My father does this but with motorcycles >:(
My partners mum/stepdad recently, I joked that one would have to accelerate up to the speed limit and the other would have to slow down to it.
Just follow my car (under my breath) ~if you can~
“you never had your car”
The most realistic part of those movies is the dirty cop lying to their suspects, injuring people and causing property damage in unnecessary high-speed chases, and fucking disinterested parties under false pretenses.
My dad is the worst at this. No blinker, he’ll cut other people off, he won’t use cruise on longer trips. He acts like it’s your job to follow, not his job to lead.
It’s legal to run a red light if you’re following another car.
In a funeral procession.
I’ve never understood what the hurry is.
Nobody wants to be late for the late.
It’s more about the number of people than anything else
I was asked to follow someone back to their place years ago. When we get on the road, they do 75-90 mph all the way there. I legit thought they were trying to lose me, which was weird because we had a good time hanging out. Nope, they apparently just drive everywhere like that. Red flag 🚩
I did this once and drove a little under the speed limit so it would be easy to follow me, and as soon as we were out of the car they angrily told me I drove like an old lady.
You just can’t win, basically.
I would have appreciated your easy-to-follow driving however, so thank you.
Thank you for driving like a sane person btw
Yeah, I’m guilty of driving quick on the highway, but if someone is following me I’m going easy. Granted, it’s been a long time since this has been an issue, like a decade plus at this point.
90mph is like 145 km/h, that’s like snails pace lol
Ugh my buddy used to do shit like this when we were younger, he’d get us on the highway and the immediately start doing 80 in the fast lane. No buddy we are not racing your base model honda civic against my base model chevy prism.
That’s like 130 km/h. That’s incredibly slow lol.
*Passing lane
There is no “fast lane”
on a two or four lane highway, sure. on anything six lanes or larger, there definitely is.
No, there is only one regular lane in each direction. And if you want to pass you take the second land. The third lane is to pass someone who is passing someone. The forth lane is to pass someone who is passing someone who is passing someone. And so further.
If there are six lanes, the sixt lane is to pass someone who is passing someone who is passing someone who is passing someone who is passing someone who is driving in the regular lane.
The speed does not matter.
Anything above 3 lanes is no longer a highway, it’s a mental illness
The ludicrous lane.
They’ve gone to plaid.
Y’all realize they count all the lanes, not just the ones going one direction right? A 3 lane highway is 1 lane each direction and a suicide lane.
- who is they. They don’t count like that here
- if you count like that, your previous point doesn’t stand. In a three lane (1 direction) system you have two passing lanes. Easy. You still return as much to the right (or outside) as possible and sensible under the way you’re driving. For example return to middle of you’re still cruising faster than the lorries in the rightmost (or outermost) lane.
they is the uniform vehicular code. they do count like that where you are, you just don’t pay attention
Wrong again. They are not where I am.
It is the Richtlinien für die Anlage von Autobahnen (RAA)
I guess technically it can be a 2+1 highway if you so will, but true.
Still, anything above 4 lanes is dangerously close to mental illness territory
lord give me the confidence of a man from a town with a population of 500
I’m not sure what the implication here is to be honest - am I supposed to be the small town man in this scenario?
True, good correction.
I once had to follow someone to church camp in high school. It was 100+ miles away, and she started doing 90 on the highway in her BMW. Meanwhile in my rickety KIA Spectra, I could barely do 65. She lost us, and I had to have someone else I was giving a ride to call her to get the address.
She got pulled over and ticketed, and still made it there before me.
So she had to wait for you in the parking lot? Totally worth it. /s
this happened to me when I was following my cousin who was gonna show me how to get out of the city he lives in. This was particularly stressful because it was the first time I’d ever driven in that country, and it was my first time driving on the right side of the car. So he’s off running red lights and I’m out here trying to remember to stay on the correct side of the road and that the turn signal and wiper stalks are switched.
I REFUSE to do a caravan for reasons like this. Give me the address or a map pin and I’ll make my way there and you can do the same. I can’t handle the bullshit of following or leading multiple cars. I’ll die on this hill.
It’s also exhausting to be the leading car. I sometimes have to do it at work (a quite big industrial site) and even that’s moderately annoying.
Haha I’m guilty of this yesterday. Left turn lane and I inched up to give her enough space to follow me at the red light. She didn’t lol. Should have just waited for the next light. But we were close to the spot already so no big deal.
“It’s a stolen car. Follow me to my chop-shop.”
Once had to drive someplace with my brother, but in separate cars. He was taking his car, and I got to follow in our mum’s family van.
90% of that drive I was flooring it, and generally driving like a racecar driver …except that I was still moving at a snail’s pace.
Of course, upon arrival my brother started giving me shit for going slow. And he did not believe that the car couldn’t go faster. So, we agreed to swap cars for the drive back home.
Never had I seen him concede so readily that he was wrong. 🙃
I don’t know man I’ve driven some Honda Odysseys and Dodge Pacificas that could fuckin MOVE.
Well, yeah, because those have an appropriate amount of horsepower under the hood.
My mum’s car at that point must’ve been a first-generation Opel Meriva: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Meriva#First_generation_(2003)
In the back of my head, I did also have this tidbit:
The first generation, named “Meriva A”, was based on the third generation Opel Corsa C.
So, take a car frame with the weight and height of a family van and put it onto the powertrain of a small car.
Like, genuinely, I’m finding Meriva’s being sold online with 75 horsepower, which is as much as the Opel Corsa had back then.
The Corsa wasn’t exactly known as a sports car either, so I’m really not surprised that its family van edition can’t accelerate. 😐Holy moly, inline 3 for a passenger van is just saying fuck you to any traffic that dares share the road with you that day.
I really don’t care for people who give me shit for using GPS. Of course they’re all older.
Using GPS is normal. Using GPS for everywhere you go, including locally or places you’ve been before, is shocking. I’ve met people who literally can not drive without GPS, and that shit is frightening.
I use it if I’m going anywhere out of town (even if i know how to get there) because it will redirect me if there is a road cosure/delay
It’s very useful for rerouting when there’s traffic or roadworks.
I use it way less when I go far, since that’s mostly just highways.
Hell, I use it locally if there’s any highway involved. Wrecks are common here and knowing what roads to avoid is nice.
often the same people who can’t hold speed to save their life but also inexplicably refuse to just use cruise control
I can see that OP has had to follow my wife somewhere before.
Is your wife my husband?
