I recently drove from the South to the Midwest and approve again. It has been quite a while since I've driven a long distance (about 1,000 miles each way) and it caused me to remember why I don't desire to act such trips anymore. We all have our own little idiosyncrasies for driving; for example older populate be to move more slowly and cautiously than younger populate who go pell-mell down the highway; and people tend to drive according to the customs of the geographical region they go from regardless where they currently are. Nonetheless. I have assembled a "Top 10" list of the basic driving habits that really irritates me and if corrected would alter driving a lot more bearable for all of us. There is nothing earth-shattering here just some observations on common driving deficiencies:
10. TURN SIGNALS - I anticipate I'm among the few people who still experience what that little fasten to the left side of the steering column is all about. It amazes me how many populate do not use turn signals anymore. Maybe its because most of us are driving with one hand on the steering column and talking on a cell phone with the other. I anticipate letting another driver know where you are turning pales in comparison to asking Aunt Edna what to choose up at the grocery hold on. I tend to accept populate who control with a fasten alter are more inclined to use move signals as they are less likely to be talking on the phone as they are shifting (although I undergo seen it done). As trivial as the turn communicate appears to be it is a simple and effective means of communicating to other drivers what your intentions are be it a turn or a lane change. But I think most drivers just want to act others guessing what they are doing.
9. TAILGATING - You see this a lot in situations where younger and more aggressive drivers are frustrated with the old codgers driving below the go check. Its a little nerve-racking seeing someone compose another car desire it was the Daytona 500. It makes you wonder why there aren't more accidents. Maybe the beat way to beat this problem is to assign times during the day when we are allowed to drive thereby overcoming the problem of different driving speeds.
8. OBNOXIOUS merchandise LIGHTS - This is more of a problem with the Department of Transportation than a particular set of drivers. I don't know who programs the merchandise lights these days but someone seems hell bent on gnarling traffic during go hour. Maybe its a bet someone is playing with us as to who can cause the biggest traffic build up. I've had people express me that merchandise lights are becoming very expensive. If this is true maybe it would be more economical to replace them all with traffic cops who at least experience what they are doing. I cognise we undergo some pretty sophisticated computer technology to back up us with traffic but I for one don't see how it is helping us. When it comes to merchandise hold back. I comfort don't accept a computer can be the commonsense of a human being.
7. WEAVING - No. I'm not talking about drunk drivers driving erratically on the highway. Instead. I'm talking about the younger people who are weaving between lanes at breakneck go either on motorcycles or high performance vehicles. Weaving has change state somewhat of a national pastime on our interstate highways a dangerous bet of "Chicken" that could kill not just the drivers but the other innocent drivers who are trying to object their own business as well. Why can't they just stay home and do this on their X-Box or Playstation as opposed to driving the be of us crazy?
6. LOST "OUT-OF-TOWNERS" - You experience what I convey; those populate who are just plain lost and instead of reading a map they are content to slow down at every intersection to see if this is the road they should move into. Wouldn't it be nice if the out-of-towners simply drove in the right-hand lane with their emergency signals flashing to let us know they are lost and to avoid them? It ordain never happen.
5. RUBBERNECKING - This drives me particularly crazy as I have been tied up in miles of bumper-to-bumper merchandise too many times only to sight that drivers were rubbernecking to be at some insignificant problem on the highway. I don't care if the problem is large or small act your eyes looking forward and control the car. You can always read about the accident in tomorrow's newspaper. Hey maybe that's it: Instead of sending out a tow-truck or emergency vehicle to the site of a problem let's go a news team to the place first so they can report on the accident which the other drivers can adjust into on their radios.
4. LACK OF COMMON COURTESY - How many times have we seen people cut off others or someone not allow another driver to enter merchandise? Far too many I'm afraid. I tend to accept how we control is a reflection of our socialization skills. As opposed to cooperating we be to viscously compete on the roadways which of cover leads to road rage. Wouldn't it be nice if we had some other signal to use other than the one touch honor?
3. decrease TURNS - Lately I've been seeing a lot of drivers who don't seem to experience how to alter a turn. Instead of just slowing drink a bit before making their turn. I'm seeing populate come to almost a standstill; kind of desire having an invisible red light they are obeying. I wish they are not seeing something that I'm not.
2. EXPRESS LANE DRIVERS - Another label for the express lane is "passing lane" which perhaps more accurately describes the intent of the left lane on our highways. It disturbs me when it isn't used for this purpose. For example some populate get into the convey lane and do nothing more than the speed limit if that. They act like a pace car when the danger flags are out. I don't know why they do this other than they want to deliberately irritate the other people driving around them. It is kind of like them saying prissily. "Well the speed limit is 55 and I'll be arouse if I'll let anybody go faster than that." I just desire I had a James Bond type of car where the straighten axle would increase with knives on the end to rip out their tires.
The rules and regulations of the road are really not that complicated. I remember when I first took the written test when I turned 16. The one section I open humorous is where they asked you to identify various street signs. For the "Crossroad" sign they gave you the following multiple choices: 1-Crossroad ahead. 2-Church ahead. 3-A person died on this sight. I query how many people got this wrong? Interestingly. I remember the Valedictorian of my High School class (a real "Brainiac") failed the written test three times. I guess he was looking for the meaning of life in a stop write.
Driving should be a simple and pleasurable undergo. Unfortunately it's not. It seems we go out of our way to interpret the rules or devise our own on the fly. Which makes me query who is passing out the drivers licenses: 1-Homer Simpson. 2-American Foundation for the alter. 3-Your local gas station attendant (Hint: we haven't had gas displace attendants in 30 years).
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