Time to tackle driving. You know, that thing that no one else can handle except for you? First off. From the News Journal, an opinion piece about red light cameras, that somehow manages to put a slam on SUVs as part of message.

I refer to motor vehicles rather than cars because these days light trucks — SUVs — are dominant. As Keith Bradsher details in “High and Mighty,” the definitive book on the history and indictment of the SUV, all efforts have failed to mandate improved mileage or reclassify SUVs. The powerful auto industry, its unions and the public, have frightened congressmen and government agencies into inaction.

OK, so, the auto industry, unions, and THE PUBLIC all conspired together to frighten congressmen, who never fear increasing their own paychecks, into not doing anything about SUVs. First off, hey jackass, the congressmen are supposed to do what the public tells them to do. I know thats an alien concept to the authoritarian liberal mind, but thats how it works. If most of the public is for or against something, well, thats how congressmen are supposed to vote. I know this fails in your perfectly scripted world where everyone does exactly what you’ve told them to do, since the liberals know what is best for everyone else…
I don’t hate SUVs. I had one a larger one, and have a Honda Element now. I also have an Acura Integra which I’ve had for 8 years and gets great gas mileage. I will admit that many of the people who drive SUVs can’t handle them at all, and are complete idiots. But then again, at least around here, most drivers are complete idiots. Lets be specific, m’kay?
Delaware has so many out of state drivers it is easy to classify drivers by state. In the mid-atlantic region of states, Maryland drivers are the worst. Now, I got my drivers license first in Maryland. But Maryland drivers are worse than New Jersey. Jersey drivers are very agressive, but they pay attention to the road generally. They’re zooming across lanes, but with a purpose, not out of inattention. Maryland tagged cars can always be found driving slow in the left lane on I-95, puttering past the Slower Traffic Keep Right signs. And when they do change lanes it is without turn signals, because that is too damn hard for them to handle. Pennsylvania drivers are generally all right, as are most drivers from Delaware.
But I’m calling the Maryland drivers, who commute into or through Delaware on I-95, complete and utter incapable drivers.
Two simple rules. Keep right except to pass, and if you are not going to be in the same lane you are currently in, use a damn turn signal. If there are cars moving past you on your right, and you aren’t making a left turn, you are in the wrong lane. Changing lanes requires a turn signal. Moving into a turn lane counts. If you are then moving from the turn lane into the new lane, well, guess what? You need to use a turn signal.
Its that easy people. And oh yeah, yield does not equal merge. They are NOT the same thing.

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