What bad driving habits on the road really irk you?
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The province could make a lot of money and traffic would flow if drives in the left lane were fined if they are not passing. Also, I thought the merge lane was intended to merge into traffic not to see how far ahead you can get? I learned that the merge lane was to allow you to get up to speed and find a gap so that you could enter the highway, not run the lane until you run out of road. Another way the province could make a lot of money and improve the safety of the roads.
Good ones.
I hate the people who feel so entitled that they don't have to wait in line and the idiots who allow them to treat others like fools. They do not deserve the courtesy of being let in.
I hate driving down one lane highways where the speed limit is 80 and to have some idiot going 75 and creating a line up of cars behind them.
First time I've come across that neat descriptor. But most times there is no formal 'merge lane', because the merge was invented by a construction gang, and they just leave it to us to figure out.
If they left both lanes active right to the last, the alternating zipper scheme is indeed the fastest way for everyone to get through. People have studied this stuff. But often they set up a long narrowing that begins far back with no obvious merge-point. Then their poor effort is abetted by drivers anticipating and merging early, so there's no possibility of the zipper. But there's always a bad-guy who uses the space that's left to pass the line — right or left — and barge in, slowing the already tedious crawl even more.
Keep two lanes as long as you have the road-width (you don't need much at a walking pace), then merge alternately left lane, right lane. But don't be an p-asshole if people are merging early. Instead, you can even take some malicious pleasure letting a second lane build behind you but not pass, while you all slowly inch up to that final merge point (zipper-pull?) where you must completely join the through lane.
And with luck, the zipper will operate properly after that.
I'm not sure why auto manufacturers allow cars to operate at night without the full lights on. With my car, there's no need to turn on my headlights/tail lights. When it gets dark, they come on automatically. When it's light out it switches to DRL.
The only option is the ability to turn on the full lights during the day, when it's raining for example. So it's impossible to forget to turn on your lights at night. Why isn't every car designed that way?
More common in the US.
Many drivers don't understand that you should either use the on ramp to accelerate to the speed of the traffic flow then merge, or if traffic is crawling, drive to the end of the on ramp then zipper merge. Too many drivers stop at the beginning of the on ramp and try to merge, instead of driving to the end of it.
This is more to the point. ^^^
Most cars have three headlight options. Full auto. Full off, and Manual on.
Now here is where the auto headlight becomes the worst thing ever.
Everyone sets their headlights to full auto, and then forgets about them from that day forward. They never think or check if their lights are on at night ever again because, why should they? The car will take care of it.
Except when they have accidentally hit the switch with their knee one time, and knocked it to full off. But because they have complete confidence that the car is taking care of it, they never check their lights at night.
Most car instrument panels light up regardless of the headlights being on or not, so no one is the wiser.
That's why you have people driving with no lights on at night. The auto headlights have got people out of the habit of checking their light situation as soon as they start a car in the dark.
Was it really necessary to have an automated system to save people the strenuous exercise of turning a light switch to on?
These automated systems in cars have made people so lazy that when they fail, or are accidentally turned off, no one knows what to do.
Same thing with back up cameras. People get so used to using them, that when they are in a car that doesn't have one, they don't know how to back up. I've witnessed this first hand.
Turn your fucking head people. It's not very hard.
No wonder people are bad drivers. These systems have made people so disconnected from the vehicle, that they're practically falling asleep driving them.
My opinion is that you should know how, and be tested, driving stick to get your license.
Nothing keeps you more in tune with your vehicle, and what is happening around you than driving standard.
Hate it when idiots don't accelerate on an on-ramp to a highway. Then try to merge with highway traffic going 110-120 and they are only doing 70-80. By the time you are almost at the end of the on-ramp you should be going at, or even slightly more than highway speed.
I go back to what I said. It's impossible to drive my car at night with the lights off. The only option is to turn full lights on during the day. If every car was like this, nobody would be driving with at night with their lights off.
Alternately, it would be easy to have a warning sound, similar to "do up your seat belt" that if it's dark out and you haven't turned on your full lights. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding...
I will add my 2 cents... happens to me all the time.. people who drive up the shoulder of a hiway then get in an on ramp to move ahead 20 cars
the second is when people in other boats don't wave back. (what would you expect from a pirate)
the second is when people in other boats don't wave back. (what would you expect from a pirate)
So how do you turn your head lights off if you need to? Can't say I like a system that doesn't give me the option of turning off the headlights in a situation where I don't want them on.
Also, why do we now need bells and whistles to let people know this and that. Just go back to forcing people to use their own hand, and turn on the lights, cause the car won't do it for you.
Just wait how bad things will get when Lane assist becomes available in even the cheapest car, and everyone gets used to that. When it breaks, or they have to drive a car that doesn't have it, they will never be able to keep it in their own fucking lane.
This shit isn't necessary. If people are going to drive a car, then take responsibility and drive a car. Don't partially drive a car hoping the car will take care of the rest.
Can't say I've ever had the need to drive my car with the lights off. Although, if you start the car with the handbrake on, the headlights/taillights will remain off until you release it.
Because people are idiots and need to be reminded.
Some nanny aids are good, because many people are bad drivers. Things like ABS, traction control, stability control etc. I do agree it should be harder to get your licence. They should adopt the driver education/testing procedures they have in Germany.
Thanks. Everything in a video. Now if we could just get the road-crews up to speed.
Yep. I don't understand it. I want to be aware of what's around me at all times, so that in an emergency situation I can react appropriately. I do a lot of driving, and this has saved me at least a dozen times. Being aware also helps you be courteous to other drivers.
But hell, in an age where people will stop dead in the middle of a sidewalk to check their phone, or back up in the grocery aisle without looking, I'm not surprised people are completely oblivious to what's going on around their vehicle.
It's not the driving with the headlights off, it's once parked I have had need to turn them off without shutting the engine off. As long as there is some way of shutting them off manually.
As for the nanny aids, my standpoint is, if one can't drive a car without the assistance of nanny aids, one shouldn't be allowed to drive at all.
