10 Signs You're a Bad Driver!

I just got back from a coast-to-coast-to-coast trip of basically 5,000+ miles and it reminded me how many bad

driver

s there are still in the United States, so here's a video on 10 Signs You're a Bad Driver, the first sign that you are a terrible

driver

, is a hug in the blind spot, this is a very terrible habit that you want to get out of. There are two reasons why people do this. The first is simply distraction, where they simply match someone's speed, usually people texting and driving. Gotta make it. The second most childish reason why people do this.

It's much more prominent. It's just that people don't want to show weakness by pointing out. I actually read this on a forum when I googled it. Why do people hug in the blind spot? I'm not kidding, it's not like that. because there are people who are not motorists who are so mean that they say oh, I don't want a sign, I don't want to show weakness to people, so if I hug their blind spot enough and just push myself into their lane, that forces me. to give in to me, oh, why feed their fragile ego to do something like that, that's just the most childish thing, since some non-car people really are into that extra extra wild, the second sign that their terrible driver is accelerating to lock the zipper fusion.

So zipper merging, let me explain to you briefly, is basically when you merge, just like how a zipper behaves, like if you know a zipper on your clothes, if you are currently in the exit lane, if someone wants to join your exit lane. exit, you let him take his speed. and they push behind you or in front of you and the guy in front of you and behind you you need to leave enough space to understand that now, if you are the one who is going to go out, then you need to carry enough speed to push you in the middle. the exit lanes the problem is that many people do not understand this at all or rather they understand it but misinterpret it due to territorial nature, for example, they will see it as you trying to steal their place or steal their lane, here is the problem. when you start blocking someone from entering the exit lane, eventually they will come to a complete stop because if everyone keeps choking them and they can't keep up their speed, now you have a completely stopped car on the road, guess what that does? the rest of the traffic behind him came to a complete stop, guess what that does to the people in the exit lane, eventually a good samaritan will let him in.

Now the problem is that in order for the Good Samaritan to let you in, you also need to maintain your lane until a complete stop, so now you have effectively stopped two lanes completely just due to your childish territorial nature when entering a highway, the People have no problem with this notice of how when people come from an exit lane or a ramp instead, they are able to zip merge and people actually yield to them or even move to the left to make room . Why is this logic not applied to the output if it is applied to the input ramp?

No other country struggles so much. The third sign that you are a terrible driver, when you confuse people with tailgating, let me explain what I mean, so I have always had people litter, like pouring their coffee or water or even just throwing away their cup. out the window and The worst thing that happens to me is that people constantly spray windshield washer fluid for a moment. I thought like they were just cleaning their bugs, but one day I finally went on a forum around 2018 and googled why people do this. I thought someone didn't. Or they clean their windows every five minutes, that's really unreasonable.

In the end I learned that it's a passive-aggressive way of saying that you're too close to them, so you're probably thinking, oh Blade, and now you know that people do this because they think. Just because people are tailgating doesn't mean they are too close to you, dear SUV and truck drivers, did you know your window? Look at this window here, it's tall. Did you know that sports cars our roofs are short, therefore, it looks like we are? closer to you than we actually are this is something very important that I want to tell SUV drivers because it is something that many of them don't understand.

Doug Demuro did a whole video on this, but that was back in 2014, I think it was. in a ferrari 360 and he was behind an SUV a car length or two away and his car completely disappeared from his rearview mirror because of how physics works, because of how light works, because of how refraction works and how your damn thing works mirror, this is basic. Elementary things SUV drivers should have learned but probably don't know because again, welcome American drivers, if a shorter vehicle is behind a taller vehicle, we will appear to be closer than you, for example, if you see my hood they're probably thinking I'm eating your bumper because you're like wow I don't see your bumper if you see my hood and my roof I'm actually like five car lengths away from you when you actually see my front bumper so you see my front bumper , my hood and my roof, I'm like six or seven car lengths away from me, but again, some people still think I'm on their ass, like, wow, that sports car is like two car lengths from me, no, I'm like that.

A long time ago, it's something you have to get used to, another sign that you're a terrible driver, you're an aspiring street racer, first of all, not everyone in a high performance sports car will want to race you and even If they did, you would have to do it. Otherwise you didn't win shit, so people who constantly speed up others during traffic, especially someone who is stuck in traffic in their lane while the person speeds up and tries to start the race is in an open lane, how not? I understand that the person in the traffic trap lane literally can't do anything he can, what do you want him to do?

He rear-ends the guy in front of him like he obviously won't be able to compete with you, but I still see a mark. Chatters post really stupid videos of them opening sports cars even though they weren't even trying. Did you know that for your race to start there have to be several competitors? You have to understand that if the other person is literally stuck in traffic, you are. They're not gaping, they're not in any kind of way trying to compete with you, they might even just be going home because sometimes the reason they're in a slower, more traffic-filled lane is because that's their lane. exit, another sign that you are a terrible driver is that if you hold the brake at the green light, this usually happens if someone is distracted, whether texting and driving, whether they are high as a kite or just arguing with someone on the phone.

Now the problem with this is everything. It causes a chain reaction effect because if the person doesn't go to the green, everyone else behind them isn't going to go either when the distracted driver finally does, this causes this traffic shock wave, basically, they're going to release the brake. . and then go, then the guy behind them will do the same thing, the person behind them will do the same thing and basically it's a chain that moves slowly, almost like you're taking turns going to a red line. Atlanta is one of the few cities. I've lived in a place where people do this at almost every stoplight and it's a really hard thing to fix on your own because you're one person in the entire traffic flow of a city when everyone in the city is already ingrained in doing it.

Basically, there's nothing you can do about this, is what I'm trying to say. This isn't something that can be fixed on a single level, it has to be fixed on a broad culture at the city level, I notice it in Atlanta even when people don't. When texting and driving, they still do it out of distrust and fear of each other because that's how little faith they have in other drivers, so they will literally be out front when the light turns green, just the people in front will release them. breaks and leaves, then the person behind them does the same and so on until it's literally your turn to let go of the break and move too, which is extremely inefficient in any other city I've lived in, even in other metropolitan areas. like in dallas, texas or even when I visited my brother in Phoenix, Arizona, I got honked for doing this and I deserved it because I had also developed this habit living in Atlanta for so long that I forgot what it was like to be in a flow of normal traffic, so When I was in Phoenix, when the light turned green, everyone released their brake, even like there were 10 cars behind, the nine cars in front of them released their brake and then the tenth car is also responsible for doing the same. same as them.

They have so much faith in each other that they all move forward collectively as a pact, but I was so used to the turn system that I didn't realize that when the light literally turns green, everyone moves together, so they honked at me. because I stopped. still for a couple of seconds and when I lived in other places in my life I had never done this before like in indiana people do this correctly everyone moves together in texas moves together like people in texas are not really Bad drivers are just aggressive drivers but they are still smart drivers.

Atlanta is one of the first cities I lived in where people are aggressively bad drivers, very dumb, and also overly conceited. The sixth sign that If you're a terrible driver, you don't change lanes, so what does it mean to change lanes? If someone wants to get into your lane and you want to get into theirs, you initiate something known as a merchandising maneuver, so the one on the right is responsible for slowing down and can even wait a bit for traffic to make a little space for you. that you can jump and when you jump you have to do it with a decent speed coming from the left because obviously you speed towards the merchant too for Elaine, so speed up a little and then enter and the guy who wants to enter your lane will jump quickly while you do, so it's almost like a crossover maneuver.

I know it sounds scary at first, like it's supposed to go. to speed up and just dive into their lane, what happens if you hit them? You are not going to hit them because you have to remember that this is the number one logic why trading always works. You're not in danger of hitting the guy you're trading with. because they will never speed up to choke you, they are offering you their lane because they want to get into your lane, so if you see someone signaling trying to get out of the lane you want to get into and you start to watch them even stop traffic to create a space in front of you them so you can jump.

You have to jump that way they can jump. Nothing is more satisfying than the perfect interchange of lanes on the highway, especially when you're like. negotiating if you missed an exit and you say I have to take this exit and someone else says I'm on the wrong exit, I have to get off this exit and you two like your brain waves just sink and you already know exactly what the another wants and they take each other's lane, that is the most satisfying thing there is when driving and you have to learn to do this, it is something natural for some people, where if you are not a territorial jerk, you will naturally understand how to do this movement like the The seventh sign that you are a terrible driver is when you are too nice. note to people who are too nice, stop trying to wave people onto a multi lane road. your single car can't block multiple lanes, so even if you stop your lane to let someone in, the other guy in the next lane if he doesn't do the same, it's not safe, best in that situation it's just letting things take their course and getting on with your It's really bad for business if you try to patronize them because now you're causing the cars behind you to just come to a complete stop, but as they do, someone behind them has a place to be man, so when you stop them to complete. stop they will just move into the next lane so the guy behind him will go into the next lane and just speed up most of the time he owns a VQ and will just make loud trumpeting noises as they race. that lane, so if I had accepted this person's kind gesture, I would have been upset, so again, don't try to greet people on multi-lane roads, that's not nice at all, you're being a huge inconvenience to those who are behind you.

They also don't offer a safe alternative for the guy trying to merge, they're accomplishing nothing on either front. I've used this word a lot in this video, but I'm also going to make its own entry and that is territorial driving, territorial driving. has many subsets of what it can cause, it basically comes from the idea that people interpret every little actionon the road as a spiteful gesture towards them, sometimes people accidentally become one because they simply had a bad day at work, but it is difficult for this one to correct people who do it because this is something that does not come from driving , but from a sad personal behavior, as if their ego is so fragile, something in their life has made them so insecure that now they have to do it. throw it at other strangers on the road as if it were not an action like sticking to the vehicle or an action like holding the brake at the green light or an action like changing lanes, this is a psychological action, leave them alone if you see that Sony is extremely territorial, let it go. don't feed their ego, don't challenge them, they may just be having a bad day, but you have to let it go.

There are many strangers on the road. You may never even see half of them again in your entire life. Not worth it. the risk isn't worth trying to chase them it's not worth trying to cause more trouble that's the best form of advice I can give to people who encounter territorial drivers as to the actual territorial drivers, if you recognize them in this video, hopefully it will improve. you seek therapy hopefully you get the promotion at your job Whatever is causing your insecurity or your fragile ego, you need to resolve it because you are still human and I believe that whatever problems you are going through you should not impose it on others because we are all human too.

The ninth sign that Your terrible driver does not follow the lines on the road. This sounds like a very simple concept, but many idiots get it wrong in the execution. There are many new traffic innovations, such as roundabouts and diverging diamonds, of which I have seen many. Many morons go in the wrong way and then post on social media that roundabouts and diverging diamonds are the blight of the earth and are tremendously inconvenient. It's not that difficult a concept. The easiest way to never make a mistake. Steering on a roundabout or a diverging diamond is simply watching the lines on the ground, going slowly and now, the last entry in this video, the final sign that you are a bad driver is to hog the left lane again.

This is like the fifth time. I have mentioned this on this channel, why do people still do this? To reiterate this, the leftmost lane and the trap you don't set the speed for, in most states, it's actually illegal to drive the speed limit in those lanes because you're actually going too slow, so always I see Karen's post on social media. I don't understand what people expect me to do. Break the law. I'm already at 70 when she says 70. You're already breaking the law. Actually you should. Whatever the flow of traffic, the point is to leave the left lane empty, if you just want to pass some people you can use it to pass and that's why it's called the passing lane, but you can't sit in the left lane, for That's tons of states are passing laws that literally say please don't sit in the left lane or leave the left lane open for faster traffic or they'll say the opposite when they say slower traffic, keep right, those They are all things you need to understand anyway.

That's it for this video, I hope you enjoyed it, I hope you learned something new or I hope you laughed a lot if you're new here and you like cars and car content, make sure you subscribe, make sure you like this video. to share it with friends too if you think any of them have any of these bad habits besides that, see you next time Blade Angel comes out.