Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Thomas]

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I did put a flag on it.

Another means of smoothing.

 

[3 Horse Ranch]

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I did put a flag on it.

That's great erasing your tracks so you can't be followed.

 

[Jstpssng]

I don't think this is adaptive speed control (ie radar cruise control) as that, at least on our Toyota that's my only familiarity (and thus a globally common experience no doubt haha) it ignores cars in the adjacent lane and will pass right by them.

No, this is the driver consciously or unconsciously matching your speed. I've noticed what I call a "rubber band" effect where if I try to pass someone at a small speed differential (like I'm going 65 and they're going 60), they'll speed up and pretty much match my speed, and when I slow down they slow down... I don't think it's conscious for the most part, it's a form of fixation.

If I speed up a bit, they match, I speed a bit more, they match, until they realize we're going 80 or 90 and the rubber band breaks and they drop off. Any more when I pass people I try to do it sufficiently quickly that they have to be thinking about it to match the speed; if I catch a rubber band, I'll reduce speed gradually and then suddenly race forward before they react.

I use CC on the interstate... and am rather anally aware of my speed when somebody is overtaking as I know how I hate it when somebody does it to me. Yet it happens often enough so that I can usually predict when they are going to speed up about 1/2 mph, just enough to cover me so that I have to brake for the vehicle we are overtaking before swinging in behind them. Inevitably they will slow to their old speed once they get beside the lowest car, leaving me growling about why the heck they are in the passing lane.

No matter what, when somebody is in the passing lane next to you for 3,4, 5 miles or more they need to either crap or get off the pot.

 

[Jstpssng]

Where I live it's all two-lane roads with the occasional third passing lane for uphill traffic. Follow a vehicle on the flats that's doing 55-58 mph, until they get to the 3rd lane, then they accelerate to 65. Since I am pulling a trailer, I can't accelerate fast enough to pass them. But when the 3rd lane ends, it's back to 55 again.

Here it's 45-50... 10-15 mph under the speed limit. Yet as you say, they speed up when somebody can get past them. I once got behind somebody playing that game...45 in a 55, slower when we were on a curve or hill. Yet when we came to a long 3 lane hill they sped up so quickly that I couldn't catch them. We did 75mph for over a mile... as soon as it went back to 2 lanes they dropped back to 45 so quickly that I had to hit the brakes.

 

[Jstpssng]

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Yesterday I had someone playing that game...doing the 55 mph speed limit when you could get by, but 40 on curves or when somebody was coming. I was third in line with 7 more behind me including a dump truck loaded with gravel. When we hit the 3 lane hill the lead car sped up; the two in front of me went side by side up the hill so that nobody could get by. I started thinking about a letter to the editor I may draft. It's against the law in most states to speed up when somebody is trying to pass you. That would be nearly impossible to enforce yet in this case the local PD could set a car up to see when people are doing just that. It might make people more aware of an obscure law, and less apt to play games.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Most of the news reports online say the truck's emergency lights were on.

Here's one:

https://kfor.com/news/dont-miss/video-car-launches-over-tow-truck-in-georgia/

The tow truck, described as a roll-back wrecker, was parked in the left lane with its emergency lights activated, the accident report said.

Bruce

We can see that they weren't.. Not even reflections from rear facing lights.

 

[Midniteoyl]

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I did put a flag on it.

My BiL did that once. I was driving when I saw him coming the other way in a Ford Escort Hatchback @60mph with a new bought tree hanging out the back about 7' flailing around like a Inflatable Wacky Waving Tube Man

 

[Dftodd]

 

[dstig1]

I use CC on the interstate... and am rather anally aware of my speed when somebody is overtaking as I know how I hate it when somebody does it to me. Yet it happens often enough so that I can usually predict when they are going to speed up about 1/2 mph, just enough to cover me so that I have to brake for the vehicle we are overtaking before swinging in behind them. Inevitably they will slow to their old speed once they get beside the lowest car, leaving me growling about why the heck they are in the passing lane.

No matter what, when somebody is in the passing lane next to you for 3,4, 5 miles or more they need to either crap or get off the pot.

You sure you don't live in the upper Midwest? That is characteristic of drivers in this region. And letting someone merge is apparently an insult to your ancestors.

 

[Dftodd]

You sure you don't live in the upper Midwest? That is characteristic of drivers in this region. And letting someone merge is apparently an insult to your ancestors.

The side by side and under the speed limit is all over arkansas. Then the driver in the hammer lane gets offended when people are able to sneak around them start giving them the 1 finger salute.

There's been someone on the interstate the last week that's been camping in the hammer lane doing 5 under the speed limit. Then when someone starts creeping close to them, they lock up their brakes. About every 2 minutes the hammer lane has to suddenly brake stacking up traffic for a half a mile or more.

I'll also see idiots daily with their head so far up their butt in the slow lane not allowing people to merge onto the interstate. Is it really that difficult to change your speed up or down a little to give someone some room to merge safetly?????