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taralee:
I live in Southern California, and there's much that I love about living here, but the one thing I don't love is the bad drivers. I've lived all over the country, and I really do think that SoCal drivers rank among the worst. I see the following driving etiquette violations on a daily basis:

1) Tailgating. Drivers here have it perfected to a fine science. Personally, I don't know how they do it -- I work hard to keep an exact, safe distance between myself and the car in front of me (a looong distance in front of me). People who ride up other car's butts (especially my own) scare the heck out of me.

2) Related to the above is tailgating at night, by SUVs. This really, really annoys the heck out of me. If you're an SUV, please don't ride my butt at night, and flood the interior of my car with your headlights. It's blinding!!! I confess to slowing down, just to annoy them so they'll go around me.

3) Lack of turn signal usage. 'Nuff said. Nobody uses them out here. Well, except for me.

4) People who drive on the shoulder in traffic jams. This makes me so angry. What makes you so special that you get to a) break the law, and b) pass the rest of us law-abiding citizens by driving on the shoulder? This happens in every traffic jam on the freeway, all those self-entitled jerks, zipping along on the shoulder...

Anyone got any others that drive you insane?

Rei-chan:

A few years ago, I lived in a "tourist town" in the North Carolina mountains.  The big thing up there was the leaf change in the fall, and here were problems.....

-  People driving 30 mph in a 55 zone to look at the leaves.
-  People stopping dead in the 55 zone to videotape the leaves.  (You'd think they had never seen leaves change color before)
-  People driving like morons to get around those doing the above 2.  This entails veering into traffic in the other lane (whether it was the left or the right lane, they did both) tailgating, screaming obscenities at the person doing the above 2, etc.
-  People cutting into traffic in jams (which happened frequently due to the high volume of leaf watchers) and causing accidents, leading to a further traffic jam.

and the list goes on and on, but you get the point right?   :)

Pixie:
I get very frustrated with drivers who just HAVE to cut right in front of me, then immediately make a right (or worse) left turn.   Why endanger my health and safety when they could have cut in behind me and made their turn?

The no turn signal thing bothers me.... Yes, I'm a Mom, I DO have eyes in the back of my head, but my mind-reading abilities only work on my own kids, and sometimes my husband!

But  the one thing I really hate?   Children not in child seats or not wearing seat-belts.  This will drive me up a tree. 

Oh, and I hate tailgaters, they scare me.

Suze:
how about the driver who will not go around you no matter what?  Dumb guy behind me with lights on bright riding my bumper at night. 

I feel like I should get a bull horn out and yell at them that I can't go any faster because you are blinding me.  So I slow down to let them pass and they keep slowing down with me.  I was down to 20 once before I got rid of them (it was on a secondary road with noone else around or I wouldn't have slowed down that much)

and why do they have to pull out from a stop sign - in front of you - when there is not a soul other than you on the road?  Can't they wait the 2 min that would have taken for me to pass the corner?

cocacola35:

--- Quote from: rivka on January 19, 2007, 08:06:13 PM ---4) People who drive on the shoulder in traffic jams. This makes me so angry. What makes you so special that you get to a) break the law, and b) pass the rest of us law-abiding citizens by driving on the shoulder? This happens in every traffic jam on the freeway, all those self-entitled jerks, zipping along on the shoulder...
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I also get angry at the morons that let these jerks cut back into traffic at the front of the line!  That only encourages these self-entitled jerks to do this in the first place.

-People that see your turn signal and then speed up on purpose so you can't go into their lane.  What is this pre-school??  Did I somehow sign up for some drag race with you by putting my signal on?  Grow the #$%* up and just let me over!!!

-People that crawl in the fast lanes.  This can cause accidents and road rage- why oh why can't these people move over into the lanes that are meant for slow moving motorists??  Apparently some of them must have slow minds as well.....

-For pete's sake, turn off your high beams if you are driving on a main street!  I don't like being blinded because it may be hazardous to me and you.

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