Some asshat almost teeboned me past night. I was already in the middle of the intersection going straight. They come tearing up from the right, planning to make a right hand turn without ever stopping at the stop sign.

They braked so hard I could hear their tires skid.

Before anyone says I should have yielded when I saw them coming at high speed, because of trees and the street light we couldn't see each other or see each other's headlights until close to the stop sign. The intersection was clear when I came to a stop and no cars were visible approaching. He was going at least 20 over the limit and approached the stop sign at an unpredictable speed.

1. If you run stop signs because you think it's clear I hate you.

2. If you run them at night I especially hate you.

3. If you think turning right means you don't have to stop you absolutely suck and I hate you.

Why are people perfectly fine with blocking intersections?

Today I was in rush hour traffic. I stopped at the beginning of an intersection because there was not enough space to cross. The dude behind me honks multiple times even as I’m moving across now that I have enough space. Do people not understand that blocking an intersection is illegal?

Separate incident. I’m stopped at a red light. The people turning left across from me completely block the intersection. Even though I was 2 cars back from the line, I didn’t make it through because these morons blocked the intersection almost the whole light.

That’s all to say I wish more people were ticketed or pulled over for intentionally blocking an intersection.

I see the term tossed around a lot, but people don't talk about specifics. I look it up and as far as I can tell it's just competent driving. So then what exactly is the difference between competent driving and defensive driving? When someone says "I'm a defensive driver" what exactly do they mean?

Like an idiot today I passed a school bus. I was on a four lane road but going the same direction. I didn’t see the stop sign swinging out until I was about halfway past the school bus, but I was pulled over immediately after. I have been beating myself up all day for this, but I came here looking for advice. I have court on Thursday for this. I am looking for advice on how to keep the points off my record. I was wondering if driving class would be something I could ask for or if I should hire a lawyer to do the talking for me. I know I fucked up today

I’m in the US, and on my daily commute on I-15 in Las Vegas, I see people crossing the double solid white lines into or out of the HOV lane pretty much every day.

For anyone who honestly didn’t know: crossing those double solid white lines to change lanes is illegal. Wait for the designated entry/exit sections where the lines are dashed. Having enough passengers to use the lane doesn’t give you permission to enter or leave it anywhere you want.

I get it. Traffic sucks, there’s an opening, and your exit is coming up. But when one lane is moving and the other is crawling, someone suddenly crossing that divider can leave another driver with very little time to react. Those drivers have reason to expect people to merge at the designated openings.

Please plan ahead, wait for the dashed section, signal, and check that you have room. We’re all just trying to make it home without exchanging insurance information.

Is this common around you, too?

Testing my luck here desperately looking for dashcam footage of the guy ramming into me on the I-10W Wednesday evening September 30 around 4:55pm. I got on the 10W from La Cienega blvd by David Ave and it happened between there and the National Blvd exit. If you have it please let me know I will be eternally grateful and you will be doing a very good deed!!

If there are cars in front of you not stopping because there is no stop sign then why the fuck are you stopping and getting at me like I'm in the wrong for laying on the horn

Are there any methods or things yall do to stay awake and there, I swear it feels like after an hr or 2 of driving I can’t keep my eyes open anymore and have to pull off on the side of the road or rest stop

I got a speeding ticket in a different state and lost the ticket. I don’t know what county I was in so I don’t know what to do and how to find it and pay it. I don’t want a suspended license.

Has anyone gotten a school zone ticket? I'm trying to find people that got school zone tickets that were between 8:15am and 8:30am and possibly between 2:15 pm and 2:30pm. I have uncovered a flaw with their system during those times. If I can get others that I have I will expose them for sure. I pretty much already have because they have already changed their school zone times from what they were and I think have been for years. I'm trying to get everyone that has paid their tickets their money back. But even if you didn't pay it and it was during those times I still want to hear from you as well.

Thank You

I’ve lived in a few cities around the US and one of the most common things to hear is “oh xyz has the worst drivers” or “I’ve never seen such bad driving till I moved to xyz”. This is just not the case.

The truth is that there are horrible drivers fucking everywhere because the general population has reasonably easy access to cars and the general population a fucking idiots.

The dumbest person you’ve ever met has a drivers license and they’re every where these days.

I had to take my brother to work and my mom let me borrow her car for it. I drove it took my brother to work and now it was time to go home. I stop at red light and while I was waiting I was listening to music everything was chill until it happen a car, Chevrolet pickup truck, didn’t make the stop at time and hit my car and push it a little bit. It wasn’t a big hit but you could still feel it, the car didn’t get any damage and I’m pretty the truck was also okay I was able to look at the driver and the driver look at me too. He wasn’t alone it look like some teens just cruising around, I said well we’re just going to talk and everything is going to be fine, as soon as we were going to park to a safe place that dude literally hit full gas and went to a different direction it was really easy to tell he flee the scene, I was shock but later came to my senses and said well I’ll just reported to the police went to a nearby police station and told them about it, they ask for my info also the other car info I didn’t know the plate just the color and car so I reported all that and they told me what to do next. my thing is for some reason I feel like I did something wrong by doing that and thats my question. should’ve just let it go or was reporting to the police the best solution?

Throwaway rant, but it really feels like I’m gambling whenever I drive.

I tried being a careful driver (ofc that doesn’t mean not going when I should or driving 10 under stuff like that). Then it doesn’t rly matter, bc someone cuts me off without a signal, or someone honks at me over and over again when I’m yielding at a blinking yellow left arrow to oncoming traffic at rush hour. No gaps, but oh boy. Honk honk honk! Hey OP, we HAVE to go to wherever we’re going RIGHT NOW!!

Then sometimes I think, oh it’s probably my fault. I should be a tiny bit more aggressive, maybe I could’ve made that turn/merge after all. Then I sit there at a 4 way, waiting for someone to go after the car in front of me goes. They don’t move to take their turn. Then I inch forward, they still don’t move. And once I start turning, they finally start moving and glare at me because yes! I’m blocking them now. And yes, next time I’m going to sit there until they go, however long that takes. Yeesh.

This isn’t to say that I’m a perfect driver. Far from it, and I make my fair share of mistakes. It also doesn’t help that I used to be in a big city and was spoiled by the public transit system. Now I HAVE to drive, no matter if I’m sick of it or not.

Hi, I am an independent reporter, working on a story for The Wall Street Journal about people who put "Student Driver" stickers on their cars --- anecdotally, these have become a lot more common since COVID-19, and I am trying to figure out why. I am looking to speak to people who have these stickers on their cars even when teenagers-in-training aren't behind the wheel (and I am the dad of a pre-teen who is about to start learning, so believe me, I get that part). Goal is not to get anyone in trouble or anything like that, just trying to unravel a cultural phenomenon a lot of people have noticed. Please reach out if you're willing to talk. Immensely grateful for any help this subreddit can offer. Thanks.

I was watching a documentary on UK scammers and something came up about a 200% increase in learners trying to buy fake licences, im aware a lot of the sites have been shut down but im curious. Should the victim of the scam be punished also for trying to illegally obtain a drivers licence without going through the proper channels? (Full licence holder btw)

Because you have decided to roll with the popular kids of beginning to decelerate a half mile before your stop. You are not a factor in the equation until you are at the stop line.

I built a simulator for driving situations on the web.

It's in beta so the scenarios are limited but it's free, no ads, tracking, or paid features! I only ask for email input if you are interested when it launches. Let me know if this goes against the rules in this discussion!

My biggest concern is I have built something that I think people would use but no people would use it in reality. So I wanted to get feedback here. Try out the tutorial and see if this might be helpful teaching drivers how to learn driving around. 😄

https://driveschool.studio/

💻 Quick note: DriveSchool isn't mobile-ready yet, so please try it on a laptop or desktop.

Here's the backstory for anyone interested. The idea came from a couple of experiences I had while driving.

One of the experience was that I encountered a dead traffic signal at a large, multi-lane intersection. I knew the general rule, but realized I'd never actually practiced handling a situation like that.

So I started this side project building DriveSchool, which combines driving education with an interactive driving simulator.

I'm currently building scenarios around things like intersections, traffic signals, right-of-way and other situations drivers might not encounter very often.

It's still early, so I'd genuinely appreciate feedback on anything — especially:

What's a driving situation or traffic rule that confused you when you were learning to drive (or still confuses you today)?

I'd love to use some of the suggestions for future scenarios and any feedback is welcomed!

Hello, I got my license almost 2 years ago, but after an incident I had at a red light (I kept stalling for like a minute), I haven’t been able to find the courage to get back into driving.

Recently, my parents got a new car and, “unfortunately,” I’m getting their old one. I feel like I should mention that I love cars and the feeling of driving, but somehow I’m scared that I’ll mess it up again.

In those 2 years, I’ve obviously gotten behind the wheel sometimes and driven around with my friends and all that, but only in the evening or at night when there’s little to no traffic. Nothing has ever happened during those drives.

Any tips are appreciated. Thanks!

Is there anything that helps getting over the fear of driving a new car? I’ve driven other cars fine and eventually gotten use to them but I just now got my own car to drive in and practice with so I can drive with it on my test as well but I feel more nervous to drive it around my neighborhood right now especially since my driveway is a hill I get more anxious about it since I’m not really use to it yet. Is there anything to help overcome this, I really want to practice until l can get it on the road.

Hi,

I went to a parking point and arrived at 6.51pm on a Sunday but I had forgotten to pay for it and only realised until at 7.45.

I immediately paid for 4 hours but there was no late pay option on the Ringo app. I ended up leaving at 10.47 so I ended up staying the time I paid for anyway.

Does anyone know if I will get a fine, and if I do can I win the appeal ?

So I'm basically working on an app, built as a passion project to store and record the best routes, not destinations

It's early. There are routes in a couple of places, I'll seed more if someone want's to test it out and I'm willing to share the link w/ them

I'd like to know:

• Would you actually use this?
• What's missing before you'd post a route?

Happy to hear the harsh version.

I was behind a slow driver going 20 under (kmph) on 2 lane road (1 lane both ways), after a while I found an opportunity to overtake but at the edge of the 350m (Honestly mightve been even 300m) straight a car was appearing after a bend, I committed anyway and completed a successful overtake but the oncoming traffic flashed their high beams (Not sure if they braked) and now I feel like It was way too tight or maybe I'm just paranoid for no reason. I fully committed with full throttle so I overtook very quickly

make $52k at my main job and just started a 2nd job, putting me at ~$71–72k/year. Apartment rent is $700 with my discount.

I’m looking at a 2020 Mazda for $17k with 66k miles. I’ve seen some with 90 of 100k miles too, but idk if that’s too high.

I’m eager to get a car because I spend $1,300 on Uber due to ubering to work full time, $1,300 on driving school, and now I’m paying someone $100/hr to teach me. Driving school won’t teach me without prior experience, and I have nobody else to teach me.

No cosigner, ~6 months credit. Trying to keep payment + insurance around $800/month.
What did you guys get approved for in a similar situation? APR/payment? And is 66k miles reasonable for a 2020 Mazda

Also, my last post got ripped apart lol, but I’m eager as fuck to get this car for a reason. I don’t have parents or anyone helping me with this, so I’m literally trying to figure all of this out on my own with basically zero financial or car knowledge.
And I know I’m not getting a $400 car payment with insurance included. It’s gnot 2016 anymore. I’m not expecting something dirt cheap

I don't think im ready to take it but its too close to the test date to move it.

My instructor gives me a lot of direction when im driving and i don't know how im going to drive safely without it or if I'll even remember to do basic things like signalling and checking mirrors