Horrendous Drivers - Please post what you hate the most about them!

[prntrfxr]

Per oldschool's reply to Blackcat's driving glasses thread, here is the "Horrendous Drivers" rant. Bad, obnoxious, stupid, rude, etc... Feel free to post what you hate the most.

Mine: People who don't know how to use exit ramps on expressways correctly.
They go to the end and put their brakes on when they're entering the highway. or they put their breaks on before they get into the turn lane, backing up traffic for miles. Those that exit the ramp at about 80mph to get in front of you and then slow down to the speed limit once they get there.

[oldschool]

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My biggest pet peeve is tailgating. You're not gonna get there any faster! We have suicidal deer around here that love to jump out in front of your car. You use your well honed driving skills to miss the deer but you still gotta worry about the driver behind ya.

[mikadonovan]

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1. Tailgating me when I'm already exceeding the speed limit.

2. Hurrying up to pull out in front of me so you can go 20 mph BELOW the speed limit (kinda blows on a 2 lane highway with few passing zones).

3. Sitting still at a green light.

4. Flipping a lit cigarette out the window onto my windshield, or flipping me off as you pass because I choose NOT to drive 80mph in a 55mph zone. I picked up my first speeding ticket in over 20 years recently, and it was friggin expensive.

5. Following an individual the cannot maintain a steady speed ie speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down.

I'd better stop now, or this would be a long list. I think I'm getting grumpier in my middle age. No, I have one more.

6. Some numbnut not taking his turn at a 4 way stop, waves someone else on which screws up everybody else.

[blackcat4866]

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This might amaze you, but I really don't have many driving complaints, other than the mis-aimed or HID headlights, that is.

95% of all drivers are just trying to get to their destination and back alive, and without dents.
Most aggressive drivers are their own worst enemy. I am actually quite entertained by the elevated 4WD truck drivers. They can accelerate faster, and think they can also stop faster. After they fly by you in the snow & ice (I know you don't see much snow & ice, prntfxr), a few miles up the road there they are in the ditch wheels up.

There's really nothing you can do about tailgaters, so I just do my best to ignore them, or irritate them into passing. You all know I can be damn irritating. It's a skill. =^..^=

[oldschool]

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I thought of another one that happened about 2 years ago and to this day I still get angry thinking about it.
Two lane highway. The speed limit is 55 and I'm going 60. I come up on the passing zone and the guy in the rusted POS van that has been on my rear bumper for the last mile passes. I slowed down to about 50 to let him by. The second he gets in the lane ahead of me he slams on his breaks and turns on his left blinker. I almost hit him. I wondered if he did it on purpose hoping I'd hit him so he could get some insurance money. That's as close as I've ever come to following someone so I could give them a piece of my mind. I manage to get myself under control and move on.

[Akitu]

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1. Tailgating me when I'm already exceeding the speed limit.

2. Hurrying up to pull out in front of me so you can go 20 mph BELOW the speed limit (kinda blows on a 2 lane highway with few passing zones).

3. Sitting still at a green light.

4. Flipping a lit cigarette out the window onto my windshield, or flipping me off as you pass because I choose NOT to drive 80mph in a 55mph zone. I picked up my first speeding ticket in over 20 years recently, and it was friggin expensive.

5. Following an individual the cannot maintain a steady speed ie speed up, slow down, speed up, slow down.

I'd better stop now, or this would be a long list. I think I'm getting grumpier in my middle age. No, I have one more.

6. Some numbnut not taking his turn at a 4 way stop, waves someone else on which screws up everybody else.

I can agree with so many of these.

1. I don't mind the tailgaters much, as in my province it's 100% fault for rear ending someone. When they get close I let them examine just how well my brake lights work and there's not a damned thing they can do about it other than learn to back off or pay my insurance.

2. This one irks me as well, why pass someone to go slower? Unless you're one of the jerk-offs who does that for free money from the insurance company (see #1). Better have a witness...

3. Honk of the horn fixes it.

4. I had an experience with the latter half of this not too long ago, except it was some d-bag in a rusted out old van refusing to let me pass to turn, and instead trying to race me. Fortunately I knew where the nearest traffic cam was, he went by at 75 km/h in a 50, whereas I went through at 50. That camera light going off was almost too much for me, I had to have a cold shower when I got home! (Just kidding)

5. This is probably the one thing I encounter most on the road, I have no problem following someone at below the speed limit, so long as there's a valid reason (ice around a corner, low visibility etc). For some reason I just can't stand when they can't pick a speed and stick to it.

6. Example of when courtesy is grossly unnecessary, just take your damn turn and go.

To add to the list:

7. Idiots who stop at a yield sign, and yield at stop signs. ONE IS CLEARLY LABELED STOP... Is illiteracy really that rampant?

8. People who drive right in the middle of 2 lanes of traffic ~ not sure if this bugs me more because of my obsessive compulsive tendencies, or if it's just plain common sense that the line dividing two lanes of traffic is there for a reason.

9. People who don't use turn signals until they're already nearly complete on the turn ~ I don't know if it's worse because every time it happens, I seem to be sitting at a stop sign waiting to turn when they do it. It's supposed to be used to SIGNAL intention to turn, not display to everyone how proud you are that you can turn it on halfway through said turn...

10. People who slow down for no reason as they approach an intersection ~ I'm waiting to turn, why are you slowing down if you're going to continue on your merry way? Idiots...

I think I'll stop before my own list gets too long.

@Blackcat - My girlfriend has a saying, 4x4 doesn't mean 4 times the traction, it means you're 4x further into the ditch. I can wholeheartedly agree, as it seems people misunderstand 4x4 or 4WD or AWD as "Get out of driving skill free" and use it as an excuse for their stupidity, while us normal people in our broken, rusty old 2 wheel drive cars can drive sensibly, stop, and laugh at them from the road while looking down on them in the ditch.

[mjunkaged]

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I FLIP OFF anyone who tailgates me while I speed. Right as they go by!

[mojorolla]

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I refers to them as the "ers" :
*Blinkers - nobody uses these anymore. Let me know which way you would like to turn before you flip me off for blocking you in.
*Talkers - get off the phone and hit the gas or slow the hell down. This would also include the far worse texters.
*Honkers - the light changes green and before I can move my foot from the brake to the gas, I hear the honk. Sorry I took so long douche bag.
*Flashers - in the high speed lane, doing 10 above the limit, here they come, riding your rump and flashing the lights. Sometimes, they turn into honkers too.
*Speeders - this one is always in a hurry. Weaving in and out of traffic because everyone else is always in the way.
*Creepers - these folks are in no hurry at all. Creepers seems to generate honkers, flashers, and speeders.

Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway?

[BLADE]

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women driving 4WDs, who gave them that right

[JR2ALTA]

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I can agree with so many of these.

1. I don't mind the tailgaters much, as in my province it's 100% fault for rear ending someone. When they get close I let them examine just how well my brake lights work and there's not a damned thing they can do about it other than learn to back off or pay my insurance.

2. This one irks me as well, why pass someone to go slower? Unless you're one of the jerk-offs who does that for free money from the insurance company (see #1). Better have a witness...

3. Honk of the horn fixes it.

4. I had an experience with the latter half of this not too long ago, except it was some d-bag in a rusted out old van refusing to let me pass to turn, and instead trying to race me. Fortunately I knew where the nearest traffic cam was, he went by at 75 km/h in a 50, whereas I went through at 50. That camera light going off was almost too much for me, I had to have a cold shower when I got home! (Just kidding)

5. This is probably the one thing I encounter most on the road, I have no problem following someone at below the speed limit, so long as there's a valid reason (ice around a corner, low visibility etc). For some reason I just can't stand when they can't pick a speed and stick to it.

6. Example of when courtesy is grossly unnecessary, just take your damn turn and go.

To add to the list:

7. Idiots who stop at a yield sign, and yield at stop signs. ONE IS CLEARLY LABELED STOP... Is illiteracy really that rampant?

8. People who drive right in the middle of 2 lanes of traffic ~ not sure if this bugs me more because of my obsessive compulsive tendencies, or if it's just plain common sense that the line dividing two lanes of traffic is there for a reason.

9. People who don't use turn signals until they're already nearly complete on the turn ~ I don't know if it's worse because every time it happens, I seem to be sitting at a stop sign waiting to turn when they do it. It's supposed to be used to SIGNAL intention to turn, not display to everyone how proud you are that you can turn it on halfway through said turn...

10. People who slow down for no reason as they approach an intersection ~ I'm waiting to turn, why are you slowing down if you're going to continue on your merry way? Idiots...

I think I'll stop before my own list gets too long.

@Blackcat - My girlfriend has a saying, 4x4 doesn't mean 4 times the traction, it means you're 4x further into the ditch. I can wholeheartedly agree, as it seems people misunderstand 4x4 or 4WD or AWD as "Get out of driving skill free" and use it as an excuse for their stupidity, while us normal people in our broken, rusty old 2 wheel drive cars can drive sensibly, stop, and laugh at them from the road while looking down on them in the ditch.

Typically I HATE Yield signs. Cost as much to put a damn stop sign. Often you do need to stop at a yield or you have no idea whether it's a two-lane merge or just a one-lane merge so you slow to a stop to look.

I pray to God some guy doesn't rear-end me at 35 MPH because he's used to light traffic or something.


Here is Wisconsin our DOT fell in love with Round-a-Bouts, hate them too.

[sdrawkcab]

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Sorry prntrfxr

When I read the thread, I thought you meant Horrendous Printer Drivers.......I really need a break

[igi]

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women driving 4WDs, who gave them that right

ATT-Blade if you value your life retract this statement

good luck

[Akitu]

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Typically I HATE Yield signs. Cost as much to put a damn stop sign. Often you do need to stop at a yield or you have no idea whether it's a two-lane merge or just a one-lane merge so you slow to a stop to look.

I pray to God some guy doesn't rear-end me at 35 MPH because he's used to light traffic or something.


Here is Wisconsin our DOT fell in love with Round-a-Bouts, hate them too.

When it's appropriate to stop, I have no issue. It's the idiots who stop for no reason when it's a wide open lane.

I noticed an increase in roundabouts here as well, they put them near all the residential streets to force idiot drivers to slow down. They're not full sized roundabouts either, it's like they just said the heck with it and planted a bunch of small, circular curbs in the middle of all 4 way stops. Comical really...

[prntrfxr]

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I had so many to reply to I didn't want to have quotes all over the place. Oh well...

women driving 4WDs, who gave them that right

Blade, I would love to have a 4WD and NOT drive it off road (but I could if I wanted to and that's the point). LOL! My favorite vehicle of choice right now is Toyota FJ Cruiser (just can't afford it right now). The silver one and it would be clean and shiny. I'm a girl, and um...color is um...important.

I like a lot of what everyone else has mentioned, but I qualify for some of them, so you guys probably wouldn't like to see me on the road near you.

1. I believe that the lines on the road are suggested guidelines.
2. I drive faster when there's a peppy song and slower on a slow song. Sorry, that's just how I roll.
3. I use my signals 95% of the time, but you may not get much warning. I am not afraid to pass on the right as well as the left.
4. I choose to drive 80mph in a 65. I never go over 80 because they charge you double and you can lose your licence. If I am in the left lane (passing lane), going 80, and you pull up behind me to the point where I can't see your tires touch the ground, at the soonest available moment I will pull into the right lane and let you pass. I hate people who do not extend the same courtesy, but assume they are the road police and sit in the left lane going just above the speed limit to make some statement to the rest of us who drive too fast.
5. I do not tailgate anymore, not even at a traffic light (if you can't see where the tires touch the road of the car in front of you at a traffic light, you are too close), but I used to when I was younger. Had too many collisions, tickets, and etc...
6. I do not text or call people while driving. If they call me, it goes on speaker phone and it is very brief. I tell them I'm driving and will call when I get home.
7. I need to work on eating while driving, playing with GPS while driving (just as bad as texting), and I should turn the radio down.


I am grown-up enough to admit my bad habits. I am also improving. I haven't had a ticket of any kind or an accident in over 8 years. I am more polite and courteous. I think ahead before getting in the car about my route. I try to use only right turns. A. It's safer, B. It saves gas, and C. It's usually faster. (UPS does this. Saves them thousands of dollars. Great for tech routes, but works equally well for quick trips to stores.) We all get to our destination eventually, just some a little faster than others.

[mjarbar]

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Sorry prntrfxr

When I read the thread, I thought you meant Horrendous Printer Drivers.......I really need a break

Thank God I wasn't the only one :-s

i think the most annoying ones are the drivers who don't know where they are going so drive along at 10mph then stop to look at a road sign then carry on at 10mph again to the next sign.

For Gods sake either stop and get directions or invest in a satnav!!!