Why is driving such a difficult thing for other motorists on the road? No doubt most of us have common sense when we're out driving, and drive within the realm of sanity at all times. Sure our speed may drift over that five mile per hour buffer the cops usually allow us to have, but we are otherwise, solid drivers. Why then are there so many idiots on the road it seems?
Maybe it's because we always notice the idiot, and they really stand out when we see them doing something crazy. I was driving at midnight in dense fog on an interstate in Kentucky, and a guy was doing at least 90 to my 60(in a 70). He came up behind me really fast, slammed his breaks, then whisked around me and flew beyond my vision in less than one minute.
As we were farther down the road, we came up on a stopped police vehicle with it's lights on and a sign out that said "emergency scene ahead." As we went ahead, we saw a firetruck and two police cars on the side of the road. As we approached the scene slowly, we saw the car that had done all of that crazy driving with a smashed hood as he had wrecked into a guard rail. I didn't see the driver, not sure if he was ok or not.
It's not just weird scenarios like that, there are stupid drivers out there every day giving insurance companies fits. It seems like people really don't understand basic things a kindergartner would get correct. For example, how a four way stop works. It's really simple, cars go in the order which they stopped. Time after time, you get that jerk who thinks they are so important, they can go out of turn, pissing everyone off and almost causing a wreck.
Another good example is that idiot who drives down the shoulder to get to an off ramp on a highway or interstate to avoid traffic. That's not your own personal lane jackass. Then you have the morons who think their car is invincible, as they can just drift into any lane they want without consequence. Another person I hate on the road is that person who thinks they can beat the stoplight, but don't by several seconds. I have trained myself to wait 2-3 seconds after my light turns green if I'm first to go, so I don't get hit by any of those idiots.
You also have stupid people who impede traffic by driving too slow. Everyone is driving a certain way, and you have that person who goes really slow and comes up out of nowhere, such as an onramp or switching lanes. They go so slow that you have to hit your breaks, and then a wreck is possibly caused by the chain reaction.
There are also the people who can't park. They park over the lines, parallel to the lines or in places that aren't even a drawn parking spot. You park at a parking meter and go five minutes over and get your car towed, but somehow these idiots double park in front of a police station for hours and don't even get a ticket.
After taking several long distance driving trips in my life, I have noticed the worst vehicles on the road are tractor trailers. The people who drive them must be the worst drivers on the planet. Not only do many of them have to do days worth of driving for their job that makes them extremely tired, they also can't drive when they're wide awake. Drifting into different lanes and off the road, passing other tractor trailers with really dangerous moves and speeds, and generally ignoring the fact that every other vehicle on the road is smaller than theirs makes them a nightmare to deal with. I saw one tractor trailer go almost entirely on the shoulder before swerving back over into his lane on a recent trip.
Why can't people just drive, in a safe and normal way that is consistent with everyone else on the road? Why do certain people think they own the road, or that they are more important than anyone else on the road? You aren't, let me tell you. If you are late, you should have left earlier. If you are in an emergency situation such as rushing to a hospital, then you can't fault us for not moving for you. You can't just cause a wreck because you're in a bad situation. It's funny, there's NEVER a cop when you need one either.
