I had one of those situations this morning. An Aveo sedan was all over my bumper for not trying to catch up with the cars ahead of us. Long story short, we're looking at almost 20 miles of effectively no passing. If traffic is sparse you can pick off one or two here and there, but in the morning commute you're looking at blocks of 10 or 20 cars- you're not passing the whole group and there aren't any holes to fit into. Even if you succeed with a pass, congratulations! You're now one car ahead in that 20 mile long line. There's a mile long climbing lane, but you're not going to pass a group of 10 cars- half of which are trying to pass the other half, who think "two lanes, it's a different kind of road now and I can drive faster." Oh, and past that is a detour with a stop sign.
So this Aveo strained uphill past me to catch up with the line of cars that was approaching the stop sign. And being in an Aveo, she had to wait at the stop sign for a huge gap in traffic before she could proceed. I wasn't upset at being delayed by her at the stop sign because I knew we'd catch up to the larger mass of cars soon enough, and when the road really opened up in a few more miles her pass would get her there one car length sooner, and me one car length later. Over 40 miles that's not really a delay, and now I had a draft instead of just someone filling my wake.
Many people are just plain stupid. They don't understand simple things, and traffic patterns are apparently complicated. I don't take the blame for wastefulness created by people reacting to my attempts to minimize my own waste: If Happy gets mad at me and punches Bob Barker, I don't really give a #V(%; he's an idiot and it's on him.
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Originally Posted by Vman455
... they're calling your anecdotal evidence into question because it is anecdotal evidence.
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To me it's not so damning that EVmetro loves the anecdotal, it's the assignment of responsibility. We're all responsible for our own actions
unless we're irrationally annoyed by someone else's perfectly reasonable behavior? Wrongheaded statements like that make me so mad I'm going to stomp on my glasses. We all know whose fault it'll be, so I'll PM EVmetro a pic of the bill for replacing them.