just that I drive all the time and I never think to myself, "Fuck that guy for cutting me off." I sometimes think people could improve their use of turn signals and be more considerate of the speed at which other people are driving, but if someone gets in front of my who is going slower than I am, it doesn't make me mad. I just go around them.
I have never been in a major car accident. In fact in 10 years of driving I've never been in a moving collision at all. I once dinged a parked car, that's it.
In my experience, the people who got the most road rage about the "poor driving" of others were in fact themselves the worst drivers.
The only thing that gets on my nerves a bit is when there is a line of traffic going up to a freeway, and there is no traffic in an exit lane to a different freeway, and people intentionally go up the exit lane and then change lanes at the last second in order to avoid the line. I never let those people in, and you shouldn't either.
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: morrowasted]
#23419869 - 07/07/16 10:56 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is getting cut off:
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: PatrickKn]
#23419882 - 07/07/16 11:00 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is getting cut off:
Okay sure man but how often does shit like that happen? Very rarely to me, and even if it did happen it wouldn't make me like, mad. The guy got delayed by what, 3 seconds? Obviously that driver in front of him just wasn't sure whether he or she needed to make a right at that intersection.
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: PatrickKn] 1
#23419886 - 07/07/16 11:02 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yep, basically someone cutting in front of you, generally at excessive speed sometimes causing you to break. If you drive defensively and check your mirrors and blind spots it rarely happens, but has happened to me. The best course of action is to ignore it and move on, confrontation is never beneficial.
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: falsereality]
#23419892 - 07/07/16 11:04 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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How have you been driving for 10 years and not understand the concept? It's pretty easy
Certain driver's have the "right of way". If someone pulls out in front of them and the driver with the right of way has to even use the foot brake at all, then he got cut off. Pretty simple concept
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: morrowasted]
#23419893 - 07/07/16 11:04 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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This too, is getting cut off:
It happens often enough that crashes happen because of it.
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: morrowasted] 1
#23419898 - 07/07/16 11:07 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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You're missing something. Getting cut off is when someone cuts in front of you at an unsafe distance. And often driving slower than they should be for such a manuever.
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: falsereality]
#23419901 - 07/07/16 11:09 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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falsereality said: Yep, basically someone cutting in front of you, generally at excessive speed sometimes causing you to break. If you drive defensively and check your mirrors and blind spots it rarely happens, but has happened to me. The best course of action is to ignore it and move on, confrontation is never beneficial.
Some crazy asshole followed me the other day because I cut him off. It wasn't a bad cut off. I turned my blinker on then this asshole who was behind me in the lane next to me started to speed up because he didn't want me in front of him. So I said fuck you and just turned anyways. It wasn't that bad. But then he started tailing me so I brake checked him a few times and flipped him off a few times, and then he followed me to the gym. He got outta his car and stared yelling at me and I just called him a fucking psycho. He for real had anger issues, which I pointed out, which only made him more angry. He stuck his hand in my car and was waving around in an angry tirade so I closed my window on him lol, with his arm in it. Basically I antagonized the shit out of him, but at the same time if he wasn't such a dick then none of that would have happened
At one point I was purposely driving slow so he tried to pass me then I drove way faster and passing me wasn't possible bc of cars on the other side of the road. That was funny
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: morrowasted] 1
#23419911 - 07/07/16 11:15 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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In 7 years of driving I have never had a single instance of feeling like someone "cut me off" either.
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: UncleCid] 4
#23419915 - 07/07/16 11:18 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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UncleCid said: Some crazy asshole followed me the other day because I cut him off. It wasn't a bad cut off. I turned my blinker on then this asshole who was behind me in the lane next to me started to speed up because he didn't want me in front of him. So I said fuck you and just turned anyways. It wasn't that bad. But then he started tailing me so I brake checked him a few times and flipped him off a few times, and then he followed me to the gym. He got outta his car and stared yelling at me and I just called him a fucking psycho. He for real had anger issues, which I pointed out, which only made him more angry. He stuck his hand in my car and was waving around in an angry tirade so I closed my window on him lol, with his arm in it. Basically I antagonized the shit out of him, but at the same time if he wasn't such a dick then none of that would have happened
At one point I was purposely driving slow so he tried to pass me then I drove way faster and passing me wasn't possible bc of cars on the other side of the road. That was funny
You cut him off, told him to "fuck you", brake checked him multiple times, flipped him off a few times, and then rolled the window up on his arm. You realize how much of an overreaction is to his behavior?
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: falsereality]
#23419924 - 07/07/16 11:21 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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He was tailing me and refused to let me in front of him even though I had the space to merge. He didn't speed up until I put my blinker on. So he can go fuck himself
And yeah if some fucking random asshole sticks his hand in my car and waves it around like a crazy person, then yeah I'll roll the window up on you lol
Basically none of that would have happened if he didn't start tailing me after that. He was the instigator, easily. Like I cut him off, barely. It happened, get the fuck over it
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: Sheekle]
#23419942 - 07/07/16 11:27 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Sheekle said: In 7 years of driving I have never had a single instance of feeling like someone "cut me off" either.
I mean I've had times where I felt like people changed lanes in an unsafe manner in front of me. But it was never "about me". It was always about them. To me the whole "cutting ME off" concept is weird because it makes it "about me", as if the driver doing the "cutting off" is "thinking about me" when they do it. No, they're just making moderately irresponsible lane changes.
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: morrowasted]
#23419967 - 07/07/16 11:38 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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In that case, You are cutting THEM off for getting in their way! 
Its called "cutting off" cause a driver comes in fornt of the direction of travel of your own car that you are in.
Ive done it a couple times, to make an exit.
I excuse people who do it when they take an exit directly afterwords. But i feel violated when im cut off on the freeway and thy dont take an exit. Then they are just an asshole.
Its a dangerous move that should only be done in a racing course, not on a pubic road.
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#23420004 - 07/07/16 11:51 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I see getting cut off all the time. Usually when driving the speed limit someone pulls out in front. This slows down traffic and a lot of time they are just going to turn off shortly, slowing down the traffic again.
Or, someone pulls a left turn onto a road out of a business and doesn't wait for someone turning right onto the road.
I also witness people taking turns at traffic lights when a pedestrian has the light to cross a street.
People + vehicle = very stupid
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: Morel Guy]
#23420021 - 07/07/16 11:57 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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In that case, You are cutting THEM off for getting in their way! 
What?
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: morrowasted]
#23420032 - 07/07/16 12:03 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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cause u said its self centered.
So what if u took the perspective of the OTHER driver, as in the one doing the cutting off.
In that sense, the car is cutting off the car that is cutting that car off cause its in the way of the car cutting the other car off.
Get it?
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: morrowasted] 2
#23420035 - 07/07/16 12:05 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: Okay sure man but how often does shit like that happen?
Depends where you drive. Try driving frequently in the centre of any major city and you'll find it happens often.
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: Jokeshopbeard] 1
#23420056 - 07/07/16 12:12 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: Okay sure man but how often does shit like that happen?
Depends where you drive. Try driving frequently in the centre of any major city and you'll find it happens often.
I live in the fourth largest city in the country and have a 30 mile round trip to work on two major freeways daily.
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#23420063 - 07/07/16 12:14 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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LogicaL Chaos said: cause u said its self centered.
So what if u took the perspective of the OTHER driver, as in the one doing the cutting off.
In that sense, the car is cutting off the car that is cutting that car off cause its in the way of the car cutting the other car off.
Get it?
No, if a car is able to change lanes in front of me, I am clearly not in the place in which the car is changing lanes, or else a collision would occur.
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Re: I've been driving for 10 years now and still don't get the idea of getting "cut off" [Re: morrowasted]
#23420152 - 07/07/16 12:59 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: Okay sure man but how often does shit like that happen?
Depends where you drive. Try driving frequently in the centre of any major city and you'll find it happens often.
I live in the fourth largest city in the country and have a 30 mile round trip to work on two major freeways daily.
Not every city is gonna have the same traffic I see it at least five times a day
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