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Crashes in turns and those LLBs

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Who's at fault in this situation, while driving around two turn lanes or a roundabout?

A driver in an adjacent lane drifts into you and hits the side of your front bumper; The drifty driver then pulls in front of you and slams on the brakes; You hit the drifty driver and smash its rear end;

That's what a Sloth tried today. I was approaching a left turn and entered the outer of the two turn lanes, which was empty. The Sloth at the green light in the other lane wasn't moving until I was about 5 m behind it. Then the Sloth accelerated diagonally across my path. Fortunately, I was paying attention and was able to take action before the Sloth could cause a crash. Then the Sloth honked at me after I got in front of it.

Those LLBs were out again today. What's so hard to understand about the pbutting lane? I was pbutting three slower vehicles at about 120 when the second driver drifted in front of me and slowly began pbutting the first vehicle. It was a pick-up truck, so I politely slowed down because pick-up trucks are usually slower vehicles. The pick-up driver micropbutted the car and slowed down, in the usual front-Duckling position. I pbutted the LLB and it started flashing its high-beams at me. After I sped away, the LLB caused a long traffic jam as it began a rolling roadblock with the Enabler. The pbutting lane is for pbutting!

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When are LLBs most dangerous? When you're coming down the lane at 200+ and there's an emergency. Unlike on normal roadways, those infested with LLBs do not permit the free flow of traffic. So your trip that should be at speeds between 180 and 220 is like this:

Speed 220, brake for LLB, wait for LLB to move over, accelerate from 90 to 200, brake for LLB and wait, accelerate from 100 to 150, brake for LLB and wait, accelerate from 80 to 120, brake for LLB and wait, accelerate and brake, and delay and delay and... Why are they in the pbutting lane if they're not pbutting?!?




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