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- GalacticRerun, on 05/17/2008, -4/+51I ***** hate tailgaters. I always slow down intentionally when someone does that. One time this guy was tailing me because he was pissed off because I wouldn't let him muscle in when the traffic merged (another thing I hate). He had no way to overtake me so I slowed down to a crawl. He was royally pissed off but it was worth it.
- squarepegs, on 05/17/2008, -3/+43#6 is "Don't push the wrong pedal." Wow, thanks CNN. I'm so glad you told me before it's too late.
- DeskFlyer, on 05/17/2008, -2/+41Where's 'Don't apply make-up'?
- Chompy, on 05/17/2008, -2/+32"Passing on the right" BS. If some idiot is doing 55 in the left lane, guess what: I'm passing on the right.
- wallyhartshorn, on 05/17/2008, -0/+23re: "one car length for every 10 mph"
That's bad advice simply because it is very difficult to judge. A better rule of thumb is "2 seconds". It's easier to count time than to judge distance and at faster speeds it automatically results in a longer distance.
As for whether the physics is right, I've no idea, other than to point out that the car in front of you is also moving forward, so unless that car is stopped by a head-on collision or a brick wall mysteriously appearing in the road, I suspect you'll be fine with a 2 second following time. - amphoterous, on 05/17/2008, -1/+19In summary, driving requires a certain amount of concentration to be safe. If you can't devote at least that much brainpower, then don't drive.
- stk198323, on 05/17/2008, -0/+17Is it only me of that article was created in order to show that the other drive some nice car? That whole part about the turning signal was about plugging the fact that he drove a jaguar XKR to that wedding (well he was in the car, not driving it) and then the fact he drove that A4 convertible to a music concert. The whole part about the turning signal was based on the car he was in and offered no statistic or reason why it's unsafe! He didn't even talked about NOT using your turn signal but rather about forgetting to remove them... the former seems more dangerous then the later!
>>In Santa Monica, California, in 2003, an 86-year-old man drove his car through a crowded farmer's market, killing 10. Elderly drivers >>rank as one of the safest groups, often sustaining unblemished driving records over long periods.
Then he goes from talking about how an 86 year old killed 10 person to immediatly stating that elderly people are usuall safe on the road :S - secrity, on 05/17/2008, -0/+17A 2 second following distance is more realistic -- at all speeds.
- BedPost, on 05/17/2008, -1/+16Well, wait, when you say he tried to muscle in when the traffic merged, are you saying that his lane was ending and he was trying to get over? If the lane is ending and you're not letting him in, then you're being an *****.
- buffyangel108, on 05/17/2008, -3/+151. Crash
- ahoyhoy, on 05/17/2008, -1/+13#0: Don't masturbate. Seriously, that freaks people out at red lights, trust me.
- Rhendal, on 05/17/2008, -1/+12Buckle up is on the list. I shouldn't buckle up?
- GalacticRerun, on 05/17/2008, -0/+9Well I'm in the UK so when I say merging it might be a lil different. Our two lanes were turning equally into one. I was in the lane where every car was waiting patiently in the traffic and he just zooms past everyone and tries to move his car infront of me without signalling and being let in. He didn't have right of way, he just wanted to put himself in front.
- Aensland, on 05/17/2008, -0/+9Remember that episode of Mr Bean where he brushed his teeth and put on a pair of trousers while driving...
- McCharlie, on 05/17/2008, -4/+11Some of these are tough to avoid, but they're right on for sure.
- Kallius, on 05/17/2008, -0/+6We need another category: *****.
1) You are driving, in the right-hand lane if there is more than one lane, and there is an upcoming side street. There is no traffic behind you. A car approaches along the side street from the right, and without stopping at the stop sign, turns onto your street right in front of you, forcing you to brake fairly hard. Then the same car putters along under the speed limit. If they weren't in such a hurry, could the driver of that car not waited perhaps three or four seconds for you to pass and THEN pull onto the street?
2) You are waiting to turn left onto a busy intersection. There is one car in front of you. The light turns green, and no one can turn left because of oncoming traffic. The traffic is so heavy, you both have to wait until the light changes red before turning. Except when the light turns red, the driver in front of you doesn't move, forcing you to wait in that exact same spot for yet another light change. Others may be idle enough and rich enough to waste gas and have nowhere in particular to go, but you certainly cannot afford the time or money to be uselessly sitting at traffic lights.
3) There is an advanced green light allowing you to turn. No one is running the light from oncoming traffic, no pedestrians are disobeying the "Don't Walk" signal. Yet the driver in front of you feels compelled to wait until the advanced green disappears, and then roars through the intersection, stranding you and forcing you to wait for oncoming traffic. I cannot think of any reason why a driver would do this except on purpose.
4) And while we're at ***** behaviours, pedestrians who are fully ambulatory think that is their god-given right to languidly stroll across the street on a red light, forcing the drivers who have the green light to wait while the pedestrians who cannot be bothered to obey traffic signals and wait perhaps half a minute to cross the street, since they are obviously not in a hurry to be anywhere.
I have had all of these scenarios happen to me a number of times, and I am sure most readers have had at least one of these happen to them.
"I drive really slow in the ultra-fast lane, while people behind me are going insane. I'm an *****!" - Denis Leary - Nidy1, on 05/17/2008, -2/+8Why does he define aggressive driving as speeding and tailgating then list speeding and tailgating?
- stiankarlsen, on 05/17/2008, -0/+6What in the ***** does that mean?
- davidjunit, on 05/17/2008, -0/+6If he was trying to jump ahead of the crowd by gunning it up until the last inch of the merge then he was being an ass and you did fine; I see a lot of that and those people just need to chill and should have merged when they had an opening further back.
On that note, one thing that needs to be on the list is PLAN AHEAD. By that I mean that drivers need to look well ahead of the hood of their vehicle. If I'm coming up on a merge and I see someone driving slow as crap up ahead then I will accelerate to get ahead of them. I constantly strategize when I drive and I analyze traffic well ahead of me, something I notice not many people doing such as idiot guy that tries to last-minute merge into a solid wall of vehicles. - franklymister, on 05/17/2008, -0/+5"All very well if you, like I did, took an Audi A4 S-line Convertible to see (Arctic Monkeys) at this year's Coachella Festival"
Snottiest. Comment. Today.
Then again, probably representative of the typical ironic-mustached hipster that listens to them, anyway. - SmellyGeekBoy, on 05/17/2008, -1/+6Where I come from, cars have three pedals.
- parkamark, on 05/17/2008, -4/+9"In fast-moving traffic, Lewis recommends a safe distance of one car length for every 10 mph."
Really? Has this girl actually done elementary physics? Remember E=1/2mv^2 ? The kinetic energy a mass has when moving? This equation is a fundamental physics one and basically means if you go twice as fast as the speed you were at, you have 4 times as much kinetic energy than you had previously. So her linear correlation of "1 car length per 10 mph" is absolute *****. Not to mention the fact your reaction time stays pretty much constant meaning you travel even further at high speeds before realising you have to hit the brakes!
Good points raised in the article, but I'm glad I don't believe everything I read online. - nicktheawesome, on 05/17/2008, -1/+5Because he is a douche.
- daleok, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4Or putting on a tie, or brushing one's teeth which I have honestly seen..........
- bincoder, on 05/17/2008, -1/+5Drive nicer. Pay attention to your job as a driver not the job you haven't even arrived to do yet. You don't get paid to work while driving but you will certainly pay more at the pump to do it.
- MalTheObscure, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4"All very well if you, like I did, took an Audi A4 S-line Convertible to see them at this year's Coachella Festival, but what happens if you've had a great, sober festival, but end up in a fight with the wife while driving home (which didn't happen, obviously, as she adored the sporty drop-top)?"
WTF? I guess if you have a nice car, nobody will ever get in a fight with you. This is CNN? - nightstar, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4I drive in California! And seen way too many people that should not be driving...
- theuber1337, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4Some aggressive driving techniques become necessary when you live in a big city, or you'll never get anywhere. I used to be a very mellow driver... then I moved to Chicago.
- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -0/+4leave her alone
- bossm4n, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3Call me biased, but after almost being killed this week by an 80+ year old woman who pulled out in front of me because she said she didn't see me, even though it was mid-morning, I'm driving a white car and I was going under the speed limit, I think driver tests/evaluations should be mandated for people above a certain age, 70, 75, 80. My wife had the exact same thing happen less than two years ago.
- inactive, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4Too perfect not to be true...
I was driving yesterday when I saw a guy driving a hummer with the following:
1) License Plate: Sci Fi 6
2) The Jesus Fish
3) Bush/Cheney sticker
4) A sticker saying "marriage = (man bathroom symbol) + (woman bathroom symbol)
5) a 9-11 "We'll never forget" thing..
So, he thinks that Jesus would vote for Bush, destroy the environment, deny people the choice of loving who they choose and refuse to forgive.
Too funny.
p.s. His nasty fat ass wife was wearing a big fur so I guess Jesus would also kill animals for fashion. - kylere, on 05/17/2008, -2/+5If you do not pass on the right in Michigan you will never pass, the clowns like to form a line doing 65 in a 70MPH zone that is miles long in the left hand lane with them all waiting for someone ELSE to get over.
- themastersb, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3I thought that just by reading the article description this was leading up to "Don't masturbate while driving"
- Envark, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3That would be nice for me -- the roads around here would be practically empty.
- Szandor, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3In my state it's the law that slower traffic keep right on interstates/highways.
And yes, I've seen people pulled over for it. - Epik, on 05/17/2008, -0/+31 car length for every 10mph is probably a good rule of thumb. You're definitely much safer than the 2-second rule and that safety is worth much more than the frustration of a car coming in front of you. And you will most likely get to your destination in just about the same amount of time.
- marx2k, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3I agree with your first statement. That article had 2 plugs in there that didn't need to be in there and served no real purpose to the story except to sell cars. That's irritating, but it's not something I DON'T expect from a non-news CNN article.
Elderly drivers, though... they are really bad at driving as they get up there in age. I hate being behind one that's obviously just confused as all hell but still driving. - Drazzim12, on 05/18/2008, -0/+3That was mentioned.
- ReidFleming, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3This is quite common. IIRC, it's mostly due to people who drive automatic-transmission cars 'two-footed'. This is very bad for emergency situations. You can usually tell these people by the brake lights that are flickering while driving steady down the highway.
- Szandor, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3You're probably the ***** (or the same type) that he's commenting about.
- bdbr, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2There's a reason that rental cars don't rent to the under-25 age group, and car insurance is higher for 25 & younger (particularly males). The percentage of dangerous drivers is far higher in that age group than any other. If someone cuts me off or does something stupidly aggressive, nearly all of the time its a young male driver.
Its easy enough to say "don't drive aggressively", but most of the time the people who should be hearing that won't be listening. I didn't at that age, either. I consider myself lucky that I wasn't one of the ones who got in a serious accident. - Virgule, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2In canada, the blocked way have to give way. If your lane 'ends' you have to give way to vehicles already in the continuing lane. If you merge on the highway from an on-ramp, you have to give way. If an yellow elephant is blocking the left lane, you have to give way to the vehicles already on the right lane before changing lane. and so on and on and on.
You were fully in your right but you could be a little bit more 'civilized'.. ;) - kurtwinter, on 05/17/2008, -2/+4Very simple list of rules:
1. If someone is tailgating you, let them pass.
2. Stay right at all times, unless passing.
3. Old people should not drive.
I don't care about any of the other ***** on this list. I know that multitasking while driving is bad, and goddamit use a bluetooth while driving, but if people would just let faster traffic pass, most of the accidents on highways would be avoided. Its not your job to police the speed limit by driving 55 in the left lane of a freeway. - Szandor, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2I wish I could double digg for 'plan ahead'. A lot of people are mentally and visually focused on only about 25 meters in front of them, which is literally short-sighted and causes all kinds of traffic problems/accidents.
- KaJuN4, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2I feel naked without a seatbelt, even when just moving the car a few feet. But what's strange is that I'm also more than happy to jump on a motorcycle. With full gear of course.
- Szandor, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2They've got great ADD medications these days.
As for bored, the interior of your car is not your desk or media center. - LaughingMan11, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2What do you mean by "use a bluetooth?"
I know you mean bluetooth handsfree or headset, but this is a pet peeve of mine that people use "bluetooth" to describe the headset, while in fact it is the protocol.
It's sort of like saying, let me use my TCP/IP to send you pictures.
Oh, and I disagree with your implication that slower drivers, nevermind if they follow the rules of the road, are the ones who are causing accidents. It's douchebags who decide to push the limits of speed and responsibility that do. Everyone else is collateral damage. - Aeron, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2If I give the car ahead of me the right amount of space, other cars keep turning in and filling the gap I made, and then drive slower than me
- KaJuN4, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Too many people have forgotten how to drive safely and it's ridiculous that anyone can renew their license just by paying a little bit of money. I'd be all for a system of mandatory retesting.
- geniusj, on 05/17/2008, -0/+2Luckily Acura/Honda haven't yet made the navigation worthless while moving (it's still fully controllable -- both by voice and by hand.) I've definitely had an occasion or two where I get into someone else's car and *I* as the passenger cannot even add a destination to the Nav or change the XM station to something other than a preset unless they're going under 10mph or something.
Note to auto manufacturers: If that's what you're going to do, at least have voice controls. -
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