jasonl
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It's about DAMN time they crackdown on the speeders and mean drivers. If I were a cop I'd pull you over just for owning a Silverado because you probably sped in it at one time or another LOL.
Bad drivers in Louisiana beware!
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yeah baby!
last year there was an accident in a burb a few miles away, three people died, a mom and a 4 year old in one car, and the driver of the other car, who in fact was speeding way over the limit. It later surfaced that the guy had 90+ speeding violations since he'd gotten his license. He was in fact driving on a ticket when he died.
People scratch their heads at how such a senseless accident could have happened. The guy with 90+ speeding tickets should not have been on the road at all.
Illinois is looking to toughen their laws as well, to hopefully get the bad drivers off the roads.
People don't understand that driving is s privelege and not a right!
last year there was an accident in a burb a few miles away, three people died, a mom and a 4 year old in one car, and the driver of the other car, who in fact was speeding way over the limit. It later surfaced that the guy had 90+ speeding violations since he'd gotten his license. He was in fact driving on a ticket when he died.
People scratch their heads at how such a senseless accident could have happened. The guy with 90+ speeding tickets should not have been on the road at all.
Illinois is looking to toughen their laws as well, to hopefully get the bad drivers off the roads.
People don't understand that driving is s privelege and not a right!
jasonl
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I did notice a difference, people were still changing lanes and stuff but it wasn't like they were bats out of hell. I actually saw people use their blinkers. The general speed this morning was about 65-70 which is what it should be. There were a few over but just for passing.
Our interstate were modeled after the autobahn but it ain't. That's because most people are too retarded to drive safely enough for it to be an autobahn.
I see they upped the speed limit in west Texas to 80mph. Well, as if people don't drive that fast anyway. Night is still 65 and you better belive it. I saw a few pullovers on the way back from Bellvile after the wash-in.
Our interstate were modeled after the autobahn but it ain't. That's because most people are too retarded to drive safely enough for it to be an autobahn.
I see they upped the speed limit in west Texas to 80mph. Well, as if people don't drive that fast anyway. Night is still 65 and you better belive it. I saw a few pullovers on the way back from Bellvile after the wash-in.
jasonl
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Most wrecks I've seen here involve a small ricer and an 18-wheeler. Lemme guess, the shithead in the rice rocket tried to cut between the 18-wheeler and another car OR he rode in the 18 wheeler's blind spot. Loser.
90%
Recently, the WSP had a program putting State Patrol Officers in 18 wheelers, with radar device and cameras. The thought was they would catch road ragers and aggressive drivers causing accidents. The result of the survery was 90% of the accidents on the I-5 corridor through Seattle were caused by improper merge. Drivers are entering the freeway too slowly, causing everyone in the merge lane to swerve or slam on the brakes. Exactly the opposite of what the Washington State Patrol expected to find.
Kelly
Recently, the WSP had a program putting State Patrol Officers in 18 wheelers, with radar device and cameras. The thought was they would catch road ragers and aggressive drivers causing accidents. The result of the survery was 90% of the accidents on the I-5 corridor through Seattle were caused by improper merge. Drivers are entering the freeway too slowly, causing everyone in the merge lane to swerve or slam on the brakes. Exactly the opposite of what the Washington State Patrol expected to find.
Kelly
Right place, wrong time
Some idiot was racing his '67 corvette in a local cemetary here, and wound up crashing into a marble mausoleum. He died from his injuries. Reports variously say he was racing another car over a road rage incident that started outside the cemetary, and that he was also bringing some flowers to his mother's week-old gravesite.
The other car is still at large.
Some idiot was racing his '67 corvette in a local cemetary here, and wound up crashing into a marble mausoleum. He died from his injuries. Reports variously say he was racing another car over a road rage incident that started outside the cemetary, and that he was also bringing some flowers to his mother's week-old gravesite.
The other car is still at large.
I've driven in most of Canada and probably 40 US states and without a doubt the worst drivers are found in British Columbia Canada. They don't have much of any freeways and what bit they do have they can't merge, they drive in the left lane religiously almost. Oddly when they cross the border into Washington they all move over to the right lane but they still can't merge properly, preferring to slow down or stop. Anyone from Washington ever notice it coming back from Vancouver?
jasonl
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Kelly, I see you have retards on your interstates as well. The thing that really pisses most people off are the people going to slow in the merge or in the left lane, causing the aggressive drivers to act more aggressively.
What tickles me is when some bully swerves, cuts me off, swerves, tailgates, tries to get ahead, I stay in my own lane and he gets left way behind because someone had to make a turn. And I just keep on Buggin' (or Pri'in if my dad ain't using it).
Also, I can laugh twice when I'm in the Prius because I know I'm doing 60mpg and he's doing what 10 when he stomps it and tries to act bad.
What tickles me is when some bully swerves, cuts me off, swerves, tailgates, tries to get ahead, I stay in my own lane and he gets left way behind because someone had to make a turn. And I just keep on Buggin' (or Pri'in if my dad ain't using it).
Also, I can laugh twice when I'm in the Prius because I know I'm doing 60mpg and he's doing what 10 when he stomps it and tries to act bad.
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Wow, that bad, huh? Glad they're cracking down on it. I agree with you, aggressive drivers are a nightmare and unless you're driving a truck, make you feel extremely vulnerable/insecure on the freeway, highway, or whatever. Out here near Brenham, Bellville, Sealy, etc. isn't too bad as far as aggressive drivers are concerned, but once in a while there will be a swerver or tailgater. Katy & Houston on the other hand are just downright horrible.
The real problem here is the slow drivers on the highway who think they can get by with 55 in a 70 and DON'T MOVE OVER. I'll admit, I do drive around 75-80 normally, and as soon as I can pass or get in a 4-lane I'm blowing right by them.
Another problem I have are people who feel like they have to brake they're going through a green light...I've even honked at a few to get them to step on it. There's an EXTREMELY short light in Brenham that you have to go through right away (probably 15 seconds at the very most), and it figures that's where most of the problems are. It wouldn't be so bad except that the red light following this is mind-numbingly long, and that I've had to sit through two of them because the idiots in front of me didn't know what the word "move" meant.
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The real problem here is the slow drivers on the highway who think they can get by with 55 in a 70 and DON'T MOVE OVER. I'll admit, I do drive around 75-80 normally, and as soon as I can pass or get in a 4-lane I'm blowing right by them.
Another problem I have are people who feel like they have to brake they're going through a green light...I've even honked at a few to get them to step on it. There's an EXTREMELY short light in Brenham that you have to go through right away (probably 15 seconds at the very most), and it figures that's where most of the problems are. It wouldn't be so bad except that the red light following this is mind-numbingly long, and that I've had to sit through two of them because the idiots in front of me didn't know what the word "move" meant.
--Austin
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I meant to say "when" instead of "they're"...another case of "fingers-going-faster-than-your-mind", LOL.
I've mentioned this before, but one of our seniors that would have graduated this year died in a similar accident last October. He was coming back to Bellville from Sealy in his Honda rice-burner when his hat blew out of the window. He turned around in the middle of the highway TWICE and didn't look either time. The second time around a Wal-Mart 18-wheeler was coming the other direction and broadsided the car. Not to mention the fact that he hadn't been wearing a seatbelt. What's the deal? Do people feel "invincible" in these things or something?
--Austin
I meant to say "when" instead of "they're"...another case of "fingers-going-faster-than-your-mind", LOL.
I've mentioned this before, but one of our seniors that would have graduated this year died in a similar accident last October. He was coming back to Bellville from Sealy in his Honda rice-burner when his hat blew out of the window. He turned around in the middle of the highway TWICE and didn't look either time. The second time around a Wal-Mart 18-wheeler was coming the other direction and broadsided the car. Not to mention the fact that he hadn't been wearing a seatbelt. What's the deal? Do people feel "invincible" in these things or something?
--Austin
To hell with memorizing facts. teach people how to THINK!, a
Sadi: Drivers are entering the freeway too slowly, causing everyone in the merge lane to swerve or slam on the brakes.
Response:I love that people don't understand that they should start off as far BACK on the extrance ramp as possible to get to speed, and be able to merge at nearly the right speed.
I LOVE the ones that go so far up it before they merge that they are practically on the highway. They get on and Then start traveling from zero.
Do we not undertand applied physics AT ALL?
Sadi: Drivers are entering the freeway too slowly, causing everyone in the merge lane to swerve or slam on the brakes.
Response:I love that people don't understand that they should start off as far BACK on the extrance ramp as possible to get to speed, and be able to merge at nearly the right speed.
I LOVE the ones that go so far up it before they merge that they are practically on the highway. They get on and Then start traveling from zero.
Do we not undertand applied physics AT ALL?
jasonl
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Austin, I'm sure you probably would pass me up on the highway since I go slower than that. But I do my part by staying out of the way. But you can't help it sometimes when you're in traffic and you have some rude a-hole swerving and cutting around you because your lane isn't moving and the other one is. Passing someone is one thing. Being an ass is another. There's a short light in Opelousas at Cresswell Ln and I-49 onramp. You have to either floor it or just wait. The lights crossing Hwy 90 in Lafayette are bad, too, but that's so it doesn't impede the traffic on 90. Hwy 90, The Evangeline Thruway (90/167 eventually turning into I49) is where you'll find the angry truck drivers.
Houston is pretty miserable to drive through because of the jerks, especially in that narrow part downtown.
Houston is pretty miserable to drive through because of the jerks, especially in that narrow part downtown.
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PS, just to make things clear, I wasn't referring to you as an ass, I was talking the other rude people.
Still nothngs beat someone doing 20 mph in a huge SUV taking two lanes during rush hour with obnoxious misbehaved rug-rats in the rear, the TV on, a cigarette in one hand and a coffee in the other. oh and phone surgically attached to ear.
Is this not a tragedy WAITING to happen?
Is this not a tragedy WAITING to happen?
jasonl
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Well, that causes road rage and aggression. Once people get pissed off on the road, they stay that way until they get home. I've been there.
jasonl
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Usually the large SUV's here are the bullies. Some insecure a-hole that thinks he can push others around on the highway
EXPEXTATIONS- Dropping them is the key to success.
Why assume the world is a nice place? Just assume some @$$hole will kill you on the road. Then, you can only be pleasanlty surpised wheen they simply endanger your life,and their own.
and remember anger and expectations cause illness. LET IT GO!
Why assume the world is a nice place? Just assume some @$$hole will kill you on the road. Then, you can only be pleasanlty surpised wheen they simply endanger your life,and their own.
and remember anger and expectations cause illness. LET IT GO!
jasonl
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The world is a nice place is you make it a nice place. Unfortunately most people don't make it nice place and ruin it for everybody.
I have noticed that when I drive my Neon in rush hour freeway traffic, the drivers of SUV's that rudely shove themselves in front of me, violating my right of way, most often are of the middle-aged female persuasion. They seem to take some sort of delight in doing that to a middle aged man in a small car.
I also recall a study a while back that showed that female drivers are most likely to speed up, not slow down, when they see a male pedestrian. They are most likely to slow down when they see a female or child pedestrian.
But to be fair, the real aggressive drivers are generally male. I've run across a couple of pyschopathic drivers who appear to be on permanent road rage. One was a drunk who tailed my motorcycle throughout rural Marin country, at one point passing me in the face of blaring and swerving oncoming traffic and then slamming on his brakes. I anticipated the move and managed not to rear end him. I had the pleasure at the next gas station of calling the police - he had the stupidity to follow me there - and I had the further pleasure of issuing a citizen's arrest for him with an officer present. It was at the policeman's request, since they had determined he was as drunk as a skunk.
Another notorious psycho driver was a local psyhiatrist who apparently had a grudge against motorcycles. He'd drive his big BMW 7 series recklessly on tight local mountain roads, threateing local motorcyclists with hairball manuvers. The last I heard (and this was more than 10 years ago) was that he'd managed to wreck his car big time. We didn't see much of him after that. Evidently it was a good case of doctor, heal thyself.
I will say though that the biggest hazard on the road these days is the cell phone. It causes drivers to be inattentive and promotes road rage amongst others.
I also recall a study a while back that showed that female drivers are most likely to speed up, not slow down, when they see a male pedestrian. They are most likely to slow down when they see a female or child pedestrian.
But to be fair, the real aggressive drivers are generally male. I've run across a couple of pyschopathic drivers who appear to be on permanent road rage. One was a drunk who tailed my motorcycle throughout rural Marin country, at one point passing me in the face of blaring and swerving oncoming traffic and then slamming on his brakes. I anticipated the move and managed not to rear end him. I had the pleasure at the next gas station of calling the police - he had the stupidity to follow me there - and I had the further pleasure of issuing a citizen's arrest for him with an officer present. It was at the policeman's request, since they had determined he was as drunk as a skunk.
Another notorious psycho driver was a local psyhiatrist who apparently had a grudge against motorcycles. He'd drive his big BMW 7 series recklessly on tight local mountain roads, threateing local motorcyclists with hairball manuvers. The last I heard (and this was more than 10 years ago) was that he'd managed to wreck his car big time. We didn't see much of him after that. Evidently it was a good case of doctor, heal thyself.
I will say though that the biggest hazard on the road these days is the cell phone. It causes drivers to be inattentive and promotes road rage amongst others.
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