Smart Move

Attentive Lane Changing

A brand new silver car was driving in front of me. As we came to the I-15/I-215 merge, the silver car tried to move over to the far right lane. However, during this time, an SUV merged from the right; occupying the same space that the silver car was trying to enter. Perhaps due to driving a new car, the silver car driver barely noticed the SUV in time.


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Friday, March 20th, 2015 Videos No Comments

Intelligent Lane Change

I was driving through the I-215/SR 201 interchange today when a car decided that the others merging with him were driving too slow. He hopped across two lanes to end up right in front of me – despite my being very close and coming up fast. He even had second thoughts about it and almost decided it was smarter not to hop in front of me (you can tell by how he hesitates).
Had I not braked quickly, I’d probably have rear-ended him.


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Friday, March 13th, 2015 Videos No Comments

Smart Backup Job

While driving north along 7th E tonight, a car from one of the houses backing the street decided they were going to back out of their driveway – right into the middle of the street and directly in my travel path. Had I not quickly slowed down, I’d have T-Boned them a few seconds later.


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Friday, November 28th, 2014 Videos No Comments

Well-Planned U-Turn

The car in front of me decided to turn into a strip mall near the 100th S. Unfortunately the parking lot entrance he chose was closed – the lot was being repaved.
Apparently frustrated, he decided to do a U turn and go back to a prior entrance. Unfortunately I was only a bit behind him, and nearly hit him as he turned in front of me.


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Friday, October 10th, 2014 Videos No Comments

Clearly Paying Attention

This morning I was driving in the middle-left lane, with an SUV on my right in the middle-right lane. We were both going about the same speed, and had been that way for the past several miles.
Ahead of us was a small car, and we were probably going a good 10-15 mph faster than him – we caught up to him in short order.
As we both quickly approached this small white car, he apparently decided that he needed to get over immediately, so he turned on his blinker and hopped right in front of the SUV next to me.
Had the SUV not immediately slammed on his brakes and hopped to the lane from whence the car came, he would’ve rammed it from behind.


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Friday, October 3rd, 2014 Videos No Comments

Exit Lane Hop

While on my way to work this morning, I was in the far right lane. There was an SUV in the lane next to me. We were approaching the exit for the SLC airport, when he suddenly decided he had to get off there.
He immediately started changing lanes, and threw on his blinker about half way over. I was forced to slam on my brakes and swerve into the unoccupied exit-only lane to miss the back portion of his vehicle.


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Monday, September 22nd, 2014 Videos No Comments

Missed His Exit

At the exact same spot where yesterday’s video happened, I watched yet another guy have issues with the exit. Apparently this guy missed the exit, but decided he urgently had to get off there anyway.
He went off the freeway into the shoulder, crossed over to the offramp, and waited there for an opening (this is when I drove past). After I passed him, I looked back, and he’d hoped across the Northbound I-15 ramp, over to the Southbound ramp that I was going on – a rather dangerous maneuver.


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Friday, August 8th, 2014 Videos No Comments

Cell Phone Turning

While approaching the I-15/I-215 interchange, I noticed that the guy in front of me was weaving back and forth in his lane a bit. As I got closer, I realized that he was focusing on a cell phone conversation, and only catching his drifting as he was about to cross over into the other lane.

As we got closer to the exit, he began to drift toward it, but not nearly fast enough to actually make the exit. He corrected in the nick of time, just as he was about to hit the exit sign.


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Thursday, August 7th, 2014 Videos No Comments

Almost Missed His Exit

While driving today, an SUV had been traveling in the far left lane when he suddenly realized that he needed to get off at the exit we were passing. So he hopped across two lanes and barely made the exit.


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Friday, August 1st, 2014 Videos No Comments

Weave Lane

The white SUV on the left side caught up quickly to the car in front of him. He elected to pass on the right, but after changing lanes, realized that there was an upcoming car in that lane going even slower. So he slammed on his brakes, hopped back over a couple lanes, and hit the gas.


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Thursday, June 26th, 2014 Videos No Comments