What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen someone driving do?

jqubed@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 169 points –

My kid’s just finished the classroom part of driver education and it prompted a discussion of crazy things we’ve seen other drivers do.

The craziest thing I saw, many years ago now, was I came up behind a guy driving a Ford Ranger pickup and could see through his rear window that he was doing tricep extensions with a dumbbell in his right hand. I was more surprised as I passed to see he was shaving with an electric razor in his left hand. I don’t really know how he was steering.

Kiddo said they were told personal grooming was the fourth leading cause of accidents.

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I saw someone who mantained the legal speed limit and safe following distance.

This has gotta be made up!!!!

I hate when I leave an actual stopping distance between me and the person in front of me and someone else just decides to dart in and then tailgate the person in front of them.

I saw someone who used their turn signals.

Everyone knows that you save on car battery lifespan and look 134% cooler without turn signals

Besides the orange light doesn’t fit the paintwork and whole aesthetic and you turn too fast and too often anyway

I remember commenting about people going over the speed limit here on Lemmy, and getting so many downvotes from people who could never explain to me why they thought they deserved to go over the speed limit. Emergencies, with your emergency lights on? By all means! Going over the speed limit because you got up or left late for work? No bueno.

To be fair, most speed limits aren't very accurate to the design of the street. If you wanted, you could speed up for straightaways and slow down for turns. Obviously though, they aren't going to put a speed limit sign every 5 feet, so it won't match the street design everywhere.

Case in point the freeways where I live are limited to 65MPH but you cross the border into either neighboring state and magically 70-75MPH is the safe limit. It makes no sense apart from generating revenue from speeding tickets. Most commuters do 75-80MPH depending on traffic.

The low speed limit also has the side effect of causing those slow, oblivious drivers to immediately crank the wheel over into the left lane the second they merge on the highway and then set their cruise control to 62MPH while they get passed by every car around them causing massive congestion behind them and lots of lane changes.

While I understand both of your points and views, the fact of the matter is that the speed limit is set to whatever it is, whether it be 65 or 70. You are aware of this, and daily commuters are also aware of this. In my eyes, that means it is not a surprise, or shouldn't be, to anyone except travelers. This also means that you should be prepared for that commute at that speed limit. Unless it is an emergency, just follow the speed limit. It's as simple as that.

why they thought they deserved to go over the speed limit.

So I don’t obstruct traffic? To improve safety by driving consistently with other vehicles. Yeah, sometimes I speed but most of the time I’m over the speed limit is to go with the flow of traffic.

My bigger annoyance is construction/school zones. I’m not compromising there but it is frustrating to get honked at, or have other drivers try to pass

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Ooh, thought of another. I once saw a gentlemen driving down the mountain who must not have known that riding his brakes all the way down would cause them to overheat and fail. He was free rolling and honking his horn, weaving in and out to avoid hitting people. Sheer panic on his face.

Fortunately, he had the wherewithal to steer up one of the emergency offramps. I caught up to him a couple mins after he passed me. He was standing, leaning against his car, and just breathing. He was not a white guy, but somehow he still looked so pale. Glad no one got hurt with that one, that could have easily led to one or more deaths if things had happened just a little differently.

That seems more like a crazy situation caused by an honest mistake rather than a person doing something crazy, but I upvoted anyway.

Wait I never knew that you could overheat and fail if you rode it down the mountain. Holy shit

Yep, you want to do engine braking. That's when you downshift and the engine slows the car. Even with an automatic transmission, you can downshift to 2nd so long as you're under 50mph or so. You want to be slower than 20 before shifting down to 1st gear.

If you ever have a chance to drive up Pikes Peak in Colorado, 1) it's gorgeous and 2) they have a stop halfway down where park rangers will check your brake temps with an IR thermometer. If you're too hot, they make you sit there in your car for a while for the brakes to cool off and they give you tips on engine braking. Lots of flatlanders driving in the mountains for the first time and learning lessons the hard way.

Wow that's crazy. You have taught me a valuable and potentially a life saving lesson today. I really appreciate your knowledge here.

So I have an automatic so how do I keep it under 50 or 20 without using the breaks?

My dodge will engine brake if I use the cruise control. Down near the bottom (or far side) of your shifter you should have a low gear that isn't first. You can shift into it under 50 and let off the gas, your car should slow down. Test it's rpm range on some flat ground first by accelerating to around 50... On the mountain is not where you want to first try it.

At minimum, shift out of overdrive into regular drive.

You can use your brakes to slow down to where you can then engine brake, you just don't want to use them for miles all the way down a mountain.

Once you're under ~50 and you shift down to second, your engine does the work. It will keep the car slower. Maybe you need to tap on the normal brakes here and there, that's fine, but you shouldn't have to keep them pressed the entire time.

I also had no idea, even thought it’s completely logical. I just never would have considered that.

they have a stop halfway down where park rangers will check your brake temps with an IR thermometer

My wife's family did that once and the ranger was apperently shocked at how cold the breaks were from very effective downshifting

If I were a ranger at those stops, I would totally turn it into a game based on make and model, which state they're from, and judging the driver.

"Soccer minivan from Illinois? They will have no clue how to drive in mountains, their brakes will be hot"

"Ice cold, dude, I'm up by three, next Coke is on you"

Yeah when (normal) brakes get hot after a certain point that loose significant breaking force up to the point where they just fail completely. You usually should notice it before failure through when the pedal starts feeling soft and squishy.

Late '70s, on a winding paved backroad heading into town, a smaller car coming in the opposite direction lost traction (a light, misty rain had just gone through) and rolled twice in a field before landing upright.

My buddy and I quickly pulled over and ran towards the car to make sure everything was alright.

They drove off before we got to them...

Ok.......I want THAT car!!! Forget airbags, and modern safety standards. This dude rolls his car TWICE and just drives off.

Ya, iirc, it was something like a Datsun or Toyota compact car, which were a lot smaller and fragile than today's compacts.

This is one of those events that you chalk up to pure luck.

Crazy luck, 70s imports in the US were very fragile. buddy lost a wheel and most of his suspension hitting a curb in a cvcc.

Just last week, a car had missed their turn on the motorway, so decided to REVERSE up the hard shoulder.

Reminds me of a saying I heard: "Good drivers sometimes miss their turn. Bad drivers never miss their turn."

I can't agree more. I always say if you miss a turn or get in the wrong lane then "own your mistake and go around"

Too many times I see someone got in the wrong lane so they turn on their signal and wait or just plow over to the lane they wanted and cut others off. Nobody understands the solid white line. If it's sold white you can't cross it!

I see this shit far too often. It makes me wonder if they're aware their gps can get them rerouted without having to risk their or anyone else's necks.

On Sunday there was a crash blocking an Autobahn. 50 cars turned around and drove back to the nearest exit, on the emergency lane kept free for the ambulance.

I've seen elderly folks do that a few times. Not on the shoulder, but still in their lane, backing up into oncoming traffic. (Yes, I did spend some time living in Florida.)

While stopped at a red light, a taxi casually got onto the right sidewalk and drove on it to get to the front of the line.

I'd give an A for dedication to customers I guess.

Next we'll be learning taxis are amphibious.

Driving super drunk. Like, super drunk. I saw the guy getting pulled over and the officer helping him out of the car. The guy literally just folded down to the ground and passed out. I have no idea how he was moving the steering wheel and stepping on gas and brake because he seemed to have no control over his limbs.

I know a guy who got pulled over drunk as fuck, and told the cop "you don't want any trouble officer, get back in your car and drive away". The cop told him to get out of the car, so he opened the door, forgot to unbuckle, and did a faceplant on the asphalt with his ass still in the car seat. Then he told the cop to drive away again. Needless to say, he got a DUI.

Locally it's not uncommon to find a vehicle abandoned on a Saturday or Sunday morning after being involved in a single-vehicle accident, usually because the driver was drunk and snuck off to sober up before collecting their vehicle and figuring out their consequences. Drinking culture and driving culture are a very deadly combination of course

Reminds me of a story from college when some friends were high out of their minds on various things. They got pulled over for speeding by a cop who appeared to be running beside their car. Turns out they were only going a few MPH and the cop stopped them for driving way too slow. They got arrested for DWI, obviously. No idea if it was true or not, but still a funny story.

When I lived in Thailand, I lived next to an apartment building where quite a few bargirls and trans women who worked im the red light area lived.

Regularly you could watch them come home in the early morning hours, driving up with their motorbikes without any issues but then having major diffficulty walking the few meters to the door. Sometimes they didn't even manage to get off the bike properly and just fell off it. But you would have never guessed from their driving.

Here in Japan, I saw a dude pulled over by a cop. Of course, I didn't see him driving, but the dude was absolutely legless. Like had problems standing. That was the one and only time I ever seen Japanese cops actually doing their job.

I've seen a lot of bad things. But one that has always stuck with me was a guy studying.

I'm not talking about glancing down at a book. He had a textbook propped up on his steering wheel and was using a highlighter to mark in the book.

During morning rush hour (a near-standstill occasionally broken by brief periods of 10mph movement), I once saw a woman eating a bowl of soup/oatmeal/whatever while steering with her elbows.

It seemed to be a regional norm to eat breakfast in the car because a 20 mile commute generally took 1.5-3 hours and often moved slower than a walking pace, but that was the only time I'd ever seen someone eating food that required a dish and utensil.

This was my experience going down the GW Parkway. People frequently had the morning Post unfolded all the way reading it, and others applying eyeliner and mascara.

Sounds like the kind of commute where an ebike would be life changing in time savings

I was with my uncle (ca 1990) when he confidently took an offramp and got onto the I5 freeway going the wrong direction in an RV.

Bad enough with the wrong way, but in an RV is so much worse!

I was on the beltway one night in a construction zone. They had jersey walls (concrete barriers) instead of cones and barrels to shift traffic. The SUV in front of me had not been weaving or worrying me at all when it drifted into the jersey wall in the left and just ground along it doing about 70. I expected them to jerk the wheel the other way, but they didn't. After a few seconds, they drifted back to the center of the lane. Just as I was thinking good on them for not panicking, they slammed back into the jersey wall and rode it until it ended. Their car was scraped all to hell. They had to have fallen asleep (passed out drunk). The grinding noise of car on concrete and flying sparks were too obvious to not be noticed by a conscious driver. I backed way off and fortunately was nearing my exit.

Drove past a guy on the highway, driving 100kph, wondered why he first drove so slow, then sped up, then slowed again... He was reading a book while driving 🤦‍♂️ One other guy, driving 80kph hardly could keep the truck on his own lane, so I drove past him. He was filling in some paper forms, while he had a cup of, assumably, coffee in the other hand, and tried to keep the truck going straight with that. Jeez these people...

I was on a highway doing around 60 when the car in front of me suddenly spun around in a 360 and stopped. Luckily they were some distance in front and there was no other traffic. When I passed, it was a teenage boy in the passenger and his grandmother driving. She was yelling at him and reaching down between them trying to do something. I think he had pulled the e-brake just to see what would happen.

Dude let the intrusive thoughts win.

Was at a red light with a cop behind me. Some guy rolls up behind them, braking just late enough that the front bumper of his car love taps the rear bumper of the squad car.

Both officers immediately jump out and open fire on the poor guy. He was hosed after a couple of rounds. The cops just casually get back in and drive off like it was nothing.

This was in Los Santos btw.

The fact that I could believe it right up until the moment they just drove off is telling...

Woman with a pink suction cup dildo attached to the inside of her window, vigorously sucking it while going throughly an intersection.

Seen too much shit.

People driving and: texting, watching movies, reading with books or newspapers pinned to the steering wheels, working on a laptop with those steering wheel laptop holders, applying makeup, shaving. Sometimes more than one of these things at a time.

The cellphone video/text/surfing is a multiple times a day occurrence. People drive with their phones in their hands and use them all the damn time.

Seen two people deceased, one hit while attempting to cross a busy road well away from a crossing area, another thrown from the car after rolling it because they’d clipped a car while they were speeding and weaving through traffic.

People backing up in breakdown lanes on freeways to make an exit. People crossing multiple lanes rapidly, cutting off other cars, to avoid missing an exit. People OUI weaving in a lane. People nearly coming to a full stop in traffic to avoid missing an exit or turn.

Yeah, think that’s most of it. I’m sure I’ve forgotten some. I’m sure I’ll see more tomorrow.

working on a laptop with those steering wheel laptop holders

Remember when they were an onion-style joke to begin with?

My dad. He drove the wrong way on a highway, fell asleep at the wheel, and unknowingly ran from the cops.

To this day, my dad doesn't believe me that he's ran from the cops twice.

Since none of you know my dad, imagine if Mr Rodgers were cranky, racist, and stubborn.

I was riding down the highway and spent time looking out the window as I often do since I'm bad at keeping up in conversations. Parallel to our vehicle is this very highbrow lawyer, who I recognized because I had been to the courts before. Maybe he didn't think he would end up driving so parallel to any vehicle, but there he was, quite visibly texting while driving. Or maybe playing Candy Crush, I don't know. I definitely don't snitch under those circumstances, but my friend's kid, who was in the passenger seat behind me, hears me mutter to myself about the willingness to "if only my hand was forced", takes my camera which I always have with me and takes a picture, and within minutes, it's all over the airwaves. The lawyer's standing did not exist for much longer.

I get that the spirit is what a person has seen IRL, but there's a pretty (in)famous video of a guy having sex with a woman in the driver's seat of a Tesla in self-driving mode.

This is a bit different, but I took a taxi once where the driver was ranting how slow other drivers around him were reacting to traffic saying they weren't paying attention...while he was fiddling with his phone and texting someone.

I had the same thing happen in Greece. He then proceeded to not see the light turn green and continued to rant while it was green and we weren't moving.

Drum on their steering wheel with actual drumsticks.

This made me literally laugh aloud.

Cops on laptops/phones while driving on the highway and getting a pass literally every time they're driving distracted and kill or injure someone.

Every single year in my city someone gets smoked by a cop car/SUV, and the internal investigations always determine via CCTV + phone activity logs that yes their officer was on their phone/laptop, yes they were speeding, yes they went through a red light, yes they failed to have their 🚨 on, but... No, they're never found guilty and the whole internal investigation is the furthest thing from transparent to the public.

A DEA agent near me recently hit and killed a mother on her bicycle after running a stop sign. He was given qualified immunity.

Was waiting outside the student union one afternoon. Loads of other students about. Student guy drives past slowly in an old Vauxhall Nova or similar, thinking he's pretty cool. Then the front wheel falls off, and starts rolling down the street. The car slams into the road loudly and the guy gets out and starts chasing after the wheel. Didn't end up looking as cool as he'd hoped.

Picked up my daughter from her school parking lot years ago and while waiting at the stop sign to turn back onto the road a car goes by with their back tire smoking. I thought it was locked up from braking, but it was punctured and tearing apart. They made no effort to stop or really even slow down much. They continued on and the tire shredded to the point they were driving on the rim. They kept going and onto an even busier major road, which is when I lost track of them as we were turning the other way.

Was back when I was 19 or 20, was hanging out with my buddies from home over the summer while on break

We were at a McDonald's at 1:30 or 2 am. Kid around our age comes screeching into the McDonald's parking lot, going over curbs and everything, sparks flying from two wheels. He had punctured both his front tires and was riding on rims. Turns out one of my friends knew him - he takes a look, looks at the guy, goes "yo man, you probably don't wanna drive on those"

Kid goes "yeah well I really want McDonald's I'm gonna go home after"

My friend goes "you live about 15 min away, you really shouldn't drive."

He gets his shit and starts driving, sparks still going off. Were a little concerned so we follow him. 200 feet later he gets pulled over, so we pull over behind the cop. The cop looks at us and goes "do you guys know this idiot?"

My buddy's like yeah...

Cop says you should get him in your car.

Kid refuses. Drives 8 miles home in rims. Smoke everywhere, most awful sound you've ever heard. We follow him home, I find out he's dumb rich.

We go into his guest house, which was bigger than all of our actual houses, smoke one, then leave.

Bro wtf? Even if I'm rich AF I don't want to wake up the whole fucking neighbourhood and doing such damage to my car.

We were all 19 or so and he was an idiot idk lol

I didn't really hang out with him or know him before or after that night

The cop just let him go? I have a hard time believing that especially if you guys were right there in another car.

My driving instructor ran a red light, driving with one hand (sometimes even no hands on the wheel for a few seconds), texting and calling while driving.

Surprisingly, when it came to the lessons, he's the strictest instructor I've ever had. Teaching me good habits and forces me following the laws by-the-letter.

I passed my driver's license with max points.

My driving instructor always told me: "you must follow all the rules of the road until you get your license. Then you can break them all you want, but be prepared for the consequences."

That's shitty teaching.
When you break the rules of the road, others have to live with the consequences, too.

There was a vehicle I'd see on my daily commute for awhile. It would run every red light on one of the larger streets in my city, but the driver would slow down to make sure no one was coming.

The unfortunate thing was that due to the timing, I could easily and legally follow about 3-4 seconds behind the vehicle as the green lights are timed and the driver just happened to be a bit ahead of the cycle. I witnessed them more than a few times.

but the driver would slow down to make sure no one was coming.

Sounds like pretty safe driving to me.

Comparatively yeah. It just sticks with me because apparently those 3-4 seconds made all the difference.

It was a welcome addition to the conversation (just in case you took my previous comment negatively).

No negativity taken. I'm sure I've seen worse regularly.. Too regularly. To the point that I don't bother committing it to memory at this point. People driving on the median or opposing traffic as a shortcut? Daily. People holding up an intersection to show off their sick burnout skills? A couple times a year.

Most of what I've read in here though? I haven't seen anyone so absorbed in not driving while driving.

Tailgating is the most dangerous thing I've seen.

Once I saw 5 cars travelling at 80+ mph each with barely a few feet between them

Safe-ish, until some other driver on the crossing road approaches way faster than estimated, sees the light go yellow and floors it. Sure, they might see it in time, but there's a risk they don't. My dad once didn't see a crossing car at a yield intersection despite looking that way and got T-boned. He didn't think he was doing anything unsafe either.

Still safer than just blazing through though, so I guess partial credit for being carefully impatient?

Had a guy pass me on the right going 20+ over the limit while taking a bong hit.

That was me sorry was in a hurry

One of my friends(absolute stoner who smokes every day) went 70kmh over the speed limit(170kmh) while smoking a joint.

Dutch? I'm guessing because the speed limit. That's insane though, 170 is flat out in most cars.

German. We drove on a random street between cities where you're allowed to drive 100 kmh

Oh right you drive 100 there, forgot about that. That makes it even more insane!

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police SUV tearing ass around a busy strip mall parking lot at night with its lights off

not just the police lights, also the headlights and running lights.

thing was completely dark while the cop was driving super aggressively, ran a stop sign too

one morning I was headed to school and I witnessed this one car driving a little erratically while on the highway, I managed to get past them but kept an eye on my rear mirror, less than a minute later they slammed into another car causing a crash.

There was a guy I used to see in traffic who used to play trumpet as he drove. It's been more than 20 years since I saw him and I still think about it from time to time.

Flip a car while streetracing on a narrow three-lane highway in the middle of the city, in moderate traffic that was moving 70 km/h ish at most. Amazingly they didn't take anyone else out.

I called 911. They redirected the call to the police station. After I described the incident, I could feel the officer's eyeroll through the phone. It was odd to realize that something so extreme for me was literally just another day for them.

Edited to add:

personal grooming was the fourth leading cause of accidents.

An old co-worker liked telling the story of how he was rear-ended on a very busy city highway. The other driver was a young woman who stepped out the car all distraught and said "I'm so sorry, I didn't see you, I was putting on my makeup!" My coworker was ready to wave off the incident because there was basically no damage to any car but he changed his mind as soon as he heard that.

I once saw a car driving the wrong way on a one way, make a turn to drive the wrong way on a second one way.

I've seen two people clearly on phones hit each other as they were accelerating at a stop light, and then keep going. Fortunately the really only screwed up their front quarter panels from what I could see.

I've seen someone use an entry ramp to pass on the right.

I've seen someone who missed their exit try to still make it by driving through the grass, it didn't really work.

I've seen several impromptu street races, the best was a hellcat and some crotch rockets.

The craziest was probably a pickup truck with a huge load of straw bails that had caught on fire.

Drinking red wine from a wine glass as they were making a right turn (US) on a 40 mph street.

Oh, how gauche, everyone knows it's white wine for a right turn.

Watch Lord of the Rings on a phone mounted on the steering wheel. I called the police immediately.

As you should. That movie deserves a bigger screen and decent sound setup. Watching it on a phone is criminal.

Shockingly, watching videos while driving is not illegal in many US states (some it's ambiguous, others there's simply no law that actually bans it)

Strange. In the Netherlands you get a big fine even for talking on the phone without any screen interaction. Just holding it to your ear is already forbidden.

Someone curling their eyelashes while driving 65mph

that's wild i'm scared to curl mine with both elbows on the table. One wrong move...

I’m the same way, I wouldn’t even try it if I was a passenger in a car

Shoutout to that influencer who was pulled over for drinking Raising Cane’s dipping sauce while driving, cuz someone thought it was Jell-O shots and called 911 on him.

I remember seeing an article years ago about a person who baked a bunch of cellphone shaped cookies, got pulled over while holding it, and then ate it once the cop came to the window.

I've always wondered what would happen if you drove along drinking a 0% alcohol beer, and got stopped. Feels like the police would arrest you just for being a PITA.

I once got pulled over for drinking a can of Arizona sweet tea. Drove past a speed trap while taking a drink. They lit me up, and I was confused as to why because I wasn’t speeding.

Cop gets to my window and immediately asks if I’ve been drinking. Not even a “do you know why I pulled you over” or a “how are you tonight?” Just straight to “are you drunk?” I was confused, (and a little offended,) but answered no. He shined his flashlight into my car and asked what was in my cup holder. I turned the can around so he could see the label, and went “Uhh… Tea?” He deflated, have me a curt “have a nice evening” and turned on his heel to head back to his cruiser.

He 100% thought it was a beer can, and had hyped himself up for the easiest arrest of the evening.

Ha, so the lesson there is decant your beer into a tea can and you might get away with it...

(Not really, please people don't drink and drive)

I watched a guy eat a meal while driving a van.

In itself that's not crazy, but it is when you're holding a knife and fork, and you've got a plate of...something on your car dashboard.

Similar, here.

Stopped at lights on drive into work next to a woman at the wheel, spooning down her breakfast from a bowl.

Someone, I told at work asked if you could get into trouble for this…maybe not the first time, but, yes, if you’re a cereal offender.

I'd like to picture him with an oversized napkin stuffed into his collar as well.

About 3 months ago on my way home picking up burgers for my bro and i. On a major route and this sketch pedo van (early 90s white ford econoline rusted out and ratty as hell) busts out of a side street, almost hitting one person, slams on their brakes, slides over 2 lanes into oncoming traffic passes me and 2 other people before cutting someone off as an oncoming car almost hit them head on, the. Makes a left hand turn on a red light at the next intersection.

This could have been in a movie except somehow no accidents happened in my view. Fucking crazy.

Besides that a few years ago at 3 lane traffic circle on one side of an overpass to our largest highway(settle down, its only 3 lanes each way!)hear someone absolutely gunning it over the overpass. Comes into view, brand new metallic blue BMW M3 goes the wrong way into the traffic circle (everyone stopped because we all heard it coming) loses control, spins like 480° almost hits the retaining wall in the middle of the circle then proceeds to gun it back over the overpass they came from.

I blame drugs

A couple of county highways near me got roundabouts put in on bad stopsign intersections where people would speed excessively. The number of single vehicle accidents after they were initially put in because people sped excessively and or drove drunk was kinda hilarious

Since then it's made turning at both intersections way nicer and the traffic calming effect has worked

Downtownish Winnipeg road, three or four lanes in each direction: buddy pulls a hard left turn without signalling, from the rightmost lane, across all the lanes of traffic.

I brought it up on the bar later and the local guy was like "Yeah that's called a Winnipeg Swing"

When I was younger I stopped by QFC and got a cup of chicken noodle soup. For whatever reason, I just couldn't wait to eat it when I got home. I straddled straddled wheel with my elbows while eating it with a spoon while on the highway going 60. I am not sure if I should be alive at this point.

Having a slap fight with the passenger in the back seat. On the highway.

Was also in a car where the driver was rolling a joint while steering with his knee.

exercising while driving is a classic technique for keeping yourself awake

I encourage everyone to shave with a straight razor while doing tricep extensions as part of the morning commute, or you're just going to be too sleepy weepy :)

I was rear ended while waiting to make a left turn on a rural highway. We got out and look at the car behind us. The windshield is completely splattered in red. It was two guys eating chips and a bowl of salsa.

A guy in a convertible shaving with an electric razor.

Turning right from the left turn lane when the lights turn green, in front of the cars going straight and right.

I guy undertaking on a sidewalk outside a school, over the speed limit.

The 2 most ridiculous ones I've seen are

  1. Reading a newspaper with a flashlight in his mouth

  2. Eating a gallon of ice cream

Me and a few other drivers were parked by an unmanned gas station (late night near airport pickup that charged per minute from entry) - anyway, an early '00s renault hatchback swings into the station, pulling a U-turn before three unmarked police vehicles with sirens on surround it.

Officers step out and walk over, having a chat with the driver for a bit. Then, the driver steps out and the other passengers start to come out, one after another. After a little bit, there are twelve adults have exited this little hatchback along with a bunch of luggage. Driver is arrested shortly after.

Never seen anything like it before or after.

Saw a dude driving down the wrong side of the free way once.

I had to pull off the road a bit and almost into the ditch on the highway to avoid someone who misjudged his passing distance and was still using my lane.

I signaled in the hopes he would see it and not zig to my zag.

He passed right in with the car he was passing, I edged the ditch a bit and then we all continue on our way.

I was a ways down the road before the chemical dump and realization. Had to pull over, of course.

Pittsburgh has some of the worst drivers I've ever seen. Running red lights and waiting for yield signs to turn green is the norm there. I've seen at least 5 accidents caused by a Pittsburgher stopping at the end of an entrance ramp to a highway.

Unfortunately my car was finally sent to the body shop after 7 years dodging people, and 3 months from leaving the city by a lady who decided to make a left turn from the right lane. Luckily I always have a dashcam running, no one was hurt and the police wrote her a ticket. This lady was a high level Karen, and went ballistic when I asked if she was ok after she crashed into me. Best part was when her husband showed up 10mins later and apologized to me for his, "dumbass wife" who just knocked the mirrors off his truck.

Of course I've seen people shaving, reading a book, playing flute, playing violin, but the best is a woman who looked like Jocelyn Wildenstein in a top $$$ Mercedes drinking a Corona beer from the bottle, I'm pretty sure it was her.

In the car: lady fully putting on mascara in a rainstorm

With a car: also raining, guy speeding doing 100 in a 65 with no lights on. Wife pulls the car onto the highway and he almost hits us, jerks left and 360s in this long, slow (in my memory it's slow, probably happened in like 4 seconds) spin and comes to a dead stop facing perfectly forward and in the dirt of the median. Watched him turn on his lights and start to pull forward before we were out of sight

I've climbed out of the passenger window across the roof and back through the window of the door for the seat behind the driver while my friend was driving us around once.

E: oh yeah this friend didn't have his license at the time either