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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]
#23421396 - 07/07/16 08:15 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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An abrupt / improper lane change can kill if you happen to be checking your rearview mirror for that half a second. It seems pretty reasonable to be upset by it.
I have been in the car with a lot of shitty drivers who are constantly road raging though, they think eveyone else is a shitty driver but you can't feel safe going to a grocery store with them.
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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]
#23421400 - 07/07/16 08:16 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I know how you feel about traffic annoyances. I go to my friends house weekly to chill. The road leading to his area has a speed limit of 30mph. It actually turns into 25mph around a sharp turn. I go 35mph on this road. People behind me have tail gated more than often. They like to go 45mph on this road and there is just no way I'm going to do that. Local law enforcement near the end of each month will watch this area closely and give people tickets all the time, near the end of each month.
I used to drive with pot all the time to my friends house when I used to smoke. I got into the habit of always obeying speed limits. I no longer do any thing illegal but i still follow the speed limit. They love to tail gate on this road but I do not budge. When I go to turn onto my buddy's road I do it very nice and slow for them.
Once I got pissed off and this guy went to pass me after tail gating me very closely so I just sped up just as fast as he was so he could not. He was blowing the horn. Then the road came I needed to turn onto so I had to slow down and he passed.
Even tho I gave in that time I will not do it again. It's wrong. I have learned to just let them ass holes pass.
However I have considered buying a marque light up board to put on the back of my vehicle that say's "The speed limit is only 30mph asshole.", because it happen's to often to me.
I'm serious they like to go 45mph on this road. I have sped up purposeless once or twice over the years, even at 40mph they still tailgate. It's ridiculous. It's because of miss conception of the speed limit and the ignoring of the signs. After the road I have to turn on there is a sign and the limit becomes 35mph then farther down it becomes 40, then 60. It's very annoying tho. It's only 30mph up to my buddy's road just a little bit passed it.
So a light up sign I will seek out to use one day. So I can flip a switch and call em all assholes. Because they are indeed, assholes.
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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]
#23421603 - 07/07/16 09:27 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
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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: Great Scott]
#23421750 - 07/07/16 10:20 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Most people(and thus most drivers) have little regard for the lives of others. That makes it okay for them to change lanes as you drive up from behind them, imposing their vehicle directly in front of you which poses a danger to you, them, and also any one else on the road. That is the fact.
It doesn't matter who is right on wrong, who was driving over the speed limit or whatever excuse anyone can muster. It's calling being negligent. It's a privilege to drive a car and it is your responsibility to do so safely. That means watching the fuck out when you shift lanes.
Accidents happen. We don't see a guy or we misjudge how fast they are going, we drive a shitty car and it can't get up the hill. It happens and if you notice and feel bad then pat yourself on the back because you have a shred of decency left in you.
On the flip side, most people (and thus most drivers) are completely self-centered when drive. They think the world revolves around them and take everything as a personal offense.
Sure, there are rules on the road so don't get butt hurt because you're trailing behind a guy going the speed limit who can't pass anyone.
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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: Black_Sunset]
#23421761 - 07/07/16 10:25 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't think the majority of people are as shitty as you make them out to be, dumb and absent minded fits the bill more imo.
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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: Repertoire89]
#23421797 - 07/07/16 10:38 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Repertoire89 said: I don't think the majority of people are as shitty as you make them out to be, dumb and absent minded fits the bill more imo.
Youre right, and I don't think being dumb and absent minded makes you a shitty person. Endangering the lives of others through recklessness makes most drivers shitty people, if only for a moment in their driving career.
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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: Black_Sunset]
#23421942 - 07/07/16 11:38 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I feel like when one is driving in a car just obey the speed limits and be calm. You already have to drive and one might as well deal with it positively. I used to get upset and realized it is for nothing. What's the point? It's a waste of time and energy.
I never raged but would get really stressed, for no reason. I make mistakes at times so I give the friendly wave if I do, and also when someone else screws up and "cuts me off". I just ignore it and be glad I didn't get in an accident. If you are late, you're already late, go the speed limit and be calm. Being somewhere 5 mins earlier is not worth ANY stress or a potential accident. I have been driving in big cites and rural arras for over 35 years and have been in 1 wreck that was totally my fault.
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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]
#23421964 - 07/07/16 11:52 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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This is getting cut off
So is this
And this http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7f3_1467482496
This http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cda_1463713784
Dead http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c6_1243255220
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a52_1383817423
Any questions? It's stupid careless and causes accidents all the time. People die. It's not some imaginary thing.
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And this is how you should be by default with all the retards on their cell phones out there in 2 ton death machines. Especially now that Pokemon Go is out.
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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: Shroomism] 2
#23421988 - 07/08/16 12:12 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Someone who doesn't grasp the concept of "being cut off" after driving for 10 years is probably a person that cuts off people all the time and doesn't think twice about 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: UncleCid] 1
#23422046 - 07/08/16 12:41 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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UncleCid said: 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
You can't drive any where in London without doing this. You'd be motionless lol
I agree with it being childish if you can't just deal; with it calmly and carry on. I see insane shit every day on the roads don't let it phase you. If you're shouting al the time then your deffo the childish one with a temper problem.
Roads are dangerous places full of idiots, nutters, old people who can't see etc etc If you can't handle breaking cuz someone makes a mistake then don't get in a car.
I've had a lot more crazier shit than being cut off to worry ahout. A few weeks ago someone was going round the roundabout the wrong way at 40mph...
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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]
#23423401 - 07/08/16 12:05 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's a really big issue in NJ where everyone drives at a different speed, most people on the interstates are going at least 10 mph over the speed limit with only 1 car length between the car in front/behind them, and half the population sucks at driving. I see it happen all the time and it happens to me at least once a year. You just have to be really alert to drive here because of congestition so it generally doesn't turn into an accident. Doesn't make it any less infuriating though.
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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: fapjack]
#23423552 - 07/08/16 01:02 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Honestly I prefer NJ drivers to PA or NY drivers, and I'm from PA - I've noticed that as long as you stay the fuck out of their way, NJ drivers are actually way better - and they never sit in the left lane or at least move over for faster traffic.
Your highway system makes like 0 sense to me half the time, and it does turn into a traffic hell when you start getting remotely close to rush hour on most of the major thoroughfares, but I don't mind the drivers at all
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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]
#23423611 - 07/08/16 01:22 PM (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
Sounds like you both need help.
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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: pirate-blues]
#23424040 - 07/08/16 03:43 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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The closer you are to NYC the worse the drivers are. A lot of people that live in North NJ don't commute to work, they take the train everyday. They use their car for the weekends or around town, and never really master how to drive on highways.
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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]
#23424049 - 07/08/16 03:45 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Also, just because you're ignorant or too inattentive doesn't mean something hasn't happened..
It just means you're ignorant and inattentive
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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: abltsandwich]
#23427540 - 07/09/16 07:31 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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abltsandwich said: Someone who doesn't grasp the concept of "being cut off" after driving for 10 years is probably a person that cuts off people all the time and doesn't think twice about it.
Maybe I just don't get mad about shit very easily?
Seems to me that when I rode with other people, the same people who would be complaining about the poor driving habits of others, and constantly accusing others of cutting them off, were precisely the same people with poor driving habits who didn't use their blinkers.
Again, I've never been in a moving collision, so like. It's hard for me to see myself as being a poor driver.
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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]
#23428503 - 07/10/16 06:45 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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My grandparents didn't have any accidents the last 10 years of their lives either and they couldn't drive worth a shit. A better indicator of how good you are at driving is how many total points you've gotten on your license divided by how many accidents you've had.
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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]
#23429113 - 07/10/16 11:50 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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abltsandwich said: Someone who doesn't grasp the concept of "being cut off" after driving for 10 years is probably a person that cuts off people all the time and doesn't think twice about it.
Maybe I just don't get mad about shit very easily?
Seems to me that when I rode with other people, the same people who would be complaining about the poor driving habits of others, and constantly accusing others of cutting them off, were precisely the same people with poor driving habits who didn't use their blinkers.
Again, I've never been in a moving collision, so like. It's hard for me to see myself as being a poor driver.
10 years of driving isn't exactly a gold standard or anything. Any professional driving courses? Is that 30,000 miles a year or what? I've been driving for 20 years and I had never been in a moving accident until a month or two ago. But wasn't my fault.. it was my brain's... I blacked out. I've also avoided countless accidents caused by other retard drivers through acute situational awareness, Yes.... with skill, reaction speeds and hyper awareness of the other cars around you, you can mitigate or avoid a lot of the risks. But that doesn't mean the shit doesn't exist.
And yeah some people are just dumb and rage all the time at the most minor things, they are probably not that great either. But that doesn't mean there's not metric fucktons of completely shitty drivers out there that aren't paying any attention.
My friend got cut off by a chick who pulled into his lane without looking, he was in the carpool lane cruising at about 80 and she pulled in putting at about 20. (Happened almost exactly like that first video I posted) He's an expert driver (no joke) but that didn't fucking matter, there was no way he could avoid her and ended up slamming into her, totaling his and her car.
Being a good driver doesn't mean you are never going to get in an accident and it doesn't mean people don't cut other people off and cause accidents. Yeah being super aware certainly helps. But if you've been driving for 10 years and you still don't understand the concept of being cut off I don't think I can help.
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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]
#23429117 - 07/10/16 11:53 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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morrowasted said: In my experience, the people who got the most road rage about the "poor driving" of others were in fact themselves the worst drivers.
You apparently have very little experience.
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