Paul G. Allen wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 03:12 -0800, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Rick Carlson wrote:
For that matter explain why some drivers think that increasing their
speed during a rain storm or thick fog makes it safer than slowing
down to a safer speed during those conditions.
I'd like to know why nobody seems to notice the involvement of
tailgaters in accidents.
In short, I have noticed that all too often it is the tailgaters that
cause the problems.
Speaking of tailgaters and bad drivers....
On the way home yesterday I was making the transition from 125 South to
8 West during rush hour (I hate that transition, whether in a car or on
a bike). I was in my Mustang. In the span of less than a couple minutes
I was nearly hit 4 times by 3 different drivers.
The first one, a lowered truck with a young person (much younger than me
anyway) driving cut me off changing lanes to the left. I had to swerve
around him and saw two other cars do the same - he was going at least
10mph slower than traffic.
While I was in the right lane to take the ramp to 8 East, the same guy
moved back over in front of me (back into the lane he had moved out of
to begin with!), causing me to swerve again, this time into the far
right lane, just in front of another car, and then I had to shift down a
gear to get in front of the bozo and move back over to the left to make
the ramp. If there hadn't been room for me to move out of his way,
either a) I would have been hit by him, b) I would have been rear-ended
when I hit my brakes to avoid him hitting me, c) I would have hit the
car in the right lane next to me while trying to avoid the truck, or d)
The car next to me would have rear-ended me when I moved over (good
thing I had the power to accelerate out of the way!)
The next two cars nearly made me part of a sandwich on 8 East. They
both, at the same time, moved over from the far left lane into my lane.
One tailgating me and the other cutting me off. Fortunately I saw them
both move, because if I hadn't seen the one behind me, I would have hit
the brakes (to avoid rear-ending the bozo in front of me) and would have
been rear-ended by the bozo behind me. Instead I swerved into the left
lane where the two cars had left a nice large hole for me to fit into.
Neither one used a signal and both had to squeeze into a space barely
large enough for their cars to fit.
That would suggest that unless you were moving at around 5mph, you were
tailgating. No? :-\
Car manufacturers could save some money and not install turn signals
because no one uses them anyway.
If I need them, I use them as a warning of something I'm *about to do*,
not as a request. I gave up using them as a request a long time ago.
The law only requires them if you're about to do something risky anyway.
I think this thread officially went OT.
Agreed.
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