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What driving concept you feel that most drivers don't understand? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ll start. Stopping distance.

My commute is 95 miles one way to work, so I see a lot of the highway, in the rural part of the US. This means traveling at 70+ mph (112km/h) for almost the entirety of the drive. The amount of other drivers on the road who follow behind someone else with less than a car’s length in front of them because they want to go 20+ over the speed limit is ridiculous. The only time you ever follow someone that close is if you have complete and absolute trust in them, and also understand that it may not even be enough.

For a daily drive, you likely need 2-3 car lengths between you at minimum depending on your speed to accurately avoid hitting the brakes. This doesn’t even take into account the lack of understanding of engine braking…

What concepts do you all think of when it comes to driving that you feel are not well understood by the public at large?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If a trucker is merging into your lane like that, they probably have good reason.
Example:
Two lane interstate/highway, approaching an on ramp with vehicles attempting to merge in.
Trucker moves over into your lane to let them in.
And then there's you, side-by-side with a multi-ton cargo machine because...why?
Lack of situational awareness? Did the off ramp not clue you in to the fact that an on ramp is approaching and that there may be other vehicles looking to merge in and that the trucker may need to move over to let them in?
Maybe you (and probably the 3+ cars ahead of you) thought they could all over take the semi and merging traffic all at once instead of leaving room for the trucker to move over if needed?

TL;DR you're probably the dumb ass.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm talking about when I'm ALREADY OCCUPYING the lane, and the trucker comes over into my lane, literally forcing me off of the road via emergency braking and swerving. Like I've had to dodge the trucks trying to kill me at highway speed several times.

These motherfuckers are out there on shit-tons of meth driving 48+ hours and have lost their minds, in some cases. If you haven't encountered them you're lucky. They will try to kill you with negligence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your literacy skills are on show here.

Probably best to leave the Glock at home, friend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't give a fuck what you think, and nobody else does either. For the record though, I have probably read quite a lot more books than you have (or most people on Lemmy and Reddit and Twitter and Mastodon have even) in my decades on planet earth. I was reading adult fiction novels while I was still in elementary school in the 80s, for fun because we didn't have Playstations and Youtube to hypnotize the brains of children back then. I've probably read in the ballpark of a thousand novels total but I haven't been keeping an exact count.

I have even worked as a professional writer (journalist) but the simple reality is that literary excellence is not something you can really judge based on shitposting comments on a pseudo-anonymous website. This is all shit that we're flinging against a public wall here.