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[SouthGeorge]

Drivers who won't let you move over are the worst.

People who don't understand merge lanes piss me off. I had a grandma run me off the road once. It gets back to what we are learning with covid.. People only care about themselves and no self awareness. If I'm in a lane and I know people are going to be merging into it soon and I can get over I will. These idiots with no awareness who just stay in the lane when they can get over irks me.

 

[Ogrezilla]

I wish people in this city knew how to drive through tunnels. Every time someone slams on the breaks as they approach the squirrel Hill tunnels, I want to drive into the ravine to the right of the road

that one is still alive in well in all of the tunnels sadly

 

[Ogrezilla]

It's not even that. We are both doing 50 km/h. Besides, I sometimes do 10 over the limit. So if I still can't pull ahead (as I approach the opening in the lane and flip my signal), then like... Just let me move over. That's all I ask.

what annoys me the most are the people in bumper to bumper traffic who work so hard to make sure nobody gets in their lane. Like dude, my lane is turning in to an exit soon, I need to get over. It's honestly easier to do it without using a turn signal because as soon as you put the signal on the people next to you work extra hard to keep you from moving over.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

what annoys me the most are the people in bumper to bumper traffic who work so hard to make sure nobody gets in their lane. Like dude, my lane is turning in to an exit soon, I need to get over. It's honestly easier to do it without using a turn signal because as soon as you put the signal on the people next to you work extra hard to keep you from moving over.

Zipper merge. The amount of f***ing morons here that don't understand 4-way stops, as well as Zipper merging...jesus christ mate.

I just know I 100% relate to Michael Douglas in Falling Down.

Like obviously you don't want to be that one bloke that lets in literally all the cars in front of you, but how it should work is you let a car or two in, the idiot behind you does the same, voila. Vancouver/Lowermainland traffic and Seattle traffic is mostly due to morons that can't merge or haven't figured out how to merge, it's like a f***ing Ego trip for these tossers, so instead of just letting people in, they back traffic up miles behind them and when you pass that merge point you are like "Wtf, THAT is where the traffic hold up was? I f***ing hate people."

Also, people that go from the left lane to the far right (3rd lane) exit right before the exit? I hope they die, I hope their genitals explode and they never procreate ever again.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

While I love to drive, I 100% get the need of automated vehicles, there are just far too many idiots on the road and it sets me off, I don't road rage but I do have a squeeze stress ball in my car that is in need of a replacement soon. It'd just be hilarious the moment the world goes automated, traffic will literally disappear because human idiocy will be taken out.

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Yes, I can't wait for self-driving cars.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Yes, I can't wait for self-driving cars.

I'd totally get a Tesla, but they look like garbage.

 

[Ogrezilla]

I'd totally get a Tesla, but they look like garbage.

This is another one of those things I just don't understand. I get the idea of wanting a nice looking car, I do. But aside from some ridiculous looking outliers, I really just don't get what makes a car look nice or like garbage. Take away the tags and I couldn't pick out a testla vs an Audi vs a BMW or whatever. They all just look like slight variations on a normal looking car to me. They looked a little different, but none look better or worse to me. So I get the idea, but I legitimately don't know what I'm supposed to even be looking for. Two people in my office have BMW's and I don't think they look any nicer than the Altima, Civic, Accord, or Impala that they are parked right next to.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Also, people that go from the left lane to the far right (3rd lane) exit right before the exit? I hope they die, I hope their genitals explode and they never procreate ever again.

to be fair it's tough in Pittsburgh. Before the tunnel I have about 100 yards to cross 3 lanes to get from my on ramp to the lane I need to be in when I get to the other side, and then I have another 50 to cross 2 more after the tunnel. If I only get over 2 before the tunnel, it's 3 after.

Zipper merge. The amount of f***ing morons here that don't understand 4-way stops, as well as Zipper merging...jesus christ mate.

Part of zipper merging is using the lane as long as it's a lane and people always call me an asshole for doing it. If the lane is turning in to an exit lane or something don't be the guy in the wrong line who needs to get over, but if it's just 2 lanes merging to 1 there's no reason not to use the 2nd lane. And then you just take turns between lanes.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

TIL @Ogrezilla is the wanker that goes from the far left to the far right, right before the exit.

 

[EightyOne]

It's not even that. We are both doing 50 km/h. Besides, I sometimes do 10 over the limit. So if I still can't pull ahead (as I approach the opening in the lane and flip my signal), then like... Just let me move over. That's all I ask.

YOUR lane is ending??

In California it's YOUR problem to figure out how to merge ahead or behind conflicting traffic.

What is the Canadian driving law in regards to ending lane/merge responsibility?

Now..if there's an open lane, it would be POLITE to move over and help you. But here, we're under no obligation to do so whether lane ends or say you're getting on freeway. Other states are different.

 

[EightyOne]

Speaking of which, is the Pittsburgh left still a thing?

Too many assholes to keep up the Burgh left.

'tis

It's still around, but rush hour, good luck.

I noticed in BC, Vancouver definitely doesn't, neither did the Island and definitely not Richmond and Burnaby. But Surrey? Every time and no one honks when someone allows it, whereas in those other cities, you will definitely have people pissed at you.

Seattle, lol, good luck.

100000% f*** all this "no you go ahead, and I'll back up my own traffic so you can turn left with zero right of way" bullshit

Take your ass around three rights if one left is too tough

 

[Ogrezilla]

100000% f*** all this "no you go ahead, and I'll back up my own traffic so you can turn left with zero right of way" bullshit

Take your ass around three rights if one left is too tough

Three rights in Pittsburgh will put me across the wrong river and through a tunnel going the wrong direction we don't have a choice here, the lane we are coming from is three lanes away from the lane we need to be in and they only intersect for the next 50 yards of this bridge.

 

[EightyOne]

Three rights in Pittsburgh will put me across the wrong river and through a tunnel going the wrong direction

I dunno. Sounds like you'd be driving AWAY from Pittsburgh, at that point.

Win-win?

 

[Ogrezilla]

I dunno. Sounds like you'd be driving AWAY from Pittsburgh, at that point.

Win-win?

Nah it's probably looping me to downtime or up on to my Washington or some shit . It's for sure not 270 degrees from where I started because squares don't exist

 

[EightyOne]

I just know, the most idiotic city here (san Francisco) makes no left turns and hills work.

Y'all really wanna be worse than them? They do have a better grid. Pittsburgh is closer to Bostonian idiocy with goat paths.

 

[BHD]

YOUR lane is ending??

In California it's YOUR problem to figure out how to merge ahead or behind conflicting traffic.

What is the Canadian driving law in regards to ending lane/merge responsibility?

Now..if there's an open lane, it would be POLITE to move over and help you. But here, we're under no obligation to do so whether lane ends or say you're getting on freeway. Other states are different.

More so an open lane (and yes, it is about not being an ass). Canadians don't know how to merge. I merge as soon as I can - yes, you CAN do that if there no other vehicles close to you. Others wait until their lane is ending (and the adjacent lane is crammed) and try to squeeze in. It doesn't make sense.

I'm part a FB group for Moncton's worst drivers, and one member (who's lived elsewhere) claims Monctonians wouldn't be able to handle bigger cities. They're too lax with their knowledge and tendencies needed to keep up with busy traffic.

 

[ZeroPucksGiven]

While I love to drive, I 100% get the need of automated vehicles, there are just far too many idiots on the road and it sets me off, I don't road rage but I do have a squeeze stress ball in my car that is in need of a replacement soon. It'd just be hilarious the moment the world goes automated, traffic will literally disappear because human idiocy will be taken out.

I love to drive my car- like I get low key excited when I have to run and get something. Note that I'm in a midwestern state where I can get from 1 end of town to the other in 20 mins. So I'm sure my minimal traffic impacts my perspective

The other reason I'll hate automated cars is that I'm too much of a control freak. I wouldn't trust my car to take evasive maneuvers if something happened.

 

[EightyOne]

We're so far off of automated vehicles

The whole entire infrastructure would have to go fully automated overnight

Bringing it in one car at a time is so costly plus the computers literally can't do it right....yet

If companies want to throw money at it fine. It'll be a sad day for me. But I have to go evasive, like slam brakes or move lanes multiple times a day on my 100 miles.

And I'm VERY VERY good at reading and anticipating what's about to happen (having ridden motorcycles you develop a spidey sense REAL quick).


Also, sidenote, a freak lightning storm has ignited the dry as hell summer hills in my dumbass state again. Ash is falling like a severe case of dandruff. Been outside five minutes, about 200 flakes of ash. Sky looks like death. Sigh.

 

[ColePens]

New thread up.