The guy who blows past me at double the speed limit who is texting (or eating or doing something else). I just know he is going to cause an accident that I will eventually encounter. And that GUY is usually a GIRL.

Also, big-rig truck drivers who think they are driving 'Vettes.

Tail-gaters. I ALWAYS give them a brake.

The left lane is not your personal, luxury cruising lane. If someone faster comes along, you should move over and let them pass instead of encouraging them to ride your bumper.

mryeager wrote:The guy who merges four lanes over to the fast lane when entering the freeway and then merges four lanes back to exit a mile later.

Hey now. Sometimes you gotta do that. Take SC's malfunction junction for example. You will never get to your destination otherwise.

1. The swings way out into the left lane to turn right despite the fact that he's driving a sub-compact guy.

2. The pulls into the intersection to turn left and stops dead because a car from the opposite direction is also turning left even though there is room enough for both to go guy.

3. The sees the light is turning yellow so slows to a crawl so no one after him can make it through guy.

4. The turns on his blinker after he has nearly completed the turn guy.

5. The speeds up or slows down to close the space you were attempting to merge into guy.

6. One more vote for the complete stop before making a right turn guy.

I generally dislike all drivers.

I suffer from serious road rage and should probably seek help for it.

dawnette2004 wrote:the person who tries to cut in front of me without using the blinker at the last possible moment when a lane(s) is closed due to construction (which is announced) & they act surprised or I saw them speed down the lane just to get ahead of where they were at

And the people who stop (and force everyone behind them for miles to stop) to let said Krampuss in. This is the major cause of delays in construction zones.

If you let these selfish snowmans in, you're punishing all the people who followed the rules and merged when they were supposed to. Just leave them out in the dead lane to rot.

In South Florida - its the snowbirds and tourists. Slowly driving while checking out the scenery (Look, Maude - a palm tree!)
But my #1 least favorite is the driver in the Grand Marquis, and the older it is, the worse driver they are...

Without a doubt it's the left lane bandit.

Why can't they get over a lane?
Why can't they read the signs about slower traffic keep right?
Why can't they grow a brain?

seahokedrama wrote:When someone rides my tail too closely- first I'll flash my break lights at them. If that doesn't work- I'll slow down to a crawl.

Don't care if it makes me late- I just have that attitude of "no-one is going to be a jackglass to me and get away with it".

doustoi wrote:Bet you're in the left lane, and bet I don't care if this happens to you for every mile you ever drive on the highway.

Awesome!

Folks, if you think tailgating is a problem or epidemic on the highways, it's your own fault. If you knowingly block or slow people down or worse, try to play traffic regulator in any way, it's your fault.

There's nothing more insane than someone who prevents a person from passing them and then complains how closely they keep. YOU PUT THEM THERE YOURSELF!

The only time I get my bumper ridden is in heavy traffic when I can't go faster than everyone or move over to let the people faster than me, pass.

I live in NW Florida, home of where-am-I-going-retirees and OCH! MISTLETOE FRENCHING? GROSS!-we're-lost-again tourists.

I think these guys spend each day trying to set new records for idiocy on the road.

tiler100 wrote:Awesome!

Folks, if you think tailgating is a problem or epidemic on the highways, it's your own fault. If you knowingly block or slow people down or worse, try to play traffic regulator in any way, it's your fault.

There's nothing more insane than someone who prevents a person from passing them and then complains how closely they keep. YOU PUT THEM THERE YOURSELF!

The only time I get my bumper ridden is in heavy traffic when I can't go faster than everyone or move over to let the people faster than me, pass.

Exactly.

The doesn't let me over guy. -.-

The pull out in front of me only to go 1/2 a block and make a left hand turn guy.

All the Krampuss who think they own the passing lane!

the I drive the same speed as the guy in the slow lane even though I'm in the fast lane guy.

death penalty

I cannot stand left lane lateral pacers. People who ride the left lane, with no obstructed space ahead, and subconsciously pace the slower car to their right, which in many cases hovers just barely in their blind spot.

I generally ride about 10% over what's posted, with traffic allowing.

As far as general traffic, I use the bait routine. When I do see someone in the cruising hot in the fast lane, I count about 12 cars back and pace them while they draw the attention of any speed traps or civilian sleeper cars.

Every time I drive my car the stress and frustration makes me miss my bicycle.

bicycle commute = 0 stress

elsrik wrote:I cannot stand left lane lateral pacers. People who ride the left lane, with no obstructed space ahead, and subconsciously pace the slower car to their right, which in many cases hovers just barely in their blind spot.

I've encountered a similar issue with cars in the left lane that pull up fast into my blind spot and hover there. The sensations is like you're about to be passed, and suddenly the other car just disappears. (My car has a substantial blind spot when the top is up.)

I generally deal with this by turning my left blinker on and feinting a lane change.

the cuts me off and then goes super slow guy.

this seems to be the most popular response...

I'm that guy...

I do it because you just did something to prove yourself a complete ass and I don't want to look at you any more... stay behind me where I don't have to be reminded of your idiocy...

so I'm thinking that most of the people that picked that option are chilling zephyrs...

My husband is so many of these guys...I cannot stand to drive with him on the interstate! Almost ALL fights we have ever had have been in the car when he is driving!

Amblyopia wrote:this seems to be the most popular response...

I'm that guy...

I do it because you just did something to prove yourself a complete ass and I don't want to look at you any more... stay behind me where I don't have to be reminded of your idiocy...

Traffic laws do not account for you to enforce your own, arbitrary "rules." You are part of the problem and probably contribute more than your fair share of anxiety to an already enraged driving community.

The tail-gate me when I'm going faster than the speed limit guy.

The "speeds up when we come to a passing zone" guy.

The pair of ani who block the highway with their 2 semis @ [speed limit - 10]mph apparently talking with each other back and forth. Nobody can pass them and they know it. They are tied with the FIP who rides my bumper as I wait for the ani to finish their passive aggressive game. I wish hemorrhoids upon the 3 of them.

I hate the cops, for pulling me over for when I'm trying to get to my destination which is far more important then anyone else on the road...

I used to be real wary of teenage boys who thought they owned the road and were super drivers, but now it's the teenage girls. They do the same thing, but with a cell phone in their ear.

Add to the list the guys who think the left/passing lane is the designated speeding lane.

Protip: it's not.

Related: jackwagons that draft like it's the Indy 500.

tiler100 wrote:
Folks, if you think tailgating is a problem or epidemic on the highways, it's your own fault. If you knowingly block or slow people down or worse, try to play traffic regulator in any way, it's your fault.

There's nothing more insane than someone who prevents a person from passing them and then complains how closely they keep. YOU PUT THEM THERE YOURSELF!

The only time I get my bumper ridden is in heavy traffic when I can't go faster than everyone or move over to let the people faster than me, pass.

Wait, if I'm driving the legal speed limit, and someone is illegally following too close to me, it's *my* fault? What state do you live in?

PortenceGailbraith wrote:Wait, if I'm driving the legal speed limit, and someone is illegally following too close to me, it's *my* fault? What state do you live in?

State of confusion?

I'll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhsjit5xJks

The "I'm in the fast lane going the same speed as everyone else so you can't get through" guy

PortenceGailbraith wrote:Wait, if I'm driving the legal speed limit, and someone is illegally following too close to me, it's *my* fault? What state do you live in?[/

If an accident happens no, it's not your "fault" from a legal perspective. But legally (at least in Virginia) you are supposed to yeild right of way to faster traffic because "technically" you are only supposed to pass on the left (fast lanes). So if you are blocking the passing lanes and an accident occurs, the person who runs into the back of someone else will be ticketed, but it was technically illegal not to yeild right of way (assuming you're not bumper to bumper and can actually make a pass).

PortenceGailbraith wrote:Wait, if I'm driving the legal speed limit, and someone is illegally following too close to me, it's *my* fault? What state do you live in?

It doesn't matter. Unless you are a licensed law enforcement official, their speed is irrelevant. You don't know what kind of emergency they may or may not be having, you're not authorized to enforce that law and you need to just move over and stop blocking faster traffic.

People need to stop worrying about what other people are doing and why and spend more time creating separation between cars and eliminating clumps of traffic. People can decry speeders all they want but the fact remains it's really hard to wreck into someone who is several car length away.

PortenceGailbraith wrote:The "speeds up when we come to a passing zone" guy.

Oooh, nice one!

Jdedwardssfca wrote:the gangster with a badge and a gun in the black and white car guy.

Nice.

While riding my motorcycle (yeah, a chick on a bike):
The underinsured guy (also on a motorcycle) coming towards me on a curve who crossed the double yellow line and hit me...nearly completely severing my leg, causing me life long pain and disability...who goes on about his life as though nothing happened.

tiler100 wrote:It doesn't matter. Unless you are a licensed law enforcement official, their speed is irrelevant. You don't know what kind of emergency they may or may not be having, you're not authorized to enforce that law and you need to just move over and stop blocking faster traffic.

People need to stop worrying about what other people are doing and why and spend more time creating separation between cars and eliminating clumps of traffic. People can decry speeders all they want but the fact remains it's really hard to wreck into someone who is several car length away.

Driving the speed limit, regardless of whether there's somebody running up your tailpipe, is not "enforcing" any laws. Having some sort of "emergency" doesn't buy you the right to drive like an Krampus, or create a hazardous condition.

That's right, people driving the speed limit are not the ones creating the hazard when someone else is too impatient to obey the law, regardless of what lane they're in.

The guy who, when road construction signs tell you to merge, drives 2 miles past all the rest of the us who DID merge and expects the people at the front of the line to let him in.

tiler100 wrote:The left lane is not your personal, luxury cruising lane. If someone faster comes along, you should move over and let them pass instead of encouraging them to ride your bumper.

Well said! Also among my least favorites are the cell-phoning, texting, eating, reading a newspaper, or some combination of the above, while driving.GRRRR