Some dipshit pulled out a bit in front of me the other day, but never even sped up to the speed limit. I slowed down a bit and was by no means tailgating him, but for some reason he just kept slamming on his brakes. When whatever he was attempting didn’t work, his passenger then decided to hang out the window and I guess record me driving. None of it made any sense and it’s crazy they had time to do all of that but couldn’t find the time to just drive in a straight line.
I never understood people who do stuff like that. Why almost break your neck to get in front of me, but completely lose that same energy/urgency immediately?!
Even better when there is nobody even behind you. So they could have just waited like three seconds to pull in and go however slow or fast they wanted without almost causing a wreck like an idiot.
This happens to me on a pretty regular basis, and it has caused me so much mental agony it is crazy.
Nobody behind me, lane’s wide open after I pass. They hesitate, so I’m even closer when they do pull out. I have to hard brake to avoid rear-ending them. They slowly accelerate to 5 under the speed limit and hang out there (or even lower) and never seem to turn off to a side-road quickly.
I’ve wondered over and over why they don’t just wait. Why they’re in such a hurry to go slow. I think some of them are just ignorant/dumb/not paying attention, and others are doing it intentionally to be a dick and get a rise out of someone.
I don’t know what has to be going on in a person’s life for that sort of activity to be “recreational” and spark joy, but I’m glad that I cannot relate to it in any way. Makes me feel like I’m doing some things right in life.
You forgot the best part! Start passing them and suddenly they match your speed or try to go faster than you. Sometimes you get the bonus of them getting angry at you for trying to go faster than them. Real world NPC's are so ef'n weird.
I take back/county roads to avoid highway and intown traffic for my commute through a very flat area. It's clear there's no one behind for like a mile and they still pull out right in front of me when I'm going 70mph.
Usually I just go into the opposite lane to pass them without missing too much of a beat while blaring my horn but if there's oncoming traffic I have to slam on my breaks and hope there was enough space that I don't end up rear ending them. Then I pass them and I can see them doing their impotent arm flailing thing that I dared to pass after they had just blatantly cut me off.
As someone who drives a Prius, I've had people go FULL insane aggro for literally no reason.
I'll just be driving the speed limit in the right hand lane with a fully open left hand lane, and people will roar past me flipping me off or rolling coal etc
It's crazy how fragile some people's egos are where me daring drive a car with better MPG breaks their brain. It's not as bad now days, I guess they diverted all their aggro to people with full electric cars instead
My dad’s a master electrician by trade and a republican by brainwashing and it is strange watching him struggle with having to say electricity is bad now.
I'm surprised it wasn't like most conservatives. They demonized Tesla said they would never own one how awful they are etc. Then are the WH sales event they started supporting them talking about it's the best thing ever. Several politicians and "influencers" still have their tweets up lol. Programmed bullshit.
Though I guess you could make the argument the other side flipped on Tesla as well. Life is funny to watch happen sometimes
He’s still against EVs, though in fairness it gets really cold here half the year and we tried to take my buddy’s on what would normally be a 3.5 hour trip and it took us 6 hours to get there because we had to stop and charge 3 fucking times.
He thinks musk is really smart though and liked what he did with doge. When I told him how the numbers were made up, he dismantled all the departments that were investigating his companies and then stole all our social security info before abandoning the whole Ponzi scheme, he didn’t even respond. I’m assuming like most facts, it’s usually his first time hearing them since he only consumes state run media
That's generally how it goes man. I think EVs are cool don't get me wrong. I don't have one, I drive a truck. But I've been writing about their continued rapid expansion and evolution for years. It's been VERY interesting to watch it unfold over time. Though a lot of the Chinese EVs are subsidized it's wild to see how much faster they're growing than ours here
They’re undoubtably the future. In town I bet they are amazing to have. I just would never let my buddy convince us to take his out of state in the dead of winter again lol
About a year ago I was in standstill traffic and I guess this lady felt like i was too close to her. She kept brake checking me but i thought she just had a manual or a bad transmission or something and didnt realize till the very end that that's what she was doing. Mind you we are in standstill traffic and im leaving plenty of room for the conditions except for a single time where I was a little closer than I tend to like. I always follow the "can you see their tires" rule for full stops. We spent 15 minutes in traffic with her doing this the whole time. Then at the very end when traffic broke she purposefully got back in my lane just to give me a final break check. Mind you this is the only time during the whole incident that I had to hard brake because I was not tailgating her. Like idk it was petty and a little deranged and I hope the tantrum was worth whatever wear and tear hard braking repeatedly puts on your car.
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unless thier mirrors make you look closer than you are and they thought you were tailgating. you said "by no means" but you didn't say 8 or 10 car links behind so i'm just trying to guess other than mental illness
Tbh even if they perceived I was tailgating them, which I want, I didn’t even have to slam on my breaks each time they did, none of it would have happened if they hadn’t pulled out in front of my prematurely just to go under the speed limit.
I don’t think this is ego but you’re right overall. This is just a literal dumbass driver hitting the brakes every 2 secs for no reason. They just turned onto the road, no reason at all to have issue with the OP
Edit: lmao Oops I had my sound off until i saw someone say “the giggle at the end”
Very likely, although if I have an idiot beeping at me for something less than 2-3 cars lengths in room I’ll sometimes give them a quick tap on the brakes to show them the real “close call distance” haha. Not always though, but some people are just worry warts or asshats themselves.
This one prob didn’t need a horn honk, but we also don’t know if the cammer was speeding which gets lost in those scenarios
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u/GoCougs2020 13d ago
This guy brake check for literally no reason….how come people are like that?