• Aleric@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I drive a Prius and have a very long commute which goes through a rather conservative area. My existence inadvertently pisses off so many big truck drivers. I’ll never understand why some people need to speed up and pass me immediately after I’ve passed them. It’s not a competition!

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      10 months ago

      I don’t understand the correlation of having a small penis and simping for big oil, either. 🤷🏻‍♂️

      See it with Teslas, too. It’s pretty funny to me that even though Tesla is pretty hated, the people who hate them for good reason don’t go around keying them or trying to run them off the road, while the jerk offs who hate them just for being electric are the people who do those things.

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        10 months ago

        I saw one of this Japanese Kei trucks the other day with a decal across the windshield that read “under compensating” :D

        Sadly I did not have time to snap a pic.

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        10 months ago

        Super weird correlation, I admit, but in my city it’s been my experience that one odd trend I’ve observed has been that Tesla drivers do three things disproportionately more frequently than drivers of other vehicles:

        Lack of using a turn signal (which they arguably share with BMW drivers.

        Forcing their way into lane changes and/or cutting people off (often accompanied by a noted lack of signal).

        And flat out just plain running red lights. This last one is the most alarming and honestly the one I’ve noticed to be most closely linked to Tesla drivers. It’s so bad that even if I have a solid green when approaching a red light, if I can see a Tesla in approaching or crossing lanes, I’ll let off the gas and hover over the brakes, just in case they “pull a Tesla”. I’ve seen many of them pull up to a solid red, drift to a stop, then find a gap in the cross traffic that has a solid green and just dart across. I’ve seen them turn left on red without stopping. Seen them cause near accidents, all running red lights like they’re just a suggestion.

    • psud@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      You can make your commute more interesting (and less safe) by adding a very visible rainbow flag