That's not NPC behavior, that's just going for a chill cruise. As I grow older, the more time I spend in the right lane. Especially on my Super Cub lmao.
@@BladedAngel I do the same in whats considered a sports car just because theres days i just want to relax and get to where im going without risking losing my license
While I generally agree, I think a big problem with this statement is that cities in North America are so car dependent that people who shouldn't or don't want to drive have to anyway, because the alternative sucks. e.g. waiting for a bus that comes once every 2 hours, walking with no sidewalks in sight, riding a bicycle in the shoulder with 2 tonne metal boxes whizzing by at 30 mph. Because of this, if you just take away everyone's licenses, you'll just ruin the economy We need to make alternatives that are actually viable and safe, and then make driver's licenses require at least half a working brain cell to get
@@tbqhwyf Agreed. There should be exceptions for these points. It is case by case. However, generally within cities, there should be more public transit to get these people off the more densely populated road networks. Coming from central Florida, it's a massive issue here.
another NPC driving habit is going 30mph on the on-ramp while everyone on the highway is doing 60-80mph. like do you want to get killed? match the speed of the traffic!
Fr. Anyone who sees this though here's a tip: if you're stuck behind someone like this and trying to get in the highway, make a big distance between them by really slowing down, then once they're almost at the merge really step on it, by the time you get to them you'll be going the right speed and can quickly pass them by switching to a farther lane. If you had stayed close to them or tailgated them you would have been stuck at their speed while merging
@@apollochaozI'm glad I'm not the only one who uses following distance as a passing buffer. I do this a lot on 2ln roads. It also gives you a better viewing angle.
The worst is people who completely stop bc they “can’t” fit themselves on highway YES!!!they CAN!!!, they just have to match speed and find a place instead of stopping in a curve on f. black ice in Canada where roads are massive potholes
Don't forget those that smash the brake pedal when they suddenly see a cop to go 20 under the speed limit. It always happens, it's dangerous af and the cop saw you waaaaaay before you saw them.
Or the people that just hit the brakes in the middle of the road for no reason, several times, even though they’re not turning or stopping at a light/stop sign, and nobody’s in front of them 😭
i remember once seeing a somewhat modified car (think stereotypical honda civic or subaru at 2am) suddenly brake behind me while flashing high beams at me. Like the car equivalent of getting pinged by a missile and maneuvering while popping flares. I can only imagine he had a radar detector and was warning me of something that apparently didnt even exist (i was going the speed limit anyways)
When I see an accident I just do a quick glance to see how bad it is and I just keep my speed normal and continue driving I hate it when an accident happens and someone is rubbernecking just to stare at it.
I also glance at it, to obviously acknowledge whether or not I need to change lanes/give space. but I hate MF's who slow to a crawl just STARING at it!
@@BladedAngelit’s crazy how big the gap becomes between cars right after they pass a car accident. Instead of speeding up once they’ve passed the scene, they continue watching for a few seconds at 25mph until the scene goes out of view before they start accelerating. People don’t realize that traffic has started speeding up already yet they’re still holding back the people behind them. If they just quickly got back on the throttle as soon as they’ve safely passed the scene; it would alleviate so much unnecessary retardation of traffic flow. I love the moment I pass the scene and can just gun it back to up to speed and can watch all the traffic behind me not doing the same because they’re all still rubbernecking with absolutely no cars in front of them anymore.
yeah, just keep the speed constant and reasonably, like a bit slower than normal to take a peak so people dont need to brake , slow and steady is fast as we know
I'm convinced that me and my dad are the only drivers in Tennessee that don't rubberneck. Bruh, whatever happened here doesn't concern you. Just get into whatever lane is open and mind your own goddam business. Some of us have places to be!
A few honourable mentions: 1) Not knowing how to coast. For some reason, NPC's can't just let go of the gas and let the car coast. They HAVE to be touching/pressing a pedal. 2) Unnecessarily braking when changing lane. If I notice your turn signal, and leave a gap for you to merge, just move over, DON'T F**KING HIT THE BRAKES! 3) Not stopping/deactivating your turn signal after or between lanes changes. Some NPC's just leave their turn signal on after changing lanes, only to cause other drivers behind them to think they still want to keep changing lanes. Others will activate the turn signal, and leave it on to change 2 lanes instead of deactivating it between both operations. Going through 2 lanes is supposed to be 2 separate actions. 4) Sitting too far back and "wasting" lights at intersections. So many NPC's stay too far from the sensor at intersections not allowing for the turn light to activate, causing missed lights for them and the line-up of cars behind them. They'll happily sit there for 3-4 lights before realizing people are going around them. 5) Thinking that activating your turn signal is an automatic right to change lane without checking blind spots or mirrors. Self-explanatory.
All of these. Especially 3 and 2. I will literally give people 4 car lengths to merge and the MFs refuse to speed up. Instead, they keep slowing down, waiting for me to pass. As for the turn signals, I do not understand this at all. How did you forget you put your signal on 5sec later? HOW!? I see this all the time. They'll drive miles before turning it off. I just don't get it. The multi-lane change, yeah, signal on and off between lane changes. Don't just flick on the signal, then yeet over 4lns to an exit ramp. This isn't gone in 60sec.
Made a comment already but those who drive at night with no lights on or high beams on blinding everyone & are oblivious when you flash your lights at them🙄🤬
In all fairness with #2, merging behind someone is safer than merging in front of them. If you miscalculate or the person is an asshole and will speed up to prevent you from merging then you will get in a crash. Whenever someone is slowing down to merge its because they want to merge behind you, so why are you adamant on slowing down as well. Your contributing to the problem as much as they are.
As a Train nerd, that part is especially frustrating, because America was BUILT with railroads before cars existed because it was more efficient at going long distances, and how most cities and towns came to be, because it started with a settlement that eventually gained a rail connection so you didnt have to die of dissentary on the wagon ride across the states.
But then they invented planes. Ask any business person who travels. None of them take the train, or drive. They all fly. Trains are just slower planes to the mass market. There's no real point anymore... Unfortunately. This country is far too large for bullet trains. The cost to upkeep is just too great. This is why trains are largely used for bulk cargo transport. Because they remain a fantastic cargo carrier. I live right next to a track. There's a 1mi train on the track almost every hour. The people who actually park on those tracks are real NPCs.
@christopherlowery855 for interstate travel, robust high speed rail would be more cost effective and more fuel efficient than planes, the problem is since the invention of the highway system and then planes, America has let its railroads deteriorate and be relegated to long haul shipping. As far as land travel is concerned steel wheels on steel rails is the most efficient form of transport. The best system is having robust rail networks, roads, and planes. With high speed rail similar to the shinkansen or TGV, you could travel the same cross country distance with more comfort or possibly in conditions that limit planes travel such as high winds or storms. The US is NOT too big for robust HSR networks. The rail hurdle is upgrading the power grid enough to accommodate, which is also why EVs cant replace normal cars. Because their range isnt as good, theres not enough charging stations, and if we all switched tomorrow the grid would be severely overloaded. But we could absolutely build quality high speed rail. Planes are still good for traveling to other countries or crossing from one side of the country to the other. but having proper high speed rail would mean you could save money by taking a train if you were only going a state or two if they were running over 200 mph and be more comfortable than flying in a tuna can packed with other people.
@@MrSnowFoxy So whos going to pay for the land bought from eminent domain? Whos going to pay for the whole thing? I have a feeling you don't pay taxes, otherwise youd think differently. And guy above it right. Planes ended passenger rail. What youre saying is the equivalent of saying, bring back the big steam liners to go to Europe. Heck, sail ships were even more fuel efficient, ergo better, right? Ironically...but I see Bladed has locked in his target past few years.
I am here to pardon the behaviors of the other commentators. As someone who has taken a decent look into America's transportational past, we actually had many miles of tracks that served a good majority of all US cities and towns. However, due to ancient legislation and ignorant politicians, the railroads were not able to properly respond to all of the interstates and air travel being developed. That is why starting right after WW2 we began to see a major decline in the success of railroads. They were forced to keep unprofitable lines open, while also being treated like they still had a monopoly as if the times were the early 20th century. Because the government did not enable the railroads to innovate, they died off. (Kinda what is happening to cars now.)
@@RipRoaringGarage Bro a plane can carry at best 250 tons while a train can pull 20,000 tons. A train can carry at best 100x more than a plane while only going about 10x slower...
5:40 I'm from germany, where you literally have to go to driving school for weeks or even months (or a single week course, which some driving schools offer during school holidays) with a theoretical test at the end that you have to pass to proceed, then you have another set of many hours where you actually drive with an instructor and when this person declares you ready for the practical test, you can try that one. And still, if you pass the practical test, you're not considered a good driver. As the chief editor of german car magazine "auto motor und sport" Alexander Bloch put it: "Your license is not the confirmation that you're a good driver. Your license is the permission to BECOME a good driver." And I think this is very true.
the problem with being this strict in America is the lack of non car transportation infrastructure, unless your in a big city, but that comes with the problem of beings surrounded by hundreds of thousands of idiots
Dang, sounds annoying, but I'll give them credit because it is probably mostly implemented due to the autobahn highway, must be sensational driving there
@truckercarterO9 It's not as crazy as you think. Most of it is either limited speed or construction. Imo a more demanding edjucation for drivers is just necessary. No matter how small your car is, compared to a human it is still a super strong and heavy machine that has no problems killing a person. So yeah.. I think it's good the way it is here.
@@charlescourtwright2229that's not problem at all. There are places in Europe too where you need a car to get around as there's no public transport. If people need a car, they can damn well earn the privilege to drive one
people who pull over for emergency vehicles in the opposite lane of traffic when all lanes are clear and divided by a median. That is very NPC behavior.
I do that sometimes but only reason I do it as of lately is because my car has been through some shit, has a transmission issue now and doesn’t make any power anymore, so making those turns isn’t easy for me anymore. I don’t trust other drivers on the road so if you’re 100ft or less away, I’m stopping and waiting because I know my car just can’t do it.
I agree, but I think there are some instances where it's at least understandable. Sometimes the lane markings are faded and it's hard to tell whether you have your own lane or not. Sometimes there's a yield sign posted when you get your own lane and other times there isn't one when you do need to yield. Sometimes you get your own lane, but it ends after 100 feet or so, so you still have to wait for an opening to give yourself time to accelerate and avoid pissing off the tailgaters that refuse to let anyone merge. Bad design, construction, and not knowing the area can also exacerbate this. I've made that mistake myself a couple of times and was promptly honked/yelled at 😅
I've seen this before. The lane will even be protected by a concrete curb. The lane doesn't even merge. It turns into an exit only like 2mi up. Absolutely no reason to stop or yield. I think they're staring at the entrance ramp they can't get to, and are stuck contemplating their next move. I guess they just forget there's another entrance ramp.
sure, but in texas, the protected turning lane is NOT protected bc ppl won't let you merge so instead of stopping and yielding at a protected turn, you're taking a protected turn just to stop and yield where the lane merges bc mfs will cut you off like its your fault for taking the turn💀
My addition to the list : accelerating up to a stop light Personally, if i see a light that I’m obvious going to stop at, i try to slow down and coast it out so that I’m not going on the green from a dead stop. I also believe it helps mpg because if done right you get a nice lil 5-10mph rolling start. I CONSTANTLY see drivers accelerating all the way up to a stop light as if they are in some race to stop and wait. Then when i come by with my 10mph rolling start, i fly by them! I also ride an ebike a lot because i live so close to everything and it almost seems like people want to race to stop lights even more. It’s very odd
Tailgating constantly is what drives me nuts. Because it does exactly like the rubbernecking in accidents, makes a huge traffic compression. I had the misfortune of travelling on an Interstate near Denver and discovered that with 3 wide open lanes, no wrecks, no major exits (this was happening in the middle of nowhere, not even near the city), and no construction, traffic would regularly come to a complete standstill. On the Interstate. Because people tailgate, hit their brakes, and make everyone behind them do the same because they are following too close. And it just gets worse and worse until it becomes a standstill.
exactly is it that hard to follow at a safe distance? I'm tired of people cutting me off in dense traffic because I keep a safe distance to avoid these issues.
@@AdamKueflef oh yeah I forgot that happens. People think "oHh a gAp, MiNe?" People don't get that braking distances change when they change lanes in front of someone. Stay safe on these roads buddy! Hi from Australia
would said tailgating be justified if it was a left lane hogger? people also hate those drivers and so id say following distance is a double edged sword
Probably my most stereotypical car experience yet. At my job, witnessed a Cybertruck (yes, THE Cybertruck) drive in the middle of a white lane nearly sidewinding the other vehicle next to it. Needless to say, the honking from the other car was definitely deserved.
@@MaybeFactorIn the us, it's the right shoulder, also known as the breakdown lane. The traffic is divided by a solid white line. Solid white lines can be crossed in the US, but not driven on. Unlike a solid yellow line which shouldn't ever be crossed, unless it's a turning lane. It's confusing, I know. If I recall, Australia is RHD? If so, it would be the far left lane, reserved for vehicle breakdowns for you.
Each time I see one of those, I call it "the cyberphuk" It's my tribute to the late 90s, early 2000s. I also call it that because the people buying them got reamed. Lol.
I learned the hard way to NEVER look at a wreck. I was a passenger, so it’s not like I needed to pay attention to the road. It’s just that there was a lot of dust in the air. I guess it had just happened, so everyone was stopped trying to figure out the same thing I was. Just as you said, the wreck was completely off the road, not preventing anyone from driving. It was there that I finally realized… …someone had Christmas Vacationed a log hauler. The car no longer had a roof, and no, it wasn’t a convertible. The car also had red interior… …but it wasn’t factory. I couldn’t see a body, but I knew that was probably part of it.
I used to work as an EMT, so from several of my own experiences I try to avoid staring as well, but I still have a habit of trying to assess whether I need to stop and help. I slow down to about 55 (per the move over/slow down laws in the area), but if I don't determine the need to stop, I get right back up to cruising speed as soon as I pass it.
sometimes when I'm riding passenger, I like to watch as other cars go by and see if the driver is paying attention, and i continue to be blown away by what I see. Maybe a third of all drivers around here are looking at their phone while driving ON THE HIGHWAY.
@@pippipylup8106 I like to check other drivers when I pass them or when we are traveling at the same speed. Its scary how many drivers are either basically asleep, on there phone, or just not paying attention at all. I should really stop it only makes the whole rush our experience so much more stressful
It seems like it is not enforced enough even in states where it is illegal? What’s scarier is passing someone who drives like they’re on the phone or DUI and they have their hands at 10&2 (not always elderly) uncomfortably starring straight ahead😮🙄
Americans love to blame the driver and training when the real problem lies in society itself and automobile traffic engineering. In no society (besides middle of nowhere farmland) should you be forced to drive an automobile to get to work, school, or grocery store. People are on their phones while driving because they’re bored as fuck and have depression/anxiety or whatever because of said car dependency and lack of interaction with nature. If you respond to this comment saying this is an “excuse”. I won’t respond to you. I don’t drive.
@@slimmjesus1424 IT's funny because they are supposed to speed traffic up. My favorite is when someone is entering the round about with a left turn signal on. First off you only turn right into a roundabout no turn signal needed. Second you only turn right out of the roundabout, so use your turn signal before you take your exit. This allows all the cars waiting to enter the roundabout know that it is in fact safe to do so, because you are leaving. Not in America though, in America a mayor went on an EU vacation and said. "These round abouts are neat, let's install them just because we are cool, not because we actually have enough traffic to justify it. Then insurance rates in the area go up, because nobody is ever at fault in a roundabout. smh
My recommendation for all parents: give your kids a talk about how to drive. Sit them in your lap while going down a backroad and let them learn how to drive with your assistance. The sooner they experience it, the sooner they learn how to be a good driver.
Way ahead of you. 2 words: sim rig I practically learned how to drive playing racing sims as a kid. It taught me braking, cornering, countersteering, etc. That experience really saved my bacon when I started driving. Been on the road 25yrs, only got into 2 accidents. Both were the fault of the other driver. One failed to yield at an unprotected green light, the other drove straight (into me) in an only lane. The last one was in 2005. Defensive driving is how to avoid crap like that.
I let my niece drive my car on the dirt roads when she was 11. Mind you it was a manual so after 5 minutes I had a nice smell of toasty clutch but after half a dozen stalls she got it
The "funniest" thing about ruberneckers is that while they can flex their neck 130 degrees to stare at a mild fenderbender, they seem to have a neck brace when it's time to change lanes. And we should consider ourselves lucky if they remember to use the turn signals !
The people I hate on roundabouts are the ones who can't read the god damn signs. There's a roundabout near me that has two big signs saying "DO NOT DRIVE NEXT TO TRUCKS" (meaning semi trucks/trailer trucks, because it's too small) and every time I slow down to let the truck go by, I get five people honking and trying to eat my back bumper.
They do the same thing in left only turns, or even right only turns. People just aren't attentive around tractor trailers. The price is usually a front or rear bumper.
Atleast your city has a sign warning it. A roundabout near me doesn’t have that warning, main reason I know to give those trailers space is because I was right behind a car that got scraped up by a pickup pulling a trailer (not even a semi truck). A lesson learned at someone else’s expense. Let em honk, much better than the alternative!
dude, you would have a SEIZURE if you found out the time for my driving test in my area, my driving test took 10 minutes and did not go on actual streets on neighborhood roads. I thought I failed since it was so short, no wonder my area has horrendous drivers
Same here, it was raining and the instructor wanted to get it over with so we went around the block once and back into the parking lot and that was it 😭😭
actually insane here in germany im now 4x 90 minutes only in the thoretical area and now had my first 90min practical driving lesson on actual streets. and i still have to do 3x90 min theoretical and a few times practical before im even allowed to take the 2 tests one in the car one on paper
Even in germany there are bad drivers in traffic. In Germany the test in Some Test has a 50% failure rate and somehow some idiots still get their License.
yes theres a lot of surprisingly stupid drivers did my first practical driving lesson yesterday. 2 people overtook me before blind cornerrs going at least 30kmh+ above the speed limit. and i was definitly not that slow usually just 10kmh below the speed limit on the easier streets
Here in the North West of the US, we had gotten a few new roundabouts in my area a few years back, and to this day, I feel like NO ONE knows how to use it besides me and a rare 2-3 other people. Not sure about other parts of the US, but you SHOULD USE your turn signal when EXITING the round about. but no one EVER does. Especially if you are in a bigger truck or SUV and no one can see around you for other traffic. I've seen many close calls be avoided just by a simple turn signal use in a roundabout.
To be fair, even in Europe (france in my case), I too often see people forget their turn signal (and during driving lessons, you do them A LOT). Creating those awesome moments (no) where you think by the way they drive, you can engage in the roundabout ... But Nope !
Where I'm at, we might have 4 roundabouts in the whole city, most are single lane ones. I love tricking the NPCs into good behavior. You pull into a turning lane with no signal on. You see the stack of cars behind you with no signals on. You turn on your signal and start to watch the line gradually turn their signals on, one by one. Magic.
@@christopherlowery855 I always signal in when in in the out before I exit i just like the piece of mind it gives me when in the middle lane of a 2 lane circle
In Germany you can get a fine up to 5000€ for slowing down to watch an accident but most of the time it's going to be like 1000€. This was implemented a few years back and it prevents that kind of behavior pretty effectively.
@@BladedAngelI got it with 10 sec ago and the blue and orange thumbnail. And keep up the good work I've been watching for 7 years and I'll keep on doing so as long as you post.
I don't mind trains but I'm tired of people using them as a soap box to try and outright ban personal vehicles. Edit before i get *those* comments I don't mean for safety standards, I'm talking about those who will say it's bad for the environment, then defend the rich people and their 2 hour private jet flights, their air conditioned 10k square foot houses where they keep all their lights on, and their ranpant overconsumption and fast fashion because "They're famous so it's different"
7:43 It's not that they can't understand the signals, it's that they're not looking at them. People get absorbed scrolling on their phones at stoplights and jump when they see a car in their peripheral moving. They'd rather hurry up and go than take a second to double check and potentially get honked at. Source: I used to ride passenger with my roommate who did this several times in my presence.
Now I need to see a collab with Not Just Bikes and Bladed Angel. Proof that we can be car enthusiasts and want better, safer, and more practical infrastructure.
There's a weird irony there but it's true. Most of the points the so-called f**k cars people bring up are things car enthusiasts agree with. Both groups hate gigantic useless trucks and SUVs that never go off road. Like JDM cars especially Kei class models. And would prefer less people use cars for commuting because we drive for fun. They even tend to not like electric cars because of the high cost and the fact that it's used as an excuse to prevent actually solving problems with our road system.
The two are diametrically opposed. Mainly because the proposed solutions means replacing car infrastructure with mass-transit infrastructure. I'd rather not be burned alive in a subway, only to have EMS casually walk by, like there's nothing to see here. People like to glamorize public transportation as some type of savior to all the traffic. Except it's not. The traffic just changes from everyone being in their own enclosed metal bubble, to now being scrunched next to each other on the same metal tube. On the road, I can drive an SUV, an RV, or an ATV. (That last one, not really, I just liked the rhyme) I don't need to worry about Karen and her pissy attitude on my commute to work. I can avoid every road rager easily. Whereas, on a crowded subway, none of those people are avoidable. You have to hear them, watch them eat, see their enormity, smell their bad breath, their smelly armpits, etc, etc. Hard pass. Public transportation in America is for the degenerates of this country, not the affluent. All the affluent people have private transportation. Private limos, private jets, private yachts, private sports cars, etc. Socialist transportation is a lie. It's a communist pipedream. Look at the state of public transportation everywhere in this country and see the bottom of society, not the top. Public transportation is the enemy of the car enthusiast. I will die on this hill.
@christopherlowery855 Everything you just said is great and all, except you can go to Europe or Japan and literally see public transit in action doing exactly what you just pretended it isn't doing. Clearly you've never traveled outside of your bubble in the US, but I've actually lived in countries with good public transportation and can say for sure that you're wrong. Public transit in most developed countries is clean and fast, often faster than driving. Your entire attitude is laughable, saying you can avoid every road rager easily is a joke. I race motorcycles on the track regularly and still got ran over by a truck while riding. I don't care how skilled you think you are, there's always someone crazier than you who doesn't care about their own life, let alone yours. Go travel the world a little and get back to me, assuming you can afford to.
@@christopherlowery855 Cars are really good at traveling distance comfortably and for having more choice on where to go, but all the features of they have to allow that have less meaning and take up more space the more urban the environment gets. Public transportation is great for moving a large amount of people a short distance. But because everyone is going somewhere different it gets less effective the more spread out everything is. High speed trains are in the same camp as airlines, but it is easier in our regulatory climate to fly over property than to buy it. EX, California tried to make a high speed rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles, but property, permits, and various inefficiencies made it go way over budget and they only ended up making a rail between 2 small towns with a combined population of maybe 1000.
Another entry I want to add are people who lack patience. Multilane stop signs seem to break everyone’s code because people think that just because they stopped at the limit line for 1 second, it’s their turn to go. No, you wait till everyone else goes who was there before you until it’s your turn. You wouldn’t believe how many troglodytes will go into the intersection at the exact same time and then all stop inside the intersection because no can figure out who’s supposed to go first before a symphony of horns simultaneously go off.
A family of rubberneckers moved into my neighborhood this month. I’ve been keeping a closer eye on my kids when they go by their house, can never be too careful, me personally I just don’t think they’re compatible with our society
if you ever have the chance to drift a snowy !!!empty!!! 2 lane circle you should. Only when its save and when no one else is around. Even on dry ground i agree they are fun to wip around
Story proving the midwest benefits from these harder tests: when I went in for my drivers test, the instructor was fucking LIVID. The guy ahead of me apparently was so bad that this very nice and calm DMV lady stormed back into the office 30 minutes later than the test was supposed to last for and was near the limit for loud speaking and yelling at this guy's parents saying, "Yeah, you failed." Happy to say, though, that she did not say such things to me.
Another npc move, not looking whatsoever when reversing. I had an idiot a couple weeks ago do that when I was trying to buy tools to change my sparks and coils.
The other side of not noticing police cars is when mfs are going the speed limit, see a cop, and then decide to go 40 IN A 60 because OOH I DONT WANT TO GET PULLED OVER! Like great job, you’re about to cause an accident.
I’m a mechanic and worked in a fleet shop for a while. We sometimes would work on cop cars and I really hated driving those because everybody slowed down whenever they saw the car.
I thought the whole car accident phrase was referring to witnessing a car accident happen before you, like you can't look away from them flying through the air and smashing into pedestrians.
I’ve seen accidents on the OTHER SIDE of the interstate yet Im sitting in stop and go traffic, just to find out the wreck was on the opposite side of the interstate and there was literally nothing blocking or preventing traffic from moving.
*sniff* tell me I'm old without telling me I'm old. "Old ass 90s videos"... classic. For me, a 2000 car is still "new", even though it hasn't been for 2 decades now, lol.
Another thing NPC drivers do is driving way below the speed limit. And when you try to overtake them, they then speed up, sometimes exceeding the speed limit for no reason. My guess is that they don't think about what speed they should be and just follow the crowd's speed.
0:50 that’s one of my biggest driving pet peeves when the idiots want to look at a accident that nobody they know is even involved in, I just speed past that shit I also hate when people are on the break for no reason and are being smartasses and jam on the break for a yellow light like wtf the car behind you already has momentum.
Sorry bro, was a judgement call. I was nearly rear ended by someone who wasn't paying as much attention to the lights as much as I was. I made a hard stop at a yellow light. When I saw he wasn't stopping, I pulled forward and to the right. He quickly went left, into the turning lane and proceeded to run the light. When I caught up to him, we both shared apologetic statements and I just told him that we avoided it and that's all that matters. No honking, no yelling. Just polite discourse. That's how we do it in TX.
I live in NJ so I automatically just don't give a shit about anyone here on the road unless I'm beyond state lines. Everyone here sucks, so they have to suffer my wrath of selective god-awful driving.
10:09 this makes me realize how sad must be to spend your entire life to become a cop only to pull over dumb people who can't see a police car with literally on their faces
I-285 especially around I-20 intersections will hold miles. but I'd like to know what area Bladed Angel is from because Georgia Patrol and Police Offices are Incredibly Deceptive and Predatory the further south you go from Atlanta. Clayton County area use tactics should be illegal.
Why don't you tell us how you really feel? LOL I love the video man. The drivers around Minneapolis have been getting worse and worse lately. Nobody seems to care about what the speed limit is (people going way to slow for no reason, or way too fast for the conditions), proper usage of the passing lane, high beam etiquette, etc. I fully agree with you that driving tests should be hard, especially in Minnesota where there is snow and ice on the road for a good chunk of the year. It almost makes me miss the lock-downs of '20. The morning commute felt like NASCAR racing at Talladega. Yeah we were bumper to bumper, but we were all going 65+ while bumper to bumper.
7:26 in think there was a toy for children that demonstrated the difference between shapes. The square goes in the square hole, circle in the circle one, and triangle in the triangle one. Then you open the box and do it again.
I've got a few more signs of bad drivers: - Drives with both hands together at the 12 o'clock position on the steering wheel - Can't drive 10 seconds without braking for no apparent reason - Brakes in the middle of turns for not reason - Often leave their turn signal on and never notice that clicking and flashing light in their dash
Yup if your turning into a plaza or side street off a main road your hood getting across is not the end of it get that Caboose out of the way! Cause you got a stampede behind you!
a few more: leaving your brights on getting mad at being ‘cut off’ when you were never slowed down in any way camping the left lane at 70 for 10 miles not making a right turn at a red light tailgating without even realizing
The saddest part is that these save people will NEVER acknowledge the accidents they caused. If they had any semblance of awareness, they shouldn't even be in these situations.
Fun fact: I totaled my first car from rubbernecking because I thought I saw my homie on the sidewalk. I did indeed see my homie on the side walk and I still made it to my SAT’s
Due to the nature of my job, I'm in the work truck with coworkers every single day and some (most) of my coworkers are total NPCs. Looking at their phone while driving, not able to control their right foot and accelerate/brake smoothly, not paying attention to navigation and missing turns, tailgating, driving up to someone's bumper, slowing down, switching lanes, and then speeding up again, as opposed to just switching lanes and not changing speed at all, not looking past the car directly in front of them, etc.
I just gotta say, ur videos have not changed a bit through your whole channel and I love it!!! I can play a video from 4-6 years ago and it’s the same as a current video! Anytime I’m playing games and don’t wanna listen to music. I just play ur videos randomly. Not even caring about what I clicked on cause any topic u talk about I can listen too! It’s great and I love ur channel! Keep it up and I’m so glad you beat cancer! Glad we still get bladed angel videos! And I hope one day I get that super car u want no matter what supercar it is!
I think its shocking how much of a joke it is to get a license in the us. Here in germany we gotta do like 5x the work to get a license. Also its far more expensive here, the average for the us is like 940 bucks, in germany the lowest price you're gonna find is around 1.4k (and thats if you pass your exam [which is 370 a pop] on the first try, my home city for example has a 50% fail rate on the first try {obv i only needed 1 attempt cause i'm build different XD})
5:17 I live in rural Wisconsin and I kid you not my test took 8 minutes, not even joking. At the end I asked why it was so short and she said that I had good habits and did all the technical skills flawlessly and she didn't need to keep me longer. I loved my experience.
i’m in rural NC, mine took prob 5 mins (would have been 4 but i did a 3 point turn “left handed” whatever that means) it was literally stop at a stop sign, three point turn, slam on the brakes, park in a empty lot.
No, NPC from a political view makes sense. NPC just means the same thing, it means someone who knows nothing about politics and/or jist watches mainstream Leftist media. It's okay, words can be used for different things....
Dude my permit test took under 2 minutes. And my actual driving test was literaly going around the block (all right turns btw) and parking (non paralel) between some cones
Yo don’t know if you remember me from like a month ago or two ago but I got hit by a guy on his phone but I just wanted to say I saw him again and he was so sorry and gave me 500 (Australian) dollars which payed for the bike repair and then some which is nice
Construction zones should have speed bumps that destroys cars. And if your car is destroyed by the speed bump it won't be covered and you get a double fine. Damage to public property and the speeding fine.
I'm going to be 'that guy' and point out that the terms NPC, Non-Playable Character and Non-Player Character predate computer games. Those terms were used extensively in Dungeons & Dragons (51 years old in 2025) and there may well be older references back in the game Chainmail (which predates D&D). Also funny story, a radio station I listed to back in the 90s called their traffic and accident info the 'Rubbernecker Report'
That's not surprising. Games like Baulder's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Icewind dale are all basically video adaptations of D&D. That game is the father of RPGs. I wouldn't expect Bladed to know the NPC connection. He had to look up rubbernecker for crying out loud. Unfortunately, the nerd life has been mainstream for some time now. If it makes you feel better though, the IT industry has been ruined by mainstream clout as well. Here's to the good old days, when society hated our hobbies and all clamored over football and basketball jockeys. Cheers.
I get stared at by npcs driving their programmed route when I'm simply trying to stuff a Taco Bell cheese double beef grilled burrito down my eating hole
I love being old. Watching you trip out on "Rubber necker". I feel like there is a treasure trove of words and saying that would throw you if you knew we said them.
These driver’s are pretty much a good reason why we can’t have good things. I agree that roundabouts and more public transportation will benefit the flow of traffic, reduced accidents, and not giving the 510’s any extra fine payments on the fines that could of been avoidable. Please make a video for those low processing NPCs on how to use a roundabout because literally a PC running Windows 95 on a Pentium 1 processor, can make its code use it properly.
In Greece when it comes to roundabouts, many municipalities have reliased that there is literally no hope for the breathing fossils that hold most wheels in our country and so they install STOP signs before roundabout entrances to hand priority back to the inside traffic and also to force the stopping of the car before entrance. (It's still more efficient that stop lights.)
New part of the driving test: you go through a roundabout on your driving test hooked up to a sensor of some sort. If it senses you get scared, you fail.
Oh man. #1 hit me right in the feels. I am a motorcycle rider. I am also in a volunteer fire brigade. When on my motorcycle, I stay in the lane that is furthest away from an accident and watch the rest of traffic like a goddamn hawk, with my head on a swivel. Because inevitably, some mouth breather is going to start rubbernecking to see if they can spot any blood and gore, splintered glass and bent metal. Or maybe snap a few pics (why????). Some also want to take a look at that snazzy, shiny red truck. I will tell you a secret. But don’t tell anyone I told you. If you really want to take a gander at those big fire trucks, go to your nearest fire station, knock on the door and just ask if someone can show you around. There is a good chance that someone will. Maybe they will even let you sit in one. Because we love showing people all our cool toys and talk about them. Pro tip: bring your kid(s). We love kids and will make sure they get to see and touch almost everything on the truck. And yes, you can absolutely take pictures. but back to topic. I have witnessed additional accidents happen because of rubbernecking. From the POV of a fire engine, there is a whole nother level of idiocy visible. A rescue lane is a simple enough concept. Yet some still manage to screw it all up for everybody. If you are in the left lane, you go as far left as you physically can. Everyone else will drive as far on the right side as possible. This will open a makeshift lane for rescue vehicles. And your job is to stay the F out of that lane. Because there’s several dozen tons worth of rescue vehicles barrelling along said lane at 65 mph, lights flashing and sirens blaring. The fact that no more vehicles are coming does NOT mean that you can close the lane again btw. Because there could be more units coming. Possibly an emergency doctor. And when the worst comes to the worst, there will be a hearse coming through. And if YOU decided to pull into that lane, others will follow. Next thing that you’ll see is total gridlock and no one will be able to move. And no additional rescue units will get through, either. Believe me: You DON’T want to see what happened up front. It is a toss-up between either really boring and an A grade shitshow that some people will get therapy about. If you want to see damaged and smashed cars, go to your local scrapyard. You can gawk at those wrecks all day long if you want, while not holding up traffic and causing more accidents.
i work as a flagger for AT&T and the amount of people who ignore the orange signs WARNING them about road work ahead, then either running past the flagger or having to slam on their brakes because they dont pay attention is insane….not to mention all these people who will drive in the work area and be texting on their phones…insane
It's so funny that despite so many people being unable to use a roundabout or DD or other cool traffic solutions, they always result in higher flow and less accidents anyway
I'm a new driver at 22 (I know it's pathetic), and I've been practicing driving with my grandpa recently. I make sure to go the speed limit, check lights, SMOG (signal, mirror, over the shoulder, go), and all that, but I'm a bit nervous about my skills. Hope I get better.
2 words: RACING SIM!!! OMG dude... I can tell you're driving like your grandpa. Dude, at 17 I was doing burnouts, crazy eights, sliding across lanes, doing slaloms in the middle of the street, rounding 90 deg turns at 40mph, etc. I learned to check my blind spots by leaning forward, while looking at the mirror. It's way easier. You just need to learn how to control the car and be aware of your surroundings. When I was that age, I felt like the car was a part of me. I knew exactly where everything was. Front tire, left tire, front bumper, rear bumper. You have no idea how many close calls and accidents I avoided in those days. In 2006, an old lady tried to turn left into a gas station, seeing me round the corner made her panic stop in the middle of the road. I quickly turned left into oncoming traffic, avoided her, then merged back to my side of traffic. It all happened within maybe 2-4sec. As I've gotten older, I'm numb to all of that now. I used to whip it into reverse into a spot, get inches from other cars. Today, my spacing is way off. I crawl into parking spaces now. I'll teach you now... backing into parking spaces is not only so much cooler, but it's also 100% safer. So look like a G and always back in. Then watch all your homies do the same thing... because they're simp betas. So go buy a racing sim, race every day on it, and teach yourself how to drive. How to counter steer, how to drift, how to brake hard before turns, how to power out of turns, how to feel grip thresholds, how to tune yourself to the car. Also, hood cam, cockpit, or bumper cam are the only acceptable viewing angles. It is 100% easier to drive from cockpit view or hood view, than it is 3rd person. I know, people want to see their pretty car models, but we care about the road and winning. Avoid scraping at all costs. Find the gaps, but don't trade paint. You will thank me later. Best of luck, and have fun. You can be responsible when you're old and drive a Corvette. Oh Bladed... I had to. Lol.
I live in Hungary, and there is a law saying you ALWAYS have to turn on your headlights. Day or night, clear or foggy you light up. People don't actually do it and they are invisible in grey corollas and Opels. American cars introduced the "day lights" as I call them. The point is that you have some tiny lights on the front of the car for visibility, but none on the back unfortunately. These things are annoying
The first time I travelled to Atlanta, I was horrified by NPCs driving at 100 mph just because one Ferrari passed by...And the worse part is they suddenly switch between NPC and PC mode for no reason even though there are like 10 lanes😨
All of this is exactly why I as a car enthusiast say we *need* adequate public transportation in America. Some people just aren’t cut out to drive, and that’s alright. The issue comes when driving is the only option to get around, so not allowing people to drive essentially locks them into a mile of their home (if they have sidewalks) or paying ridiculous uber prices to get anywhere. This means we have jokes of driving tests. I, also in metro Atlanta, was nervous for my driving test until the instructor said “alright, turn into back into the test lot” after I went through two intersections and a stop sign. That’s it, that’s what said I’m ready to navigate roundabouts, I won’t be terrified of going over 40 when it’s time to merge, and I won’t drive around with my brights on all night
im an npc but im not a bad driver. i just stay in the right lane and drive slow like a grampa
That's not NPC behavior, that's just going for a chill cruise. As I grow older, the more time I spend in the right lane. Especially on my Super Cub lmao.
@@BladedAngel I do the same in whats considered a sports car just because theres days i just want to relax and get to where im going without risking losing my license
That's the way.
@@TheGlitterMan yeh especially when GSP camps out on the main road away from my house
You’re good, it’s those who do it in the faster/passing lanes that are npcs and ideally need to turn their brains on and move over to the slower lanes
Jeremy Clarkson was right.
"If you have no interest in driving, you won't be good at it. Take their licenses away."
I second that.
While I generally agree, I think a big problem with this statement is that cities in North America are so car dependent that people who shouldn't or don't want to drive have to anyway, because the alternative sucks.
e.g. waiting for a bus that comes once every 2 hours, walking with no sidewalks in sight, riding a bicycle in the shoulder with 2 tonne metal boxes whizzing by at 30 mph.
Because of this, if you just take away everyone's licenses, you'll just ruin the economy
We need to make alternatives that are actually viable and safe, and then make driver's licenses require at least half a working brain cell to get
@@tbqhwyf Agreed. There should be exceptions for these points. It is case by case. However, generally within cities, there should be more public transit to get these people off the more densely populated road networks. Coming from central Florida, it's a massive issue here.
In the future only people that will drive, is people that want to, because of self driving cars
Seems like the OrangUtan was ON-THE-MO-NEY
another NPC driving habit is going 30mph on the on-ramp while everyone on the highway is doing 60-80mph. like do you want to get killed? match the speed of the traffic!
Fr. Anyone who sees this though here's a tip: if you're stuck behind someone like this and trying to get in the highway, make a big distance between them by really slowing down, then once they're almost at the merge really step on it, by the time you get to them you'll be going the right speed and can quickly pass them by switching to a farther lane. If you had stayed close to them or tailgated them you would have been stuck at their speed while merging
I had to do that for a while because I was driving with a misfire. Still kind of do.
Facts
@@apollochaozI'm glad I'm not the only one who uses following distance as a passing buffer. I do this a lot on 2ln roads. It also gives you a better viewing angle.
The worst is people who completely stop bc they “can’t” fit themselves on highway
YES!!!they CAN!!!, they just have to match speed and find a place instead of stopping in a curve on f. black ice in Canada where roads are massive potholes
Don't forget those that smash the brake pedal when they suddenly see a cop to go 20 under the speed limit.
It always happens, it's dangerous af and the cop saw you waaaaaay before you saw them.
Or the people that just hit the brakes in the middle of the road for no reason, several times, even though they’re not turning or stopping at a light/stop sign, and nobody’s in front of them 😭
i remember once seeing a somewhat modified car (think stereotypical honda civic or subaru at 2am) suddenly brake behind me while flashing high beams at me. Like the car equivalent of getting pinged by a missile and maneuvering while popping flares. I can only imagine he had a radar detector and was warning me of something that apparently didnt even exist (i was going the speed limit anyways)
@@mad_quack Australian drivers are notorious for that
Source: I'm Australian
@@TimSlee1we do it better (more like worse) here in Quebec
Source : I live there
When I see an accident I just do a quick glance to see how bad it is and I just keep my speed normal and continue driving I hate it when an accident happens and someone is rubbernecking just to stare at it.
I also glance at it, to obviously acknowledge whether or not I need to change lanes/give space. but I hate MF's who slow to a crawl just STARING at it!
@@BladedAngelit’s crazy how big the gap becomes between cars right after they pass a car accident. Instead of speeding up once they’ve passed the scene, they continue watching for a few seconds at 25mph until the scene goes out of view before they start accelerating. People don’t realize that traffic has started speeding up already yet they’re still holding back the people behind them. If they just quickly got back on the throttle as soon as they’ve safely passed the scene; it would alleviate so much unnecessary retardation of traffic flow. I love the moment I pass the scene and can just gun it back to up to speed and can watch all the traffic behind me not doing the same because they’re all still rubbernecking with absolutely no cars in front of them anymore.
That stuff is SOOO annoying, especially on a two lane highway under construction with 4 lanes worth of traffic flowing through during rush hour
yeah, just keep the speed constant and reasonably, like a bit slower than normal to take a peak so people dont need to brake , slow and steady is fast as we know
I'm convinced that me and my dad are the only drivers in Tennessee that don't rubberneck. Bruh, whatever happened here doesn't concern you. Just get into whatever lane is open and mind your own goddam business. Some of us have places to be!
A few honourable mentions:
1) Not knowing how to coast. For some reason, NPC's can't just let go of the gas and let the car coast. They HAVE to be touching/pressing a pedal.
2) Unnecessarily braking when changing lane. If I notice your turn signal, and leave a gap for you to merge, just move over, DON'T F**KING HIT THE BRAKES!
3) Not stopping/deactivating your turn signal after or between lanes changes. Some NPC's just leave their turn signal on after changing lanes, only to cause other drivers behind them to think they still want to keep changing lanes. Others will activate the turn signal, and leave it on to change 2 lanes instead of deactivating it between both operations. Going through 2 lanes is supposed to be 2 separate actions.
4) Sitting too far back and "wasting" lights at intersections. So many NPC's stay too far from the sensor at intersections not allowing for the turn light to activate, causing missed lights for them and the line-up of cars behind them. They'll happily sit there for 3-4 lights before realizing people are going around them.
5) Thinking that activating your turn signal is an automatic right to change lane without checking blind spots or mirrors. Self-explanatory.
All of these. Especially 3 and 2. I will literally give people 4 car lengths to merge and the MFs refuse to speed up. Instead, they keep slowing down, waiting for me to pass.
As for the turn signals, I do not understand this at all. How did you forget you put your signal on 5sec later? HOW!? I see this all the time. They'll drive miles before turning it off. I just don't get it. The multi-lane change, yeah, signal on and off between lane changes. Don't just flick on the signal, then yeet over 4lns to an exit ramp.
This isn't gone in 60sec.
I literally just started driving recently and make sure to do none of these. Had no idea these were such common issues with most people lol.
Changing lanes to go around you IN THE INTERSECTION. Just for me to change and move right .6 seconds later once the intersection is cleared
Made a comment already but those who drive at night with no lights on or high beams on blinding everyone & are oblivious when you flash your lights at them🙄🤬
In all fairness with #2, merging behind someone is safer than merging in front of them. If you miscalculate or the person is an asshole and will speed up to prevent you from merging then you will get in a crash. Whenever someone is slowing down to merge its because they want to merge behind you, so why are you adamant on slowing down as well. Your contributing to the problem as much as they are.
As a Train nerd, that part is especially frustrating, because America was BUILT with railroads before cars existed because it was more efficient at going long distances, and how most cities and towns came to be, because it started with a settlement that eventually gained a rail connection so you didnt have to die of dissentary on the wagon ride across the states.
But then they invented planes.
Ask any business person who travels. None of them take the train, or drive. They all fly.
Trains are just slower planes to the mass market. There's no real point anymore... Unfortunately. This country is far too large for bullet trains. The cost to upkeep is just too great. This is why trains are largely used for bulk cargo transport. Because they remain a fantastic cargo carrier. I live right next to a track. There's a 1mi train on the track almost every hour. The people who actually park on those tracks are real NPCs.
@christopherlowery855 for interstate travel, robust high speed rail would be more cost effective and more fuel efficient than planes, the problem is since the invention of the highway system and then planes, America has let its railroads deteriorate and be relegated to long haul shipping. As far as land travel is concerned steel wheels on steel rails is the most efficient form of transport. The best system is having robust rail networks, roads, and planes. With high speed rail similar to the shinkansen or TGV, you could travel the same cross country distance with more comfort or possibly in conditions that limit planes travel such as high winds or storms.
The US is NOT too big for robust HSR networks. The rail hurdle is upgrading the power grid enough to accommodate, which is also why EVs cant replace normal cars. Because their range isnt as good, theres not enough charging stations, and if we all switched tomorrow the grid would be severely overloaded. But we could absolutely build quality high speed rail. Planes are still good for traveling to other countries or crossing from one side of the country to the other. but having proper high speed rail would mean you could save money by taking a train if you were only going a state or two if they were running over 200 mph and be more comfortable than flying in a tuna can packed with other people.
@@MrSnowFoxy So whos going to pay for the land bought from eminent domain? Whos going to pay for the whole thing? I have a feeling you don't pay taxes, otherwise youd think differently.
And guy above it right. Planes ended passenger rail. What youre saying is the equivalent of saying, bring back the big steam liners to go to Europe. Heck, sail ships were even more fuel efficient, ergo better, right? Ironically...but I see Bladed has locked in his target past few years.
I am here to pardon the behaviors of the other commentators. As someone who has taken a decent look into America's transportational past, we actually had many miles of tracks that served a good majority of all US cities and towns. However, due to ancient legislation and ignorant politicians, the railroads were not able to properly respond to all of the interstates and air travel being developed. That is why starting right after WW2 we began to see a major decline in the success of railroads. They were forced to keep unprofitable lines open, while also being treated like they still had a monopoly as if the times were the early 20th century. Because the government did not enable the railroads to innovate, they died off. (Kinda what is happening to cars now.)
@@RipRoaringGarage Bro a plane can carry at best 250 tons while a train can pull 20,000 tons. A train can carry at best 100x more than a plane while only going about 10x slower...
5:40 I'm from germany, where you literally have to go to driving school for weeks or even months (or a single week course, which some driving schools offer during school holidays) with a theoretical test at the end that you have to pass to proceed, then you have another set of many hours where you actually drive with an instructor and when this person declares you ready for the practical test, you can try that one.
And still, if you pass the practical test, you're not considered a good driver. As the chief editor of german car magazine "auto motor und sport" Alexander Bloch put it: "Your license is not the confirmation that you're a good driver. Your license is the permission to BECOME a good driver." And I think this is very true.
the problem with being this strict in America is the lack of non car transportation infrastructure, unless your in a big city, but that comes with the problem of beings surrounded by hundreds of thousands of idiots
Dang, sounds annoying, but I'll give them credit because it is probably mostly implemented due to the autobahn highway, must be sensational driving there
@truckercarterO9 It's not as crazy as you think. Most of it is either limited speed or construction.
Imo a more demanding edjucation for drivers is just necessary. No matter how small your car is, compared to a human it is still a super strong and heavy machine that has no problems killing a person. So yeah.. I think it's good the way it is here.
@Foxy_Lightning 👍
@@charlescourtwright2229that's not problem at all. There are places in Europe too where you need a car to get around as there's no public transport. If people need a car, they can damn well earn the privilege to drive one
i once spent a full 30 EXTRA minutes over a 5 mile span due to a crash... the crash was on the other side of the interstate.
That is so ridiculous bro… sorry for the wasted time
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@@BladedAngel the sloppening
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i immediately came the comment section for this. *DEMONITIZED* 😂.
People who don’t get over for firetrucks and ambulances are 100% the worst
Bonus entitlement if they acknowledge the emergency vehicle and get mad about it.
The people who directly drive in the space people make for the emergency vehicles are worse
people who pull over for emergency vehicles in the opposite lane of traffic when all lanes are clear and divided by a median. That is very NPC behavior.
Another NPC Driver behavior? Stopping at a turn that has a protected lane to turn in to. Almost rearended someone yesterday who did exactly that.
THIS.
I do that sometimes but only reason I do it as of lately is because my car has been through some shit, has a transmission issue now and doesn’t make any power anymore, so making those turns isn’t easy for me anymore. I don’t trust other drivers on the road so if you’re 100ft or less away, I’m stopping and waiting because I know my car just can’t do it.
I agree, but I think there are some instances where it's at least understandable. Sometimes the lane markings are faded and it's hard to tell whether you have your own lane or not. Sometimes there's a yield sign posted when you get your own lane and other times there isn't one when you do need to yield. Sometimes you get your own lane, but it ends after 100 feet or so, so you still have to wait for an opening to give yourself time to accelerate and avoid pissing off the tailgaters that refuse to let anyone merge. Bad design, construction, and not knowing the area can also exacerbate this. I've made that mistake myself a couple of times and was promptly honked/yelled at 😅
I've seen this before. The lane will even be protected by a concrete curb. The lane doesn't even merge. It turns into an exit only like 2mi up. Absolutely no reason to stop or yield. I think they're staring at the entrance ramp they can't get to, and are stuck contemplating their next move.
I guess they just forget there's another entrance ramp.
sure, but in texas, the protected turning lane is NOT protected bc ppl won't let you merge so instead of stopping and yielding at a protected turn, you're taking a protected turn just to stop and yield where the lane merges bc mfs will cut you off like its your fault for taking the turn💀
My addition to the list : accelerating up to a stop light
Personally, if i see a light that I’m obvious going to stop at, i try to slow down and coast it out so that I’m not going on the green from a dead stop. I also believe it helps mpg because if done right you get a nice lil 5-10mph rolling start.
I CONSTANTLY see drivers accelerating all the way up to a stop light as if they are in some race to stop and wait. Then when i come by with my 10mph rolling start, i fly by them!
I also ride an ebike a lot because i live so close to everything and it almost seems like people want to race to stop lights even more. It’s very odd
NPCs watching this rn:
dead internet theory is real. So many bots commenting that I had to remove. It's NPCeption!!
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Tailgating constantly is what drives me nuts.
Because it does exactly like the rubbernecking in accidents, makes a huge traffic compression. I had the misfortune of travelling on an Interstate near Denver and discovered that with 3 wide open lanes, no wrecks, no major exits (this was happening in the middle of nowhere, not even near the city), and no construction, traffic would regularly come to a complete standstill.
On the Interstate.
Because people tailgate, hit their brakes, and make everyone behind them do the same because they are following too close. And it just gets worse and worse until it becomes a standstill.
Phantom Traffic!!
(I think that's the term)
exactly is it that hard to follow at a safe distance? I'm tired of people cutting me off in dense traffic because I keep a safe distance to avoid these issues.
@@AdamKueflef oh yeah I forgot that happens. People think "oHh a gAp, MiNe?" People don't get that braking distances change when they change lanes in front of someone.
Stay safe on these roads buddy!
Hi from Australia
@dilpickle491 stay safe down there from Canada
would said tailgating be justified if it was a left lane hogger? people also hate those drivers and so id say following distance is a double edged sword
Probably my most stereotypical car experience yet. At my job, witnessed a Cybertruck (yes, THE Cybertruck) drive in the middle of a white lane nearly sidewinding the other vehicle next to it. Needless to say, the honking from the other car was definitely deserved.
What's a white lane? Not a term I've heard used as I'm in Australia
@@MaybeFactorIn the us, it's the right shoulder, also known as the breakdown lane. The traffic is divided by a solid white line. Solid white lines can be crossed in the US, but not driven on. Unlike a solid yellow line which shouldn't ever be crossed, unless it's a turning lane. It's confusing, I know.
If I recall, Australia is RHD?
If so, it would be the far left lane, reserved for vehicle breakdowns for you.
Each time I see one of those, I call it "the cyberphuk"
It's my tribute to the late 90s, early 2000s.
I also call it that because the people buying them got reamed.
Lol.
Don't worry, the frame would break before it does any damage.
I learned the hard way to NEVER look at a wreck. I was a passenger, so it’s not like I needed to pay attention to the road. It’s just that there was a lot of dust in the air. I guess it had just happened, so everyone was stopped trying to figure out the same thing I was. Just as you said, the wreck was completely off the road, not preventing anyone from driving. It was there that I finally realized… …someone had Christmas Vacationed a log hauler. The car no longer had a roof, and no, it wasn’t a convertible. The car also had red interior… …but it wasn’t factory. I couldn’t see a body, but I knew that was probably part of it.
I used to work as an EMT, so from several of my own experiences I try to avoid staring as well, but I still have a habit of trying to assess whether I need to stop and help. I slow down to about 55 (per the move over/slow down laws in the area), but if I don't determine the need to stop, I get right back up to cruising speed as soon as I pass it.
Whenever I am at a stop light and look around, almost all of the drivers I see are on their phones. It’s scary how they are allowed to drive at all
sometimes when I'm riding passenger, I like to watch as other cars go by and see if the driver is paying attention, and i continue to be blown away by what I see. Maybe a third of all drivers around here are looking at their phone while driving ON THE HIGHWAY.
@@pippipylup8106 I like to check other drivers when I pass them or when we are traveling at the same speed. Its scary how many drivers are either basically asleep, on there phone, or just not paying attention at all. I should really stop it only makes the whole rush our experience so much more stressful
It seems like it is not enforced enough even in states where it is illegal?
What’s scarier is passing someone who drives like they’re on the phone or DUI and they have their hands at 10&2 (not always elderly) uncomfortably starring straight ahead😮🙄
Americans love to blame the driver and training when the real problem lies in society itself and automobile traffic engineering.
In no society (besides middle of nowhere farmland) should you be forced to drive an automobile to get to work, school, or grocery store. People are on their phones while driving because they’re bored as fuck and have depression/anxiety or whatever because of said car dependency and lack of interaction with nature.
If you respond to this comment saying this is an “excuse”. I won’t respond to you. I don’t drive.
As someone from rural VA, I love roundabouts. My small town has two stoplights, and the rest of the handful of intersections are roundabouts
You’re fortunate-Northern Virginia driving is like having a root canal🤬😱
@@FrankTimms-cs5hl are you insane? you know there are real people behind their screens.
I hate them it slows down traffic and is dangerous because no one knows how to use them in richmond va
@@slimmjesus1424 IT's funny because they are supposed to speed traffic up. My favorite is when someone is entering the round about with a left turn signal on. First off you only turn right into a roundabout no turn signal needed. Second you only turn right out of the roundabout, so use your turn signal before you take your exit. This allows all the cars waiting to enter the roundabout know that it is in fact safe to do so, because you are leaving.
Not in America though, in America a mayor went on an EU vacation and said. "These round abouts are neat, let's install them just because we are cool, not because we actually have enough traffic to justify it. Then insurance rates in the area go up, because nobody is ever at fault in a roundabout. smh
Sometimes I see people who aren't in left turn lanes that turn left anyways. No construction, no confusing lanes, just pure inability to navigate
They failed the Intelligence Benchmark
I got in an accident that way but I was in a left turn lane, just not the right one. To be fair though I was under a lot of mental distress.
My recommendation for all parents: give your kids a talk about how to drive. Sit them in your lap while going down a backroad and let them learn how to drive with your assistance.
The sooner they experience it, the sooner they learn how to be a good driver.
Way ahead of you.
2 words: sim rig
I practically learned how to drive playing racing sims as a kid. It taught me braking, cornering, countersteering, etc. That experience really saved my bacon when I started driving. Been on the road 25yrs, only got into 2 accidents. Both were the fault of the other driver.
One failed to yield at an unprotected green light, the other drove straight (into me) in an only lane. The last one was in 2005.
Defensive driving is how to avoid crap like that.
I let my niece drive my car on the dirt roads when she was 11.
Mind you it was a manual so after 5 minutes I had a nice smell of toasty clutch but after half a dozen stalls she got it
My dad always called people who stop and stares at accidents “rubbernecker”
Oh lol just watched a few more seconds and saw that you put that in haha
Yeah, it's an old term. Haven't heard it in years though.
I heard it a lot when I was a kid.
The "funniest" thing about ruberneckers is that while they can flex their neck 130 degrees to stare at a mild fenderbender, they seem to have a neck brace when it's time to change lanes. And we should consider ourselves lucky if they remember to use the turn signals !
The people I hate on roundabouts are the ones who can't read the god damn signs. There's a roundabout near me that has two big signs saying "DO NOT DRIVE NEXT TO TRUCKS" (meaning semi trucks/trailer trucks, because it's too small) and every time I slow down to let the truck go by, I get five people honking and trying to eat my back bumper.
They do the same thing in left only turns, or even right only turns. People just aren't attentive around tractor trailers. The price is usually a front or rear bumper.
Atleast your city has a sign warning it. A roundabout near me doesn’t have that warning, main reason I know to give those trailers space is because I was right behind a car that got scraped up by a pickup pulling a trailer (not even a semi truck). A lesson learned at someone else’s expense. Let em honk, much better than the alternative!
dude, you would have a SEIZURE if you found out the time for my driving test in my area, my driving test took 10 minutes and did not go on actual streets on neighborhood roads. I thought I failed since it was so short, no wonder my area has horrendous drivers
Same here, it was raining and the instructor wanted to get it over with so we went around the block once and back into the parking lot and that was it 😭😭
actually insane here in germany im now 4x 90 minutes only in the thoretical area and now had my first 90min practical driving lesson on actual streets. and i still have to do 3x90 min theoretical and a few times practical before im even allowed to take the 2 tests one in the car one on paper
Even in germany there are bad drivers in traffic. In Germany the test in Some Test has a 50% failure rate and somehow some idiots still get their License.
yes theres a lot of surprisingly stupid drivers did my first practical driving lesson yesterday. 2 people overtook me before blind cornerrs going at least 30kmh+ above the speed limit. and i was definitly not that slow usually just 10kmh below the speed limit on the easier streets
I respect people who tell others when there is cop up ahead
its shocking how much people are at the phone
Here in the North West of the US, we had gotten a few new roundabouts in my area a few years back, and to this day, I feel like NO ONE knows how to use it besides me and a rare 2-3 other people. Not sure about other parts of the US, but you SHOULD USE your turn signal when EXITING the round about. but no one EVER does. Especially if you are in a bigger truck or SUV and no one can see around you for other traffic. I've seen many close calls be avoided just by a simple turn signal use in a roundabout.
To be fair, even in Europe (france in my case), I too often see people forget their turn signal (and during driving lessons, you do them A LOT). Creating those awesome moments (no) where you think by the way they drive, you can engage in the roundabout ... But Nope !
Where I'm at, we might have 4 roundabouts in the whole city, most are single lane ones.
I love tricking the NPCs into good behavior. You pull into a turning lane with no signal on. You see the stack of cars behind you with no signals on. You turn on your signal and start to watch the line gradually turn their signals on, one by one. Magic.
@@christopherlowery855 I always signal in when in in the out before I exit i just like the piece of mind it gives me when in the middle lane of a 2 lane circle
In Germany you can get a fine up to 5000€ for slowing down to watch an accident but most of the time it's going to be like 1000€. This was implemented a few years back and it prevents that kind of behavior pretty effectively.
7:50 those people really be forgetting drivering is a privilege not a necessity. These dashcams clips of roundabout fails will never make sense to me
Except the way most areas are designed (at least in the USA), it is a necessity. :(
25 seconds ago... hes actually showing up on my home page
good! now the real question is, which thumbnail did you see? Blue/Orange or the light blue one?
@@BladedAngel Light Blue.
Blue @@BladedAngel
@@BladedAngelI got it with 10 sec ago and the blue and orange thumbnail. And keep up the good work I've been watching for 7 years and I'll keep on doing so as long as you post.
@@BladedAngelBlue/orange is the one I saw, would've clicked either way tho
I love driving. Its also the most dangerous thing i do regularly. Gotta think.
I don't mind trains but I'm tired of people using them as a soap box to try and outright ban personal vehicles.
Edit before i get *those* comments
I don't mean for safety standards, I'm talking about those who will say it's bad for the environment, then defend the rich people and their 2 hour private jet flights, their air conditioned 10k square foot houses where they keep all their lights on, and their ranpant overconsumption and fast fashion because "They're famous so it's different"
I don't think there is even a proper roundabout in GTA 5, but honestly, they would do better still lol.
the map leaks show a few roundabouts in GTA 6
@C9LD If that's the since, I can't wait to see how the ai will act. Since Rockstar is reworking the ai for GTA 6.
@@GTA_LASDThis is Florida after all. They might suck on purpose lol
@@sandyv4819 probably
7:43 It's not that they can't understand the signals, it's that they're not looking at them. People get absorbed scrolling on their phones at stoplights and jump when they see a car in their peripheral moving. They'd rather hurry up and go than take a second to double check and potentially get honked at.
Source: I used to ride passenger with my roommate who did this several times in my presence.
Now I need to see a collab with Not Just Bikes and Bladed Angel. Proof that we can be car enthusiasts and want better, safer, and more practical infrastructure.
There's a weird irony there but it's true. Most of the points the so-called f**k cars people bring up are things car enthusiasts agree with. Both groups hate gigantic useless trucks and SUVs that never go off road. Like JDM cars especially Kei class models. And would prefer less people use cars for commuting because we drive for fun.
They even tend to not like electric cars because of the high cost and the fact that it's used as an excuse to prevent actually solving problems with our road system.
The two are diametrically opposed.
Mainly because the proposed solutions means replacing car infrastructure with mass-transit infrastructure. I'd rather not be burned alive in a subway, only to have EMS casually walk by, like there's nothing to see here.
People like to glamorize public transportation as some type of savior to all the traffic. Except it's not. The traffic just changes from everyone being in their own enclosed metal bubble, to now being scrunched next to each other on the same metal tube.
On the road, I can drive an SUV, an RV, or an ATV. (That last one, not really, I just liked the rhyme)
I don't need to worry about Karen and her pissy attitude on my commute to work. I can avoid every road rager easily.
Whereas, on a crowded subway, none of those people are avoidable. You have to hear them, watch them eat, see their enormity, smell their bad breath, their smelly armpits, etc, etc.
Hard pass.
Public transportation in America is for the degenerates of this country, not the affluent. All the affluent people have private transportation. Private limos, private jets, private yachts, private sports cars, etc.
Socialist transportation is a lie. It's a communist pipedream. Look at the state of public transportation everywhere in this country and see the bottom of society, not the top.
Public transportation is the enemy of the car enthusiast.
I will die on this hill.
@christopherlowery855
Everything you just said is great and all, except you can go to Europe or Japan and literally see public transit in action doing exactly what you just pretended it isn't doing. Clearly you've never traveled outside of your bubble in the US, but I've actually lived in countries with good public transportation and can say for sure that you're wrong. Public transit in most developed countries is clean and fast, often faster than driving. Your entire attitude is laughable, saying you can avoid every road rager easily is a joke. I race motorcycles on the track regularly and still got ran over by a truck while riding. I don't care how skilled you think you are, there's always someone crazier than you who doesn't care about their own life, let alone yours. Go travel the world a little and get back to me, assuming you can afford to.
@@christopherlowery855 Cars are really good at traveling distance comfortably and for having more choice on where to go, but all the features of they have to allow that have less meaning and take up more space the more urban the environment gets. Public transportation is great for moving a large amount of people a short distance. But because everyone is going somewhere different it gets less effective the more spread out everything is. High speed trains are in the same camp as airlines, but it is easier in our regulatory climate to fly over property than to buy it. EX, California tried to make a high speed rail from San Francisco to Los Angeles, but property, permits, and various inefficiencies made it go way over budget and they only ended up making a rail between 2 small towns with a combined population of maybe 1000.
And Road Guy Rob.
Another entry I want to add are people who lack patience. Multilane stop signs seem to break everyone’s code because people think that just because they stopped at the limit line for 1 second, it’s their turn to go. No, you wait till everyone else goes who was there before you until it’s your turn. You wouldn’t believe how many troglodytes will go into the intersection at the exact same time and then all stop inside the intersection because no can figure out who’s supposed to go first before a symphony of horns simultaneously go off.
Those are the intersections we need round abouts at lol.
A family of rubberneckers moved into my neighborhood this month. I’ve been keeping a closer eye on my kids when they go by their house, can never be too careful, me personally I just don’t think they’re compatible with our society
RubberNecker does sound lowkey violent I love that term
Another one is honking instead of braking.
Roundabouts are also fun to drive around - along with being safer, better traffic flow, and more compact design (sometimes)
if you ever have the chance to drift a snowy !!!empty!!! 2 lane circle you should. Only when its save and when no one else is around. Even on dry ground i agree they are fun to wip around
Story proving the midwest benefits from these harder tests: when I went in for my drivers test, the instructor was fucking LIVID. The guy ahead of me apparently was so bad that this very nice and calm DMV lady stormed back into the office 30 minutes later than the test was supposed to last for and was near the limit for loud speaking and yelling at this guy's parents saying, "Yeah, you failed." Happy to say, though, that she did not say such things to me.
Another npc move, not looking whatsoever when reversing. I had an idiot a couple weeks ago do that when I was trying to buy tools to change my sparks and coils.
Probably more people relying too much on those cameras in the middle of the interior. More tech doesn't mean better driver :(
@ the people I see do this are people who’s first car does not have a camera. They just have no awareness.
@@zaythekidd9704 they just reverse without looking? how do they not crash?
@ they do. Seen it happens 4 times now. 1 of them happening to me.
The other side of not noticing police cars is when mfs are going the speed limit, see a cop, and then decide to go 40 IN A 60 because OOH I DONT WANT TO GET PULLED OVER! Like great job, you’re about to cause an accident.
I’m a mechanic and worked in a fleet shop for a while. We sometimes would work on cop cars and I really hated driving those because everybody slowed down whenever they saw the car.
I thought the whole car accident phrase was referring to witnessing a car accident happen before you, like you can't look away from them flying through the air and smashing into pedestrians.
I’ve seen accidents on the OTHER SIDE of the interstate yet Im sitting in stop and go traffic, just to find out the wreck was on the opposite side of the interstate and there was literally nothing blocking or preventing traffic from moving.
Randomly slamming on brakes when you come out of your phone, thinking that the car in your mirror is a cop. Also, all screen interaction while driving
this is what they should show in driving school instead of those old ass 90s videos that are outdated as hell
*sniff* tell me I'm old without telling me I'm old.
"Old ass 90s videos"... classic.
For me, a 2000 car is still "new", even though it hasn't been for 2 decades now, lol.
@@christopherlowery855I’ll certainly take a 2000s car over a 2020s car 😁
@@SlapStyleAnims my parents have a 2022 prado and they think its old 😭
Another thing NPC drivers do is driving way below the speed limit. And when you try to overtake them, they then speed up, sometimes exceeding the speed limit for no reason. My guess is that they don't think about what speed they should be and just follow the crowd's speed.
0:50 that’s one of my biggest driving pet peeves when the idiots want to look at a accident that nobody they know is even involved in, I just speed past that shit I also hate when people are on the break for no reason and are being smartasses and jam on the break for a yellow light like wtf the car behind you already has momentum.
Sorry bro, was a judgement call.
I was nearly rear ended by someone who wasn't paying as much attention to the lights as much as I was. I made a hard stop at a yellow light. When I saw he wasn't stopping, I pulled forward and to the right. He quickly went left, into the turning lane and proceeded to run the light. When I caught up to him, we both shared apologetic statements and I just told him that we avoided it and that's all that matters. No honking, no yelling. Just polite discourse.
That's how we do it in TX.
I live in NJ so I automatically just don't give a shit about anyone here on the road unless I'm beyond state lines. Everyone here sucks, so they have to suffer my wrath of selective god-awful driving.
10:09 this makes me realize how sad must be to spend your entire life to become a cop only to pull over dumb people who can't see a police car with literally on their faces
I love the irony that the driver in the background video is hogging the left lane for most of the time in a video about NPC drivers lol
the rubbernecking on I-75 is wild
I-285 especially around I-20 intersections will hold miles.
but I'd like to know what area Bladed Angel is from because Georgia Patrol and Police Offices are Incredibly Deceptive and Predatory the further south you go from Atlanta. Clayton County area use tactics should be illegal.
Why don't you tell us how you really feel? LOL I love the video man. The drivers around Minneapolis have been getting worse and worse lately. Nobody seems to care about what the speed limit is (people going way to slow for no reason, or way too fast for the conditions), proper usage of the passing lane, high beam etiquette, etc. I fully agree with you that driving tests should be hard, especially in Minnesota where there is snow and ice on the road for a good chunk of the year. It almost makes me miss the lock-downs of '20. The morning commute felt like NASCAR racing at Talladega. Yeah we were bumper to bumper, but we were all going 65+ while bumper to bumper.
7:26 in think there was a toy for children that demonstrated the difference between shapes. The square goes in the square hole, circle in the circle one, and triangle in the triangle one. Then you open the box and do it again.
it all goes into the square one
I've got a few more signs of bad drivers:
- Drives with both hands together at the 12 o'clock position on the steering wheel
- Can't drive 10 seconds without braking for no apparent reason
- Brakes in the middle of turns for not reason
- Often leave their turn signal on and never notice that clicking and flashing light in their dash
Yup if your turning into a plaza or side street off a main road your hood getting across is not the end of it get that Caboose out of the way! Cause you got a stampede behind you!
2:47 This is the most american thing in this video.I don't get what is so hard about roundabout
Come to richmond va where people will commonly stop in the middle of them
a few more:
leaving your brights on
getting mad at being ‘cut off’ when you were never slowed down in any way
camping the left lane at 70 for 10 miles
not making a right turn at a red light
tailgating without even realizing
I have an unpopular opinion: if you don't want to get pulled over, then just don't break traffic laws.
Oh nooooooo the truth! But also take care of your vehicle. Operational lights, registration, and the like.
The saddest part is that these save people will NEVER acknowledge the accidents they caused. If they had any semblance of awareness, they shouldn't even be in these situations.
1:19 Rubber necking.
Fun fact: I totaled my first car from rubbernecking because I thought I saw my homie on the sidewalk. I did indeed see my homie on the side walk and I still made it to my SAT’s
Due to the nature of my job, I'm in the work truck with coworkers every single day and some (most) of my coworkers are total NPCs. Looking at their phone while driving, not able to control their right foot and accelerate/brake smoothly, not paying attention to navigation and missing turns, tailgating, driving up to someone's bumper, slowing down, switching lanes, and then speeding up again, as opposed to just switching lanes and not changing speed at all, not looking past the car directly in front of them, etc.
What gets me is when people honk at others trying to make permissive left turns. It's better to wait 3 more seconds than to get hit.
I just gotta say, ur videos have not changed a bit through your whole channel and I love it!!! I can play a video from 4-6 years ago and it’s the same as a current video! Anytime I’m playing games and don’t wanna listen to music. I just play ur videos randomly. Not even caring about what I clicked on cause any topic u talk about I can listen too! It’s great and I love ur channel!
Keep it up and I’m so glad you beat cancer! Glad we still get bladed angel videos! And I hope one day I get that super car u want no matter what supercar it is!
one second in and already a banger
Every BMW driver is an NPC, who thinks they're the main character...
You should’ve brought up people tht press on their breaks when slowing down on the highway rather then taking their foot off their accelerator.
I slow down by going all the way back to 1st gear and let go of the clutch
@@gladteer873 I can smell it from here
@@gladteer873 the money shift
I drive in Delhi, India and am officially an NPC driver 😅
If it were 2010, I'd agree about Rubber-Neckers. Now I'm just happy when drivers look up from their phones.
I think its shocking how much of a joke it is to get a license in the us. Here in germany we gotta do like 5x the work to get a license. Also its far more expensive here, the average for the us is like 940 bucks, in germany the lowest price you're gonna find is around 1.4k (and thats if you pass your exam [which is 370 a pop] on the first try, my home city for example has a 50% fail rate on the first try {obv i only needed 1 attempt cause i'm build different XD})
5:17 I live in rural Wisconsin and I kid you not my test took 8 minutes, not even joking. At the end I asked why it was so short and she said that I had good habits and did all the technical skills flawlessly and she didn't need to keep me longer. I loved my experience.
The specified technical skills are parallel parking, y turn, and pulling over and proper signaling and stuff like that.
Complete opposite in Dane county Wisconsin. My test was about 15 minutes and a lot more strict (at least 6 years ago they were)
Damn 8mins, mine took 3
i’m in rural NC, mine took prob 5 mins (would have been 4 but i did a 3 point turn “left handed” whatever that means) it was literally stop at a stop sign, three point turn, slam on the brakes, park in a empty lot.
As a European from Poland, roundabouts are the first thing you learn after the first lesson in the parking lot and they’re not that hard to learn
its so easy and thats from my first driving lesson here in germany
In the US we go though roughly 9,000 roundabouts
Didn't expect you to watch Not Just Bikes. Nice surprise
3:39 as someone who is both a car guy and a railfan, this one drives me crazy
2:08 damn, poor Saab 9-3
No, NPC from a political view makes sense. NPC just means the same thing, it means someone who knows nothing about politics and/or jist watches mainstream Leftist media. It's okay, words can be used for different things....
Finally a new video from bladed
Dude my permit test took under 2 minutes. And my actual driving test was literaly going around the block (all right turns btw) and parking (non paralel) between some cones
Yo don’t know if you remember me from like a month ago or two ago but I got hit by a guy on his phone but I just wanted to say I saw him again and he was so sorry and gave me 500 (Australian) dollars which payed for the bike repair and then some which is nice
Construction zones should have speed bumps that destroys cars. And if your car is destroyed by the speed bump it won't be covered and you get a double fine. Damage to public property and the speeding fine.
I'm going to be 'that guy' and point out that the terms NPC, Non-Playable Character and Non-Player Character predate computer games. Those terms were used extensively in Dungeons & Dragons (51 years old in 2025) and there may well be older references back in the game Chainmail (which predates D&D). Also funny story, a radio station I listed to back in the 90s called their traffic and accident info the 'Rubbernecker Report'
That's not surprising.
Games like Baulder's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, and Icewind dale are all basically video adaptations of D&D. That game is the father of RPGs.
I wouldn't expect Bladed to know the NPC connection. He had to look up rubbernecker for crying out loud.
Unfortunately, the nerd life has been mainstream for some time now.
If it makes you feel better though, the IT industry has been ruined by mainstream clout as well.
Here's to the good old days, when society hated our hobbies and all clamored over football and basketball jockeys.
Cheers.
Also a note I get so annoyed when someone uses there turn signal in a curved single lane, like where you going beside on the lane
I get stared at by npcs driving their programmed route when I'm simply trying to stuff a Taco Bell cheese double beef grilled burrito down my eating hole
I love being old. Watching you trip out on "Rubber necker". I feel like there is a treasure trove of words and saying that would throw you if you knew we said them.
These driver’s are pretty much a good reason why we can’t have good things. I agree that roundabouts and more public transportation will benefit the flow of traffic, reduced accidents, and not giving the 510’s any extra fine payments on the fines that could of been avoidable. Please make a video for those low processing NPCs on how to use a roundabout because literally a PC running Windows 95 on a Pentium 1 processor, can make its code use it properly.
I had my Pentium 1 processor, computer, running windows 95 for a long time.
A lot of good memories there.
The computer doesnt have illegal immigrants who dont have licenses and crash 24/7
In Greece when it comes to roundabouts, many municipalities have reliased that there is literally no hope for the breathing fossils that hold most wheels in our country and so they install STOP signs before roundabout entrances to hand priority back to the inside traffic and also to force the stopping of the car before entrance. (It's still more efficient that stop lights.)
My guy is sounding like a dad rn and I'm here for it. A reminder that we ALL are getting older. Im 22 now. Holy.
Bro 25 minutes here in NY the driving test is only 8 minutes long around a suburb 😅
New part of the driving test: you go through a roundabout on your driving test hooked up to a sensor of some sort. If it senses you get scared, you fail.
Oh man.
#1 hit me right in the feels. I am a motorcycle rider. I am also in a volunteer fire brigade. When on my motorcycle, I stay in the lane that is furthest away from an accident and watch the rest of traffic like a goddamn hawk, with my head on a swivel. Because inevitably, some mouth breather is going to start rubbernecking to see if they can spot any blood and gore, splintered glass and bent metal. Or maybe snap a few pics (why????). Some also want to take a look at that snazzy, shiny red truck.
I will tell you a secret. But don’t tell anyone I told you. If you really want to take a gander at those big fire trucks, go to your nearest fire station, knock on the door and just ask if someone can show you around. There is a good chance that someone will. Maybe they will even let you sit in one. Because we love showing people all our cool toys and talk about them. Pro tip: bring your kid(s). We love kids and will make sure they get to see and touch almost everything on the truck. And yes, you can absolutely take pictures.
but back to topic. I have witnessed additional accidents happen because of rubbernecking.
From the POV of a fire engine, there is a whole nother level of idiocy visible. A rescue lane is a simple enough concept. Yet some still manage to screw it all up for everybody. If you are in the left lane, you go as far left as you physically can. Everyone else will drive as far on the right side as possible. This will open a makeshift lane for rescue vehicles. And your job is to stay the F out of that lane. Because there’s several dozen tons worth of rescue vehicles barrelling along said lane at 65 mph, lights flashing and sirens blaring. The fact that no more vehicles are coming does NOT mean that you can close the lane again btw. Because there could be more units coming. Possibly an emergency doctor. And when the worst comes to the worst, there will be a hearse coming through. And if YOU decided to pull into that lane, others will follow. Next thing that you’ll see is total gridlock and no one will be able to move. And no additional rescue units will get through, either.
Believe me: You DON’T want to see what happened up front. It is a toss-up between either really boring and an A grade shitshow that some people will get therapy about. If you want to see damaged and smashed cars, go to your local scrapyard. You can gawk at those wrecks all day long if you want, while not holding up traffic and causing more accidents.
i work as a flagger for AT&T and the amount of people who ignore the orange signs WARNING them about road work ahead, then either running past the flagger or having to slam on their brakes because they dont pay attention is insane….not to mention all these people who will drive in the work area and be texting on their phones…insane
It's so funny that despite so many people being unable to use a roundabout or DD or other cool traffic solutions, they always result in higher flow and less accidents anyway
Is anyone noticing how his thumbnails turn from dark blue & orange to his regular blue in a few days?
I'm a new driver at 22 (I know it's pathetic), and I've been practicing driving with my grandpa recently. I make sure to go the speed limit, check lights, SMOG (signal, mirror, over the shoulder, go), and all that, but I'm a bit nervous about my skills. Hope I get better.
2 words: RACING SIM!!!
OMG dude... I can tell you're driving like your grandpa. Dude, at 17 I was doing burnouts, crazy eights, sliding across lanes, doing slaloms in the middle of the street, rounding 90 deg turns at 40mph, etc.
I learned to check my blind spots by leaning forward, while looking at the mirror. It's way easier.
You just need to learn how to control the car and be aware of your surroundings. When I was that age, I felt like the car was a part of me. I knew exactly where everything was. Front tire, left tire, front bumper, rear bumper. You have no idea how many close calls and accidents I avoided in those days. In 2006, an old lady tried to turn left into a gas station, seeing me round the corner made her panic stop in the middle of the road. I quickly turned left into oncoming traffic, avoided her, then merged back to my side of traffic. It all happened within maybe 2-4sec.
As I've gotten older, I'm numb to all of that now. I used to whip it into reverse into a spot, get inches from other cars. Today, my spacing is way off. I crawl into parking spaces now.
I'll teach you now... backing into parking spaces is not only so much cooler, but it's also 100% safer. So look like a G and always back in. Then watch all your homies do the same thing... because they're simp betas.
So go buy a racing sim, race every day on it, and teach yourself how to drive. How to counter steer, how to drift, how to brake hard before turns, how to power out of turns, how to feel grip thresholds, how to tune yourself to the car.
Also, hood cam, cockpit, or bumper cam are the only acceptable viewing angles. It is 100% easier to drive from cockpit view or hood view, than it is 3rd person.
I know, people want to see their pretty car models, but we care about the road and winning.
Avoid scraping at all costs. Find the gaps, but don't trade paint.
You will thank me later.
Best of luck, and have fun. You can be responsible when you're old and drive a Corvette.
Oh Bladed... I had to.
Lol.
just go slow and drive everyday within a month youll be a great driver
@@christopherlowery855 problem with that is racing sims (even grand turismo) are very different from IRL in terms of physics
0:07 “special breed” is WILD 💀
I live in Hungary, and there is a law saying you ALWAYS have to turn on your headlights. Day or night, clear or foggy you light up. People don't actually do it and they are invisible in grey corollas and Opels.
American cars introduced the "day lights" as I call them. The point is that you have some tiny lights on the front of the car for visibility, but none on the back unfortunately. These things are annoying
The first time I travelled to Atlanta, I was horrified by NPCs driving at 100 mph just because one Ferrari passed by...And the worse part is they suddenly switch between NPC and PC mode for no reason even though there are like 10 lanes😨
All of this is exactly why I as a car enthusiast say we *need* adequate public transportation in America. Some people just aren’t cut out to drive, and that’s alright. The issue comes when driving is the only option to get around, so not allowing people to drive essentially locks them into a mile of their home (if they have sidewalks) or paying ridiculous uber prices to get anywhere. This means we have jokes of driving tests.
I, also in metro Atlanta, was nervous for my driving test until the instructor said “alright, turn into back into the test lot” after I went through two intersections and a stop sign. That’s it, that’s what said I’m ready to navigate roundabouts, I won’t be terrified of going over 40 when it’s time to merge, and I won’t drive around with my brights on all night