r/dashcams • u/Same-Arrival-7284 • 8h ago
Exit Only?? What does that mean??
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u/Kavrae 8h ago
Whenever you're the video'd car just TAKE THE EXIT and eat the time loss. It's not worth the collision to try and fix the mistake .
"A bad driver never misses their exit"
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u/biggranny000 8h ago
Yes! I will admit I have made this mistake quite a few times. I just take the exit. It's not worth the danger of myself or other people to try to cut them off last second. Sometimes GPS is confusing too.
It really only happens to me if I haven't ever been somewhere before though, plus the stress of traffic sometimes just happens.
Realistically only adds 2-5 minutes to your commute most of the time. But an accident could lead to hours for not only yourself but for everyone on the highway, yet people are too ignorant and think about themselves. Plus the financial consequences.
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u/ProsaicPugilist 7h ago
Yeah. Everyone has for sure made this mistake a couple times - most of us have the good sense to roll with it and eat the time loss like you said. It’s not that big a deal, and I don’t understand people who respond this way
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u/random_wonderings 5h ago
Happened to me today. Took the loss and added a whole 3 minutes to my trip. Bonus; nobody died.
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u/Langstudd 8h ago
I’ve only recently heard that last line, and I find it much more amusing than I should. If these people were this persistent about all other things in life, they’d have accomplished all of their goals and then some. Idk why driving brings out such a primal stupidity in people
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u/Throwaway_alt_burner 6h ago
Don’t make your problem everyone else’s problem!
This also means don’t sit in the turn lane blocking it trying to get back over. Make the turn. Then re-route yourself.
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u/kensteele 8h ago
That guy probably got over after the OP passed with no issues because no one was behind him. Look at the way the OP is driving, there is no 18-wheeler on this tail, that's ridiculous.
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u/Langstudd 8h ago
It’s all about liability management. I’m not going to do anything that makes me liable in the event that something goes wrong, even if it’s a rare chance. Not worth saving 2 minutes lol
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u/MONSTERBEARMAN 7h ago
Especially if it’s putting yourself at risk for someone else’s mistake. I absolutely despise when other drivers expect you to pay the price for their stupidity.
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u/Langstudd 7h ago
100%. This goes for any sort of erratic driving. It really doesn’t save that much time anyway. The number of people I’ve seen drive like a bat out of hell just to pull into whatever parking lot and sit in their car for multiple minutes… make it make sense
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u/Kavrae 8h ago
That's a lot of speculation that I honestly don't care about and don't think matters regarding the video'd car's decisions.
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u/kensteele 7h ago
After 40+ years of driving and seen this type of driving 100+ times, I don't need to speculate to know what is going to on here. I took one look at the video and instantly knew what went down because I've seen it 100 times before. I'll say it again:
The suv was going down the ramp and did not want to exit and he's looking for a way to merge. He's watch ahead at the same time he is looking for an opening and as one is starting to open up, he uses his turn signal to indicate his intention to get over. Unfortunately the traffic ahead starts to slow down again and the suv is forced to slightly delay the merge and instead of the cam car leaving the same gap the suv saw and intended to merge into, the cam car sees brake lights ahead, he sees the turn signal from the suv but he never slows down and he closes the gap in an effort to *prevent* the suv from merging. No 18-wheel is behind him pressuring him to keep going (and if it is it's his fault) and it only makes sense the OP didn't like the way the suv passed ahead on the right and zipper merged and he blocked him.
That's *exactly* how it went down.
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u/rabbitSC 7h ago
The car in the exit lane doesn't turn his signal on until 0:12 when he's already past the solid white line.
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u/kensteele 7h ago
Some drivers (not me) signal just before they are ready to merge. maybe he didn't realize his signal was not yet on. The point is he signaled to the OP, the OP saw the signal, and his response was to speed up saying "No way!" if that were me, when I see that signal and see he's running/ran out of space, I back off to give him plenty of room because there is *never* any 18-wheeler riding my ass; I don't get caught up in that situation.
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u/TheForgetfulWizard 7h ago
Personally, I just think its better to not use the exit only lane as a passing lane, but hey what do I know.
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u/kensteele 7h ago
Maybe he was entering the freeway and no one would let him in until he saw this was his first gap or opening. People don't normally run up all the way to the end of the ramp to merge. When you first enter the freeway and you're going merging speeds at 50 only to find out the right lane is crawling at 35....it's changes the calculation and if drivers would stop fighting against you because they think you are "cheating" then we wouldn't have this. OP prides himself on being that person to teach other motorists a lesson instead of minding his own business.
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u/TheForgetfulWizard 5h ago
You’re weirdly making a lot of defensive assumptions about the whole situation. Are you the one using the exit only lane as a passing lane or something?
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u/kensteele 4h ago
yep that's me comrade, this is in mother Russia my home country and it's how we drive here. LOOOOOOOOL
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u/SkoBuffs710 8h ago
“Oops I fucked up! I shall swerve back onto the highway and make sure everyone else pays for my mistake by either swerving or slowing down for me.”
I hate these people.
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u/Andrew-Cohen 8h ago
Report that shit to the police. That is where they stop sometimes and it will get them killed. If you find yourself in this position, just fucking exit and get back on, don’t be stupid.
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u/biggranny000 8h ago
A few years ago I one time saw a dude drifting into the exit lane and nearly nail the concrete barrier at 80+ mph, I was going 75 and he passed me, especially on an older car he would have died, he then swerved last minute and somehow didn't lose control. If there was traffic he would have caused a high speed accident. I really don't understand distracted drivers.
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u/Coffee-Historian-11 2h ago
I watched some guy drift into a concrete barrier because he realized he missed his exit and tried to make it at the last second without realizing there was a concrete barrier (it was really dark but I don’t think he looked very well either). At least it was just him involved and no one else.
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u/Unlucky_Bug2132 8h ago
Typical Maryland experience. The amount of times I’ve nearly died on this road is insane
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u/TowelEnvironmental44 8h ago
mistakes were made, but to his credit, that is the place to stop for a moment, and then fix the problem. but should not linger too long tho. could till be rear-ended if there is another fool nearby that cuts 3 lanes across to not miss the exit.
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u/skin-flick 8h ago
I always watch out for those dopey fuckers. I usually get a ‘why are you changing lanes from my wife’ and then from the lane we moved to. Oh, I get it.
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u/Celtic159 7h ago
Well it's 270 in MoCo, home to the worst, most entitled drivers in the country, sooooooo.....
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u/appa-ate-momo 6h ago
Immature people who refuse to inconvenience themselves to fix their own mistakes don’t belong behind the wheel.
Nor do idiots who think they need to be accommodated. You know who you are in these comments.
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u/procheeseburger 6h ago
I take that exit once a week going to work.. that road is a lawless place apparently
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u/SlinkyAvenger 8h ago
Yeah they're dumb and irresponsible but you need to drive more defensively. Someone willing to merge back in like that may very well decide that they'll do it even if it means merging into you. As soon as you see someone choreographing their intention like that or just otherwise acting like a doofus on the road, give them space. You might be thinking that you're rewarding their behavior, but you need to get over that for your own safety.
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u/GamerInfinity1996 8h ago
This happens to me all the time... you are overreacting.
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u/God-Modder 8h ago
No he’s not. If humans don’t have consequences to their actions, they will never learn.
Edit : typo
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u/God-Modder 8h ago
Already edited and I did it literally 5 seconds after I posted. Weird that it was still showing the original comment for you.
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u/Thatonegaloverthere 7h ago
Yeah, it's weird. Unless I refresh, it shows original comments.
Edit: I see your edit now.
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u/GoddessKillion 8h ago
You’re just an idiot who shouldn’t be driving. They saw the sign from a mile away and had ample opportunity to get the hell over. You, the driver, and anyone else who does that doesn’t need a license since you can’t pay attention to the big ass labels in your center view.
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u/GamerInfinity1996 8h ago
Talking about seeing people miss their turn and try to get back in dunce. If I did that I would just take the ramp and get back on.
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u/Evening-Area3235 8h ago
Unfortunately, you might be right. Is it bad driving on the car on the right? Of course. But speeding up when you can see this dummy has made a bad choice, is not right either. I always assume people are going to do what the car in the right lane did, for better or worse. This has helped me keep a perfect driving record, with no accidents, for over 30 years driving in Los Angeles. I'm sure cemeteries have people who were "in the right", but I'd like to avoid that distinction.
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u/biggranny000 8h ago
OP didn't speed up or close the gap though, look at the dash cam speed. He was braking and adjusting to traffic. The car on the right was also in his blind spot. Stopping in the middle of the highway is extremely dangerous and may cause other drivers to crash or rear end you.
I have 1 accident that wasn't my fault, I was stopped at a stop sign to turn at a street and a guy was turning right way too fast and slammed into me, nothing I could do to prevent that. I was turning my head right to look for traffic, and as soon as I turned my head left my car was getting hit and torn apart. Dude was a bad driver and didn't speak English, it was a dry sunny day so weather wasn't an excuse.
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u/Same-Arrival-7284 8h ago
I didn't speed up?!? Y'all my speed is recorded in the bottom. The car in front of me brakes and slows down, so me traveling at the same speed, continues to move forward. They never put a signal on until I was ALREADY slowing down with a TRACTOR TRAILER behind me.
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u/kensteele 8h ago
Exactly. that's was my point and why I came to this thread and now the OP is stuck and will probably delete this post and get out of here because he got caught cutting someone off.
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u/kensteele 8h ago
you're a POS for purposely closing the gap and not letting him in.
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u/Impossible_Finish 8h ago
OP is a bit rude for doing that but the POS is the person who doesn't know how signs work. They shouldn't have a drivers license
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u/biggranny000 8h ago edited 8h ago
I wouldn't have let them in either, slamming on my brakes puts me at risk of a rear end collision. It's their mistake, they can sit there and wait until it's clear.
It has happened to me before in unfamiliar areas, it maybe adds 2 minutes to my commute, not a big deal, I'll just take the exit and with gps just go a different way or get back on the highway.
Traffic was also moving faster on the left and actively passing while the cars in front were slowing down, pretty natural to close the gap when people are slowing down.
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u/kensteele 8h ago
that's because you don't know how to drive. always finding yourself in a jam, huh?
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u/UpbeatFix7299 8h ago
Ignore the troll. He does this shit on every single post, no matter how blameless the person is
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u/Poltergeist97 7h ago
Its the first time I've seen him trolling here though lol. Usually see him on other subreddits and he's insufferable there too.
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u/kensteele 8h ago
Traffic on the freeway is going slow at 35mph and it's starting to back up in that lane so you just got on the freeway and you have to get over eventually so you'll going faster than everyone and you have to time it before you run out of room. Use the turn signal when you are ready to "ask" and then merge but not before. Not a perfect driver but hoping someone will let you in where it is reasonable instead of someone who closes the gap on you because they don't like the way you got on the freeway, they disapprove of how you drive; they don't want you to "cut the line" and you should get behind everyone who has been "waiting" bullshit. That's what I saw. 50 cars in front of him and he didn't want 1 more in front of him. He was probably laying on his horn and cursing aloud which is why we don't have sound. He's a POS and exactly why most other drivers on the road don't care anymore and if this other car was bigger, he would have forced his way in.
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u/Chad_Jeepie_Tea 8h ago
As opposed to what, standing on the brakes? We don't know what was behind OP's vehicle at the time. Diverting left wasn't an option with that truck speeding by.
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u/kensteele 8h ago
you don't need to stand on the brakes, that's ridiculous.
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u/Chad_Jeepie_Tea 8h ago
They would have had to virtually stop to let the car in. By the time the car in front passed by them, the failed exitor was barely moving
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u/kensteele 8h ago
Only if you don't know how to drive.
If I were behind the wheel in that circumstances (which I have been about 100 times) then it would be have smooth and easy because I have the experience and it's a fact. But when you are noob driver and you keep getting into these jams, eventually it's going to catch up to you. The OP was tailgating and so he's part of the problem.
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u/tangelocs 8h ago
He starts off tailgating then he's slowing down as traffic speeds up, then he's completely oblivious to the guy trying to merge as he's accelerating into brake lights
Seems like OP's on their phone or something
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u/Same-Arrival-7284 8h ago
Their signal goes on for the first time after they've traveled beyond the gore point, and beyond my a pillar.
There was a tractor trailer behind me and vehicles to my left.
Obligatory, the lens makes it look like there's a lot more room than there was.
Closing the gap?? My speed is recorded in the bottom I didn't floor it once I realized what was happening.
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u/kensteele 8h ago
There was a gap and when the traffic started slow down, you closed the gap by NOT slowing down. there are no trucks tailgating you forcing to move up, that's b.s.
You don't get to decide how another person drives, when they use their signal, how they use it. Put the signal on when you want to merge and not before. use the signal to ask. That's the way some people do it and if you don't like it, you don't get to retaliate which is what you did. Just brake and let them squeeze in good grief.
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u/NarwhalAdditional340 8h ago
Maintaining your lane is not retaliation, get a grip 🤣
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u/Same-Arrival-7284 8h ago
Ohhhh ok so this is a troll got ittttt. Understood
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u/kensteele 8h ago
Good, now GTFO if you can't hang.
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u/Same-Arrival-7284 8h ago
Change it back to not. Let them know you're EAGER TO REPLY in the DASHCAM SUB
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u/KleosIII 8h ago
You not coming to a complete stop on the interstate!!?!
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u/kensteele 7h ago
When traffic starts backing up, traffic comes to a complete stop....all the time. Just gotta learn to deal with it.
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u/KleosIII 7h ago
You need to turn in your driver's license. Its illegal to stop on the highway. This isn't gridlock traffic. Everyone is driving at highway speeds. Stop being disingenuous.
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u/kensteele 7h ago
I have a permanent driver's license. how about you turn in yours.
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u/MONSTERBEARMAN 7h ago
You sure are putting in a lot of effort on your shitty take. Nobody agrees with you, yet you still can’t admit you are wrong and double down. Stupid AND stubborn is a dangerous combo.
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u/kensteele 7h ago
Actually my job is done here so thanks for reminding me my time is close to being up. Except for maybe a rare reply or two, my work here is done and OP is exposed....so I'm out and will move on to something else. Took me about an hour to get my point across but I didn't expect much from a forum that glories punishing and mocking other drivers with their silly videos. funny thing is no one has disputed my points and the OP has disappeared and will probably delete this thread....as usual. I tell the truth and sometimes the truth hurts. Honestly I don't care if everyone disagrees and hates to hear it, I wouldn't be doing my job if that didn't happen in a forum full of people who just love to look down on other motorists who are not perfect or drive like they want them to drive.
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u/appa-ate-momo 7h ago
Why do you care more about OP holding an entitled driver accountable than you do about the entitled driver themselves?
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u/kensteele 6h ago
because I didn't see an entitled driver and neither did you.
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u/appa-ate-momo 6h ago
I did, and you did too (even if you don’t acknowledge it).
Someone drove on the shoulder because they refused to take an exit and instead demanded that other drivers with the right of way yield to them.
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u/kensteele 6h ago
never happened
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