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Moron of the Week
Well here is my moron of the week story -
I was on US-64 heading west at Rock Mount, NC around 1 pm yesterday (Sunday). I am in the right lane doing a little over the speed limit (65 mph speed limit). This part of the road is two lanes in each direction. There is plenty of room to right for a break down lane, but things are really tight on the left (there is a narrow paved shoulder, a little dirt shoulder, and a hard steel guardrail to the left). Uber driver in a 2 Door Civic is carving through traffic. He was probably doing 15 over when he passed me. In the left lane is an Elantra, probably doing 5 over in the process of catch and passing a truck that was going the speed limit (or maybe a little lower). Uber driver never slows down, whips to the right lane, shoots past the Elantra, then literally squeezed in between the Elantra and the truck. The Elantra driver has to hit the left shoulder to avoid a collision. I can swear I saw parts fly off the Civic as he shot through the gap (definitely something long and solid was in the air, may have been off the Elantra or from the shoulder). The Civic never slows. The truck never notices anything and keeps going. The Elantra driver is about to hit the guardrail and then in an act of stupidity locks up his brakes (huge dust cloud). Next he jerks the damn car back onto the pavement. At this point I was sure I was toast. I pictured the Elantra going broadside in front of me. So I started braking hard. The Elantra swerves into my lane, but the driver somehow manages to straighten he car out without hitting anything. Meanwhile the Civic is gone. This is a perfect case of a jerk Uber driver almost getting someone killed while blithely speeding off. If the idiot in the Civic had waited 20 seconds, the Elantra would have finished his pass and we all would have had a more pleasant day. One last irony, about 10 mile down the road, I caught and passed the Civic (if it wasn't the same car, it was it's twin). The idiot driver (a white guy) was yakking away on this cell phone, although how he could hear anything over the fart can exhaust is a mystery to me. It was louder in my car than my radio. The guy in the Elantra had taken the first exit after the near death experience - probably to clean his shorts. Ed |
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> He was probably
> doing 15 over when he passed me. In the left lane is an Elantra, > probably doing 5 over in the process of catch and passing a truck that > was going the speed limit (or maybe a little lower). The Elantra driver was micropassing. Drivers must yield to faster traffic in the passing lane. > If the idiot in the Civic had > waited 20 seconds, the Elantra would have finished his pass and we all > would have had a more pleasant day. It's MFFY to block traffic for 20 seconds. > The idiot driver (a white guy) was yakking away on > this cell phone, although how > he could hear anything over the fart can exhaust is a mystery to me. That's another problem, but micropassers cause traffic jams and decrease road safety as the traffic bunches up behind them. I've had cars come up in the passing lane behind me that were going much faster than my passing speed, and I usually accelerate to finish my pass and move over. If I don't want to drive that fast, I move into a gap between the cars that I was passing, wait for the faster car to pass, and then finish passing. My passing speeds are usually 20-50 over the speed of the slower traffic, depending on how many cars that I need to pass. If the traffic is only slightly slower than my set speed, I usually slow to the speed of traffic instead of passing. |
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Ed White wrote: > Well here is my moron of the week story - > > I was on US-64 heading west at Rock Mount, NC around 1 pm yesterday > (Sunday). I am in the right lane doing a little over the speed limit > (65 mph speed limit). This part of the road is two lanes in each > direction. There is plenty of room to right for a break down lane, but > things are really tight on the left (there is a narrow paved shoulder, > a little dirt shoulder, and a hard steel guardrail to the left). Uber > driver in a 2 Door Civic is carving through traffic. He was probably > doing 15 over when he passed me. In the left lane is an Elantra, > probably doing 5 over in the process of catch and passing a truck that > was going the speed limit (or maybe a little lower). Uber driver never > slows down, whips to the right lane, shoots past the > Elantra, then literally squeezed in between the Elantra and the truck. > The Elantra driver has to hit the left shoulder to avoid a collision. I > > can swear I saw parts fly off the Civic as he shot through the gap > (definitely something long and solid was in the air, may have been off > the Elantra or from the shoulder). The Civic never slows. The truck > never notices anything and keeps going. The Elantra driver is about to > hit the guardrail and then in an act of stupidity locks up his brakes > (huge dust cloud). Next he jerks the damn car back onto the pavement. > At this point I was sure I was toast. I pictured the Elantra going > broadside in front of me. So I started braking hard. The Elantra > swerves into my lane, but the driver somehow manages to straighten he > car out without hitting anything. Meanwhile the Civic is gone. > > > This is a perfect case of a jerk Uber driver almost getting someone > killed while blithely speeding off. If the idiot in the Civic had > waited 20 seconds, the Elantra would have finished his pass and we all > would have had a more pleasant day. One last irony, about 10 mile down > the road, I caught and passed the Civic (if it wasn't the same car, it > was it's twin). The idiot driver (a white guy) was yakking away on > this cell phone, although how > he could hear anything over the fart can exhaust is a mystery to me. It > > was louder in my car than my radio. The guy in the Elantra had taken > the first exit after the near death experience - probably to clean his > shorts. > > > Ed sounds like a whole confederacy of dunces there... both the Civic driver and the Elantra driver should have been paying more attention. nate |
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"Ed White" > wrote in message oups.com... > Well here is my moron of the week story - > > I was on US-64 heading west at Rock Mount, NC around 1 pm yesterday > (Sunday). I am in the right lane doing a little over the speed limit > (65 mph speed limit). This part of the road is two lanes in each > direction. There is plenty of room to right for a break down lane, but > things are really tight on the left (there is a narrow paved shoulder, > a little dirt shoulder, and a hard steel guardrail to the left). Uber > driver in a 2 Door Civic is carving through traffic. He was probably > doing 15 over when he passed me. In the left lane is an Elantra, > probably doing 5 over in the process of catch and passing a truck that > was going the speed limit (or maybe a little lower). Uber driver never > slows down, whips to the right lane, shoots past the > Elantra, then literally squeezed in between the Elantra and the truck. > The Elantra driver has to hit the left shoulder to avoid a collision. I > > can swear I saw parts fly off the Civic as he shot through the gap > (definitely something long and solid was in the air, may have been off > the Elantra or from the shoulder). The Civic never slows. The truck > never notices anything and keeps going. The Elantra driver is about to > hit the guardrail and then in an act of stupidity locks up his brakes > (huge dust cloud). Next he jerks the damn car back onto the pavement. > At this point I was sure I was toast. I pictured the Elantra going > broadside in front of me. So I started braking hard. The Elantra > swerves into my lane, but the driver somehow manages to straighten he > car out without hitting anything. Meanwhile the Civic is gone. > > > This is a perfect case of a jerk Uber driver almost getting someone > killed while blithely speeding off. If the idiot in the Civic had > waited 20 seconds, the Elantra would have finished his pass and we all > would have had a more pleasant day. One last irony, about 10 mile down > the road, I caught and passed the Civic (if it wasn't the same car, it > was it's twin). The idiot driver (a white guy) was yakking away on > this cell phone, although how > he could hear anything over the fart can exhaust is a mystery to me. It Your story is a perfect example of how the dangerous Elantra driver nearly caused a horrible wreck because he or she clearly did not adequately check his or her mirrors before initiating the pass of the truck and inconveniencing the driver of the Civic. As at least four or five expert drivers here in r.a.d. will explain to you in no uncertain terms, the single worst thing a driver can do is to block the left lane at any moment and for any length of time, even while passing, so the Civic driver had no resort to do what he or she did. After all, the drivers driving the fastest and making the most lane changes are obviously the ones whose time is most valuable -- this is why they are in the biggest hurry. I'm just disappointed you didn't get the plate for the Elantra driver so the authorities could suspend his or her license for Criminal Failure To Avoid Delaying A Speeding Driver. Therefore, you were complicit in this travesty of road justice and you should be ashamed. brink |
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brink wrote:
> Your story is a perfect example of how the dangerous Elantra driver nearly > caused a horrible wreck because he or she clearly did not adequately check > his or her mirrors before initiating the pass of the truck and > inconveniencing the driver of the Civic. As at least four or five expert > drivers here in r.a.d. will explain to you in no uncertain terms, the single > worst thing a driver can do is to block the left lane at any moment and for > any length of time, even while passing, so the Civic driver had no resort to > do what he or she did. <snip> The four or five expert drivers here in r.a.d., had they been driving the Elantra would have never been in such a situation. When I initiate a pass, the opportunity to pass me on the right and cut in front of me exists anywhere from 3 to 5 seconds. |
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"Arif Khokar" > wrote in message ... > brink wrote: > >> Your story is a perfect example of how the dangerous Elantra driver >> nearly caused a horrible wreck because he or she clearly did not >> adequately check his or her mirrors before initiating the pass of the >> truck and inconveniencing the driver of the Civic. As at least four or >> five expert drivers here in r.a.d. will explain to you in no uncertain >> terms, the single worst thing a driver can do is to block the left lane >> at any moment and for any length of time, even while passing, so the >> Civic driver had no resort to do what he or she did. > > <snip> > > The four or five expert drivers here in r.a.d., had they been driving the > Elantra would have never been in such a situation. When I initiate a > pass, the opportunity to pass me on the right and cut in front of me > exists anywhere from 3 to 5 seconds. Exactly! You've "never been in such a situation"! Which is why I'm glad you're here. We need more experts like you! Obviously, the Elantra driver should have anticipated that the Civic driver was going to want that lane back, even after swerving out of it to pass drivers in the other lane. I mean, when one is going to pass another vehicle, one must not only make sure there is not another vehicle approaching in the passing lane, but that there are *no* approaching vehicles in *any other lanes* that may possibly want that lane. Sure, this may involve a little mind reading, but to an expert driver, it isn't difficult. Those 20 seconds were clearly *very* important to the Civic driver -- he or she must not be delayed. Period. brink |
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Hi. This is the meow-send program at usenet. I'm afraid I wasn't able
to deliver any clue to the following address: Arif Khokar > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. >The four or five expert drivers here in r.a.d., had they been driving >the Elantra would have never been in such a situation. When I initiate >a pass, the opportunity to pass me on the right and cut in front of me >exists anywhere from 3 to 5 seconds. Wow. It sounds like you know what you're doing. To bad most other drivers aren't that smart. --- "Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?" ~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973 -- El Pollo Loco (Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend) demonstrates it's complete gullibility, stupidity, and state of delusion when it falls for an April Fool's joke, hook, line, and sinker: > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.p...6999983?hl=en& Ragnar wrote: > Gods, you're dumb. Its a rather obvious April Fool's joke. And you're > the Fool. This is no joke. |
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Hi. This is the meow-send program at usenet. I'm afraid I wasn't able
to deliver any clue to the following address: "brink" > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > >"Ed White" > wrote in message roups.com... >> Well here is my moron of the week story - >> >> I was on US-64 heading west at Rock Mount, NC around 1 pm yesterday >> (Sunday). I am in the right lane doing a little over the speed limit >> (65 mph speed limit). This part of the road is two lanes in each >> direction. There is plenty of room to right for a break down lane, but >> things are really tight on the left (there is a narrow paved shoulder, >> a little dirt shoulder, and a hard steel guardrail to the left). Uber >> driver in a 2 Door Civic is carving through traffic. He was probably >> doing 15 over when he passed me. In the left lane is an Elantra, >> probably doing 5 over in the process of catch and passing a truck that >> was going the speed limit (or maybe a little lower). Uber driver never >> slows down, whips to the right lane, shoots past the >> Elantra, then literally squeezed in between the Elantra and the truck. >> The Elantra driver has to hit the left shoulder to avoid a collision. I >> >> can swear I saw parts fly off the Civic as he shot through the gap >> (definitely something long and solid was in the air, may have been off >> the Elantra or from the shoulder). The Civic never slows. The truck >> never notices anything and keeps going. The Elantra driver is about to >> hit the guardrail and then in an act of stupidity locks up his brakes >> (huge dust cloud). Next he jerks the damn car back onto the pavement. >> At this point I was sure I was toast. I pictured the Elantra going >> broadside in front of me. So I started braking hard. The Elantra >> swerves into my lane, but the driver somehow manages to straighten he >> car out without hitting anything. Meanwhile the Civic is gone. >> >> >> This is a perfect case of a jerk Uber driver almost getting someone >> killed while blithely speeding off. If the idiot in the Civic had >> waited 20 seconds, the Elantra would have finished his pass and we all >> would have had a more pleasant day. One last irony, about 10 mile down >> the road, I caught and passed the Civic (if it wasn't the same car, it >> was it's twin). The idiot driver (a white guy) was yakking away on >> this cell phone, although how >> he could hear anything over the fart can exhaust is a mystery to me. It > >Your story is a perfect example of how the dangerous Elantra driver nearly >caused a horrible wreck because he or she clearly did not adequately check >his or her mirrors before initiating the pass of the truck and >inconveniencing the driver of the Civic. As at least four or five expert It's not an issue of inconvenience; it's an issue of safety. You don't understand that difference? Thankfully we're not on the same stretch of road; we've got enough moron drivers around here. >drivers here in r.a.d. will explain to you in no uncertain terms, the single >worst thing a driver can do is to block the left lane at any moment and for >any length of time, even while passing, so the Civic driver had no resort to >do what he or she did. The single worst thing you can do is cause traffic to bunch up. You know, from the physics law that states "two objects can't occupy the same space at the same time?" Or were you asleep in that class, too? >After all, the drivers driving the fastest and making the most lane changes >are obviously the ones whose time is most valuable -- this is why they are >in the biggest hurry. Wow, now that is really stupid. Do you live in Colorado by any chance? >I'm just disappointed you didn't get the plate for the Elantra driver so the >authorities could suspend his or her license for Criminal Failure To Avoid >Delaying A Speeding Driver. Therefore, you were complicit in this travesty >of road justice and you should be ashamed. My guess is that had one of the four or five "expert" drivers as you refer to them seen this situation, they would have done the intelligent thing and started de-acceleration before rice boy cut off the Elantra; waiting to the last minute to apply brakes can get you killed. That's a hint, because it's apparent you haven't got a clue. --- "Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?" ~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973 -- El Pollo Loco (Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend) demonstrates it's complete gullibility, stupidity, and state of delusion when it falls for an April Fool's joke, hook, line, and sinker: > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.p...6999983?hl=en& Ragnar wrote: > Gods, you're dumb. Its a rather obvious April Fool's joke. And you're > the Fool. This is no joke. |
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"Alexander Rogge" > wrote in message ... >> He was probably >> doing 15 over when he passed me. In the left lane is an Elantra, >> probably doing 5 over in the process of catch and passing a truck that >> was going the speed limit (or maybe a little lower). > > The Elantra driver was micropassing. Drivers must yield to faster traffic > in the passing lane. It seems to me that the Elantra driver did everything right. He signaled and moved to the left to pass a slower vehicle. He was doing so in a reasonable manner. Not only was the driver of the Civic an LLB (Left Lane Bully), he almost got me and/or the guy in the Elantra killed. I cannot believe you would blame the Elantra driver for driving in a reasonable manner. I can't see where you or anyone else can expect people to grossly violate the law so that you can violate it in an even more gross manner. As far as I know, no state has a rule that would require the Elantra driver to drive 15 or 20 mph over the speed limit to pass a car that could be passed in a more reasonable manner (he was already passing the truck with a closing rate somewhere between 5 and 10 mph). When I was younger, I had a Highway Patrol Officer stop me and accuse me of doing 60 in a 55 while passing a car on a two lane road. He reamed me out, but in the end let me go (I asked him how he had clocked me...).He told me in no uncertain terms that the law had no exception that allowed people to speed in order to complete a pass. If you can't pass them at the speed limit, you shouldn't make the pass. Of course I though the whole argument was total BS, but I can't find any exception in the laws (NC laws) that allow people to speed to make a pass, even on a two lane road. Seems like there ought to be some sort of definition of a reasonable passing speed that allows for quicker passing, especially on 2 lane roads. >> If the idiot in the Civic had >> waited 20 seconds, the Elantra would have finished his pass and we all >> would have had a more pleasant day. > > It's MFFY to block traffic for 20 seconds. And the Civic cutting through traffic and almost causing an accident wasn't doing the MFFY thing? The Civic was hiding behind other cars when the Elantra started his pass. The Civic driver was obviously not really in a hurry, since I caught him later on. He was just bullying his way through moderate traffic. I doubt if the Elantra driver even had time to react to the Civic before the moron tied to zoom pass him on the right. >> The idiot driver (a white guy) was yakking away on >> this cell phone, although how >> he could hear anything over the fart can exhaust is a mystery to me. > > That's another problem, but micropassers cause traffic jams and decrease > road safety as the traffic bunches up behind them. I've had cars come up > in the passing lane behind me that were going much faster than my passing > speed, and I usually accelerate to finish my pass and move over. Nobody was pressing the Elantra until the Civic rocketed past us all. I would have caught the truck the Elantra was passing in another minute and passed him as well. The Elantra was definitely going faster than the general flow of traffic (which was at the speed limit or maybe 5 over). After I got past the truck, I ran 5 over, and only a couple of cars passed me in the next 25 miles. Before the episode with the Civic, the Elantra had passed me and was definitely moving away. > If I don't want to drive that fast, I move into a gap between the cars > that I was passing, wait for the faster car to pass, and then finish > passing. My passing speeds are usually 20-50 over the speed of the slower > traffic, depending on how many cars that I need to pass. If the traffic > is only slightly slower than my set speed, I usually slow to the speed of > traffic instead of passing. 50 miles an hour over the slower traffic on a four lane road??????????? The slower traffic in this case was doing something between 60 and 65 mph in a 65 mph zone. I can't believe you would pass them at 85 to 115 mph in a 65 mph zone. And if you would, then you are probably one of those people responsible for leaving a trail of accidents in their wake. Your closing speed on other traffic would be far to high. I can understand the idea of passing as quickly as possible on a two lane road where you right have to deal with on coming traffic, but going 50 mph over traffic in an adjacent lane going in the same direction seems like you are asking for trouble. It seems to me that people who feel that everyone should clear out of their way so they can speed are the ultimate MFFY drivers. But then I am old and would like to live to be even older. Driving like an idiot seems to be a good way to die sooner. Ed |
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Hi. This is the meow-send program at usenet. I'm afraid I wasn't able
to deliver any clue to the following address: "brink" > This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > >"Arif Khokar" > wrote in message ... >> brink wrote: >> >>> Your story is a perfect example of how the dangerous Elantra driver >>> nearly caused a horrible wreck because he or she clearly did not >>> adequately check his or her mirrors before initiating the pass of the >>> truck and inconveniencing the driver of the Civic. As at least four or >>> five expert drivers here in r.a.d. will explain to you in no uncertain >>> terms, the single worst thing a driver can do is to block the left lane >>> at any moment and for any length of time, even while passing, so the >>> Civic driver had no resort to do what he or she did. >> >> <snip> >> >> The four or five expert drivers here in r.a.d., had they been driving the >> Elantra would have never been in such a situation. When I initiate a >> pass, the opportunity to pass me on the right and cut in front of me >> exists anywhere from 3 to 5 seconds. > >Exactly! You've "never been in such a situation"! Which is why I'm glad >you're here. We need more experts like you! It doesn't take expert advice; it takes common sense. Or perhaps for some it does take expert advice. >Obviously, the Elantra driver should have anticipated that the Civic driver >was going to want that lane back, even after swerving out of it to pass >drivers in the other lane. I mean, when one is going to pass another >vehicle, one must not only make sure there is not another vehicle >approaching in the passing lane, but that there are *no* approaching >vehicles in *any other lanes* that may possibly want that lane. The elantra driver should have waited for rice boy to pass, or passed with diligence. >Sure, this may involve a little mind reading, but to an expert driver, it >isn't difficult. Those 20 seconds were clearly *very* important to the >Civic driver -- he or she must not be delayed. Period. Expert driver? How about a conscious driver? Do you have difficulties judging the relative speed of other vehicles? When I'm driving, I focus on what's ahead of me, but I'm also aware of what's behind me, as well as what's on either side of me. Considering I like to have an awareness as close as possible to 360 degree coverage, I notice vehicles approaching me from the rear LONG before they catch up to me. Judging their speed to that of any traffic around them allows me to access their relative velocity, which in turn leads me to alter my driving pattern in preparation for any possible requirement for defensive driving maneuvers. You DON'T drive this way? Please don't breed. --- "Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?" ~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973 -- El Pollo Loco (Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend) demonstrates it's complete gullibility, stupidity, and state of delusion when it falls for an April Fool's joke, hook, line, and sinker: > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.p...6999983?hl=en& Ragnar wrote: > Gods, you're dumb. Its a rather obvious April Fool's joke. And you're > the Fool. This is no joke. |
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