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Post by falgar25 on Dec 27, 2016 17:14:14 GMT -4
I've become used to drivers using the center lane as the driving lane regardless of how empty the right lane is or how many people are backed up behind them. I'm told it's the way it is taught in school: the right lane is the merging lane, the left lane is the passing lane, and the center lane is the driving lane. Strange to me, but hey, it's Maryland.
I've also become used to seeing cars go down the road with their right tires on the shoulder. It's as if they have been taught to drive down the white line rather then to stay between the lines.
It isn't uncommon anymore to see cars parked with their tires either on the parking lines or slightly into the next space. Today at Food Lion the first four "empty" spaces I came to were unusable because the car on one side or both had parked on or over the parking line. There was even one that was so far over the line that it must have been intentional. If not, if this was the best that driver could do, then it is terrifying to think of being close to them while they are moving down the road.
Driving over the lines or parking on or over the lines is so common these days, is this the way it is being taught in school now?
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Post by truevet on Dec 28, 2016 11:38:42 GMT -4
I drive with the right tire on the shoulder when it is warranted. Especially if it is a two way road i. e. route 8. I have no idea if the oncoming drivers are distracted by texting or under the influence. I'm old school right lane is for slow traffic, middle lane is for normal driving and left lane is for the speeders. As for parking in the lots maybe is lack of skill, common sense or all of the above.
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Post by puddintane on Jan 4, 2017 7:32:50 GMT -4
I have also wondered if there is a standard way that driving skills are taught throughout all the various systems or not. When I learned many years ago, drivers' ed was taught through the schools, and I was taught that if there were two lines of traffic merging into one place, you are supposed to alternate, letting one driver from one lane go, then a driver from the other lane, then back to the first lane, and so on, similar to the procedure at a four-way stop sign. In the mornings when kids are being dropped off by parents at Matapeake Middle School, there is a lane of traffic coming from the direction of Davidson Rd. and a lane coming from the Elementary School. Invariably the lane coming from the Elementary School is full of parents who are making the easier right-hand turn into the Middle School who jam right up on the bumper of the car in front of them so that car after car enters the Middle School parking lot from that lane, while the cars coming from the Davidson Rd. direction are supposed to just sit there apparently. Only very occasionally is there someone who does the "alternating cars" thing. It made me wonder if people really are that selfish and inconsiderate or if they are in fact being taught that method. I know that a right-hand turn has the right-of-way, but I was taught that if it is a situation similar to a four-way stop, then you should be considerate of other drivers. I have concluded that our society today is, sadly, increasingly lacking in consideration for others in general. The term "selfie" is more than just a picture, it is becoming a complete attitude. I don't know that people are intentionally rude, either, as it seems most times that if they become aware of it, they make corrections, but it's just that it doesn't appear to even occur to people anymore to consider anyone besides themselves, particularly in driving and/or parking situations.
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