Enlighten me - why? oh why?

Yeah, i get what you guys mean. Since i'm pretty young and drive an Acura, i get people tailgating and revving their little rice boy engines at me. I just laugh it off. What is even more interesting is that my Saab doesn't get much attention, but for a sedan it can move. 2.3 L Turbo pushing 250Hp with 17's and a kit ain't too shabby. Today this kid i know, with an Eclipse getting real close to my Saab's bumper when i was driving. I hate that, so i had to show him that it can move. Pulls up next to me in his Rice-boy intake and exhaust and looks over and gets on it. Well i just push the sport button, let him get in front, push the pedal and let the turbo hold it's own. Should have seen the look on his face when i flew past him, he just couldn't keep up. Now the Saab is a mini-sleeper, i love it.
 
Hey Dean:



I have been in a car just like yours.....I know exactly why people get the hell out of the way. I don't know many cars in that price, size, and/or weight class that can beat it....it is a freaking monster!!!



Speaking of drivers in general....Missouri people are the worst. If you happen to pull in their lane if they are anywhere within 150 feet from you, you get the severe light flashes, then they switch lanes, pass you, then cut you off......ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHH.........talk about some serious road rage. Also, just yesterday, I pulled out of a left hand turn lane into the right thru lane...I saw a car in the other lane, and mine was clear....I pulled out and as I did I saw that same car swerve over into the lane I was pulling into...anyway, I got to the next light and this chick turns almost 180 degrees, and gives me probably the dirtiest look I have ever received from a woman (even worse than after a cheesy pick up line)....Road Rage should become a clinical psychiatric disease that should be treated with Valium or something......i think it is totally out of control.....excuse me....people are totally out of control........
 
geekysteve said:


I try to ignore them, and the more I ignore 'em the worse it gets.
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That is so true, and I am a Civic owner. Not a fast Civic my any means, it's completely stock. D-series power :D



I get revved at, I get tailgated and I see ricer fly-by's at least twice every day. Funny thing is I usually have to drive in traffic so I can't really race even if I wanted to.



Just last night I'm on the left lane on the freeway (70 km/h zone, I'm already going 110). A Mustang comes up on my bumper hard, and starts to ride me with his highbeams on. I mean I couldn't even see his hood, he was so close. So instead of brake-checking I pull up next to another car travelling in the middle lane and match his speed.



When he realized that I won't budge, he swerved to the far right lane (cutting off another car in the process) and gunned it while looking in my direction and yelling some incomprehensible jargon.



I can understand somebody being frustrated if a slow car is blocking his lane, but I'm sorry if I'm already speeding and some loser gets on my ***, why should I go even faster or feel forced to move in the slow lane?



All it takes is a little courtesy. If he would have kept a normal distance and paced my speed for little while, obviously I would have moved, no problem with that. But irresponsible people tick me off and don't deserve my courtesy if they can't respect the fact that the road isn't all theirs.
 
lalaland said:
I can understand somebody being frustrated if a slow car is blocking his lane, but I'm sorry if I'm already speeding and some loser gets on my ***, why should I go even faster or feel forced to move in the slow lane?
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Um, I have to say I disagree with you there. The left lane isn't the "fast" lane. It's the passing lane. If you are already speeding, so what? Someone wants to go faster than you, and courtesy would dictate that you should let them. You don't decide for everyone what the max safe speed is, or how much over the speed limit anyone else can drive. I'd have been pretty annoyed at you too. Drive as fast as you feel is comfortable. But don't try to decide what is comfortable for others by hogging the left lane.
 
Sorry, here in Quebec there is no such thing as a passing lane. You can drive in any lane you want as fast as you want. :up
 
lalaland said:
Sorry, here in Quebec there is no such thing as a passing lane. You can drive in any lane you want as fast as you want. :up
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Huh? Okay, lots of drivers figure that's the rules, but it's not. Do you remember last summer when the cops were on a campaign about that? They were handing out tickets for staying in the far left lane too long.



I know that sometimes the far left lane isn't only the passing lane. E.g. from the West Island on the 40, the exit to the Decarie south is in the left lane and from the Decarie north to the 40 west is from the left lane.



That's when I get really annoyed with folks tailgating. I'm driving along at the speed of my lane (as you said, usually 110 km/h in 70 km/h zone) and some dufus is tailgating. Then he notices that he didn't even want that lane. If I were to move to the centre lane to let him by, I might not be able to make my lane change back in time.



BTW, welcome fellow Montréaler.
 
:wavey there!



That's exactly the spot where I was, going north on Decarie towards the exit (via left lane) to 40 west. I always get tailgated on that exit, it's so annoying.



I never "hog" the fast lane, but sorry, if I have to make an exit, I won't start changing lanes just because some crazy guy wants to really really get in front of me. He could have just waited a bit until we made the exit, then pass me on the 40.



I see people like that all the time, doesn't matter that the light is red ahead, they'll still almost crash just to get a couple of cars ahead. :mad:
 
lalaland said:
I never "hog" the fast lane, but sorry, if I have to make an exit, I won't start changing lanes just because some crazy guy wants to really really get in front of me. He could have just waited a bit until we made the exit, then pass me on the 40.
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Well, that's a bit different. You should have called it an exit lane instead of the fast lane. If you needed to be in that lane to exit, then it's up to you whether you want to risk getting out of it to let someone else by.



lalaland said:
Sorry, here in Quebec there is no such thing as a passing lane. You can drive in any lane you want as fast as you want. :up
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In some states in America there aren't officially passing lanes either. But there is always something called common courtesy that is important, even if it isn't punishable.
 
That's what sucks about Decarie (anybody from Montreal knows it). It's a 4-lane freeway, up until one point when the left lane becomes an exit, the 2 rightside lanes become another exit as well, and the middle lane goes from being a highway to becoming a boulevard after a sharp turn. Not only that, but there is also (if you can believe it) a highway entrance a couple hundred meters before.



Now all this happens at the same time so there's always confusion with people that drive too fast (in the left lane), then having to go across 3 lanes to take the right-hand exit. Usually they don't have enough time to do it safely so they swerve and cut people off. The fact that there are people just getting on the highway wanting to take the left side exit a few hundred meters away doesn't make things any easier. You get this crazy zig-zag pattern in which you really gotta slow down if you wanna make it.



I was matching the speed of the car next to me because he was going for the boulevard in the middle while I had to take the left exit. The Mustang went across all the lanes to the right, cut off a car that was getting on the highway on that entrance, then came back across all the lanes to take the same exit as me. He really had to brake hard in order to make the turn. The point of that stunt? :nixweiss



Anyway, we're jacked this thread enough, let's let other people talk too! :D
 
I have a stock civic except for the wheels and have never had a rev thrown at me. I'm getting an h&r cup kit put on next week; so we'll see how it goes then...
 
on the subject of passing lanes...



I now live in Seattle, but grew up and learned to drive in So. Cal. and there is no "passing" lane there. Pretty much every lane is the fast lane. When I moved up here, it took a long time to adjust... actually, I'm still adjusting. My Seattle native coworkers tell me I can get a ticket for driving in the passing/left lane too long. I just think that's rediculous.
 
If your car "Looks fast" or "sounds fast", you will be constantly challenged for races...



"Looks fast".......



If it is black, red or yellow.

If it has custom wheels.

If it has any kind of graphics.

If it has window tint.



"Sounds fast"....



Any custom exhaust or fart can.

Any custom tips.



All of these things will solicit a race from the speed-crazed public.



It's the "Jerry Springer Mentality"....



"Look at that stupid jerk in the VW....I'LL SHOW HIM!!!!!!!"



Happens to me 3 or 4 times a week.
 
C5Mike said:
on the subject of passing lanes...

adjust... actually, I'm still adjusting. My Seattle native coworkers tell me I can get a ticket for driving in the passing/left lane too long. I just think that's rediculous.
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This is my reasoning for why one should pass on the left, and why the left lane should only be used for passing.



The right lane is where on-ramps merge, and where people want to exit. When people exit, they want to slow down. When people are merging on the freeway, people generally will be driving slower (sometimes due to the driver, other times due to having a car with low power). This naturally results in left lane traffic being faster.



Let's say you're in the second-to-the-right lane. Or let's say you're in the far right lane, and the off-ramp continues from their own independent lane that was connected to the on-ramp. You want to switch right for your exit. It would be less dangerous for yourself, and for other cars, if you did not have to worry about cars passing you as you try to switch out. I've seen (and frustratingly experienced) impatient drivers pass on the farmost right lane when someone wanted to exit, causing the exiter to miss their exit, and worse, causing accidents.



I hate it when people tailgate cars when they're not in the farthest left. Why not switch left to pass them? One reason is because people are driving slower in the left lane. Solution: for the slowpokes in the left to switch right, so that the driver in a hurry can pass on the left lane. Faster drivers should not take away the right from slow drivers to drive slow.. But at the same time, slow drivers should not take away a fast driver's right to drive fast. No one but the highway patrol has the right to judge whether or not someone should be driving fast. You never know when someone needs to rush to the hospital, etc.. The chances of someone having a genuine need to drive fast occurs rarely, but they exist. The day you find out a loved one is dying in a hospital is the day you dont need some slow jerk in front of you to be saying "i can drive the way i want to and you shouldn't be going so damn fast anyway."



When a slow driver slows traffic in the far left lane, they are preventing the faster driver from driving fast safely. If the faster driver is in a real emergency, they are forced to pass on the right. But this is unsafe, for the reason described above. Cars switching to the right will be in danger of being hit.



Example: a small car is being followed by a large SUV, driving at a slow speed in the far left lane. A faster car comes up fast behind the SUV. needing to get by but not having the opportunity to continue on the left, he will pass right.. at the same time, the small car in front of the SUV is wants to exit. The small car cannot see that there is a speeding car behind the SUV.. and does not see a car in the right lane as he switches right. Just as he switches right, the speeding car switches right, not seeing that there is a slower car switching out in front of the SUV..



The best outcome for this scenario is that the passing car reacts fast enough to slam on his brakes.. but in having to slow down so drastically, he in turn slows down all the other cars behind him, taking away their rights to drive fast.



If the slower cars can continue at their speed without impediment on the farther right lanes, why not just stay to the right?
 
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