Exactly. If you are 1st or 2nd in line stay out of your G. D. phone. There are people behind you with places to be and things to do. It seems as though I am the one caught through a 2nd light cycle when 4 more should have made it.
the stupid big, black smoke blowing puck-up trucks...
Amen. Nothing worse than the lead car at the light being very late on the green and/or slow as molasses.
People should not disregard laws and proper driving to be "nice". When you are being "nice" letting someone cross in front of you when they shouldn't, you are pissing off several other people around you not to mention creating a possibility of an accident.
I also have an issue with the now universally accepted practice of while driving on the interstate we move into the left land when someone is merging onto the interstate. I do that but that is not the way it should properly be done. The vehicle merging should adjust their speed to either get out in front or drop in behind the cars that are traveling on the interstate. Moving into the left lane may be "nice" to the merging vehicle but is again can create the components for an accident and even putting the person who moves into the left lane into an illegal situation.
Don't get me started on collector/feeder ramps. I'd like to meet the mental midget that thought intentionally putting cars that are slowing down into the same lane as cars that are speeding up was a good idea.
If someone is following you, DO NOT GO HOME. Call 911, go to a public place, a police station if possible. Whatever you do, do not go home.
I thought someone was following me, they were a little close for too long, so I held my gun in my lap and took a couple random turns. The car was not following me, but I sure as hell wasn't going to lead him to my house, on the chance he might be.
Pay attention, it's better to be overly cautious than end up in a situation like this. There are too many people out there that are on the edge of becoming unhinged, and will not hesitate to murder you for the pettiest of reasons.
An officer friend of ours told us to make three lefts if you feel you are being followed. If they keep behind you then call the cops. My wife did that just a couple weeks ago. She then pulled into a post office and the jackwagon stopped down the street. That is where the officer found him and had a nice talk.
Having been followed home more than once by a road rager I can see this. Me a while back and more recently the spouse and daughter. My deal was some nut driving crazy and wanting to cut me off for the 3rd time in a mile or so and I had had enough so I just kept the hole closed. Pi$$ed him off enough he followed me for a few miles until I pulled in the driveway. It was an interesting encounter.
The spouse was coming home from the store and my daughter was driving. They called to say they were close so I could help unload the grocery's. I was watching the surveillance cameras and when they pulled in there was a car behind them. I made the driveway pretty fast and deterred some nut job ranting he was cut off.
Seems the woman had no idea what he was on about. He was sent packing. With a quickness.
Point here is people have in general lost their freaking minds.
How does an autonomous vehicle express its rage when I cut them off?
Road Rage is entirely an ego driven thing, no one else cares other than to avoid TWO idiots now instead of one...