Lurker > tiago92

darkknight109 posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Bad mergers, people who use ending lanes to cut people off, people who can't wait their turn in line.

This. People who are bad at merging are just the worst.

1) Do not stop at a merge sign. Merge means speed up to the same speed as the traffic flow you're joining, find a spot, and smoothly merge in. If you slow down or stop, the entire system breaks down, you risk being rear-ended, and everyone stuck behind you will hate you.

2) By the same token, do not attempt to merge at a yield sign. Yield sign means the lane of traffic you are approaching has the right of way, so approach cautiously, check to make sure there are no other cars coming, and do not proceed if there are. Yield lanes are frequently too short to merge safely and other drivers may not be expecting you to make the attempt, so don't be an idiot.

And finally, by far the most frequently misunderstood rule of merging:

3) If you are merging into slow traffic, you are supposed to use the entire merge lane, not try to merge into traffic halfway through. If you use the entire lane and merge at the end, it creates a single point of entry, thus allowing cars to smoothly alternate between merging traffic and existing traffic. If you just pick a random spot, someone behind you can just zip past you and continue to the end of the lane, slowing you and everyone behind you down. On a related note, don't be that asshole that goes flying down the merge lane while everyone else is crawling along - yes, Mr. Important, I'm sure you have somewhere exceedingly critical to be, but you're going to be stuck going the same speed as the rest of us in a few seconds and scrambling to try to secure a place as far forward in the line as possible is not going to save you more than 20 seconds and makes you look like an enormous jackass. Proceed to the end of the lane at a reasonable pace, not more than 10-20 kmh faster than the traffic you're going to be merging in with.

SO TRUE, forgot about those, jesus christ!

davrick posted...

tiago92 posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Not paying attention, not completely stopping at stop signs, swerving in and out of traffic, trying to be the fastest car, tailgating, etc.

No offense, but you seem to be the type of driver that drives slowly on the fast lane.

Are you the type of driver who thinks driving "slowly" means driving at the exact speed limit? Because fast lane or not, if the speed limit is 90, I won't drive faster than 90. I'm just respecting the law. Drivers who break the law constantly driving over the speed limit are the ones I find the most annoying. It's not a racetrack, the only goal is to reach our destination safely.

I admit that I tend to drive a little bit above the speed limit, but I always pay extra attention and try not "stall" other drivers because of my actions. For example, I tend to let other drivers get in front of me when they want to get from one road to another. Specially when I see that there's a red light ahead and I wasn't going to get the green on time anyway. I also hate those that don't let anyone pass, even though they are no obligated to do so. But they just show how selfish they are and how they have little common sense.

I don't know if I make myself clear, english is not my main language and I tend to make a few mistakes here and there.

But basically, what I'm trying to say is that I always try to drive responsibly, which by my definition is driving and not wasting any of the other driver's time and not putting anyone in danger. I hate wasting time.

Krazy_Kirby posted...

tiago92 posted...

For me, it's number 2 and 3

you said most.

I hate both, couldn't decide

SunWuKung420 posted...

Not paying attention, not completely stopping at stop signs, swerving in and out of traffic, trying to be the fastest car, tailgating, etc.

No offense, but you seem to be the type of driver that drives slowly on the fast lane.

For me, it's number 2 and 3, I honestly can't stand drivers that drive slowly on any lane other than the slow lane, when there's almost no traffic whatsoever (on the right side, here in Portugal).

I actually asked a few people I know that do that and they say "it's safer to drive on the middle lane".

HOW IS THAT SAFER?!

You're just causing other drivers on the right to pass 2 lanes to overtake you (or more, when there are more than 3 lanes), and you only cause traffic.

I just can't stand those, seriously.