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Right Lane Impatience
In article et>,
Dave > wrote: >destination significantly faster. It's called average speed. If your speed >is slower on average, then someone who passes you and maintains a higher >average speed by doing so will travel significantly farther than you do in >the same amount of time. I can pass drivers, continue for a while, stop for lunch, and then get back out on the road and pass some of those same drivers (who didn't stop). They probably figure my extra speed didn't gain me anything... -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
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Right Lane Impatience
Larry Scholnick wrote: > We all understand how an ideal KRETP-based world would work. If there are 3 > lanes in your direction of travel, the left lane would have the fastest > drivers while they were passing the in-between speed drivers in the #2 lane; > the #3 lane would have the slowest drivers who aren't passing anyone else. > > So, when I'm traveling at nearly the posted speed limit in the far right > lane, and another vehicle changes lanes from a faster lane to be behind me, > and then rides my bumper like I'm driving too slowly, I don't understand it. > He had a choice; he could have passed me before moving into the far right > lane. If he thought I'm not following closely enough, his obvious better > move would have been to change lanes ahead of me rather than behind me. > > Can anyone offer some insight into this driving behavior? The tailgater is a psychopath and the remedy is a handful of marbles in his windshield. Next question. |
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Right Lane Impatience
Matthew Russotto wrote: <relevance snip>
> > I can pass drivers, continue for a while, stop for lunch, and then > get back out on the road and pass some of those same drivers (who > didn't stop). They probably figure my extra speed didn't gain me anything... ----- Oh, yeah. Sure you do. Entirely plausible. What a hero... ----- - gpsman |
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Right Lane Impatience
>> I can pass drivers, continue for a while, stop for lunch, and then >> get back out on the road and pass some of those same drivers (who >> didn't stop). They probably figure my extra speed didn't gain me >> anything... > ----- > > Oh, yeah. Sure you do. Entirely plausible. What a hero... > Hey, it happens to me quite frequently also, so it is entirely lausible. -Dave |
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Right Lane Impatience
Dave wrote:
> >> I can pass drivers, continue for a while, stop for lunch, and then > >> get back out on the road and pass some of those same drivers (who > >> didn't stop). They probably figure my extra speed didn't gain me > >> anything... > > ----- > > > > Oh, yeah. Sure you do. Entirely plausible. What a hero... > > > > Hey, it happens to me quite frequently also, so it is entirely > lausible. -Dave ----- Really...? Well then... it should be pretty easy to describe your method of discerning how the other drivers didn't stop for lunch too, dimwit. ----- - gpsman |
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Right Lane Impatience
In article .com>,
gpsman > wrote: >Matthew Russotto wrote: <relevance snip> >> >> I can pass drivers, continue for a while, stop for lunch, and then >> get back out on the road and pass some of those same drivers (who >> didn't stop). They probably figure my extra speed didn't gain me anything... >----- > >Oh, yeah. Sure you do. Entirely plausible. What a hero... Plausible or not, it happens. Not heroic, either; I'm still slower than a speeding bullet and less powerful than a locomotive, and it takes me several bounds to get over even really short buildings. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
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Right Lane Impatience
In article >, Scott en Aztlán wrote:
> Places like > Chicago still have many, many older signals which are strictly > timer-controlled - which is how Brent can work the timing to his > advantage and hit several green lights in a row. These lights do have sensors but their programing is more or less fixed and I believe the 4 lights are somehow tied together in programing since they seem to always operate in the same sequence. Perhaps they run a fixed timing program triggered by certain sensor conditions. Theres always traffic there, so it's hard to figure out if there is a pure sensor operation. Even at 2-3am I've encountered the same sequence but have never been there alone. > Unfortunately, many > new immigrants to SoCal who comes from places like Chicago fail to > realize that their old tricks no longer work, and these Sloth Coasters > end up doing nothing but clogging the road. There is one sensor driven light that really annoys the hell out of me. T intersection. The stem of the T is a residential road and just about anything will trip the sensor on it and the main road is given a red signal at all times of day. |
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Right Lane Impatience
In article .com>, gpsman wrote:
> Matthew Russotto wrote: <relevance snip> >> >> I can pass drivers, continue for a while, stop for lunch, and then >> get back out on the road and pass some of those same drivers (who >> didn't stop). They probably figure my extra speed didn't gain me anything... > ----- > > Oh, yeah. Sure you do. Entirely plausible. What a hero... I have. Stopped for gas some snacks, got back on the road and passed the same semis I had earlier a few moments later. |
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Right Lane Impatience
In article .com>, gpsman wrote:
> Well then... it should be pretty easy to describe your method of > discerning how the other drivers didn't stop for lunch too, dimwit. Because their speed didn't allow for it. Had they stopped, I would have remained ahead of them. |
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Right Lane Impatience
In article > ,
"Larry Scholnick" > wrote: > > Can anyone offer some insight into this driving behavior? Your confusion stems from your attempt to ascribe logic to an illogical being. Not everyone does things that make sense. I am even sure you have your moments where you do things that make no sense too; we all do. Its as silly as those idiots who pass a slower moving car only to get to the same red light that the slow moving car reaches. Do these idiots really need to get to the red light two seconds sooner than the other drivers? I don't think so. |
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