What are your biggest driving pet peeves?

[HighteeHeller]

I go to work before the sun comes up and have to deal with the dumb fucks who refuse to turn their high beams off. Along with the snow, crappy conditions, and their god damned bright lights i can't see where i'm going..nice. And the ditches are deep, so if i ever went in one no one would see me.

 

[Captain Ice]

Any reckless behavior irritates me a bit, but I get especially agitated when people drive like idiots in winter weather. They pull the same reckless crap when driving on ice and snow, and put themselves and everyone else at huge risk. I've seen far too many cars speed past me only to end up sliding across traffic or go off the road further ahead.

indeed . . . 4WD does not mean MAGIC TRACTION!

As a friend once said, 4WD just means four wheels spinning instead of two.

I used to get a good laugh out of people driving in 4WD vehicles passing me in snowstorms. Without fail, I'd pass them about 4 or 5 miles up the road, while their vehicle was in a ditch.

I hate this one, and no one else even THINKS about it.

There are 2 or more lanes of traffic in your direction, and you are the first car to come to a red light....and you STOP in the right lane with no cars in the left lane--while planning on driving straight.

Now, three cars pull up behind you wanting to turn right, which they can't do, because you kept your self-absorbed ass in the right lane.

If you're the first car and you're not turning right, get your ass out of the right lane.

Being able to turn right on red is never a guarantee. If your next turn will be a right turn, it makes no sense to change lanes to the left just for the possible benefit of some hypothetical drivers behind you. I'm all for being courteous on the road, but this is a step too far. If right-turn traffic is that heavy, then there should be a right-turn lane.

What if I'm turning right into the Exxon station on the other side of the intersection? The Safeway behind it? How about that residential street two blocks down the road?

My pet peeves while driving...

• Bicyclists who insist on riding against traffic in the crosswalk. You think I'm looking out for you? Use your head.
• People who will cut in in front of you, even when you're tailgating someone else, and then tap their brakes.
• People who cut in right in front of your bumper.
• People texting while driving
• People who assume that just because the car in front of them was able to pull out and make a right turn on red that there is not a 4 ton vehicle bearing down on them when they just blindly follow them.
• People who try to make a left hand turn out of a parking lot with traffic bumper to bumper in the lanes going in the opposite direction of the direction that they intend to go.
• People who make left turns out of parking lots in traffic when the parking lot also opens into a cross street with no traffic from where they could have turned at a traffic signal.
• People who are tailgating a vehicle that you "let in" in front of you who get angry when you refuse to let them bully their way in too.
• People who give priority to their telephone call over what is happening in the roadway.

 

[Moocey]

Huge trucks directly behind me that blind me with their high beams

 

[Aragorn]

I really enjoy the drivers who try to turn left out of a parking lot, when that parking lot is one of the corners of a street light intersection. So they usually end up pulling out anyway and wait until the cars go so they can slip into the lane, but while they're waiting they're blocking all traffic coming the other way.

 

[freak]

TAILGATERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE tailgaters! They always get right on your ass. I sometimes feel like slowing down so they'll hit me.
Another one- not turning turn signal on UNTIL you turn! Why can't you just do it before you turn?! It's really annoying!
Other pet peeves: slow drivers, drivers who talk on cellphones, old geezers who go like 10 MPH in a 30-40MPH zone. I'm like: man speed up or get off the damn road!

 

[Trekker4747]

I go to work before the sun comes up and have to deal with the dumb fucks who refuse to turn their high beams off. Along with the snow, crappy conditions, and their god damned bright lights i can't see where i'm going..nice. And the ditches are deep, so if i ever went in one no one would see me.

It bugs when people don't have their lights on during conditions when they should have them on. Heavy overcast, raining or other precipitation, dawn and dusk, etc. Times when it isn't dark but the lights should be on for ease of visibility and safety.

 

[backstept]

Turn signals! Use them!

sometimes it feels like people think 'going too slow' is 'going the speed limit'

what's the deal with the middle lane on a 3 lane highway? I always figured the left lane was for passing, and the right lane was for on-ramp/exit-ramp merging and the middle lane was for regular traffic?

one of the biggest things that bothers me is young douchebags in small high strung sedans and hatchbacks peeling out at stoplights

 

[Trekker4747]

How about people whom the concepts of "acceleration lane" and "merging into traffic" passed by them; thus they think going down the acceleration lane at 45, getting on the highway, and THEN speeding up is the right thing to do?

 

[SeerSGB]

In the car I'm driving: People jumping and moving around in the backseat, people turned around in the front seat to talk to someone in the back seat.

Driving in general: Just stupid drivers in general. Not signaling a lane change, slowing down going ONTO the interstate instead of speeding up to merge, rubberneckers that slow up and back up traffic.

 

[Delta Belle]

People who get on the road to an unfamiliar destination, either without getting driving directions first or losing them along the way. If they're going to a business, then they call from the road and expect the receptionist to guide them the rest of the way, turn by turn.

As an admin assistant in a huge firm, I've dealt with my share of these people. There are nine different ways to get into downtown Los Angeles from just the freeways.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Tailgaters!

Can't you over-eating sports fucks wait until you get home to eat?

I speed often enough, but dislike people who brag about speeding, especially boring types who thinks that makes them cool. Oh, you've got a radar detector? Wow.

 

[Aragorn]

People who are in the wrong lane at a red light intersection and decide to try to get into the other lane even though there's no room to, so they're blocking the lane they're in trying to get into another lane, which is really great when the lane they're blocking gets to go and no one can go.

 

[cultcross]

dislike people who brag about speeding, especially boring types who thinks that makes them cool. Oh, you've got a radar detector? Wow.

This irritates the heck out of me. Bragging about dangerous and illegal driving is not a way into my good books or my respect.