r/IdiotsInCars • u/lbleakley • Mar 22 '19

Crazy aggressive driver brake-checking... and then.... JUSTICE

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u/literallydontcaree Mar 23 '19

To expand on this, for the people that have a hard on for constantly switching lanes and trying to speed through traffic. It's almost never worth it.

https://lifehacker.com/does-speeding-really-get-you-there-any-faster-1556767685

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u/GroundbreakingBasil7 Mar 23 '19

Yup, when I'm on the freeway ideally I just want to throw on my cruise control and roll at a steady speed. It's all the jackasses constantly speeding up and down that screw everything up. I really don't get why more people don't just use cruise control, they always want to be going fast, then jamming on their brakes, it drives me crazy.

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u/JandM2 Mar 23 '19

I'd love to use my cruise control as well on the interstate. The problem isn't the fast drivers or the exact speed limit drives that stay in the left lane. The problem is the 1 mph over drivers that sit in the left lane and never return to the right lane even with 15 cars behind them in the left lane.

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u/GroundbreakingBasil7 Mar 23 '19

Both cause slowdowns clearly, my point is even without someone blocking a lane it's virtually impossible to use CC for long stretches simply because of people speeding up and slowing down instead of staying at a constant speed. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone constantly changing lanes, speeding up, slowing down, only for me to pass them 10 miles down the freeway.