What's your state's Driving Motto

"Chairman Kaga" (mike-mckinnon)
06/12/2015 at 10:23 • Filed to: None

It occurred to me this morning that Texas’s official Driving Motto is without a doubt,

Texas - We brake hard for “corners” on the Interstate

DISCUSSION (51)

Zohaibman72 > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:27

Ontario - Potholes. Everywhere.

Azrek > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:28

Maryland: We are lost and so can you.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:29

(Not my state, but observed every time I’m in Greenville)SC: Better get in the left lane and slow down - my turn’s on the left in about 5 miles and I don’t want to miss it.

Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:29

Bristish Columbia - Good until the Albertans show up.

Alberta - There are speeds between 80 and 130?!?!

CB > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:30

My buddy and I had one for my neighbourhood, which was “Too rich to stop”, because everyone ran stop signs. So we started judging people’s economic well-being from how long they spent at a stop sign. We saw a guy parked for a solid few minutes at a stop sign, and my buddy just shook his head, saying “that poor, poor man”.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:31

Victoria - give us your wallet!

LongbowMkII > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:32

Kentucky: Red light means one more left turn.

sellphones2493 > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:34

Maryland: Where half the people fly down the exit lane in traffic, only to merge back at the end, not because it’s douchey, but because they think they’re smart.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:35

Montana-Drinking and Driving Legally until 2005

http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/m…

aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:35

Virginia- Keep it 55 or pay! (with your wallet)

AM3R shamefully returns > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:39

Virginia (and DC): Don’t!

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > CB
06/12/2015 at 10:40

Try Woodbridge/Vaughan area for that. Unless you’re a stranger or deliberately trying to cause an accident, you only stop if:

1. There’s cross traffic, in which case ordinary right of way rules are followed, and I mean properly followed.

2. There’s a cop.

Cool thing is, because everyone does it, and it works.

Ash78, voting early and often > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:42

Alabama: Left lane for Donks only.

You honk, I shoot. (Seriously, honking here is like an act of aggression akin to the middle finger)

Where speed limits are in beats per minute. (Hooray for concrete slab interstates!)

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > LongbowMkII
06/12/2015 at 10:42

Frankly, I’m OK with this, as long as it’s closer to the yellow-red than the red-green. One less person in the way. If you mean the guy who starts his turn on the red, though...

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:45

Wisconsin: Out drinking (and driving) your state since 1848

RockThrillz89 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
06/12/2015 at 10:45

5 miles is not too bad. In my part of SC, the left lane is the “long haul lane”, as I call it (just made that up really). People jump in the left lane because “they’re on their way to Myrtle Beach and don’t want to hold up merging traffic; everybody else just needs to not be in such a rush”. That excuse is valid maybe for two miles of road total.

LongbowMkII > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
06/12/2015 at 10:48

sometimes one guy blocks the intersection then leaves on red and occasionally one more follows. most often is someone rolls over the line then just goes when it turns red.

450X_FTW > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:49

We pass on the right, because no one knows how to use the left lane.

#PureMichigan

Jack Does Cars > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:49

North Carolina: Always cut people off. Always.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > LongbowMkII
06/12/2015 at 10:53

Kentucky must have different rules than up here. Here you’re supposed to get into the intersection and then wait for an opportunity. If you’re in the intersection when it turns red, you have to clear it. Usually the guy behind will try to get over the line into the intersection, even if just a little, then technically he needs to clear the intersection on red as well. It’s when the guy behind that tries to push it I have the problem.

Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 10:59

Missouri: It’s raining! WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

LongbowMkII > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
06/12/2015 at 10:59

You’re supposed to keep the intersections clear, but it seems that it’s enforced like tailgating. (it’s not)

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Jack Does Cars
06/12/2015 at 11:02

Yep.

Rainbow > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 11:04

Georgia/Atlanta: Rules do not apply and it’s always the other guy’s fault.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Ash78, voting early and often
06/12/2015 at 11:10

Look at it this way - it’s hard to get a donk up to speed. Would one be an asshole and try to force the donk to find another speed once it’s managed to establish a good one in the left lane? I think not. Also, the left lane is for ballers. Fact.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 11:11

New Jersey - I’m cutting you off and doing 85 in 50 while going to the shore.

Sam > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 11:13

Indiana: 465 is where you qualify for the 500, right?

Seriously, the speed limit is 55, but you have to do at least 10 over to keep up in the right lane.

Destructive Tester > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 11:20

Utah: Oh, you’re trying to merge? Frick no*, not on my watch!!!

*not a content edit, Mormons like to use kid swears in place of actual obscenities. They don’t seem to understand that its not the word that’s bad, its the meaning associated with the word...

AM > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 11:21

Ontario - It’s gonna get bumpy!

Seriously we have pretty bad roads. So much so that people consider us to have only two seasons: Winter and Construction.

TheRealBicycleBuck > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 11:21

Louisiana: We stop at blinking yellow lights because the other guy might not stop at the blinking red.

Needmoargarage > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 11:23

Welcome to Michigan—where driving a mechanically sound car is completely optional.

Seriously, you wouldn’t believe the amount of car parts I dodge on my commute.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
06/12/2015 at 11:24

Further proof that 95% of Stop signs should be replaced with Yield signs. I swear the US is insane and obsessed with stopping. Why do our transportation engineers do this when most of the rest of the world doesn’t?

HammerheadFistpunch > Destructive Tester
06/12/2015 at 11:26

I would also accept - Why should I pass on the left?

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
06/12/2015 at 11:30

Engineers nothing. “Won’t sombody please think of the children” parents, politicians who want their vote, and easy ticket revenue.

And agreed on the yeilds.

SaveTheIntegras > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 11:54

New Jersey: We suck at driving, get off the road

Svart Smart, traded in his Smart > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 12:03

Washington: Cross traffic might stop (even without a stop sign/light).

Destructive Tester > HammerheadFistpunch
06/12/2015 at 12:17

I considered something about left lane “morality police” but I couldn’t work-in the Mormon swearing joke...

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 12:24

Florida: Drunk driving is okay! Let’s slow down 20 mph for interstate exits, 2 miles before! What the fuck is a right of way?!?! I don’t need no helmet for my motersickle!

Baeromez > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
06/12/2015 at 12:27

Florida: 15 under or 15 over, take your pick.

facw > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
06/12/2015 at 12:45

This is the law in NY. One car making the left is allowed into the intersection to wait, and then is allowed to clear the intersection even after the light changes. You are not allowed to enter the intersection if the light is red. And of course normally two or three cars will go out for the turn.

facw > Eric @ opposite-lock.com
06/12/2015 at 12:46

I want more roundabouts. I really believe that Americans are smart enough to learn to use them properly if they saw them more often.

facw > aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe
06/12/2015 at 12:49

And maybe your freedom...

wiffleballtony > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 14:28

Az: Slower Traffic Keep Left

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
06/12/2015 at 14:29

*down the shore (said by actually intelligent people who do not understand how illogical it sounds)

ReallyColorful > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 14:29

Massachusetts - Using the blinkahs is wicked lame!

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Chairman Kaga
06/12/2015 at 14:32

I enjoy how Florida could be described as “The more north you go, the Souther it gets”. As for my state of NJ, “Left turns are illegal so I need to go faster everywhere else to make up for lost time in jughandles”

wiffleballtony > Destructive Tester
06/12/2015 at 14:42

Not enough stars to give

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/12/2015 at 14:50

can’t bring myself to type “down the shore”. It irritates me too much.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins)
06/12/2015 at 15:04

It irritates me the same as the people that say Taylor Ham instead of Porkroll.

unclevanos (Ovaltine Jenkins) > Wrong Wheel Drive (41%)
06/12/2015 at 15:20

porkroll is delicious on a bacon egg and cheese breakfast sandwich.

Gizmo - The Only Good Gremlin, but don't feed me after Midnight > Chairman Kaga
06/13/2015 at 00:15

Illinois: the cell phone/texting lane is the one to the far left!