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Actually a good driver!
Saying I heard once: "Good drivers sometimes miss their exists. Bad drivers never miss their exists." Stuck with me for a very long time.
That's... existential.
I came here to say this exact thing.
I can't tell you how many times I've missed my exit. It's just not worth getting bothered about.
I might be another 5-10 minutes, but I'll get there alive, and nobody else will be at risk by my error. I consider that an absolute win.
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Stay safe! I’ll take wrong exit over unsafe maneuver every time.
Kinda depends. My Uber riders don't usually appreciate it. Thankfully, it's only been once or twice. "I'll just loop around on the next exit."
Well, I'd expect a professional driver to anticipate and switch lanes early enough instead of hugging the left lane for no reason...
There is never a reason to hug the passing lane(s).
If you're actively passing then it's not hugging.
If you're not actively passing then GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE LANE!
I used to think the same before I tried driving in California (European btw) and the left lane WAS AN EXIT???
Yeah that's just stupid freeway design.
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Mind you, at least here, the left lane is a passing lane only on roads at or above 80kmh/50mph, below this speed limit, the left lane is just another lane. There's a lot of 70kmh highway around the cities here, and it's totally ok to be transiting in the left lane in those cases.
There's no such thing as a passing lane here (CA), the left lane is called the fast lane and staying in one lane is recommended (but of course, stay in the one that matches your speed, don't go 60 in the fast lane on the highway) vs weaving in and out.
A friend of mine got a phone call at daft o'clock one evening from his son who hadn't turned up home.
"Dad, can you pick me up from the city centre please?"
Bear in mind that he lived in a smaller town 40 miles or so from the city; on a bus route that spanned two cities about 90 miles apart.
Turns out that he had been taught how to board a bus; ask for a ticket; pay; and take a seat... but never learned how to leave a bus.
His dad was understandably pissed off, having been kicked out of bed at midnight to do a near two-hour round trip drive to pick his lad up. He asking him why he hadn't pushed the bell to signal the driver to stop.
"I thought they were just emergency stop buttons, and because I told the driver where I was going when I got the ticket, I thought he would stop for me... and when he didn't, I just sat and waited until the end of the line".
Poor soul.
I thought buses just stop at a station, you have to signal to the driver to stop? I've never ridden a bus before, so at least that's my main reason, but if I got on and didn't see a button or anything, I'd probably make that mistake 💀
It differs regionally.
Even in my tiny country. Small town bus makes stop if you stand up or someone's waiting, capital city bus makes every stop, other city bus needs to be prompted by the light.
So I definitely missed my stop first time I took the bus in the other city lol
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There are some stops where the bus always stops, and others where you have to signal the driver to stop (known as request stops). You will typically find the first kind in high density areas like cities, and the other in suburbs or in the countryside (there are even "stop areas" in some very rural places, where the driver officially must stop anywhere along it when asked).
The same applies to trains too, although request stops are not as common as they are for buses (and I don't know of any stop areas for trains)
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They by default stop at stops only if there is someone waiting there, otherwise you need to call the stop by pressing the button.
I've seen the stop request signals in a lot of city buses where there's a stop every block or so. The bus will stop at bus stops where people are waiting, driving past empty bus stops, and if someone on the bus requests to stop it will stop at the next stop to let them off
Most stops they will only stop if someone is waiting or if someone on the buss hits the button
It's mostly now buttons next to the windows/on a pole connected to the seats. Rarely and mostly on older busses, there may be a cable running along the upper edge of the windows. When you trigger either one, it signals the driver to stop at the next bus stop on the route (rather than only stopping if picking someone up) to allow you to get out.
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That's something I pretty frequently hear from parents with autistic childs
You should tell your friend to watch out for other potential signs and maybe get his son checked out by a health professional
As someone who has grown up with social anxiety, this easily could've been something that happened to me...
How many of us haven't actually done that but feel like we should have?
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Still better this than to be the person who weaves across three lanes of traffic to go after their exit, or who sees the exit lane diverging and chooses... Neither, then they just stop there.
"A bad driver never misses their exit"
I had to rake a detour in an area that looked like a maelstrom hangout in cyberpunk 2077 because my gps didn't tell me which lanes i needed to be in when i crossed a junction.
Glad you're okay, Choom.
GPS should be able to do a better job with this by now. I can use a satellite to look at a location before I get there. Doesn’t make sense that gps can’t tell the difference between a left and right lane.
This reminds me of one time earlier this year I went to get some food which required me to get on the highway and then a main highway. The main highway is a 2 min drive to the next exit, and it's directly off the exit. So the entire trip is about 10 min. I got food, got back on the highway, and started thinking about stuff and not realizing I passed the exit to go back home. I then forgot exactly how bad that was because the next exit was 20 min away with no turn and full divider. So that dumb mistake cost me 40 minutes of time, and im basically screaming at myself the entire time for being a dumbass.
I hate when the info saying what lane goes where is showed last moment, always makes me stressed
I know Luis CK has gotten a bit problematic for other reasons, but I always liked his take on this in particular.
Apologies as I couldn't find an original video, just this weird channel animating the original audio. But every time my wife and I are in a car and see someone cross multiple lanes to get to an exit they almost missed we look at each other and say "but that's their FAVORITE way!"
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It’s okay to take detours.
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