I saw the worst driver today.
 

First off, I'm not going to tell you age, gender, or race. I will tell you that it was not a person who looked like they had a learner's permit.

But it was pretty funny.

I was driving on a very busy highway in California, two lanes going in each direction with a 60 mph speed limit. I came to a stop because a couple of cars ahead, someone was stopped halfway in the lane and halfway in a driveway to a coffee shop parking lot. It was a nice Audi sedan two cars ahead of us.

I thought maybe someone was trying to get out, blocking them from entering, but I couldn't see anyone. We sat there for a minute and traffic started piling up quickly behind us.

The car just sat there and didn't move. We waited for a while, and then the car ahead of us started honking.

The Audi then backed up onto the highway, most of the way. Then it pulled up again. Then it stopped again.

Then it somehow - and I have no idea how - got a wheel off the ground. I cannot even begin to explain how, but I could see the back tire spinning with no traction. This was in a concrete driveway with no precipitation in good weather. I seriously have no idea how they did it.

Then it backed up again. By this point there were lots of cars behind us, and the left lane was full of people passing the car.

It backed all the way into the left lane, stopping all of the traffic and making cars dodge it, and stopped again. Then it cut the wheels and after about 100 feet it managed to get into the right lane. It took off at about 20 mph in a 60 mph zone. As cars started passing again, it then ever so slowly drifted into the left lane with its right turn signal on for some unexplainable reason, making everybody dodge it again.

We eventually passed on the right side, laughing uproariously. There was a driver and passenger, and they were clearly oblivious to what they were doing.

I'm going to guess drugs, old people, or out of state driver with no clue where they were supposed to make a turn and were trying to find directions.

I'm in Oregon and find these streets to be weird

Old Asian lady would be my guess.

I dropped my french fries. Jesus, people, have some patience.

Your wife.

Old Asian lady driving an Apricot BMW.

Was it Slayer Diablo?

It wasn't HWY 99 was it?

Had to be a woman driver.

Must have been from Topeka. We had a crap ton of shitty drivers here.

Old people or Asian tourist.

Either one, possibly blind.

My bad bro

Until explicitly proven otherwise, I'm going to assume Bernie Sanders was the driver.

90%+ chance they were Asian

Lol hey now

It was katipan

This is the world we live in.

1. Phone/texting. ****-put that thing down. You are not that important.
2. Self centered. More ME NOW. see #1
3. Too busy.
4. Give anyone a drivers license. I would hate to know the uninsured drivers.
5. The human brain was not meant to multitask. If you think you can-you are wrong.
You cannot talk and listen at the same time. You cannot chew gum and drive at the same time. FOCUS ON THE ROAD!!!!

Or just any Asian in general that has immigrated from Korea, China, etc. I live in Korea, I've seen some of the worst driving and parking here. People here are some combination of selfish, incapable, and completely stupid on the road.

Hence the term DWO. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dwo
Used to be used frequently by cops around D.C. on mishap reports.

I thought you was gonna talk about somebody in Denver you saw. I will place the Fidiots in Denver and Co. Springs against any in the world. Driving 30,000 miles a year I swear I've been beside almost all of them at a light at one time or another over the last couple of decades.

DWA, driving while asian.

Sorry. Was looking for a Golden Corral.

Was it Mr Magoo??

Old people don't drive Audis, I'll go Asian.

Do they really know what they're driving?
I mean, do they?

Agreed

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LMAO That's a fair point.

I would say they had caught one wheel in the culvert and were probably stuck.

That's why one wheel was off the ground.


I see this happen at least once a week next door at head start. We are always helping parents out of it.

When I was driving from Omaha to San Fran, I saw some of the most moronic, self centered, oblivious and rude drivers in the last two hours of the drive going up I-5 from LA.

I also found the paranoia hilarious when there was roughly 10 news trucks at the grapevine filming snow flurries. They actually threatened to close the highway when the flurries started sticking to the grass alongside the shoulders of the highway.
****ing hysterical. People were panicked and driving 20 mph. I actually lead a convoy of idiots when they saw my NE license plate on the SUV I was driving. LMAO

Did they have Johnson county tags?

Dinny

Funny but unfortunately true. ROFL

I drive about 42-46,000 miles a year locally due to my job. I have driven many miles a year in my life, the most about 62,000 in one year. I've seen tons of crazy things over the last 35 years but I've noticed something astounding during the last 10 years to the point now that it's ridiculous.

The percentage of drivers who use their blinkers to signal a turn, while changing lanes, or exiting a highway is less than 20% and could be under 10-15%. I see drivers come across three lanes of highway traffic and no turn signal, I see someone pull off a highway cutting in front of me at 60-70 MPH and once again no turn signal, I see people at a stop sign in a shopping center and I expect them to go straight but they cut in front of me with no turn signal, I proceed when a light turns green only to have a driver suddenly cut in front of me in the opposite direction making a turn again with no turn signal.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE TURN SIGNAL IN EVERYONE'S VEHICLE! :cuss:

Blinking Lights Matter!!!

I don't use them if there's no one else around that's going to see them or that it's going to matter to, and sometimes I'll make a sudden lane jump on the freeway and not bother to use them because by the time other drivers see them and comprehend them I will have already made my move. And there are other times when I wonder what's the point in trying to use them when so many other drivers are either oblivious to the light blinking on the corner of your car or flat out don't give a **** about it.

My truck will let you know if you changed lanes without signaling, out will also flash the signals three times if you just tap the lever. That saves you from driving miles with your signal on if you've got the radio blasting.

Can't be an asian driver in an audi. They only drive asian cars at least around here. I have only seen this not to be true once about every 3rd year.

I try to avoid I-5 and I just about never go South of Sacramento. Crazy ass people down there.

Probably low on blinker fluid.

There is also a problem when people put on their turn signal and immediately pull in front of someone thinking they have the right of way. A turn signal is there to show people you want to move over and not that everyone clear the hell out because I'm so damn important.

People have no idea what YIELD means.

They think it means hurry and get there first.

Is that now what they teach in driver's education? :rolleyes:

Well sometime it does mean that, like when you need to merge onto the freeway and your merge lane is about to end.

There are those of us who hate driving.
I can't handle having to tolerate 200 strangers around me at high speeds. I can't drive 80 mph like it's no big deal. I stay distant from other cars. I'm the guy considered the one who is a bad driver and piss people off because I'm the one not driving like a race car driver. I can't shut my mind off like everyone else and drive like a robot who doesn't care and assumes everyone else sees me.

You would think. There would have to be some reason for it. But this is the actual driveway (on the right). I don't understand how they got one tire off the ground in this driveway. I think they just somehow stomped on the gas pedal, but it didn't burn rubber or anything.

I don't think stomping on the gas would get a wheel off the ground in that car...

Sadly, some people's limited understanding of physics comes from watching The Matrix.

It could have been spinning ie power braking and looked like it was off the ground because of that.

This uninsured driver thing is scary, reading the comments section in an article about harsher punishments for uninsured motorists the other day. The number of people who don't think they don't have to have it, say they cannot afford it so do not buy it but drive anyways, or simply brush it off is startling.

That's a 60mph zone?!?

Eh, maybe that stretch isn't since it's in town, now that you mention it. It's the Pacific Coast Highway.

As long as you stay out of the left lane, I don't care if you drive 30 in a 60. Slower traffic keep right and pass left. One of the first rules of the road that has been forgotten, mostly by immigrant drivers like the Hispanics in white Ford box trucks with their paint supplies or ladders on the roof! :#

I was thinking about this a few weeks ago. I was driving in a rural area, and there was a car cruising along at around the speed limit in the left lane. I had to pass it on the right, and it was a couple of people chatting.

It got me thinking about a focus group of drivers that I did many years ago. A young woman in that group said that she took off on a road trip, and figured out after a couple of hundred miles that she wasn't supposed to cruise in the left lane. She said, "I grew up in the city. You're supposed to cruise in the left lane there. How was I to know that it's different in the country?"

She actually brings up a good point about our inconsistent lane philosophies. If you're in a major metro area and you're going to travel 20 miles on a highway, you're supposed to move toward the left so it's easier for others to get off and on. But if you're outside a metro area and you're going to travel 20 miles on a highway, you're supposed to stay in the right lane.

I guess maybe the consistent part is that you leave the leftmost lane for passing, whether it's a 2-lane road or an 8-lane road. But even in metro areas you get the idiots who are cruising at a very high rate of speed and they're camping in the left lane.

One might think it's an issue of 2-lane roads versus multi-lane roads, but in a metro area a 2-lane road gets cruisers in both lanes, and that's kind of necessary.

So it makes me wonder. At what point when you're departing a metro area are you supposed to make the philosophical switch and never cruise in the leftmost lane?

When there isn't an exit every 1/4 mile.

The nearest large-ish city to me with that driving situation has it marked. There are signs up that say "Through Traffic Left Lane OK" or something like that. California is one of the 29 states (as of this 2010 article) where you are required to move over if traveling at a slower speed than normal traffic:

http://jalopnik.com/5501615/left-lan...e-by-state-map


The most popular law follows the Uniform Vehicle Code, which says a car driving below the "normal speed of traffic" should be driven in the right-hand lane. Because it indicates "normal speed" instead of saying "speed limit" a driver going above the speed limit but slower than most traffic is still in the wrong.

I will be the first one to admit I am not a great driver. I recently got a car over an SUV because the SUV was totalled andthe other day I looked in my review and side mirror changed lanes, didn't hear a honk or anything, just had a sense that someone was still on my left. I look over and this guy I ran off the road was just rolling with me on the shoulder. I swerved back over and he came back on the road and out of the corner of my eye I could feel his burning eyes. I was a bit worred because he was driving a plumming truck and I know he had some pipes that he was going to hit me over the head with, but I pulled into a sushi place and he yelled stuff and drove by.

The worst are those shitheels who purposely stay in the lane to keep others from going faster as if their self-annointed traffic hall monitor. Only to be topped by the people who pace the car next to them!

If there's more than 2 lanes in a metro area then the far left lane is still the "fast lane".

I call them "block-jobbers"

I can't handle slow drivers in the fast lane. 1 lane roads I deal with slow drivers and try to keep off them, that is what it is. But driving in the left lane and using it as a casual drive makes me crazy.

I also can not stand when people put their blinker on as they are turning or a half second before. What is the ****ing point of that?! I want to see your blinker on as a heads up that you are about to slow down and turn. Once you break, don't even ****ing bother with the blinker. I don't give a shit which way you are turning, I need to know THAT you are going to turn.

And for the love of God, pull into the turn lane before you hit your brakes! :cuss:

I always find it weird when people slow down to a crawl before making a right turn. Obviously one must slow down before a turn, but I'm talking about the ones who slow down to half their speed or less when there's clearly a wide open path for them in an area with no bikes or pedestrians. They're the cousins of the people who brake before entering the left turn lane.

So was it Slayer Diablo or not? And did he hit any houses if it was?

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That driver deserved to be t-boned directly in their door.

What a ****wad move. Deserve multiple tickets and lose their license. :mad:

I was cringing as I watched that. I was expecting to see an innocent person get injured or killed at any moment.

Whew, those were some alert drivers. I can see why Toby Waller got banned. RIP Toby.

Charles Barkley?

https://www.totalprosports.com/wp-co...rkley-gifs.gif

I say it all the time. There are very few “accidents” on the road. But, there’s a shit ton of stupidities.