Aggressive driving tips

[grinin]

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Force your way into traffic: Someone already established in a lane may have the legal right of way, but if you want his spot, you have the physical advantage as merging traffic. If someone is providing at least a foot of space between him and the car in front, start to change lanes as the gap is about 3/4 of the way back on your car. Push as far as you can into his lane without hitting either car. You can use your turn signal here, but only after you've started to change lanes. It's telling the guy you don't intend to change lanes, you ARE changing lanes, so GTFO of the way. Since your car's nose angles in first, you can squeeze it right into the gap, and if you do it right, you're essentially creating a situation where the car behind will have to make a conscious decision to run into your car if he wants to continue fighting for position. No one ever does this. You win every time

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I ran a guy in a sporty little merdedes off the road doing this. The lane merges into a single lane, I usually let one car in but this time i let in two. Mercedes passes 4-5 guys behind me and thinks he will be three. I left a couple feet to tease him, (yeah, I know I can be an ass) and he did a little nose bob swerve type thing a couple times but I never let the gap widen nor swayed over. Eventually the lane ran out and he was on the shoulder still trying to pass until he hit a muddy area just before a ditch. After all that he turned left into a subdivision about 400 yards down the road.

[dukemagic]

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Force your way into traffic: Someone already established in a lane may have the legal right of way, but if you want his spot, you have the physical advantage as merging traffic. If someone is providing at least a foot of space between him and the car in front, start to change lanes as the gap is about 3/4 of the way back on your car. Push as far as you can into his lane without hitting either car. You can use your turn signal here, but only after you've started to change lanes. It's telling the guy you don't intend to change lanes, you ARE changing lanes, so GTFO of the way. Since your car's nose angles in first, you can squeeze it right into the gap, and if you do it right, you're essentially creating a situation where the car behind will have to make a conscious decision to run into your car if he wants to continue fighting for position. No one ever does this. You win every time

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I ran a guy in a sporty little merdedes off the road doing this. The lane merges into a single lane, I usually let one car in but this time i let in two. Mercedes passes 4-5 guys behind me and thinks he will be three. I left a couple feet to tease him, (yeah, I know I can be an ass) and he did a little nose bob swerve type thing a couple times but I never let the gap widen nor swayed over. Eventually the lane ran out and he was on the shoulder still trying to pass until he hit a muddy area just before a ditch. After all that he turned left into a subdivision about 400 yards down the road.

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ughh it pisses me off so much when people use the merging lane to skip a few cars ahead... i'd never personally do what you did, but man have i wanted to.

[tuq]

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ughh it pisses me off so much when people use the merging lane to skip a few cars ahead... i'd never personally do what you did, but man have i wanted to.

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Is this what is referred to around here as "line jumping"? I routinely make it a point to jut out into the merging lane to block people from getting past me whenever it seems prudent.

[ScottieK]

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ughh it pisses me off so much when people use the merging lane to skip a few cars ahead... i'd never personally do what you did, but man have i wanted to.

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Is this what is referred to around here as "line jumping"? I routinely make it a point to jut out into the merging lane to block people from getting past me whenever it seems prudent.

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This s%$^ happens all the time on my commute, except there's no merge lane. There's an exit-only lane to get onto the interstate, and there's a huge line to get to that exit. Getting in line at the end of the line isn't good enough for some people, so they zoom up the middle lane and force their way into the exit lane when the exit comes up. Besides being [censored], it totally screws things up because the line goes through an intersection, and cars in line that are trying to get across the intersection get hung out to dry by people who cut into the line...the line stops in the middle of the intersection, the light changes, and all hell breaks loose. All because some d-bag wanted to shave two minutes off his commute.

Reading this thread makes me realize that I'm not just dealing with dumb-ass drivers who have no idea what they're doing. I'm dealing with dumb-ass drivers who know exactly what they're doing, plan it out in advance, and share tips about it on the internet. This is a revelation.

ScottieK

[Adam Carolla]

Here's a tip: NEVER pay attention to red left turn arrows. Just turn as you normally would. WTF is the point of these? I'm supposed to sit there like a jackass when it's perfectly safe to turn just because there's a red arrow? Are you high? I'm turning, and any cop who wants to pull me over for it can kiss my ass.