Everyone thinks everyone sucks at driving.

It drives me crazy when people say this.

Most people do suck at driving.

SoCal here, confirmed people suck at driving. Have prob. avoided 5-6 accidents this year due to my elite driving skills.

I get tilted when I do a good deed and let someone in my lane or let them change lanes when traffic is jammed and don't even get so much as a wave for my kind deed. Jerks.

Agreed, but I think the part that pisses him off is the fact that the person complaining about everyone sucking also usually sucks.

this is the worst and you absolutely SHOULD piss you off

It tilts me when the first cart at a red light in an intersection wants to turn left when the light turns green but don't have the common courtesy to bear left or just pull forward enough to leave enough room for the cars behind it drive around ... It's usually a Toyota ****ing Prius.

This happened to me one time but the guy was in a red sports car and was more aggressive about getting back in front of me and slowing down.

Finally I looked over at the guy as he was passing me yet again expecting to see a young douche but it was actually some 80 y/o dude and he gave me the finger when he saw me looking. That instantly turned all my burning rage into hilarious laughter.

Can you explain the physics behind this? Passing a lot of cars implies you're traveling faster than they are. It's my understanding that traveling faster does in fact get you places faster, but I only have a high school education.

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Distance = Rate x Time

Rate and time are inversely proportional. If the speed increases, the time must decrease.

Was it George Carlin that said something like "Isn't it funny how everybody driving slower than you is an idiot and everybody driving faster than you is a maniac?"

ITT, we learn that driving faster =/= getting somewhere sooner. Weird.

trob FTW!

Of course, it depends on road conditions, but as a general rule, if you're afraid of the speed limit, GTFO of the left lane.

This isn't the rule, though. The rule is that if there is someone faster behind you, you get out of the lane. It doesn't matter what the speed limit is or whether you are convinced that your speed is reasonable or he is a maniac. He wants to pass you (and whomever you're passing), so you get out of the lane so he can.

The idea that it has something to do with how fast you are going is why the idiot in front of you isn't yielding to you: He thinks his speed is reasonable. It doesn't; it's whether someone else wants to go faster.

This guy right here. He gets it.

When my sister and I would visit my mom in NM she would insist on driving in the left lane. Tried explaining why she was wrong but this only made her slow down.

My mom once picked me up from the airport and she was in the left lane.

Mom - This guy behind me is riding my ass. What's his problem?
Me - Well, you're in the fast lane.
Mom - Yeah, and I'm going the speed limit!
Me - That would be the problem.

I'm pretty sure people who don't understand the concept of the left lane being the fast/passing lane is something that should piss you off and doesn't fit the thread.

I'm only speaking of the left lane and assuming the passed cars are driving near the speed limit. I was exaggerating, of course you save time, but it's negligible over reasonable distances, and not worth the headache of driving in the shape of a single helix, which most people are unable to do without being dolts.

Example: I keep a longer distance from the car in front of me than most drivers, but am still going the same speed, and this is view-able to the car behind me. Yet they tail me, then cut me off, only to be going the same speed as they were before.

If there's little traffic on the road it's fine. If there's moderate/heavy it's silly.

You sound like an awful driver.

If you kept less distance from the car in front you would get there SOONER!

How did they get from being behind you to being in front of you? For a brief moment they must have been traveling faster than you. And when an opportunity to pass the car that you've been following arises, they'll be going faster than that guy too. Add up all of these moments and that guy is going to save a significant amount of time on his commute.

You're also probably not aware that a lot of moderate traffic is actually pockets of cars all stuck behind a few slow moving vehicles with 1/2 mile or more of completely open road ahead before the next pocket. All it takes is one slow guy passing an even slower semitrailer to bunch up 20+ cars. By making an active effort to get ahead of the people content to sit back in this slow moving procession I'm going to get out into that open road well ahead of you and resume my reasonable 10mph over speed while you're stuck another 2-3 minutes at the speed limit.

I'm not sure how to respond to that. But you're right, driving faster will reach your destination faster. If you think that is illuminating, you should probably go to college.

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Okay, I have that friend that thinks that she's a talented poet (which is not true). She writes **** every now and then and posts it on her FB page with additional posts like "Isn't it the greatest poem you've ever read?" that kinda encourage people to like this stuff. I really like this person and don't want to let her down but I just wonder how people can be so blind when it comes to their own brainchild.

After ~5,000 posts in this thread it is readily apparent that people hate people.