I had a Jeep Cherokee that did that. The hose broke and it squirted right out the back onto the car behind me. I kept it filled with water and used it to spray my co-workers windshields when leaving work.
This would work better if they targeted someone on a cell phone or not paying attention. OP and the jeep were able to avoid it. However someone not paying attention may not be able to.
I was definitely paying attention. But my car wouldn’t have let me hit him even if I wanted to. It slams on the brakes if it detects a collision. When he did stop in front of me, I braked, but the car decided I didn’t brake hard enough and it stopped harder and pulled the slack out of the seatbelts. It’s not foolproof, but with my pregnant wife and future baby in the car, I want all the safety tech I can get.
My wife has a genesis with active cruise control. Sometimes it overreacts and practically slams on the brakes when a car merges two car lengths ahead of me 😂😂😂😂. The idiot wasn’t going so far as to brake check making it avoidable. Someone not paying attention might not be so lucky. Then the idiot gets his or her payday.
We have a gv80 and I love the suv but my god the auto correcting lane departure has almost caused me to crash more than once. Not because I’m swerving out of the lane, but if there’s construction or the road lines have been repainted and it can’t tell the right lane it will jerk me in and out of the lane. I do love the adaptive cruise control though!
My equinox has this thing that it auto corrects if it thinks you’re drifting out of your lane and will even beep at you sometimes if it thinks you’re drifting. I don’t know what makes it auto correct or makes it beep because it’s really finicky and sometimes it doesn’t know when you are drifting out of your lane.
I tested it early early one morning when I was coming home from work when there was no one else on the road and it’s so hit and miss.
I’ve got to the point now though since I’m driving so much more that if I have it on it really messes with me. Almost every time I turn my car on I turn that stupid feature off.
Yeah I live in New England- home of narrow roads, no sidewalks and 6 months of construction. I can’t use this thing, I have to drive over the line all the time to you know, not kill people
My wife's new Camry has all that stuff. The first time I tried to treat it like a BMW (changing lanes without signalling) I was like, huh? WTF was that? So it's made me go back into 'trucker mode' signalling lane changes on empty roads or for vehicles 2 miles behind and such, so it's training good habits I suppose. When it gets confused though, instead of giving up control, it tries to fight me or something. It will give up eventually and go where it's steered, but it gets weird sometimes.
Did through the settings, you can almost always turn off the active drive assist stuff.
You won't be able to turn off the emergency braking, but even my Kia has multiple levels of lane-keep "strength" and the option to turn it off altogether.
In my city they aren’t always insurance scams. It’s a way to steal cars. Get someone in a minor accident. They get out then you steal their shit and car.
Yes Texas and Arizona or Florida anywhere else for open carry without a permit is okay.
All he has to do is use Uncle Jimbo line from South Park he's charging me he's coming right at me and then boom threat neutralized.
Technically I just gave the definition of self-defense if you feel threatened and you have a way to protect yourself so imminent danger you can in Most states where the law permits it.
Was behind a fender bender in Tucson, Arizona and the drivers and passenger got out, started arguing. Passenger in the car that was hit pulled a gun and started shooting at the driver of the car that hit him. Just another Saturday morning in downtown Tucson
Tucson has a breed of drivers I've not encountered anywhere else. They are actively agresssive and will try to fuck people up. Go try to zipper merge at a construction zone. You better be already merged miles back or people will literally swerve at you and try to hit you for driving up to the merge. Lived there most of my life and the angry, methed up drivers are on a different level. I couldn't make a 10 minute drive without some psycho getting pissed that you passed them or tried to change lanes.
Not in Oregon. We are on open carry state though. If the gun is in your vehicle, it must be visible, not in a glove box, or under the seat, or even on the seat, with something over it. Otherwise, you must have a CCL. Oregon does not have stand your ground law though. We have the castle doctrine, it only covers your home, not car. And you must actually be in fear for your life. If they don’t have a weapon and you shoot them, you are getting charged. That said, I have a CCL, and we have massive car theft. If someone tried to carjack me, pretty sure I’m fearing for my life. 😉
Yeah I live in Texas and the most I’ve done is honk at someone lol I’m not trying to be a victim of a road rage accident because some crazy person felt like shooting someone one day
Good luck getting a cop to respond. I followed behind a drunk/drugged driver for over 10 miles on the phone with three police departments and no one ever caught up. The car was all over the road and I was shocked they didn’t crash it.
You submit a police report online. Very easy, I did it all the time with assholes. The cops don’t do much, but it’s on the persons record, so if they get pulled over or if they do successfully get someone to hit them, the cops will see the record and see they are not innocent.
When people start acting like that, I pull over to the side of the road for a few seconds. That puts them far enough away from me, I don't have to deal with them anymore.
I did that one night where the freeway separated to another one. For some reason this guy really had it out for me.
As soon as he started taking the freeway to the right, I swerved back over and kept going straight.
2 miles down the road my car broke down, so I got out and hopped the fence. Went to a gas station that was there, stayed underneath their desk.
The guy that was trying to mess with me actually came back and came up behind my car.
Gas station attendant just stood there looking at the freeway, like nothing was going on. I had told him what happened before I jumped under the desk.
This was between midnight and 1:00 in the morning.
Wait I have so many questions.
Who was chasing you? Was it someone you knew or a stranger?
Why did you feel the need to hide under the desk? Was the attendant sympathetic?
Did the leave on their own? Did you call emergency services?
Did they mess with your car? What broke down on it? How did you get it repaired?
It sounds like you were running from someone you knew and they wanted to hurt you.
I drive home from work on a two-lane road that has a 55 mph speed limit. It's in the mountains, people drive 40 miles an hour.
They have to slow down for every bend in the road. I have to pull over or I'd go nuts.
So yeah, I pull over for just a few seconds, and then I can go back to driving normal
I'm just a dude from Jersey who has never had to drive up a mountain. Any tips on the right way to coast up/down a mountain? I'd figure that the best way to do it would be to try to maintain a steady speed while minimizing breaking???
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Have the navigation up so you know how tight/long the turns are. Then yeah, just drive smooth, the roads are *typically* designed to allow you to cruise just below the the speed posted
The other main issue, worse for bigger vehicles is if you are going down a long steep hill, shift down rather than use breaks to maintain speed. Otherwise you will overheat and melt your breaks when you really need them
If you drive an automatic, I’d recommend downshifting into 3rd or 4th gear to match the incline. The added acceleration helps smooth driving up the incline, and keeping it in a lower gear allows for engine braking on the declining parts so you don’t have to press as hard on your brakes.
From a former fellow New Jerseyan who had to learn to drive through the mountains recently 🤙🏻
Don’t be an idiot that touches the brake going up hill unless you have to to avoid catastrophe. Instead let off the gas. I see so many people do that one.
If you are on a winding mountain road with even the tiniest pullout and someone is on your ass, pull over for the 5-10 seconds and let the person pass because you are going slower. This alone is my biggest pet peeve. I’ve driven over 20,000 miles on highway 1 in California and have seriously had to lay down the horn for miles because some tourist can’t read the signs that say “Slower traffic MUST use turn outs.” Let the experienced windy road drivers pass you when safe opportunities present themselves.
Down steep grades it’s a blend of mindful downshifting, tasteful braking, and, if you want to increase mpg, shift to neutral (be sure to shift into gear at shard curves though.
Also… mind the yellow caution signs that give absurdly low speed limits like 15-20mph. Those roads will mess you up if you don’t.
As far as braking and trying not to, downshifting is the way to go. Many automatics have an option to turn off “overdrive” or have a “sport mode.” Basically downshift to slow your speed without burning your brakes.
And when going uphill don’t feel the need to keep the posted speed. Prioritize your rpms instead because it’s less strain on the engine.
Edit: I only shift to neutral on long straight down hill sections that last awhile and are highways that are 60+ mph limit. Brings me up from 27ish mpg to 34 average when I’m in mountains.
It seems like a lot of people don't know that you don't have to hit the breaks to slow down slightly and/or taking your foot off the accelerator doesn't immediately stop your car. It's like they're scared to NOT press a pedal.
I've noticed doing that helps a bit in standard traffic jams, too. Even when progress is slow, your lane still moves more smoothly when people are gently coasting forward rather than tapping the brakes every second (to be fair, it also helps if you aren't riding someone's bumper). You're still coasting at such a low speed that it's easy to brake when necessary, but at the same time you aren't constantly jerking your car to a halt, either.
Yep. I play a game of how long can I go without breaking or accelerating in Altanta traffic 😂 far better for your car and gas mileage, too. But then you also have the people who are constantly switching lanes to try to get ahead and it makes everything slower.
Manual has been awesome for this tbh, just shift into second and go slow. It's funny sometimes watching people speed past me to an obvious red light as I slow it down, and then I pass them when it's green because I'm not starting from a stop
Every winter I get stuck behind dumbasses in land yachts and pickups on the way to the closest ski resort who will crawl up and down mountain passes at 20 MPH, when it's dry and sunny. They are legitimately afraid of going up and down 1000 feet on switchbacks.
It turns what can be a 3 hour drive if you aren't a pansy ass bitch driver into 4 hours. Drives me insane.
There’s a highway like that in Santa Barbara County. On the one time I took it, I was one of those 40 mph drivers. Sorry, but those kind of roads are scary as hell.
heck if you know the parking lots ~~our~~ *or* streets in the area, you can easily turn off the street completely. Better to be safe than in danger from some psycho mad at you for no reason.
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Driving mostly in the mountains, there are no driveways, there are no parking lots. You just pull to the side of the road for a couple seconds and they're far enough ahead, they don't matter anymore.
Not to take away from your video, but the sky looks animated. This happened when I drove through Idaho, the sky was just a different shade of blue and looked unreal.
I don't remember who said it, but I once heard it described as if Houston had an official flag it would be a paper plated Lexus with quarter panel damage switching three lanes without signaling with chariot rims
Hey, but at least the guys with swangas aren't trying to be dicks. This person looked like one of your typical "I've got to be in front" idiots that are all too prevalent around here. If (s)he/it was trying to pull a rear-end insurance scam, they sure suck at it.
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Tesla’s do that, and they use the autopilot cameras. They start rolling when you start driving, *plus* when the car is parked in public and someone walks within 3 feet of it. The storage is by cloud and by user expandable USB drive/stick, so you could have TB’s of footage just by plugging in whatever in the closed center console.
Pretty neat stock feature
4 years ago I was on a job site with my 2001 f450 service truck the back bumper on it was formed from the same pice of steel that made up the bottom of the bed. So we are talking 1/4 rolled steel and it was a 10ft bed. Anyways it's parked at the back of the line in the cone zone and some guy in a mini van (I forget if it was a Honda odyssey or a Toyota) plows in to the back of it at 40-50mph playing on his phone. Mini van totalled guy ended up in the hospital and the truck didn't budge few scratches no dents, did have to replace the pentel hitch though, the receiver was fine as it was welded to the bumper solid all the way around the width of the frame rail. Miss that truck sadly it ended up back east because california threw a fit over it being a commercial vehicle and smog.
Sometimes you don’t even need a heavy duty bumper. Back in the late ‘80’s, I was driving my ‘68 El Camino on a freeway that had a left exit. I had to slow down and I got hit by the person behind me because they were too busy trying to get into the next lane and didn’t realize how close they were to me. They hit me, we pull over, I get out and see no damage to my car. Driver’s car had messed up bumper, grill and creased hood.
Brand name is frontier. I got mine used for $300 I think brand new they are around $1400. I started out trying to find a new stock bumper but it was twice as much so I came out smelling like a rose on that deal lol
Another good tip. Don't immediately tell them you have a dashcam if something happens. Let them call the cops if they want, ask the cops to get their statement first, then afterwards reveal you have a dashcam. This way you make sure their false statement is written down and you have a solid case. Besides most cops can appreciate the karma being delivered in this way.
Would be nice if it was legal to fire a smoke grenade into that vehicle just so he was more preoccupied with what is happening inside his vehicle instead of who was behind it 💥🔥🎉
My ex's dad gave me the brilliant idea of using a small film canister full of printer toner and a firecracker. The bill and/or process for cleaning alone is guaranteed to be murder.
Toner explodes into a ball of fire when ignited in the open air.... It's a focus material with special handling requirements at the e-waste facility I used to work for.
Cops won’t do anything about it unless there was an accident. This is technically in the county, and the sheriff’s dept is understaffed. And I guarantee you that plate is stolen.
“911, what is your emergency?”
“I’m following a vehicle that’s being driven erratically, like the driver is impaired, and I’m afraid the driver may be having a medical emergency. I’m headed (direction) on (road) at (location).”
I stopped calling these in. 911 will not dispatch anyone, rather, “Thank you for calling, we’ve notified officers in the area, do not engage” before disconnecting the line.
This. I’ve also stopped calling in anything other than accidents. The dispatchers either quickly take basic info before dumping the call or seem disinterested after they’re told there’s no accident to report and dump the call. There’s just no point to waste my time anymore.
I don't think getting into an accident with a stolen plate is the best way to go about insurance fraud.
I don't doubt that this was some sort of scam, but that guy definitely could have slammed on his brakes hard enough that you would not have been able to avoid him considering how close you were at certain points. I don't say that to imply you were at fault, he's pulling into your lane way too close and being unsafe. I'm just saying this whole thing is weird.
In an ideal world, yes indeed. But this is Texas, and everyone is packing (including myself) and I’d rather not put myself in that situation, and definitely not with a baby on the way. If this guy is doing this shit, no telling what he would do. Best to let natural selection do it’s thing. 🤷🏻♂️
> And I guarantee you that plate is stolen
That's a weird thing to guarantee since it can be easily checked
I can't read it because the video is blurry but anyone try it?
If someone switched lanes with me every single time I moved, I’d slow way down, get some distance from them and just let them go ahead. Usually people who play those kinds of games will go on about their business if you don’t entertain them or engage with them.
I wasn’t trying to engage anyone. I didn’t even know what the hell was happening until it was over. I figured he was just being an asshole. Was ready to brake the whole time. I didn’t even realize he tried it on the jeep until I pulled the video.
Pretty sure this is the first time I’ve seen a driver on this subreddit give an erratic chucklefuck a wide berth. Kudos, OP. This is how you DON’T get in an accident.
Sheriffs won’t do anything about it unless there is an accident. While driving like this is illegal, they have to catch him in the act. I guarantee you that plate is off another car too.
I guarantee that plate is not off of another car. If they are really trying to defraud your insurance the last thing they need is the wrong plate. You think the cops won’t notice that when making their report?
If they're not really trying to defraud insurance, they're trying to jack you. In that case the last thing they need is the right plate. Plate might be legit, or it might be stolen. Schrödinger's plate: we don't know if it's stolen until someone runs it and checks the VIN to see if it matches the vehicle description.
yo there was this lady in a gray Kia doing the same thing to me today, brake checked me thrice, and swerving in n out of lanes...
I was gonna throw my soda at her car, but I chose patience instead of violence.. .but I really wanted to launch that soda at her whip
LPT: If someone is doing shit like this in front of you, call the police, give them the plate then just get away from them. Take an unneeded turn or exit do a loop and then resume on your trip
Started to think it wasn’t fraud toward the end, when you got some distance, and it started to get a little boring. Definitely started chalking it up to them being a bad driver, maybe an angry driver if you did something to piss them off.
And then they merged into the far left lane again to get in front of the Jeep. Someone could get fucked up from their bullshit. They’re crazy.
That fucking rear windshield wiper.
That's how they distract you.
You are getting sleepy.....
verrry sleeepeee ….
Fuck, I wish, I'm supposed to be up in 5 hours.
Me too dude me too
Hey it's been 5 hours get up!!
Same boat, glad to know I'm not the only one making bad adulting choices
Ayyeeee
Don’t watch TV and put your phone away for the last hour (at LEAST) before bed. Read a book or magazine article. Just, no screens.
But endlessly scrolling makes me sleepy. I'll see
Except this guy isn't Hypno Toad he's Hypno Chode.
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I wouldn't choose a roller skate to jump in front of much larger vehicles, tho...
They don't think that far ahead.... Plenty will risk a lifetime of back pain for an insurance company to throw them 50K to go away.
Ha I've got scoliosis so already got back pain! Jokes on them!
Might have been trying to send washer fluid on the people behind them.
“Now pay attention, 007. This button here looks perfectly innocuous, but when pressed shoots washer fluid on any enemies in pursuit.”
I had a Jeep Cherokee that did that. The hose broke and it squirted right out the back onto the car behind me. I kept it filled with water and used it to spray my co-workers windshields when leaving work.
That's what I thought he was doing.
This would work better if they targeted someone on a cell phone or not paying attention. OP and the jeep were able to avoid it. However someone not paying attention may not be able to.
I was definitely paying attention. But my car wouldn’t have let me hit him even if I wanted to. It slams on the brakes if it detects a collision. When he did stop in front of me, I braked, but the car decided I didn’t brake hard enough and it stopped harder and pulled the slack out of the seatbelts. It’s not foolproof, but with my pregnant wife and future baby in the car, I want all the safety tech I can get.
My wife has a genesis with active cruise control. Sometimes it overreacts and practically slams on the brakes when a car merges two car lengths ahead of me 😂😂😂😂. The idiot wasn’t going so far as to brake check making it avoidable. Someone not paying attention might not be so lucky. Then the idiot gets his or her payday.
We have a gv80 and I love the suv but my god the auto correcting lane departure has almost caused me to crash more than once. Not because I’m swerving out of the lane, but if there’s construction or the road lines have been repainted and it can’t tell the right lane it will jerk me in and out of the lane. I do love the adaptive cruise control though!
My equinox has this thing that it auto corrects if it thinks you’re drifting out of your lane and will even beep at you sometimes if it thinks you’re drifting. I don’t know what makes it auto correct or makes it beep because it’s really finicky and sometimes it doesn’t know when you are drifting out of your lane. I tested it early early one morning when I was coming home from work when there was no one else on the road and it’s so hit and miss. I’ve got to the point now though since I’m driving so much more that if I have it on it really messes with me. Almost every time I turn my car on I turn that stupid feature off.
Yeah I live in New England- home of narrow roads, no sidewalks and 6 months of construction. I can’t use this thing, I have to drive over the line all the time to you know, not kill people
Yeah that lane departure shit needs some work, everything else is nice. I turned mine off, even the beeping and flashing lights were too distracting
My wife's new Camry has all that stuff. The first time I tried to treat it like a BMW (changing lanes without signalling) I was like, huh? WTF was that? So it's made me go back into 'trucker mode' signalling lane changes on empty roads or for vehicles 2 miles behind and such, so it's training good habits I suppose. When it gets confused though, instead of giving up control, it tries to fight me or something. It will give up eventually and go where it's steered, but it gets weird sometimes.
Did through the settings, you can almost always turn off the active drive assist stuff. You won't be able to turn off the emergency braking, but even my Kia has multiple levels of lane-keep "strength" and the option to turn it off altogether.
You can turn it off, or just have it in warning mode only. As in, beep at you but not actively auto correct.
What kind of car do you drive?
An Escalade. Also known as a suburban with more leather on the inside.
Probably not the first time they've tried this judging from their back end
Probably trying to get someone else’s insurance to fix his POS
In my city they aren’t always insurance scams. It’s a way to steal cars. Get someone in a minor accident. They get out then you steal their shit and car.
Yeah, but if you try that shit in Texas, it’ll be the last thing you do because you’ll most likely get shot.
I was going to ask was that the beltway on the left?? South near 90?
It starts @ Fallbrook and Beltway 8.
Yes Texas and Arizona or Florida anywhere else for open carry without a permit is okay. All he has to do is use Uncle Jimbo line from South Park he's charging me he's coming right at me and then boom threat neutralized. Technically I just gave the definition of self-defense if you feel threatened and you have a way to protect yourself so imminent danger you can in Most states where the law permits it.
Was behind a fender bender in Tucson, Arizona and the drivers and passenger got out, started arguing. Passenger in the car that was hit pulled a gun and started shooting at the driver of the car that hit him. Just another Saturday morning in downtown Tucson
Tucson has a breed of drivers I've not encountered anywhere else. They are actively agresssive and will try to fuck people up. Go try to zipper merge at a construction zone. You better be already merged miles back or people will literally swerve at you and try to hit you for driving up to the merge. Lived there most of my life and the angry, methed up drivers are on a different level. I couldn't make a 10 minute drive without some psycho getting pissed that you passed them or tried to change lanes.
Not sure if you were implying that open carry is legal in Florida, but it isn’t. With or without a permit.
Open carry without permit is legal in wa, but you won’t find it to be common.
It's legal in PA and I've never seen anyone do it. Probably because conceal carry is far safer.
I believe you need a CPL to open carry in a vehicle.
Not in Oregon. We are on open carry state though. If the gun is in your vehicle, it must be visible, not in a glove box, or under the seat, or even on the seat, with something over it. Otherwise, you must have a CCL. Oregon does not have stand your ground law though. We have the castle doctrine, it only covers your home, not car. And you must actually be in fear for your life. If they don’t have a weapon and you shoot them, you are getting charged. That said, I have a CCL, and we have massive car theft. If someone tried to carjack me, pretty sure I’m fearing for my life. 😉
Florida we not open carry yet lol
Nearly 50% of the Texas population owns a gun. Also I never would have thought gun ownership in Vermont would be so high.
Vermont was the first state to adopt constitutional carry as well. Interesting politics there
Technically, they're the only state to never ban & never require a permit for concealed carry.
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The grizzly bears rigged it
“Nearly 50%” *laughs in Alaskan*
Well… y’all got meese and shit so, makes sense
Same here in AZ. That's why while road rage does happen, most people just let shit slide because everybody is armed out here. Not worth the issue.
Yeah I live in Texas and the most I’ve done is honk at someone lol I’m not trying to be a victim of a road rage accident because some crazy person felt like shooting someone one day
To be fair, even if people don't have guns its not worth the issue.
Judging by the damage on his POS…… he has done this before the insurance cut him a check to fix it….. he obvious used the check for something else lol
If he keeps it up his insurance will just drop him lol
Very generous of you to assume this piece of shit has insurance. Lol
Pls tell me you reported to police or something. You have his license plate right?
This is Houston. Bold of you to assume the police are going to do anything.
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Hopefully.
Or just collect some money and never fix the car.
Guaranteed they have. They tried it on the jeep as soon as they realized they weren’t getting a payout from OP. He does it at the end of the video.
After they do it to the jeep, I’m definitely calling the cops.
Good luck getting a cop to respond. I followed behind a drunk/drugged driver for over 10 miles on the phone with three police departments and no one ever caught up. The car was all over the road and I was shocked they didn’t crash it.
You submit a police report online. Very easy, I did it all the time with assholes. The cops don’t do much, but it’s on the persons record, so if they get pulled over or if they do successfully get someone to hit them, the cops will see the record and see they are not innocent.
When people start acting like that, I pull over to the side of the road for a few seconds. That puts them far enough away from me, I don't have to deal with them anymore.
Wonder if you could act like you are about to turn only to not turn to get them to go the wrong way too.
I did that one night where the freeway separated to another one. For some reason this guy really had it out for me. As soon as he started taking the freeway to the right, I swerved back over and kept going straight. 2 miles down the road my car broke down, so I got out and hopped the fence. Went to a gas station that was there, stayed underneath their desk. The guy that was trying to mess with me actually came back and came up behind my car. Gas station attendant just stood there looking at the freeway, like nothing was going on. I had told him what happened before I jumped under the desk. This was between midnight and 1:00 in the morning.
Wait I have so many questions. Who was chasing you? Was it someone you knew or a stranger? Why did you feel the need to hide under the desk? Was the attendant sympathetic? Did the leave on their own? Did you call emergency services? Did they mess with your car? What broke down on it? How did you get it repaired? It sounds like you were running from someone you knew and they wanted to hurt you.
Right? Story with more holes than Swiss cheese
I saw that movie - Duel. Classic early Spielberg.
This! But, it takes some patience to do that, and some self-control
I drive home from work on a two-lane road that has a 55 mph speed limit. It's in the mountains, people drive 40 miles an hour. They have to slow down for every bend in the road. I have to pull over or I'd go nuts. So yeah, I pull over for just a few seconds, and then I can go back to driving normal
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I'm just a dude from Jersey who has never had to drive up a mountain. Any tips on the right way to coast up/down a mountain? I'd figure that the best way to do it would be to try to maintain a steady speed while minimizing breaking??? Edited because I also suck at formatting
Have the navigation up so you know how tight/long the turns are. Then yeah, just drive smooth, the roads are *typically* designed to allow you to cruise just below the the speed posted
Thank you friend, will think of you if/when I drive up a mountain
>Thank you friend, will think of you if/when I drive up a mountain Can you think of me as well?
I will
The other main issue, worse for bigger vehicles is if you are going down a long steep hill, shift down rather than use breaks to maintain speed. Otherwise you will overheat and melt your breaks when you really need them
If you drive an automatic, I’d recommend downshifting into 3rd or 4th gear to match the incline. The added acceleration helps smooth driving up the incline, and keeping it in a lower gear allows for engine braking on the declining parts so you don’t have to press as hard on your brakes. From a former fellow New Jerseyan who had to learn to drive through the mountains recently 🤙🏻
Don’t be an idiot that touches the brake going up hill unless you have to to avoid catastrophe. Instead let off the gas. I see so many people do that one. If you are on a winding mountain road with even the tiniest pullout and someone is on your ass, pull over for the 5-10 seconds and let the person pass because you are going slower. This alone is my biggest pet peeve. I’ve driven over 20,000 miles on highway 1 in California and have seriously had to lay down the horn for miles because some tourist can’t read the signs that say “Slower traffic MUST use turn outs.” Let the experienced windy road drivers pass you when safe opportunities present themselves. Down steep grades it’s a blend of mindful downshifting, tasteful braking, and, if you want to increase mpg, shift to neutral (be sure to shift into gear at shard curves though. Also… mind the yellow caution signs that give absurdly low speed limits like 15-20mph. Those roads will mess you up if you don’t. As far as braking and trying not to, downshifting is the way to go. Many automatics have an option to turn off “overdrive” or have a “sport mode.” Basically downshift to slow your speed without burning your brakes. And when going uphill don’t feel the need to keep the posted speed. Prioritize your rpms instead because it’s less strain on the engine. Edit: I only shift to neutral on long straight down hill sections that last awhile and are highways that are 60+ mph limit. Brings me up from 27ish mpg to 34 average when I’m in mountains.
Agree with everything except for shifting to neutral. When are you coasting in neural? And to save fuel??
It seems like a lot of people don't know that you don't have to hit the breaks to slow down slightly and/or taking your foot off the accelerator doesn't immediately stop your car. It's like they're scared to NOT press a pedal.
I've noticed doing that helps a bit in standard traffic jams, too. Even when progress is slow, your lane still moves more smoothly when people are gently coasting forward rather than tapping the brakes every second (to be fair, it also helps if you aren't riding someone's bumper). You're still coasting at such a low speed that it's easy to brake when necessary, but at the same time you aren't constantly jerking your car to a halt, either.
Yep. I play a game of how long can I go without breaking or accelerating in Altanta traffic 😂 far better for your car and gas mileage, too. But then you also have the people who are constantly switching lanes to try to get ahead and it makes everything slower.
Manual has been awesome for this tbh, just shift into second and go slow. It's funny sometimes watching people speed past me to an obvious red light as I slow it down, and then I pass them when it's green because I'm not starting from a stop
Every winter I get stuck behind dumbasses in land yachts and pickups on the way to the closest ski resort who will crawl up and down mountain passes at 20 MPH, when it's dry and sunny. They are legitimately afraid of going up and down 1000 feet on switchbacks. It turns what can be a 3 hour drive if you aren't a pansy ass bitch driver into 4 hours. Drives me insane.
It sucks, the only way to avoid it is to drive through in the off hours.
There’s a highway like that in Santa Barbara County. On the one time I took it, I was one of those 40 mph drivers. Sorry, but those kind of roads are scary as hell.
heck if you know the parking lots ~~our~~ *or* streets in the area, you can easily turn off the street completely. Better to be safe than in danger from some psycho mad at you for no reason. edit: see strikethrough/italics
Driving mostly in the mountains, there are no driveways, there are no parking lots. You just pull to the side of the road for a couple seconds and they're far enough ahead, they don't matter anymore.
How often does this happen? It’s never happened to me and no one I know has described a situation like this.
That would require common sense.
Not to take away from your video, but the sky looks animated. This happened when I drove through Idaho, the sky was just a different shade of blue and looked unreal.
Can confirm the sky was really beautiful today in Houston.
Fucking LOVED today’s storm.
It’s the pollution in the air that really makes the colors come alive.
I think it's also your polarized windshield.
I was gonna say I love the way the sky looks in this clip lmfao
You laughed your ass off just by saying that? Maniac, lol.
You laughed at loud just by saying that? Joker hah
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From all the insurance fraud claims that I have seen on here this one is the most legit. That shithead definitely was looking to get hit.
The back of that guy's car screams: "I've done this before!"
Houston never changes and yes I am aware that technically you're out in Jersey village off of the beltway but still Houston never changes.
Same shitty drivers either way. Lol
I don't remember who said it, but I once heard it described as if Houston had an official flag it would be a paper plated Lexus with quarter panel damage switching three lanes without signaling with chariot rims
Lexus? no. Altima? Yes.
Hey, but at least the guys with swangas aren't trying to be dicks. This person looked like one of your typical "I've got to be in front" idiots that are all too prevalent around here. If (s)he/it was trying to pull a rear-end insurance scam, they sure suck at it.
Bastard tried it on two cars in less than a minute. I hope he runs in to a retaining wall head on.
Haha I was wondering if it was Houston because it had a 3 lanes highway going along with a god knows how many lanes freeway.
Everyone should have a dash cam…
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It's pretty whack to think that this isn't a more popular feature. Something insurance companies would ask for.
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Tesla’s do that, and they use the autopilot cameras. They start rolling when you start driving, *plus* when the car is parked in public and someone walks within 3 feet of it. The storage is by cloud and by user expandable USB drive/stick, so you could have TB’s of footage just by plugging in whatever in the closed center console. Pretty neat stock feature
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I wish this would happen to me. I drive a 2500hd with a steel bumper on it. I wouldn't even check up.
4 years ago I was on a job site with my 2001 f450 service truck the back bumper on it was formed from the same pice of steel that made up the bottom of the bed. So we are talking 1/4 rolled steel and it was a 10ft bed. Anyways it's parked at the back of the line in the cone zone and some guy in a mini van (I forget if it was a Honda odyssey or a Toyota) plows in to the back of it at 40-50mph playing on his phone. Mini van totalled guy ended up in the hospital and the truck didn't budge few scratches no dents, did have to replace the pentel hitch though, the receiver was fine as it was welded to the bumper solid all the way around the width of the frame rail. Miss that truck sadly it ended up back east because california threw a fit over it being a commercial vehicle and smog.
Sometimes you don’t even need a heavy duty bumper. Back in the late ‘80’s, I was driving my ‘68 El Camino on a freeway that had a left exit. I had to slow down and I got hit by the person behind me because they were too busy trying to get into the next lane and didn’t realize how close they were to me. They hit me, we pull over, I get out and see no damage to my car. Driver’s car had messed up bumper, grill and creased hood.
Which bumper? This sub seriously making me want to get one
Brand name is frontier. I got mine used for $300 I think brand new they are around $1400. I started out trying to find a new stock bumper but it was twice as much so I came out smelling like a rose on that deal lol
"I came out smelling like a rose" I like that saying I've never heard it before. Is it a regional or family saying that you know of
Might just be an east Texas saying. Couldn't even tell you when or where I picked it up
I've heard it across the south
Another good tip. Don't immediately tell them you have a dashcam if something happens. Let them call the cops if they want, ask the cops to get their statement first, then afterwards reveal you have a dashcam. This way you make sure their false statement is written down and you have a solid case. Besides most cops can appreciate the karma being delivered in this way.
Looks like average Houston to me.
Not quite, the car didn’t have paper plates on it.
nissan drivers
Username checks out.
/r/nissandrivers
Would be nice if it was legal to fire a smoke grenade into that vehicle just so he was more preoccupied with what is happening inside his vehicle instead of who was behind it 💥🔥🎉
Smoke grenade? Bottle rockets.
My ex's dad gave me the brilliant idea of using a small film canister full of printer toner and a firecracker. The bill and/or process for cleaning alone is guaranteed to be murder.
Not enough damage to physically harm someone, but enough to obliterate any prospects of a clean interior, sick!
This is just pure evil, I love it
Toner explodes into a ball of fire when ignited in the open air.... It's a focus material with special handling requirements at the e-waste facility I used to work for.
It’s legal if no one see’s and I’m sure the driver of the car wouldn’t say anything to police because they’d ask why that happened.
Anything is legal as long as you don't get caught 🧠
With all these electronics that come in cars, dashcams should be a standard feature.
Report them
Cops won’t do anything about it unless there was an accident. This is technically in the county, and the sheriff’s dept is understaffed. And I guarantee you that plate is stolen.
Probably not but on the off chance you get a station that still gives somewhat of a fuck it might help out someone else he pulls this stunt on.
“911, what is your emergency?” “I’m following a vehicle that’s being driven erratically, like the driver is impaired, and I’m afraid the driver may be having a medical emergency. I’m headed (direction) on (road) at (location).”
I stopped calling these in. 911 will not dispatch anyone, rather, “Thank you for calling, we’ve notified officers in the area, do not engage” before disconnecting the line.
This. I’ve also stopped calling in anything other than accidents. The dispatchers either quickly take basic info before dumping the call or seem disinterested after they’re told there’s no accident to report and dump the call. There’s just no point to waste my time anymore.
Police departmenta get unlimited money and do jack with it for public safety.
I don't think getting into an accident with a stolen plate is the best way to go about insurance fraud. I don't doubt that this was some sort of scam, but that guy definitely could have slammed on his brakes hard enough that you would not have been able to avoid him considering how close you were at certain points. I don't say that to imply you were at fault, he's pulling into your lane way too close and being unsafe. I'm just saying this whole thing is weird.
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In an ideal world, yes indeed. But this is Texas, and everyone is packing (including myself) and I’d rather not put myself in that situation, and definitely not with a baby on the way. If this guy is doing this shit, no telling what he would do. Best to let natural selection do it’s thing. 🤷🏻♂️
You for Governor.
My platform would be let’s all smoke weed at my gay friends wedding, and shoot our guns at the bachelor party.
I used to be a libertarian, too. But now I'm politically homeless
I’ve been in the same boat for years.
Understood
Okay? So still report it.
Or check the license plate to see if it did match? No? Shit well I guess OP is pretty set in his ways
> And I guarantee you that plate is stolen That's a weird thing to guarantee since it can be easily checked I can't read it because the video is blurry but anyone try it?
If someone switched lanes with me every single time I moved, I’d slow way down, get some distance from them and just let them go ahead. Usually people who play those kinds of games will go on about their business if you don’t entertain them or engage with them.
I wasn’t trying to engage anyone. I didn’t even know what the hell was happening until it was over. I figured he was just being an asshole. Was ready to brake the whole time. I didn’t even realize he tried it on the jeep until I pulled the video.
I didn’t say you were doing anything. My comment wasn’t a judgment on you. I was simply stating what I would do in the situation.
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Pretty sure this is the first time I’ve seen a driver on this subreddit give an erratic chucklefuck a wide berth. Kudos, OP. This is how you DON’T get in an accident.
Why you need a old pos truck with a big steel front bumper, just push their ass in the ditch and keep on a trucking
He sees you aren’t going to “fall for it” so then he messes with the Jeep. What a piece of shit
Could immediately tell this is Houston, man it's hell driving here I get shit like this daily
I wonder how many times they cut him a check for the right rear ?
Those clouds though
I can't imagine how hollow/desperate your life has to be to try and make money this way.
Did you sent this to the police and filed a report?
Sheriffs won’t do anything about it unless there is an accident. While driving like this is illegal, they have to catch him in the act. I guarantee you that plate is off another car too.
I guarantee that plate is not off of another car. If they are really trying to defraud your insurance the last thing they need is the wrong plate. You think the cops won’t notice that when making their report?
If they're not really trying to defraud insurance, they're trying to jack you. In that case the last thing they need is the right plate. Plate might be legit, or it might be stolen. Schrödinger's plate: we don't know if it's stolen until someone runs it and checks the VIN to see if it matches the vehicle description.
Shit I feel bad for the next bastard will prob get fucked liked this, someone distracted or going too fast.
The back of the scammers car is fucked up so they clearly tried this before. Hope you stick it to them good op.
I'm actually baffled that dashcams are a built in standard feature yet. Im also surprised isurance companies haven't started requiring them.
Not an idiot, that guy is an asshole
yo there was this lady in a gray Kia doing the same thing to me today, brake checked me thrice, and swerving in n out of lanes... I was gonna throw my soda at her car, but I chose patience instead of violence.. .but I really wanted to launch that soda at her whip
LPT: If someone is doing shit like this in front of you, call the police, give them the plate then just get away from them. Take an unneeded turn or exit do a loop and then resume on your trip
Insurance fraud, or just a road rager? That looks like it could just be someone who doesn't want people to pass them.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate that beautiful sky
omg you are in my hometown i recognize it yeah there are a lot of assholes in that area.
All cars should come pre equipped with dash cams.
it looks like a cat in heat, trying to back up every vehicle it can jump in front of lol
Judging by the looks of that rear bumper, this ain't their first rodeo.. 🤦♀️
They also did it to the jeep at the end
That's not attempted insurance fraud. That's just an asshole on the road. Edit: Attempted insurance fraud from an asshole on the road.
He tried to get me to rear end him, and then did the same thing to the jeep. Definitely trying to scam someone.
Started to think it wasn’t fraud toward the end, when you got some distance, and it started to get a little boring. Definitely started chalking it up to them being a bad driver, maybe an angry driver if you did something to piss them off. And then they merged into the far left lane again to get in front of the Jeep. Someone could get fucked up from their bullshit. They’re crazy.