Just follow my car (under my breath) if you can
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Once had to drive someplace with my brother, but in separate cars. He was taking his car, and I got to follow in our mum's family van.
90% of that drive I was flooring it, and generally driving like a racecar driver ...except that I was still moving at a snail's pace.
Of course, upon arrival my brother started giving me shit for going slow. And he did not believe that the car couldn't go faster. So, we agreed to swap cars for the drive back home.
Never had I seen him concede so readily that he was wrong. 🙃
I don't know man I've driven some Honda Odysseys and Dodge Pacificas that could fuckin MOVE.
Well, yeah, because those have an appropriate amount of horsepower under the hood.
My mum's car at that point must've been a first-generation Opel Meriva: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Meriva#First_generation_(2003)
In the back of my head, I did also have this tidbit:
The first generation, named "Meriva A", was based on the third generation Opel Corsa C.
So, take a car frame with the weight and height of a family van and put it onto the powertrain of a small car.
Like, genuinely, I'm finding Meriva's being sold online with 75 horsepower, which is as much as the Opel Corsa had back then.
The Corsa wasn't exactly known as a sports car either, so I'm really not surprised that its family van edition can't accelerate. 😐
It's a Chrysler Pacifica and Dodge Caravan, you can get them with the 4.0 HO, HO standing of course for high output. We called ours the Blue Bullet.
I was asked to follow someone back to their place years ago. When we get on the road, they do 75-90 mph all the way there. I legit thought they were trying to lose me, which was weird because we had a good time hanging out. Nope, they apparently just drive everywhere like that. Red flag 🚩
I did this once and drove a little under the speed limit so it would be easy to follow me, and as soon as we were out of the car they angrily told me I drove like an old lady.
It's not the 90s anymore. I don't need your directions. Just give me the address and I'll meet you there.
Ugh my buddy used to do shit like this when we were younger, he'd get us on the highway and the immediately start doing 80 in the fast lane. No buddy we are not racing your base model honda civic against my base model chevy prism.
*Passing lane
There is no "fast lane"
on a two or four lane highway, sure. on anything six lanes or larger, there definitely is.
Anything above 3 lanes is no longer a highway, it's a mental illness
The ludicrous lane.
Y'all realize they count all the lanes, not just the ones going one direction right? A 3 lane highway is 1 lane each direction and a suicide lane.
I guess technically it can be a 2+1 highway if you so will, but true.
Still, anything above 4 lanes is dangerously close to mental illness territory
lord give me the confidence of a man from a town with a population of 500
I'm not sure what the implication here is to be honest - am I supposed to be the small town man in this scenario?
yes. calling more than two lanes each direction being "mental illness" screams "i have never been in a crowd"
If there is that much traffic there should be a train line instead.
While I agree in general, there's still the last bit from the station to home. I can only get a hundred pounds of kitty litter on my trike. If I need to haul more, I need an (hopefully electric) automobile. I just finished buying everything for a project I've been designing for a few years. If I had taken public transit, it would have taken 3 or 4 trips.
Right. So I live in an apartment in the capital of my country, where transit moves far more people than the highways ever does.
While we're being derogatory, your opinion is incredibly American
No, there is only one regular lane in each direction. And if you want to pass you take the second land. The third lane is to pass someone who is passing someone. The forth lane is to pass someone who is passing someone who is passing someone. And so further.
If there are six lanes, the sixt lane is to pass someone who is passing someone who is passing someone who is passing someone who is passing someone who is driving in the regular lane.
The speed does not matter.
I REFUSE to do a caravan for reasons like this. Give me the address or a map pin and I'll make my way there and you can do the same. I can't handle the bullshit of following or leading multiple cars. I'll die on this hill.
I can see that OP has had to follow my wife somewhere before.
I once had to follow someone to church camp in high school. It was 100+ miles away, and she started doing 90 on the highway in her BMW. Meanwhile in my rickety KIA Spectra, I could barely do 65. She lost us, and I had to have someone else I was giving a ride to call her to get the address.
She got pulled over and ticketed, and still made it there before me.
Its so frustrating when Im driving my slow 3 cylinder econobox and someone can't keep up with me in their DOHC twin turbo whatever. Its like dude. You have 350 hp under the hood. I have 78. keep up.
It’s legal to run a red light if you’re following another car.
In a funeral procession.
Having GTA flashbacks
My partners mum/stepdad recently, I joked that one would have to accelerate up to the speed limit and the other would have to slow down to it.
I really don't care for people who give me shit for using GPS. Of course they're all older.
often the same people who can't hold speed to save their life but also inexplicably refuse to just use cruise control
Using GPS is normal. Using GPS for everywhere you go, including locally or places you've been before, is shocking. I've met people who literally can not drive without GPS, and that shit is frightening.
Edit: If you can't drive short distances without a robot literally telling you where to turn, you shouldn't have a license.
Hell, I use it locally if there's any highway involved. Wrecks are common here and knowing what roads to avoid is nice.
It's very useful for rerouting when there's traffic or roadworks.
I use it way less when I go far, since that's mostly just highways.
I use it if I'm going anywhere out of town (even if i know how to get there) because it will redirect me if there is a road cosure/delay
Haha I'm guilty of this yesterday. Left turn lane and I inched up to give her enough space to follow me at the red light. She didn't lol. Should have just waited for the next light. But we were close to the spot already so no big deal.
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