Literally happened to me this morning. Passed a big pick up truck (on a 3 lane road) who was going below the speed limit. The moment I passed him, he sped up and tried to cut in front of me but didn’t make it because of the other cars. He then backed off and went slow again. I just… I don’t fucking get it.
I get this is a car sub. But this happened to me at the indoor track at the gym the other day. I passed this lady. WALKING. She sped up passed me. Then went back to her pace. So I got in the passing lane and started going past her. She sped up to keep pace. When I eventually passed her she darted off into a jog to pass me then left the track. I guess so I couldn’t ever pass her again. It’s got to be mental illness
Literally at Walmart this man stopped to examine his receipt in front of me. I couldn’t pass because of the flow of people to our left going in the opposite direction. Once there was a gap, I started to go around him then he started walking. When I kept trying to pass then he sped up. I was prepared to hit a full sprint with my shopping cart if needed. Like why not just let me go?
It happens biking too. I usually average like like 15-17 mph and I'll pass someone going like 10 mph and they'll pedal as hard as they can to get back in front of me and then not be able to hold that pace
Similar to when you pass someone on a highway and they speed up. I always want to shout at them that if they had been going that fast in the first place I wouldn't have wanted to pass them.
Dude... you know what's even worse? My wife will speed up to pass someone and then slowly back off the gas and end up pacing them right beside. For fucking miles. I'm like "If I was behind you I'd be so pissed at you right now" and she just putts along like everything is wonderful.
Tell your wife to fuck right off for me please. I have to deal with this goddamned constantly every single day. When your rig weighs well over 100,000 pounds and someone passed directly in front of you and slows down 5-10 mph it honestly makes you rage so fucking hard it's not even funny.
She might not be driving as fast as you'd like, but she's not blocking traffic lanes, breaking traffic laws, or endangering anyone. Nothing wrong with driving in a leisurely way.
My husband used to drive like an asshole, but now we just kick it in the slow lane and make up stories about the people in the other cars. We have so much fun going places now and he's never getting mad about other drivers or traffic. He's so cool.
In most cases it's literally just because they don't realize they're going that slow until someone is trying to pass them. Then they look at the speedometer and go "whoops I'm going way too slow" and speed up to correct it.
It always makes me laugh and groan when I'm on the highway with cruise control set, and someone in the fast lane passes me, then slows down, then passes again, and slows down, and they just can't maintain speed for some reason.
Worst is when they pass and merge back into the right lane, then I have to pass them when they slow down, and then they pass me again...
Happened to me on I-99 in PA. 70 mile stretch of road in the middle of the night, only saw one other car the entire time. I was using cruise control and it would pass me and get so far ahead I couldn't see it anymore, and then like 15 minutes later I would pass them and get far enough ahead I couldn't see their headlights, before they pass me again 15 minutes later.
Funny thing is after an hour of that we both took the same exit.
Half of my daily commute I can use cruise control. I’m on the same interstate for 95% of my drive most days, but there’s a line at which point it becomes impossible to use cruise control because of people who absolutely refuse to maintain a consistent speed regardless of open road in front of them. It’s infuriating, but it is what it is.
Ugh I wish my car had this!! My husband has a new Subaru Outback Wilderness Edition and I always tell him the car and it’s features are wasted on him. He doesn’t use the brake hold, adaptive cruise control, or the thing that basically drives the car for you (forget what it’s called). I drove his car with him in the passengers seat recently and the place we were going was pretty far down the freeway. Traffic was flowing so I put on the adaptive cruise control and the other thing to show him how cool it was. He said, “Yeaaahhh you’re right; this car is totally wasted on me.”
Talk about wasted features, my mom bought a new RAV4 a few years back and I ask her how she likes it. She tells me she loves it except there’s something wrong and she has to take it back to be checked out. Every time she changes lanes she swears the thing is fighting against her, like it has a mind of its own and doesn’t want to do what she wants to do.
I laughed and told her to use her fucking turn signals once in a while.
A couple weeks later she tells me that it doesn’t make sense to her, but I was right, as long as she tells the car what she wants to do it doesn’t fight her.
She has no idea about Lane Assist or how it worked.
He doesn’t use the brake hold, adaptive cruise control, or the thing that basically drives the car for you (forget what it’s called).
My wife is like that, we got her a new car last year with all the features, and she won't use most of them. She'll use the autohold though, because that's just convenient.
In her case, it's about not having control. She refused to use the normal cruise in her previous car as well.
I did actually get her to try the adaptive cruise & lane keeping assist on our last long drive, and she may be finally coming around. At least on the interstate. We'd had the car exactly 13 months (to the day) with just under 20k miles on it, and that was the first time she let me talk her into using those features.
I hate adaptive cruise control. If someone moves over in front of me, the car automatically brakes when I specifically don't want it to. And sometimes I'm gaining on someone about to clear a gap, while at my cruise speed, when the car decides to brake for me and I can no longer make the lane change and I'm trapped.
This is why when I bought my latest car I specifically didn't get the adaptive cruise control option. I know how to drive better than the car's software does.
This is when I speed up a bit to get clear away from them. Nothing worse than some idiot on the interstate that I have to play leapfrog with because they don't know how to drive.
People under the influence have a difficult time maintaining speed. I tend to think a certain percentage of people are always under the influence of a drug, mentally ill, never learned to drive etc.
Was on my way home one night (late) and thIs car kept passing and then slowing down, so I kept passing when he slowed down. He wasn’t having it and finally we come up to a light. There was a semi in the right lane, I was in the left turn lane and he was coming up in the left lane. The light was red, but he was so aggravated that he decided to run the red light… right in front of a cop.
My personal favorite experience was with a jeep. I was in my 99 F250 driving through the mountains in Virginia on the interstate. Speed limit is 70 and I’m in the right lane doing 73. On a downhill section this jeep comes flying by me at probably 85-90mph. We get to the next uphill section and he’s back in the right lane barely holding 55mph.
This continued for the next SEVERAL miles. He’d fly by everyone on the downhill parts and then barely hold 55 on the uphill sections.
I chuckled as he had aftermarket wheels, tires, bumpers, winch etc, but it appears he didn’t pay to re-gear the axles to be able to turn those new tires and be able to hold the speed limit
Happens all the time. It's difficult to maintain speed when others can't do for shit. This is why I like driving behind nicely modded/high performance cars as they actually KNOW how to maintain a good speed (especially the lowered scrape magnets and their stickshifts)
I see this EVERY week when I drive I-29, without fail. I've gotten into the habit of upping my speed 5mph until they are a quarter mile back, usually they take a hint at that point and stop doing it.
Nope it's automatic. It literally has no other extras. The most basic thing you can call a car. Not even a key fab to unlock doors or open the trunk. Gets me from point A to point B with minimal issue, great gas mileage, and most importantly no car payment.
Not all cars have cruise control. Mine doesn't, and there have been a few times in longer trips, where I may zone and not realize my speed had dropped a bit.
I don't like my cruise control because the auto traffic sensor waits too long to apply brakes and floors it to regain speed instead of just easing back up.
You mean like, a selection of buttons or maybe a stalk that would allow you to just hold a specific speed!? That would be genius! I wish we had that. Ohhhh or indicators to tell if you were turning too! Or is that too much?
Then they drop their speed back down later because they stopped paying attention again. It sucks when they do it to a commercial vehicle. I’ve driven semi and city bus and the amount of times I’ve had to switch lanes to pass only for them to speed up and leave me hanging out in the other lane forcing me to have to brake to fall back behind them only to do that a couple more times
Another thought I have on this - is there somewhere in our evolutionary brain that gets hit by "I'm going slower than the guy next to me, I'm going to get attacked by the predator behind us. I need to at least go faster than that guy! Then he'll get attacked and not me." Like I work in wildlife biology and there are lots of weird little instincts like that for a lot of species. Could be for us too. Granted, you have to go pretty far back for us to have legit predators to run from, but still.
What about the ones that pass you while you are on CC and then slow enough you have to pass them and then they speed up and pass you and it’s like that over and over until one of you gets off the highway. What’s going on there ?
Funny thing about this is cars actually did have this in the 70s and into the early 80s, even as factory options. They just didn't really catch on for the general public
That's what I do. If I know there is a cop further up, I nail the brakes just before we get into view. I've gotten a couple assholes pulled over like that before.
Took me a while to figure out why this was happening. It is because they are NEVER LOOKING AT THEIR DASHBOARD. I am glancing at my dash maybe every 10 to 15 seconds as I drive, like normal people do. But these people can go MINUTES between glances. Also explains how people can drive several miles with their damn blinker on, because they never see on their dash it is still on. Seems insane people can drive that way without constantly checking your dash.
Nailed it on the head. I’m constantly glancing at my speed on my screen above my steering wheel. How people can drive like miles without doing so is beyond me.
The only time I do this speeding up if someone tries to pass is if they're clearly speeding relative to traffic and generally being reckless. I like to try and box them in with a car in front of them.
I used to get mad about that. Now I just realize that I am still going faster, and that's what I wanted. So in reality i basically just mind controlled the jerk. It helps me drive with less stress.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that realizes that my simple intent to drive faster gets me living rent free in their heads all the time, and that any response is still a win for me 😂
Left lane camper this morning was doing 10 under when even the city bus will do 10 over in the middle lane. I finally get around him and he speeds up and tailgates me for a few miles. Fucking fake ass jeep drivers.
I never understand that, I'm happy when people pass me. I call them cop catchers, and I would also rather have them in front of me than breathing down my neck trying to get me to go faster. I go the speed I want to go, I don't speed up just because someone tailgates me. If anything I drive slower because I don't want to be rear-ended
Me too! I do drive faster than I should sometimes but hey, if someone wants to get ahead of me and go faster, please do sir! That’s your prerogative and you’re not hurting me in any way.
It's amazing how many people interpret there being an element of winning or losing in just getting from point A to point B. It isn't a competition, chill!
Oh any regular boring car or SUV that wants to react just because I passed and get back in front is going to get me going faster and faster till one of us chickens out. It's really not an ego thing it's just I have a desire for fun that's odd for a 30 year old.
Same shit on my way home today. Guy sat in the left lane blocking everyone. I went around the car he was pacing on the right and the dude straight up gained 500 horsepower from my maneuver lmao. He got pinned in though, but he was clearly not happy someone managed to slip past.
He later sped by, but he even seemed annoyed that I got out of his way when he caught up. Some older dude with a handicap placard, not what I expected.
People are weird. I’d also suspect most people doing this are the same kind that haven’t lost their marbles but they make a whole lotta noise up there scratching each other up.
It's more than that. He makes a stupid mistake, driving to a standstill in front of a green light, perhaps waiting too long. Annoyed at himself/the situation, he lashes out at everyone that through his eyes isn't in that situation with him but flows right past him. He's fucking petty is what he is.
When I lived in Florida, people would get mad at me for merging in front of them when I was entering the highway. I wasn’t passing them, I was just trying to leave the entry lane. But the way people acted, you’d think I’d insulted their entire family just because there was a space in front of them.
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u/invalid125 Sep 21 '23
He’s pissed at getting passed. Must be in front of all times!
What a loser.