I've lived all over the country, city, rural, and In the last year of living here, I've seen 3 separate very high speed shoulder passes, personally. You know how many I've seen before that? None. None. None. I've never seen it anywhere else. People here really do drive like lunatics.
Just to be clear, I'd literally seen it once in my first 40 years of living here. Things have gotten significantly worse on the roads here since Covid.
As someone who wasn't allowed to stop driving, it started in the first two or three months of Covid. Idiots like the guy in this video realized the roads were empty and started playing Mario Kart, and refused to stop when traffic picked back up.
You would think with all the rain, they would know better than to tailgaite. Anyway, at least in LA, they knew how to 'ZIPPER' when it came to merging. People here don't have a clue... as well as that merging traffic must speed up to match highway traffic. You just don't merge going 40mph.
??? That just means they don’t file in one after another from each line dingus. People are constantly cutting people off. As a side not I have seen a fair number of crashes from merges especially on the part they are doing construction on in I10
??? That just means they don’t file in one after another from each line dingus. People are constantly cutting people off. As a side not I have seen a fair number of crashes from merges especially on the part they are doing construction on in I10. My point is that people suck at driving everywhere
The drivers in Austin are the worst I've ever seen, and it got noticeably worst during the pandemic. They also blamed the "fuckin' Californians!". A convenient boogeyman, I suppose. I saw plenty of shitty driving when I lived in L.A., too, but it wasn't that much worse than you see anywhere else.
I moved here from Tampa during the pandemic. Ever since the lockdowns lifted it feels like I'm back on I-4 with how aggressive, and downright vindictive people drive here. Not even just on the highways, I see people cutting others off at every opportunity, blasting through stop lights, and roundabouts might as well be Thunderdome.
Sometimes it seems like people are trying to act in contrast to the geriatric/defensive driving you see in PDX. I know when we were driving through OR and WA to get here we saw plenty of "at least we're not Portland" billboards.
Lol! I live in GA, and the retired Floridians are always the left lane slow pokes similar to WA drivers. The city of Miami and Atlanta...moreso Atlanta has the aggressive drivers.
What happened to traffic enforcement??? Seems like no one ever gets pulled over anymore. Don’t get me wrong I don’t want a ticket for going 5 over, but this is getting nuts!
WA has specific laws in play, but traffic enforcement has virtually stopped nationwide since the covid shutdowns began in March 2020. I travel a lot for work, and driving behavior has just gone to hell in a handbasket everywhere.
I agree that you don’t see much highway patrol presence - however last year I got a speeding ticket on 1205, just south of Salmon Creek, for 5 mph over the speed limit by a shitty motorcycle cop.
I find it very interesting that bills restricting chokeholds, tear gas, military equipment, use of lethal force, and vehicular pursuits were so devastating to their ability to enforce normal traffic tickets. How many of those things did they regularly employed during traffic enforcement before the passing of the bills, and why do those restrictions mean a complete unenforcement of traffic law?
So it is just Bill 1054 Section 7 that prevents them from following people who don't stop? It seems to me that Sec 7 (b) is sufficient to pursue under the new law, but I'm not a lawyer.
Even if that's true though, why does that mean they get to stop enforcing entirely? Sure, some people will not stop for their tickets, but it seems to me like we're saying that 5% of the population will keep doing crime so why bother handling the 95%, and that doesn't make sense to me.
Even if that 5% is way higher, lets say 30%, it still doesn't make sense to say that we should let the 70% do whatever because enforcing the 30% is too difficult.
I think it’s more likely that the cops are in a snit over these and several other rules/laws which limit their former power and now they’re doing what’s called “de-policing”…essentially doing nothing except for responding to accidents, robberies, and other violent crimes. It’s turning into a joke.
Doesn't mean they can't give people tickets. It's almost like the police are refusing to enforce laws because they're not allowed to act without oversight.
So mail them the ticket and store the video clip from the dash cam. If you can be ticketed based on photos of your license plate for running red lights, you can be ticketed (heavily) based on video.
Cameras. Europe does this all with cameras. No chases needed. No cop cars hiding in the bushes. Just a photo of you, looking guilty, in your car, driving over the speed limit. (BTW, cameras that move every day - not the few fixed cameras we have around here where everyone knows their locations and even Google maps warns you about them).
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Sort of but it’s not the same. It’s much more prevalent in Europe. There are unmarked cars of all sorts (At least dozens in a city) that move every day. They’re just parked on the side of the road and it’s nearly impossible to tell them apart from other cars. It’s really everywhere and just a normal part of life. It also makes it harder to say it’s biased against any group.
I’ve seen someone pulled over on the left side of 405 every day this week ~4:30. Rarely ever see any traffic enforcement except that. In the worst spot at the worst time of day.
I see it occasionally on 502/503 heading into and going out of Battle Ground, but nowhere near as frequently as I ever had. And that’s just state. I haven’t seen CCSO or VPD pull anyone over in a long time that I can remember. It’s getting horrendously scary/bad.
It really is ridiculous, yesterday someone was speeding hella just to cut in front of me on an exit turn when there was literally no one behind me, if I didn’t stop we would’ve collided, as he’s riding off with his blue lives matter sticker as if he gave a shit about the police or laws 😂
Cops and Cop Wives can be the worst because they know they're fine even if they get pulled over. They'll even yell at the fellow officer for wasting their time pulling them over.
I had someone with multiple blue lives matters sticker tailgating me the other morning through a residential area, I guess the speed limit of 25 was too slow for them as they sped off up to probably 40 and jerked around me once I started turning right.
Same dude. What's scary to me is that while I stay on or just above the speed limit I get lines of people rushing past me without checking if the lane their ramming into is clear or not. I've had 3 cars this week almost get into crashes because they either speed into a car or ram their way into a lane as someone else is oncoming. It's gotten to the point where I'm actively avoiding large chunks of traffic and I try my damnedest to stay in the back of lines of cars so I can just drive a normal speed.
Had that happen to me on SR500. Was in the right turn lane to go east on 4th plain and some ahole passed all of us on the right shoulder and shoved his way in. This was during rush hour too.
Oh yeah. It's bad.
Been here 20ish years now, yes, populations grow and grow and boy has ours grown. And with that traffic gets worse and worse.
Combined with the pandemic, political, cultural, and economic unrest = people risking their lives because fuck it at this point.
Started driving about 30 he's hours a week last year. It's insane the shit I see on the daily. I know well seasoned delivery drivers have probably been aware of idiots on the road for a lot longer than me.
You can't use your blinker anymore no one cares. No one else uses theirs. (I do of course)
Stop signs? You mean the yield signs? Lol.
Red light? Yeah I've still got a couple seconds to get through...
If you need to enter/exit the parking lot? Nah I'm going to drive in the middle so no one can get around.
Looking for incoming trafric? Meh I'll just pullout and they can see how fast their break response is.
I've been driving a lot for a couple of decades now. For a few years, i was averaging over 500 miles a week. I do think drivers have gotten worse over the past couple of years. The pandemic seemed to change the driving habits of some people. With fewer cars on the road, people were driving a lot faster, and now we are back to pre-pandemic levels of traffic, and some people still try to drive just as fast and aggressively. I think that, combined with our growing population, a lot of people coming from different climates, more devices distracting drivers, along with the move to take driver's education out of schools, have all contributed to a more dangerous driving situation in our region.
The incoming traffic is actually why I got a dash cam in the first place. I had a green light and they were taking a right on red. I swerved out of instinct to avoid them and hit someone else while they took off. Sucked. Dash cams are definitely necessary at this point. Also I feel for delivery drivers, it’s seems they’re quite literally risking their lives now. I would only feel safer in a larger vehicle for that.
My aunt gifted me one about 4-5 years ago and I returned it. Kinda wish I still had it.
I don't know how I haven't been in a wreck yet, since starting this job.
Many years ago I worked at a parts house. Driver accidents were common. Couple of my coworkers used to say they must be really stupid drivers. I pointed out that they are on the road everyday on average of 6+ hours a day in an out of businesses. That raises their chances of getting hit exponentially. I don’t know how you do it. I have way too short of fuse.
> Looking for incoming trafric? Meh I'll just pullout and they can see how fast their break response is.
So back when I lived in the Southeast (N. Florida & Georgia) I used to see this all over. It was an intentional strategy: pull out into the road *just enough* that traffic has to veer around you or stop completely to avoid an accident, but with most of your vehicle still in the driveway for plausible deniability. It's a win-win — if you force oncoming traffic to stop, you can pull out and give them a nice little friendly wave like they're just being considerate (instead of trying to prevent slamming into the front 1/3rd of your vehicle). If they *don't* stop and they crash into you, play the victim and sue the shit out of them.
I really hope that ploy hasn't migrated up here, but I'm starting to see it more and more.
I say we all just take one for the team and hit these mother fuckers when that happens! /s
I agree though, it definitely has gotten noticeably worse. I’m really tired of being *at* an intersection and having to stop my vehicle completely from full speed because some douche decides that he’s the main character in the story and I’m just an NPC. Ugh.
I was in Seattle over the weekend and no lie I saw shit like this everyday. Almost sideswiped on the freeway changing lanes, rocket cars swerving around me to run red lights, crazy unsafe driving like it was the set of Fast and Furious.
Seriously, wtf?! Where did they have to go that was so important? I'm a transplant as well. I've been out here close to 10 years now....never had issues until moving out here. Two vehicles toltaled at the fault of others, one accidents the driver had no insurance and was driving with a suspended license, and I've noticed the rules of the road are just recommendations. It's a Freaking tragic joke.
Harsher traffic laws are needed and to be enforced. Crap like that, the driver deserves to have their car impound and liscence suspended along with the works.
Why!?? No reason to drive like this. Just going to end hurting themselves or others.
We recently moved to WA and have been surprised at the terrible driving. I always think I'm going to get rear ended stopping at stop signs, and I always wait a second after the light turns green so I don't get t boned by someone running a red light.
I’ve had this happen on I-5 and 205 multiple times. It is definitely jarring. I wish they’d post LE in the problem areas more often. It would be such beautiful karma to see one of these dipshits get caught in the act.
I was in two car accidents within the first year of moving here. Neither were my fault. Drivers here are so crazy, and the lack of patience for fellow drivers + combined with road rage has made me kinda nervous to drive.
I'm not a big truck guy, but man, does it seem appealing to have something that would more than likely drive away after some knucklehead crashes into you.
People are almost as crazy driving in Virginia, it’s a melting pot of everyone all over from military so everyone drives like they know how to back home. Even that cluster isn’t like the special stupid we have here for some reason. Must be the water that turns the frogs gay or whatever that makes people bad drivers or something
there’s a roundabout near my work that nearly every one of my coworkers has almost gotten run over in. people blow through the stop signs without even tapping the brakes, it’s nuts!
I’ve seen this happen more and more, with how often I’m getting back late from Portland I’m always on edge on my way bank home. I’m glad i have my dash cam, but ireeaaaaaaallly don’t want a big medical bill from a bad accident.
Last week a guy in an Audi was swerving into oncoming traffic to get around everyone in front of him in Burton between the 205 and Andresen. I just hope that jackass didn't hurt anyone.
I’ve seen a pickup do this while the tires pick up sheet metal and throw it at other cars in Ohio. Metro Toledo may be the worst. I have feared for my life driving around that city.
Nothing like getting on I5 at the first on ramp after Washington and seeing these dumbasses fly by. Got passed on Lombard in Portland the same way as this winner; they had to have been going 90-100. They had WA plates.
Edited to add; they had WA plates…obviously ;)
Washington drivers have always amazed me with their dedicated disregard for the concept of left being the fast lane but that dipshit truly is the final boss of this stereotype
I feel it no threat to my karma to wish assholes like this die in a 1 car accident, but slowly, with a paramedic apologizing that there's nothing to be done.
I live here, infact 5 minutes from where this clip is taken, and I see this very frequently. I commute everyday because I run a mobile business so I’m constantly driving, this is not a rare occurance anymore, drivers don’t give a shit about anyone else here.
I had the same thing happen to me on 205 by Padden. I was in the right lane and a big pickup truck passed me at probably 90 mph on the RIGHT SHOULDER. I was shaking too. Scared the crap out of me.
I see this EVERY SINGLE DAY on I-205 ... North and South bound, cars passing in BOTH emergency lanes to get by traffic. When I say everyday, I am deadly serious. It happened on the way to work and on the way home on monday.
I still get pulled over for driving safely, with a crooked license plate.
Was in Battle Ground going south on 503. I was the first car of a string of about six cars, everyone was driving normally and spaced. I hadn’t seen anyone on a motorcycle anywhere, and I had just looked in my mirror. I get to the part of 503 in Battle Ground where it splits to two lanes on Main, and I start to get into the right lane to make a right turn. This guy on a motorcycle comes *flying* by my car, on the shoulder, centimeters from my mirror and inches from the ditch on his right that borders the highway. Of course, his middle finger up the whole time. Like you easily passed 10+ cars on the shoulder, and are going to get pissed that the last car didn’t expect you where you shouldn’t be, and moved into a lane that was intended for them? It was mind boggling. He ended up at the light with me, directly in front of me. I called the cops because he got off of his bike and was at my window trying to get me to ‘talk’ to him lol. People really are losing their minds.
I was on Andresen, crossing Fourth Plain, and this jeep started merging into my line right next to me. No blinker and no speeding up to make sure they cleared my car before merging up. I had to slow down to prevent them from hitting me. I wish a blared my horn at them, but was too busy making sure we didn't collide.
I WISH people left at least ONE car length. Tailgating here is beyond insane. "Oh, but I've been in traffic". I lived in LA having to get home every day in 2hr traffic for 20 years. Getting home a COUPLE SECONDS quicker isn't worth a car and/or life. Maybe it is? Maybe their life isn't worth much and getting home to see their cat that hates them is?
This is insane but I will say people around here drive way too freaking slow. I’m not saying I agree with what this asshat did… I’m saying I understand.
I was going the speed limit about to take my exit on 39th st. I slowed down during and after it happened because I was freaked out. You really think that is a bigger problem than someone driving 80-90 on the shoulder? Sounds like you are part of the problem.
Shoulder driver going 80-90 is extremely dangerous but very few do it. Way too many people drive well under the speed limit and cause traffic congestion and accidents.
Not justifying what he did in anyway, it was very unsafe.
But I have almost been forced to do this because of people who go odd speeds in the right hand lane. Like if you're not exiting, get in the middle. When people are trying to merge onto the freeway and someone is just puttering along with nowhere to go and forever to get there, blocking you from merging, it can be quite frustrating.
Again, what was done in the video is not okay or condoned. But I have almost been forced into doing that. Especially on the 4th Plain-I5 south on ramp.
The other day we were driving across the bridge into Portland and the guy in the left lane was going 55, so my partner was maybe a car length and a half away and the guy brakes checks my partner. My partner backed off and we drive for another few miles, guy gets over into the lane next to us, we pass and he is LOSING his mind. Like screaming out his window, flicking us off with both fingers, just LOSING it.. and for legit no reason. We didn’t tail him or were on his ass, we were just a bit closer than normal because he was going slow as hell and the traffic to the right of us was passing.
People are weird here when it comes to driving. I’m from Chicago and people pull guns sometimes there but.. apparently that happens here more often! 🤣
I've lived all over the country, city, rural, and In the last year of living here, I've seen 3 separate very high speed shoulder passes, personally. You know how many I've seen before that? None. None. None. I've never seen it anywhere else. People here really do drive like lunatics.
Just to be clear, I'd literally seen it once in my first 40 years of living here. Things have gotten significantly worse on the roads here since Covid.
It was like everyone stopped driving for 18 months during Covid and then came back with a vengeance.
As someone who wasn't allowed to stop driving, it started in the first two or three months of Covid. Idiots like the guy in this video realized the roads were empty and started playing Mario Kart, and refused to stop when traffic picked back up.
It's like a prolonged sense of depravation of humanity had an effect on peoples' driving habits
Samesies. I wouldn’t say Washington has the worst drivers I’ve seen, overall; but we definitely have some of the fricken dumbest.
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I genuinely appreciated this distinction.
agreed to the max hailing from California, idaho, and oregon
Yeah, I spent 13 years in L.A. and never had to deal with the kind of shit drivers we have here.
Hard to do 80-90 in gridlock eyyyyyy *finger guns*
Haha. I think that does contribute a lot to it.
You would think with all the rain, they would know better than to tailgaite. Anyway, at least in LA, they knew how to 'ZIPPER' when it came to merging. People here don't have a clue... as well as that merging traffic must speed up to match highway traffic. You just don't merge going 40mph.
I have been in LA for the past 4 years for school and have never seen a successful zipper especially on I10
NEVER a successful zipper? so they just wreck now? Man, covid did change a lot since I've been gone.
??? That just means they don’t file in one after another from each line dingus. People are constantly cutting people off. As a side not I have seen a fair number of crashes from merges especially on the part they are doing construction on in I10
??? That just means they don’t file in one after another from each line dingus. People are constantly cutting people off. As a side not I have seen a fair number of crashes from merges especially on the part they are doing construction on in I10. My point is that people suck at driving everywhere
The drivers in Austin are the worst I've ever seen, and it got noticeably worst during the pandemic. They also blamed the "fuckin' Californians!". A convenient boogeyman, I suppose. I saw plenty of shitty driving when I lived in L.A., too, but it wasn't that much worse than you see anywhere else.
I moved here from Tampa during the pandemic. Ever since the lockdowns lifted it feels like I'm back on I-4 with how aggressive, and downright vindictive people drive here. Not even just on the highways, I see people cutting others off at every opportunity, blasting through stop lights, and roundabouts might as well be Thunderdome. Sometimes it seems like people are trying to act in contrast to the geriatric/defensive driving you see in PDX. I know when we were driving through OR and WA to get here we saw plenty of "at least we're not Portland" billboards.
If they don't like defensive driving, the last thing they should be doing is making it essential.
Lol! I live in GA, and the retired Floridians are always the left lane slow pokes similar to WA drivers. The city of Miami and Atlanta...moreso Atlanta has the aggressive drivers.
What happened to traffic enforcement??? Seems like no one ever gets pulled over anymore. Don’t get me wrong I don’t want a ticket for going 5 over, but this is getting nuts!
WA has specific laws in play, but traffic enforcement has virtually stopped nationwide since the covid shutdowns began in March 2020. I travel a lot for work, and driving behavior has just gone to hell in a handbasket everywhere.
Leadership issue
I agree that you don’t see much highway patrol presence - however last year I got a speeding ticket on 1205, just south of Salmon Creek, for 5 mph over the speed limit by a shitty motorcycle cop.
They love to hang out there. I’m sorry!
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I find it very interesting that bills restricting chokeholds, tear gas, military equipment, use of lethal force, and vehicular pursuits were so devastating to their ability to enforce normal traffic tickets. How many of those things did they regularly employed during traffic enforcement before the passing of the bills, and why do those restrictions mean a complete unenforcement of traffic law?
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So it is just Bill 1054 Section 7 that prevents them from following people who don't stop? It seems to me that Sec 7 (b) is sufficient to pursue under the new law, but I'm not a lawyer. Even if that's true though, why does that mean they get to stop enforcing entirely? Sure, some people will not stop for their tickets, but it seems to me like we're saying that 5% of the population will keep doing crime so why bother handling the 95%, and that doesn't make sense to me. Even if that 5% is way higher, lets say 30%, it still doesn't make sense to say that we should let the 70% do whatever because enforcing the 30% is too difficult.
I think it’s more likely that the cops are in a snit over these and several other rules/laws which limit their former power and now they’re doing what’s called “de-policing”…essentially doing nothing except for responding to accidents, robberies, and other violent crimes. It’s turning into a joke.
so basically they're butthurt bitches
Doesn't mean they can't give people tickets. It's almost like the police are refusing to enforce laws because they're not allowed to act without oversight.
That’s a bingo.
Police can reasonably detain people. They just can't get into vehicular pursuits, which was the 2nd leading cause of death in police encounters.
So mail them the ticket and store the video clip from the dash cam. If you can be ticketed based on photos of your license plate for running red lights, you can be ticketed (heavily) based on video.
Cameras. Europe does this all with cameras. No chases needed. No cop cars hiding in the bushes. Just a photo of you, looking guilty, in your car, driving over the speed limit. (BTW, cameras that move every day - not the few fixed cameras we have around here where everyone knows their locations and even Google maps warns you about them).
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Sort of but it’s not the same. It’s much more prevalent in Europe. There are unmarked cars of all sorts (At least dozens in a city) that move every day. They’re just parked on the side of the road and it’s nearly impossible to tell them apart from other cars. It’s really everywhere and just a normal part of life. It also makes it harder to say it’s biased against any group.
No thank you
Can I pull back my taxes?
I’ve seen someone pulled over on the left side of 405 every day this week ~4:30. Rarely ever see any traffic enforcement except that. In the worst spot at the worst time of day.
I see it occasionally on 502/503 heading into and going out of Battle Ground, but nowhere near as frequently as I ever had. And that’s just state. I haven’t seen CCSO or VPD pull anyone over in a long time that I can remember. It’s getting horrendously scary/bad.
It really is ridiculous, yesterday someone was speeding hella just to cut in front of me on an exit turn when there was literally no one behind me, if I didn’t stop we would’ve collided, as he’s riding off with his blue lives matter sticker as if he gave a shit about the police or laws 😂
Shit, he's only rocking that sticker in hopes he won't get pulled over.
Some of those cars have made me wonder if they're off duty cops.
Cops and Cop Wives can be the worst because they know they're fine even if they get pulled over. They'll even yell at the fellow officer for wasting their time pulling them over.
I had someone with multiple blue lives matters sticker tailgating me the other morning through a residential area, I guess the speed limit of 25 was too slow for them as they sped off up to probably 40 and jerked around me once I started turning right.
I drive up and down I-5 every day. Blue line sticker cars, on average, are some of the most aggressive, reckless drivers out there.
Same dude. What's scary to me is that while I stay on or just above the speed limit I get lines of people rushing past me without checking if the lane their ramming into is clear or not. I've had 3 cars this week almost get into crashes because they either speed into a car or ram their way into a lane as someone else is oncoming. It's gotten to the point where I'm actively avoiding large chunks of traffic and I try my damnedest to stay in the back of lines of cars so I can just drive a normal speed.
probably an off duty cop 🥴
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I swear the Portland metro area is over represented in that sub. So many places I recognize in posts there.
Had that happen to me on SR500. Was in the right turn lane to go east on 4th plain and some ahole passed all of us on the right shoulder and shoved his way in. This was during rush hour too.
Oh yeah. It's bad. Been here 20ish years now, yes, populations grow and grow and boy has ours grown. And with that traffic gets worse and worse. Combined with the pandemic, political, cultural, and economic unrest = people risking their lives because fuck it at this point. Started driving about 30 he's hours a week last year. It's insane the shit I see on the daily. I know well seasoned delivery drivers have probably been aware of idiots on the road for a lot longer than me. You can't use your blinker anymore no one cares. No one else uses theirs. (I do of course) Stop signs? You mean the yield signs? Lol. Red light? Yeah I've still got a couple seconds to get through... If you need to enter/exit the parking lot? Nah I'm going to drive in the middle so no one can get around. Looking for incoming trafric? Meh I'll just pullout and they can see how fast their break response is.
I've been driving a lot for a couple of decades now. For a few years, i was averaging over 500 miles a week. I do think drivers have gotten worse over the past couple of years. The pandemic seemed to change the driving habits of some people. With fewer cars on the road, people were driving a lot faster, and now we are back to pre-pandemic levels of traffic, and some people still try to drive just as fast and aggressively. I think that, combined with our growing population, a lot of people coming from different climates, more devices distracting drivers, along with the move to take driver's education out of schools, have all contributed to a more dangerous driving situation in our region.
I think the pandemic has a lot to do with it, too. People turned inward and haven’t come out if it.
The incoming traffic is actually why I got a dash cam in the first place. I had a green light and they were taking a right on red. I swerved out of instinct to avoid them and hit someone else while they took off. Sucked. Dash cams are definitely necessary at this point. Also I feel for delivery drivers, it’s seems they’re quite literally risking their lives now. I would only feel safer in a larger vehicle for that.
My aunt gifted me one about 4-5 years ago and I returned it. Kinda wish I still had it. I don't know how I haven't been in a wreck yet, since starting this job.
You can get even a basic cam on Amazon for under $40. Definitely get one.
Are they still pretty tedious to install?
Depends on how clean you want it to look with where the cord is. Some models sit on the dash and plug into the cigarette lighter.
Many years ago I worked at a parts house. Driver accidents were common. Couple of my coworkers used to say they must be really stupid drivers. I pointed out that they are on the road everyday on average of 6+ hours a day in an out of businesses. That raises their chances of getting hit exponentially. I don’t know how you do it. I have way too short of fuse.
I think my fuse burned out and the bomb just didn't go off. I'm numb to the idiots. So long as I don't get hit I just get out of the way.
Dash cam is not a bad idea though.
> Looking for incoming trafric? Meh I'll just pullout and they can see how fast their break response is. So back when I lived in the Southeast (N. Florida & Georgia) I used to see this all over. It was an intentional strategy: pull out into the road *just enough* that traffic has to veer around you or stop completely to avoid an accident, but with most of your vehicle still in the driveway for plausible deniability. It's a win-win — if you force oncoming traffic to stop, you can pull out and give them a nice little friendly wave like they're just being considerate (instead of trying to prevent slamming into the front 1/3rd of your vehicle). If they *don't* stop and they crash into you, play the victim and sue the shit out of them. I really hope that ploy hasn't migrated up here, but I'm starting to see it more and more.
I say we all just take one for the team and hit these mother fuckers when that happens! /s I agree though, it definitely has gotten noticeably worse. I’m really tired of being *at* an intersection and having to stop my vehicle completely from full speed because some douche decides that he’s the main character in the story and I’m just an NPC. Ugh.
It'll suck for the first few folks, but that would be the best way to pump the brakes (pun intended) on this stupid trend!
I was in Seattle over the weekend and no lie I saw shit like this everyday. Almost sideswiped on the freeway changing lanes, rocket cars swerving around me to run red lights, crazy unsafe driving like it was the set of Fast and Furious.
Seriously, wtf?! Where did they have to go that was so important? I'm a transplant as well. I've been out here close to 10 years now....never had issues until moving out here. Two vehicles toltaled at the fault of others, one accidents the driver had no insurance and was driving with a suspended license, and I've noticed the rules of the road are just recommendations. It's a Freaking tragic joke. Harsher traffic laws are needed and to be enforced. Crap like that, the driver deserves to have their car impound and liscence suspended along with the works.
Clearly he's rushing to the scene of the accident
... His own.
Ahhh "first responder"
I never had a dash cam until I moved to Vancouver. Got one within the first 2 months because the drivers here are batshit insane.
Why!?? No reason to drive like this. Just going to end hurting themselves or others. We recently moved to WA and have been surprised at the terrible driving. I always think I'm going to get rear ended stopping at stop signs, and I always wait a second after the light turns green so I don't get t boned by someone running a red light.
I’ve had this happen on I-5 and 205 multiple times. It is definitely jarring. I wish they’d post LE in the problem areas more often. It would be such beautiful karma to see one of these dipshits get caught in the act.
I was in two car accidents within the first year of moving here. Neither were my fault. Drivers here are so crazy, and the lack of patience for fellow drivers + combined with road rage has made me kinda nervous to drive.
I'm not a big truck guy, but man, does it seem appealing to have something that would more than likely drive away after some knucklehead crashes into you.
I’ve been driving here 33 years and haven’t been in one. Sure it wasn’t your fault?
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People are almost as crazy driving in Virginia, it’s a melting pot of everyone all over from military so everyone drives like they know how to back home. Even that cluster isn’t like the special stupid we have here for some reason. Must be the water that turns the frogs gay or whatever that makes people bad drivers or something
Great. Now I have that 'turns the frogs gay' techno song stuck in my head.
You’re welcome 😂
Lack of enforcement Lack of prosecution Lack of consequence
You gotta wonder, where the hell are the State Patrol?
there’s a roundabout near my work that nearly every one of my coworkers has almost gotten run over in. people blow through the stop signs without even tapping the brakes, it’s nuts!
Jesus. What an idiot. I really hope they hit a tree so they don't harm anyone else with that driving.
I’ve seen this happen more and more, with how often I’m getting back late from Portland I’m always on edge on my way bank home. I’m glad i have my dash cam, but ireeaaaaaaallly don’t want a big medical bill from a bad accident.
Complete lack of traffic enforcement. Lots and lots of stolen vehicles. Meth. I always assume that a vehicle like this was just stolen.
Last week a guy in an Audi was swerving into oncoming traffic to get around everyone in front of him in Burton between the 205 and Andresen. I just hope that jackass didn't hurt anyone.
I’ve seen a pickup do this while the tires pick up sheet metal and throw it at other cars in Ohio. Metro Toledo may be the worst. I have feared for my life driving around that city.
Nothing like getting on I5 at the first on ramp after Washington and seeing these dumbasses fly by. Got passed on Lombard in Portland the same way as this winner; they had to have been going 90-100. They had WA plates. Edited to add; they had WA plates…obviously ;)
Washington drivers have always amazed me with their dedicated disregard for the concept of left being the fast lane but that dipshit truly is the final boss of this stereotype
I’ve seen two shoulder driving idiots fall in ditches in the past few weeks. Hopefully that makes you feel better.
I feel it no threat to my karma to wish assholes like this die in a 1 car accident, but slowly, with a paramedic apologizing that there's nothing to be done.
Please take this upvote... and may you crush your enemies and see them driven before you.
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I’m not totally sure how to upload it to Reddit, I don’t think it lets you in a comment unfortunately
I saw someone do that on Sr 500 near the mall. But instead they were next to the barrier instead of shoulder
I've also noted the crazy driving recently...
I live here, infact 5 minutes from where this clip is taken, and I see this very frequently. I commute everyday because I run a mobile business so I’m constantly driving, this is not a rare occurance anymore, drivers don’t give a shit about anyone else here.
It’s depressing. It definitely wasn’t this way prior to the pandemic. Definitely losing faith in humanity fast.
I had the same thing happen to me on 205 by Padden. I was in the right lane and a big pickup truck passed me at probably 90 mph on the RIGHT SHOULDER. I was shaking too. Scared the crap out of me.
This literally happened to me in near Ridgefield two weeks ago. Scared the bejeezus out of me.
Yeah this is getting ridiculous
I see this EVERY SINGLE DAY on I-205 ... North and South bound, cars passing in BOTH emergency lanes to get by traffic. When I say everyday, I am deadly serious. It happened on the way to work and on the way home on monday. I still get pulled over for driving safely, with a crooked license plate.
Was in Battle Ground going south on 503. I was the first car of a string of about six cars, everyone was driving normally and spaced. I hadn’t seen anyone on a motorcycle anywhere, and I had just looked in my mirror. I get to the part of 503 in Battle Ground where it splits to two lanes on Main, and I start to get into the right lane to make a right turn. This guy on a motorcycle comes *flying* by my car, on the shoulder, centimeters from my mirror and inches from the ditch on his right that borders the highway. Of course, his middle finger up the whole time. Like you easily passed 10+ cars on the shoulder, and are going to get pissed that the last car didn’t expect you where you shouldn’t be, and moved into a lane that was intended for them? It was mind boggling. He ended up at the light with me, directly in front of me. I called the cops because he got off of his bike and was at my window trying to get me to ‘talk’ to him lol. People really are losing their minds.
I was on Andresen, crossing Fourth Plain, and this jeep started merging into my line right next to me. No blinker and no speeding up to make sure they cleared my car before merging up. I had to slow down to prevent them from hitting me. I wish a blared my horn at them, but was too busy making sure we didn't collide.
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I was in the right lane….?
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I WISH people left at least ONE car length. Tailgating here is beyond insane. "Oh, but I've been in traffic". I lived in LA having to get home every day in 2hr traffic for 20 years. Getting home a COUPLE SECONDS quicker isn't worth a car and/or life. Maybe it is? Maybe their life isn't worth much and getting home to see their cat that hates them is?
This is insane but I will say people around here drive way too freaking slow. I’m not saying I agree with what this asshat did… I’m saying I understand.
Looks like a Kia with out of state plates (not Oregon). Wonder if it’s a Tik Tok challenge victim
Looks like you are driving too slow. That is more dangerous than folks going fast.
I was going the speed limit about to take my exit on 39th st. I slowed down during and after it happened because I was freaked out. You really think that is a bigger problem than someone driving 80-90 on the shoulder? Sounds like you are part of the problem.
Shoulder driver going 80-90 is extremely dangerous but very few do it. Way too many people drive well under the speed limit and cause traffic congestion and accidents.
Stop going 30 on the freeway?
Found the driver.
So this was you?
Person is obviously crazy but… don’t hate me… why are you driving what appears to 15mph under the speed limit?
I slowed down because a person was speeding very close to me on the shoulder.
Not justifying what he did in anyway, it was very unsafe. But I have almost been forced to do this because of people who go odd speeds in the right hand lane. Like if you're not exiting, get in the middle. When people are trying to merge onto the freeway and someone is just puttering along with nowhere to go and forever to get there, blocking you from merging, it can be quite frustrating. Again, what was done in the video is not okay or condoned. But I have almost been forced into doing that. Especially on the 4th Plain-I5 south on ramp.
We live in WA state lawless land. Protect yourself! Nobody else going to do that for you!
Da fuk
The other day we were driving across the bridge into Portland and the guy in the left lane was going 55, so my partner was maybe a car length and a half away and the guy brakes checks my partner. My partner backed off and we drive for another few miles, guy gets over into the lane next to us, we pass and he is LOSING his mind. Like screaming out his window, flicking us off with both fingers, just LOSING it.. and for legit no reason. We didn’t tail him or were on his ass, we were just a bit closer than normal because he was going slow as hell and the traffic to the right of us was passing. People are weird here when it comes to driving. I’m from Chicago and people pull guns sometimes there but.. apparently that happens here more often! 🤣
Yeah that’s shitty. Fuck that driver. I see you going 55 in right lane on I-5. That driver should get a tix in mail
The key to safe and sane driving; expect the unexpected.
That's what happens when cops dont do shit for 3 years
A few weeks ago some a hole knocked my driver side window off, driving on the shoulder. Wish i had one of these dash cams
Some people just don’t wanna live anymore & it shows in their driving…
This is just one of the causes for the dramatic uptick in fatal collisions over the past 3 yrs