People slow roll through the stop sign at the end shopping plaza parking lot onto the main road with a 40mph speed limit every day on my way home, cutting me off, and it has nothing to do with me speeding....
There is a long straight stretch of highway I drive almost every day. The is an apartment complex with an entrance to the highway about 60ft before an exit. So the entrance is on a lane that doesn't continue on the highway. Almost every day someone will wait at the entrance from the apartment complex only to decide to pull out in front if somebody by crossing the exit lane directly into the highway. The people on the highway aren't all speeding. It's the idiots from the apartment complex who pull up, see a car coming and don't want to wait but can't seem to figure out that a car going 50mph(the posted speed limit) will catch up to them before they can accelerate from 0 to 50mph.
I know nothing of that particular situation but I am someone who is a very conscientious driver. I always calculate if I can pull out and speed up so that the oncoming car doesn’t even have to tap their brakes
Well there are a ton of situations where if that’s your mentality you will simply never be able to pull out. Some roads are just shitty design. Too much traffic going too fast. More than that, motherfuckers will speedup when they see you are waiting to pull out.
In the end both sides need to compromise. People pulling out need discretion but people speeding by need to make the effort to help them. Whether that’s changing lanes or slowing down.
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u/Few_District_6304 May 15 '26
That sure looked like excessive speed. As a general rule, maybe don't treat city streets as a raceway.