I learned about a new law tonight...

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Originally Posted by OneSickPsycho

All well and good, except people do NOT use their rear view mirrors... that's either for seeing if you have anything in your teeth, putting on your makeup, or backing out of the driveway (sometimes).

That why you use the blinker. The animated light catches their eye, often even if they're not looking in the mirror.

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Originally Posted by askmrjesus

I see it plastered on the back of semi trailers all the time:

<<<PASSING SIDE ---- SUICIDE>>>

I remember seeing various ones. Some of my favs:

<<<PASS ---- ASS>>>

<<<GO ---- NO>>>

<<<OK ---- NO WAY>>>

<<<POSITIVE ---- NEGATIVE>>> (on back of Interstate Battery truck)

[Fleck750]

I'm surprised that most of you haven't encountered a cager that has tried to run you over.

I had one the other night jerk his pick up in front of me on a 4 lane road, came close to hitting me. I was doing the speed limit, in the left lane, minding my own business.

There are two kind of cagers:

1. the ones that you are invisible to

2. the ones that think you have a target painted on you.

[anthonyk]

Originally Posted by Avatard

That why you use the blinker. The animated light catches their eye, often even if they're not looking in the mirror.

Given the number of morons whose own dashboard blinker light fails to catch their eye for miles and miles and miles, I'm kind of skeptical about this one.

My personal favorite is to move left far enough that my headlight is straight in their driver's side mirror, then move back toward center. Rinse and repeat a couple of times, and they (sometimes) get the message.

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It doesn't always work, but it gets better responses than the high beams, which almost invariably trigger the aforementioned ego response.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by pauldun170

Two hotheads traveling along screaming WTF at each over what they think they are entitled too.
You are supposed to keep right!!
You are supposed to look before changing lanes!!
You shouldn't be passing on right ( not to be confused with simple lane change to different flow of traffic)
You also can't exceed the speed limit.
You can't go screaming at other drivers.

Don't pay attentiont to anything in this post....I was just typing to keep busy while I was pooping.
See that big list? They are all independent items and can't be combined for extra prizes.

His hogging a lane doesn't entitle you to exceed the speed limit. His illegal lane change doesn't entitle you to engage other drivers using aggressive gestures or obscene language. When you changed lanes to pass you should have left it at the 3 beeps and gone about your day.

Having said all that, how quickly did you accelerate to pass on the right? That and I probably would have done the same thing you did.

If you check the laws, in most jurisdictions, you'll find that it's quite the opposite. G-Rex exceeding the speed limit does not entitle the other driver, to block the passing lane. Generally speaking the laws governing 'keep right, except to pass' do not, in any way, care what the overtaking vehicle is doing. It could be a icey-hot stunna trying for the longest wheelie at a ton record, and you still must give way.

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Avatard

It doesn't always work, but it gets better responses than the high beams, which almost invariably trigger the aforementioned ego response.

Here it just triggers the "dumbass forgot to turn off hos blinker" response.

[azoomm]

What I've learned...

1. People are usually too busy doing everything except driving in their boxes on wheels while on the roads.

2. When they aren't too busy doing other things, they are generally asleep or just acting as a mouth-breather.

3. If I change my body language or do any emotional display on a motorcycle it is perceived as anger or rage. People are too used to placing their own emotion onto other people they do it to me when I'm riding.

4. I'm not EVER going to be able to "teach someone a lesson" while on the public roads.

Add all of these together and start driving with patience. FWIW, I hate passing on the right...

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Carry at least a couple of extra spark plugs in your pocket?

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by Avatard

Carry at least a couple of extra spark plugs in your pocket?

Got to be in front, to be able to use them, or you end up as a Jim Croce lyric.

Hell, you can end up as a Jim Croce lyric just for messing with a car.