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DMiller 
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 Topic: Danger of Panicked drivers
Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 4:48am |
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We all see them everyday and seems they are getting more numerous.
Stiff straight armed, white knuckled death grip on wheel, do not ever glance around or even look at mirrors where appear fixated on next vehicle ahead. Most tailgate to a fault, cut in and out of traffic lines soon as flip TS lever, not ever do they ease onto brakes have to slap the pedal hard each application.
Not sure as to why they seem to be multiplying but as been driving this last year and traveling multiple highways in multiple states last couple years is really unnerving.
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 6:23am |
REALLY, you SEE turnsignals light up ??????!!!!!
Holey S, batman
Be GRATEFUL that happens !!!
Apparently NOT required where I live,and dump trucks turn right on red lights without stopping.....
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 7:05am |
You can see them all the time down here and most drive in the left lane and you have another idiot in the right lane and neither will get out of the way so you can get on down the road. Impeding traffic to the best of their ability! I’m glad I don’t drive emergency vehicles anymore, have had too many close calls caused by these idiots.
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SteveM C/IL
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 11:35am |
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The driving public have really went in the crapper since covid. The upside for me is less law on the road and faster speeds as a rule
It is alot more wild west and you have to be even more defensive. City driving shows mant more blowing througt green on red. Better look both ways when you get green or you get hit.
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sparky
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 11:50am |
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Within the last 4 years I’ve had a F-150 and a Bronco totaled because of two people fully in my lane with phones stuck in their faces. What really set me off was one of them had a baby in a car seat! No phones when driving law is a joke especially when you see the cops talking on the phones while driving.
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sparky
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 11:59am |
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One more thing,I’m not afraid of driving on snow and ice. Did it for 40 years for work.But I do respect snow and ice. There’s a real problem when someone is terrified of driving on it.
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It's the color tractor my grandpa had!
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PaulB
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 12:00pm |
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It seems to me that Driver education is no longer taught as it once was. The skills and knowledge test to get a license must also allow much more leeway than they used to to get a license. No one even has to parallel park to get a car license, I had to demonstrate I could parallel park a Tractor-Trailer to get my first class A license. People today can't even follow the arrows when driving though a parking lot. As previously mentioned, LACK of enforcement has everyone thinking they can all just do whatever they please. How bad will things have to get before something is done about unskilled drivers?
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 12:04pm |
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All these screens in the new cars don't help anything either.
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ac hunter
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 12:26pm |
Speaking of screens, my 2018 GMC pickup sometimes lights up with a message that taking your eyes off the road is dangerous. Of course you need to look at the screen to find the button to push to get rid of the message. I suppose they pay people to come up with that stuff. Seems like drivers will come tearing up to stop signs at intersections then cram on the brakes at the last second. That is if they stop at all. Years ago some idiot in a van blew through a stop sign at a country intersection with tall corn on all 4 corners and broadsided the F-800 I was drivng. I didn't get seriously hurt but the guy in the van was life flighted. He did live through it though. I'm not sure about turn signals but I think they must be optional on new vehicles in Ohio now. Today is the first time this year I have seen the thermometer above 32 degrees; says 36 right now and lots of sun. Supposed to be a high of 9 degrees Monday.
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Hubert (Ga)engine7
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 5:58pm |
Speaking of driver training…….my granddaughter went through a one day course called Brakes when she was 15 (learners permit)1. It was a great experience, I even learned a few things. It focused on skid control, emergency braking and collision avoidance, and recovery after running off the road. Every thing was done on a closed course. I don’t know if they still offer it.
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DMiller
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 6:34pm |
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LOL!
My Dad did that to me in 1970 on a frozen Central Hardware parking lot in a VW Beetle. Allow me to get a little speed then step on clutch where at a random point while steering he would grab Parking Brake send into a slide. STILL remember those lessons.
Edited by DMiller - 18 Jan 2025 at 6:49am
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 7:05pm |
grand daughter went for driver's test ( highway) , inspector failed her ( not keeping up with traffic. brother ( he does 'test drives and magazine reports' asks her... I was doing 80 KMH ( POSTED speed ), everyone does 110-120
so brother calls MOT, explains the situation, she gets her license...... BTW you do 30 over, fine and points, do 40 over, lose car , lose license few days,, BIG fine and of course TRY getting car insurance next year........
parallel parking is NOT on the test here, bunch of other stuff...gone....
also do NOT tell doctor you've had a minor, maybe stroke !!! That'll cost you immediate loss of license for a year and you'll pay almost 10K to get it back AFTER a batter of doctor's tests road tests etc.......
and NEVER ever tell the truth about how many brown pops you consume to your doctor !!! That's another NIGHTMARE....
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 7:45pm |
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nothing like learning how to drive on bald bias ply tires in the middle of a blizzard , or playing the dukes of hazzard every chance you could get. cant do that with your new self driving heap
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Posted: 17 Jan 2025 at 9:36pm |
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I miss my '67 Mustang fastback in Winter....sniff,sniff....
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DMiller
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Posted: 18 Jan 2025 at 6:53am |
 HudCo wrote:
nothing like learning how to drive on bald bias ply tires in the middle of a blizzard , or playing the dukes of hazzard every chance you could get. cant do that with your new self driving heap |
Truck have been driving has ABS, is a 2025 so also has Roll Over Detection, Traction Control, and other buried options not listed, make a sweeping turn a little faster than the processor prefers, shuts down Throttle(Electronic), starts Brake applications AT Separate Wheel ends, modulating all this and all as you are attempting to maintain stabile control of said machine. Processor 'Sees' Road temperatures, 'Sees' Wet Reflectivity, becomes Reactionary, As FAR Fram Safe as it gets in a Safety System.
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Posted: 18 Jan 2025 at 9:01am |
I was wondering if we have the makings for a country western song here.  
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Posted: 18 Jan 2025 at 11:31am |
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you know it , but we have to mention mama and trains and rain
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Posted: 18 Jan 2025 at 2:45pm |
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DMiller
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Posted: 18 Jan 2025 at 3:16pm |
HudCo wrote:
you know it , but we have to mention mama and trains and rain |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 8:59am |
Diy, I enjoyed that one  .
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Posted: 19 Jan 2025 at 7:40pm |
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diy dave you dun got it right
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