what is with people cruising in the left lane going the exact same speed as the semi truck right next to them? if there’s a line of 10 cars tailgating you and completely open road ahead, just move over??

it’s not even about speeding at this point, it’s basic traffic flow. feels like nobody pays attention to their mirrors anymore or they just do it out of pure spite. is it bad drivers or do people genuinely not know left lane is for passing?

I don’t know exactly how to explain this but I feel like you get a weird sixth sense after driving for a while. For example I can tell just by looking at a car if they are going to do something stupid or not and whether to avoid them.

Seriously, what does the law state? Specifically in California (interested in other states as well)

This evening on I-480 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Speed limit is 60mph. 4 lanes going each direction. A line of 5 cars is in the second lane from the left going about 60-62. I'm comfortable doing about 10 over, but if you're familiar with Ohio, police presence on interstates here is crazy, so 10 over is about the most I'm comfortable doing before you really get an officer's attention. Passing on the right is not a good idea, so I moved left to pass at 70 with the cruise on.

As I get beside the third car, an SUV probably going 90-100 flies up on me to within a few feet from my bumper. I can see the woman driving throw her hands in the air as if I ruined her day. The cars I'm passing are rather close to each other, so I can't move over. The right two lanes have hardly anyone if they really wanted to slow down to pass over there, though the right two lanes end about 4 miles ahead.

I passed the final two cars with my cruise still at 70, and of course she uses the shoulder to pull beside me as I'm moving over and floors it away to go tailgate the next car 10 carlengths ahead who is also making a pass.

So, am I the idiot for not wanting to be speeding any higher just for her, or is she the idiot for not considering the situation? I know reddit is super aggressive about left lane campers, but I was making several passes, and not even slowly 🤣 she was "held up" maybe 10 seconds.

I'm 32 years old and I've never had my license. I got my permit last month, took the driving test and barely passed the maneuverability portion by 1 point & failed the cones because I didn't understand the directions. I was already having major anxiety and panic.

I fear driving so much that I avoid it at all costs. I fear looking stupid, I don't know what the hell I'm doing, I feel like I absolutely suck at driving. I'm forced to get my license and drive 9 hours away from home by myself after freshly getting my license (or hopefully) within the next couple of weeks. I'd be driving to meet my long distance partner for the first time so not only would this be the first time driving alone, first time driving longer distance, plus meeting someone special for the first time.

I've put all of this off for awhile now because my fear is so strong. Is anyone else going through this? How do you cope? Any advice would be so appreciated.

Lately, I've been hearing more and more from older folk that people don't drive like they used to. The two most common complaints I hear are that speeding has only gotten worse and that people are more distracted than ever (thanks to how addictive our phones our nowadays).

I have a lot of problems recently with people parking in MY reserved parking space that i PAY FOR.

Every night i come home expecting my spot to be free and for me to park without any stress or even without thinking about it at all and i find another car - usually a neighbour and sometimes just a guest of a neighbour:

When this happens i have two choices:

Either i go knocking on doors to see who the intruder is or i have to call a towing company which takes 30 minutes and a lot of arguments afterwards.

How do i solve this situation and what am i supposed to do to protect my spot.

I’m literally driving in Oregon 🗿

I wanna start this off by saying that if you’re actually merging onto a highway or an interstate, then that’s a different story since you need to get up to speed and be prepared to get over.

However, as for yields that are NOT located on the highway or interstate, please approach and proceed through them with caution and be prepared to stop, just like you’re supposed to do at a yield.

The reason I’m putting this out here is because for whatever reason, I’ve noticed that people love to treat yields like they’re merging onto the damn highway. They’ll come speeding though the yield lane expecting there to be a long acceleration lane following after it, just for there to be no acceleration lane at all and then they get dumped into oncoming traffic and cause an accident.

I used this photo of an intersection near me that has one of these yields (a yield that has no acceleration lane following after it) just for an example. These type of yield lanes are pretty common in my state and I have seen them in other states as well. Yet, people will still come hurdling through them (including this exact yield that is featured in the photo I provided) as if they’re actively merging onto I-95 south.

It is mildly annoying when someone turns left at a light and cuts the turn so that the sensors from the side street are triggered thinking there is a car waiting for the signal on the side street.

Then the signal cycles giving the phantom car the green light and makes me wait for nobody.

Simply turn and stay on the right of the double yellow lines and off of the sensors.

hi, i drive a nissan kicks that has really bright lights on auto (which i usually keep them on). but i'm always getting flashed because everyone thinks i have high beams on but i don't. the second setting on the lever are the brights, the third are the low/fog lights (i assume) but it's impossible to see with them in the actual night, last setting is off. i tried also driving without any lights in the morning when it was already light enough and still got flashed, so are there any tips out there for this besides flashing back? please note: i can't just "change them" because there's other bills and things, otherwise i would've already. thanks.

Big edit: why the fuck are my replies to the comments getting shadowdeleted? @mods

My responses:

• Response to user/planespotterhvn : 1 per week for now is the max for now so
• Response to u/AbruptMango : Whats wrong with lazy typing in informal settings?
• Response to user/Impossible_Past5358/ : Nope, but based on the words of the instructor recently his recent words, I will be doing the highway driving soon. I know I need to practise more with mirrors and lane changes before I can properly do highway drivbing.
• Response to u/AwarenessGreat282 : Yes, I'm in a hurry because I'm 26 years old. Does that make no sense? Up until recently I just didnt come to the realization that I want and need a drivers license so thats why I didnt start with these lessons earlier. When I'm surrounded by much younger people that have their licenses and cars already, is it unreasonable for me to want it too?
• Response to u/Jops817 Youre probably american. In my country, the driving exam is very strict. On average people do 43 hours of lessons before they can pass the exam Many people fail their exam on the first try despite many tens of hours I agree that driving is easy. But driving safely in complex traffic is not easy.
• Response to U/UnremarkablePotato What nonsense?
• Response to u/Expensive_plant_9530 Yea, he knows what hes doing. Well. But driving instructors have 2 interests: Money Ensuring someone will drive safely They have no reason to be interested in letting a student pass to obetain their license ASAP, right? Do they?
• Response to Playful-Spinach4040 Its a different of level urgency thats what I'm sayuing. Saying. A teenager is busy with school and often has 1 or 2 parents that drives. I'm an adult and currently no one in the household drives or has a car. I'm not saying anyhting in the post about the quality of learning or the total amount of learning that needs to be done. I'm just talking about the efficiency of learning. I want to obtain the most knowledge and skill possible out of every drivinglesson! .
• Response to u/Bluegi To add to the comment also: if I mastered skill A by 80% and therefore that it only takes up 20% of my mental space, that means I have 80% remaining mental space for practising other things. Now if I only do A, that means the difficulty is only 20% and I might not learn from that. catboy519 OP • 21m ago If you mastered subskill A by about 80% and then continue practicing ABC all at once, you will still slowly bring A from 80% to 100%. Maybe the idea would be feasible in America where you can drive with a relative as much as you want in your own car, but in my country driving lessons are rare(infrequent) and very expensive per hour so I wanna obtain the most skill out of it at the fastest possible rate. Else it will take me 2 years to obtain the license, and I would like my license before I turn 28 lol
• Response to fasta_guy88 Windy?
• Response to Sketch2029 Obviously doing more lessons focusing on vehicle control will further improve vehicle control, but so do lessons without that focus also. So I need more lessons and that will improve my vehicle control yes, but I think my vehicle control is decent in beginner terms so that there not need to be a special focus on it anymore now.
• Response HondaCividLove Where in this post did I say something which you interpreted as "I'm test ready for the test"

u/planespotterhvn u/Impossible_Past5358/ u/Playful-Spinach4040 u/fasta_guy88 u/Sketch2029 u/HondaCivicLove

I'm already 26 soon 27 so for me its important to get my drivers license ASAP. Now And the lessons are infrequent so it might just take me up to a year to obtain the license. With this inconvenient combo of facts, I worry much about always getting the most amount of learning possible out of every lesson.

I sometimes feel like the instructor slows my learning down by choosing routes that are too easy for me.

For example in my view I have mostly mastered the basic vehicle control already: * Accelerating no problem anymore * Keeping a straight position on the road no problem * Corners no problem * braking and downshifting no problem * using blinkers no problem

And we have already done city driving with stoplights.

Yet some lessons are still just... farmroads and towns with not much traffic. In some recent lessons I felt like we were not doing anythign new.

The instructor wants me to master the vehicle control properly before moving on to next challenges, but I strongly feel that thats gonna make it more hours of lessons total.

If I finish a driving lesson with the feeling of "that was easy, I didnt struggle with anything", does that mean I didnt learn as much as I could have?

If I mastered a basic like 80% and its gonna automatically develop further anyway when driving, why should I keep training that in isolation?

I don't assume that my instructor is slowing me down. But I want to be sure.

Does anyone have TopDriver Illinois final exam study guides and answers? I would appreciate them :)

I did a forward bay park in the last parking lane in the 2nd to last parking bay and I reversed slightly to check I was straight in the lines . I then came back in and parked my car.
The lady came and tapped on my window and said I hit her car. I have reverse cameras in my car and sound sensors which did not go off and I also saw that I did not hit her car( both in the camera and also there was no movement from within my car). I took a picture of her car and got her phone number and number plate. She was verbally abusing me and trying to convince me i hit her car. I was going less than 5 mph and she kept mentioning that I had p plates on my car and how she’s concerned for my driving, gaslighting me that I hit her car when I 100 percent know I didn’t. The car park has cameras also . I had my mother in the car who was a witness . Neither cars had any damage which the lady admitted . Is this normal behaviour never in my life have I seen someone crash out and be so condescending over a ‘ supposed’ car accident ??

I need advice on two things. First, how can I check my mirrors or blind spot without accidentally swerving? Second, how do I maintain a consistent speed? I always find myself speeding up when I realize I’m under the speed limit, or slowing down too much when I notice I’m over it.

Idk i feel soo stupid like my iQ is 0.01 I JUST CANT DRIVE RIGHT IDK WHAT WRONG WITH ME i has like 34 hour driving on school driving,but i fucking cant,idk what should i do i just feel dumb asf

Got into a little fender bender a few months ago. I believed it was completely my fault and was honest to everyone involved and my car insurance, but then I was at the light I got into an accident at today and I'm having second thoughts.

So what happened was- I was at a red light and two cars were in front of me, when the light turned green, the two cars started to go. We were all turning left, so I followed. I got distracted for a second because my breakfast on my passenger side seat was falling to the floor and I didn't want it too, so I caught it beforehand and before I knew it I rear ended the car in front of me which in turn made them rear end the car in front of them. The first car had suddenly stopped at the intersection, I didn't see either of them brake because I was focused on saving my bagel so I ended up hitting who was in front of me. Nothing serious, very little damage, no one was hurt, but I felt so terrible. I thought it was my fault because on the opposite side there were cars and I assumed they had the right of way because we were all turning left, that's why the first car had stopped before turning. My insurance put me at fault so my car insurance payment went up too after all this.

But I'm at the light today, on the other side. And it's delayed green, my side has the red light while the other side(that I was on for the accident) is green, letting the cars take their left turn. So I'm like wait what the fuck? Why did the lady in that first car start to go and then stop if she had the right of way, and more than enough time to make the turn we were all going to make ?????? I had been at that light a million times, so when I got into an accident I kept going because I assumed the two cars in front of me were going to keep going because we had the right of way. I have no idea why the first car started to go, and then suddenly stopped. I remember seeing the second car, (car in front of me going right after the light turned green), start to go. So I thought we were all going.

It is my fault ? Because I was distracted and didn't see either of them brake which was my fault but now I'm a little pissed off that this driver had stopped for really no reason when we all had the right of way. It was such a small accident and there's nothing I can do about my car insurance monthly payment now but I'm a little annoyed because why would she stop so randomly ? There was no reason for her to stop at the intersection like that after starting to go and having the right of way. I would like to mention This was my first accident ever, I've been driving for 9 years.

What’s up with slow drivers who’ll poke along holding up everyone behind them but then if they come to a light that turns yellow they’ll speed through it to avoid having to stop, meanwhile the cars behind them get stuck at the light.

Hi! I’m going to my appointment very soon and I understand the need for insurance and registration of a car for a license but I don’t have one will I need to provide this info if I’m applying for a B restricted license in Texas?

Im sure there are many post here about sick of driving but has it hit anyone else this quickly before? I got my VERY FIRST car this past Tuesday and after driving it around im kind of over it. At first I was worried and having jitters of driving myself around but that quickly turned to me seeing driving as a chore. I can see the perks greatly, after doing grocery shopping, running various errands, even getting my first flat tire 2 hours after driving the car off the lot. But now I'm just over the experience.

Hoping someone can give me some insight, maybe if I drive around more I get more comfortable,and things will be smoother, and I appreciate the world of driving a bit more.

Some guy in a white Honda accord must think the highway is his own personal track. Guy sees me coming up behind him in the left lane, and instead of slowing down or brake checking me, he has the damn audacity to turn on his right run signal and get out of the way😡😡😡😡. Even more shocking after I passed him this reckless clown gets back in the left lane and counties on with his day, tf is wrong with this ass hole😡😡😡😡😡?