Driving Pet Peeves

[Cootie]

What are your pet peeves when it comes to driving? It can be things you have to do, things that others do with you are in the car that annoys you, or things that people in other cars on the road do.

Two things piss me off that any other. The first is when I am driving and I am going around 5 MPH over the speed limit and some cunt still passes me like I am a piece of shit. If I myself am slightly speeding then why pass me?

The other is when I am in a car with a friend and they start texting while driving. It seriously can wait and I don't do that shit because I care about the people in my car and the other people on the road. It pisses me off because they start driving like shit, but they still can't stop texting for ten fucking minutes. I normally just tell them to let me drive since they can't cut that shit out and I don't feel like going in a ditch.

[Light]

When I run over people and they fly into my windshield. God, I hate that so much.

[Mich]

I hate it when there's a single car in front of you, and they vary their speed between 50-90% of the speed limit, seemingly randomly. Whenever you try and pass them, they seem to speed up, and you have to get back behind them.

[HungarianSupermarket]

This. Also taxi drivers. For someone interested in a career in driving, perhaps learn to fucking drive before you apply for such a job.

[Luis]

I dont drive anymore but when i did, i always found it annoying to pull up next to some guy blasting his music with the bass turned up so high that like his license plate, cheap speakers, loose trunk lid, are all vibrating and making a sound like his car is about to fall apart. Like i damn well know he cant actually appreciate whatever song hes trying to listen to. Like its not even a song anymore... its just a garbled buzzing mess.

[AntiHero]

As you said Texting will driving, I just don't see the fucking point the message will be there when you're done it can wait. Making turns or changing lanes without turning on your blinker...how in the fuck is it going to hurt you to move your finger not even 2 inches to tell the person behind you that your changing lanes or making a turn?

[Timmy]

At 7/12/11 07:22 AM, Cootie wrote: Two things piss me off that any other. The first is when I am driving and I am going around 5 MPH over the speed limit and some cunt still passes me like I am a piece of shit. If I myself am slightly speeding then why pass me?

Because you're only going 5mph over the speed limit, nancy. If I want to go faster, don't get pissed at me - just get out of my way with your granny-driving.

Also, my pet peeve is people who sit in the left lane and drive slow. A pretty common complaint, but I just drove into work and the road was littered with slow-driving soccer moms, all of whom think they belong in the left lane.

[tigerkitty]

Some of those I agree with, but one that always gets me is people who leave their turn signal on for ages and ages before they actually turn. This can also be a complaint when I'm walking and hoping to cross the street but stop because someone has their signal on... when I sit there and watch them drive by the turn.

Bleh

[Rachel]

That I'm not driving yet.

[PeterM]

People who drink and drive = absolute idiots.

[Garage]

I can't drive FIFTY FIIIIIVE!

[zooos]

-I hate when people are on their phones while driving(mostly texting, phone calls I can understand to an extent unless the person is obviously making poor/delayed choices due to it.
-I hate when people want to speed ahead of you even though your doing 5/10+ the speed limit.
-I hate when people don't obey stop signs.
-I hate when you try to let a person into your lane and they take for fucking ever to do it.
-I hate people that just cut you off(I once had a semi-truck on the right lane while I was in the left lane. He needed to get into the left lane to hit the express way so instead of waiting for me to pass he literally started to drive into my car cutting me off)
-I hate when people constantly switch lanes, I laugh when they do but either go the same speed or have to slow down.
-I hate people who talk shit out of their car and then drive off, I've had numerous occasions where I've been at a corner and a car pulls up and then says something when the light turns green.
-I hate when people honk because they feel you should of went even if you didn't feel comfortable doing so.
-I hate people who don't follow obvious signs or arrows(at my old job where the employees parked it was a one way ally way and it had a lot of blind spots, yet people disobeyed this and went both ways and numerous accidents have happened.
-I hate when people hit your car and then speed off, especially when they were idiots(had a guy who was attempting to make a right turn to a street I was going to make a left turn into. He started turning and decided half way through he didn't want to and because I had started to go he slammed into my car. Funny thing was I didn't have a license and I still stopped to try and make sure he was ok and he just sped off).

too much this is already a wall.

[fatbigbird]

When people swing into their turn.
When drivers take offense to my middle finger.
When somebody only has one fucking headlight that work.

[Evark]

I've let go of pretty much all of them. When you drive as much as I do in Boston-area rush hour traffic (which is infamously horrible, horrible roads, horrible drivers, etc.) you learn to accept that other people are terrible drivers and occasionally you will be guilty of the same terrible habit that they have.

Anyway, one holdover is people who come to a complete stop in response to a 50-100ft acceleration lane leading into the two-lane highways we have all over the place here. Completely fucks the flow of traffic. The yield is just telling you to make sure you stay out of the travel lane until you're at an acceptable rate of speed that others don't have to vastly reduce their rate of speed to accommodate your entrance into traffic. You can accomplish this one of two ways:
- Come to a complete stop, greatly increasing the amount of acceleration you'll need to do later in order to reach that safe highway speed. This forces all others behind you to stop as well, and screws them from merging normally.
- Just accelerate and make sure you aren't cutting someone off before you switch into the travel lane and join traffic.

This truck did this to me the other day. I simply assumed he was a disabled vehicle, and since he left me plenty of room to get into the acceleration lane he wasn't using, I passed him on the right and joined the flow of traffic. Somebody honked and got annoyed, but I didn't notice because when the acceleration lane ended I was doing highway speeds and as a result of the guy being in the middle of the lane, stopped, with his car positioning/body language saying he could jump into the travel lane at any moment all the traffic in the travel lane was slowing down to avoid the guy anyway.

Also: I've been texting and driving since I was 16. It's illegal now and sometimes a response can wait, but sometimes I simply don't feel like waiting and am going to take care of it while I'm driving. Very pleased the 'no talking on the phone' measure was only for those with a JOL license because that would make work a lot more difficult.

[All-American-Badass]

People who don't turn right on red
People who drive below the speed limit
People who find it necessary to tailgate me
Semi trucks who take the passing lane to pass another semi truck who's only going 2 mph slower than they are
Johnson County drivers
Also here's one I made via a rage comic a while back.

[Rockyusa]

When your break light goes out and that person follows you home.
It's fucking annoying.

[HungarianSupermarket]

At 7/12/11 09:57 AM, Timmy wrote: soccer moms

Oh god the soccer mums. I drive past some playing fields occasionally and I have to drive at 20 under the speed limit because of all the soccer mums driving their SUVs, parking all over the median strip so you can't see shit, always pulling out into traffic or just stopping in the middle of the road so they can look for a car park, and obstructing traffic by doing U-turns in a no-U-turn area when there is a roundabout literally 20 meters up the road.

[satanbrain]

when drivers drive incredibly slow before passing a green light and the driver before them is stuck with red. Oh wait, that's what i do.

[CrazySquirrel124]

When people park sideways in front of my driveway.
IT PISSES ME OFF!

[AlphaCentauri]

At 7/12/11 01:26 PM, agustana wrote: When other people don't use their turn signal.

This, it can fuck you up beyond belief. I've almost had a few wrecks when I was turning right on red into a main two lane road.

Basically I'd see like one car coming in the left lane without a signal on so i decide to go ahead and pull out and turn right into the right lane. No problem for anyone. Except that the guy in the let lane decides he is gonna go to the right lane in the middle of an intersection and almost merge/ram into the side of my car.

It has happened four times I really can't believe I haven't gotten hit any of those times.

[yurgenburgen]

I actually just hate driving entirely.

[Quinny]

- Cyclists. Seriously, get off my road. You don't pay to be on it and I do.

- Taxi drivers. Most ignorant arseholes ever.

- Bus drivers. Yeah that's right, pull out just when I'm going past you.

- Old people. If you drove any slower you would be stationary.

Also, people that never signal, use their phones and park where they aren't supposed to piss me off SO much.