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11-23-2005, 04:46 AM
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Re: Is driving a competition to you?
If I need to change lanes and nobody is playing along, I just swerve a tiny bit towards their lane real quick and they'll usually slam on their brakes and I now have an opening into their lane.
This might not apply but when I'm approaching a stop sign intersection in the middle of the night I turn my headlights off for a second and if I can't see any other lights I can just speed right through. 
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11-23-2005, 04:56 AM
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Re: Is driving a competition to you?
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when I'm approaching a stop sign intersection in the middle of the night I turn my headlights off for a second and if I can't see any other lights I can just speed right through. [/ QUOTE ] What a horrible idea. On so many levels. Cops, pedestrians, nonsensical. UGH.
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#4
11-23-2005, 05:01 AM
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Re: Is driving a competition to you?
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[ QUOTE ] when I'm approaching a stop sign intersection in the middle of the night I turn my headlights off for a second and if I can't see any other lights I can just speed right through. [/ QUOTE ] What a horrible idea. On so many levels. Cops, pedestrians, nonsensical. UGH. [/ QUOTE ] I think you're envisioning a different type of intersection than I am. I am more likely to have trouble with deer than cops or pedestrians
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#5
11-23-2005, 04:55 AM
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Re: Is driving a competition to you?
1) slamming door. You're probably just being an ass. Depends on what you mean by "cut [me] off".
2) They're not trying to beat you off the line. They're trying to feel clever because they know when their light's going to turn. They don't care about you. 3: bluff) There are ways to do this without making everyone behind you slow down as well, which also get you merged without slowing you down. If I'm reading you correctly, you suck, because you're making someone slow down drastically and they're probably going to slow me down too. 4: block) As long as you don't cause any accidents, I wholeheartedly support whatever you do that gets slow people out of the left lane. Because that's where I usually am, and I'm probably trying to go at least as fast as you, but I don't want to be that jackass swerving through 3 lanes to pass you. I have a 50-mile daily commute on LA freeways. I've only been doing it for a week, and I already hate everyone. I hate them all with a passion. I hope everything bad happens to them, and only to them. There's a chance that this means I hate you. It's nothing personal, I just wish you didn't exist and that my commute would be that much faster. I like to drive fast. When I have five lanes of newly-paved freeway to myself I'll happily hit my limiter, but context is everything...I've been passed by the CHP while I was doing 100+, but I was on an empty 5-lane freeway with brand-new pavement. (I got lucky. He showed up in my rearview while I was closer to 125, I slowed down because he was catching up to me even at that speed.)
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#8
11-23-2005, 01:13 PM
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definitely a competition
We use the "New Mexico Roadblock" against maniac speeders. I'm sure some of you do this....works best on a two lane road.
You spot a maniac speeder in your rearview. You're in the right hand lane, and he's getting ready to pass you. But there's another car ahead of you, preferably on the left. When the maniac goes to pass, speed up and get next to your unwitting accomplice. The maniac thinks you're gonna pass, so he gets back behind you. Slow down so that your accomplice is now going faster than you. When maniac goes to pass you again, speed up. Very entertaining. Another one that is more dangerous is playing chicken with someone across the intersection running a left turn red light. You know he's not stopping, so you hit the gas as soon as yours turns green and start honking. I used to do this until one runner was so late coming through he almost hit me. Same with tapping the brakes against a tailgater. When you say someone "gives a tell" that he's gonna cut you off, do you mean he signals, or he starts to speed up and drift into your lane? I encourage signaling and let these people in, but a lot of people I know think of signaling as a bad thing because other people won't let them in. ScottieK
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#9
11-23-2005, 02:57 PM
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Re: definitely a competition
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Another one that is more dangerous is playing chicken with someone across the intersection running a left turn red light. You know he's not stopping, so you hit the gas as soon as yours turns green and start honking. I used to do this until one runner was so late coming through he almost hit me. Same with tapping the brakes against a tailgater. [/ QUOTE ] I do this all the time. If someone's running a light when its my turn to go, I make sure that he uses the bathroom on himself or spills his coffee. I want him to be scared. I just slam on the accelerator when it turns green. And, yes, I've come close to being hit by a real late straggler before. [ QUOTE ] When you say someone "gives a tell" that he's gonna cut you off, do you mean he signals, or he starts to speed up and drift into your lane? [/ QUOTE ] Yes, I generally encourage signlers to come over...especially if they're trapped behind a slow car. The tell I'm talking about is the subtle "drift." Also, cars that are tailgating like mad suddenly "back off" and position themselves to get into a gap. Mirror checking (if you can see inside the car) is often a tell as well. If you see someone checking the driver's side and rear-view mirror, they're often coming to the left lane. Likewise, they often check the oppositte mirror before coming to the right lane. Edit: This just happened to be post #400.
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