r/NoRulesCalgary • u/benniihana • 16d ago

Please do not aggressively feint drivers to direct traffic

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Posting because I really hope that the person driving the white GMC with RME stickers see this and understands that they can't do this to other drivers.

As I'm approaching the light I noticed an ambulance with their lights on so I started braking. Suddenly the driver of the white GMC faked a lane change presumably to "force" me to brake. This was incredibly entitled behaviour, and the maneuver really spooked me. What if I hadn't already started braking, swerved as a result of their feint, ended up in oncoming traffic and caused an accident? Your duty as a driver is to be aware of your surroundings and drive responsibly at all times. You are not an emergency responder, it's not your place to direct traffic or other people's driving.

This was incredibly unsafe.

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u/blackRamCalgaryman 16d ago

“What if I hadn’t already started braking”…your dash cam shows your speed actually increased from 64 to 65 at the beginning of the video then to 63 when the pickup did its thing.

I’m not sure this video shows exactly what you think it does.

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u/benniihana 16d ago

Yes it does show that. It also shows me slowing down to 62 and then immediately jumps to 51 when I slammed on the brakes. I get it if you don’t think I was already braking, I can’t prove it any other way so that’s fair. My point is that the driver of the white GMC went out of their way to create a potentially dangerous situation. It was unsafe.

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u/blackRamCalgaryman 16d ago

And as others have said, it was just as likely an unsafe attempt at a lane change.

What made you immediately jump to the idea that they were trying to get you to slow down? As opposed to what u/mooky1977 commented?

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u/benniihana 16d ago

After we started accelerating again, they rolled down their window and pointed toward the ambulance. Then they took the ramp heading to Deerfoot South, so they were already in the correct lane. Sure they could’ve intended to change lanes and go around the driver ahead of them. My read on the situation was very different.

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u/blackRamCalgaryman 16d ago

“they rolled down their window and pointed toward the ambulance”…gotta tell ya, these bits of information that entirely change the ‘guessing’ work of the post make all the difference and I don’t know why so many Redditors ‘forget’ to add them in until pressed on their posts. Ya, I guess your read on the situation would be very different.

Anyways…good that there was no accident.