Driving Habits

[Peegee]

I can parallel park and I reverse into my parking spots whenever possible for practice. If you forced me to get my license again I'll ace the test NP.

Am I good at driving? Meh, probably not good to you. I am Asian, after all.

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[Mo-Nercy]

I get conflicting reports about my driving. Some people say I'm awful. Others say I'm pretty good. Personally, I think I'm a pretty smooth driver who could work on braking earlier. I don't speed much because I'm all about fuel efficiency and conservation, so I try to keep the revs low. As a result, I rarely get above the limit, but on long stretches of straight road (which Sydney has surprisingly little of), my little Corolla might just creep into the 70kmph zone.

I am a damn good parker though. Parallel, reverse perpendicular, on a slope. I am smurfing awesome. Parking sensors are for n00bs.

I hate these types of drivers

[Peegee]

I need to add that I have severe road rage attacks. Everybody pisses me off and when I want to drive fast nobody drives fast enough ><

[oddler]

I'm a great driver. I drive 3 MPH over the speed limit and hit CRUISE CONTROL. Everywhere.

[Clo]

I'm a good driver, but I tend to speed. This is exemplified by me getting a speeding ticket last week and still being very unhappy about it, and not appreciating how paranoid I am now about my speed.

I get angry a lot when I drive, but it's not really road rage. I'm too civil about it. "Well, he is making a very poor decision right now!" One of these days I'm going to snap and rip off a windshield wiper and beat someone with it.

[Mo-Nercy]

I get angry a lot when I drive, but it's not really road rage. I'm too civil about it. "Well, he is making a very poor decision right now!" One of these days I'm going to snap and rip off a windshield wiper and beat someone with it.

You've just described me exactly. There have been times where I quietly seeth when I'm in a bad mood and someone does something jerky, but most of the time, I give people the benefit of the doubt and tell myself "oh well, maybe he's in a hurry.." or "maybe he was fiddling with the radio.."

[escobert]

I'm a great driver!

[o_O]

Provided I'm not singing at the top of my lungs, I yell and scream and swear like a lumberjack when behind the wheel. <i>Good</i> drivers piss me off. In spite of that, I like to think I can drive about without endangering any lives. I haven't had an crash or run someone down yet so, so far so good.

I hate these types of drivers

However if someone does this to me, I will drive 10 centimetres from the car in front to stop them from getting in.

[Jiro]

I get angry a lot when I drive, but it's not really road rage. I'm too civil about it. "Well, he is making a very poor decision right now!" One of these days I'm going to snap and rip off a windshield wiper and beat someone with it.

You've just described me exactly. There have been times where I quietly seeth when I'm in a bad mood and someone does something jerky, but most of the time, I give people the benefit of the doubt and tell myself "oh well, maybe he's in a hurry.." or "maybe he was fiddling with the radio.."

Hey look it's me!

Uh yeah I'm not a fantastic driver. I'm sure I'll be better with practice. At least I'm not likely to cause any accidents, unless there are roundabouts involved. Those things elude me.*

* I don't mean your typical three or four exit things. I mean ~7 exits, possibly lights, a big view obstructing thing in the middle and double lanes with impatient city driving bastards who can't handle a 2 second delay to make sure I'm not going to t-bone anybody. But I manage.

[Breine]

I actually refuse to get my learner's permit. Ever.

Good for you!

I don't have a licence, so yeah.. I guess I'm a bad driver. It's not like I had it taken away from me, though! I simply chose not to get one.

[Shiny]

are you a good driver?
Mostly no one on the East Coast is a good driver. I mean c'mon. The best you can get is "okay driver" over here on a good day.

Do you get road rage?
Not really except when I have some where important to be and someone is driving really slow. The only thing I do though is go, "Wtf why is that person driving so slow?" My dad has extreme road rage. He got out of the car a few times to kick someone's ass and he proclaims to be an "excellent driver".

Do you hate driving, or avoid it altogether?
I don't hate it, but I'm not crazy about it. I tend to carpool and take a train since driving in NYC is hell.

[Rye]

I drove once in midtown Manhattan to pick up my father after he gotten into an accident at work, and it was the most hellish experience of my life. Only time I ever got pulled over by a cop, though I didn't get a ticket because he saw I had an injured father in the car.

[Rodarian]

All I can say is that none of you guys would be able to drive in Karachi....

[Iceglow]

I don't drive, well not legally in the uk though I have done some driving in the past, with an automatic I'm fine with a manual I just need more practice with clutching and changing gears. Because of my lack of liscence and therefore insurance when I have driven on the roads if anything I have been overly cautious with the car always obeying the speed limits and such.

However I will say I think I'm pretty damn fair cop at driving off road. In Egypt I got to drive a dune buggy, now before everyone says this is easily done I noticed all the instructions on the veichle warn that at speed it could tip at the slightest thing and that when it's stopped in soft sand it is likely to get bogged down. I was driving this dune buggy at maximum speed and due to the fact that we were in convoy I had to stop in soft/deep sand, I ended up bogged in but instead of getting assistance or getting out and pushing my dune buggy out I managed to accellerate and steer through the situation just fine maintaining full control over the buggy even when it eventually bit and then twisted off the standstill (well I was pedal to the metal at the time) even the guys who drove them all the time out there were like "nice going you did well, especially when we saw your buggy get bogged down back there" I felt soo smug especially since my ex was going on about how she could've done better.

[Bunny]

I am a pretty good driver but I get massive road rage due to the amount of ridiculously retarded drivers that live in my city. I rant and rave, flail my arms around, and curse wildly while I drive down the interstate because people don't ever use their god damn blinkers.