What driving maneuver, if any, do you hate doing?

Merging onto a crowded highway.

A long reverse out of two-way road with cars parked on either side and nobody e!se but you willing to budge!

Cruising up to a car to see a Baby on Board sticker in the window, a little bit of vomit comes up & I just hate that taste.

I don’t like it when the right of way is altered. When I used to drive, I would hate it when someone gave me the right of way. I understand it’s a kind gesture, but it messes with the system and makes me feel uncomfortable. Worst instances:
3) When there’s no car behind you and you let me go. Uhh…thanks for sparing me the two seconds.
2) When you stop for me and there’s other lines of traffic I have to worry about. Now I feel like I have to thank the other people that had to or felt the need to stop for me…I’d rather just wait at the stop sign for a clear opening.
1) When you let me go at a 4-way stop even though you got there first. You got there first, so go first! Most people are confused at 4-way stops anyway, so don’t make it even more confusing.
Most of my driving occured in urban areas, and this politeness is much less common there, so hopefully you won’t have to worry about it. I needed a good rant.

Anything that leads to crashing, other than that, there is nothing I do not care to do, unless waking up behind the wheel and not knowing what stretch of highway I am on.

No maneuver really, I just LOATHE driving in the city. It’s just a horrible stressful time.

@dxs We are of one mind, especially when I am cycling – all of those situations become even more dangerous when the other driver “tries to be nice”. Not appreciated at all.

Chaining up my semi on a wet snowy winter highway.

Parallel parking. Absolutely can not do it. If I have to parallel park to go somewhere, I will just not go.

Merging right from a stop with a car in front doing the same. They sometimes start then hesitate and you’re too busy looking at the traffic you are merging into to notice that they are at a dead stop right in front of you when they are supposed to be gone.

I can parallel park my car, which is pretty surprising considering the need hardly ever arises where I live, but I couldn’t parallel park my husband’s truck to save my life. I think I’ve tried 3 times, but he always ends up having to do it before I hit someone.

I hate merging onto the interstate when traffic is heavy. I hate having to switch over multiple lanes in order to avoid getting off on the wrong exit (every single morning). I hate when an off ramp and an on ramp are one in the same. Who the hell thinks it’s a good idea to have people trying to get off the interstate in the exact same spot that people are trying to get on the interstate? I’m sure there’s a word for it. Oh yeah, stupid.

I hate having to back up straight for a long distance. I simply can’t back out of a long curved driveway without my head out the window.

Heavy stop-and-go traffic in itself is awful, especially when people can’t seem to ease forward instead of lurching and slamming on brakes every five seconds.

The part in which I’m the person behind the wheel.

Parallel parking.I can’t do it. Fortunately when I got my first driver’s license you didn’t have to really drive. I’ve survived living in two countries that drive on opposite sides of the road and never had to be tested thank God.

I hate having to stop and go on really steep hills (ie Filbert in San Francisco). I always feel like I’m going to roll back into the car behind me.

We once saw a semi stuck at the apex of one of those hills!

—-@fluthernutter Egh I drive a manual vehicle, when I get on a steep hill I let my car roll back a bit so the driver behind me is aware that I’m in a manual and doesn’t get right up on my ass. Still, they inch closer and closer. I’m always afraid one day my foot is going to slip off the clutch or something and I’m just going to roll backward into the impatient prick.—

I assume everyone is driving a manual on those hills.

Being forced to follow to closely on highways due to motorists putzing around in the passing lane.

Being forced to pass on the right for the same reason.

It’s ironic here in the US. Pass on the right? No one gives a shit.

But do the proper procedure and flash your brights at 150 meters giving plenty of warning?

They’ll call the cops.

Get off the phone and check your 6.

Order, lane discipline, safe distances: IS IT REALLY TOO MUCH TO ASK?

@SecondHandStoke “But do the proper procedure and flash your brights at 150 meters giving plenty of warning?”

Explain?

Yeah, @secondhandstoke, I am also confused by that. Is that a thing?

The crash one.

“Explain”, “Is that a thing?”...

(Sigh) See what I mean?

Okay.

On a multi lane highway the leftmost lane is reserved for passing vehicles.
The lane is used for quick and active passing and is then reopened by shifting right after the pass as much as traffic allows.

If one is approaching at speed and sees that a slower vehicle is either shifting left to pass with their faster car bearing down, or a car is occupying the passing lane with no traffic to it’s right a driver might flash the car’s brights assuming that the driver has temporarily lost a sense of their position and the current situation.

If I happen to be in a left lane and observe a driver shifting left for no reason I would likely flash my brights to let this driver know that I’m closing fast and the driver has made a needless mistake.

At any given time a driver should be as far to the right as the situation allows. This opens all lanes to the left to quicker traffic.

Driving is a full time occupation. One duty of observation and reaction is constantly overlapping another.

There is no time or mental capacity left over for a driver engage in any other activity.

Make your phone calls and eat your lunch at home or the office.

Like I said above part of your car payment is going toward paying for those rearview mirrors, you had might as well use them. Check your fucking 6.

If a car behind you is flashing it’s brights especially with the left signal on the message is clear: you are needlessly clogging the passing lane.

@SecondHandStoke They do that all the time up here, slow car traffic in the left hand lane and driving there for miles and miles, but if one of us transport takes 2 seconds longer than we should getting back in the right hand lane , people blow their horns and finger us like no tomorrow.

@SecondHandStoke That is definitely not a rule where I live. Flashing your brights in such a circumstance would only make the other driver look for a speed trap. The equivalent action here for what you describe would be to sound your horn.

This has nothing to do with being distracted while driving – some of us are asking you for clarification simply because it is not a universal rule or custom.

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Brights flashing for an observed speed trap comes form traffic traveling in the opposite direction. Think about it.

Universal rule? It is. where have you been?

You say that a lack of response to headlight signals is not the result of misunderstanding.

Trust me. Based on what I’ve observed once my pass is finally executed obliviousness is the core cause.

@SecondHandStoke “You say that a lack of response to headlight signals is not the result of misunderstanding.”

Huh? I just said that people wouldn’t understand it here. So yeah, obviously I think a lack of response to headlight signals could be the result of misunderstanding.

It’s a big continent. There’s no reason for you to expect that every part of it follows the same conventions. Is it a law where you live? If so, let’s see the code. If not – seriously, you think 100% of North American drivers have heard of this? Sorry, you’re wrong.

“SLOWER TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT” is law nationwide.

@dappled_leaves all the divided highways here in Canada have signs posted on them that say keep right except to pass, but you still get thousands of slow car drivers hanging out in the left hand lane thinking it’s their god givin right to do so.

@SecondHandStoke Of course it is! I am talking about the flashing of the lights as a signal!!

That’s not a signal I’ve ever heard about either although I understand “keep right except to pass.”

From above:

If one is approaching at speed and sees that a slower vehicle is either shifting left to pass with a faster car bearing down, or a car is occupying the passing lane with no traffic to it’s right a driver might flash the car’s brights assuming that the driver has temporarily lost a sense of their position and the current situation.

If I happen to be in a left lane and observe a driver shifting left for no reason I would likely flash my brights to let this driver know that I’m closing fast and the driver has made a needless mistake.

@SecondHandStoke Isn’t that what the horn is for? I mean rather than risk them not seeing your lights flash, they’ll definitely hear a horn.

The correct moment to alert the errant driver is often too far distant for a horn to be heard.

Doesn’t anyone else check their mirrors before shifting lanes?

@SecondHandStoke “to let this driver know that I’m closing fast and the driver has made a needless mistake.”
“The correct moment to alert the errant driver is often too far distant for a horn to be heard.”

I suppose you’re really not closing all that fast then , or you have more than ample time to decelerate yourself.

Either way, can’t say I’ve ever seen someone flash their high beams in this area unless for the following reasons

At a four way “No, you go first”
“Hey, there is a cop ahead”
“Turn off your highbeams asshole, you’re blinding me.”

“or you have more than ample time to decelerate yourself.”

A lane shift that causes traffic in the passing lane to have to slow is an errant one.

I remember being stuck in traffic on a freeway for a very long time. I think there was an accident a ways ahead, and there was no other for me to get home. My air conditioner was out, it was blazing hot, and I was tired. We were creeping along about 2 or so miles per hour and I dozed off at the wheel. I woke up when I bumped into the guy in front of me. He came out and chewed me out like I’ve never been chewed out before. I tried to apologize, but there’s no apology good enough for someone like that. The way I remember it, there wasn’t much I-or anyone could do. We were all simply stuck. I didn’t damage his car in the slightest, which was a huge relief.

I hate being stuck in traffic.

Man, I have been doing it for so long I am pretty much inured to any and all of the day to day skills and maneuvers required.

The only thing I can think of is judging whether the distance between me, the car in the left lane and the car in the right lane is enough for me to make the crossover.