1. Drivers that come almost to a complete stop before inching their way through a right turn. (Usually older, sometimes in expensive cars)

2. Even worse, drivers who end up halfway into the opposite lanes to make a right turn. (Typically older.) You could turn the Titanic in less room than they need to make a right.

3. Already mentioned, but the driver who almost rolls their car to turn onto a major road and get ahead of you ... then pokes along well under the speed limit. They don't just get in front of you, they actually make a serious effort to do so.

4. Drivers going well under the speed limit without cause. They're typically older or in expensive cars. (A Calrans study encompassing 2006 - 07 and released in 2008 bears this out. Older people, women from high earner families in an upscale SUV with kids and executive level men in expensive cars tend to be excessively conservative drivers. Not all, of course, but they formed in the above order the three groups most likely to be driving 7 MPH or more under the limit and engaged in other behavior judged overly cautious.)
- Note that the above study has already been used by several states to speed up overly cautious drivers. Unfortunately, CA isn't one of them.

5. Cell users or otherwise distracted drivers. What gets me is that all the drivers where I work who admit to doing it say "Oh, I'm not really paying any attention to the call!" Yeah ... well if true ... then why the heck are you risking MY life to make it?????

6. Drivers who have to lay on the horn ... no matter how justifiably frustrated. Quick tap for an emergency, fine ... but riding the horn to vent, uh uh. Learn to play a different instrument!

I don't drive myself, being 14, but when you're in the passenger's seat, on the verge of being late for your guitar lesson, people who ride the brake really peeves me. And ESPECIALLY the older people who ride the brake going UP a hill.

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1) People on their sunday drive on the left lane. The left lane is for people driving faster than you are.

2) People driving well under the speed limits. The other day I had to overtake a old lady that was doing 10 km/h in a 30 km/h area (residential area). I know that it is stupid to pass in a residential area but that was a long street and I wanted to get home that day. A old comedian in Iceland recently died in an accident that he "caused". He was driving on a freeway (90 km/h zone) at 65 km/h when a large lorry past him and he lost control of his car. RIP.

3) people that don't let you in on a lane from a off ramp.

4) Truckers that have no sense of everybody else safety. There was a searious disscussion about this in Iceland not so long ago when when a motorcyclist that was behind a lorry that had a overload of dirt, fell over some rocks that fell off the truckbed.

5) People that don't know what their are doing. I was on a 80 km/h zone with one lane to each way there was a long line on the road and finally when the road widened I noticed that there was a lady who was driving using the breaks to control her speed, the poor thing was scared out of her mind on top of all.

6) People that break almost to complete stop to turn, especially on turn left lights, instead of keeping a steady speed slow enough to turn.

Rest In Peace. ♥♥♥

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I actually saw a woman driving , trading off w/ her hands and her knees, whilst putting on panty hose, and makeup. WTF......

Drivers that can't maintain a constant speed. That 5-10 mph swing, up and down, up and down.

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This is a great thread because I need to vent!

1. Turn signals are there for a reason! I shouldn't have to guess what you are going to do.

2. I could be going 20km/h over the speed limit and there is always someone who feels the need to ride my bumper.

3. The use of cell phones while driving.

4. People that constantly weave in and out of traffic. It's not an obstacle course!

5. People that don't let you merge.

6. When people do something wrong and then get mad at you.

7. I believe that once you reach a certain age, you should have to take a mandatory driving test ever 6-12 months in order to keep your license. There are some elderly people on the road that just shouldn't be there.

About two months ago, I was driving and a moron in a shiny Mercedes Benz decided to cut me off. It took every ounce of restraint I had not to get out and carve my initials into his door.

On Christmas Eve, somebody cut me off in a mall parking lot and then starting swearing at me. I have come to the conclusion that people forget how to drive on Christmas Eve.

Lastly, if you ever plan a trip to Toronto, Canada, bring a year's worth of patience and some boxing gloves. You never know when that patience will run out!

Any driving habit that is potentially dangerous for the others (me). Specially Pick-Up drivers who believe they are Stock Car drivers. I saw one today who almost pushed three cars in the ditch to take that special exit lane.
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Claude.

Oh how I long for five dollar gasoline again. I so enjoyed watching all of the big trucks and SUVs putt along trying to save fuel. As soon as it dropped back below four dollars it was like somebody flipped the idiot switch and they all went right back to driving those things like race cars.

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Holy crap, I know!! This has been my belief for the longest time now.

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My favorite -- a guy who was drinking OJ and eating an egg mcmuffin, but he'd occasionally put down the sandwich and pick up some document. This went on for a few minutes and then, incredibly, he tossed the plastic OJ cup out onto the freeway and he started shaving. Done with that, back to his document and now some coffee. I have to say that this guy's rolling bathroom was well stocked!

I and many others could see everything because it was a warm summer morning and he had the top down on his BMW convertible. But what blew my mind was ... would you want to draw attention to yourself if you were doing all that? Not me either ... but this guy obviously didn't care because he had Journey blaring on his auto sound system loud enough to be heard a mile away.

Never get behind an old man with a hat..... Mike

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1. people that don't know how to merge onto a freeway...usually they drive too slow. cars on a freeway are usually traveling 55 mph or above...how can one expect to enter a freeway at 35 mph?

2. failure to use turn signals

3. use of cell phones

4. parking in no parking zones...no parking really means NO PARKING!

5. people who think the carpool lane is another fast lane.

Hi Joe: for some reason you in particular seem to be naming all the ones that really get under my skin. Bicycles on sidewalks, for example.

Regarding hands free driving: my uncle steers with his knees at 70 mph whilst rolling a joint with both hands. He lives in the Boston MA area, by the way, if anyone wants to look out for him performing that stunt.

And this whole thread is why I must never be allowed to own a handgun. All of this stuff throws me into such a rage I'd be doing 20-to-life by now for multiple shootings while "temporarily insane" with anger, if I had a gun.

I'd probably start with my uncle...

Cheers - C

all of you jerks bitching about other drivers prolly drive just like them. worry about yourselves, you need to be the better driver