Driving pet peeves

The CHMSL (center high-mount stop lamp) mandate started with model year '86. The pictured G-body wagons started life in '78 and were dead by '84, so legally no cyclops required. Fun fact: the G-body wagons used the same rear bumper/lights as the El Camino.

 

That was my point, the new vehicle he was mentioning, should still have a cyclops, despite have some lower mounted lighting. Obviously this doesn't apply to signals. And I hate low mounted signals myself.

Hell, people in NC don't use signals because our LEOs refuse to do anything but enforcement of speeding.

 

I like the people that stop 6” from my rear bumper while stopped at a red light expecting me to accelerate quickly on green. They were wrong.

 

@Steves104x4 Good point.

That reminds me, what's with the people who leave huge gaps at lights between cars? Even sometimes impacting a turn lane - that nobody can squeeze into because someone up front has put a full car length or more between them and the next car.

We have people on I-40, where it's 70mph, you can be doing 80mph and they come up on my bumper.

If I can't see your license plate, you're too fucking close and I'm going to let off my gas, not brake check, let off my gas until you get the message.

 

I like when they stop 6 feet from the white line so the light don’t trigger.

 

The people who apparently have a subconscious death wish - they come to a full stop on a highway on ramp and wait for an opening to pull out into 70 mph traffic.

I saw 4 of them this week.

 

Turning without turn signals and going slow in the left lane. Also in Alaska ppl stopping to stare at moose n animals can get annoying too

 

So we got these drive up coffee stands out west here. Like a shack sized building with drive up windows on either side. There usually situated just off the road so you can pull off the road and right up to the window to get a coffee. It’s a thing here in Starbucks territory. Then most of them decided to add an additional window on the other side so people can access a window going the other way. The problem there is jackasses accessing the new window are facing oncoming traffic and shining their lights in our faces. In some cases people have the decency to turn their lights off but most will just sit there blinding everyone going by while waiting for their beloved double grande Carmel macchiato with whip cream no effs given.

 

People who wait until the last second to get over when there's construction on the freeway and it goes down to 1 or 2 lanes. They drive past miles of flashing signs telling them to merge and wait until the very last 50ft when the traffic cones are literally forcing them over. Then everyone has to slam on their brakes and make room for them.. bringing traffic to a stop that was actually moving along at 55-60 before they forced their way over. These asshats are the reason traffic backs up.

The adults merge ahead of time when we're all cruising at 70. These fuckin children put the brakes on whole thing because they can't see past the end of their nose and cling to the belief that if they pass 4 more cars they'll magically shave 10 minutes off their commute.

Yesterday coming back over Snoqualmie Pass the left 2 lanes get cut down right across from the ski hill. Everyone is zipper-merging ahead of time and keeping things rolling along at a decent pace.
Literally right in front of the last flashing MERGE sign I glance in my left mirror and sure enough, a black Honda CR-V that was in line with everyone else gets impatient and wants to smash the gas, pull out and try to pass a few more cars. I read his whole plan in an instant and deftly moved left just enough to block him and force him back into his place in line. He went full rage and mashed horn at me for literally 2 minutes until I could hear it fizzing out.

Go fuck yourself asshole. Keep pretending like you don't know what's going on. Grow the fuck up

 

Happens everyday on 522. Right laners flying up and cramming in. Even mergers do it on 405 expecting you to let them in. Entitled brats

 

Do they have any plans to go to 4 lanes all the way between Snohomish River and Maltby?

I guess that would fix the bottleneck but then the same traffic would just get moved into Monroe at Hwy 2.. and even worse in Woodinville at 405

The problem is too many people on the road

 

No plans in the near future from what I see. I agree it’ll just move the bottle necking forward. The next exit to Fales rd people are using to bypass that zipper lane and slowing 522 down still. Too many folks is right. Highway 2 past Monroe is getting stupid