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Forgive him, for he may be from out of town and the road itself doesn’t look particularly well marked.
Too bad. People exploit that excuse more than it’s true.
Not if he’s got local tags.
Um…. No. He is almost never from out of town. Don’t let him in. And, vote to make the punishment for this a lifetime driving ban.
Welcome to Houston, Texas.
Notice the native driver making a right turn, see how he uses his blinker to inform other drivers that he IS coming over in front of them. Notice the confidence of his maneuver. Too bad they are on the endangered species list and illegal to hunt!
I can confirm this is also a standard poaching practice in Florida.
The turn signal here in Austin is a bit different. The rare person who does use one thinks it’s his divine right to change lanes, regardless of whether another vehicle currently occupies that space. For others, they are on the watch for someone using a signal. When they spot one, they either speed up or slow down so as to make it impossible for turn signal user person to change lanes.
In short, we have more assholes on the road per capita than you guys do. I’ve driven in Houston and it was friendlier.
Try San Antonio. Especially in Tourist Season. Say, if its Tourist Season, why can’t we hunt them?
Here in Florida, we get people who start to change lanes, get about 1/4 of the way over, then turn on their blinker, then maybe look to see if a car is there.
Actually, the native Houstonian wouldn’t use his blinker. Further, if this were a Houstonian, there would be a few miles of cars backed up behind him since he’d be stopped dead in a 60+ mph zone on the freeway.
Also happens in California.
DC area here: we not only have the native idiots, we get extras shipped in from all over the country! (I’m convinced that some of these jerks get elected to Congress solely because you people want the fools to go somewhere, ANYwhere, else!)
Hey, show some love-at least they all appear to be driving the same car, and he’s the only one who has signalled the turn!
Yeah, at least he’s signaling. If someone tries to cut over in front of me without signaling, I don’t let them in. (I’m not sure why it’s relevant that they’re all driving the same car; as long as it’s not a Hummer or some other giant trash, I don’t really care.)
Even so, this is a very frustrating practice at places where the traffic is congested, and waiting for one more car usually means waiting an entire cycle of the light (like getting on Denny eastbound from Aurora southbound in Seattle during rush-hour). Even if I try not to let them in, someone ahead of me usually does.
Signaling doesn’t make this any less of a douchebag move. It means they did not plan ahead and were not prepared. I commute 2 hours every weekday and see people like this on a regular basis. Its even worse when they do not signal and force themselves in even when there is no space and thus block two lanes instead of one.
On another note, since the right lane is for turning only, it is not necessary signal. It is good practice and etiquette, but not required as it is a protected turning lane.
Polaris parkway in Columbus Ohio, merging into 71 S….Every single day, at least 20 from the point I can see the ramp.
Wrong – signaling is always required by law and there have been citations issues for not signaling in a dedicated turn lanes all over the US. It’s a douche-bag cop move but it happens. Google it.
Oh man, good catch there.
The fail here is not the car on the left, but is in fact every car except the car on the left!
Ignore the superimposed signs, and instead look at the road markings! These are UK road markings (left hand drive). The cars on the right hand side are all travelling in the wrong direction.
Extract from “The Highway Code” showing exactly what I mean: http://www.findleys.co.uk/highway_code/road_junctions.html
Exactly what I was about to put, minus the link.
Obviously done by an American who assumes everyone outside America drives on the wrong side of the road as well, and doesn’t bother doing any research before half arsedly shopping a pic from a driving manual.
Where does it say this image was intended for those from any particular country? Driving on the right side of the road is the law in the US, so it would only be natural for an American to depict the driving situation as such. Additionally, you assume the author to be American, when in fact they could be a citizen of a number of other countries. The US is not the only country with right hand traffic.
You are the one who didn’t do you research. Way to call the kettle black, ass hat…excuse me, pot.
Who cares if the road and traffic patterns don’t match up with your particular country? That’s not the point of the picture. And if it doesn’t apply to your country, don’t feel so left out; just move on with your life.
I’m trying to move on with my life! I just have to make this turn to do it!
Stupid Brits and Anzacs who think everyone not in the US drives on the left.
You seriously need to revise your code, you’re a public danger…
It doesn’t matter.
If you want to turn right, you have to stay on the right, and if you want to turn left, stay on the left. That’s the same in the US or in UK. In Japan or in the rest of Europe.
So, the driver on the left is an asshole. In Australia or in Canada.
In Soviet Russia, the left drives on you.
Those road markings are for a two way street.
Nope, sorry. But here’s a nice consolation gift to take home.
These are utterly appropriate road markings for a 2-lane, ONE WAY street anywhere in the US, and you might find a situation like this in any big city from New York to San Francisco.
And it, or something like it happens all the time, the salient point being the driver who skips past the traffic in a turn-only lane to cut in just before the turn. It’s also possible to do it inadvertently if a driver is unfamiliar with the area and the turn restrictions aren’t marked well in advance, but that doesn’t make those who have been stuck in the lane for the past 15 minutes feel much better about it.
Clearly the are on a one way dude.
Bry? From Florida? [probably not... lol]
The fail is the that it is a two-lane one-way road, with a “Right Turn Only” lane clearly marked. No matter what side of the road, US or UK or Japan.
It’s like the idiots that either ignore or think they can “beat” a “Lane ends ahead 20 miles… then after following all the warnings that his lane will end, even the last “Lane ends 100 yards” sign will attempt to cut in front of your lane only a couple car-lengths before his lane ends. Nothing is gained by doing this, unless the driver is low an testosterone and failing to cause a pileup would have made his private parts wither away…. (or *HER* privates for that matter!)
sorry, not quite true. ever heard of merging in turns? there is actually a lot if drivers use a lane until it ends. it reduces traffic jams. don’t you do that in the US (assuming you are from the US)?
but even if the driver is unfamiliar with the area or ist just a dickhead, why waste all the energy to not let him or her in? life is to short to get angry at ALL the idiots out there…
In the US we are supposed to be taught to get over ASAP when we see a sign that says the lane ends. Sometimes it’s unavoidable and you don’t get a chance to get over until it actually does, but you are supposed to do it sooner if it’s safe to prevent accidents. I have never blocked a vehicle from getting over in this situation if they have their signal on.
This is the wrong way to do it and increases traffic congestion. If one of 2 lanes is closed on a highway, the best way to make traffic flow smoothly is for drivers to use BOTH lanes up until the merge point, and then “zipper” together, with cars from each lane taking turns merging. Anything else slows down traffic.
Just think about it – if everyone moved over to the open lane way before the merge point, you have A LOT of highway (the entire other lane) that’s not being used. And if you take the stupid rule “get over ASAP” to it’s logical end, we’d all end up driving in a single lane because a lane is closed 100 miles ahead.
People who block others from merging are the real assholes. And also idiots for not using both lanes right up until the merge point.
In this scenario, I’d much rather be the asshole who doesn’t let people over than the dude who rationalizes zooming past a line of cars who are only slowed down by people who think the zippered approach is the way to go. Zip this, last-minute dude.
iLike, you are incorrect. Consider ONLY the bottleneck, as the rest is irrelevant. The faster cars are going through that bottleneck, the better. If cars are zippering right at the bottleneck, then they are going slowly. If cars are merged beforehand, they can go more quickly through the bottleneck, though they would on average go more slowly up to it.
Your logical conclusion only holds true if the road doesn’t have any entrances or exits before the 100 miles is up, and everyone drives the same speed, and there are enough cars to actually be bottlenecked on a transition to a single lane.
I wish everyone could understand this concept. I will be honest my husband and I are just like the people everyone on here a crying about. One thing I can not stand is when I am stuck in traffic because everyone wants to stay in one lane bc the other lane eventually ends and no we dont wait for someone to let us in. A turn singnal is to let people know you are coming over. No we dont run people off the road but we dont turn on our turn signal and stop in the road for someone to let us in. My husband always says I am not asking you if I can come over I am warning you that I am coming over.
On the highway my husband ends up pissing off the overtheroad truckers that think they own the highways. You know the ones that when everyone is pissing several minutes away in the one lane when they should be traveling in both lanes till the lane ends or until constrution whatever the situation may be, the one trucker in the passing lane doing 5 mph driving next to another OTR truck driver. so no one can get in the passing lane to drive past all the idoits sitting in the other lane, and then merge over in front of all the other dumbasses that decided to cause traffic congestion. My husband will pass them on the outside to get around them and then if other cars decide to follow, my husband will stop in the passing lane to let the other cars that followed merge over before we do, then causing that trucker to have to wait on us. I am sorry but if I am driving it is because I have somewhere to be and I am not going to wait around in bumper to bumper traffic because no one wants to drive in the open lane and than merge. If everyone did this there would be less traffic problems.
I am mostly referring to constrution areas. Where there is a sign that says construction for 2 miles in the laft lane 4 miles ahead and everyone decideds oh I better get in the right lane 4 miles back from the construction…And as far as the zipping I am not going to stay behind someone who is driving 30 in a 45 when I have enough time to pass them and get over in front of them before I need to make my turn.
Merging in turns does not occur in the US:
A) In the situation depicted.
B) In the situation described.
It occurs during congestion at intersections when turning to the right and at the on ramp of any limited access highway with merging.
In the U.S. one is supposed to be smart, think ahead, and get in the proper lane before one is no longer able to travel. One is also not supposed to force one’s way into a lane.
Keep in mind this is NOT merge where we’re dropping a lane. Merge signs ARE an idication that one lane has the right of way and the other lane DOESN’T. “zippering” merges, as is commonly done in Europe, and is an increasingly common practice in the US is probably superior to the traditional “right of way” system in the US. In the US these are indicated by “form single lane” signs with NO indication of which lane has priority.
The road markings are for a two way street.
Bry – Gawd, you’re an epic idiot of limited experience.
Exactly the same signs are in use in Canada – and Canada is no longer a part of Britain. Clearly, you are not a member of MENSA, either.
Idiot? I suggest you re-read, because I state, “Ignoring the signs”, and you pull me up on the signs? Who’s the idiot?
Of all the countries I’ve ever visited (canada isn’t one them I must admit), I’ve never seen road markings like this, except for in the UK (or other LHD countries).
Bry, I live in the US and I’ve seen signs like this. Not often, since a large portion of the U.S. does not have one-way streets. It is debatable where those particular signs are from, since between the countries they are pretty similar. However, in cities in the U.S. (Atlanta comes to mind) this happened quite often to me.
The point is this photo could apply anywhere. For RHD countries, this is quite appropriate and turning right would put us going with the direction of traffic, assuming you were turning onto a 2-lane road with directions both ways or even a one-way street. For a LHD country, I would assume you are turning right onto another one-way road or else you would be turning against traffic and that does not seem to be the case in the photo.
The road signs themselves are very American. Whether they’re exclusively American, I have no idea.
Point being, while that dotted line might be a UK thing, who’s to say it’s exclusively UK?
More places drive on the right then the left.
Sometimes I do something like that approaching roundabouts. BUT, instead of turning right, I turn around the roundabout making a 270° turn, then I go out of it.
Perfectly legal and it doesn’t bother anyone. Ah!
er… you turn left? (generally, the third exit of a four-point roundabout?) I don’t understand how that’s relevant.
I have seen this happen, and had the pleasure of running the impatient bastard off the road. Literally.
That’s the advantage of driving an older car, while the witless idiot jumping the line is driving a new BMW SUV.
Why does that not surprise me? The arseholes are nearly always BMW drivers.
A chick in a BMW pulled that move on me over the weekend exiting the parkway- cut in front of me so close fifteen feet from the exit that I had to stand on the brakes to keep from rear-ending her. The joke was on her, though. She ended up behind an old guy in a Lincoln driving about fifteen miles an hour, while I ended up turning the other way at the light. (The Lincoln was the reason traffic was crawling in the right-hand lane – nobody else was dumb enough to try to pass the guy so close to the ramp.)
I bet that’s all that old guy does. Now that he’s retired he goes tooling around high-traffic areas in low gear, enforcing his own kind of vigilante justice. It’s two miles from here to the Golden Corral – he figures he can make it by daybreak.
Heh, I love it when that happens.
I always drive the exact speed limit. I figure it’s there for a reason. There’s a hill on the way to my work that everyone else speeds down – even though there’s a well known speed trap at the bottom of the hill. One day I and the car in the lane next to me were both going down, both going the speed limit. Behind me there was this little white sports car that kept darting from my lane to the other lane. Back and forth. They were looking for a chance to get around me.
I look into my review mirror at this car and see this guy, bald with glasses, throwing a temper tantrum, hitting his steering wheel and screaming, because he couldn’t get past to go speeding down the hill.
Still makes me smile to this day.
Actually if you were both doing the speed limit, one of you should not have been in the “passing” lane. You see, the idea of passing is not relevant when two objects are traveling in the same direction at the same speed.
And if it is a notorious speed trap, why the heck didn’t ya get out of the way?!
Some people think that if they’re hogging the outside lane at the speed limit (and not actually overtaking) they’re doing the world a service. I think the technical term is ‘douchebags’.
Well that is another issue too many people dont seem to understand what a passing lane is. IT IS FOR PASSING not for driving side by side with the car in the right. anyways I posted my driving habits that everyone here hates so much but everyone is missing the point of the picture it doesnt matter what coutry it is in the point is that the car in the left drove past all the other cars so they didnt have to wait in the turning lane in hopes of jumping infront of the cars that have been waiting.
Oh… it’s even funner when somebody tailgates you when you’re going 5-10 over then you just slow down to the speed limit once they start tailgating you
If they had their turn signals on in the turning lane, perhaps the driver in the left lane would have realized that that was the turning lane only and gotten over sooner, instead of needing to get in once he was close enough to see the signs in the intersection.
I bet I know who the one person who voted this as “thumbs down” is.
The one person who gave this a thumbs down is the asshole in question.
Im that guy who says f that guy, he’s not goin in front of me
This happens at my school every morning. Someone decided to do it in front of me. I drive a jeep and they were in a accord. Let’s just say I won. He got two, two foot scratches, and I got a scuff an inch or so long. Also, he had to pay to have mine repaired. I highly doubt he will cut in front of anyone again.
Boston driving at its finest, ladies and gentlemen.
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I haven’t LOLed this hard in a good while. XD
The trick is to leave enough space between the car in front and the car behind to have a good looking gap that isn’t big enough.
Can someone please find a non-profit organization who will turn this into a billboard?
If I start one, will you contribute to it?
Evil Dave…Bay Area driving an xB?
I don’t let those people in.
What’s worse than asshole trying to butt in, is the person in front of you who decides now is the time to be a good Samaritan and let him in.
Amen to that
Yeah, the douchebags that let these people into the lane piss me off far more than the ones doing the cutting.
YES. Also, when there is a long line of traffic in the lane going straight, and someone pulls into the empty right turn lane and stops, not turning right. At the light change, he floors it and passes the front car in the intersection, getting in front of several cars. This happens ALL THE TIME in Chicago.
Now if only someone would do illustrations showing how it’s the first person to the line at a 4-way stop whom gets to go, NOT whomever feels like it. Also that bike riders MUST STOP at stop signs too and just because they’re riding “green” does not mean they get to break the law. And finally how, when in a double right turn lane, ONLY the cars CLOSEST to the curb get to turn right on red.
You’re supposed to drive defensively meaning you let one person in. And everyone has been that person. So let the guy in and continue sitting in your hour plus of rush hour traffic, just cause you are 16 feet closer then 1 car doesnt mean that 50+ cars arent going to pass you before you turn. You = moron.
@jamisings 4 cars come to a 4 way stop some one yields the right away. There is no order to it. Also double and triple right turn lanes every lane can turn right on red not the closest to the curb otherwise it wouldnt be a turning lane.
There most certainly is an order to it. A very clearly defined order.
The first car to the sign has the right of way. If two cars get to the sign at the same time, the car to the right has the right of way, or if from opposite directions, the car not turning left.
And your second point is also in error. Unless explicitly marked, only the curb lane may turn on red.
after some more reading, I’m no longer sure about multiple right-turn lanes at a red light. The stop sign I’m still sure about though.
It is not true that every car in a double or triple right lane can turn on red. You can if it isnt indicated that you cant. I live near Peoria IL it seems almost every double right lane turn that i have come to in shithole Peoria indicates only right lane right turns can turn on red. But it isnt anything to really complain about like some have on here if you have a problem with that then dont pull up in the left lane right turn get in the lane that allows you to turn right on red. I dont understand why people make things more difficult than they are and then stew over it.
I agree with most except the last part. In a double-right turn lane, it depends where you are whether it’s legal or not. It is perfectly legal where I live to do a right turn-on-red in a double-right lane in the lane farthest from the curve as long as you stay in your lane (and there is no sign that says no right on red). It’s illegal to change lanes while you’re turning.
UMM because then there are 2 lanes turning onto the street that has the green light. Usually the one on the right turns, the cars that are already on that road can get over into the passing lane. For smart people the 2 lane turning on red could work but I think there are too many dumbasses out there that forget they are turning right and will end up on the left lane because they were in the left of the 2 turn lanes and pull out in front of on coming traffic.
actually the other day I was in a 2 lane turn but I was turning left so obviously I had to wait for the light to tell me it was ok to turn. I was in the left lane of the turn. So the light turns to the green arrow and everyone in the 2 lane turn starts to turn, this idiot not paying attention on his cell phone in the right lane of the turn starts to turn and instead of turning left onto the right lane because that is where he was, the right lane of the turn, is turning left and running my ass off into the other lanes going the other way because he is coming over into the left lane. Then looks at me like I am in the wrong. Idiot had no idea what he had just done.
WHEN DID THEY STOP TEACHING PEOPLE TO GO THROUGH THE INTERSECTION AND FIND SOMEWHERE TO TURN AROUND INSTEAD OF DOING THIS?
Sorry about the caps but I see this so often. I see at least 4 people a day who are doing this repeatedly at clearly marked intersections (ground arrows and hanging signs over lanes) so I know they are aware of the lane markings. The ones on the highway are driving so dangerously I have a hard time believing they are lost. If someone has been waiting for a while to get over with their signal on since before reaching the intersection I’ll let them in but if they race up to it and stop right there they can forget it.
Plus they forgot to show the line of cars behind the driver on the left cursing and honking because they’ve waited through the light twice while waiting to go straight.
Oh, they teach it. People just ignore it because they are self-important assholes.
This happens everywhere in the world!!!
Reminds me of two things: When there are “Lane ends xxx ahead” signs on the freeway for plenty of distance before construction (or whatever) so that everyone can merge, but some d!ckheads just HAVE to scoot ahead of everyone to try to get ahead at the last moment, ending up in a miles-long traffic jam. More jerks try to go to the front in the lane that is ending and make it even worse. Sometimes, I see truckers collaborate to fix the situation: two of them get side-by-side to prevent a-holes from zipping ahead, traffic starts flowing again in the absence of the people forcing mergers at the last second, then the trucker in the good lane allows the one running interference in ahead of him at the last second. Genius!
Second, keeping someone from merging can result in a serious case of road-rage. This happened to me about 30 years ago and I still get chills from it. There was an intersection where people would always try to zoom ahead in one lane, then force themselves in ahead of you at the intersection to try to get to the turn lane on the other side of you. Often, this resulted in your sitting through another cycle of a long traffic light. I got sick of it after a while. One day, I ignored the honking and waving and pleading of the ass next to me. After the light, the road becomes a freeway with the concrete jersey barriers in the middle. The now-enraged driver gets beside me, honking and giving the finger. I ignore him as best I can. He starts swerving at me, trying to force me into the concrete barrier three feet to my left. I manage to avoid both him and the wall by inches. Then, he pulls in front of me and stands on his brakes, apparently trying to stop me and do god knows what. Note that I live in gun-crazy South Carolina, where (at least at the time) you could carry a pistol in your glove box without a permit, so there really is reason to worry. Miraculously, I manage to swerve across two lanes onto an exit ramp without hitting anyone in the rush-hour traffic; two feet further down the road, I never would have made it. Jayzus, I have rarely been so freaking scared in my life.
Good Driver,
It has nothing to do with the OTR truck drivings trying to control people zipping by and getting in front while everyone else waits it has to do with them trying to control the road, you think those truck drivers give two shits about anyone else on that road but themselves and their trucking buddy? It is rediculouis if the construction isnt for 4 miles and everyone is over in the lane that the construction is not on 4 miles before they need to be and you got this asshole truck driver causing the traffic jam 4 miles before it needs to be. Lots less unnessary traffic jams if people drove in both lanes until they had to get over and I am not talking all the way until you get right on the construction and now that lane has to completely stop until they get over. it wouldnt be hard if people did this and merged and kept moving. The signs telling you there is construction 4 miles ahead is a warning so you know in 4 miles you will have to get over doesnt mean get over now. Absolutly no reason what so ever to get over now when you can still drive in that lane for 4 miles. You can call it zipping ahead whatever. Then I zip ahead and infact I will pass that asshole truck driving on the outside to zip ahead the rest of the miles that I am able to travel in that lane for. Why should I have to sit in an hour of unnessary taffic before the construction zone and the zipping ahead as you call it wouldnt cause a traffic jam if people knew how to frickin merge properly. Proper merging does not consist of stopping.
this is very funny funnier that he’s almost turning into cars that aren’t letting him into the left lane.
Wow. What a bunch of sadistic assholes. You all really get off with getting in the way and ruining other peoples day. If someone is clearly in a hurry then just get the fnck out of the way. You have no idea what the emergency might be and it shouldn’t matter. Just get the fnck out of the way. Or better yet, just kill yourselves, please. That would really clear up traffic. Less sadistic fncktards impeding progress.
Nope. Doesn’t matter a bit to me what that asshole’s emergency may be. It’s not my job or responsibility to care. Pay attention to the goddamned road.
Personally, I think it should be allowed under law to shoot people trying to pull that shit. Too many worthless idiots with false senses of entitlement out there. Time to thin the herd!
What a sadistic, narcissistic asshole you are. You really get off acting like you have some right to be a dick and that your time is more important than anyone else’s.
You want people to get out of the way? We want you to behave like a civilized human being. What makes you more important than me?
There is no emergency. It is someone who thinks they are more important than the rest of the world, just like your worthless ass.
Do the world a favor and kill your selfish ass and any family you have. The world will be a lot better without “fncktards” like you in it.
Uh, no. There’s plenty of signs, not to mention markings on the frickin’ pavement itself, to warn you which lanes go where.
Unless it’s a cop, fire truck, ambulance or other clearly marked emergency vehicle (lights, sirens, etc.), trying to turn from a lane marked straight is a dick move.
That;s why i always have a blue light hidden in my car, for the REAL emergencies. for example: rushing a passenger that’s losing pints of blood to the hospital, if that’s the case, i’m not waiting for goddamn ambulance.
But all the a-holes who are pulling this crap off without good cause should be hung by the balls, especially taxi drivers ^^
*maybe vuvuzela torture, anyone?
Thats a normal thing for some driver. if me, i’ll never let it pass.
It could be that an out-of-towner just doesn’t know where they are, but it’s mostly people like me, who realize my time is more valuable than others on the road. I have places to go, people to see. Not you cretins who seem to want to be here stuck in traffic. Obviously you’re in no hurry, or you’d be an asshole like me.
Baseballbikeski LOL you soundlike my husband…<my husband says dont mind me I am just an asshole and I dont care what anyone thinks about me…
I hate it when that happens! I also try to make sure there is no gap for them to sneak in. Drivers like that give me road rage!
I had a case like that many years ago where the pissed off driver (who was also “pisses” in the UK sense) followed me for over an hour the blocked the drive I was trying to turn into. I’d seen him yelling and banging his steering wheel and flashing his lights a ways earlier, so I darned sure was NOT going to lead him to my house. He skids into the driveway, then jumps out of his muckin huge SUV with a baseball bat in his hand and using foul language to the point of being beyond coherent speech. Because I did not notice him coming up from behind at 90 mph earlier in the freeway and did not recognize how “important” he was so as to jam on my brakes at an exit and let him in. The driveway I pulled into belonged to a local sheriff’s deputy, complete with marked car, which the idiot – so intent on having cost him 5 seconds of traffic time – was so near having a stroke he didn’t notice it. It took the deputy and another fellow some time to get him calmed down, and that was only after he had gone at the cop car with his bat…. turns out he was some local drug dealer and had several outstanding warrants for his arrest.
LOL! Sweet justice.
Every one of those cars is an SUV. Therefore, by the standards of the society of those world, all those Americans in that picture are assholes.
James,
How do you figure all of those cars are SUVs. Besides if it is an SUV it isnt a car now is it? First I see oh they are always BMWs and now it is SUVs. What do you drive James a little rice burner? Or do you drive at all? Well I drive a big lifted up Ford Expedition and infact I will be getting an Excursion soon. and yes my husband and I are one of those assholes but that doesnt mean every SUV driver does what everyone is crying about. It doesnt matter what vehicle is being driven. If the person knows how to drive they know how to drive.
I love watching people rage when I cut in front of them as they sit like sheep, all in a row.
Yeah, screw those people following the rules of the road. We should all be impatient like you. That would make the roads better…
People who do this should not be allowed to drive!!! for example on my wau home from work some days I go a different way if I have to go to the store first. anyway from the store there is only one left turn to my street which is quicker because of the way road is (it’s retarded). The right lane is always backed up because that’s the lane that goes to the interstate, while the left goes to my neighborhood…. well when some asshole wants to speed infront of everyone in the left lane instead of waiting like everyone else! I then have to wait cause he stops the traffic in the left lane to my neighborhood! the left lane isn’t always backed up just you get that asshole a few times and it’s very annoying.
This needs to be a bumpers sticker.
I want to print it out in full color, and tape it to the inside of my right window (I have this problem on the way to school, except it’s people merging from the right)
He’s not from Minnesota because he’s using his signal.
I get it, but you forgot the part where the guy entered the road from a side street that doesn’t have access to “the end of the line” or that the guy isn’t familiar with that part of town and didn’t have access to the information at the end of the line that the lane he was in wouldn’t have easy access to where he needed to go.
Out of towners?
Safe drivers know that it’s dangerous to make dramatic changes to the flow of traffic, and not nice to piss off other drivers.
Go around the block, and try again.
All else is as described in the graphic.
Thanks!
You’re kidding right?!? Why don’t you all get an attitude adjustment and stop generalizing things. Not everybody is an asshole who’s trying to get ahead of you in the queue.
Can you think how long the line would if everyone used only one lane to turn right? It’s a T intersecton, you can’t go straight! Don’t merge until the stop. (no blinker reqired!)
It’s also a dotted line– perfectly legal maneuver- the cars on the right are chumps for not thinking of it, as is the city department for not making the line solid.
Unfortunately this is a terrible accident. That is a UK T junction. Every car is out of order.
Whatever it may be in the UK, it’s a one-way dual lane road the way I see it.
This a practise seen often where i live (Nth Queensland, Aust) If I am in my old Ute (pick-up) there is no way they get in. But sometimes, depending on situation, i let them in. I have seen worse attempts to cue jump, including up the right hand side (or the left in my case)
I see stuff like that all the time in traffic jams. People will do that even if there’s less than 2 feet of lane left- they’ll jump from behind you & try to get those extra 2 feet.
My absolute favorite? When there’s no lane left & these “geniuses” decide to drive on the side of the road for a few feet in the hopes that they’ll be able to get ahead of everyone. I always have to laugh when their “great idea” turns into a $500+ ticket when they see the cops trailing after them with their lights on. (Seen this more than once.)
Yeah… People do this all the time on my commute. Occasionally traffic on my exit will back up and you’ll have to wait a bit. usually when they try to cut in front of me I just hit the clutch, gun the engine and the pop the clutch a little. I guess most people are afraid my big Jeep will run them down. They tend to wait and try the next guy in line.
A Hanging offense.
NOTE: Does not apply to Boston. Lanes are only a figment of Bostonians’ imaginations. Much like speed limits here in North Georgia.
So many people do this where I get on the interstate – riding the exit only lane until the last second then cutting off drivers in the next lane – that very few will let a person in anymore. I have to merge over two lanes within a 150 yards of getting on the interstate or I’m exiting again, so if it’s backed up and I know I will have a hard time merging, rather than blocking the exit waiting for someone to let me in I go ahead and exit. Then I take the city streets to a less congested area.
It takes longer, but I can’t blame the people who won’t let me merge. As far as they know, I’m one of those jerks who thinks he’s so important that everyone else’s commute should be that much longer because he doesn’t feel like sitting in traffic anymore. I’d be like that two if it had taken me half an hour to drive the last mile.
This is why I like driving my crappy car. Someone wants to try and ram themselves in the middle of the cue at the last minute? Oh, my brakes aren’t very good and it seems the damage to your bumper is worth more than my car.
im new england we call them massholes
When I can reasonably subtly build up a long (as in, more than ten seconds, and sometimes much more) following distance, I do so. This usually happens on the freeway, and I’ve noticed that most people who pull in front of me are crossing through my lane rather than pulling into my lane to take advantage of the gap, so it doesn’t usually bug me when someone merges in front of me (although with as much space as I keep in front of me, there’s really no reason to cut me off. You also will not win if you crash into me).
I’ve heard that if the follow distance is long enough you can actually break up traffic jams before you get to them, but I don’t drive very often, and haven’t had the opportunity to test this.
If I were turning, I’d have two or three car lengths in front of me in the right lane–a perfect opportunity for people who need to merge to do so–provided the traffic was still moving. Otherwise, I’d just be trying to find the average speed of the stop-and-go traffic, since a) a constant speed is i) more fuel-efficient ii) easier on the brakes; b) it’s more fun to adjust your speed instead of rushing to close the gap. and c) this too, I’ve heard can change stop-and-go traffic into something resembling traffic flow.
There’s also the idea that idiots like the one featured aren’t worth getting angry about or spending any more time thinking about them than necessary to avoid an accident, and since they generally don’t stay in my lane very long, or I’ve got a decent follow-distance for them to zoom to the front of, it keeps the time spent in proximity to these idiots to a minimum.
On the other hand, when you have a two-lane two-way road with enough curves to make passing inadvisable to say the least, please be courteous enough to use the turnouts when people are behind you. It’s simple logic: if someone has caught up to you, that person is likely going faster than you, and you should let the person pass!
I’m that guy. And I don’t really care if anonymous people hate me since I won’t see them on a regular basis. And if you don’t let me in, the next guy will.
Not only that, but usually never let people in if I can help it. I make no sense, but I save a lot of time (cumulatively).
oh i hate lane jumpers. even more than i hate people who just hang out in the passing lane without checking their mirrors to see if they’re blocking anyone.
i just tailgate the shit outta the guy infront of me so they can’t get in. its usually obviously marked. if they’re out of town, they can just go strait and then turn around somewhere.