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    Chances are you are a crappy driver

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    • Posts: 723 Member
      I believe that every country should have the same driver training as Finland does. They have a mandatory 8-month driver training program where you're basically in school for 8 hours/day for all 8 months, learning how to handle every single freaking situation that you can possibly come across.

      They even learn how to control a car while spinning out of control on a huge patch of ice. How many of you can do that? It's mandatory to do that in order to get your licence there.

      Who has the time to do a class for 8 hours a day for 8 months? How are you supposed to live? People gotta eat and to eat ya gotta work.
    • Posts: 127
      I will make you all jealous. My commute takes 10 minutes tops. 2 miles gravel, 7 on a quiet 2 lane hwy, then one block into town(a town of about 500 population).
    • Posts: 1,005 Member
      They even learn how to control a car while spinning out of control on a huge patch of ice. How many of you can do that?

      I can! My dad made me take the dune buggy out on the ice and purposely skid out of control so I could get used to it. That was before I even got my license.
    • Posts: 4,941 Member
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      I can! My dad made me take the dune buggy out on the ice and purposely skid out of control so I could get used to it. That was before I even got my license.

      I can't and I freely admit that... But I live in Texas where it ices over for maybe 2 days out of the entire year... maybe... then I either call in "sick" or I make my husband drive (as he has WAY more experience to winter driving than I do).
    • Posts: 4,280 Member
      "What it's pouring rain and I can barely make out the tail lights of the guy in fromt of me? Ok i'll slow down to 70." -- says every Houstonian.

      First guy slows to 70 and everyone behind him is pissed. No need for our trucks and SUV's to slow down in rain!
    • Posts: 13,274 Member
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      LMAO :) Yes... I meant keep RIGHT unless passing...I'm an idiot today :)

      :D


      :laugh: The anger had you CORNfused! :laugh:

      Just checking. :bigsmile:
    • Posts: 392
      AND USE YOUR DIRECTIONAL!!!! :noway:

      They are there for a reason.

      IF YOU ARE TURNING THAN YOU USE THEM.
    • Posts: 380 Member
      I live in the Western Highlands of Scotland - very rural and very beautiful. I get so sick of being stuck behind tourists going 40mph in a 60mph zone. I can understand that non-locals might not be as confident, but if you can't go over 40mph on a two-lane road, maybe you shouldn't be driving, period.
    • Posts: 13,274 Member
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      I can. I've been driving in Chicago winters since i was a teenager.

      Kansas City here. Yep, I can drive on ice-covered roads, let alone dealing with a patch of ice, even know how to deal with black ice and hydroplaning. We get just about every kind of weather here, and we deal with it. I have to say that most of our drivers are good and pretty courteous. The exception are the ones from Johnson County, KS, when they come over to the Missouri side to KC, watch out!
    • Posts: 3,988 Member
      I know I am a great driver, because people honk and wave their finger at me ALL the time. "I'm number one!'
    • Posts: 1,593 Member
      ***If your road rage is so bad you make a rant post about others driving on a public forum - chances are you are a crappy driver**
    • Posts: 4,391 Member
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      Who has the time to do a class for 8 hours a day for 8 months? How are you supposed to live? People gotta eat and to eat ya gotta work.

      They start when the kid is 14 or something. It's all paid for by the government.
    • Posts: 49,165 Member
      Quick warning: Don't go over the speed limit (not even 1 mile) on an Indian Reservation. You WILL get a ticket.

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      lol, i speed up to avoid the idiots hanging side by side drifting over the line
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      Kansas City here. Yep, I can drive on ice-covered roads, let alone dealing with a patch of ice, even know how to deal with black ice and hydroplaning. We get just about every kind of weather here, and we deal with it. I have to say that most of our drivers are good and pretty courteous. The exception are the ones from Johnson County, KS, when they come over to the Missouri side to KC, watch out!

      I know there are a few people who can do it, but whenever the snow falls up here in Ontario, it's like no one knows how to drive again. The collisions we have are insane. I've even see someone slowly start spinning and just kept the gas on and didn't counter steer. It was a sad sight.

      Oh, and she had AWD and winter tires. Didn't keep her out of the ditch. My buddy was driving a 2WD truck with tires that were almost bald. Just drove right around her without any issues.
    • Posts: 946 Member
      You sure you're from Detroit? Sounds an awful lot like Houston.

      ETA: meaning the shear amount of crappy drivers. Have to agree with the other Houstonians about the speed though (fast!). It's a more rare occurance to have a day without accidents than with.
    • Posts: 575 Member
      I can't stand the people that ride right next to another car to keep you from being able to pass them when they aren't even going the speed limit.
    • Posts: 517 Member
      Try living in Asia :laugh:
    • Posts: 522 Member
      I just love when the lanes narrow because of construction and people can't keep their cars in 1 lane. :indifferent:

      I've been talked out of buying a bucket of golf balls to throw at people's cars many a time. :angry:
    • Posts: 534 Member
      May I suggest medication?

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      You know stress does not help with weight-loss...
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    • Posts: 771 Member
      Then there's the a-holes that speed by you in the RIGHT lane when you're already doing 75 in a 65 in the LEFT lane and consistently passing other vehicles, and then same said a-hole peers into your vehicle and shakes his head in frustration at how "slow" you're going in the fast lane. Saw this guy twice in the past 2 weeks.
    • Posts: 804 Member
      I guess high beams are better then getting a milkshake in your windshield.
    • Posts: 271 Member
      If anyone lives in or around the DMV and has to drive on the beltway, you know my pain.
      That's why I have yet to get on the Beltway, other than once...Just got my license in May..so this may apply to me!
    • Posts: 24,208 Member
      I live in Germany and drive an autobahn-worthy car. People here know to keep right.
      I tend to drive a little fast (there is a sticker on my car window, up in the corner, that reminds me that my winter tires are only rated up to 240 kph).
      I still have my windows rattled every once in a while when ze-german-rockets fly by. >o,0<
    • Posts: 2,096 Member
      Try living in Asia :laugh:

      OMG you win the topic :laugh:
    • Posts: 97 Member
      I agree OP. I also hate it when people are on the freeway going super slow, then you pass them and its some idiot on their damn phone. If your going to text and drive at least do the speed limit. :wink:

      Plus... I think Washingtonians are the only people in the country that can't drive when the sun is out.... when that big bright thing in the sky comes out we don't know what to do.... so what do we do??? Everyone slams on their brakes. Now that I think about it...we can't drive in the rain either which is sad since it rains here so much.
    • Posts: 13,274 Member
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      I know there are a few people who can do it, but whenever the snow falls up here in Ontario, it's like no one knows how to drive again. The collisions we have are insane. I've even see someone slowly start spinning and just kept the gas on and didn't counter steer. It was a sad sight.

      Oh, and she had AWD and winter tires. Didn't keep her out of the ditch. My buddy was driving a 2WD truck with tires that were almost bald. Just drove right around her without any issues.

      Slow and steady wins the race! I have seen it before where people pass me in bad weather, then a while later, I see their vehicle in a ditch. :tongue:
    • Posts: 647 Member
      I am not saying I'm the best driver, but if we were grading on a curve, I would get an A :smile:
    • Posts: 1,078
      If they don't mind the headlights from my truck shining in on them......................then I don't mind having to tailgate them in the left lane................it's all good:)
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