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#22
I just call it, "Everyone wants to be the first one home."
Once we were headed east on I20 in Mississippi. We had the CB on, and we came upon a long funeral procession. Traffic was getting backed up since no one wanted to pass. The radio began to light up with complainers, until a trucker keyed in and said, "As long as they ain't burying him in Atlanta I think I'll be alright." Too funny.
 
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dchisholm said:
Another vote for this one.



That seems to happen to me fairly often. I'm in the right lane, traveling approx the posted speed limit, with cruise-control engaged. A vehicle overtakes me from behind, pulls to the left lane to pass, and just hangs there - anywhere from totally in my blind spot, to exactly abreast of me. Doesn't complete the pass maneuver, nor drop back to follow.

Just speculating, but I'll guess that he is also running with cruise control and my speed is within the allowable dead-zone of his controller. And, the two vehicles traveling abreast (or nearly so) is aerodynamically more efficient than pulling ahead to complete the pass. (The "drafting" effect exploited by stock car racers.) His controller won't apply enough throttle to increase his speed. ...
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The engineering mind is triggered.... So, did your cruise control then lock similarly to his, from the same effect? A cruise-control-locked-loop? CCLL?
 
#25
People that can't use microphones.

One that particularly stuck with me was at the University, part of a Q&A session. Someone was handed a radio mic and began with their long-winded question. As they talked, they moved the mic further and further away from their mouth, until it was at arm's length and pointed away from them. I ran out of fader at +12dB.

Good job I rang out beforehand.

Chris
 
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M Gregg said:
You know when you are on a road with nothing about for as far as you can see and you are doing the max speed the law allows.. then some nice person comes up behind you and sits 2 feet from the back of your car so you can only see their windscreen..but they don't go round you and you ask yourself what difference is there if they drop back even half a mile and do the same speed what are they gaining if there is a rush just go past..but no..😕🙁😡
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Slipstreaming.. supposedly it increases gas mileage from less wind drag with the added risk of lowering it by blowing up your gas tank from fatal accident.

What irks me are parents who bring kids to cinema when the film is obviously not in their age range. You deserve to be thrown all the popcorn i can muster if you keep your screaming kid inside watching The Conjuring or Insidious.
 
#30
I've driven in just about every state in the union the past 40 yrs. What I've learned... There are a lot of very inconsiderate and selfish people in America when it comes to their driving habits. Just today I was coming down out of the Rockies on I70 towards Denver in bumper to bumper traffic. A woman driver in front of me was happily texting away. Sure everyone was going slow, but she was paying absolutely no attention to her speed, much less the car in front of her. I was keeping a slow and steady speed and distance behind her, but my wife and I could clearly see her eyes in her rear view mirror looking down at her lap. She was leaving huge gaps in the traffic, but not enough for anyone else to get in front of her. She even swerved a couple times on to the inner median. Nuf said. 🙁
 
#35
I like to think I'm an "advanced" driver...as we all seem to think at one point or another...
Many many years ago while driving my 70 Mustang..I was so in tune with that car....I once came across one of those fully annoying individuals tail-gating, at 40 MPH or so...knowing full well how my car behaved, I did one of those full-on brake-checks on the guy..peering solely out my rearveiw, I started dialing up my brakes (knowing it didn't pull side to side)..he hung on just three or so feet behind me till I got to appx. ten-miles an hour, by that time he was fully sideways......Prior to traction control & anti-lock brakes, who here has "tested" their vehicles in panic full on braking? 35 MPH....just try it at 60+ MPH !!! Even with anti-lock, it can & IS a handfull....How about while turning?
My wife absolutely hates it that I even try to do this...she is never riding shotgun when I do this....testing if you will. It should be familiar to any driver..Understeer, Oversteer, ever practice this? You should!!



-------------------------------------------------------Rick............
 
#36
I'm always angry.

(Nowadays I say lug-wrench aloud when I get aggravated in the car, personal variant of Goosfraba. With a conviction for severe battery, managed to crack a skull bare-handed, the lug-wrench link/connection should be obvious. I noticed I get aggravated in airplanes too, so I tell the steward to sell me vodka till the plane lands, or else)
 
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#37
One of mine - clear, straight road. No one ahead of or behind you in view. You're clipping along at about the speed limit. Almost without fail, someone pulls out of a side road DIRECTLY in front of you forcing you to slow nearly to a stop, and then proceeds to accelerate more slowly than a fully loaded dump truck starting up a hill before finally toddling along down the road at five or ten under for a few miles then turning off. Seriously? You couldn't have waited another TEN SECONDS for me to go past, seeing that there was no one anywhere behind me, and you're obviously in no rush to get to wherever you're going? Things like this are one of the many reasons that I hate people.

-Pat
 
#39
Pretty much all of the above.

Also when some bozo driving an 18 wheeler decides to pass one of his buddies whilst going uphill on a two lane section of the 401.

Interesting how many of these have to do with driving.

Also get angry with people who litter (smokers in particular) and people who don't pick up after their dog.
 
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soundchaser001 said:
Also when some bozo driving an 18 wheeler decides to pass one of his buddies whilst going uphill on a two lane section of the 401.
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On the cell phone, and not handsfree (with PL license plates, and you better hope he's not still drunk from his daily 6/12-pack at a location where he doesn't have to pay for parking the night)

You'd love the daily 10lb+ horse drop-off right at the entrance of my parking lot.
Aah, the joys of living on the most scenic saddle hump route in my village, with the most expensive houses, aka the Sheit Mile.

(Lug-wrench, lug-wrench, lug-wrench. Oh Gd, please help me in my hour of need)
 
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