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Originally Posted by eufo
Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one on the road trying to drive economically and it gets annoying when someone cuts me off and brakes hard to make a turn or whatever and messes up my economy when they could have easily slid behind me while slowing down for their turn and saved us both some wasted fuel.
I used to be one of these jackasses, so I can't bust their chops too hard, but I would have listened if someone tried to teach me a bit about efficiency.
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I think we all get that. Create the space to coast or accelerate into and some muppet decides that you're "going too slow" and wants to jump one (usually just one) space ahead and fills it. Just one of the hazards. Sometimes I will use a bit of gas, subtly, to hold off the cutting in but that can serve to aggravate the problem (and uses some more gas anyway).
While it would be useful to know when lights are going to change I suspect that there might be a few more accidents were it to become widespread. It's not at all uncommon for people to try to sneak through on a freshly red light. It is something that I am very cautious of when trying to anticipate light changes. Especially where sight lines are limited.
You also have to aware of pedestrians. Just recently I had a couple of guys cross the road just as the lights changed to green, from in front of a bus that blocked them from my sight and the car in the next lane's. Had I been trying to coast through and not slowed as a precaution, or the other car not been stopped, it would have been very close indeed. (It wasn't very far off as it was.)