Annoying things drivers do

[usagora]

I almost always drive with my CC on. Keeps me from going 85 and getting a ticket.

Same here. And my current vehicle has "adaptive cruise control" which will automatically adjust speed down if needed to keep distance from traffic ahead (and will even bring the car to a full stop if needed). Occasionally it will have false vehicle detection and slow down when it shouldn't, but usually it's pretty accurate.

If they catch me and do it again, I do the opposite and hit the brakes sending them flying on by and reset my CC.

 

[Herdfan]

Same here. And my current vehicle has "adaptive cruise control" which will automatically adjust speed down

My daughter absolutely refuses to use Adaptive CC. When she was 16, she was taking my mom to the mall in mom's E550. They were on the interstate going along at 70ish with the CC set. A car pulled over right in front of them, so the car braked fairly hard and the car behind her almost rear-ended her. Screeching tires is not something you want to hear on the interstate.

So she disabled it in her car.

 

[usagora]

My daughter absolutely refuses to use Adaptive CC. When she was 16, she was taking my mom to the mall in mom's E550. They were on the interstate going along at 70ish with the CC set. A car pulled over right in front of them, so the car braked fairly hard and the car behind her almost rear-ended her. Screeching tires is not something you want to hear on the interstate.

So she disabled it in her car.

Well, that wasn't ACC's fault, but the fault of the moron who cut her off and the moron who was tailgating her! And that might've actually been a CMS (collision mitigation system) that did the braking in that scenario if it was heavy.

 

[eyoungren]

Here is one.

I almost always drive with my CC on. Keeps me from going 85 and getting a ticket.

And I absolutely hate when I pass someone or they catch up to me and then want to drive off my back bumper in the other lane. They weren't going the same speed as me to begin with, so why now. So my first approach is to speed up and get way away from them and reset the CC. If they catch me and do it again, I do the opposite and hit the brakes sending them flying on by and reset my CC.

And let's just say they don't like what I do the third time.

I've had people come up behind me and tailgate me when I'm moving faster than other traffic. Both of us at this point are already violating the posted speed limit - and they are nagging ME to get out of their way!

A few times I've tested just how far they've been willing to go. It's amazing how many of them decide to stop tailgating you when you've hit over 100mph.

After that they usually leave me alone. No one wants to mess with the crazy person.

 

[usagora]

I've had people come up behind me and tailgate me when I'm moving faster than other traffic. Both of us at this point are already violating the posted speed limit - and they are nagging ME to get out of their way!

A few times I've tested just how far they've been willing to go. It's amazing how many of them decide to stop tailgating you when you've hit over 100mph.

After that they usually leave me alone. No one wants to mess with the crazy person.

Best thing to do is just move over and let them pass, then get back over and you continue to pass at your lower rate of speed (lower than theirs, that is). Neither having them tailgate you or you doing over 100mph are safe. I know it's not always easy, but we really need to drive with our brains ("What is the safest move here?"), not our ego ("How dare they tailgate ME! I'll show them!").

 

[Apple fanboy]

Best thing to do is just move over and let them pass, then get back over and you continue to pass at your lower rate of speed (lower than theirs, that is). Neither having them tailgate you or you doing over 100mph are safe. I know it's not always easy, but we really need to drive with our brains ("What is the safest move here?"), not our ego ("How dare they tailgate ME! I'll show them!").

So true. The older I get the more content I am to just let people get on with their madness and carry on with my journey safely.

My peeves are as follows.

1. Drivers who are in a side road waiting to pull into the road. There is a gap but they wait so long that by the time they pull out you have to virtually stop.
2. Any sort of modified exhausts. They are anti social. Usually accompanied by drivers who drive around like the neighbourhood is a local racetrack.
3. People who tailgate and flash their lights at you when you are driving at the speed limit or at a speed that is safe for the conditions.
4. Anyone who decides that turn signals (or indicators as we call them in the UK) are an option.
5. People who drive with their main beam on full as they are approaching you. You have a dipped headlights option. Use it.
6. People who insist on driving huge cars that are too big for country lanes, parking spaces and the rest. Especially when accompanied by a huge petrol or diesel engine. Think of the environment.
7. White van man and delivery guys on scooters. They ignore rights of way etc because generally it’s not their vehicle and they know you’ll let them squeeze into the gap rather than let them hit you.
8. People who throw rubbish out of their windows. Very antisocial.

 

[usagora]

1. Drivers who are in a side road waiting to pull into the road. There is a gap but they wait so long that by the time they pull out you have to virtually stop.
2. Any sort of modified exhausts. They are anti social. Usually accompanied by drivers who drive around like the neighbourhood is a local racetrack.
3. People who tailgate and flash their lights at you when you are driving at the speed limit or at a speed that is safe for the conditions.
4. Anyone who decides that turn signals (or indicators as we call them in the UK) are an option.
5. People who drive with their main beam on full as they are approaching you. You have a dipped headlights option. Use it.
6. People who insist on driving huge cars that are too big for country lanes, parking spaces and the rest. Especially when accompanied by a huge petrol or diesel engine. Think of the environment.
7. White van man and delivery guys on scooters. They ignore rights of way etc because generally it’s not their vehicle and they know you’ll let them squeeze into the gap rather than let them hit you.
8. People who throw rubbish out of their windows. Very antisocial.

(2) Modified exhausts - same here in the US. I don't understand why these aren't more strictly regulated. Some are literally deafening!

(3) As for tailgating, if you're in a passing lane, I don't blame them. Move over (regardless of your speed)! If not, then, yes, agreed that's annoying.

(5) My car has auto high beams which will automatically switch back to standard beams when an oncoming vehicle is detected. My only complaint is that sometimes I'll be driving down a pitch dark road and they'll take like 10-15 seconds to come on when it should be immediate given the ambient light conditions.

(8) Littering - yes, and normally the main culprits are smokers throwing their cigarette butts out the window.

 

[Apple fanboy]

(2) Modified exhausts - same here in the US. I don't understand why these aren't more strictly regulated. Some are literally deafening!

(3) As for tailgating, if you're in a passing lane, I don't blame them. Move over (regardless of your speed)! If not, then, yes, agreed that's annoying.

(5) My car has auto high beams which will automatically switch back to standard beams when an oncoming vehicle is detected. My only complaint is that sometimes I'll be driving down a pitch dark road and they'll take like 10-15 seconds to come on when it should be immediate given the ambient light conditions.

(8) Littering - yes, and normally the main culprits are smokers throwing their cigarette butts out the window.

Tailgating is on single track roads mostly.
As for performance exhausts fortunately they will be gone soon enough. Heck as an EV driver, even standard exhausts are noisy.

 

[Gregg2]

Yes. NYC prohibits right turns on red — for good reason, given our pedestrian densities — except where signed. One such corner is near me, and there's always plenty of horns directed at those right turners who don't see the sign.

My solution, as a pedestrian: yell "Hey!" That gets the driver's head to snap every time. Most drivers are just looking to the left to see if it's clear for them to go. I'm referring to wanting to cross the street where the right-turning car is sitting over the cross walk while I have the Walk light flashing for me as I'm walking in the same or opposite direction as the drivers who have a green light.

 

[eyoungren]

My peeves are as follows.

1. Any sort of modified exhausts. They are anti social. Usually accompanied by drivers who drive around like the neighbourhood is a local racetrack.

(2) Modified exhausts - same here in the US. I don't understand why these aren't more strictly regulated. Some are literally deafening!

This annoys me, but in a different way than most people I think.

First off, most of the people who modify their exhaust are doing so on 4-cylinder engines. The idea is to make it sound like they have a powerful engine I guess.

Right there we know they have massively failed. Any properly tuned 8-cylinder (or more) engine in good running condition will put the lie to this. There is a throbbing, vibrating, low frequency sound to these sorts of engines that no 4-cylinder with a modified exhaust could ever replicate.

So the fact that they are trying to do this and that there is no way they ever could confuses me. Why would you try to emulate something that is simply not possible with the type of engine you have? Are you trying to compensate for something?

THEN, the noise that these overworked hamster engines generate is also loud and annoying. So now I'm annoyed, not only because of the sound but because these people are trying to make me believe that they have some sort of 'powerful' car.

They aren't fooling anyone.

If they went to a real car show with true muscle cars they'd know that.

 

[Apple fanboy]

This annoys me, but in a different way than most people I think.

First off, most of the people who modify their exhaust are doing so on 4-cylinder engines. The idea is to make it sound like they have a powerful engine I guess.

Right there we know they have massively failed. Any properly tuned 8-cylinder (or more) engine in good running condition will put the lie to this. There is a throbbing, vibrating, low frequency sound to these sorts of engines that no 4-cylinder with a modified exhaust could ever replicate.

So the fact that they are trying to do this and that there is no way they ever could confuses me. Why would you try to emulate something that is simply not possible with the type of engine you have? Are you trying to compensate for something?

THEN, the noise that these overworked hamster engines generate is also loud and annoying. So now I'm annoyed, not only because of the sound but because these people are trying to make me believe that they have some sort of 'powerful' car.

They aren't fooling anyone.

If they went to a real car show with true muscle cars they'd know that.

Not a fan of 8 cylinder engines either though. No need for all that power when the top speed is 70 mph (in the UK at least).

 

[Macky-Mac]

clearly all other drivers should stay home and let me have the roads to myself

 

[Apple fanboy]

clearly all other drivers should stay home and let me have the roads to myself

True story.
Mr Great Grandad who died when I was in my mid teens was quite well to do and had plenty of money (all gone now though!).
Anyway he would be heard to say “cars are okay. But now every bugger has one”).
We was 94 when he died.

 

[eyoungren]

True story.
Mr Great Grandad who died when I was in my mid teens was quite well to do and had plenty of money (all gone now though!).
Anyway he would be heard to say “cars are okay. But now every bugger has one”).
We was 94 when he died.

My uncle (died in 1998) long believed that every vehicle on the road should be required to have a speed governor. That way no one could ever speed.

He also didn't believe in seat belts. My mother and he had more than few heated arguments over that whenever he was in our cars.

 

[Nermal]

I'd just like to make a public apology to the car that was behind me. I'm sorry for having the absolute gall to indicate right, slow down, and then turn right. I'm sorry that this upset you and I'm sorry that you had to give me four horn blasts for making a legal turn. I hope you'll forgive me.

(I did take a walk around the car afterwards and confirmed that the blinkers were functional).

 

[usagora]

I'd just like to make a public apology to the car that was behind me. I'm sorry for having the absolute gall to indicate right, slow down, and then turn right. I'm sorry that this upset you and I'm sorry that you had to give me four horn blasts for making a legal turn. I hope you'll forgive me.

(I did take a walk around the car afterwards and confirmed that the blinkers were functional).

You probably weren't turning fast enough. You should literally be on the verge of flipping the vehicle as you make the turn. If not, then speed it up, gramps 😛

 

[Nermal]

You probably weren't turning fast enough. You should literally be on the verge of flipping the vehicle as you make the turn. If not, then speed it up, gramps 😛

There's probably some truth to that. I can't be sure what the other driver's intentions were, but I think it was a case of "I can't wait two seconds, so I'm going to pass this guy on his right when he's about to make a right turn. I'm sure that'll be fine."

I wasn't looking behind at that exact moment though, as of course when you're making a turn you're looking at where you're going.

 

[usagora]

There's probably some truth to that. I can't be sure what the other driver's intentions were, but I think it was a case of "I can't wait two seconds, so I'm going to pass this guy on his right when he's about to make a right turn. I'm sure that'll be fine."

Wow, he passed you on your RIGHT?! That's beyond stupid. A few weeks ago I had some moron pass me on the left over a double yellow as I was turning right into my driveway. No horn, but by the sound of his RPMs and his distance of about 12 inches from my bumper at the time he passed, he was clearly annoyed that someone lived there 🙄

 

[chown33]

I'd just like to make a public apology to the car that was behind me. I'm sorry for having the absolute gall to indicate right, slow down, and then turn right. I'm sorry that this upset you and I'm sorry that you had to give me four horn blasts for making a legal turn. I hope you'll forgive me.

(I did take a walk around the car afterwards and confirmed that the blinkers were functional).

Irony is wasted on the entitled. They mistake it for sincerity.

 

[eyoungren]

The other day I was taking my wife to work. Two lanes on each side with a middle turning lane in the center. This road, as most roads are in Phoenix is a main road.

I'm in the right lane behind a sign truck (carrying road signs). There's traffic stacked up in the left lane because someone ahead is driving slow. So, Arizona being the state of entitled truck owners that drive large land yachts, the guy at the end of the line in his jacked up black Dodge Ram didn't want to wait at the back of the line.

So, he used the center lane to pass.

Which only managed to get him ahead of one truck because turns out someone was waiting to make a turn at the upcoming traffic signal (where the center lane turns into a left turn lane) and he would have slammed into the rear of that guy.

Some people!

 

[Herdfan]

So, Arizona being the state of entitled truck owners that drive large land yachts,

I can't say anything about the trucks since I drive a SuperDuty, but one thing I have noticed out there is most trucks, from lifted trucks all the way down to weenie trucks, all seem to have big knobby tires. We have snow several times a year here and I don't run that aggressive a tire.

 

[eyoungren]

I can't say anything about the trucks since I drive a SuperDuty, but one thing I have noticed out there is most trucks, from lifted trucks all the way down to weenie trucks, all seem to have big knobby tires. We have snow several times a year here and I don't run that aggressive a tire.

Your stock Super Dutys, Rams, Silverados, etc aren't so much the issue in regards to entitlement or maybe perceived compensation. It's the trucks of those types getting the heavy duty mods to jack them up, fit really large rims and tires and aggressive looking trim packages.

For awhile there was a craze around here to have those metal balls hanging off tow hooks. But mostly now you get 'blacked out' trucks with spiky lug nuts and hubs. None of it's designed for hauling, towing or real work. It's just there to support the driver's ego. I can tell a work truck or a personal truck put to work from these 'land yacht's' I mention.

And those are the ones being driven by these kinds of people who feel arrogantly entitled to ignore traffic laws.

 

[quagmire]

Most have already touched upon most of my pet peeves so my list is short.

1. On the topic of car mods..... removing catalytic converters. Sorry I don't want to smell your stinky exhaust for you to squeeze out a negligible 5 HP. Cats don't kill HP like they did back in the 80's. And sorry fanboy, I love V8's even if the limit is 70 MPH.

2. Rush hour traffic people who use entrance/exit ramps to cut over and pass the rest of us. Like we are not all trying to get home? You're not more important than me who is patiently waiting in traffic. You can wait too. Especially since you're making the traffic worse as we now need to create space for your selfish butt.

 

[Herdfan]

Your stock Super Dutys, Rams, Silverados, etc aren't so much the issue in regards to entitlement or maybe perceived compensation. It's the trucks of those types getting the heavy duty mods to jack them up, fit really large rims and tires and aggressive looking trim packages.

Yeah, I hate that look as well. My truck is basically stock except for a locking bed cover. I use it to pull a 14K# enclosed trailer. A properly equipped 150/1500 could do it, but they would be at their limit.

And Ram owners like to make the already louder Cummins I6 even louder.

 

[AlaskaMoose]

Every driver is annoying and I - and only I - do everything perfectly

A comment with a lot of depth!

Nobody is perfect; right? One always finds others annoying before oneself. Maybe all of us should be assimilated by the Borg? This way all of us would think alike and not be annoyed about anything