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- It's easy to feel invincible
when we're in the driver's seat, it's my car, my rules.
But there's another set of rules, the rules of the road
that drivers sometimes feel don't apply to them.
Today we're gonna go through
some of the worst driving habits
from the mildly irritating to the downright dangerous.
Are you a bad driver and don't even know it?
Can't wait to find out how many I'm guilty of, it's a lot.
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First up let's talk about parking.
Parking is the easiest part of driving,
yet we still find ways to screw it up.
Real talk, I'm horrible at it.
Oh (bleeps) that's way too much.
- He's gonna swerve. (man laughing)
(engine growling)
- Look at that guy. (gear cranking)
- This was the massacre.
Whether it be squeezing our wide boys into compact spots,
blocking others in,
a lot of people park like entitled bozos.
I'm not sure what bugs me more,
egregiously sparkers or just an efficient ones.
The ones who take up three good spots
by parking like an a-hole especially in big cities
where street parking can be a nightmare.
This sort of thing drives me nuts,
don't do that to your neighbor.
Look, I'm not talking about those instances
where the spot made sense when you pulled in,
and then everyone who is parked around you drove off,
and now you look like a jerk.
I'm talking about when there's a wide open stretch of curb
and you slap that baby in the park
just like an absolute maniac just to feel alive.
Okay, let's talk about the worst person you can encounter
while parking, a spot saver.
We all hate them and we hate to be them.
There's just something so ridiculous
about someone standing in a car spot
waiting to save it for a car that's not there
when you, in an actual car, are there.
This isn't grade school, there's no tap tabs,
or savesies, or sevens, or whatever, this is road life.
No by pad tells me where I can and cannot park,
I will run your ass over!
Even worse, are people who put up cones
to reserve spots on public streets,
you don't own that spot.
Plus, those aren't even real cones,
those are from your kids soccer practice
I will also run them over.
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Okay, we all know pollution is bad,
but what about noise pollution?
Yes, also bad, blasting music, revving engines,
honking toot toots and pilling out are all super fun,
but there's a time and a place for it, okay.
And that time is not at 3 a.m on a residential street.
(car revving)
(bleeps) Look I get it, I used to be that guy,
pressing the overdrive OFF button in my automatic Mustang,
turning up crash control, and doing a Bernie a stop sign.
But I've also been at the other end of it.
And it sucks to be woken up
by clapped out G-35 burning rubber down my street.
And as long as we're on the subject of noise,
one beep of the horn is enough.
If another driver pisses you off, laying on the horn
will only piss off the innocent people around you.
And that's just the big piss party,
and everyone has to get out of the pool.
Some of the most annoying driving I see
happens at stop signs.
A more common infraction is the rolling stop,
a.k.a the California roll, we've all done it
in this case (chuckles), it is bad driving.
I actually got ticketed for California roll a few years ago,
and it cost me $225 (chuckles).
I did it right in front of a police officer.
(crew members laughing)
I did not see him.
If people actually do come to a complete stop,
they usually completely disregard the proper right of way.
How hard is this to understand?
At a four-way stop, the right of way
goes to whoever showed up first,
unless you arrive at the same time, in which case,
the right of way goes to the person to the, huh?
Let me hear it, the right.
Look how easy they made it to remember,
seriously, it's not that hard, person on the right, okay.
What kind of stoplight person are you, let me know?
The kind who creeps into the intersection on a red light
waiting for it to turn green?
Or the one who zones out, and gets honked at,
and tries to save face by peeling out?
Been there, because either way you're doing it wrong.
Look, everyone knows
if you want a head start at the green light,
you just hold down the accelerator
on the second beep of key two's start signal.
Here's a rule of the road you may not even know about
if you've never gotten a flat.
It concerns your temporary spare tire
which is also known as the donut.
Donut spares are designed lighter, narrower,
and less durable than a full sized tire,
they have to be in order to fit in your trunk.
But this means they have less tread, meaning less traction,
meaning decreased stopping and handling ability,
which can make prolonging driving
on one of these super dangerous.
If you find yourself on a temporary spare,
make sure you stay under 50 miles per hour,
and don't travel over 50 miles.
But we've all seen that person
who's had that spare on there for a long time,
don't be that person.
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I don't see a single turn signal in there, which is cool.
'Cause it's not like a blinking light
that literally allows drivers
to anticipate each other's movements
would help everyone get on the same page or anything,
that would be stupid.
It's so easy to use your blinker
just a literal flick of the wrist, okay.
Yet about half of drivers say they don't use them.
Half, are you guys insane?
No wonder the world's like this.
Not using your signal at all is lame,
but using it late can be just as annoying.
You know what I'm talking about.
You're driving along and the dingus in front of you
gives you know heads up they're turning left,
by the time that blinker's flashing,
you have no room to get around them.
Or this annoying scenario.
You're turning left onto a busy street,
and you finally have an opening
but there's one car speeding towards you from your left.
You wait because you don't have a death wish.
And then at the last minute
they flip on that right blinker,
and turn onto your side street.
Why, you couldn't have just told me, you jerk!
Now let's talk about tailgating,
not the awesome kind where you eat wings in a parking lot.
The annoying kind where you drive really close
to the person in front of you.
Everyone's car needs a little breathing room,
especially manuals, which lurch and roll
more than automatics, particularly in stop and go traffic.
I will admit, I'm also guilty of this one,
I do ride people's tails a lot,
and I'm trying to change.
Tailgating limits reaction time,
it increases your chances of having a collision,
which nobody wants.
And it can also lead to the super awkward experience
of blocking the box.
And we've all been there, I did this two weeks ago.
You're following too closely,
you wind up in the middle of an intersection,
the light turns red and you're stuck.
And you're just in everyone's way
just sitting in your shame box
trying to avoid eye contact
with people in every direction, and it's horrible.
And I'm sorry, they aren't even mad at you,
they're just disappointed, which we all know is much worse.
Okay, all the driving habits I've talked about so far
are inconsiderate, irresponsible,
and frustrating to say the least.
But let's dive into the stuff that accidents are made of
like the last minute merges.
It's a crappy thing to do,
and I'm sure each one of us has done it.
Whether it's cutting people off to make your exit,
merging at the last minute to stay on the freeway,
or doing some sneaky zip merging
to skip a line of waiting cars.
I will say, however, that there's a special place in heck
for drivers who cut off the person on their left
in order to avoid a lane of parked cars
instead of just waiting.
Best case scenario, these sort of last minute maneuvers
piss off the drivers around you.
Worst case scenario, someone gets hurt.
So let's all try to be a little more alert
and not so impulsive behind the wheel.
I am very calculating behind the wheel, I will say that.
Another common driving don't,
going the wrong speed for the lane you're in.
Everyone knows the slow folks
are supposed to stay out of the fast lane.
But a bigger and less talked about problem
are the people driving fast in the slow lane.
I will explain, the slow lane gets more congested
because of all the merging that happens at on off ramps,
so careening down them is wildly dangerous.
There's way more going on
in the straightaway of the passing lane.
Think about it, if someone's trying to merge at 40
and you're tearing through it at 80.
Think about that crash, it's not gonna be pretty.
I will say going the wrong speed in the wrong lane
is not as bad as going any speed in no lane,
and I'm talking about those jerks who drive on the shoulder.
I have never done this, I will say that.
First off, let's call shoulder driving what it is, cheating.
That strip a pavement outside the outer lane
isn't a magical shortcut, okay.
It's an emergency stopping lane.
Also, no one who drives on the shoulder
ever goes a normal speed, right?
They're always like ripping down at 90
for absolutely no reason, maybe they have to poop.
I don't know, I mean, that's the only,
it's the poopspeed.
Okay, here's a big one,
the one that every single one of you,
no matter how righteous, and upstanding,
and law abiding you are,
are absolutely guilty of including me, distracted driving.
One of the most common distractions while driving
is of course, texting or talking on the phone.
First, let me hit you with some pretty messed up stats.
Texting drivers are 23 times
more likely to be in an accident, 23 times.
Texting leads to more than 100,000 car crashes a year,
and is six times more likely to cause an accident
than driving drunk.
Take an already terrible idea, then multiply it by six,
that's 10 While driving.
But what it really comes down to is making a commitment
to not using your phone while driving.
Here, I'll do it with you.
I, Nolan Juniper Sykes pledge to put away my phone
and drive distraction free.
God, that actually feels good to say that out loud.
But there are tons of other
non-phone relating driving distractions as well.
Trying to retrieve something that fell,
putting on makeup, reading a book, what?
Even eating and drinking at the wheel
are considered distractions.
I actually hate eating while driving,
that's one of my biggest pet peeves.
Pizza is the only food
that's easy to eat while you're driving.
Then there is rubber necking,
my absolute least favorite thing on the road.
It's when people slow down to look at accident scenes,
it gets its name
from the way drivers crane their necks, right,
to catch a glimpse as they pass by.
Look, I get it's hard to control our morbid curiosity,
but rubbernecking can cause congestion and accidents,
especially rear end collision.
So try not to do it, just do whatever you can.
Also remember, we don't just share the road
with other drivers.
We also share it with pedestrian,
some are better than others.
Drivers zip around corners, swerve through crosswalks,
and slam on their brakes at the last minute
with no regard for human life.
These are pedestrians,
they don't have a metal cage surrounding them,
they are but mere flesh.
We ought to look out for each other.
All right you did it,
you made it to the across the board worst thing
we as drivers subject each other to, road rage.
Road Rage is that Hulk like fury we feel
when another driver wrongs us on the roadway.
It's that shouted expletive,
the flipped bird, I've done that.
But it's also way more serious stuff,
like purposely hitting someone with your car, it's happened.
Road rage incidents don't have to happen in your vehicle,
however, if you assault someone because of a driving dispute
that's considered road rage too.
True road rage is a criminal offense,
unlike aggressive driving, which is a traffic violation.
Look, it sucks to get cut off
but it's not the end of the world.
All right, so what's my count, Alex?
Show me my number, how many crimes did I commit?
(counter beeping)
Not good.
- [Assistant] Driving well sequence.
- Haven't you ever heard the classic supreme song?
No, I'm not gonna do that.
♪ Stop in the name of sign ♪
♪ Before you break my car ♪
(crew cheering)
- Very good. - No, that's horrible.
Have you ever tried to eat in and out while driving,
the Thousand Island sausage is like dribbling out.