Didn't want to inconvenience anyone

Reminds me of trying to turn left in San Francisco. Eventually you're going to end up in Oakland.

Actually a good driver!

Saying I heard once: "Good drivers sometimes miss their exists. Bad drivers never miss their exists." Stuck with me for a very long time.
- That's... existential.
- I came here to say this exact thing.
  I can't tell you how many times I've missed my exit. It's just not worth getting bothered about.
  I might be another 5-10 minutes, but I'll get there alive, and nobody else will be at risk by my error. I consider that an absolute win.
- Yeah, but that saying is absolutely brain dead, because if you take it literally it states anyone that has ever missed their exit is a good driver, which clearly isn't true
Stay safe! I’ll take wrong exit over unsafe maneuver every time.
Kinda depends. My Uber riders don't usually appreciate it. Thankfully, it's only been once or twice. "I'll just loop around on the next exit."
- Well, I'd expect a professional driver to anticipate and switch lanes early enough instead of hugging the left lane for no reason...

A friend of mine got a phone call at daft o'clock one evening from his son who hadn't turned up home.

"Dad, can you pick me up from the city centre please?"

Bear in mind that he lived in a smaller town 40 miles or so from the city; on a bus route that spanned two cities about 90 miles apart.

Turns out that he had been taught how to board a bus; ask for a ticket; pay; and take a seat... but never learned how to leave a bus.

His dad was understandably pissed off, having been kicked out of bed at midnight to do a near two-hour round trip drive to pick his lad up. He asking him why he hadn't pushed the bell to signal the driver to stop.

"I thought they were just emergency stop buttons, and because I told the driver where I was going when I got the ticket, I thought he would stop for me... and when he didn't, I just sat and waited until the end of the line".

Poor soul.

I thought buses just stop at a station, you have to signal to the driver to stop? I've never ridden a bus before, so at least that's my main reason, but if I got on and didn't see a button or anything, I'd probably make that mistake 💀
- It differs regionally.
- There are some stops where the bus always stops, and others where you have to signal the driver to stop (known as request stops). You will typically find the first kind in high density areas like cities, and the other in suburbs or in the countryside (there are even "stop areas" in some very rural places, where the driver officially must stop anywhere along it when asked).
  The same applies to trains too, although request stops are not as common as they are for buses (and I don't know of any stop areas for trains)
- They by default stop at stops only if there is someone waiting there, otherwise you need to call the stop by pressing the button.
- I've seen the stop request signals in a lot of city buses where there's a stop every block or so. The bus will stop at bus stops where people are waiting, driving past empty bus stops, and if someone on the bus requests to stop it will stop at the next stop to let them off
- Most stops they will only stop if someone is waiting or if someone on the buss hits the button
- It's mostly now buttons next to the windows/on a pole connected to the seats. Rarely and mostly on older busses, there may be a cable running along the upper edge of the windows. When you trigger either one, it signals the driver to stop at the next bus stop on the route (rather than only stopping if picking someone up) to allow you to get out.
- that's so wild. is it too personal to ask what country you're in?
That's something I pretty frequently hear from parents with autistic childs
You should tell your friend to watch out for other potential signs and maybe get his son checked out by a health professional
As someone who has grown up with social anxiety, this easily could've been something that happened to me...
How many of us haven't actually done that but feel like we should have?
I can’t say I’ve never done almost exactly that

Still better this than to be the person who weaves across three lanes of traffic to go after their exit, or who sees the exit lane diverging and chooses... Neither, then they just stop there.

"A bad driver never misses their exit"

I had to rake a detour in an area that looked like a maelstrom hangout in cyberpunk 2077 because my gps didn't tell me which lanes i needed to be in when i crossed a junction.

Glad you're okay, Choom.
GPS should be able to do a better job with this by now. I can use a satellite to look at a location before I get there. Doesn’t make sense that gps can’t tell the difference between a left and right lane.

I hate when the info saying what lane goes where is showed last moment, always makes me stressed

When you have all the time I the world to switch but suddenly the wanna be Nascar drivers show up in the last mile before the off ramp and box you in.

Practically everyone trying to make a right hand turn at the intersection where my apartment is. You have exactly 1.5 miles to get into the right lane, but 90% of drivers wait until they get right to the turn, with 5% getting in the lane well ahead of time and the last 5% turning from the straight lane around the little pedestrian island thing instead of actually using the right hand turn lane.
- for anyone else wondering, ℅ is a "care of" sign and is apparently used in writing addresses on envelopes.
That's the plot of Cars

This reminds me of one time earlier this year I went to get some food which required me to get on the highway and then a main highway. The main highway is a 2 min drive to the next exit, and it's directly off the exit. So the entire trip is about 10 min. I got food, got back on the highway, and started thinking about stuff and not realizing I passed the exit to go back home. I then forgot exactly how bad that was because the next exit was 20 min away with no turn and full divider. So that dumb mistake cost me 40 minutes of time, and im basically screaming at myself the entire time for being a dumbass.

I know Luis CK has gotten a bit problematic for other reasons, but I always liked his take on this in particular.

Apologies as I couldn't find an original video, just this weird channel animating the original audio. But every time my wife and I are in a car and see someone cross multiple lanes to get to an exit they almost missed we look at each other and say "but that's their FAVORITE way!"

Honestly, I think what he got lambasted for was almost innocent compared to all the other #metoo stuff.
I'm pretty sure what he did was, at the time, under the guise of a consensual sex act that the other party agreed to. Now of course there is a power imbalance and he admitted as much (His statement is here) but I found it pretty mild compared to all the wild shit happening and that happened.
I'll admit it's gross and he did abuse his power over those women but he owned up to it and was honest. Huge difference between jerking off with someone watching/participating and actually raping someone though and that distinction is important.
- Yeah Louis's situation seems pretty unique. Not on the same level as someone like Epstein or Weinstein. He didn't do anything with his own employees or underaged fans. Sarah Silverman has been a big supporter of him and confirmed that he was always like that going back to when there was not a power disparity in their early club days together. His apology statement is one of the best I've ever seen.
  But... There's still some red flags, including some in just discovering as I am refreshing myself on the details now. If the 5 accusers, it looks like the first 2 were from an incident in 2002 at a festival where they escalated to to event organizers... And nothing happened. Then Rebecca Corry in 2005 on a TV show set who declined and reported the incident... And nothing happened. I can't find when the other incidents happened, but like... Surely after these first 2 cases someone would have communicated to Louis how this was bad, right?
  And Dave Becky, Louis's manager at the time, sent letters to the victims threatening them to try to silence them. He later apologized and dropped Louis as a client, and Louis later publicly supported Becky and apologized to him as well. I'm not sure what to make of the whole mess, but if Becky was threatening victims that kinda feels like it should be worth some jail time, and if Louis ordered him to do so... Yikes.
  Also I don't think there's an objective answer as to whether he should have retired, or how long he should have stayed out of the spotlight before returning. If I were him I probably would have just retired, but at the very least I would have spent a few years out of the spotlight. The initial article with the accusations came out in November 2017, and his next public appearance was August 2018, not even a whole year. And there was no easing in with less controversial material - he jumped into School shootings. He has since released a special called "Sorry" where he didn't apologize but instead kept getting more controversial and used the F slur.
  He's also very good friends with Dave Chappelle, a certified piece of shit, and Jerry Seinfeld, famous for dating 17 year-old high school girls. And I get it- he got his break early on by opening for Seinfeld, but ya know maybe just tone down how public that friendship is given the circumstances?
  I don't feel the need to break out the torches and pitchforks for Louis, or pretend like none of his earlier works ever existed, but i'm also not in some huge hurry to defend him and restore his career either.
- I'mma be honest, when I read @paultimate14@lemmy.world's comment, I forgot all about the sex thing. It was because he's part of that group of boomer/Xer comedians who hate the idea that comedians should maybe not punch down. Who might be generally liberal in their politics (or at least have started out that way), but who manage to become beloved by the right because of making fun of trans people, and who double down when called out.

It’s okay to take detours.

https://youtu.be/11GYvfYjyV0

I love memes that celebrate and encourage gross incompetence. If you cannot drive, please, do not drive. This is a public service announcement.

I see this all the time on the road and I just don't get it. People would rather tailgate me for miles than change lanes and go around. Someone please explain why people are like this.

Meanwhile I'm changing lanes the the very moment I see a car going slower in front of me. One thing I absolutely hate is having to turn off the cruise control once it's on, and I use it everywhere, even on city streets (I drive a sports car so it's easy to accidentally speed if I don't).

Edit: I don't understand these downvotes. What's wrong with using the passing lane to pass? Why am I the asshole because someone is afraid to change lanes? I already drive 15 MPH over the speed limit, and always stick to the right when I'm not passing (even though no one else in my city does this). So if you're tailgating when I'm already doing my best to be more courteous than the average person in the road, that makes me the dick?

Someone please explain why this comment is triggering so many people. I really don't get it.

Where I live, it's illegal to pass on the right, and anywhere else it is more dangerous because it's unexpected.
Keep off the passing lane unless you are passing another vehicle.
- I never cruise in the passing lane, ever. It's a major pet peeve of mine. If I'm not passing anyone, I'm as far right as possible.
  Unfortunately literally nobody else does this in my town. They drive side-by-side and then get upset when I try to go around. Going the speed limit does not give you the right to block traffic, assholes. Drives me insane.
you have no idea how much of a-hole you sound right here. do you drive a white bmw by any chance?? 😂😂
- Huh? How does changing lanes to pass someone make me an asshole? That's what passing lanes are for! Please explain. I don't understand these downvotes.
  And no I don't drive a BMW. I think they're ugly, especially in a boring color like white (except for the Z series, and even those still have the ugly BMW grille).
  No. I prefer Asian vehicles. I drive a 350Z Roadster Touring 6MT w/the DE engine in Daytona Blue.
Adaptive cruise control. As long as you're at or above speed limit, I'll happily let my car keep me behind you. I generally have no reason to pass unless you're under the speed limit.
Cruise control, slowmaxxing