http://www.lacantdrive.com Los Angeles drivers can't drive. Plain and simple. Basic traffic laws and driving etiquette clearly do not apply in a town where the people seem to operate in their own little bubble, completely unaware or dismissive of others on the road. Call it what you will: self-entitlement, negligence, malaise, ignorance. My goal? To have mandatory driving tests randomly issued where drivers are eligible for selection after 6 years. Consider this jury duty for the road. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:35:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter The fact that so many drivers in Los Angeles treat their cars as an extension of their egos still boggles my mind.  Case in point, I haven't seen more drivers obsessed with "lane-blocking" in any other city ... http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/07/22/tailgating-for-sport/ Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter When you're driving around on much roomier Valley streets, the number of cars cruising around at night without headlights on really jumps out at you. Most of us know that there are certain driving basics in ... http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/07/21/maroon-ghost-rider-in-glendale/ Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter OK, so if I had initially known this guy was as crazy and cracked out as he eventually revealed, I would have reported him to the police. Alas, he drove away too quickly for us to ... http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/07/20/psycho-needs-to-be-permanently-removed-from-streets/ Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter Wow, the idiots out today! Seriously, it boggles my mind why so many drivers just can't grasp that others drivers share the road with them. I was coming back from a class I was taking ... http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/07/19/july-19-la-idiot-pride-day/ Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter Before we moved to our new home, there were times when I thought that maybe my perception of bad driving is Los Angeles is skewed because of how centrally located we were in the county. Truth ... http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/07/18/one-after-another-ignoring-right-turn-only-lane/ Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter Making stupid mistakes and forcing others to pay for them is a common occurrence on the streets of L.A. Case in point, the arrogant tool driving this van was driving south on Coldwater on my left. ... http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/07/16/left-turn-only-lanes-are-for-left-turnsonly/ Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter Here we go, yet another Prius driver who doesn't have a clue about how to drive. I wish Angelenos will one day stop treating the Prius as an "image" car, because people here who tend to ... http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/07/15/signaling-left-to-go-right-and-more/ Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter Back in 2006 when I decided to create this blog, one of my colleagues at the time gave me this by Bruce Eric Kaplan. Since I have a story to share today that really typifies the ... http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/07/14/argumentative-clueless-crone/ Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter Learn how to merge, assnuts. The driver of this red piece of sh*t pickup truck with a hat (with what looked like three other people in the front seats alone) tried to merge onto the 5 ... http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/07/13/moronic-merging-mishaps/ Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter Talk about Saturday morning malaise. I first notice this lady driving her white Pontiac as she's pulling out of a driveway off of Oak across from the Starbucks. She proceeded to cross the grassy median ... http://www.lacantdrive.com/2008/07/12/two-looks-at-clueless-and-aggressive/