Post #153118 by ZebraTiki on Fri, Apr 15, 2005 3:55 PM

With me it's the turn signals (or 'challenge indicators'in N.O.) that people don't use. I'm certain that if car manufacturers started cutting corners and not including them, suddenly everyone would be outraged and be picketing because our rights are being violated. The people who don't signal must be assuming that everyone else is psychic, and can predict their next move. These are probably the same people who change lanes with no signal on the freeway, and then the mega-speeders smash into them.

My second driving peeve are people who drive as if they think the road lane lines and intersection/crosswalk lines are painted on the ground for artistic reasons, having nothing to do with vehicles in motion and opposing traffic. I'm under the impression that crosswalk or limit lines are to be visible to the driver when stopped, thus, if your tires are on the limit line, the front of your car is potentially in the way of pedestrians, yet I see cars stopped way over the lines all the time. One of my friends wants to walk around town for the day with a white cane (feigning blindness) and smack the cars who are in the crosswalk with the cane while shouting, "What (bam!) is this? (smash!) What is it? (smack!) Am I at the curb already?!"

The "California roll" through a stop at a right hand turn also makes me nuts. That is probably due to learning to drive in a non-synchronized stick shift, which requires that you come to a "full and complete stop" before being able to get it into 1st gear. I've seen people looking to their left as they roll through the stop, and not see pedestrians approaching on their right.

I've noticed that for the most part, the nicer the car is following me, the further they'll stay back, Ferraris and Rolls Royces generally allow 2-4 car lengths on the freeway, instead of trying to mate with my car's rear bumper.