Stupid Drivers

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Well, I live in Washington DC, which statistically is the third worst place in the country to learn how to drive because of all the idiots here. Just the other day, my family and I were at a red light and in front of us was this blue VW Beetle in the opposite side left turning lane. After everyone else went, our light turned green, so the cars going straight could go. But this idiot decided to disregard his red light and turn anyway. We had to slam on the brakes to avoid hitting him. And he just kept driving like nothing had happened.

So here's the place to post your worst experiences with stupid drivers, whether it caused an accident or not.

Stupid drivers, gah!:scared:

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Driving Park
Well, I live in Washington DC, which statistically is the third worst place in the country to learn how to drive because of all the idiots here.
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So, you live in Washington DC and you're learning how to drive if I understand correctly, doesn't that make you one of the idiots you're talking about? ;)
 
I have so many stories I couldn't possibly list them all, but I'll start with the big ones.

My friends Miata was rear ended at 35mph (on a 35mph speed limit road) after 45 feet of skid marks. My friend was stopped behind an Accord and the dude drove across an intersection and slammed into him. His excuse was "well, you stopped like an idiot"

My friend replied, "well, you smashed my car like an idiot." That shut him up.


Then last week, some idiot was driving a big truck down the middle of the road coming towards my dad, and my dad had to swerve away, since it was right over the crest of a hill and he didn't see him before. He ended up side swiping a telephone pole, denting up the whole side of our van and breaking off the mirror. Stay on your own side of the yellow lines, please.

Then my car was hit while being towed. The girl "didn't see" my car, even though it was on a truck with big yellow flashing lights on it.

Then there's the little things. My friends previous Miata was hit 3 times in our school parking lot. Then there's the people who cross over the lane a little during turns, making me slam on my brakes to avoid them because I don't know if they are switching lanes, since nobody here seems to know what a turn signal is.


I could rant on this forever, I hate people who can't drive, so I always notice the little things.
 
I was driving a PT Turbo the other day through downtown and when people decide to make sudden turns into parking spaces, without blinkers, I dont get happy. It happened to me twice, with 2 different retards in Acura TL's. Also, I was stopped at a red light, and on my right are some parking spaces, and im at the light, with a guy parked in his Escalade on my right, he gets in, fires up his 'Lade and decides now would be a good time to back up (with me still behind him) the horn reminded him to grow half a brain and not run me over.
 
Originally posted by Perfect Balance:

Then there's the people who cross over the lane a little during turns,
making me slam on my brakes to avoid them because I don't know if they are switching lanes, since nobody here seems to know what a turn signal is
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Yeh, the situation isn't much better here in Toronto either. My mother thinks she's invisible; she's always ignored by other drivers who cut her off in intersections, in parking lots, the highway, even in her driveway! Riding with her, I counted that she was nearly hit 4 times trying to get to the local grocery store.

On the highway, some idiot in a Hummer also did the following:

-Changed speeds between 100km/h-140km/h without warning
-Never switched lanes, which would have been impossible due to speed changes
-Nearly hit a Corvette trying to overtake said car
-Did not use headlights or taillights
-Tailgated a Mazda for 1 hour

The car finally went too fast and got pulled over by a police cruiser.
 
People in America can't drive in general because we have one of the easiest way of getting a license. I mean if an illegal Mexican immigrant, who speaks no more then 3 words of English, can obtain a drivers license merely by taking a test, in SPANISH, I really don't hold out much hope.

I know I was a terrible driver when I was 16 and 4 years later I'm better but I'm by no means good. It takes many years to get the experience needed to be a good driver.
 
If Washington D.C. is bad New Jersey is a nightmare. People here in N.J. are always rushing and doing stupid things. It doesn't help that we are the most densely populated state in America.
 
I think over time you learn to judge different driving styles, and learn to keep a little distance, so you don't have to slam on the brakes and yell when someone does something dumb. Anticipating also means thinking ahead of stupid drivers.

For instance, if you see a an out-of-state (for you Americans) or foreign license plate, back off, because you know they're not familiar with the roads and are looking for their way around = knee-jerk driving.

If you're driving behind someone in a commercial area, you can judge if the person is looking for a parking spot or not. So don't be an idiot and back off, because you know what happens when they suddenly see an open spot. Therefore I can't sympathise for the person who ends up having to smash their brakes for someone who suddenly brakes and pulls in, because it's to be anticipated.

If anything, I've learned that driving is a game where you have to give some and take some, it's a team sport where everyone around you is on your team, so as long as you yield enough space for everyone to play their own game (how dumb it may be) everyone is fine.

I used to get angry behind the wheel all the time until I realised it's stupid things you can avoid yourself.

 
One comes to mind. I was driving home on this 40 mph 3 lane highway that everybody goes 60 on. Some lady going 40 in a beat up minivan cuts the car in front of me off from the left lane. The guy in front slams on the brakes, I hit them too, move over to the right and get back up to speed just in time for the lady to cut me off too. I slam on the brakes, move back into the middle and hit the gas and fly by. I think that's the only near-death experience I have had yet in a car.
 
I honestly believe that no-one can drive anywhere because we don't treat the cars as machines that are moving at a high rate of speed, but a appliance like a blender or a toaster. :grumpy:


Hmm......How about 2 jerks, one in a teal SVT Cobra and a M-B ML63 AMG racing each other on the Belt Parkway at 4 P.M. with fairly heavy traffic, nearly hitting us, cutting off several people, running one woman in a Lincoln Navigator off the road, then stopping dead in the middle of the road to yell at each other about who won? I even remember the conversation:


Cobra: Yo, dat was sweet

ML63: Damn straight, I beat yo ass!

Cobra: WTF? Are you on crack? You wanna fight me?

ML63: Whateva yo. Peace.


By this time, I wrote down their plate #'s and called the cops. :D :D :D
 
I don't have the room to list them all. My gripe would be about the stereotype on Asian drivers. I've been in so many near misses, driven out of my lane by elderly drivers, cell phone drivers, druggy drivers.

Cell phone one's are the worst. I nearly t-boned this BMW 7-Series that made a right turn on the red. My car would've rammed right into the driver's door, if I wouldn't have been able to stop. Smoke everywhere from my tires, 100 people saw it, it happend during the very busy time of the day with traffic everywhere.

I catch up to the Bimmer, I see this lady driver still chatting away, laughing on her phone, completely unaware of how close she came to a serious injury, if not critical.
 
Come to NYC, then you would see retarded drivers.

First off when I took my MR2 for a spin, I went past a light that was still green, then it was red in a few seconds, and there was a city bus on the wrong side of the street trying to get in front of everybody even though the light was red, then he just bumped someones BMW 525i without even stopping, messing up the driver side doors, just to get to the last stop which was 3 blocks away, so he can "park" his bus. His excuse was...
"I was late."
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There was barely any room for a 60 foot bus to pass by on the wrong side, even though the street had 6 lanes. I was in front of the BMW that got wrecked. The BMW got scratched son... :lol:
 
Reminds me of the times you get back to your car and there is a fatty dent in the hood because some idiot in an SUV doesn't know how to back up.:mad:
 
I'm kind of learning to drive manual better with my dad's truck, and he keeps telling to ease off the clutch and then give some gas, but I give it a little gas and then I ease off the clutch. I stalled the truck out in the middle of the intersection and I was getting crap from the other drivers. Pain in my butt for sure.
 
As i say in all these threads...yeah. I live in Miami. No one uses turn signals, no one merges correctly, no one uses common courtesy (letting you through if you're signaling, exiting somewhere, etc.), people go 40 mph through parking garages and don't stop around the corners in there, tailgating is the city-wide pastime, etc. etc.
 
Giancarlo
As i say in all these threads...yeah. I live in Miami. No one uses turn signals, no one merges correctly, no one uses common courtesy (letting you through if you're signaling, exiting somewhere, etc.), people go 40 mph through parking garages and don't stop around the corners in there, tailgating is the city-wide pastime, etc. etc.
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Better than Seattle. You don't have the curse of the Prius. That would sure feel more upbeat and lively than driving behind a log jam of Priuses going 40 in a 60.
 
My pet peeve is people who disregard the signs for "lane ending ahead"
If you only get a few feet notice then I have less problem with it.
But dammit, if the sign is a mile or more before the road narrows and you stay in the disappearing lane till the last possible minute than try to "bogart" into the remaining lane, you are not only an idiot, but rude to boot.
 
Gil, I think I could devote ten pages of this thread to dumb people on I-435.

You know the part where it loses two left lanes and then gains two on the right, where it splits off to I-35 by Worlds of fun? :nervous:

I apologize for the very specific Kansas City reference. Basically, the highway loses a left lane and then the next left lane in a space of 1/2 mile. and people go all the way to the very end and just come over without looking or signaling, as if they're from Minnesota. There's a sign every 300 feet telling that the left lane is going to end. Apparently people can't read.

That was really FUN to drive in in the snow.

Kansas City drivers come to a complete stop in the snow, at the sight of even one flake. but, for every three drivers who come to a stop in the middle of the highway, there's one guy on the shoulder doing ten over in his lifted Dodge Ram.

There was one guy with a Texas plate on a new Honda Odyssey who started backing up at a red light. I was behind him, and had shifted my car to park and was laying on my horn. Sure enough, the guy hits me. he gets out of his van, and asks "Where did you hit me?"

"Sir. Your reverse lights are on, and my car is in park. It is physically impossible for me to have hit you."
With a defeated look on his face, the guy says "Oh.. ok" and drove off.
 
I never go to that side of the city.
I get that from westbound I-70 going to I-670 under Bartle Hall.
And every other place where lanes narrow from 3 to 2 to 1 lane, and for every ten-20 people that wait politely in line there is one asshat that rolls that disappearing lane to the last possible moment.
On the rare occasions that I have the Excursion, I will ride the line next to the barrier to keep them from getting thru.
 
Gil
I never go to that side of the city.
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A very wise man indeed.

Driving under Bartle Hall... :nervous:

Oh well. It could be worse. It COULD be the Grandview Triangle during snow. Took me 45 minutes to get from Holmes to Wornall. -A half mile.

Last year there was a guy in a Cadillac STS who kept spinning his wheels in the middle lane by Arrowhead Stadium. Traffic was backed up for the better part of an hour.
 
PLmatt91
I'm kind of learning to drive manual better with my dad's truck, and he keeps telling to ease off the clutch and then give some gas, but I give it a little gas and then I ease off the clutch. I stalled the truck out in the middle of the intersection and I was getting crap from the other drivers. Pain in my butt for sure.
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Don't feel too bad, you gotta learn it sometime.

And if it makes you feel any better, I saw a guy do that in Saleen Focus(and it was this colorful), once. In the very busy intersection during rush hour.

I saw the salesman and the driver jumping out, swapping places in the middle of that intersection from my rear view mirror after like a minute. I was still sitting in the traffic. :lol:

philly cheese
Better than Seattle. You don't have the curse of the Prius. That would sure feel more upbeat and lively than driving behind a log jam of Priuses going 40 in a 60.
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I don't have issues with them on the freeway, but during stop & go traffic on the streets. I think they are playing some kind of miles-per-gallon game. They are officially worse than Buick drivers in my book(elderly in Buicks can still kill you in a wreck though :p).
 
High-Test
A very wise man indeed.

Driving under Bartle Hall... :nervous:

Oh well. It could be worse. It COULD be the Grandview Triangle during snow. Took me 45 minutes to get from Holmes to Wornall. -A half mile.

Last year there was a guy in a Cadillac STS who kept spinning his wheels in the middle lane by Arrowhead Stadium. Traffic was backed up for the better part of an hour.
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Dude, every time it snows, I break out my Excursion, and flip on the 4WD.:D

Driving under Bartle isn't as bad as it used to be. Especially Eastbound.
I don't even have to get out of the far left lane anymore unless it's closed to get to Independence from the KCK side.
My wife takes the Triangle 3 or four times a week. I try to stay out of there at all costs.
 

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