New driving trend?

[jmohme]

Boomer nonsense. Go buy a bus ticket.

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[candcallen]

Boomer nonsense. Go buy a bus ticket.

Somehow that doesn't sound like a solution.

 

[Grumps21]

Yup, happens here all the time and in every case they have their head down looking in their lap. I’m mostly on a motorcycle, and when that happens, I run down the center and cut in front of them and occupy that vacant space

 

[Daley_G]

From what I've observed, it's not just roadways - people behave as if they're the only one on this earth in almost all situations. Pushing the cart down the main aisle at the grocery store, inevitably someone will come right out of a side aisle without even so much as pausing to look. Damn frustrating to those of us with even the slightest amount of situational awareness.

 

[majormadmax]

To be fair, it's better than these idiots!!

 

[Axxe55]

TRUCKS WITH THE BIG RANCH-HAND BMPERS WORK GOOD FOR THIS THEY JUST PUSH THE CAR ON THROUGH!

 

[FireInTheWire]

Can't fix stupid

 

[Axxe55]

Can't fix stupid

BUT YOU CAN PUSH IT THROUGH THE INTERSECTION! AND OUT OF THE WAY!

 

[Vaquero]

From what I've observed, it's not just roadways - people behave as if they're the only one on this earth in almost all situations. Pushing the cart down the main aisle at the grocery store, inevitably someone will come right out of a side aisle without even so much as pausing to look. Damn frustrating to those of us with even the slightest amount of situational awareness.

Preach it brother.

 

[striker55]

I don't even like people who park in their driveway blocking the sidewalk.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

I don't even like people who park in their driveway blocking the sidewalk.

I thought that was actually illegal in most places?

 

[striker55]

I thought that was actually illegal in most places?

Probably but local popo too busy to care. Plus they'd be writing tickets all day.

 

[OutlawStar]

I pull up to the line when I stop.
If I am behind another car, I will leave a large gap. This comes from riding my motorcycle.
A good friend pointed out that if you leave a large gap, usually the car behind you will do the same. He was right to, but only when on my bike. in the car they still get up on my ass.

I can't say if you're right or wrong about leaving a gap on your bike, I've always just tried to be to the left of the vehicle to "use" their brake lights and hopefully just avoid being hit. I've had cars do that inching-forward stuff that eventually leaves a gap in front of me, but I've had the cars behind me also inch closer and closer to my fender because they appear to see the car in front of me turning off the brake lights and pulling away. I'm open to evidence that leaving a gap is better, now I'm just not sure?

 

[Sam7sf]

Leaving a gap is the correct thing to do in most scenarios. I’ll give examples:

Following distance. It takes the brain on average 4-6 seconds to tell your foot oh shit hit the brakes. Then the added time it takes for your vehicle mechanically to stop. Don’t tailgate…you’re asking to die. Above 55 mph keep 6 seconds away.

At stops behind others. Do not block yourself in. If you need to gtfo and leave a lane you need space.

Increase your following distance to 8 seconds when behind a motorcycle. That’s my own rule. The person on a bike has nothing but gear and pavement. Be the biker’s angel not his or her grim reaper.

 

[2ManyGuns]

While I am NOT a motorcyclist, I try to give them as much room for safety as possible. It's when they are the idiots cutting between cars in stop and go traffic that I want to open my door and brake them. Worse yet are the morons that pass you on the wide side(shoulder) of the single lane on the Eastbound side of the Katy HOV lane, one day those morons are gonna rear end a constable.

 

[leVieux]

Yep, phones are the problem with most drivers now.

Just yesterday I had to pull off the pavement to the right b/c oncoming vehicles were across the marked centerline, in my little neighborhood.

 

[Vaquero]

Leaving a gap is the correct thing to do in most scenarios. I’ll give examples:

Following distance. It takes the brain on average 4-6 seconds to tell your foot oh shit hit the brakes. Then the added time it takes for your vehicle mechanically to stop. Don’t tailgate…you’re asking to die. Above 55 mph keep 6 seconds away.

At stops behind others. Do not block yourself in. If you need to gtfo and leave a lane you need space.

Increase your following distance to 8 seconds when behind a motorcycle. That’s my own rule. The person on a bike has nothing but gear and pavement. Be the biker’s angel not his or her grim reaper.

This.
Give a bike a little room at a traffic light and you'll never see him again.

 

[Brains]

Leaving a gap is the correct thing to do in most scenarios. I’ll give examples:

Following distance. It takes the brain on average 4-6 seconds to tell your foot oh shit hit the brakes. Then the added time it takes for your vehicle mechanically to stop. Don’t tailgate…you’re asking to die. Above 55 mph keep 6 seconds away.

At stops behind others. Do not block yourself in. If you need to gtfo and leave a lane you need space.

Increase your following distance to 8 seconds when behind a motorcycle. That’s my own rule. The person on a bike has nothing but gear and pavement. Be the biker’s angel not his or her grim reaper.

Nah, the brain is much faster than that. 60mph and 6 seconds is a tenth of a mile. 8 seconds is over an eighth of a mile. That's what, 40 car lengths? Some of y'all probably can't even see that far

With motorcycles make it a point to be consistent, especially when they're not. Make intentional, obvious, and signaled moves. Give them plenty of space. Give them the full use of the road whenever possible. And if they want to haul ass, that's their business - let 'em.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

People in cars with the AC blasting have no idea how hot it gets on a bike in the summer, wearing protective gear.
That's why you'll see lane splitting.
Keeping moving on the bike sure helps.

 

[Sam7sf]

Nah, the brain is much faster than that. 60mph and 6 seconds is a tenth of a mile. 8 seconds is over an eighth of a mile. That's what, 40 car lengths? Some of y'all probably can't even see that far

With motorcycles make it a point to be consistent, especially when they're not. Make intentional, obvious, and signaled moves. Give them plenty of space. Give them the full use of the road whenever possible. And if they want to haul ass, that's their business - let 'em.

Exactly how far 8 seconds is.

Nothing I can post will change your opinion. We will just consider it an internet myth this driver has hooked folks up to a machine to show reaction time.

Not all professional drivers can have your super speed legendary reflexes. They could certainly learn a thing or two from you.

But in all seriousness just drive safe.