I have a theory

I need to walk more.

 

From The News, Portsmouth friday may 25th - letters page

'Too Close For Comfort
May I suggest the drivers of Audi cars move their driving seats further forward?
Then they could get even closer to the back of my car.
Tony Fenlon
Waterlooville.'

 

Wow, lot of hate here for the F-150 owners. I've had two vehicles in the past 22 years... both F-150's.

As for stereotyping-

Mexicans, least Mexicans here, drive like shit. Cell phones to the ear, texting, watching DVD's... with sub-titles. Hell I saw a cab driver watching porn on his in dash DVD player one night. Didn't notice how many hands were on the wheel. I'm guessing not both. People do these things while driving here and when they plow into another car or light pole it's an accident and/or act of God. God's responsible for a lot of things here. I have a theory that many places in the world that could use God's hand are being left out because he or she is busy here in Mexico causing traffic accidents.

Down here any 20 something with any sport car is to be avoided like the plague. Zero doubt mommy and daddy bought it for them and they absolutely think they are the only driver on the road that matters. All that and they drive like shit. At a light in the left lane and there's a 2012 Mustang next to you? Let him get at least a car length ahead of you before you move because he may make a left turn with no notice. If you go and end up hitting him he will call someone and by the time any police arrive it will already be decided you were at fault. I've been here 5 years now and have had 3 fender bender and one major wreck. They've all been my fault... even the one where I was in my house, my truck was parked in the driveway and a 20 something kid left the road by about 5 feet to smash into my rear passenger door.

Driving, especially in downtown locations, is one of the few things I really truly dislike about this place.

 

Ct drivers STOP in the EZPass lanes. WTF?
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I disagree with every shifting bone in my old body. I will NEVER own something that doesn't allow me complete clutch and shift stick control. Fuck Automatics. I want to drive, not merely arrive.

 

On a sidenote: I'm looking forward to driverless cars. Moreso, if retarded drivers are required to own only that type.

 

This woman has been driving a stick since 1971, has "won" 12 out of 14 drags she has participated in and has handed down her love of stick shifting to her daughter.
Break what??? It tis to laugh. haha Wow...I have been driving longer than most of you have lived. That's kinda depressing...

 

I learned to drive in 1971 in a 1960 something Austin Healy. Haven't owned an automatic since the one that came with marriage. I drive a 6 speed Tacoma, wife and both daughters drive a stick by choice.

Soccer moms in minivans scare the piss out of me, some of them drive SUVs, as well.

 

No flipping way would I want a vehicle that drives itself! Not with gps systems that tell you to turn right, where there is no longer a street to the right. It had been barricaded by 4 foor high cement wall and turned into a very wide sidewalk to make room for parking for bicyclists who cannot seem to get up to the speed limit while driving down the middle of the faster roads.

I don't mind trucks and suv's. There are more of them than cars on my street. They seem to know, and respect, that this itty bitty town is surrounded by farm country and there WILL BE tractors on the roads at times. It's the newer sports car drivers who frequent local farmers markets that don't get it. "Local" farmers markets=occasional tractors. Idiots.

 

True, didn't think about our craptastic GPS systems.

Here's hoping Galileo will be online very soon and available to the private user.

 

I live in NJ-my clutch leg sometimes cramps up! But I get a good laugh seeing big-ass SUV's slipping and sliding as I go merrily on my way.

'63 beetle here. I owned one automatic-a POS 81 Escort. I only had it 3 years and when the head gasket went a second time, I enthusiastically traded it in for a 5 speed Colt. That car lasted us 13 years.

OHMYGOD, those women need to be dragged out of their vehicles and beaten more times than not, especially the soccer moms who insist on using their cell phones while behind the wheel.

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I think thats why we now have to have road rage insurance. Had I known that the bastard lorry driver who wrote off my fiesta would just be getting a caution, I would have gotten great joy from swinging a tyre iron at the bastards head. ​

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A few things...
1. My theory is that being good at driving is completely separate from the ability to operate a vehicle
2. A definite majority of 'drivers' should never have been granted a license
3. License Plate #'s should be the person's cell phone #, so if they're driving like a jackass, you can call their ass up
[also work's for when you see a hot person you want to talk to, lol]
4. If it were to be that 'if you're too old to have sex, you're too old to drive' it would probably clear the roads up
5. 'soccer moms' were mentioned, reminding me of a quote "I don't like the emo's, but I love the juggalo's because they scare away the soccer moms"
6. this...

note: my fist is made of american muscle, but not necessarily my car

 

I sing that every time I see this thread title.


Hmmm. In my experience, the SUV drivers are always super conservative, and complain the loudest about gas prices. That's really about all I've noticed.

 

The only times I actually was glad to drive an automatic or wanted to drive one was when I needed to borrow my parent's Honda Accord for a few days here and there to make my then daily drive to school through the nasty traffic on I-5 or I-205 up to Northern Portland. Never leaving 2nd gear for 12-15+ miles and constantly going between 1st and 2nd get old real fast.
The other times were the more frequent occurrences when my left knee was screaming bloody murder at me with any kind of pressure (you get used to that in usually much less varying degrees after 15 years or so) on it like walking or pushing on a clutch especially. Those were the days I had my Tercel going just a hair past stalling speed to keep from shifting at the end of the drive at the dead end court.

Otherwise I do what is likely called "speed shifting" or something thereof most of the time . I like the clutch and shifter pattern on the 2001 Corolla I am borrowing from my sister short term until my car gets the clutch replaced very soon even more than what my car has.

</long rambling mode that likely got nowhere>

 

Your heard is the the right place. I can just about forgive you for driving a PT Cruiser.

 

Seeing as I don't have a car anymore, I find that I have a lot less stress in my life.

Driving really sucks.