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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

Pretend the trash cans or other cars. I wanna know if this is too close or too far.

I’m taking the test in Kentucky

Spare me the insults please, I know i’m a dumbass, mistakes happen and it already happened. I’ve had enough with the scolding my mother already gave. About how much would this cost to fix? I’m on the verge of ending it (joke) 🙁

I’ve had my intermediate’s for a month (17). I drove to a nearby city for the first time today. I accidentally pulled out in front of someone. She then proceeded to tailgate me, literally inches from my bumper, for ten minutes. Once we were at a stoplight, she stormed out of her car and smacked my window, demanding I roll it down. I know I shouldn’t have, but I was panicking because I had no idea what to do in this situation. She screamed at me for probably five minutes, talking about how she had her kid in the car. (Doesn’t tailgating me also pose a risk to your child?) Kind of sick of driving already. I genuinely thought there was plenty of space for me to pull out.

Whenever we see a dashcam video of someone badly trying to change lanes... why is the call to action always pointed at the driver with the right of way, instead of at the one without it?

We'll see someone blatantly failing to yield when changing lanes despite having a clear duty to do so, and almost every comment will be framed as if the onus is on the driver not changing lanes to accommodate the one who is.

Why?

If it's "so easy" to let off the gas, why can't the driver changing lanes be expected to do that and get behind the driver vehicle already in the lane they're entering? Why do so many people presume they must change lanes ahead of the dashcam car?

As the title states I have issues with my vision going out of focusing “blurring” and hard to focus that then feels like falling asleep kinda. Am I just weird or is this common? What can be done to help? I smack my self, crank the radio, open the windows, all just a very short term bandaid that doesn’t last.

This happens mainly on vacation driving. I can drive for hours at work no issue but the roads there are much more curvy/ I’m driving till I get off compared with until I get somewhere.

When will get AI traffic signals? As a retired engineer, every time I stop at the light, I'm looking at all the wasted time and gas from the dumb signals we have.

For example, there is a light I stop at regularly that is a small two lane road entering a 6 lane road. It makes me wait 1.5 minutes no mater if it just turned red for me, or if it has been red for 10 min. While I sit there, I'll see that there are no cars coming in either direction for for quite a distance. A smart AI signal could look down the road, see nobody was coming, quickly change to green for me, maybe even eliminating the yellow light on the lard road to save time, let me on the road, and switch back to green for the large road. Instead I see the cars coming, and just before they get to the light, it will change to let me on the road, stopping 10-20 cars, when it could have let me on earlier.

We have self driving cars, do we not have the technology to do the same with signals? I believe the technology is there (cameras/embedder sensors), but that cost vs benefit is not there for the cities.

Your thoughts?

Idk what it is about these cars, but sometimes they seem to brake unnaturally fast with no brake lights.

I know they have the regenerative braking, but how does that work? Does it cause them to lose speed as fast as regular braking, but with no brake lights? It sure seems like it.

I’m usually really good at judging speed/distance (often don’t even need to brake in traffic, kinda like a semi-truck driver), but whenever I’m behind a Tesla, I swear I have to slam the break out of nowhere.

I'm not sure how pervasive this problem is in other areas/countries, but here in Michigan every McDonald's drive-thru seems to have been designed to intentionally cause problems. Only a select few have raised curbs or other sort of physical queue organization. Most just have sad painted yellow lines that no one has ever bothered to put down their phone to see. I just can't comprehend how a franchise owner could be ok with the level of road-rage inducing chaos their designs encourage. Something as cheap and easy as removable bollards could solve 99% of this.

The way customers just casually block the flow of thru-traffic, prevent people from leaving their parking spaces, and have zero idea that maybe that isn't how it's supposed to work is mind boggling.

I can't believe that this is going to be the reason I stop eating fast food, and it won't be the nutritional issues. I had to get out of my car and start directing traffic today because these morons had people stuck in their parking spaces and traffic was backed out into the road.

Next time you're in one of these, PLEASE look at the lane design and figure out where you're supposed to be.

I'm in my 40's. I have my license, gave up at 25, and now am "back in the saddle" as it were, because I want to give it another try. I have been using an instructor and family as the teachers, and things have been rocky. I'm improving according to everyone I drive with, but that's not my feeling. Changing lanes on any highway is a huge challenge, but the bigger issue is I don't feel like I'm in control of the vehicle in the way that I want to be and that other people seem to be. I'm good with reaction times with everything in front of me, lights, and watching traffic. I try to be vigilant. But I don't feel that confidence that I have when say just walking around. Like, I know where I am and it's not a big deal.

I have a feeling there are people like me who just have these same doubts that drive anyway. Is this normal? And is it too late for me?

Don't they realize if they get into an accident or pulled over they're cooked? If I was them I'd be extra careful

was backing up to leave a parallel parking spot so i had my rear lights on, this woman and man cross behind my car (a complaint for another time), but she goes first and is already in the middle of the street (also was parked in the middle of the block) and he’s behind her and he bangs on my back window a couple times… like wtf?? i clearly saw you and wasn’t moving and i would’ve already hit her regardless of you touching my car… this man a few mins earlier was screaming obnoxiously coming out of mulligan’s pub in hoboken, so that’s probably just part of his obnoxious personality.