It is somewhat uncommon in Russia to eat or drink inside the car. Most of them are wondering why there are so many cup holders inside the car.
It's probably mostly in US you can see in the morning guys/girls eating burgers and drinking Starbucks while they drive
The most common scenario in Russia would be the road rage when somebody is not letting to pass
Death wise!
That wasn't even cutting you off. Can't believe you went into a rage over something so small.
Caught a sparkle from his metallic bike while I happened to be looking far ahead (which is a good driving habit to have, and I'm the first one to admit I don't do this enough)
Usually cut-off means people merge in front of a moving vehicle without enough distance or not accelerating fast enough causing the vehicle behind it to slow down or stop.
On a normal day when it was dry, this would have been fine. A little aggressive, but heck, I've been worse. On this day, under these conditions, this was a very dangerous move. There had been freezing rain earlier in the day, followed by a few inches of snow. It was very, very slick and I saw a number of crashes on my way home. Given how fast the minivan was going and how abruptly he changed lanes, he could have very easily lost control and caused me to crash into him as I would not have been able to stop in time.
It's the law here in Utah to stay out of the left lane or at least yield to faster traffic, but no one does it (and the cops even did a PSA campaign where they pulled people over to educate them). And yeah, half of these aren't being "cut off" but that minivan pulling in front of him in that weather was stupid both for loss of control risk, and the fact that he blinded the driver behind him. You just don't drive that close in snow. But again, here in Utah, idiots do the same thing. Especially if they're driving SUVs or trucks. First real snow we had, I passed 7 accidents in the morning. All but one of them consisted of SUVs and trucks. The other was an SUV and a car.
