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 7 hours 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 6 hours ago
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Jesus fucking christ calm down you lunatic
Monument@piefed.world 5 hours 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 5 hours ago
Keep sniffing your own farts bro👍
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
Someone hit a nerve
Monument@piefed.world 1 hour 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.
StillAlive@piefed.world 7 hours ago
Yeah, play chicken with a maniac driving a 2 ton vehicle. Good luck.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Driving at the speed limit is not ‘playing chicken’
StillAlive@piefed.world 6 hours ago
‘Legally right’ means dick to these people.
Let them pass lest they do something reckless and take you with them in the process.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
watson387@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
If you’re that car in the first place, you’re blocking traffic. Get the fuck out of the way.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 7 hours 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.
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Thats what emergency flashers are for.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 3 hours 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…
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Anecdotes aren’t data.
Ride my ass so closely that you put me in danger, and I’m taking my time.
architect@thelemmy.club 2 hours 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.
prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 hours ago
“Instead of letting the dangerous driver past me and away from me I am making the situation worse by attempting to intervene”
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
‘data points aren’t data’
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 4 hours 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.
socsa@piefed.social 6 hours 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 5 hours ago
Easy to say when it’s not you bleeding out, but alright fam
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 hours 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 6 hours 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 6 hours 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 6 hours ago
That makes more sense. Thanks
Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Then it’s an educational failure because they didn’t use emergency lights.