Well here is my moron of the week story -
I was on US-64 heading west at Rock Mount, NC around 1 pm yesterday (Sunday). I am in the right lane doing a little over the speed limit (65 mph speed limit). This part of the road is two lanes in each direction. There is plenty of room to right for a break down lane, but things are really tight on the left (there is a narrow paved shoulder, a little dirt shoulder, and a hard steel guardrail to the left). Uber driver in a 2 Door Civic is carving through traffic. He was probably doing 15 over when he passed me. In the left lane is an Elantra, probably doing 5 over in the process of catch and passing a truck that was going the speed limit (or maybe a little lower). Uber driver never slows down, whips to the right lane, shoots past the Elantra, then literally squeezed in between the Elantra and the truck. The Elantra driver has to hit the left shoulder to avoid a collision. I can swear I saw parts fly off the Civic as he shot through the gap (definitely something long and solid was in the air, may have been off the Elantra or from the shoulder). The Civic never slows. The truck never notices anything and keeps going. The Elantra driver is about to hit the guardrail and then in an act of stupidity locks up his brakes (huge dust cloud). Next he jerks the damn car back onto the pavement. At this point I was sure I was toast. I pictured the Elantra going broadside in front of me. So I started braking hard. The Elantra swerves into my lane, but the driver somehow manages to straighten he car out without hitting anything. Meanwhile the Civic is gone.
This is a perfect case of a jerk Uber driver almost getting someone killed while blithely speeding off. If the idiot in the Civic had waited 20 seconds, the Elantra would have finished his pass and we all would have had a more pleasant day. One last irony, about 10 mile down the road, I caught and passed the Civic (if it wasn't the same car, it was it's twin). The idiot driver (a white guy) was yakking away on this cell phone, although how he could hear anything over the fart can exhaust is a mystery to me. It was louder in my car than my radio. The guy in the Elantra had taken the first exit after the near death experience - probably to clean his shorts.
Ed