Highway Patrol to do move over law stings this month

[gatordee]

Originally Posted by gatordee

Dropping to 20 mph on the highway is not very safe either imo.

OOPS! I was just warning the wife and she corrected me. It is 20 mph under the posted speed limit. Not 20 mph! lol I thought that was a bit crazy.

[malscott]

I always move over a lane anyway whenever a car is on the side of the road. I always fear some kid will come running across the road. And here in Cal...I'd like to mount a howitzer on the front of my car and waste every vehicle that isn't going the speed of the traffic flow. They should lose their licenses if they're in the left lane and people are having to pass them on the right to move it along. In Fla people just flash their lights-which is southern for 'move your dub ass over.' Som-bitches...

[toon66]

Originally Posted by The_Graygator

Or those who do this but instead just drive along in your blind spot the entire time, or when you go to pass around them they suddenly speed up and pace alongside you.

I have no idea why people do this.

I hit a deer the Saturday night before Christmas because some idiot was sitting in my blind spot. I saw the deer up ahead and had a split-second to change lanes and looked over in my door-mounted RV mirror, and there was this idiot just riding along in my blind spot that had been there since I gotten off I-10.

So I had to hit the deer instead instead of moving over and plowing into them.

I am with you on this 100% and it happens quite regularly. Sends me through the roof. Blows my mind that people are that inconsiderate or that stupid.

[fubar1]

I guess the next thing the FHP will want passed is for legislation deeming them all "heroes"

[Minister_of_Information]

No, they're going to lay down oil slicks to see if everyone can compensate correctly for a slide.

[fubar1]

Originally Posted by Minister_of_Information

No, they're going to lay down oil slicks to see if everyone can compensate correctly for a slide.

LOL.

"Sir, you incorrectly turned your wheels away from the slide and not into it. That'll be $350".

[G8rChuck85]

Originally Posted by Spurffelbow833

People who don't use cruise control and average my speed are what drive me up the wall. They pass you, then slow down, then speed up when you try to pass them again. Roar alongside you, then stay even with you until a line of cars piles up behind them and seals you in behind a slow poke until everybody you just passed passes you again.

I agree..and the thing is, most of these people have cruise control they can use!

[secgator]

Originally Posted by Spurffelbow833

People who don't use cruise control and average my speed are what drive me up the wall. They pass you, then slow down, then speed up when you try to pass them again. Roar alongside you, then stay even with you until a line of cars piles up behind them and seals you in behind a slow poke until everybody you just passed passes you again.

I tried to stay out of this thread, but after seeing your post--I gotta jump in and fully agree with you. Being a sales rep spending most of time behind a steering wheel in the states of Florida/Alabama/Georgia--I have pretty much seen it all out there and this concept you noted is one of my top annoyances I run into ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME!

What is worse IMO however happens up and down I-75 from Atlanta down through Florida. Most all of it is six lanes now--three on each side. As most functioning brains know, right lane--slower traffic...center lane...traffic flow lane(move along at speed limit or the speed the traffic in general is moving)...left or 'go fast' lane which truckers call them--for passing along faster than average and hopefully moving back over to center or right lane when you get ahead of others. Well---the morons(mostly snowbirds from the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, etc) seem to think the center lane is for parking their non-thinking ass in and locking down their cruise control just under the speed limit. I have had to get bogged down behind these nutscratchers on a perpetual basis and just get fuming when the rest of the world passes you at NORMAL speeds in the left lane and the really slow pokes are spaced just far enough apart in the right lane, that you are screwed in hoping to find a window of opportunity to get around the screwballs pulling their oversized travel trailers coming down to Flawda to Bice fish. Pisses me off beyond words.

What they don't even realize--18 wheelers are limited to right and center lanes and use the center to pass most of the time. They get behind one of these center lane hoggers and ride right on their ass for miles--flashing their lights--honking horns--damn near pushing them with their rigs, yet the idiot vacationers don't have the foggiest idea why the 7 truckers lined up behind them are honking, barking, cussing, flahsing to get them to move their pathetic asses over to the right. When they finally DO have enough sense to move over--they look up at the trucks with a glare as if THE TRUCKERS were the idiots at fault.

Needless to say, when I finally get around them I always give them "the look" to let them know just what I think of their driving...lol. (as if that really makes them better drivers huh)

[GolphinGator]

Originally Posted by red4512

The Highway Patrol is a group of pigs out for revenue collection,
instead of helping out drivers on the road.

That post is as rude as not moving over when a car is on the side of the interstate. I think they should give out tickets to people who don't know how drive safely and be considerate.

[wci347]

When they finally install magnetic force shields in vehicles this won't be an issue. They've had the technology for at least 2 decades, but it would cripple auto sales, body shops and insurance companies. Forget about the 1000s of lives it would save every year.

A million people have died in auto accidents since this technology was developed, and no one is even talking about it openly.

[red4512]

Originally Posted by GolphinGator

That post is as rude as not moving over when a car is on the side of the interstate. I think they should give out tickets to people who don't know how drive safely and be considerate.

zzzzzzzz.
I sorry I wasnt paying you any attention.

[rpmGator]

The center lane is now the defacto slow lane due to so many on ramps that make you move over and back like a yo-yo. For many, its just safer to stay in one lane and drive a set speed.

If a driver won't let you move into the center lane when traffic is moving into your lane, that in itself is unsafe as well. That is why so many just stick to the middle lane, as for them it is just safer which means you are safer also when they stick to one thing you can predict.

Its the guy who uses every lane to move up two car lengths, that creates more problems than those who are consistant, even when they are a pain.