Other Drivers Behavior

[HKusp]

Your just jealous a wood grain mini van passed you when you were doing 85
JK I have been driving in Atl for 40 years and its getting worse for sure. Luckily I work remote and don't have to get out much,.

I lived up off Chastain Rd. My commute was 17 miles one way all but 7/10's of a mile of it was highway, hwy 5 and 75 south. Both my (ex) wife and I got off at Howell Mill road, she went to left towards Piedmont hospital and I went right towards Georgia Tech. If I left at 5:45am it took about 22 minutes. If I left at 6:05 am it was 90 minutes IF there wasn't an accident...no shit, no exaggeration.

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[sms2022]

Hopefully you have some documentation showing the dealer screw up with your plates just in case you do get pulled over

I have an email from the Secretary of State saying they won’t issue another temp tag and that the car is entitled to be registered but the dealer needs to send them the original title first, which they haven’t, so I think I’m good

 

[MAGS1]

Your just jealous a wood grain mini van passed you when you were doing 85
JK I have been driving in Atl for 40 years and its getting worse for sure. Luckily I work remote and don't have to get out much,.

I’ve been traveling to ATL a fair amount for work the last 18 months and it’s something. We’ve got plenty of bad driving here in Chicago but ATL is right up there for sure.

And I think the moment someone sets foot in an Altima, poof, automatic terrible driver. No matter where you are.

 

[HKusp]

Speaking of law enforcement. There's a thing about the Altima's. Talk to any repo-man about them too. Lot's of donut spares, and baby seats. Weed stinking up the interior...etc.

 

[young at heart]

At my age 79 I not into the whole racing on strett highway thing
I dont drive in fast lane antmore and someone gets too close on single lane I toggle into into 3rd and just do speed limit at most
They will pass you and you'll be safer fir it.btw in atlanta the fast lane is generally 80 even though limit is 65

If you’re only running 80 on most stretches of I-285 you stand a good chance of either getting a ticket for obstruction of traffic or worse yet a 9mm warning shot from another driver. Speed limit? I can’t even guess how fast you’d have to be going to draw LEO attention on 285.

 

[markayash]

I’ve been traveling to ATL a fair amount for work the last 18 months and it’s something. We’ve got plenty of bad driving here in Chicago but ATL is right up there for sure.

And I think the moment someone sets foot in an Altima, poof, automatic terrible driver. No matter where you are.

A friend of mine said he doie

If you’re only running 80 on most stretches of I-285 you stand a good chance of either getting a ticket for obstruction of traffic or worse yet a 9mm warning shot from another driver. Speed limit? I can’t even guess how fast you’d have to be going to draw LEO attention on 285.

I posted on a Honda board about gas mileage and mentioned doing 80+ and had a few folks from up north say I am crazy for driving that fast.
Its actually worse since covid, use to be folks stayed around 80 in a 65 now it's more like 85 and 90 and not mustangs and Camaro's its trucks and SUV's

 

[MachNroll]

Are you in the left lane driving 5 or 10 below the speed limit?

Nope. I'm in the right lane watching Hondas go by in the left lane at 95.

 

[ArgentumS550]

I read about all these encounters on here and I guess it must have something to do with location. I rarely have someone want to "tangle" with me (only a few times over the years)...and I don't oblige. I think that it might be due to the city I live in where my car is on the lower end of the sports car hierarchy. "Oh. It's a Mustang." (insert stuffy British voice here ). Lambos, Ferraris, McLarens, Porsches etc. tend to be the high end ones tooling around.

 

[JetGray_Mach1]

It seems like when their envy turns to rage.. I guess I will indeed need to get used to it. But I will grow weary of dealing with other people's desire to "well I will show him." Oh well. I'll just click the exhaust to "track mode" and enjoy my ride.

I have had this happened to me couple times now. Normally spoiled or low credit score boys in Tesla, Challenger and Camaros. Oh and lets not forget the BMW lame kids with the crap exhaust. The Mach 1 HP look is pretty awesome, it attracts a lot of attention lol. You will learn to deal with it, most people want to admire the car or give thumbs up. Then there is the loosers that hate on the beautiful ride let them be. I have learned to piss them off by pretending I want to race then never take off. Let them take off into someone else ass.

 

[JetGray_Mach1]

I’ve been traveling to ATL a fair amount for work the last 18 months and it’s something. We’ve got plenty of bad driving here in Chicago but ATL is right up there for sure.

And I think the moment someone sets foot in an Altima, poof, automatic terrible driver. No matter where you are.

If you are in Cali add Tesla drivers to the list. My brother has one, and the damn thing is pretty impressive it drives itself pretty good. But that being said it makes errors and it sucks being behind them when they do. Also most dont understand how to use the regen braking in one pedal driving. Makes them speed up and slow down constantly when you behind , drives me nuts.

 

[MAGS1]

If you are in Cali add Tesla drivers to the list. My brother has one, and the damn thing is pretty impressive it drives itself pretty good. But that being said it makes errors and it sucks being behind them when they do. Also most dont understand how to use the regen braking in one pedal driving. Makes them speed up and slow down constantly when you behind , drives me nuts.

I used to travel to SF/San Jose a lot for work about 10 years ago. Used to see the Google self driving/driverless cars when they were first testing that technology. Saw a few crash into dumpsters and parked cars. I’m assuming the tech has come a long way in 10 years but I still don’t trust it and probably never will

 

[K4fxd]

kept coming up behind him, then he'd do something else stupid to run away... I'd catch him a few minutes later, he'd run off again.

Thats how you get shot. The dude wanted to get away from you. You should let him. Unless he is the asshat that passes at 90 then slows down to 50 until you catch back up.

two lane road I travel where when the car in front of me pulls over to let me pass. I am not tail gating either.

Unless you are 3 seconds or more back, you are tailgating. I move over and let people pass too.

 

[MachNroll]

I have had this happened to me couple times now. Normally spoiled or low credit score boys in Tesla, Challenger and Camaros. Oh and lets not forget the BMW lame kids with the crap exhaust. The Mach 1 HP look is pretty awesome, it attracts a lot of attention lol. You will learn to deal with it, most people want to admire the car or give thumbs up. Then there is the loosers that hate on the beautiful ride let them be. I have learned to piss them off by pretending I want to race then never take off. Let them take off into someone else ass.

"Low credit score boys" ROFL!!! Pretty much sums it up. The HP look is def different than the non HP and while folks may not understand the difference between the two the HP seems to get attention, both good and as I'm finding out, bad too. I just didn't have the bad with my "base" M1 nor my '18 GT. Plus, I think there's just a lot of weird folks out there who didn't make choices that took them down the path to eventually owning a nice performance vehicle.

 

[526 HRSE]

Weird, nobody messes with me.

 

[RTFM]

I don’t know if it is the Mach 1 stickers or the Eruption Green color, but I get none of those problems anymore with my current stang. Lots of respectful drivers around, with friendly thumbs up and all. Except for the guys/girls on their cellphones, but they don’t see anyone.

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