So I'm driving my '00 WS6 Trans Am home yesterday, I'm in the right lane, behind another car, getting ready to take an exit. I notice in my rear view a late model Mustang GT in the left lane over taking me. Assuming the guy is going to be an ass, I close to about two car lengths as the car in front and I travel normal speed at the exit. Of course this guy squeezed in front of me, didn't surprise me, I just shook my head. He traveled down to the intersection and turned right, the same way I was going. He goes, I wait patiently for a truck to pass. I moved into the left lane, to pass the truck after I complete the turn. Of course he is ahead of me just sort of lurking. We're on a road that is 30 mph then 40 mph. I'm mostly doing the speed limit + up to 5 over. So when I get next to him he matches me, it's a black car with dark windows so I couldn't have seen him if I wanted to. He's surging a little, obviously wanting to race. Did I mention I'm on a road where the speed limit maxes out at 40 mph? Oh, and going past houses, churches, schools, etc? Even if stomping on a slow Mustang (Mustang GTs up until the current year really aren't too quick compared to even 8-12 year old ('98-'02) GM LS1 F-Bodies) appealed to me, why in the hell would I do so in such conditions? Eventually his turn came up and I was rid of him.

Post more stupid driver stories. I think many of us should have several and I bet we even have some where we're the stupid driver!

I have too many to tell, but that said, most are terribly dull unless you were there.

Latest one was two days ago, in the middle lane of the A1(M) approaching an on-ramp. I spy a wagon on the slip road about to join the motorway with three cars right behind it which are clearly going to take the first opportunity to get round it. All 4 vehicles join the motorway, I hang back to give them some space to pull out and get round the wagon but they wait. After a beat, the second car from the wagon pulls out to overtake it, then the one in front of him (nearest the wagon) immediately swerved in front of him.

The car now in front of me piles on the brakes, I do the same, and the BAD MAN sort makes an apologetic wave, then buries the throttle and buggers off down the road in shame for nearly causing a 3 car pile up.

Last month I was driving home from target and was at a red light in the right lane. There was a guy in a white car directly next to me in the left lane. The lady in a blue car behind me decided to try her luck and drive in between me and the white car before the light even turned green. With no luck with cutting myself or the white car off, blue car lady got behind white car guy. He turned, and white car lady was next to me then tried cutting me off while still next to me nearly smashing my front fender. then SPED off. Turns out the ***** lives in the same military housing neighborhood, and actually down the street from me.

I don't have too many but last week some arsehole nearly killed me on a roundabout by flying round in the wrong lane and not indicating. Ofcourse he looks like he's turning off at the exit that I'm turning on from, but no he comes barelling past in the wrong lane doing about 35 and I have to slam on the brakes to avoid him ploughing into me sideways.

I can't stand the way people drive. One day I'll write a book about it (seriously)

I have a ton of examples of idiot driving, but really I only need to mention ones I wasn't there to witness.

My car has been hit TWICE while it was completely parked. Once in a Best Buy parking lot surrounded by other cars, the other was when it was parked on the street outside my house. Yes, it was legally, and well parked both times.

Some jackass in a BMW crossed DOUBLE double yellow lines into the carpool lane while I was riding to work today (he was alone in the car to boot). I was doing about 75MPH on the super-slab and his left. He decided he wanted to get into the carpool lane, despite the fact that he was only going a bout 50MPH in a 70MPH zone and he had to illegally cross two sets of double yellows. He cut right in front of me and forced me to swerve into the emergency lane, where I had to dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge to avoid pieces of shredded tires, rubbish, and gravel strewn about the edge of the highway.

When I see people driving like complete morons putting those around them at risk I would almost have no moral qualms whatsoever pointing a gun at them and pulling the trigger. The disregard for others irks me to no end and I'd rather take your live than sit back and let you endanger mine.

I know the feeling, though that's a tad extreme.

I'd use a .38, less likely to over-penetrate and hit some innocent guy in the bicycle lane

Lol yeah I felt a little harsh after posting that so I toned it down about 1% =)

But then you'd have a corpse at the wheel of a moving vehicle.

I assumes he would only shoot while the other guy was at a red light or stop sign.

I didn't mean shoot car-to-car, way to risky. Personally I pictured it more as a follow him home, drag him into a back room while yelling at him for how stupid he is and what gives him the right to endanger my life, and okay I'll stop here before I get myself into trouble

We should have cars that automatically pull over when they detect bad driving, lock the doors, and pummel the driver in the face with the air bags over and over. Then eject them and call a tow truck.

Trunk monkey

I think you should have to retest every 5-10 years. That would remove a lot of the people, who really shouldn't be on the road (old people)

Nah. Old people aren't that big a problem; most of them drive slow.

Yesterday I was on my way to work, and I'm in the left lane speeding. This chick on her cellphone has been tailgating me for about three miles. I need to go right make a turn. I turn on my blinker and slow down a little; I can see a gap in the other lane over taking me. Of course, the gap overtakes her first. I start to merge; she whips right, floors it past me, and cuts me off. While I had my blinker on, and when I'm already half way into the right lane.

Same day, on the way home. I'm at a red light in the left lane. There's some sort of work truck beside me in the right lane, and another tiny car driven by a douchebag behind me. I can see ahead of me in my lane a car stopped waiting to make a left hand turn. The light turns green. I accelerate slowly because the stopped car is still there. The work truck, having a clear lane, takes off. The douchebag behind me passes me on the right and cuts me off to get around the work truck. But, the stopped car was still there. I stayed around long enough to tell the cops exactly what happened.

Everyone always thinks they're ace drivers

Oops, my bad.

I just took a trip to Florida & encountered some of the worst driving that I've ever experienced. This is made worse by almost every road in the country being under construction due to the Reinvestment Act. I can confidently say that we came near to serious injury or death at least on 5 occasions on this trip (we were gone for a week). I'll only go in to one of them because I don't have much time.

We were driving in the right lane on a 2 lane highway in Tennessee. Our exit was approaching so I put on my right turning signal very early as usual to give everyone behind me enough time to respond. The ramp was packed full of cars & I could see that we were going to come to a dead stop while we were still on the highway. I put on my emergency signal to let everyone know that they should utilize caution. We came to a dead stop. In my rearview mirror I saw a sport utility vehicle of some sort quite a distance back attempting to pass someone in the right lane. Before he's able to do so he looks forward & notices that he's about to crash in to the back of our car. He slams on his brakes, loses control of his vehicle & is fishtailing all over the place. He manages to gain enough control to force the person that he was trying to pass in to the left shoulder & flies past all of us. If he would've noticed us a moment later we'd likely be dead or at least seriously injured. The sad thing about idiots is that they don't learn from their mistakes. This person is probably out there right now speeding & passing someone in the right lane.

It's frighteningly easy to acquire a drivers license in this country.

That's very true but there are a few of us out there that actually are great drivers. Unfortunately almost everyone in this country is an idiot behind the wheel & no one believes us when we make the claim.

This probably includes plenty of people claiming they aren't.

I've only had people run their stop signs lately and then realize it halfway into the intersection.

I did have someone try to turn in front of me when i was out on my motorcycle a few weeks ago, sun was behind me and couldn't see me very well, but they still stopped turning with plenty of time for either of us to make our move.

I notice what is a common violation where I live and its getting to happen more frequently that I notice is that alot of people in the state of Utah make this "modified California stop". I Was coming down a four lane highway in my 97' Tahoe, and was approaching the intersection with the traffic light being green for the vehicles in front and for me of course. After the car in front of me being 30 car lengths ahead, and me traveling about 43-45 mph went through the light being green, I approached the intersection and the light was still green for me and all of sudden this dick head in a big ass old beat up dodge pick-up was barreling around the corner making an accelerated right turn without even slowing down, and he was looking right at me, of course I had to slam on my brakes and watching the rear view to see if I will get rear ended, luckily not. I know damn well that he went through a red light making a right turn and did not even hesitate or slowed down. The other funny thing was that two cars behind me was a county sheriff following not too far behind and should of noticed this act of retardedness and did nothing about it.

Obviously. Surely you guys aren't claiming that there's no such thing as a good driver. The point is that no one would believe them if they were.

I see people do crazy **** right in front of cops and the cops ignore it.

They are more interested in targeting Long boarders.:ninja:

Uh-oh! I just started something. I better get the hell out of here while I can.

OH U

**** da police rage rage rage unfair stereotyping hate hate hate

My stories usually involve me being on my bicycle and stupid drivers doing stupid things.
In the last few Saturday bunch rides we've had a drink thrown at us, people have overtaken us on blind corners and blind crests. Last Saturday a guy passed us within about a foot of my handlebars. There was a whole empty lane for him to use, but no he just had to use ours.

I work in a toll booth at a park, and we have two parallel driveways, one in and one out, with a strip of vegetation in between. They connect to a two-lane road on a hill. People going up the hill can turn right into our driveway with no problems. People going down the hill aren't supposed to turn into our driveway at all, because it's illegal for them to turn left across traffic. There's a big NO LEFT TURN sign right across from our driveway.

Every single day I have people making illegal turns into our exit road (I can even hear the honking as they swerve into oncoming traffic or stop in the middle of the road, blocking traffic as they wait for an opening) and then having the nerve to complain that it's not clearly enough marked as an exit.

For a while the CHP set up shop in a nearby driveway and ticketed everyone who did that, but I guess they got bored.

I have plenty of horror stories about cyclists mister

I guess the reason I've been avoiding getting a driver's license for all these years is that I'd probably be the worst driver ever imaginable. Hell, I haven't even ridden a bicycle in 3 years.

The other reason being that getting a license costs like 2000 euros 'round here and I should have learnt all the driving jazz when I was still a young'n anyhow. Oy vey!

How much is a snowmobile license? That seems like it would be more useful in SNOW? SNOW! SNOW. land.

Somewhere around 1000-1800 €

You can also drive a tractor with a snowmobile license. Woo!

do do da do doo :haw:

I was going to ask why it was so expensive, but then I remembered an old Top Gear episode in which Slow went to Finland to learn how to drive, and explained that Finnish drivers go through a very intensive, lengthy driving training, far more technical than anything in the US or UK. So I don't need to ask anymore!

And, funnily enough, all these instances mentioned on this thread occur here as well (at least from what I've garnered from my father's rants), maybe not that often but still regularly enough. Ah, people.

I assume from your emoticon that your stories are against us

Many cyclists fail to understand that bicycles are considered vehicles, and are subject to most of the same rules (at least in CA, where Thrawn and I are from). Other than the bike lane, they get no special privileges. They still have to stop at stop signs, signal turns, and stay in their lane. Many cyclists fail to do so; they act as if they have special privileges.

I follow the rules when cycling, but that doesn't stop the ridiculous percentage of drivers who don't bother to signal properly from nearly killing me every now and then.

Tell you what though, my road awareness as a cyclist is far better than it was as a driver. Without a mirror you kind of need it.