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Originally Posted by rattlsnak
Another example would be the ones who don't pull all the way forward at a light. How can they NOT see someone right behind them trying to squeeze though and make a right turn if only they would pull up another foot!! I've been in the left lane many times witnessing this and the driver is totally oblivious to their surroundings. And you know what I do when I'm driving slow looking for an address or something? I pull OVER when I see cars come up behind me and let them go, then I pull out again. Been behind too many idiots that are oblivious to anyone behind them.
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I see people crowd behind me in this first situation, no blinker, they SOL. I may think they want to do it, and when the light goes green, they do indeed turn right, but without a blinker, no need for me to cut hard left to that edge of my lane and forwards.
I am always checking my mirror when I'm the front car at a red light, I see a right turn blinker, as I'm stopping, and I'll put my car on the left line forwards. Its also nice when other people do this for me. It does amuse me though, the impatient looks of the guys who never hit their blinker switch.
I have horrible eyesight, I really can't read road signs, I too try to pull in some where if I get car's behind me. Also, a lot of the looking for address drivers will stop to turn with no blinker's/warning. Just drive past your goal, turn around, and do not impede traffic.
I like to drive in a way that lets traffic flow as best it can, sometimes sacrificing myself in the process by not taking my turn. Sometimes my lifting off when I know there's a stop, will get the person behind's ire up. I'm really not sure what to do in this case, the est of red lights and stopped cars do not need to be plowed into.
One other situation a lot of people are not away of, is stop light sensors, a left lane can never change as the front car left the lane to go elseware, and the second car never moved up. The sensor detects no car, and the light doesn't change, ever. You can see a huge back up this way. There was one light with a really narrow range, if you weren't at the white line, you weren't going. When I saw a huge inexplicable line at a light, I put my car in park, and printed past several hundred feet of parked cars to talk to the car at the front, it was stopped a whole car's lengths short of the white line. People had just waited, and waited, eventually bailing to make a right turn. I startled the gentleman, explained to him how the sensor worked, he put in drive for a few feet, and I sprinted back to my car. I'd watched the lite cycle and skip that direction a few times before I got out.
Another time, I just got in the right lane and bailed, didn't like the neighborhood. It was a real heifer with music buds in driving a purple pimp mobile sitting exactly off the sensor. They were gonna be there awhile, I thought about turning around and parking and walking over, but it wasn't a good neighborhood for that, and it seemed most others got the clue and bailed from the lane after watching the light skip the left turn lane over and over.
I figure with most strangers, I really can't improve their driving - as they do not know me. Its the same as why I do not go past two or three posts with a disagreement online. The only thing I can do, is influence those I have influence over. If I see someone has bad driving habits, I invite them out to the local indoor kart track before I ever say anything about their driving. When they get passed multiple times by me as I ran 10 laps in a 8 minute session to their six or seven, they will be a little more willing to listen about lifting off, paying attention, etc.