I like to play a game where I stop pressing the gas and coast to see how slow I can get before they go around me. My record is 25mph on a 65mph freeway where the cars around us were going closer to 75 or 80. I was honestly shocked.
Its my main reason I drive with sunglasses on at night. People think I’m weird or stupid but then change their minds when a truck with lights brighter than the sun glare at them…
I ended up buying a ram, it was cheaper (family employee discount). I’m giant, 6’ 7" I tried a lot of vehicles but the first time I sat in it, I was just immediately comfortable. Every vehicle I’ve been in since my big boat of a Deville became too expensive to fix has been tight and uncomfortable.
I bought the ecodiesel, because at that time (pre-carbon tax) diesel was much cheaper. No 5.7L Hemi, no 6.2L Hellcat. When cold I can barely accelerate, when the turbo heats up it’s a powerful engine designed to tow things. I get passed by these guys all day, and I get weird looks. I test drove a hemi, you don’t need to try to go fast. It’s actually harder to drive slow in that vehicle. My wife calls me grandpa because I drive so slow, behind the wheel of that hemi ram… I was a different person. None of this surprises me
A quick profile search would tell you that I do, indeed, have a German driver's license because I am German and then another quick Google search might even tell you that Germany has no default speed limit on the Autobahn (and on Bundesstraßen with more than one lane) and thus has large strips of road without speed limits. Now do a quick read and you might realize that you were going down on a stupid joke with a condescending "erm, akchually"... Congratulations, you made a right fool out of yourself.
I still don’t believe you’re from Germany because:
Most roads are not autobahns. Implying you aren’t familiar with speed limits as a German is akin to implying an Italian wouldn’t be familiar with level floors.
The autobahns themselves are only limitless in rural areas, and even then a lot of vehicle types are still subject to limits.
The only thing I see indicating you’re actually German is your sense of humor.
Schaut's euch den depperten Hund an. Googlet sich zufällige Verkehrsregeln in irgendwelchen Foren zusammen, kapiert den Witz doppelt nicht und meint dann immer noch, einen auf Macker machen zu müssen. Eher bin ich also kein Deutscher, als der Typ einfach nur den Witz ned kapiert hat. Na des hamwer gern. Grattler...
Driving home one night, lots of traffic on the highway, and I notice I can’t see the headlights of the car behind me they are driving so close to my bumper. So I ease off the gas and as soon as I can move over to the right. (Note, I was keeping up with the traffic in the left lane, I just wasn’t riding their ass considering we’re lined up as far as the eye can see)
This guy passes me and pulls in front of me, only to break check and slow to a fucking crawl. Left hand lane is still full, so once there’s an opening I move over and accelerate so this asshole doesn’t have room to get in. Traffic lined up behind me too so I have no idea how long it took him to get back over into the left lane. For someone so damn impatient he ended up wasting his own time for no reason.
All this is to say:
you’re not a traffic cop
Neither are you. It’s not your role to “punish” people who weren’t moving fast enough for you. Just move the fuck on.
So I ease off the gas and as soon as I can move over to the right. (Note, I was keeping up with the traffic in the left lane, I just wasn’t riding their ass considering we’re lined up as far as the eye can see)
Cool, you’re all good then. Keep doing that.
The vast majority of the time when someone complain about some maniac behind them trying to pass, it’s because they’re just tooling around in the fast lane and they have personally decided that no car must be allowed to go faster than them.
I agree that people need to move the fuck over when there’s someone behind them, but if the person behind ends up brake checking them that will discourage them from moving over in the future. (“Why should I let this guy pass just so he can brake check me like the last asshole I let pass?”)
There’s also the situation where the road is only one lane so you can’t exactly “move over”.
They don’t have the patience to brake check someone going 12mph under the speed limit, thankfully.
Or it ends up being a really slow boring, almost cordial, brake check. I had it happen once, it was funny. I didn’t realize he wasn’t turning until he sped off even madder.
Also every new vehicle with the ultra bright LED headlights anywhere that hills or bumps exist because the beam cutoff is a millimeter below retina burning height I swear.
As someone with a car from '07 it basically makes it impossible to drive safely at night, especially on really dark nights. There are points where you just straight up can’t see because you’re being blinded by someone coming towards you, not to mention your eyes just don’t adjust to the dark anymore since it’s happening more and more often.
Even new sedans have a bad time with all the SUVs and pickup trucks. There’s not much you can do when the headlight is higher than the highest part of your vehicle.
It’s a shame because I don’t need the space, don’t want to spend the extra money for gas + purchase price, but am risking my safety by not driving one of those monstrosities.
My general solution is to just not drive at night. Why do we subsidize these SUVs and pickup trucks by exempting them from emissions regulations?
Yeah, I can't count the amount of times where I assumed someone was flashing their lights at me, askesd myself what the fuck that fucker wanted just to notice that they were going over miniscule bumps in the road.... And I can only assume that my vehicle has done the same to soo many people as well...
If I recall correctly that was the reason why care manufacturers had standardized headlights for most of the past centurie where it all started as a quality control until lights started to be really good and the reason we kept using the standard round lights was to prevent people from having lights that would blind other drivers maybe we should bring that back onto trucks at least like of your headlights are going to be eye level they shouldn’t be retna burning
When you consider that the root cause of both problems (owning a Dodge RAM truck and driving drunk) is absolutely terrible judgement, this correlation becomes rather self evident.
The vans are legit though. My mom has a '91 Dodge Ram 3500 15 passenger van that has gone all over the US hauling various groups of children, and that thing shows absolutely no signs of stopping any time soon with well over 350,000 miles on the ODO.
Oh yeah, tons of em. I actually had a Dodge Ram 1500 conversion van that my girlfriend and I lived in for a summer. Allowed us to visit a bunch of national parks.
Yeah 92 Dodge D250 diesel truck here with around 500,000 miles and I just barely replaced the original starter. She’s old faithful and towed 11,000 lbs over 1k miles this year. I am never tailgating or going much more than 5 over because I’m not a complete dick. Also its 6000 lbs dry weight so you should always give yourself stopping distance in case something goes wrong.
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