Originally posted by: DaiShan
WTF do you think the emergency lane is for?!?! Emergency PASSING. Swing all the way out to the right and pass those b!tches!!
Lol no emergency lane is on the left, only thing would happen is I would hit retaining wall
Lol no emergency lane is on the left, only thing would happen is I would hit retaining wall
Damn this is a long thread with attitudes heating up.
Basic rule of thumb:
Middle lane = 65
Right lane < 65
Left lane > 65
Now for my pet peeve. I'm cooking along at 80 in the left lane and passing peeps the whole time. Some wonderful person behind me is on my tail, I can't even see their front bumper and I'm supposed to move ? I don't think so. I'm satisfying all the ground rules. I'm seriously exceeding the speed limit for those that think it's the fast lane and I'm passing people for those that think it's a passing lane. Then this impatient person decides to give me the complimentary headlight flash. Know what I do next ? That's right, I slow to 65 and now you've forced me to become the asshole when all I really wanted to do was follow YOUR rules.
So, what have we learned here boys and girls ? You want to go faster than 80? Move to Germany. You want to go slower than 65? Get the hell off of my freeways and take the side streets. You all want to get along and still exceed the speed limit? Fine, I'll allow you to use my freeway. But ya gotta be nice about it. And ya better damn well use your turn signals to let me know what your intentions are.
Just one of Quakester's Quips
Basic rule of thumb:
Middle lane = 65
Right lane < 65
Left lane > 65
Now for my pet peeve. I'm cooking along at 80 in the left lane and passing peeps the whole time. Some wonderful person behind me is on my tail, I can't even see their front bumper and I'm supposed to move ? I don't think so. I'm satisfying all the ground rules. I'm seriously exceeding the speed limit for those that think it's the fast lane and I'm passing people for those that think it's a passing lane. Then this impatient person decides to give me the complimentary headlight flash. Know what I do next ? That's right, I slow to 65 and now you've forced me to become the asshole when all I really wanted to do was follow YOUR rules.
So, what have we learned here boys and girls ? You want to go faster than 80? Move to Germany. You want to go slower than 65? Get the hell off of my freeways and take the side streets. You all want to get along and still exceed the speed limit? Fine, I'll allow you to use my freeway. But ya gotta be nice about it. And ya better damn well use your turn signals to let me know what your intentions are.
Just one of Quakester's Quips
I usually drive 80 everyday to school. If I get behind someone going slower, then that's just tough sh!t for me. Just because I'm speeding doesn't make them anymore of an asshole than me. Sure, it's not very courteous, and might not exactly be legal, but oh well. Who hear can honestly say that they have NEVER pissed someone off while driving. Get over it, because no amount of honking, flashing, flipping the bird or shouting will make the minute or two I lose (If that) from going slower worth it. Yeah, it's annoying. Big deal. You might lose a minute. Get over it. Even if time is money for you, that's what, 20, 30 cents? Is getting pissed off with only your steering wheel to hear you worth that much? Get over it. Getting angry is just going to make me do something stupid, and stupidity has NO place behind the wheel of a car. 50% of driving is prevnting mistakes. Nothing that ever happens on a freeway justifys being a rude driver, even if it is in response to someone else's bad driving. The other 50% of driving is compensating for other people's mistakes, and if that means slowing down and being patient, then so be it. I'd rather get to school late than get to school later with a smashed front end. It would be my own damn fault for not leaving earlier and thinking that I would have a perfect drive to school.
From the standpoint of the person going slower: There's nothing I hate more than having someone blind me with their brights or riding my ass and get angry just because I take a few precious SECONDS from their day by trying to pass someone. Driving in the left lane may not be legal, but as someone said, two wrongs don't make a right. As long as (as a bare minium.) I'm going the speed limit, then you don't deserve to get angry at me. It would be a different situation if there wasn't a single car on the highway, and you had to go around me, because changing lanes at a higher speed is MUCH MUCH more dangerous than speeding itself. But when the freeway has moderate traffic, even going 65 is usually actively passing people and it would be more dangerous to keep lane jumping. I will be more than happy to get over if you can wait until I can safely do so, but if you think that riding my ass and honking as a constant reminder is going to make me do it any faster, you are sorely mistaken. Your ignorance while driving makes making a safe lane change even HARDER, because you are distracting me from checking my blind spots and paying attention to the road. Sorry to all you speed freaks out there who think that your car is a bulldozer, but you can kiss my ass if you think that you endangering me is somehow justification for saving yourself a few seconds on your drive to wherever you think is more important that my life, and the time of the other people on that highway.
Basically, no matter of the legal standpoint, being unsafe is far worse than breaking the law or being uncourteous. Count your blessings and leave the anger off the road.
From the standpoint of the person going slower: There's nothing I hate more than having someone blind me with their brights or riding my ass and get angry just because I take a few precious SECONDS from their day by trying to pass someone. Driving in the left lane may not be legal, but as someone said, two wrongs don't make a right. As long as (as a bare minium.) I'm going the speed limit, then you don't deserve to get angry at me. It would be a different situation if there wasn't a single car on the highway, and you had to go around me, because changing lanes at a higher speed is MUCH MUCH more dangerous than speeding itself. But when the freeway has moderate traffic, even going 65 is usually actively passing people and it would be more dangerous to keep lane jumping. I will be more than happy to get over if you can wait until I can safely do so, but if you think that riding my ass and honking as a constant reminder is going to make me do it any faster, you are sorely mistaken. Your ignorance while driving makes making a safe lane change even HARDER, because you are distracting me from checking my blind spots and paying attention to the road. Sorry to all you speed freaks out there who think that your car is a bulldozer, but you can kiss my ass if you think that you endangering me is somehow justification for saving yourself a few seconds on your drive to wherever you think is more important that my life, and the time of the other people on that highway.
Basically, no matter of the legal standpoint, being unsafe is far worse than breaking the law or being uncourteous. Count your blessings and leave the anger off the road.
Hmm...anyone in the thread saying that 80 is REALLY fast and is unsafe needs to get out more. The speed limit around here is 75 to begin with. If you are not doing 85, the cops will fly by you.
Umm....certainly not me...
Actually, 90 is about the top average, but there are plenty of people who hit 100+. Since we have a lot of long straight roads and very little bad weather, it's not really unsafe. What is unsafe is the idiots who try to block me in or cut me off when I pass on the right. Too bad they can never match my acceleration.
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Originally posted by: Quakester
Damn this is a long thread with attitudes heating up.
Basic rule of thumb:
Middle lane = 65
Right lane < 65
Left lane > 65
Now for my pet peeve. I'm cooking along at 80 in the left lane and passing peeps the whole time. Some wonderful person behind me is on my tail, I can't even see their front bumper and I'm supposed to move ? I don't think so. I'm satisfying all the ground rules. I'm seriously exceeding the speed limit for those that think it's the fast lane and I'm passing people for those that think it's a passing lane. Then this impatient person decides to give me the complimentary headlight flash. Know what I do next ? That's right, I slow to 65 and now you've forced me to become the asshole when all I really wanted to do was follow YOUR rules.
So, what have we learned here boys and girls ? You want to go faster than 80? Move to Germany. You want to go slower than 65? Get the hell off of my freeways and take the side streets. You all want to get along and still exceed the speed limit? Fine, I'll allow you to use my freeway. But ya gotta be nice about it. And ya better damn well use your turn signals to let me know what your intentions are.
Just one of Quakester's Quips
Well said. Citrix like.
Why is it your decision to say how much above the speed limit that traffic should move?
You already admitted to doing 10 over - why can't I do 15 over if I am a good driver?
LOL. Nothing like a practical driving test.
I drive an AWD sports car that handles, accelerates, and stops very well. I don't need to be able to drive up a hill, just around the idiots blocking the left lane.
Hey, you go right ahead and do your 15 MPH over... no one is stopping you... unless you get behind someone doing 10 MPH over.
so what will you do if one of the driver that you are holding back behind you pulls out a gun and shows it to you. Will you still stay in the same lane or will you get the heck out of there and let him go by you?
Then pass them in other lanes. You can ALWAYS get around a crappy driver. Don't be a little bitch.
"Laugh" and "Stay in the same lane"
I would gladly give my life to save anyone else's who deserves it, and I'm sure sometime down the road he would kill some innocent person with his temper. If I would have to die to get them in jail for their life... to save that person later in life, then so be it. I would be smiling in my casket.
If they want to risk life imprisonment over not being able to drive faster than me then they have some serious problems. Not to mention, if they can fire a gun while driving at speeds over 80 MPH and not kill themself, I would be quite impressed.
Or maybe you should just get over it and learn to not be such assholes over a few seconds of your day.
Now that's what I call fighting for your rights. By the way, I think Ylen forgot to mention that the guy with the gun was a cop.
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For some reason, I feel that it is my personal mission in life to teach others how to drive. I drive 80-90mph on all interstates around Columbus. Residential neighborhoods are different.... I usually only go 5-10mph over there.
When you are on the interstate, or freeway, or whatever you call it in your state, you should be at LEAST 10mph OVER the posted limit! If you want to go the speed limit, take the side roads!
When I see someone in the left lane, and it is obvious that they are on their cell phone or dazed and confuzed, I just fly around them (still half in their lane, and half in the middle lane) then cut them off and speed away. When I look in my mirror, they are usually getting over then....
Your "kind" are the SOLE reason for accidents on freeways. Your "kind" need to take some driving classes, or better understand how traffic works. Speeding doesn't cause accidents, @ssholes like your "kind" do. (break checkers, and people who speed up, just to not let us "real" drivers pass)
When you are on the interstate, or freeway, or whatever you call it in your state, you should be at LEAST 10mph OVER the posted limit! If you want to go the speed limit, take the side roads!
When I see someone in the left lane, and it is obvious that they are on their cell phone or dazed and confuzed, I just fly around them (still half in their lane, and half in the middle lane) then cut them off and speed away. When I look in my mirror, they are usually getting over then....
Originally posted by: BooGiMaN
your a moron
You admit breaking the law, but you dont realize a crash due to you speeding will involve not just you but others as well.....and delay my drive to/from work because they will close down lanes
i bet it doesnt matter how fast the person is going because it will never be as fast as you want them to go.
Your one of those get out my way or ill tailgate you type of drivers that also like to zip in and out of lanes...
and yes i drive the southern calif freeways everyday, and if your behind me tailgating me because your late and im going 65-75 like everyone else expect me to slow down and flash my break lights everyso often and speed up when you try to pass me cuz im not let u pass.
Your "kind" are the SOLE reason for accidents on freeways. Your "kind" need to take some driving classes, or better understand how traffic works. Speeding doesn't cause accidents, @ssholes like your "kind" do. (break checkers, and people who speed up, just to not let us "real" drivers pass)
its pretty nuts, just the other day i was driving as the speed of traffic, i checked how fast i was going at i was at 80 and i was still being passed. I'de say here its more risky to drive at 65 than it is to drive at 80
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related link - Illinois passes bill that makes it illegal to drive slow in the fast lane...
http://www.wtvw.com/Global/story.asp?S=1202085&nav=7CPEEs9h
http://www.wtvw.com/Global/story.asp?S=1202085&nav=7CPEEs9h
Thats right you can break faster at 100MPH when you can't brake fast enough for something that gets in your way.
I just want to know where speed limits exceed even 70MPH on open interstate, much less crowded freeways around large cities like LA or Atlanta. Even I-285 and the interstates are set to 55MPH. I have driven in both places and am amazed at how dumb speeders can be. I D 10 Ts flying by at 80+ with one hand through the sun roof holding a cigarette and the other hand full of cell phone and yaking on the damed thing.
i'm an aggressive driver however i do not flash my beams, honk, tailgate in hopes that the person moves, etc etc.
by aggressive is that i will pass at high speeds, at close range with other cars. basically fast and swift. not prolonged like excessive tailgaiting. my forms of tailgaiting are quick only just to pass really quick. if i have to tailgate more than 4 seconds, i backoff because there may be a jerk in front of me that decides to slam on his brakes.
when someone tailgates me alot, and i cut off his passing opportunities on the right, i will basically slow down so much that im going the speed limit. since cars in the right lanes are passing me, he can't move to those lanes. soon as that person moves to those right lanes that are passing me, i accelerate to the approxmiate speed of those right lanes so that person can't cut me off. basically, i'm driving defensively by defending myself from getting cut off.
the reason i don't honk or flash my lights is because the ppl doing 65 in the fast lane are entitiled to that speed. if the number 1 lane is the passing lane, what gives that lane a higher speed limit to pass. its not 65+. its 65 tops. sure it isn't enforced, by when it comes to court, you can't argue that it was the fast lane. all lanes are govorned by the same speed limit law.
by aggressive is that i will pass at high speeds, at close range with other cars. basically fast and swift. not prolonged like excessive tailgaiting. my forms of tailgaiting are quick only just to pass really quick. if i have to tailgate more than 4 seconds, i backoff because there may be a jerk in front of me that decides to slam on his brakes.
when someone tailgates me alot, and i cut off his passing opportunities on the right, i will basically slow down so much that im going the speed limit. since cars in the right lanes are passing me, he can't move to those lanes. soon as that person moves to those right lanes that are passing me, i accelerate to the approxmiate speed of those right lanes so that person can't cut me off. basically, i'm driving defensively by defending myself from getting cut off.
the reason i don't honk or flash my lights is because the ppl doing 65 in the fast lane are entitiled to that speed. if the number 1 lane is the passing lane, what gives that lane a higher speed limit to pass. its not 65+. its 65 tops. sure it isn't enforced, by when it comes to court, you can't argue that it was the fast lane. all lanes are govorned by the same speed limit law.
Originally posted by: WhiteKnight77
Thats right you can break faster at 100MPH when you can't brake fast enough for something that gets in your way.
I just want to know where speed limits exceed even 70MPH on open interstate, much less crowded freeways around large cities like LA or Atlanta. Even I-285 and the interstates are set to 55MPH. I have driven in both places and am amazed at how dumb speeders can be. I D 10 Ts flying by at 80+ with one hand through the sun roof holding a cigarette and the other hand full of cell phone and yaking on the damed thing.
A good chunk of the state of Arizona, and much of California IIRC. I seem to recall other areas around the country as well. As I mentioned, near my house the speed limit is 75, and if you're doing less than 85 the cops will fly by you. My average is 85, but when idiots try to block me, I'll easily jump to 110 to get around.
It's funny as hell getting stuck behind someone who intentionally boxes you in, then they try to speed up to get to the next batch of cars and before they know what hit them I'm 1/4 mi in front of them. Good thing most of you wannabe cops drive crappy cars so it's easy for us good drivers to blow by you on the right.
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