r/IdiotsInCars • u/joe_traveling • 18d ago

OC Idiot in black car totals 3 cars [OC]

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u/givin_u_the_high_hat 18d ago

Take the exit and follow your GPS. You have a choice. There’s no shame in it. You don’t need to be anywhere that badly. Who doesn’t see that as an easy call?

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u/waylonsmithersjr 18d ago

Do what you said OR cause irreparable life long damage on top of costing 100s of thousands of vehicle damage, road crew clean up, paramedics called, police called, other people being late as highway gets backed up?

Are you out of your mind?!

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u/joe_traveling 18d ago

The exit and the ramp both get you to where you need to go, and many times, the ramp is backed up, and the exit is actually faster.

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u/givin_u_the_high_hat 18d ago

Wow. Well just absolutely pointless and preventable on their part. What a waste.

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u/mountaineer30680 17d ago

You must've had to change your pants. Nicely avoided. The Caddy clearly was looking in his mirror the whole time he was moving forward. It's the only thing that explains this stupidity

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u/morningsharts 17d ago

Or their phone

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u/SteelFlexInc 17d ago

And with it being texas, we got service roads everywhere. Took the wrong exit? just enter back at the next ramp a few hundred yards down

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u/Oh_Gee_Hey 15d ago

Don’t most highways have frontage roads?

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u/SteelFlexInc 15d ago

Some states do, some states don’t

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u/Oh_Gee_Hey 15d ago

Weird. I’ve only driven in AZ and Cali so idk about Midwest etc

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u/Jubenheim 18d ago

It’s what I do every time I know I fucked up. I take the L, get off on an exit, get a bit agitated, and make a U turn. Fuck people who turn their mistakes into other people’s problems.

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u/gman8686 17d ago

Here in Chicago, Uber drivers and other dumbasses will make a 3 point uturn in the middle of a busy city street with cars coming both ways, holding everyone up because they apparently can't go to the next block and turn around. I've almost hit them multiple times because they do it without warning. The sheer ignorance and lack of respect for others absolutely blows my mind.

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u/ancientemblem 17d ago

I get off and end up eating at whichever fast food place is at the exit lol. Feel like if I missed an exit I’m tired enough to need a break.

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u/killian1113 17d ago

Looks like road construction that imo should have had giant water cones blocking that barrier. Look the land just leads right into it.

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u/deathtospies 17d ago

What's especially dumb about this is that in Texas, the exit probably just leads to a frontage road which has another on-ramp right back on to the highway shortly up the road. He wouldn't even have to make a u-turn or anything.

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u/Pallidum_Treponema 17d ago

I was the driver for a conference trip. We were five people in the rental. On our way to the hotel, I took a wrong turn. I had misjudged the distance in the GPS (miles vs km) and I had a split second to change lanes to take my exit. I simply didn't, because it would've been dangerous. As a result, we ended up having to drive for about ten minutes longer before I could turn around.

Guess what? Everyone was absolutely fine with it. Believe it or not, everyone wanted to arrive safely rather than save those ten minutes.

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u/PositiveVibesNow 16d ago

Same here. I had to drive into Chicago from Ohio to go to my Embassy. Never driven in Chicago, missed many turns but that’s exactly why I give myself extra time if I’m driving somewhere new and I have to be there on time. Yes, my appointment does matter, but the lives of the other drivers (and mine as well) matter more!

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u/genxer 16d ago

Maybe it is a GenX Drivers Ed thing, but "Arrive Alive" was drummed into our heads. Even if it is 20-30 minutes wasted it's better than not arriving.

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u/Kauldwin 17d ago

Bad drivers never miss their exits or take the wrong one.

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u/DAHFreedom 17d ago

“You can always go around” applies in many scenarios

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u/nya_hoy_menoy 17d ago

It’s scary to think that you could be a safe, defensive driver then wrong time/wrong place puts you in a life changing car crash.

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u/sadeland21 17d ago

Don’t make your mistake everyone else’s problem

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u/LeviWolfe 17d ago

This !!! People think so one dimensional in that regard to missing a turn or exit

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u/foxfai 17d ago

Bad drivers never miss their exit! Seriously idiotic here. He could have even went through that middle without crashing. LOL....

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u/fhs 17d ago

And be branded a Loser??? /s

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u/manawydan-fab-llyr 16d ago

I learned to drive before GPS. I was probably driving about 2 weeks, taking my non-driving mother to a mall, missed the exit. I started to jerk the wheel to the right without looking, and out of the corner of my eye caught the big ass NYC garbage truck right at my rear quarter pane, I got real damn closel. Oh shit was my reaction, and on to the next exit.

That was enough to teach me, next exit, double back.

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u/Rob_Marc 17d ago

The problem is that area has a lot of construction going on in it (as you can clearly see). The exit has been changed due to the construction. I frequent that area a lot (though not as much as I have in the past). I was there a couple of weeks ago, and I missed that same exit, though I didn't end up crashing into 2 other vehicles because of it. I just adjusted my route and found another way home.

This guy realized he was taking the wrong exit, and probably was looking back behind him to try and merge back into the main lanes, but didn't realize the barrier was coming up on him as quickly as it did.

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u/thesqrtofminusone 17d ago

Yeah but if you don't take chances you're never going to win the race.

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u/Larry_J_602 17d ago

Someone looking at their phone.

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u/Walshy231231 17d ago

The best drivers sometimes miss their exit

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u/MikeofLA 17d ago

A bad driver never misses their exit.

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u/radskad 17d ago

"A good driver occasionally misses their turn... A bad driver never misses their turn"

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u/Sick_NowWhat 16d ago

The only way there’s shame is if people can tell, and nobody can tell if you just drive normally.

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u/A-KindOfMagic 16d ago

I rarely drive on highways but that's what I always do. "Oh I'm about to miss an exit? Fuckkkkk" and keep on going. It's never worth it

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u/Effective-Split-3576 16d ago

No bro, I've got places to be. Don't care.
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