Raptor vs Accord

[jamanrr]

What is funny is its always smaller vehicles people act like that in.

 

[melvimbe]

While I agree that you need to get out of the left lane if you aren't passing, that's doesn't justify the stupidity of the Accord. We don't really know what happened before the video starts, but the video does start with the Accord moving over into the left lane following to close to the Rap and probably not a big enough gap. That was dumb right there.

It does not look like the Raptor is passing, but it looks like he is slowly overtaking the car in the right lane. Maybe the car in right lane sped up when it was being passed? Maybe the Raptor didn't even notice the Accord behind him? Maybe they'd be playing this game for awhile before hand? I somewhat doubt that as I think the vehicle with camera would have kept more distance. Then again, Accord would have just passed on the left shoulder if he thought the Raptor would let him go.

It's entirely possible the reason the Raptor started speeding up is because they realized their was an idiot near by doing stupid things, and you want to get as much distance from you and the idiot. It's also possible the Raptor was just being a **** to the idiot. I guess the moral is...don't drive like an idiot and don't stoop to their level.

 

[Wilbur]

There's a slightly longer version on youtube that shows the Raptor was passing the cars that were in the right lane and then purposely hit his brakes when the accord starts tailgating him. I don't think he was truly a left-lane hogger. Raptor may not have made the best choice, but you can't blame him too much. We've all been there. As far as the accord goes, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes".

BTW, listen to it with audio if you haven't already lol.

 

[Win Seeker]

my current daily (and work truck) is a 2003 ram 2500. it’s been beat, used and abused for 200k hard miles and looks the part.

aside from the fact that i drive like a perfect gentleman…. strangely enough, stuff like this just doesn’t happen when i’m in that truck.

because nothing says, “i ain’t afraid to swap paint” like 7,500 of ugly POS truck that’s worth about nothing.

i find everyone on the road extremely courteous. much more so than when i’m in the raptor or the mustang.

go figure…

Man, aint this the truth?

In my previous F150, nobody messed with me. Murdered out with 1% tint all around and people treated me like royalty. But in my wifes explorer? People cutting me off all the time, riding my ***, and flipping the bird.

 

[melvimbe]

There's a slightly longer version on youtube that shows the Raptor was passing the cars that were in the right lane and then purposely hit his brakes when the accord starts tailgating him. I don't think he was truly a left-lane hogger. Raptor may not have made the best choice, but you can't blame him too much. We've all been there. As far as the accord goes, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes".

BTW, listen to it with audio if you haven't already lol.

Thanks. That story makes sense. I can't say I wouldn't do the same thing as the Raptor, as I have. Well, not in the passing lane, but still, I don't care for tailgaters.

 

[smurfslayer]

Unfortunate. I don’t hog the left lane, if I see you behind me with greater pace, I’ll get out of your way when the opportunity presents itself. I am not going to floor it to make way but I am not dawdling.

Because years before I got tailgated on my bike for a while as I overtook a line of slowpokes in the right lane. surprised they didn’t pass me on the double yellow, nobody was coming. I was pretty pissed off by the time I put the last car down, got over and this guy whizzed past like King Richard Petty. Stopped at the next light, turned into the ER parking lot.

Last year, I had to make an emergency hospital run, time was off the essence. It’s a 12 minute ride, give or take and the last thing I would have wanted would have been a slow moving road block with a passive aggressive streak.

Of course, this is all several orders of magnitude less likely to be a problem when you live where it’s not overcrowded to the tune of 10x the level of human population the region can sustain.

 

[Nex]

Because years before I got tailgated on my bike for a while as I overtook a line of slowpokes in the right lane. surprised they didn’t pass me on the double yellow, nobody was coming. I was pretty pissed off by the time I put the last car down, got over and this guy whizzed past like King Richard Petty. Stopped at the next light, turned into the ER parking lot.


You gotta move to the right for flashing lights smurfslayer.

 

[illymost]

i dont think the raptor stopped either.

I used to commute to work in a ragged out Honda Odyssey. Left the house about 4am. I’m on the highway and a 90’s Civic is in the right lane doing about 35. I passed him doing about 75. Next thing I know he comes blasting past me in the left lane at at least 100. Couple miles up the road, he’s in the right lane doing 35. I pass him. This happens 5 times in 20 miles, to the point where I put my pistol in my lap because I don’t know what this guy is going to do next. I pass him, stay in the left lane and he comes tearing up on the right side, gets about 5 car lengths in front of me, blows his front driver tire spins off the road into a cloud of dirt and smoke. He didn’t roll. I gave him a toot toot of the horn as I kept rolling.

 

[nikhsub1]

Unfortunate. I don’t hog the left lane, if I see you behind me with greater pace, I’ll get out of your way when the opportunity presents itself. I am not going to floor it to make way but I am not dawdling.

Because years before I got tailgated on my bike for a while as I overtook a line of slowpokes in the right lane. surprised they didn’t pass me on the double yellow, nobody was coming. I was pretty pissed off by the time I put the last car down, got over and this guy whizzed past like King Richard Petty. Stopped at the next light, turned into the ER parking lot.

Last year, I had to make an emergency hospital run, time was off the essence. It’s a 12 minute ride, give or take and the last thing I would have wanted would have been a slow moving road block with a passive aggressive streak.

Of course, this is all several orders of magnitude less likely to be a problem when you live where it’s not overcrowded to the tune of 10x the level of human population the region can sustain.

This. Seems the Raptor was being an *** and not yielding the left lane for the accord to pass. No excuse for the ******* accord to pull that shit though, and I see no reason why the raptor should have stopped.

 

[Winchester30]

Hogging the left lane, passing on the right, whatever… these are minor issues when the biggest thing I saw are two, self-centered drivers who have no regard for other’s lives on the road. Reckless.