Didn't want to inconvenience anyone
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Actually a good driver!
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Actually a good driver!
Kinda depends. My Uber riders don't usually appreciate it. Thankfully, it's only been once or twice. "I'll just loop around on the next exit."
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It’s okay to take detours.
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Actually a good driver!
Stay safe! I’ll take wrong exit over unsafe maneuver every time.
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Still better this than to be the person who weaves across three lanes of traffic to go after their exit, or who sees the exit lane diverging and chooses... Neither, then they just stop there.
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Kinda depends. My Uber riders don't usually appreciate it. Thankfully, it's only been once or twice. "I'll just loop around on the next exit."
Well, I'd expect a professional driver to anticipate and switch lanes early enough instead of hugging the left lane for no reason...
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Actually a good driver!
Saying I heard once: "Good drivers sometimes miss their exists. Bad drivers never miss their exists." Stuck with me for a very long time.
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Well, I'd expect a professional driver to anticipate and switch lanes early enough instead of hugging the left lane for no reason...
Depends on the city, I've seen interchanges with left lane exits that there was no way for me to reach in time from the right lane I took to enter. Also an exit too soon after an entrance on the right lane can make it unsafe to get far enough to the right, though this is more common in cities with parkways that have access roads running parallel.
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Well, I'd expect a professional driver to anticipate and switch lanes early enough instead of hugging the left lane for no reason...
There is never a reason to hug the passing lane(s).
If you're actively passing then it's not hugging.
If you're not actively passing then GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE LANE!
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I know Luis CK has gotten a bit problematic for other reasons, but I always liked his take on this in particular.
Apologies as I couldn't find an original video, just this weird channel animating the original audio. But every time my wife and I are in a car and see someone cross multiple lanes to get to an exit they almost missed we look at each other and say "but that's their FAVORITE way!"
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There is never a reason to hug the passing lane(s).
If you're actively passing then it's not hugging.
If you're not actively passing then GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE LANE!
Mind you, at least here, the left lane is a passing lane only on roads at or above 80kmh/50mph, below this speed limit, the left lane is just another lane. There's a lot of 70kmh highway around the cities here, and it's totally ok to be transiting in the left lane in those cases.
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A friend of mine got a phone call at daft o'clock one evening from his son who hadn't turned up home.
"Dad, can you pick me up from the city centre please?"
Bear in mind that he lived in a smaller town 40 miles or so from the city; on a bus route that spanned two cities about 90 miles apart.
Turns out that he had been taught how to board a bus; ask for a ticket; pay; and take a seat... but never learned how to leave a bus.
His dad was understandably pissed off, having been kicked out of bed at midnight to do a near two-hour round trip drive to pick his lad up. He asking him why he hadn't pushed the bell to signal the driver to stop.
"I thought they were just emergency stop buttons, and because I told the driver where I was going when I got the ticket, I thought he would stop for me... and when he didn't, I just sat and waited until the end of the line".
Poor soul.
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This reminds me of one time earlier this year I went to get some food which required me to get on the highway and then a main highway. The main highway is a 2 min drive to the next exit, and it's directly off the exit. So the entire trip is about 10 min. I got food, got back on the highway, and started thinking about stuff and not realizing I passed the exit to go back home. I then forgot exactly how bad that was because the next exit was 20 min away with no turn and full divider. So that dumb mistake cost me 40 minutes of time, and im basically screaming at myself the entire time for being a dumbass.
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A friend of mine got a phone call at daft o'clock one evening from his son who hadn't turned up home.
"Dad, can you pick me up from the city centre please?"
Bear in mind that he lived in a smaller town 40 miles or so from the city; on a bus route that spanned two cities about 90 miles apart.
Turns out that he had been taught how to board a bus; ask for a ticket; pay; and take a seat... but never learned how to leave a bus.
His dad was understandably pissed off, having been kicked out of bed at midnight to do a near two-hour round trip drive to pick his lad up. He asking him why he hadn't pushed the bell to signal the driver to stop.
"I thought they were just emergency stop buttons, and because I told the driver where I was going when I got the ticket, I thought he would stop for me... and when he didn't, I just sat and waited until the end of the line".
Poor soul.
I thought buses just stop at a station, you have to signal to the driver to stop? I've never ridden a bus before, so at least that's my main reason, but if I got on and didn't see a button or anything, I'd probably make that mistake
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Saying I heard once: "Good drivers sometimes miss their exists. Bad drivers never miss their exists." Stuck with me for a very long time.
Yeah, but that saying is absolutely brain dead, because if you take it literally it states anyone that has ever missed their exit is a good driver, which clearly isn't true
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Yeah, but that saying is absolutely brain dead, because if you take it literally it states anyone that has ever missed their exit is a good driver, which clearly isn't true
Everyone look!
(Crowd looks up at the sky)
It's Captain Pedantic here to save the day!!
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I know Luis CK has gotten a bit problematic for other reasons, but I always liked his take on this in particular.
Apologies as I couldn't find an original video, just this weird channel animating the original audio. But every time my wife and I are in a car and see someone cross multiple lanes to get to an exit they almost missed we look at each other and say "but that's their FAVORITE way!"
Honestly, I think what he got lambasted for was almost innocent compared to all the other #metoo stuff.
I'm pretty sure what he did was, at the time, under the guise of a consensual sex act that the other party agreed to. Now of course there is a power imbalance and he admitted as much (His statement is here) but I found it pretty mild compared to all the wild shit happening and that happened.
I'll admit it's gross and he did abuse his power over those women but he owned up to it and was honest. Huge difference between jerking off with someone watching/participating and actually raping someone though and that distinction is important.
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I thought buses just stop at a station, you have to signal to the driver to stop? I've never ridden a bus before, so at least that's my main reason, but if I got on and didn't see a button or anything, I'd probably make that mistake
There are some stops where the bus always stops, and others where you have to signal the driver to stop (known as request stops). You will typically find the first kind in high density areas like cities, and the other in suburbs or in the countryside (there are even "stop areas" in some very rural places, where the driver officially must stop anywhere along it when asked).
The same applies to trains too, although request stops are not as common as they are for buses (and I don't know of any stop areas for trains)
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I see this all the time on the road and I just don't get it. People would rather tailgate me for miles than change lanes and go around. Someone please explain why people are like this.
Meanwhile I'm changing lanes the the very moment I see a car going slower in front of me. One thing I absolutely hate is having to turn off the cruise control once it's on, and I use it everywhere, even on city streets (I drive a sports car so it's easy to accidentally speed if I don't).
Edit: I don't understand these downvotes. What's wrong with using the passing lane to pass? Why am I the asshole because someone is afraid to change lanes? I already drive 15 MPH over the speed limit, and always stick to the right when I'm not passing (even though no one else in my city does this). So if you're tailgating when I'm already doing my best to be more courteous than the average person in the road, that makes me the dick?
Someone please explain why this comment is triggering so many people. I really don't get it.
