Shifting responsibility.
Posted on 24. Feb, 2012 by BrentP in Clover First Class
There is nobody behind me in this video. This clover has to be able to see me. He pulls out anyway. He might have been ok if he accelerated. Of course he did not. He expects me to avoid him. Typical clover.
This simple pull-out video demonstrates the tenets of clover driving.
1) A clover believes that he has no duty to avoid interfering with other drivers, other drivers have a duty to avoid him.
2) A clover believes other drivers should be patient. If they don’t like being delayed they have a ‘road rage’ problem. Now this clover won’t wait for someone (me) to go by before he pulls out on to the road and fails to accelerate. He’s too important to wait. If I could talk to him he would likely say other people need to learn how to wait or leave earlier or some other such BS. Typical hypocritical ways of a clover.
Watching this brings thoughts of a .50 caliber hood mounted machine gun to mind.
Yes Dom, it is just like you to show your road rage like you do. It would be fun watching you and all your other aggressive road rages on the highway at the same time. It would be worth a lot of money to see something like that. You would have a bunch of cars driving 85 to 120 mph weaving back and forth, slamming on brakes and accelerating, hitting each other in the bumper because one of you would undoubtedly be driving slower or something else that the other did not like.
Ugh. This lack of shifting to a proper gear is ubiquitous. Clovers have no concept of differential mechanisms.
They all clamor and receive a mandate of one gear for all. A gear that maxes out at about 15 miles an hour tops.
For now the formerly great and now mutilated American roadster putts slowly down the expressway with a license plate that reads O 44.
Every 4 or 8 years we get different plates. But no one can drive her anymore. Plates that say: W 42, Clinton 42, GHB 41, Ray Gun 40, Carter 39, Ford 38, Nix 37, Lady Bird Gives LBJs 36, Everybody hates IKE 35, and all the way back down the whole slowmoving train of automotive misery to Abe the Axe Murder 16.
You can’t herd mewling housecats.
You can’t win trying to be a Clover Drover.
Modify your own machine, pull off onto a dirt side road into the woods and floor it.
WHAT WAS THE SPEED LIMIT ON THIS ROAD? HOW FAST WAS THE GUY WITH THE CAMERA DRIVING? A car getting on a 30 mph roadway should not have to look a mile down the road for a guy traveling 50 mph or more in the right lane. THE MORE YOU POST THE MORE YOU SHOW YOUR POOR DRIVING.
Clover again shows his true colors that he expects to pass on the effort of driving on to others. At least he/she/it admits it this time. BTW, the speed limit is 45mph. That driver is lucky I drive the speed limit. Other people on that road drive 60mph. Also the right lane is where people should be if they aren’t passing even on a surface street when practicable.
Well Clover, one of these days you’re going to get yourself killed pulling out in front of traffic like that. Just make sure it’s a big truck or something so you don’t take anyone with you.
Other people need to be in jail if they drive 60 mph on that road. Trying to keep up with the other poor drivers is not too bright. I have never seen you drive the speed limit on any road. You get the shakes unless you are breaking some kind of law.
At least the trucker new enough to stay in the left lane when there was merging traffic. You were too busy getting ready to pass him on the right at 60 mph. You are a poor driver and need to get off the road.
In your videos you have showed dozens of times where you almost got into an accident or came within a few feet of another car. That is an extreme sign of a poor driver. It is beyond my memory when I have been that close to an accident as you have been dozens of times in your videos.
Get off the road.
The speed limit was 50mph as a two lane road I think before it was expanded to four lanes with a median. The remaining two lane section is still 50mph. 60mph for the improved road is just fine. You can’t judge speed for crap either. I drive the posted limit or lower on every surface street.
The truck was ahead of me before we both turned on to the road. He was never in the right lane. He also turned left at the next intersection. His choice of lane had nothing to do with someone entering from a side street. You fail. Again.
As to your random comments. You’re simply full of crap. How much do you pay for insurance for the appliance you drive again? Oh wait, more than I do for a V8 pony car in a huge metro area. What aren’t you telling us Clover? Did you get a DUI? Did you kill someone when you didn’t look before changing lanes or something? Why is your insurance so high? Now I admit that the distances require some level of reaction time better than that of a dead cat or a car with functioning brakes so is your problem that you have the reaction time of a dead cat or drive around in neglected car or both? Or do you simply not pay attention to the task of driving at all?
My insurance is #244.54 every 6 months. That is a half a million in liability and $5000 medical payments and a half a million in under insured/uninsured with $250 deductible. Your turn.
Why would a safe driver need a half a million in liability? Can’t you keep enough savings to deal with more than a $250 deductible? Why so low if you’re a safe driver?
I do have a question about your poor driving. Why was it that it was obvious that there was someone in front of you pulling on the road in front of you but you did not switch lanes but rather did not switch lanes until you were a couple of feet from the guys bumper? The answer, YOU WERE SHOWING YOUR NORMAL ROAD RAGE.
You must really have an anger problem to project that emotion on to everything and everyone.
Slow accelerating drivers who are impatient often immediately go to or turn into the left lane around here. I used to change lanes for them earlier but only to have them cut me off severely because they do not look at their mirrors to see that I’ve changed lanes. Keeping course with the option to change lanes when I know they won’t move means I’ll be where they expect me to be when they do something.
Got any more stupid emotional projection theories?
Brent the reason I need so much insurance because I have a lot to lose and the insurance difference in costs is very little and the coverage was required for an umbrella policy. I looked into a higher deductible but the difference was very little for me. You ask why I need so much insurance, it is because I am smart enough to know that it is possible for anyone to make a mistake or get on a road with no sign that it is pure ice.
You did not state your cost of insurance premium you are so proud of?
Do you plan on hitting a rare Ferrari on an unpredictably icy road? If you’re already mitigating your risk you wouldn’t need such coverage limits or an umbrella policy. It seems you know deep down that you are taking big risks with your concept that everyone else should get out of your way. That one day they might not be able to avoid you and you need to be covered for that.
BTW ~$70 dollars less than yours for the car I was referring to. Certainly nearly a 1/3rd wouldn’t be a small amount.
And this car that you say you have so cheap of insurance, is it listed as your primary car and is it listed as driving to work with it and does it have full coverage? I would bet the answer to all of those questions is no.
BRENT, SINCE YOU HAVE MULTIPLE CARS, YOU DO NOT LIST A SECONDARY CAR WHEN YOU SAY YOU HAVE CHEAP INSURANCE. What do you pay for the car you say that you drive daily to work? I pay little to nothing for my secondary vehicle because the insurance company takes a lot less risk on a secondary vehicle you drive much less.
Just another lie you come up with.
The car I take to work and back every day? About $50 less than you.
AND THE COVERAGE?
What difference does it make since you only paid so very little extra for your extreme (for a safe driver) coverage? It couldn’t have increased your 6 month premium so much that it makes up 20% of it now could it?
You know Brent I could care less if you had free insurance. I just hope it is not with the insurance company that I am with because I do not want my rates increased when you cause an accident.
I think we have had enough here.
In my opinion and everyone else, you should not be driving. You keep making excuses for your poor driving decisions but that does not change the fact that they are poor decisions. You show everyone what I have been saying for years. It is not ones ability to drive, it is the decisions that they make that makes a dangerous driver.
Well to be able to care less means you care. Who’s everyone else? The voices in your head?
It’s not poor driving not bend over backwards for lazy people like you. If more people wouldn’t people would start driving better. That is the beauty of driving in Germany they don’t put up with it so it simply doesn’t exist. I drove back and forth to work, I drove around, I rode in other cars. Traffic jams, free flowing expressway, normal traffic… festival traffic. Urban streets, country roads… I got to see a lot of driving conditions. Not one stupid move did I see. Not ONE. No right on red there though. That’s one downside but more than worth it not to see or put up with even a single ‘clover’ on the road. Oh and the traffic lights… they go red-blinking yellow-green-yellow-red. That blinking yellow is wonderful for getting traffic going. Roads without clovers. It’s a beautiful thing.
Brent we are done.
The beauty of Germany is that they do not put up with your kind of driving.
HAHAHAAHAHAHA! Clover, my kind of driving is -exactly- what Germans do. But there aren’t any videos like mine to be made because people simply don’t do that shit.
Brent to respoond “Slow accelerating drivers who are impatient often immediately go to or turn into the left lane around here.”
These drivers are “you”, only they are driving slightly slower than what you are driving at the time or possibly someone that wants to make a left turn ahead. I think you need to be off the road with your lack of any kind of patience whatsoever for any other driver.
Now that we have determined that almost all drivers are wrong to you, what is your solution? The only thing that I have heard from you is to drive dangerously and threaten them. Do you think everyone should threaten and endanger all others on the road when they see someone else do something they do not agree with even if it is against no laws? What kind of driving would that be? Millions of people showing road rage on our highways? I would not want to be on any of those highways. Maybe that is your solution. Scare the heck out of all other drivers so you are the only one left out there.
What is your insurance premium and coverage?
Clover, repeating your lies won’t turn them into truth. Nobody has been threatened. There is no anger. There is no danger except that occasionally created by the drivers you defend. You make up lies and project emotion because you have no logical and rational argument to present.
As I stated before. I have changed lanes for this sort of driver in the past and then they decide to move left or just go straight to the left lane. They do not watch their mirrors. They do not predict what the disturbance they put into the traffic stream will do. I have found it is better (safer, calmer, and faster) to hold course and after they have committed to a lane and an acceleration rate, make my choice as how to avoid them. If they feel uncomfortable about it, then they need to evaluate their behavior and change what they are doing as they are ones imposing themselves on others.
This driver wasn’t going slightly slower, he was doing ~15 in a 45. Maybe less. I am being generous and using the speed he was going when I reached him. The fact of the matter remains, you are a selfish, lazy driver who expects everyone else to take on delay and effort so you can be comfortable and lazy. You want the slightest discomfort or delay for yourself. You want to push all of that on to others. Which goes along with the authoritarianism, etc. It’s about pushing the work on to other people.
What is your insurance premium and coverage? Do you have trouble with basic math? $70 -LESS- than yours every 6 months for that car, just like I stated in the last reply. I’m not going to do the math for you. You’ll have to figure out how the government schools failed you and learn to subtract.
Go see a shrink Brent. If you can not see this driver headed and staying in the right lane ahead then you should not be on the road. If you see anything in this video that shows the driver might be headed into the left lane then I will give you a million bucks because there is nothing showing this.
GET OFF THE ROAD BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT CAPABLE OF DRIVING SAFELY.
Oh they pull out into the left lane…. http://clovercam.com/?p=374
Good night olde three leaf.
I had one of these idiots do the same thing to me. I literally saw her look directly at me before she pulled out in front of me. I remember thinking “no, no, she’s NOT that stupid” and had already taken my foot off the accelerator as a precaution. She pulled out right in front of me at a closer range than the idiot above in this video. I ended up hitting her. She walked away with maybe 1k damage on her car. Me?5K plus and the car was in the shop for 6 weeks while they fixed the steering, breaks, etc. I had to have the car towed since the breaks were locked to the wheels and they could not be turned. At least the insurance company agreed I wasn’t at fault.
She’s lucky neither of us were killed. The speed on that road was 50.
Once a driver makes any visible reaction to them they’ll usually go ahead and do it for sure.
It’s amazing how many of these people see other drivers but do it anyway because it benefits them and they can expect the other driver to avoid them. If they see the other driver start to take evasive action they know they’ve ‘won’ and they’ll do their stupid move. If they think the other driver doesn’t see them they think twice and often abort their stupid move.
Some however are just plain stupid and/or selfish and nothing is going to stop them.