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This woman driver just pisses me off

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although it is annoying, there is nothing wrong with driving 5 below the speed limit. and no, you will never get a ticket for that.
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Sure you could. You could be in the passing lane, for example. That will get you a ticket.

5 below the limit would be more like 15 below traffic speed on a highway, and probably 10 below traffic speed on most other roads, and would be a hazard, imo.

Driving slow also attracts cops, as drunks tend to do it.
 
Originally posted by: LTC8K6
Sure you could. You could be in the passing lane, for example. That will get you a ticket.
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I WISH that was a law that got enforced, but the truth is I've never talked to anyone or heard of anyone getting ticketed for cruising in the passing lane, with the exception of one news story a few years ago about some state troopers in Ohio or Indiana that were issuing tickets for it, and how all the locals were getting upset over it.
 
Ever so often when I'm out driving, I'll have someone get closer and closer and closer to me from behind. As I see this in my rear view mirror, I wonder, "Why don't they just realize that they're going faster than I am and equalize the speed?" (Note, I never travel below the speed limit if it will impede someone else, so that is not the case) Whenever these people get close enough into view... it's always a woman driver. Every single time. I have to say, I'm not a huge fan of people doing this.

Oh and smart people hypermile (I assume this means beginning to coast or slow down a bit when a light that's further ahead turns red to save gas). There's no reason to constantly accelerate toward a light unless you can guarantee that the light will turn green by the time you get there. There are times when I do not slow down and "hypermile" to a light, because I know it will change before I get there. Other times, I will begin to coast toward a light because there's no reason to accelerate toward a light and then just brake.

Here's a hint... braking = wasted energy (unless you drive a hybrid which uses energy from braking to recharge the battery).
 
I always wonder about people I see coming up behind me on the interstates. Once in a while I'll run across this. Very light traffic, I'm cruising about 5 over in the slow lane. I'm basically alone. I see a car in the distance behind me. It's closing the gap at a good rate. It gets up to me. And doesn't pass me...

Then there are the cars that pull out as if to pass me, but then they just stay next to me...

I hate that with a passion. I want to be able to swerve if I have to, and this idiot is camped out next to me. I'll usually make sure it's clear and then brake to get away from them.

It's fine if traffic is heavy and there's nowhere to go, but when traffic is light I can't stand it.

 
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Ever so often when I'm out driving, I'll have someone get closer and closer and closer to me from behind. As I see this in my rear view mirror, I wonder, "Why don't they just realize that they're going faster than I am and equalize the speed?" (Note, I never travel below the speed limit if it will impede someone else, so that is not the case) Whenever these people get close enough into view... it's always a woman driver. Every single time. I have to say, I'm not a huge fan of people doing this.

Oh and smart people hypermile (I assume this means beginning to coast or slow down a bit when a light that's further ahead turns red to save gas). There's no reason to constantly accelerate toward a light unless you can guarantee that the light will turn green by the time you get there. There are times when I do not slow down and "hypermile" to a light, because I know it will change before I get there. Other times, I will begin to coast toward a light because there's no reason to accelerate toward a light and then just brake.

Here's a hint... braking = wasted energy (unless you drive a hybrid which uses energy from braking to recharge the battery).
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This is what I do.

I can't stand people who overtake another car, which is in the inside / middle lane on a dual carriageway or motorway (is this a freeway in the US?) and creep past at 1-2MPH more than the other car. It take them ages to get past. I think for christ sake you are in a car, not a speed-limited truck. If you are going to overtake, then overtake and don't beat around the bush about it.
 
Originally posted by: LTC8K6
I always wonder about people I see coming up behind me on the interstates. Once in a while I'll run across this. Very light traffic, I'm cruising about 5 over in the slow lane. I'm basically alone. I see a car in the distance behind me. It's closing the gap at a good rate. It gets up to me. And doesn't pass me...
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Perhaps also a form of hypermiling: if you're doing 100+ kph, being behind someone reduces the air resistance and helps a tiny little bit with the mileage, not that I approve that 😀


 
It's been going on forever, though. Way before the price of fuel was an issue. I doubt it's hypermiling because they wasted a lot of fuel catching up to me.

When they do this, it makes me suspicious, so I just slow down until they are forced to go around me.
 
Originally posted by: jRaskell
Here's my whole view of the situation, because I deal with this all the time as well.

First, only law enforcement officers have any business whatsoever telling me how to drive. The rest of you can just **** off.

Second, I've been driving for over 18 years, never had any serious problems with law enforcement, have plenty of speeding tickets, but nothing to get worked up about, so I'm certainly not trying to drive like Michael Schumacher in the Grand Prix. :roll:

Third, regardless how I drive, I do my best to stay out of other peoples way. If it's none of their business how I drive, then it's also none of my business how they drive. Anybody who intentionally obstructs another driver because "I'm not doing anything wrong", isn't being a responsible public citizen. They're being an ass, an arrogant prick, a stuck up bitch, a high and mighty self-righteous ************. That's it. No excuses, no exceptions, no justifications. Leave the law enforcement to the officers who are trained and paid to do it. Your own actions can do nothing more than create a more hazzardous situation, and THAT is true stupidity.
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I purposely drive the speed limit or a little below just to piss people like you off. But only law enforcement officers can tell me how to drive so you can fuck off too.
 
That kinda shit pisses me off too. Has nothing to do with getting to my destination any faster. It has to do with somebody being a public nuisance.

Yeah, driving aggressively will waste gas... ya know what also wastes gas? Getting caught at every red light because they're timed for 45 mph traffic and some limp-wristed dickhead takes a quarter mile to accelerate from 0 to 40 mph, then bounces around between 35 and 40 mph.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
That kinda shit pisses me off too. Has nothing to do with getting to my destination any faster. It has to do with somebody being a public nuisance.

Yeah, driving aggressively will waste gas... ya know what also wastes gas? Getting caught at every red light because they're timed for 45 mph traffic and some limp-wristed dickhead takes a quarter mile to accelerate from 0 to 40 mph, then bounces around between 35 and 40 mph.
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This.
 
Originally posted by: DVad3r
People who pass from the right lane are total morons. People who don't change lanes to the right from the fast lane when someone is coming up fast behind them are morons.
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so what about using the right lane to pass the left-lane slowpoke morons? does that make me a moron if I do it in a safe fashion, using appropriate signals and not cutting anybody off?
 
Weak rant. She is probably paranoid because idiots like you keep cutting her off. I always leave like 5-6 car lengths in front of me, of course it depends on the speed limit. There are WAY too many tailgaters out there. The rule is that you should always be able to stop if the person directly in front of you suddenly slams on their brakes. Leaving 2 car lengths will not get you there. You will slam into them and it will be your fault. I try to avoid that and if someone tailgates behind me, I try to get out of their way.
 
Originally posted by: soydios
Originally posted by: DVad3r
People who pass from the right lane are total morons. People who don't change lanes to the right from the fast lane when someone is coming up fast behind them are morons.
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so what about using the right lane to pass the left-lane slowpoke morons? does that make me a moron if I do it in a safe fashion, using appropriate signals and not cutting anybody off?
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No that doesn't, but you shouldn't have to do that in the first place. A proper driver will see you coming in behind him and change lanes to let you by. This is not the case here due to everyone being a fuckin idiot, moreso in Canada than in the USA, I speak from experience.
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
That kinda shit pisses me off too. Has nothing to do with getting to my destination any faster. It has to do with somebody being a public nuisance.

Yeah, driving aggressively will waste gas... ya know what also wastes gas? Getting caught at every red light because they're timed for 45 mph traffic and some limp-wristed dickhead takes a quarter mile to accelerate from 0 to 40 mph, then bounces around between 35 and 40 mph.
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that's when you shut off the engine at the light. problem solved.
 
Originally posted by: jtvang125
We take the same route every morning around the same time. I've been stuck behind her a few times and it's just infuriating. Here's what she does when I can't pass her up:

1. never drives the speed limit, always aleast 5 below
2. slow starting from light, 18 wheelers are keeping up with her
3. always keeps 5-6 car lengths gap in front. if gap shortens even by one car length she slows down to increase gap.
4. begins hypermiling a mile away from a red light

I've seen numerous drivers flash their headlights and even some that cut her off so it isn't just me who is getting frustrated. She impedes traffic flow and unsafe for other drivers. I've always wonder how these type of drivers pick up these driving habits.

/rant
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Hey, I do all of those, except the 5 mph below speed limit (I usually go a few mph above but I don't gun the car to get there...I accelerate nice and smooth). 😀

Oh, and there are actually books that teach you the above....all about MPG and it's been around for over a decade.
 
My sister has the bad habit of accelerate toward stops and red lights. I usually drive at the speed limit unless I want to be a jerk and put in danger my life and others life.
 
Originally posted by: jhu
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
That kinda shit pisses me off too. Has nothing to do with getting to my destination any faster. It has to do with somebody being a public nuisance.

Yeah, driving aggressively will waste gas... ya know what also wastes gas? Getting caught at every red light because they're timed for 45 mph traffic and some limp-wristed dickhead takes a quarter mile to accelerate from 0 to 40 mph, then bounces around between 35 and 40 mph.
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that's when you shut off the engine at the light. problem solved.
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Fail.

Unless the system is designed to do that automatically, then briefly switching the engine off will use more gas.
 
Originally posted by: iCyborg
Originally posted by: LTC8K6
I always wonder about people I see coming up behind me on the interstates. Once in a while I'll run across this. Very light traffic, I'm cruising about 5 over in the slow lane. I'm basically alone. I see a car in the distance behind me. It's closing the gap at a good rate. It gets up to me. And doesn't pass me...
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Perhaps also a form of hypermiling: if you're doing 100+ kph, being behind someone reduces the air resistance and helps a tiny little bit with the mileage, not that I approve that 😀
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Back in 2004, I was driving long haul and was able (under a load of Kodak x-ray film from Greenville, SC to Medford, OR) to help my g/f move to Oregon from Nashville. We loaded a rental minivan with her stuff and she followed behind me. I was driving a 2004 Volvo 770 semi with a refrigerated trailer. It was a 78k+ load.

She tailgated me from Nashville to western Wyoming. The first day on flat terrain, I had the cruise set and she was on the pedal. We had these walkie talkies for communication and she would occasionally ask, "Why are you slowing down?" 😀

She got 30+mpg in a FULLY loaded minivan for 1500 miles. When we split routes, she dropped to 20mpg...

Rock on drafting.
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: jtvang125
We take the same route every morning around the same time. I've been stuck behind her a few times and it's just infuriating. Here's what she does when I can't pass her up:

1. never drives the speed limit, always aleast 5 below
2. slow starting from light, 18 wheelers are keeping up with her
3. always keeps 5-6 car lengths gap in front. if gap shortens even by one car length she slows down to increase gap.
4. begins hypermiling a mile away from a red light

I've seen numerous drivers flash their headlights and even some that cut her off so it isn't just me who is getting frustrated. She impedes traffic flow and unsafe for other drivers. I've always wonder how these type of drivers pick up these driving habits.

/rant
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Calm the fuck down. You'll save what...all of a few seconds if you get by her? Chances are she'll just catch up to you at the next light anyway. You aren't going to get anywhere any quicker if she lets you by so just deal with it.

In short, slow the hell down. Michael Schumacher you ain't and this isn't the Grand Prix of Monaco.

I rate this rant 0/10. :thumbsdown:
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In general I have noticed two broad categories of driver on American roads.

1. The daydreamer, skylarker, unaware dimwit. These are only dangerous until they wake the hell up, and you can usually do that with a quick beep from the horn. Most old folks and many females of all ages fall into this group. As well as plenty of morning and evening commuters who have made the same trip a thousand times and stop using their brain. They can drive any vehicle but are slightly less inclined towards powerful sports cars. Many of them have oversized SUV's and pickups. Cell phone users do not automatically fall into this group. Some of them actually belong to the next category.

2. Mario Andretti wannabes. These guys are actually more dangerous because they think they're awesome drivers and there's no magic cure for them like there is with the above category. They believe breaking as many traffic laws as possible during the day makes them badasses. They think the roads were set up purely for their amusement and the laws were made just so they can have something to break and feel like badasses. In the modern world they are just as likely to be using their cell phone. Whereas the above drivers will forget to look and use signals, these guys deliberately avoid them because they believe such things are signs of compassion, and therefore weakness. They can drive anything but tend to gravitate towards pussy sports cars, real sports cars, luxury cars regardless of horsepower, and larger vehicles. They try hard to avoid driving extremely practical vehicles like Volvos or small pickups/SUV's. Almost any demographic could be found in this category but notable offenders are middle class white males up to about age 60, black and brown males of all income brackets & ages, young asian males but only up to a certain age, and (amazingly) more & more females each year. In fact some females will actually jump back and forth between each category. As soon as they wake up from their cell conversations they jump into Mario Andretti mode. I think Danicka Patrick has given women the illusion they can drive. Maybe we should call it Danicka Patrick Syndrome?

In Virginia there seem to be a lot more of number 2 than number 1. Actually, its like that everywhere I've been. The southern half of california. The northern half of Florida. The cities and suburbs of Minnesota. Almost all of Oregon. Iceland. PA. DC. Shit, pretty much every place I can think of except parts of Europe where no one drives.
 
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