#bad-drivers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bad-drivers, aggregated by home.social.
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Zipper merging on the freeway is a lost skill. #baddrivers #traffichell
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#Regina's legendarily terrible drivers, where one will get mad at you for "not letting them in", when they haven't used their turn signals in five years, so you had no idea they *wanted* "in".
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn: #488: The Breathalyzer.
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#truecrime #breathalyzer #baddrivers #uk #crime #offbeatnews #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
Almost just got T-Boned by a red light runner, going way over the speed limit on Washington Street at Cecil. Glad we have dash cams on our cars.
Glad we’re putting money into ICE and not better traffic enforcement. /s
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Evri driver responded to my sign by escalating. Didn't even try to deliver this time - stopped down the road, walked up, threw his piss bottle at the front window, yelled and screamed some more, marked the parcels as "can't find the delivery address", and sped off.
I stayed inside and watched on the cameras, which were of course recording... sigh.
All this from "can you please leave them round the back where they're hidden, mate?"
#Evri #Evrigate #Badcouriers #BadDrivers -
Self Distraction
Here is a picture of a cute kitty to distract us all from the end of civilization and the unchecked rise of evil in the largest nuclear power on Earth. Yippee for cute kitties!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54281359250/in/datetaken/
I am completely on edge. I’ve actually caught myself a couple of times today sitting at my desk working while my hands are balled up in fists, white knuckles and all. Nothing’s going badly at work. All is a-ok. It’s just the rest of the world that has me so tensed up.
On the drive in today there were a bunch of times when I saw someone driving like an asshole (this is Massachusetts after all) and I thought to myself, I bet he voted for that nazi fuck and is driving like that because he knows he can get away with anything (including treason) so long as he wears that stupid fucking red hat. As I said this is Massachusetts so the chances of randomly running into a maga cult asshole are much less than 50/50. Still, I am so mad at the state of things right now that even here in the happy Blue State I am seeing fascists everywhere.
I hate him. I hate what he stands for. I hate those who figuratively suck his dick in exchange for being able to openly express their bigotry and hatred and racism and misogyny and antisemitism and anti-everyone who isn’t a straight white male. Fuck, I hate all of this nazi bullshit.
Breath. Count to 10. Look at the cute kitty*. Deal with it. It’s only been two days, but that’s two days closer to being able to kick these fuckers to the curb.
*Fans of The Walking Dead will note that I did not say look at the flowers. No… that would mean something entirely different and much, much darker. Look at the flowers, Lizzie. BLAM.
#badDrivers #blueState #Cat #EVIL #Fascism #iphoneography #Kitty #lizzieAndMika #lookAtTheFlowers #lookAtTheFlowersLizzie #magaAreNazis #magaIsEvil #magaIsFascism #Massachusetts #massachusettsDrivers #nazis #photography #Politics #robin #Television #TheWalkingDead #trumpIsAFascist #trumpIsANazi #trumpIsEvil
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At this rate I think the majority of people around here are printing their own driver's licenses at home and never actually learned to drive or have ever taken a driving test.
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If everyone is forced to drive, and most people don't want to do it, you're going to get bad drivers, distracted drivers, pissy drivers, ignorant drivers, psychotic drivers, etc. Don't require crazy to be put behind the wheel of a multi-ton vehicle as a minimum barrier of entry to public life. Leave it only to those who need or want to drive.
#driving #publictransit #transit #transportation #baddrivers #baddriving #Textinganddriving #urbanism
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Ask the average pedestrian / cyclist if they are at all surprised. https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/08/more-half-ontario-drivers-admit-disregarding-rules-road/ #Ontario #badDrivers
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People who bike Casa Verde in #Monterey as part of their route: Be extra alert for wide vehicles headed to RV campsites at #MontereyFair and Event Center.
Didn’t get a photo of white Sunset trailer pulled by pickup on Casa Verde 7/28, but have a vivid image of them in mind. What made them special?
After several trucks towing trailers, and other RVs, passed us on our bicycle—each giving us plenty of room—the Sunset one came inches from hitting us. (Seems the driver forgot the trailer they were pulling was wider than their pickup!) As they passed us, we saw that they were the only one that had bicycles on the back of their vehicle! #FunnyNotFunny
Tips for drivers of trucks and other big vehicles—and for people who bike around them: https://bikemonterey.org/truck-bus-bicycle.html
History on some bike advocacy re: #CasaVerde, which is a mostly narrow street—no major improvements to most of it since 2011 bike audit: https://bikemonterey.org/casa-verde-near-fremont-in-monterey-and-other-developments-also-monterey-county-fair-event-center-bicycle-parking.html
#BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #RVs #RecreationalVehicles #trailers #PickupTrucks #BadDrivers
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It takes #chutzpah to #drive almost 30 miles on a 1-lane each direction highway at 35 mph
AND to not move over to the right in a passing lane area
Did I mention I hate #people? #RudePeople #BadDrivers #annoyed
Ok. It's off my chest now :-)
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How to misdirect with indicators: "Median travel speeds are only slightly above the 15-mph target (17 mph averaged across the corridor).” I don't know about you, but I'm a lot more concernd about the high end speeds, not that only half the cars exceed 17 mph. Median (half above, half below) and mean (average) do not tell you distribution of speeds, or how fast the extremes are.
And as a pedestrian who likes slow streets, I am very aware of the high speed tail. I'm a little worried that #sfmta appears to not understand how to use statistics to assess risks.
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I swear I'm a bad driver magnet 🧲
Dude to the left was getting pretty close and the dude in front of me well.... Watch and what do you think? -
Today as I'm turning right into the wifeys works carpark, indicating to turn right I might add an ass overtook me on my right side.
I now know what my horn sounds like.
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Show us your merging technique, Mr. WRX Driver!
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Why do drivers think this is acceptable? Entire car driven onto pavement, at a pedestrian crossing, for added insult. Regular occurrence at this student block on Dundee Street.
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VAG Volkswagen is screwed.
Hopefully this means there will be fewer smug, drive 2mm behind you flashing their headlights because they want to go 5 kmh more than you Audi drivers on the road.
6 / 10 aggressive drivers drive Audi, 2 Seat, 1 Mercedes and 1 BMW.
I don't drive slowly. Not at all. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen 4 hoops in the mirror but can't see the license plate because they're so close & flashing.
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Alright nerds, today I’m going to tell you about how video games probably saved someone’s life this weekend.
Specs that matter: I have a full size SUV at 6000lbs+ loaded, with another 3500lbs of RV trailer behind me. I’m towing less than half my rated capacity and I have properly configured modern load balancers (load lifters), robust anti-sway, and a brake controller for the trailer brakes.
I’m on a Sonoma highway, 55 posted, doing an easy 55 and enjoying the fact the coast isn’t 100&death degrees. Coming down a hill making a long sweeping left turn I see a car at a cross street. I take my foot off the gas because there is always a chance they do something stupid and I want to be ready.
Sure enough, they do something stupid, they start to roll. At this point they are within my stopping distance but if they accelerate I’ll be fine. So I go on the brakes and start decel.
Then things go from stupid to “I have a death wish” because they weren’t joining traffic. They were making an unprotected left. Right in front of me. I now STAND on the brakes. If they get their foot in I should be able to buy enough time that I don’t hit them.
Mastodonians, it is at this point they decide “today is a good day to die” and they stop. Blocking my ENTIRE LANE. Because the driver finally saw me and went full deer in the headlights.
This, this is where video games save the day. I have logged hundreds of hours playing rally and racing games. I have a sim wheel and pedals. As soon as I saw them stop my brain just fucking autopiloted. To the right of their car I can see nothing but trees, to the left I can see road and no cars. I know I can’t stop in time.
So I lift off the brakes and tighten my existing left turn. Across the center line, onto the LEFT FUCKING SHOULDER to clear the deathwish driver. All 38’ of my car and trailer flash in front of their vehicle.
Thankfully it’s a nice long left of road so I have room to catch the trailer weight and prevent it from trying to wheelie. I can hear both the trailer wheels and my rear wheels screaming in complaint about this.
The two cars behind me had time to get on their brakes and I assume deathwish got out of the road because they didn’t hit them.
I hit my flashers and pull over to the side of the road processing the physical effects of all my adrenaline going off like a NOS shot into my blood. Then give my car and trailer a full safety check.
Fucking look both ways before turning into traffic, and if you have to do something stupid at least COMMIT TO IT.
Tl;Dr I pulled a moose test while towing my RV because someone wasn’t paying attention and if the road hadn’t been a turn I would have plowed almost 10,000lbs into them at near 50mph directly into their driver door because I had no other choice.
Stay safe out there, play more video games.
