Aka, niceholes.
Comment on Oregonian driving
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You laugh but this is not a joke. Oregon drivers are too fucking courteous and drive slowly. It’s like they are so happy to live in such a beautiful place that they can’t be bothered to rush about.
Shellbeach@lemmy.world 1 month ago
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I will admit to being new to Oregon after getting here from DFW about 10 days ago. And I have been trying to balance driving safely while admiring the views with being mindful of other drivers and allowing them to pass on the left when a turn-out area (or whatever they’re called) presents itself in mostly-one-lane-each-direction roads.
But sometimes, man, these people wanna go 25 miles over the limit on winding mountain roads. I’ll go 10, maybe 15 mph over when it’s safe to do so and I’m going with the flow of traffic. But I’m new to the state, new to mountain driving, and have no idea the prominence of cops and staties and their speeding ticket quotas in this place. Basically, if you see my Texas plate, please don’t ride my ass…I’ll move over as soon as I can!
pingveno@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Among us bicyclists, they’re called niceholes. They’re just trying to be nice to the bicyclist, but we would rather they just follow the traffic law so that they’re predictable.
The_v@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Until the get to the other side of the Cascades. Then they turn into dumbfucks of the highest order.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Sounds like what happened to Bob Ross after he moved to Alaska
HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Ok, so hear me out, what if instead of treating it as a race, fight or other expression of competition, we would just treat driving as a way to get from point A to point B? Speeding on a highway is a great example of diminishing returns coupled with high risk, so why not just enjoy the ride and sit back for a moment?
Shellbeach@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You can do that in the proper lane, the right one
variants@possumpat.io 1 month ago
What if each morning we send out a few grannies driving side by side to accumulate traffic so everyone can enjoy an hour drive instead of 20 minutes
Dkarma@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You’d have some dead grannies
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I drive 3 hours round trip commuting every day. I can assure you those “diminishing returns” result in days of my life back at the end of the year.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The average commute is 24 miles a day. If you’re doing a 3 hour commute like it’s a NASCAR event then you need to reevaluate something. Not put everyone’s lives at risk with reckless driving.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Cool. I’m assuming you live in a population center? Possibly over paying for a house or apartment to keep your “sensable commute” down?
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
There are a few simples principles that would make traffic a lot better, and yielding the left lane for faster cars is one of them.
The other simple one is if you are not passing another car, stay on the right.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I assume that’s the law pretty much everywhere. That said, most of my troubles have been with people who speed by a lot and weave through traffic. Slower cars are less of a problem because while it might be the same speed difference, I see them much better and they usually don’t switch lanes erratically.
That said, I like traffic where I live now, because speeding 15% will get your license suspended, 30% will get you into jail. Traffic tends to be speedy, but coherent, everyone drives around the limit.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They weave because of the slow cars not moving properly
Demdaru@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The gas is meant to hug the floor tightly, engine is meant to roar, adrenaline to be pumped, and zoomies to be upheld.
…in a race. However, zoomies apply everywhere.
exu@feditown.com 1 month ago
Even better would be taking the train, because it gives you time to study nature, read a book of take a short walk if you feel like it without delaying your arrival.
AlotOfReading@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Have you ever taken the coast starlight or the Cascade trains? Last time I took the former it arrived 14 hours late.
RHSJack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I took the starlight, too. Same. Took the bus on the return trip, also awful experience.
Maven@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Okay but I have a counterpoint…
Vroom vroom
I rest my case your honor
RHSJack@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because you are not important. I am very important. I have places I need to be yesterday. And, yes, it IS a truck. I have never used the bed of my truck or it would get dirty. /dont drive //dont have a car ///but I DO have a DL! Has my picture and everything