Bad Drivers

lol how can people be so stupid!!?? im smarter than most drivers and im only 14! road basics: there are many lines on a freeway four are yellow, and there are two dashed white lines if you are on a dual lane freeway there are two yellow lines on each side, and two in the middle representing the boundary there are three different forms of the middle two lines, two solid lines mean there is no passing on either side, dashed lines on the left (on the right for all u ouside of america) mean the other side can pass cars in front of them, dashed lines on the right (on the left for all you outside of america) means people on the same side as you can pass other cars. the white dashed lines simply divides lanes while driving always stay on the outside lane so faster drivers can pass without having to tailgate sometimes it is necessary to pull over <img src=´http://www.cliphoto.com/earth/e-037.gif ´><img src=´http://www.cliphoto.com/earth/e-031.gif ´> this is my world; it goes round and round and round The wolfy types like a cow <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

&lt;Place tongue in cheek now&gt; Here in Melbourne, we have an interesting breed. They are usually of Greek of Italian descent, and possess fluffy dice and Holdens. They also have a penchant for driving VERY fast and eratically and have loud &quot;techno&quot; playing. This is the breed that I hate encountering on the road. Interestingly, they all go to TAFE colleges, and not Universities. Coincidence? I think not <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>. &lt;Remove tongue from cheek now&gt;

esquilax - you mean the ital/greek boys &quot;wit der fulli sik sterios wit da sub woofa mate. it be fuli sik mate&quot; thing? try driving down lygon street. ive noticed that certain cars contain bad drivers. some drivers to watch for in melbourne 4WDs in general. f*ing w*kers. they seem to think they own the road. P Platers (probationary drivers). either real c*ckheads or really slow. supposedly &quot;cool&quot; chicks. Slow and unpredictable. i suppose it could be worse jake

Mustang ive had that TWICE in the last year once outside Aberdeen and once near Greenock its not pleasant as youve no idea which way the idiots are going to go or how to react thankfully they didnt hit anyone but unfortunately they survived (probably to

Beware of hats. Anyone driving and wearing a hat at the same time is going to be slow. This is a well documented occurance in the area I live in! <A href=´http://mysite.freeserve.com/slops_in_borneo´ Target=_Blank>My gap year in Borneo</a>

Cell phones? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>

Zone totally agree ;in the uk every weekend the roads fill up with old dodderies wearing flat tweed caps ,driving austin maestros at 12 mph, ignoring traffic lights give ways etc and causing general mahem on thier way to the garden centre for a pot of t

RANT WARNING Driving.... Bad Drivers.... &lt;takes two antacids and two ibuprophens&gt; Needless to say, driving in major urban centers are genuinely &quot;challenging&quot; experiences. NYC is no different. It starts with the cabbies. As a general rule, cabs in NYC today are driven by a group of new arrivals who think they learned everything there was to learn about driving in their own home countries. Most of which, from mainly third world countries, HAVE no real rules of the road or notions of driver courtesy or etiquette. All meter cabs in NYC are yellow. You can see them careening everywhere. Pulling left hand turns from the far right lane, stomping on the gas to beat red lights, and most odiously of all, leaning on their horns to get a traffic blockage a half mile up the road to move.... as if. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_sad.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Then of course (and I borrow a term from Florida) there are the Q-Tips. These are the extremely elderly drivers, usually ladies, who insist on keeping their licenses up to date (I am forever dumbfounded that they are able to) when all one can see above the dash board is a little tuft of white hair. And then the young single male under 24 drivers. Statistics have shown that they are, as a demographic grouping, the single most dangerous class of drivers known. Supremely confident in their skills, speed of light reaction reflexes and whatnot being placed to the test at every opportunity on the highways just so that they can shave another 20 seconds off the total elapsed travel time. They may be brilliant drivers but it doesn´t take into account the other lunatics on the road. But, as someone mentioned earlier, right now the MOST DANGEROUS classs of vehicles driven on the road are the SUV/4WD drives. I have learned that not all SUVs are 4WD. One can be stupidly delusional and cheap enough to buy a RWD SUV and then drive it around like a 4WD! These vehicle buyers are the absolute worst right now. A danger to themselves, of course, but more importantly a deliberate menace to others. They´ll even admit to you that they got an SUV so that, in a 2 car crash, they come out alive (never mind that they caused the crash and likely killed the others)!<img src=smilies/icon_smile_disapprove.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Oh. And drunken or otherwise under the influence drivers should be shot on sight.

They are in the Kingdom of Warlord Bob!

Viator - I have been to Lygon Street many times. I went there on a few occasions after I had finished listening to lectures at Melbourne Uni. It´s good to hear from a Melbourne boy! So... what do you think of the weather? <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Indy - Rant away, old chum. It´s my thread, and I give you permission <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>. Ah yes, the 4WD, the scourge of our roads! The damn things are nowhere near as safe as people think they are, they take up two lanes (practically), they are not very manuverable, and you can´t see past the damn things! I hate them so much!Sorry, I got a little carried away there <img src=smilies/icon_smile.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>. Edited by - esquilax on 2/17/2004 2:51:30 PM

<font size=1 face="trebuchet ms"><BLOCKQUOTE><hr size=1 noshade> they all go to TAFE colleges <hr size=1 noshade></BLOCKQUOTE></font><font face=´trebuchet ms, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica´ size=2> Whuzzat esq?

4WDs driven by women dropping their spawn off at school. and they only live 1/2 a mile away. how cr*p is that? and they pay no attention except to little Johnny and Susie as they skip into school while nearly running over some poor kid whos taken the trouble to walk to school.

What is it with women and 4WD´s? I mean really, how big a car do you need? It must be a female thing... *ducks slaps* <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>. It´s just lucky that there is no such thing as the &quot;F-Series&quot; Canyonero. Imagine one of those on the road with a crazed housewife at the wheel *shudder*. &quot;Crazed housewife&quot; could that be another tautology? ff - A &quot;TAFE College&quot; is an educational instituation that offers courses on a variety of topics, as well as adult education and apprenticeships. They are also the institutions to which, to put in bluntly, many people who did not score high enough to enter University go. That is not always the case though, and some people join to enhance their knowledge with additional short courses or Diplomas.

To borrow from another thread about obsoleted behemoth dinosaurs, at least Ford finaally conceded that maybe people really didn´t need to drive the Excursion around. Then, again, almost simultaneously, GMC rolled out its first consumer oriented Hummer ... looks like the military version but cannot compare on ruggedness or mileage. Side Note: I saw Mike Tyson now almost 7 years ago, driving around Manhattan in a bright yellow original pre-GM Hummer convertible. Even he looked like a midget behind the wheel. That´s right, he was driving. His two clownish hangers on were in the back seat kicked back and swigging suds... in the open. In NYC that´s a no-no but I don´t think there were too many cops interested in pulling them over. <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Edited by - Indy11 on 2/17/2004 6:21:33 PM

Zone - not :everyone: wearing a hat drives slow. ive got a tweed cap, and i do 110 down the back roads near my house. jake and esq - the weathers great... no wait, yeah good. no wait... <img src=smilies/icon_smile_big.gif width=15 height=15 border=

Why would you want to wear a hat while drivibg? Fashion? In a car? How pretensious! <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle> Viator - I know <i>exactly </i> what you mean.

That´s what the roof and sun-shades are for <img src=smilies/icon_smile_tongue.gif width=15 height=15 border=0 align=middle>.

although i hate most 4WDs, except for Land Rovers of course (British therefore superb) I´d really like a Humvee, even the civilian ones. I just like the design, a lot. but I´d really like me Audi 2.8 Quattro Coupé back.. best car i ever had. Bah, I´ll never be allowed to have a decent car again.

Ah Esqy. There are places where, when the sun is out, it is only, say, 70F. If the sun is out on a day like that, you want to be driving a convertible with the top down. In a pinch, a car with an open sunroof. Sometimes, the sun visor takes away from the view so, you wear a billed cap or brimmed hat. And no... Now days, the aerodynamics are such that the wind will not blow the hat off with the rag top down.