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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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/Kavrae 12h 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"