It's a standing joke in Oregon on how much Washington drivers hog the left lane. Seriously, it's an out-of-control problem.
Washington drivers suck period. Seriously, the worst fucking drivers ever. Also saw the video posted on reddit a few days back. It still baffles me that people don't know that you're not supposed to just cruise in the left lane. Ridiculous.
There's a big ad campaign here to get people to stop hogging that left lane. I really don't think it'll do any good to spend cash advertising, just ticket them, the word will spread.
My other pet peave is when you come up on two vehicles in the right lane, and the trailing vehicle sees you coming and decides he/she wants to pass, too, and instead of waiting the 2/10ths of a second it would have taken for you to go by, pulls out in front of you and makes the slowest cruise control pass in the history of mankind.
My biggest irk is mirroring. 2 or more lanes and they are sid-by-side doing the same speed so there is no where to pass. Pretty much cruising in the left-most lane but directly side by side and matching speed of the car in the next lane over. Some one speed up or some one slow down.. I don't care but don't do the same speed and create a moving wall.
Yeah, that happens all the time. I hate it too. Then there are those wimps that are afraid to go around a semi. They speed up on a semi and then almost freeze when it's time to go around.
This OMG this! Every time it makes me want a Bond vehicle with popup machine guns to blast them out of my way.
A/K/A (often) "Cruise control pass". They have their carbots set to almost the same speed and neither is willing to RESUME-ACCEL for the love of god and all that's holy!
I can't believe I watched that, but confess I'd watch it again. And I would have LOVED to have been at the party where the idea for that was conceived.
Same here. Fucking ridiculous, especially when another car makes you an unwilling participant in the mirror, and you try to break it, while the other driver won't let you. For instance, you're driving along near another car and notice that it's becoming a mirror/roadblock. So, you speed up a few miles per hour to get ahead of them/get ahead of them and move over in front of them. I'm talking lightly speed up, not WOT. You speed up a little, and right as you do that they speed up a little with you, so now you're still traveling at the same speed except they're now riding in your blind spot. So then, you let off the gas and slow down to get behind them - and sure enough, they let off the gas too. It seems that most of the time it's just idiots that aren't paying attention to what you're trying to do, so they subconsciously figure they better match traffic speed, but it's so damn annoying. Driving is something that requires your full attention. If I speed up, then they speed up, I slow down, they slow down, I'll just drop a gear, get in front of them and cut them off (not bad or dangerously, but enough to make my point). Drives me fucking nuts.
This is either fake, or somebody put a pound of meat in the engine bay of that car to play some kind of cruel joke. Probably the latter. Dogs don't just see if they can get into cars for no reason, they don't really pay any non-moving inanimate objects much mind, and they really are interested in whatever is near the passenger headlight of that car.
The article I copped it from says there's been quite a few videos like it. Most of them seem to indicate a cat or similar animal was chased into or was found sleeping in the warmer engine bay.
