What kind of a driver are you?

[Tykinruoka]

Speed limits exist for a reason, so I'll obey 'em. Where I live, it's common on certain long roads that everybody drives about 10km/h over the speed limit. When I'm driving to school every morning and keeping my speed at the limit, all other cars pass me nevertheless.

 

[IglooDame]

Everyone who voted for this is a liar.

Then how do you explain my perfect (and lengthy) driving record, accident-wise?

 

[azzaman333]

Then how do you explain my perfect (and lengthy) driving record, accident-wise?

Then you're just lucky

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Driving over the speed limit a little on highways I can live with. Myself I usually don't drive any faster than 140 km/h usually when overtaking.

In cities driving over the speedlimits is in my book criminal. You can be the best driver in the world, but other people won't expect you comming in with a speed of 70-80 km/h. Unexpected things will happen more often in cities, speed differences are higher since you also have to deal with stationary objects where on the highway everyone is traveling at roughly the same speed in the same direction.

But I'm never in a hurry, I like driving the car and listening to music so I take my time and enjoy the ride. On the racetrack I'll do the speeding

Furthermore, it's not just the speed at which you drive which can cause danger. More important is your orientation in traffic. Usually people only watch the car directly in front of them. People need to pay attention to what's happening further down the road and around them, especially when driving fast.

 

[IglooDame]

Then you're just lucky

Usually people only watch the car directly in front of them. People need to pay attention to what's happening further down the road and around them, especially when driving fast.

Timely post. You don't drive a hundred thousand miles fast without a single accident - a fair bit of it in miserable weather conditions - purely due to luck. When I drive, I'm paying attention - not talking on the cellphone, or chatting up the passenger, or daydreaming. I keep an eye on what's up ahead instead of the bumper in front of me (and I NEVER tailgate, in any case), I use my signals, I cede the fast lane to faster traffic, and I am constantly aware of whether cars are beside me, behind me, or in my blind spot.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

When I drive, I'm paying attention - not talking on the cellphone, or chatting up the passenger, or daydreaming. I keep an eye on what's up ahead instead of the bumper in front of me (and I NEVER tailgate, in any case), I use my signals, I cede the fast lane to faster traffic, and I am constantly aware of whether cars are beside me, behind me, or in my blind spot.

This is the only way to drive Anything less I consider dangerous driving. No matter what speed.

Too often I have heard people tell me what excellent drivers they are, but then on the road I notice they never signal. When I ask them about it, they usually tell me signalling is not worth it, it's overrated. Worth what? The effort? What effort?

It's just one of the most important safety devices on the car. Why? Because you use the others when you're in an accident, you use this one to avoid an accident.

 

[Bartleby]

I don't even know which is the accelerator/brake/clutch.

 

[Volum]

Im an awful driver, i'l admit that. Annoying thing is that it was the day that i was driving below the speed limmit i managed to wreck my car

 

[MamboJoel]

Hostile.

10c

 

[Ayatollah So]

I probably should have voted "other" but...

While I usually drive at or very slightly over the speed limit, there are plenty of laws that I disregard when it is safe to do so. I take "stop" to mean "slow down enough to check traffic, and take turns fairly with other drivers at the intersection". I take a red left-turn-arrow (another "stop") similarly. I take "no right turn on red" to mean "ignore this sign unless there's a cop around".

 

[Rheinmetall]

I tend to obey the rules in daylight. When I'm driving home from evening shift around 11:00 and there's no others on the road I may drive as I please, not that I do.

 

[LucyDuke]

I'm a decent driver. I don't drive too fast, usually up to 20 above the speed limit depending on the weather and traffic.

Nearly all of the time, in the US at least, the speed limit is effing stupid. Anyone who knows anything about these things will tell you that the roads are designed to be safe for a high speed, and then given a speed limit dramatically below that speed.

I assume you put an option in the poll "Drink and Drive" as a joke. But let me tell you it is no joke. I garuantee I'm not the only one in these forums that has been effected by a damn drunk driver.

It's okay to joke about things, dude. A good friend of mine drove drunk into a tree and killed himself and his passenger four years ago. He was seventeen. A good friend of mine quit drinking and was killed a week later by another drunk on the highway. These things were horrible. I felt as bad as you did. But I'm still laughing. Life goes on, and life without humor is not life.

 

[Azash]

I drive legally, mostly Also, I'm very active at spewing hatred at other drivers while the actual driving remains calm and collected. I drive like a zen student.

 

[Mizar]

I'm a decent driver. I don't drive too fast, usually up to 20 above the speed limit depending on the weather and traffic.

Nearly all of the time, in the US at least, the speed limit is effing stupid. Anyone who knows anything about these things will tell you that the roads are designed to be safe for a high speed, and then given a speed limit dramatically below that speed.

The good thing is we havn't a speed limit here
(at least on highways)
The bad thing is our roads are sometimes not designed for high speed

 

[LucyDuke]

The good thing is we havn't a speed limit here
(at least on highways)
The bad thing is our roads are sometimes not designed for high speed

That's a good thing. Roads designed for fast cars are really bad roads.

 

[classical_hero]

I drive very fast, but safely...

suuuuure.

That is me all over, but how are we going to define very fast, because that is not a good definition. It would have been better to give you general habits with speed, because many of the speed sings around are quite terrible and do not reflect how fast you really can go. I think recent in a council not to far from my local council they did some tests via the ripple lines on the road( I forget exactly what they are called, they are the black lines use to count cars and their speed), and they found that aver 50% of people speed, but I does not sem to be dangerous.

 

[Whomp]

When i drive it's recklessly and dangerously. Turn signals are optional, rolling stops, yellow is light green and proper usage of the middle finger is crucial. City livin', baby.

What I find interesting is that 80%+ of people think they're better than average drivers.

 

[Syterion]

I usually drive +- 19 mph over the speed limit. I roll over stop signs that I can see down both ways before I get there. I always signal. I do not run red lights. I know the cops in my town and I know what roads I can speed on. I know that the courts in my town tend to throw out any speeding cases that are under 20 miles an hour over the limit with no prior offense. Judge for yourself.

 

[Captain Carnage]

I don't drive, except on the beach.
Other times I just ride my bike wherever I need to go.

 

[Rhymes]

According to myself, I drive very fast and safely. According to other drivers on the road I might be seen as reckless and dangerous. But it's only because their conception of safety is flawed.

When I drive, I'm paying attention - not talking on the cellphone, or chatting up the passenger, or daydreaming. I keep an eye on what's up ahead instead of the bumper in front of me (and I NEVER tailgate, in any case), I use my signals, I cede the fast lane to faster traffic, and I am constantly aware of whether cars are beside me, behind me, or in my blind spot.

Same thing for me, but it's pretty rare that there is faster traffic so I rarely cede the fast lane. And I tailgate grannys who do 100km/h on the left lane.