Fox News: List of Best and Worst Drivers

[Koolblue13]

Try driving down here. Life in the left lane.

[The X-Factor]

Biggest pet peeve: SLOW drivers in the left lane. Get out the way soccer mom

I encounter this on a daily basis. It's by far the most annoying DC driving habit, especially when there is literally no one in the other three right lanes next to them. Move the **** over!

[RansomthePasserby]

Biggest pet peeve: SLOW drivers in the left lane. Get out the way soccer mom

Exactly. The right lane is for travel, the left is for passing. It's not a hard concept to grasp.

[Mr. Sinister]

Exactly. The right lane is for travel, the left is for passing. It's not a hard concept to grasp.

There are often times where both lanes end up being for travel, and you're stuck behind two Driving Miss Daisy's.

[RansomthePasserby]

There are often times where both lanes end up being for travel, and you're stuck behind two Driving Miss Daisy's.

Side by side driving is the worst. Not only is it obnoxious, it's also dangerous. Driving isn't rocket science, I don't understand why it's so hard for some people.

[China]

Side by side driving is the worst. Not only is it obnoxious, it's also dangerous. Driving isn't rocket science, I don't understand why it's so hard for some people.

Well sometimes when I look over at the people who seem to be having a hard time driving I begin to wonder how they are able to dress themselves in the morning, seeing as they appear about as bright as a box of rocks. Yet somehow these people can manage to operate a cell phone. Which they frequently do at the same time as they attempt to drive.

I swear, when I finally snap, I'm going to build an armored vehicle something like this:



And every time some idiot does something stupid in front of me on the road I'm just going teach them a lesson.

[Mr. Sinister]

One thing that has always irritated me in particular is people who don't know how to merge properly, or go full retard and speed past people instead of patiently merging behind the car that is already ahead of them. There are countless people who either fly past cats on the shoulder, or go at a snails pace an dallow everyone and their mother to pass them, and then you have idiots that will attempt to dick their way over, get blocked, and then get angry and just ride alongside you, or still try to muscle you out of the way.

That third scenario happened to me a few months back, and although I'm typically a pretty calm person, I blew a freaking gasket. Ruined my whole day.

[RansomthePasserby]

and then you have idiots that will attempt to dick their way over, get blocked, and then get angry and just ride alongside you, or still try to muscle you out of the way.

That third scenario happened to me a few months back, and although I'm typically a pretty calm person, I blew a freaking gasket. Ruined my whole day.

Well, in heavy traffic, when entering a freeway, you're supposed to ride the entire length of the merge lane, then zipper in at the very end where it tapers off. This maximized the amount of asphalt being used, and therefore increases the overall flow of traffic.

[No Excuses]

The fact that people don't know how to merge when entering highways is the reason 66 is choked up during non HOV hours. It's like 90% of the people who live in Falls Church don't know what to do when merging into a highway from the entrance. What ends up happening is everyone gets choked up starting from West Falls Church all the way up to Ballston.

Magically the highway opens up once you pass the exit for Glebe Road.

[wysknz1]

I'd say FT Collins CO.is bad..that place is NUTS!!! It's too big and their road system SUCKS!!!. It's nonexistent.

[China]

Here's one for you:

Ohio woman uses sidewalk to pass schoolbus

Click on the link for a video.

[STBonecrusher21]

Biggest pet peeve: SLOW drivers in the left lane. Get out the way soccer mom

This.

"Passing Lane Cruisers" I call them.

Worst.

[stevemcqueen1]

That's crap. I'm going to send them an angry text message as soon as I finish making this right turn on red.

From the left lane.

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The only reason Hampton Roads doesn't make that list is because it's too small.

1.) Resort area with a lot of transplants and tourists who don't know where in the hell they're going? Check.
2.) Absurdly aggressive locals? Check.
3.) Horrible, horrible infrastructure leading to traffic snarls comparable to what you see in DC and Atlanta despite the fact there are so many fewer people (making those locals so aggressive)? Check.

I lived in Richmond and Charlottesville, Raleigh/Chapel Hill/Durham, in Iowa, and in a small town. The only other places I experienced the kinds of terrible driving I experience on a daily basis in Norfolk, were DC and Atlanta.

Although it was pretty bad in Chicago on the skyway too. It was like that damned autobahn when I drove there. I was getting blown by doing 85-90+ MPH.

[stevemcqueen1]

Witnessed a bad accident with injuries this morning. A woman egregiously ran a red light at an intersection with a seven lane road. It was pretty horrible. The two lanes turning left managed to stop in time to avoid her but the two going straight (opposite direction from me) couldn't see her and she hit the first two cars.

By vagary of the order those lights turn green, I wasn't involved. If traffic going my direction got green lights first, that could have been me that got hit. Scary to watch.

Anyway, unbelievably, immediately after that happened, the people turning left at that green arrow still ran their red light forcing everyone going my direction to stop and wait on them.

Norfolk has terrible traffic infrastructure. There are no real bypass roads to get from the Northern tip of Norfolk to the Southern end, and that's the drive I have to make every morning. Everyone who drives around in Norfolk has to stop at a TON of traffic lights, and they are not well timed. If you stop at one, you're going to stop at a lot of them. So people run the red lights ALL of the time. And people get into a ton of accidents as a result. This happened this morning. Last Friday, my girlfriend's coworker was sent to the hospital with a broken arm when she was T-boned by a car running a red light.

Never in my life have I seen such a collection of horribly stupid, incompetent, and aggressive drivers as the ones I encounter every day in Norfolk.

[Koolblue13]

Driving on St Croix

Expect the car in front of you to stop at any time to let another car out or just to talk to somebody. Be patient.

Drive in the left lane, pass on the right. The little highway we do have, most people don't break 50 and the turn lane is on the right (the passing lane). I've also been stuck behind a horse.

The pothole preservation society is huge here. Makes driving in PA look like butter.

We honk horns to say hello, go ahead and thank you. Happy honks, never in anger.

You can drink and drive.

Head lights are all angled to the right, which in the states is great. Here on island, we drive on the other side, so the lights shine right in your face and because it's so mountainous here, it's usuallly high beams.