I don't care if you drive stupid, but...

onzedge · 12-13-2012, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Chteelers

Really? I drive with my headlights (low-beams) on every time I get in the car. Provides extra visibility to other drivers. I guess it's a habit from my motorcycle days.

I am talking about the geniuses with off-road type lights. Very annoying.

nmjaxx9 · 12-13-2012, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by rebe945

It wasnt a passing lane. These fools are everywhere. Anyways, tell that to a cop about a passing lane. Learn the rules.

cops they are just doing their jobs, nice attempt

Read T · 12-13-2012, 04:22 PM

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHA

To the OP, before I looked at your location I said to myself "you must be in Charlotte"

dmhenderson · 12-13-2012, 06:09 PM

People flash their brights at me constantly because they think I have my high beams on. That was happening before my halos went on too even with my chrome and reflectors blacked out.

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Telephone · 12-13-2012, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by CDepp

Please, please, use your blinker so you let others know exactly where you plan on flinging about 3000-5000lbs of metal on the interstate...

Changing a lane? Blinker.
Making a turn? Blinker.
You think nobody is around and doing either? Blinker.

And no, the use of your blinker does not indicate your right of way. Be courteous and if changing into a faster lane, make certain it's clear and keep speed with the traffic in that lane. Additionally, don't pull out into traffic and creep across 3 lanes, making traffic slam on their brakes around you so you can make the next turn: get to speed while moving over, and if necessary, make a u-turn a turn or two up or two left turns. And, for the love of Zeus, if you mistakenly make a commitment to a turn lane, keep it and correct your err after making the turn - do not jettison back out into flowing traffic.

All these drivers make me frightened about getting my Z in the next couple weeks!

/I might be overreacting
//It's a Z, worth overreacting maybe just a little

I agree, but I hate tailgaters more.

Nailzs · 12-13-2012, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by SoCalBoy

reminds me of Florida drivers

Reminds me of Florida tourists

Read T · 12-13-2012, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by dmhenderson

People flash their brights at me constantly because they think I have my high beams on. That was happening before my halos went on too even with my chrome and reflectors blacked out.

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Maybe your headlights are improperly adjusted.

Haboob · 12-13-2012, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Read T

Maybe your headlights are improperly adjusted.

Just take off the rearview mirror. Works wonders.

Not much to look out of behind you anyways.

CDepp · 12-13-2012, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Read T

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHA

To the OP, before I looked at your location I said to myself "you must be in Charlotte"

Every day-
Huntersville down 77 to 277 down Independence to Monroe. 1hr15 to work. 1hr 30 mon home. Every damn day.

homeryansta · 12-13-2012, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by rebe945

It wasnt a passing lane. These fools are everywhere. Anyways, tell that to a cop about a passing lane. Learn the rules.

Why don't you learn the rules.

Keep right: New Jersey wants slow drivers to get out of the way - Los Angeles Times

Read T · 12-14-2012, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by CDepp

Every day-
Huntersville down 77 to 277 down Independence to Monroe. 1hr15 to work. 1hr 30 mon home. Every damn day.

I'm from Waxhaw but now live in the QC. I avoid 74 at all costs. Luckily I work 3rd shift so go the opposite way of traffic.

CDepp · 12-15-2012, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Read T

I'm from Waxhaw but now live in the QC. I avoid 74 at all costs. Luckily I work 3rd shift so go the opposite way of traffic.

Unfortunately, I can't. If my company didn't pay so well, I wouldn't be doing this 3 hrs a day commute through downtown and down 74. One of the bigger reasons I'm getting the Z is that I spend upward of 3 hours a day in a car just going to and from work. I might as well enjoy something about the trip.

Note: I have gained a certain 'patience' for those idiots who drive badly but use their blinkers, and an intolerance for idiots who don't. Odd.

Read T · 12-15-2012, 08:34 AM

^ Once 485 is all the way done that'll help out at least.

I was almost in 2 wrecks driving through Hidden Valley to get to Ikea yesterday. Not the place to get into a wreck. 1st was a big explorer tailgating me on a 4 lane road with center turn lane (I was going about 60 in a 45 just so he wouldnt be sitting next to me in my car) so I flashed my rear foglight and brake light. Didn't help. Came to a stoplight and I slowed down sooner than I needed to so the dude got right up my @ss and honked. From the stoplight I accelerated a little quicker than normal, the other cars in traffic were a good bit behind me. The guy in the explorer honks, goes into the oncoming traffic lane with oncoming traffic (not the empty right lane) and flies by me. Gets into traffic infront of me and swerves all through it. Just a guy in it driving with one hand on the wheel. I'd understand if his in-labor wife was next to him but he was just driving towards Ikea, not a hospital. total idiot.

A few minutes later some girl was following me about a foot off my bumper so I tapped my brakes (to get the lights to come on before I had to brake and turn, not trying to brake check her). She swerved around me when I was turning and shot me a dirty look from behind her phone.

Charlotte drivers suck. Actually, since most people who live in CLT arn't from here anymore I'll just say that drivers suck in general. But just you wait until there's snow/ice involved. Just don't go outside.

CDepp · 12-15-2012, 08:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Read T

^ Once 485 is all the way done that'll help out at least.
...
Charlotte drivers suck. Actually, since most people who live in CLT arn't from here anymore I'll just say that drivers suck in general. But just you wait until there's snow/ice involved. Just don't go outside.

I hope that's true with 485. Most of the traffic on 74 (full of sideroads and businesses) is because there's no parallel thoroughfare running south/north for people trying to go further than 485. So that completion might be moot, but maybe not.

And yes, drivers here suck. And yes, they suck everywhere. But, I'm also one of the out-of-towners. I moved from ILL to Dallas to Louisiana to Cleveland to here. I have never had any weather-related accident as I grew with in the ice-zone of Illinois. LA was rain, HEAVY rain. But, get a sprinkle here after sundown or a snowflake in the air; People go crazy! Literally, 15mph in a 55 with nobody within 150yds of them in any direction.

mhcoss · 12-15-2012, 09:10 AM

Here in Edmonton the drivers are worse then they were back in Dallas. Thats a hard thought to fathom but I have found it to be true. They are all drivin their nascar pickup trucks and minivans. In their mind its a race pickup truck or race van, not a vehicle designed specifically to haul a load. Every time a light turns green I see em fishtailing off the light in the ice trying to race each other in their quadcab pickup truck with one driver in it and absolutely zero cargo or load. The stupidity of it all just blows my mind everyday while I'm out on the road.

Just gotta be careful out there

12-13-2012, 04:22 PM	#48 (permalink)
Read T A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 1,046 Drives: 11 Nissan 370z BC 6M Rep Power: 18	HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHHA To the OP, before I looked at your location I said to myself "you must be in Charlotte" CDepp likes this. __________________ 2011 Nissan 370z Black Cherry Sport Pkg - Daily Driver, , 1960 Morgan +4 fun car, 1986 BMW 325ES, 1998 M3 and 1996 Spec Miata - Race Cars SUPPORT TEAM WINSOME RACING - WRL, CHUMP, LEMONS

12-13-2012, 06:09 PM	#49 (permalink)
dmhenderson A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Maryland Posts: 5,930 Drives: AWD TT 370z Rep Power: 26	People flash their brights at me constantly because they think I have my high beams on. That was happening before my halos went on too even with my chrome and reflectors blacked out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk __________________

12-15-2012, 08:34 AM	#58 (permalink)
Read T A True Z Fanatic Join Date: May 2012 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 1,046 Drives: 11 Nissan 370z BC 6M Rep Power: 18	^ Once 485 is all the way done that'll help out at least. I was almost in 2 wrecks driving through Hidden Valley to get to Ikea yesterday. Not the place to get into a wreck. 1st was a big explorer tailgating me on a 4 lane road with center turn lane (I was going about 60 in a 45 just so he wouldnt be sitting next to me in my car) so I flashed my rear foglight and brake light. Didn't help. Came to a stoplight and I slowed down sooner than I needed to so the dude got right up my @ss and honked. From the stoplight I accelerated a little quicker than normal, the other cars in traffic were a good bit behind me. The guy in the explorer honks, goes into the oncoming traffic lane with oncoming traffic (not the empty right lane) and flies by me. Gets into traffic infront of me and swerves all through it. Just a guy in it driving with one hand on the wheel. I'd understand if his in-labor wife was next to him but he was just driving towards Ikea, not a hospital. total idiot. A few minutes later some girl was following me about a foot off my bumper so I tapped my brakes (to get the lights to come on before I had to brake and turn, not trying to brake check her). She swerved around me when I was turning and shot me a dirty look from behind her phone. Charlotte drivers suck. Actually, since most people who live in CLT arn't from here anymore I'll just say that drivers suck in general. But just you wait until there's snow/ice involved. Just don't go outside. __________________ 2011 Nissan 370z Black Cherry Sport Pkg - Daily Driver, , 1960 Morgan +4 fun car, 1986 BMW 325ES, 1998 M3 and 1996 Spec Miata - Race Cars SUPPORT TEAM WINSOME RACING - WRL, CHUMP, LEMONS

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12-15-2012, 09:10 AM	#60 (permalink)
mhcoss Track Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Edmonton Posts: 520 Drives: 2012 370Z SPORT M/T Rep Power: 14	Here in Edmonton the drivers are worse then they were back in Dallas. Thats a hard thought to fathom but I have found it to be true. They are all drivin their nascar pickup trucks and minivans. In their mind its a race pickup truck or race van, not a vehicle designed specifically to haul a load. Every time a light turns green I see em fishtailing off the light in the ice trying to race each other in their quadcab pickup truck with one driver in it and absolutely zero cargo or load. The stupidity of it all just blows my mind everyday while I'm out on the road. Just gotta be careful out there