I’ve driven in places where putting on a blinker would cause the cars next to you to speed up and close the gaps. If you wanted to get over, you couldn’t let anyone know until it was too late for them to stop you.
I knew someone who didn’t use a blinker and this was their justification, and I’m like my guy you’re in Seattle now; people will drive dangerously in order to let you merge when they really shouldn’t!
I’m glad I’m not crazy! Coming from Texas, the many times I’ve driven in and around Seattle, they are 100% like this. People slowing down to well under the speed limit to allow merging, and the almost 0% of speeding is so foreign to me. I feel like everyone there is dangerously polite while driving.
I hate when someone stops in traffic to let me out of a parking lot or to let me turn left across their lane. You have right of way! Being polite isn’t worth driving dangerously!
Same here. There’ve been times when I’m pleasantly surprised by a needed courtesy but all too often I feel guilty that you’ve disrupted everyone’s right of way to let me out when you shouldn’t have
Now that I have an EV, those situations are just amusing. Joe redneck puts the hammer down, you hear a big rackets as things rattle and bang until the vehicle starts going a little faster …… then when I’m tired of watching the show I zoom forward with ease in effortless quiet
Exactly, why would you tell the enemy what your doing. /s
I’ve driven in places where putting on a blinker would cause the cars next to you to speed up and close the gaps. If you wanted to get over, you couldn’t let anyone know until it was too late for them to stop you.
I knew someone who didn’t use a blinker and this was their justification, and I’m like my guy you’re in Seattle now; people will drive dangerously in order to let you merge when they really shouldn’t!
I’m glad I’m not crazy! Coming from Texas, the many times I’ve driven in and around Seattle, they are 100% like this. People slowing down to well under the speed limit to allow merging, and the almost 0% of speeding is so foreign to me. I feel like everyone there is dangerously polite while driving.
I hate when someone stops in traffic to let me out of a parking lot or to let me turn left across their lane. You have right of way! Being polite isn’t worth driving dangerously!
Same here. There’ve been times when I’m pleasantly surprised by a needed courtesy but all too often I feel guilty that you’ve disrupted everyone’s right of way to let me out when you shouldn’t have
I saw a bumper sticker where I live that said “if you try to pass I’m slamming on the gas”
And that’s fine if they then continue to go faster than me.
If im doing 75, i dont care what my relative position to another car is, just let me do 75 in front or behind you. Dont keep changing your speed
Now that I have an EV, those situations are just amusing. Joe redneck puts the hammer down, you hear a big rackets as things rattle and bang until the vehicle starts going a little faster …… then when I’m tired of watching the show I zoom forward with ease in effortless quiet
I’ll be passing you until someone in an actual hurry decides to overtake on the inside, sure hope they respect your rules too
If someone actually signals and eases into my lane I’m so surprised by their careful driving that I want to give them a little clap
In LA, using a blinker triggers this behavior. In Chicago, not using a blinker gets you hit. City driving cultures are weird.
Thats when the fun begins. Ive lost count of how many cars ive ran off the road in los angeles. Fafo
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FFS, it’s not hard to get right, children are expected to know the difference.