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I feel irritated by both aggressive drivers and the too cautious drivers. My basic rule is if you need to press your brake often when it is clearly not a heavy traffic nor there is any road hazard nor steep down hill, then you are not driving properly. Either you are tailgating too closely or you are too cautious. Driving like that waste your gas, wear your car, and make the cars behind you unable to predict the real situation in front. When the cars behind you follow your unnecessary brakes, the traffic jam will be created. If they instead get used to your brakes and ignore, accident can occur if you ever slam your brake to avoid the real danger. So please drive properly so that you can save money, save environment, and save life. Aggressive cars please slow down and create more space in front of you. Cautious drivers, you don't really need to maintain the same buffer distance all the time. The buffer is there for you so that you can sometime get closer the car in front safely.

Secondly, please allow your fellow friends on the road to get into your lane when they politely signal. When people get stuck in the slow lane, nobody wants to go to the slow lane. When everybody maintains a reasonable buffer between cars, it is always possible to let other cars into your lane. If you are cautious drivers at around speed limit, please consider going to the slow lane when possible.

Thirdly, when there are enough traffic on the road, the passing lane is no longer a passing lane. If you don't accept that, aggressive drivers, you will just create traffic jam or accidents the way you drive. Aggressively cutting queues causes other cars to brake and slow down the traffic, and that would in turn annoy more fast drivers behind who would join your bad behaviors. You may be the winner for this round, but you may be the victim of others who drive like you in the traffic ahead. Also, you just need to realize that you would probably save only 5% of your time on the trip if you are lucky. But more likely you will be stuck in the same traffic because of people like you everywhere.

Fourthly, if you just enjoy driving aggressively for fun, go to hell.

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