Intimidating Drivers

[cqaigy2]

It's far too easy to shoot down this type of rhetoric with simple logic and deduction but I'm not going to go into that in this thread. Plus, it's hard to read because of the punctuation, probably caused by copying and pasting from another app. If you like to discuss this type of thinking, submit your ideas to a forum like Straight Dope where folks will be glad to take you on. Straight Dope Message Board - Powered by vBulletin

Please don't feed the animals.

 

[troutsqueezer]

Yes RobertN, as I recall, you and I both worked for the same company until I retired last year. Speaking of retirement: in my later years, I've learned that staying in the slow lane makes for a much more relaxing drive. I don't need to get my blood pressure up just because some dimwits are in a hurry. I know from reading this forum for a while now that many on here do the same thing. These are all people who have been around the block a time or two.

The drivers I referred to in my original post are those who come up behind me on the 8 miles of rural road I must take to get into town. This is a dangerous road (Salmon Falls Rd.) and many people have been killed by taking turns too fast and driving recklessly. Since the road winds around Folsom Lake, there are all sorts of recreational users who bicycle, raft, hike and drive motorcycles in any given stretch and around blind curves. Couple this with drivers that have no regard for safety nor courtesy and you have a recipe for disaster. There are only so many places to pull over and let someone by. Fast lanes and slow lanes don't play into my rant, nor does any better-than-thou attitude.

 

[RobertN]

Ah yes, Salmon Falls Road. I have been on it, with a loaded truck, and had people ride my bumper. Or the horse trailer. Same running Highway-49 thru the canyon. Scary thing, even though I like motorcycles myself, are the Ninja/Cafe riders who blast thru there, going 90mph, and come up on normal traffic on blind corners.

It was simpler on those roads 30-40 years ago when there was less population and traffic. Now though, you just have to be patient. Unfortunately, too many people are'nt.

Yes RobertN, as I recall, you and I both worked for the same company until I retired last year. Speaking of retirement: in my later years, I've learned that staying in the slow lane makes for a much more relaxing drive. I don't need to get my blood pressure up just because some dimwits are in a hurry. I know from reading this forum for a while now that many on here do the same thing. These are all people who have been around the block a time or two.

The drivers I referred to in my original post are those who come up behind me on the 8 miles of rural road I must take to get into town. This is a dangerous road (Salmon Falls Rd.) and many people have been killed by taking turns too fast and driving recklessly. Since the road winds around Folsom Lake, there are all sorts of recreational users who bicycle, raft, hike and drive motorcycles in any given stretch and around blind curves. Couple this with drivers that have no regard for safety nor courtesy and you have a recipe for disaster. There are only so many places to pull over and let someone by. Fast lanes and slow lanes don't play into my rant, nor does any better-than-thou attitude.

 

[Relic]

It's interesting, when I drive the wife's Prius, I noticed that some folks who are driving in much larger vehicles, usually with over-sized tires, tend to tailgate me, pass unsafely and generally try to intimidate, using the size of their vehicle as a weapon. I don't get this behavior much when I drive my truck. Now, I'm going to generalize here, I'm aware: Sometimes, after something like this happens, the other driver and I will happen be headed to the same destination and when we each get out of our vehicles I can't help but notice that the other driver tends to be on the small side, physically. Rarely does this happen with big people in big trucks. I think perhaps they don't have self-image problems nearly as much, or at least don't use their vehicles to make up for their small size. I'm guessing they buy those big trucks to actually haul something big. I'm 6'2" at 220 lbs. and I sense that the other driver is sometimes a little surprised that the person they just tried to intimidate is not the person they envisioned driving a smaller car so they avoid eye contact at all costs. I'm not the type of person who intimidates others, the opposite in fact, but sometimes I would like to pick them up by the collar and say, "Hey, do you feel like intimidating me now, Punk?" :laughing:

BINGO

 

[houstonscott]

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HS

 

[greasemonkeyok]

Seriously HS, how many links do you make in a day, and do you get paid for that? 500 links and you get a free trip to The Mens Club maybe?

I think the subject of the thread is driver attitude and safety, not politics.

 

[hawkeye08]

I considered this conversion a few years back...

Pontiac Fiero - Electric Conversion

 

[houstonscott]

Just trying show that the idea that people are clambering to buy electric cars and hybrids is not true. They are propped up by government sales, by tax and government rebates, by green propaganda. If they had to compete in the market on their own they would stop producing them. Their green reputation is a hoax. Im not telling you not to by one, but drop the holy roller, I'm doing something for the environment or world or fighting those bad oil guy by driving one. The idea that any one whom is driving one is saving gas is a laugh. It's not true.

HS

 

[aczlan]

Just trying show that the idea that people are clambering to buy electric cars and hybrids is not true. They are propped up by government sales, by tax and government rebates, by green propaganda. If they had to compete in the market on their own they would stop producing them. Their green reputation is a hoax. Im not telling you not to by one, but drop the holy roller, I'm doing something for the environment or world or fighting those bad oil guy by driving one. The idea that any one whom is driving one is saving gas is a laugh. It's not true.

My parents neighbors with a first generation Prius that has over 250k miles on it would beg to disagree with you... I wouldn't go that route (I'd get a TDI and drop it into my Volvo V90), but they are saving money with their Prius and beater Dodge Dakota over their previous cars (Caravan and VW Rabbit pickup) while driving around in a far more comfortable fashion.

Aaron Z

 

[houstonscott]

You just proved my point, you wouldn't go that route, means to me you wouldn't buy one.


HS