Sometimes the opposite happens, though. The aggressive driver hits the light just before it turns yellow, and everyone who didn't drive like a hooligan had to stop. Depends on how well timed the lights are.
That said, people in general need to start coasting to a red light at least twice the distance away that they do. I've gotten passed by people where I'm coasting, there's a red light ahead, and there's no reason at all to hurry. Coming to a full stop is a waste of energy, and you should set yourself up to avoid needing to as much as possible.
The real trick is coasting to a stop in an open lane next to the person in a hurry; then if the light turns green, you're still moving and you can zoom right by them, which is incredibly satisfying.
What about the guy behind you that wants to make the green turn light that you make him miss because you're coasting to YOUR light? Dick move that is.
That is a very specific situation you've invented in your head to he mad about.
They should probably be using the lane that's turning right and has a green light, so there's no conflicts there.
Different lanes? Nonissue. Same lane? He would have had to wait for it to turn green anyway.
In what context does this even make sense?
You're blocking access to the turn lane by going slow a half mile before YOUR light. I don't know where you live but the major road through my city is like that. Right and left turn lanes at the light, two lanes leading up to it.
So now it's half a mile? Two lane roads like that aren't going to have dedicated turn lights, just a blanket green yellow or red for all traffic coming from a given direction, which is almost certainly what the initial user in this thread was talking about before you invented that left turn light.
And even if they did slow you down, so what? Waaaah you made my drive last another 30 seconds
like big fucking deal, if you haven't yet figured out you should give yourself some buffer time when you plan your drive that's on you tbh.Or you could drive like a normal person and drive the fucking speed limit instead of acting like you're the only person on the road. But hey, you do you, just don't cry when people like me fly past you. (we know you will, and your tears fuel my right foot)
The coasting thing is how I ride my motorcycle. It's so satisfying when you don't have to stop and put a foot down for a light because it turns green while you're still rolling.
I never know which lights I'll beat by driving faster and which ones I won't, but I know I'll beat a few.
I suspect that most speeding has nothing to do with being late, but with people being impatient and nasty
I don't speed much, but I take off fast and try to have an open lane at a light. Am I an asshole? I drive like one sure. I'm tired of getting behind someone that will no doubt be on their phone when the light turns green and sit there until I honk. I'm tired of the guy that takes half a mile to get up to 35mph because he doesn't feel it's necessary to hit the gas pedal. I'm tired of the people who want to slow down a half mile from their light when I just want to make the turn light that I can't because we're going 25 mph in a 55. I've logged over a million miles, I'm over dealing with idiots on the road and it just keeps getting worse.
I've been saying for a while now that this phenomenon needs one of those overly specific German words
Me too, I love driving, I love acceleration. I will let it eat from just about every light. I don't care. If you're going under the speed limit or take half a mile to get to speed, yeah, I'm the asshole passing you for it.
Just gonna say that no one into cars that I know guns it from a red light because they think it'll get them anywhere faster. It's just because it makes us happy to do that. You're laughing at something we don't care about at all.
Even if you do care about that, it's not like gunning it never succeeds in getting you just past the next light before the red either.
Also, personally, it's much more comfortable to be at the front of the pack where I'm free to move, rather than being blocked in on all sides where my options to avoid an accident are constrained. This is honestly what I don't get the most about people who are part of rolling roadblocks. If an animal or person runs into the road ahead of you, you have literally nowhere to dodge besides braking and hoping.
I think this is a good opinion to have, generally. Fucking up cars just makes me happy. I key a vintage Volkswagen? Just brings joy to my heart
I hope you slip and fall on a nice steaming pile of dogshit.
It just makes me happy to do that, we seem to have established that this trumpy any other considerations?
Crushing up ceramic and flicking them at car windows makes me light up with joy, any other fun things to do?
I love a good lentil. Did you know that brake fluid gives car paint a nice sheen? Make sure to give them a nice coat to make look really good.
Personally I don't care if someone guns it at a red light - I do that basically every stoplight on my motorcycle because I'm trying to get away from the cars - but I do feel pretty smug if I see someone do something like weave dangerously through traffic at double the speed limit only to be stopped by a light.
While I'm sure it feels good to cautious drivers when this happens, IME it doesn't happen enough for the amount of snarky memes posted about it. If it happens even 50% of the time, the other 50% aggressive drivers do get ahead.
I'm not an aggressive driver, and I see plenty of aggressive drivers I never catch up with.
I take a different tact. I learn optimum routes so I can get around faster at normal speeds. Favorable right of way, favorable light timing, more direct angled roads. Traffic patterns and hence route selection change by time of day. It takes time, trial, and error to figure out but it pays off. I can get to the grocery store 3 minutes faster than my wife (5 vs 8 minutes) by picking a better route.
There's an unavoidable overpass between me and where we get groceries with 3 lights on it. They're timed such that, heading in either direction, you'll hit one red if you follow the speed limit. They may have sensors, but they change with no cross-traffic as well. However, if you catch the first light in green, and speed by between 7-10 over the speed limit (35), you can get through all 3 without stopping. It's an overpass with no residential nearby; this is the only place I regularly blow through.
I have no idea what the civic engineers were thinking when they progammed those lights. I assume incompetence; what I think really happened is that at one time that stretch was 45, like both sides of the overpass, and they were programmed for 45, which would normally get you through with no stops. Then some asshat changed the speed limit of that stretch to 35 without reprogramming the lights.
Anyway, the point of my long story is that sometimes going around isn't feasible. When it is, it's a great tactic, though!
Did this with a Subaru WRX driver yesterday. He still had temp tags. Probably was a good driver before he got that thing.
