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Originally posted by wolf
As a Pennsylvania driver, I am well aware that people from New Jersey and Maryland bribed someone to pass their licensing exams, and I am prepared to deal with them passing on the right, making a right hand turn from the left hand lane, and generally behaving badly.
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I have to disagree... as a group PA drivers are just as bad in my experience. I have many driving-related peeves, so I'll only share a couple.
1. Driving too slowly. I am not a fast driver. (This is all contextual--it depends on the road, the conditions, and what everybody else is doing. For example, on Lincoln Drive during rush hour, I'm usually doing 40-45 in a posted 25 zone, because, based on what the other traffic is doing, running at 25 is acually less safe.) So when I run into (figuratively speaking) somebody whom I feel is driving too slow, they're probably going REALLY FUCKING SLOW.
2. Stay in your damn lane. Enough said. Corollary: use the turning lanes properly. My favorite example of this is the turn from northbound Lincoln Drive onto Mt. Pleasant. There are individual lanes to turn left, go straight, and turn right. For some reason approximately half the people making right turns are unable to fathom that they need to be COMPLETELY in the right turn lane.
3. If you're backing up, you really do need to look and see if there's a person and/or car behind you. That goes double for parking lots.
4. Useless passing & indiscriminate lane changing: these only slow traffic down when enough people start doing them. If you are behind a slowpoke who is going considerably slower than everybody else, feel free to pass. But guess what? If everybody in the right lane is doing about 45 (for example), and everybody in the left lane is doing about 45, you're just going to have to suck it up and go about 45. No amount of weaving and hair-splitting lane changes on a dime will get you there any faster.
I, of course, am a perfect driver who is a joy for other people to share hte road with.
