Picture being in a mile long line waiting on a freeway interchange. There's a black, beat up, pickup with gardening equipment and a guy wearing a bandanna driving. He puts on his right blinker. As he's starring at his right side mirror, he doesn't realize that his car is rolling backward. Backward, toward me. Not again (again, yes, see below). So I lay on my horn. He doesn't realize the horn is for him for a second and then finally, just as he's about to take off my bumper, he, um, puts his foot on that thing called a break peddle. He looks at me in the rear view mirror and I scream (not like he could hear it), "Your car was rolling backward". What's the international symbol for your car is rolling backward? So he moves up and soon cuts off a guy in the right lane.
Seriously, how can automakers produce manual cars? We can't trust that people know how to drive them. You should at least have to pass a special manual driving test at the DMV first or something. Maybe just make them for high end sports cars. If you're gonna spend $100G's on your car then I trust you know how to drive it.
And yes, this happened to me once before on the 405. Girl stalled her jeep in front of me on a big hill and every time she tried to start it, it rolled back. I couldn't get out of my lane and I laid on my horn, but she didn't stop until she hit me. Then we get out and she tries to say I drove into the back of her. I was like, "You didn't feel your car going backward? Every time you tried to start it?"
How can people not realize their car is moving? How?
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