What I’m hearing is you require other drivers to drive deferentially in such a way that caters to your ego in order for you to drive safely and avoid conflicts, otherwise you drive like a sociopath for sport?
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MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you drive normally I’ll let you pass. But if you’re up in my ass flashing highbeams when I’m still overtaking? Grab a snack buddy cause we’re going nowhere and we’re not going there fast either.
Monument@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jesus fucking christ calm down you lunatic
Monument@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Oh, sorry. Comment snuck up on you too fast? Put you ill at ease while you thought you were the only person on the internet?
What are you gonna do, claim personal offense and use that as justification to return the offense ten-fold?There is another option. It’s minding your business.
We can’t know the justifications or dispositions of others, but we can choose not to pick fights with strangers. In fact: choosing to avoid confrontation could save a life! Someone else’s, or even your own - you don’t know who you’re messing with on the road. 🌈💫MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Keep sniffing your own farts bro👍
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Someone hit a nerve
Monument@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I must have.
My wife is an anxious passenger. I usually set the adaptive cruise control to whatever matches prevailing traffic, and stay in the outermost lane unless I have to pass someone. Most of my driving is honestly trying to make sure if someone does something stupid, I’m reacting to it in a calm way.
A lot of people have big feels about controlling the road.
The adaptive cruise control is interesting - if I’m a few hundred feet behind someone long enough for it to “lock in”, I know their speed because my car is pacing them.It’s fascinating to see people suddenly accelerate after miles of the same speed on a relatively empty road because I moved into the passing lane, or (conversely) slow down because they’re alongside a slow vehicle and not in danger of being under-passed by another driver. The ego and herd mentality is something to behold.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s fascinating to see people suddenly accelerate after miles of the same speed on a relatively empty road because I moved into the passing lane, or (conversely) slow down because they’re alongside a slow vehicle and not in danger of being under-passed by another driver.
This is why if I’m on a road with one lane in each direction, when I pass, I PASS. Nothing is more terrifying than when someone takes their sweet time passing, barely going faster than the car in the lane next to them. Plus then you have to deal with the people like you’re describing. They don’t want to go as fast as you, but they do want to prevent you from passing them.
What I’ve found is that this type of passive aggressive driver is also a coward. Let’s say they’re going 60 and I want to go 65. I come up behind them to pass. If I try to pass at 65, there’s a good chance they’ll increase their speed to 65 in order to prevent me from passing them.
I don’t give them the opportunity. As far as I’m concerned, when you’re passing in a lane of opposing traffic, speed limits don’t exist. If I’m risking a head-on collision, I want to get in and out of that lane as fast as possible. So instead of going 65 while passing, I’ll rocket up to 85 and rapidly pass them. The passive aggressive assholes are cowards and won’t speed up that much to prevent you from passing. So I rocket up to 85, get the passing over with before they can do anything about it, and then slow down to the speed I actually want to travel at. By that point, the slowpoke is well in the rear view mirror. They don’t tend to speed back up either. By then their monkey brain just sees you as another car on the road, far away from them, not a challenge to their ego.
StillAlive@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, play chicken with a maniac driving a 2 ton vehicle. Good luck.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Driving at the speed limit is not ‘playing chicken’
StillAlive@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
‘Legally right’ means dick to these people.
Let them pass lest they do something reckless and take you with them in the process.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
If you’re that car in the first place, you’re blocking traffic. Get the fuck out of the way.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Though I read a story (I think on lemmy, though it’s been a while) of someone trying to meet an ambulance in the middle of nowhere (Texas, I want to say?) as their friend was bleeding out, basically.
A lady did what you describe and it took critical time away. The friend ended up dying just before they met the emts.
Not everyone who looks like they are a dick, are one.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anecdotes aren’t data.
Ride my ass so closely that you put me in danger, and I’m taking my time.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
‘data points aren’t data’
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Okay but they’re not. Right? Data points by themselves aren’t data. That’s why they have a different name.
If you look at one data point, then everyone with red hair is a billionaire because I saw one once.
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Anecdotes aren’t data points either. For data points to become useful data they have to be standardised across parameters to create valid correlations. Anecdotes are not that.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
“Instead of letting the dangerous driver past me and away from me I am making the situation worse by attempting to intervene”
architect@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Just move the fuck over and don’t subject everyone to this bs. My husband does this and twice now these psychos acted erratically and followed us home. How the fuck is it worth it? Move over let them pass and get pulled over if it’s that bad.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What I’m hearing is “don’t dress like that if you don’t want to get assaulted”. Is that right?
I’m going to move over. But if you’re up my ass then I need to have much farther stopping distance from the car in front of me, to account for the decrease in response time from the follower. Which means I can’t pass as quickly or get over as fast.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Thats what emergency flashers are for.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah if they aren’t using the emergency lights then it means there’s no emergency. Pretty sure the first comment was talking about normal road users anyway…
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Emergency flashers… on your typical like Nissan Altima (or whatever)?
The two vehicles were headed to a central meeting point to save critical time, in the actual middle of nowhere.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Yes, it’s the red triangle button, give it a shot sometime!
socsa@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Shit happens and sometimes you won’t be there for it and that’s just life. It’s not a justification to put everyone else on the road in danger.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Easy to say when it’s not you bleeding out, but alright fam
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you do what the comment describes it’s fine. But if you do it to an ambulance you deserve to be shot as I do think we can all agree there is a distinct difference between any regular car and an ambulance.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
I think the story goes that the ambulance was driving towards a car containing the patient, and the car containing the patient was also driving towards the ambulance.
Akasazh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s tragic but that is an infrastructure failure more than anything else.
I’m my tiny country we have trauma helicopters for stuff like that. You should never get into your own car with stuff like that.
Secondly how did it is to have a alarm line operator tell you to get into your own car to meet the ambulance half way. How did that work?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That makes more sense. Thanks
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Then it’s an educational failure because they didn’t use emergency lights.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For every 1 speeder who’s trying to the ER in time there are 10,000 who will die on the spot from speeding.
Give me a break with this bullshit second hand tale. I’m not going to treat tailgaters like they are on their way to save a life. They take lives.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This wasn’t a typical driver in an urban environment, again thus was the middle of nowhere with low traffic. They also, again, weren’t trying to reach the hospital, they were being instructed to meet medical staff halfway as the dispatcher and emts determined that was the best course of action.
But it’s obviously that you’d rather feel morally superior than compassionate for someone trying to save a life; and you clearly have experience making these kinds of judgement calls, right? What a sad, sad person you must be.
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oh boo hoo HOOOOOO!!
There is no way to lane block someone on a remote rural road. If you’re racing to save a life you just fucking pass in the other lane.
There’s no moral superiority about this. Your anecdote is just bullshit and doesn’t change the fact that driving fast and tailgating causes more accidents than it saves lives.