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On March 12 2011 05:38 Hawk wrote:
People in front or not, left is passing only. Given that the state is pinching pennies left and right (im nj too).
Trust me, I tested this theory as a smug 18 year old when a trooper kept on putting a light in my mirror when I was doing speed limit in the fast lane and not moving because I figured there's no way he can pull me over. Sure enough, it's illegal and they will ticket you!
dunno if he did that because you were in the fast lane when you shouldn't have been, but i'm just assuming since I know i'm hugely irrational prick when someone obstructs me from moving forward like that!
No, it's actually not illegal, at least not in California. The left lane is not for passing only, either. Or so the traffic school of California tells me, at least. The speed limit can almost in no circumstance ever be legally broken. If you're at 65, you're already at the "limit," which assumes normal traffic will be around or slower than that pace. If you consider the left lane the "passing lane" or "fast lane," you can still only go 65. You can't pass someone at 70 mph. It's supposed to be "oh, they're going 55 mph in front of me, so I'll pass them at 65 mph."
It's a joke, don't get me wrong, I just got a speeding ticket within the month at 83 mph, I'm just saying, it's definitely not illegal to go 65 in the left lane.
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United States32132 Posts
yeah I saw the edit about 17 and that changed everything. I went to bergen for a year or so. Fuck that fucking stretch of highway.
e: to above, left is passing only in nj, even if people regularly use it otherwise. However, in this instance, the general drive etiquette is that you stay the hell out if you're not doing 80mph =]
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On March 12 2011 05:54 Hawk wrote:
yeah I saw the edit about 17 and that changed everything. I went to bergen for a year or so. Fuck that fucking stretch of highway.
Be happy you don't have to take it every day =X. One accident can completely screw up your commute. It's absolutely ridiculous how bad it gets up here. One small fender bender this morning backed up 17-S (I was taking N) for almost 3 miles. When I passed by, I saw almost no damage at all to the cars, but they still didn't have the presence of mind to just move into the shoulder and let traffic flow.
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On March 12 2011 05:54 Hawk wrote:
yeah I saw the edit about 17 and that changed everything. I went to bergen for a year or so. Fuck that fucking stretch of highway.
e: to above, left is passing only in nj, even if people regularly use it otherwise. However, in this instance, the general drive etiquette is that you stay the hell out if you're not doing 80mph =]
Oops, thought you meant as a general rule for... everywhere.
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I hate assholes like that too. I've always dreamed of one day chucking a coke from like McDonalds or something at their car.
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Vatican City State2594 Posts
On March 12 2011 06:05 Robonord wrote:
I hate assholes like that too. I've always dreamed of one day chucking a coke from like McDonalds or something at their car.
One time there was this guy. He was following me on the NJT in his pick-up truck. I was in the right lane going about 65-70 mph. He was behind me. Then he started flashing his high beams at me. Mind you it is the middle of the night and the Turnpike is more or less empty (this is between exits 7-9 going North). After a minute of this, I just changed lanes to the left lane (there were only 2 lanes in this stretch). He changed right behind me and kept doing his light flashing thing. This is when I decided it was time for war.
I slowed down to 45 miles per hour in bursts of slamming my breaks. He would slam his breaks, and faithfully keep flashing his highlights the whole time. When we got to 45 mph he switched lanes, passed me, and got in front of me. This is when I sped up to his speed (65 mph) right behind him and started flashing MY highlights, and my highlights are fucking strong. Now HE started slowing down in bursts, and started swerving the car to block both lanes. Eventually he sped up to 80, to try to get away from me. I sped up and passed him, then slowed down to 65-70. This was a momentary peace.
He then merged in behind me and started tailgating me with the highlights on. That was when I'd had it. I started picking up empty cigarette packs off my floor (there were at least 7-10 of them) and I started throwing them over my car an watching them hit his windshield. He took a few of them before deciding to pass me and started doing the swerving shit again. So, I do the natural thing to do at this point, and I passed him from the right, half-way on the shoulder, maintaining speed with him for a moment to show him an empty glass Snapple bottle. I held the bottle out the window as I passed him and got in front of him, as if saying "Come on, try that highlight shit again faggot." Needless to say he calmed the fuck down.
Victory.
Unfortunately this story is true. The thing I still don't get is why he was so pissed at me. He just popped out of nowhere and got behind me and started being a dick. Probably drunk. Assholes in NJ, seriously. They made me into an asshole that night, if only for that night.
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Hyrule19208 Posts
The turnpike is an asshole magnet.
Keep Right Except to Pass is plastered all over, and yet people are still too retarded to keep right except to pass, but that's not even the worst part. What angers me the most is when people stop at YIELD signs. Especially when there's nothing coming.
This is especially bad on the southbound exit 56B on route 55. There's a yield just after a sharp curve at the top of a hill. It's quite easy to safely take this curve at 25mph and merge NO PROBLEM (what with the acceleration lane and all, and I've gone up this ramp at 60 no problem in the middle of the night) but for some reason people insist on stopping at the top of the hill. I've almost hit so many fucknuts there.
If you have ever stopped at a yield (particularly there) then I hate you with a firey passion of doomy doom.
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Pilots are also awful drivers....always causing traffic jams and shit.
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On March 12 2011 06:22 Murderotica wrote:Show nested quote +On March 12 2011 06:05 Robonord wrote:
I hate assholes like that too. I've always dreamed of one day chucking a coke from like McDonalds or something at their car. One time there was this guy. He was following me on the NJT in his pick-up truck. I was in the right lane going about 65-70 mph. He was behind me. Then he started flashing his high beams at me. Mind you it is the middle of the night and the Turnpike is more or less empty (this is between exits 7-9 going North). After a minute of this, I just changed lanes to the left lane (there were only 2 lanes in this stretch). He changed right behind me and kept doing his light flashing thing. This is when I decided it was time for war. I slowed down to 45 miles per hour in bursts of slamming my breaks. He would slam his breaks, and faithfully keep flashing his highlights the whole time. When we got to 45 mph he switched lanes, passed me, and got in front of me. This is when I sped up to his speed (65 mph) right behind him and started flashing MY highlights, and my highlights are fucking strong. Now HE started slowing down in bursts, and started swerving the car to block both lanes. Eventually he sped up to 80, to try to get away from me. I sped up and passed him, then slowed down to 65-70. This was a momentary peace. He then merged in behind me and started tailgating me with the highlights on. That was when I'd had it. I started picking up empty cigarette packs off my floor (there were at least 7-10 of them) and I started throwing them over my car an watching them hit his windshield. He took a few of them before deciding to pass me and started doing the swerving shit again. So, I do the natural thing to do at this point, and I passed him from the right, half-way on the shoulder, maintaining speed with him for a moment to show him an empty glass Snapple bottle. I held the bottle out the window as I passed him and got in front of him, as if saying "Come on, try that highlight shit again faggot." Needless to say he calmed the fuck down. Victory. Unfortunately this story is true. The thing I still don't get is why he was so pissed at me. He just popped out of nowhere and got behind me and started being a dick. Probably drunk. Assholes in NJ, seriously. They made me into an asshole that night, if only for that night.
Well, flashing the highbeams is usually a signal to say something is wrong with your car. My immediate reaction would have been "alright, headlights are on, I don't see any smoke, tires are fine, I haven't been swerving, etc."
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United States32132 Posts
On March 12 2011 06:22 Murderotica wrote:
They made me into an asshole that night, if only for that night.
hmmmmmmm!
Yeah flashing headlights can be a lot of things. Behind you it's most often someone pissed at something you did
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Vatican City State2594 Posts
My car was definitely fine and I had been rolling up the turnpike for at least 50 miles on cruise control in the right lane, it is impossible for me to have done anything to that douche.
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On March 12 2011 06:36 tofucake wrote:
If you have ever stopped at a yield (particularly there) then I hate you with a firey passion of doomy doom.
Speaking of Yield signs... X_X There's this yield sign that everyone has to pass to get onto Rt-17 from my school every day. Every one stops at it. It makes no sense what so ever! It even has its own accelerating lane too.
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United States32132 Posts
That's one of my biggest pet peeves. I've been in two accidents because mother fuckers don't know how to use acceleration lanes
road rage is awesome though. I'm sure I could have gotten myself in a fair amount of trouble for all the dumb things ive done in retaliation to stupidity on the road
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On March 12 2011 07:06 Hawk wrote:
That's one of my biggest pet peeves. I've been in two accidents because mother fuckers don't know how to use acceleration lanes
road rage is awesome though. I'm sure I could have gotten myself in a fair amount of trouble for all the dumb things ive done in retaliation to stupidity on the road
What's an acceleration lane, if you don't mind me asking :X
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United States32132 Posts
Basically instead of ramp to get onto the highway forcing you to gun it into traffic, there is several hundred feet of temp lane in front of you to get up to speed and merge smoothly
Sounds nice in practice, but because we let any breathing fuckstick get a license and don't do anything to ensure that little grandma can still see more than 10 feet in front of her and react accordingly, most people start going and unexpectedly slam the breaks for no reason. These things are basically traps for rear end accidents because of this
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Vatican City State2594 Posts
On March 12 2011 07:20 Hawk wrote:
Basically instead of ramp to get onto the highway forcing you to gun it into traffic, there is several hundred feet of temp lane in front of you to get up to speed and merge smoothly
Sounds nice in practice, but because we let any breathing fuckstick get a license and don't do anything to ensure that little grandma can still see more than 10 feet in front of her and react accordingly, most people start going and unexpectedly slam the breaks for no reason. These things are basically traps for rear end accidents because of this
My other favorite is the people who completely ignore the yield sign in that situation. That yield sign still applies to you, fucktard, because you're not really on the highway yet. They just accelerate, get side by side with you, then try to merge into you and get pissed when you don't give them way. Like wtf? You are pissed at ME because I didn't let you merge in front of me from a yield-sign merge/acceleration lane, when I am on cruise control on the fucking highway? Fucking dipshits. It's almost as bad as when there are 2 roads merging and one has a yield sign, and people see you coming from the side, and refuse to yield anyways, and just gun it hoping to make it there before you do. Fucking pricks. "New Brunswick Exits" section of Rt. 18 N (off the side from the main highway) has like two of those. And guess what, it's college kids. Faggots.
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United States32132 Posts
Actually, I thought of one that annoys me more. When you're making a left at an intersection and on the street you're trying to turn down, there's osmeone else trying to make a left. Why do these fuckers always try to go before you, even if there's no one on the street??? I love stopping in the middle there specifically so people who try this can't get by
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Vatican City State2594 Posts
On March 12 2011 07:34 Hawk wrote:
Actually, I thought of one that annoys me more. When you're making a left at an intersection and on the street you're trying to turn down, there's osmeone else trying to make a left. Why do these fuckers always try to go before you, even if there's no one on the street??? I love stopping in the middle there specifically so people who try this can't get by
Lol my girl JUST called me about this situation like 1 minute ago, crying about how dick all the other drivers are for not letting her go.
I can top you again, I think. You know when a 1-lane exit is backed up all the way onto the highway, and then there are those assholes who pass the whole line, then try to get in through the white-marked side of the exit? Fuck those people, I press up 3 inches behind the car in front of me and don't let them pass and make sure to block them for as long as possible while pointing and laughing.
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United States32132 Posts
Yeaaaah, that was me every day driving home from Bergen hahahaha. I am also ruthless in not letting those people in, but that's a lot easier to do when you drive a beater that you don't care about :/
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Vatican City State2594 Posts
On March 12 2011 07:43 Hawk wrote:
Yeaaaah, that was me every day driving home from Bergen hahahaha. I am also ruthless in not letting those people in, but that's a lot easier to do when you drive a beater that you don't care about :/
At first I thought you were saying that that was you, trying to merge into the exit. To me that is like one of the most indicative actions of a person's overall personality. Scum needs to burn in hell.
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Hyrule19208 Posts
On March 12 2011 07:38 Murderotica wrote:Show nested quote +On March 12 2011 07:34 Hawk wrote:
Actually, I thought of one that annoys me more. When you're making a left at an intersection and on the street you're trying to turn down, there's osmeone else trying to make a left. Why do these fuckers always try to go before you, even if there's no one on the street??? I love stopping in the middle there specifically so people who try this can't get by Lol my girl JUST called me about this situation like 1 minute ago, crying about how dick all the other drivers are for not letting her go. I can top you again, I think. You know when a 1-lane exit is backed up all the way onto the highway, and then there are those assholes who pass the whole line, then try to get in through the white-marked side of the exit? Fuck those people, I press up 3 inches behind the car in front of me and don't let them pass and make sure to block them for as long as possible while pointing and laughing.
There's an exact opposite situation on 95 S in PA which takes me an alternate way home from work. The Cottman Ave exit lane always goes quickly (obviously, since people aren't getting owned by traffic) so people will gun it down the lane, even though it says every half mile for 2 miles (basically 4 times) that it's an exit only lane, and then at the split they will try to get back into the right lane, which, since there's traffic, isn't moving at all and as a result now the exit lane backs up.
I hate those pricks.
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