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> There are people who would benefit from this reminder. They, however, tend to not drive Renaults, but Audis and BMWs. I've had this game with my wife while d

by croon 5y ago

> There are people who would benefit from this reminder. They, however, tend to not drive Renaults, but Audis and BMWs. I've had this game with my wife while driving somewhere for the last 10 years. I see someone doing a dangerous pass, driving (way) too fast, cutting someone off too quickly, tailgating, etc, etc, etc, and before I can tell the brand/model, I tell my wife "It's one of those again" (and I would also include Mercedes here), and in 95% of cases I'm right. I'm not saying every driver of those brands are guilty of it, but the guilty drivers are swallowed by the brand owner group in the Venn diagram. At least locally in my experience. It's fascinating.

WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
Drove today in a 20 kph zone. Was just dragging behind a BMW that was going nicely within the speed limit. It was so uncharacteristic that I thought: man, it won't end well. Such things don't just happen. He's gonna do something. A moment later the BMW turned left without blinking. Well. At least I knew I wasn't dreaming it. The world was back to how I knew it.
- Toutouxc 5y ago
  I witnessed a similar thing today, I was the first car in front of a black BMW for over 20 kilometers on twisty country roads. There was a young man behind the wheel and he gave me lots of space when I was turning onto the road on a busy intersection, was keeping his distance, never looked down at his phone AFAIK, and it felt really nice not to be expecting to be hit from behind at any moment.
Toutouxc 5y ago
My GF does a similar thing, but it's spotting woman drivers from behind. My belief is that it's usually the girl and women's boyfriends and husbands who are to blame, because they don't let them drive very often or even ridicule them from the passenger seat when they do, but the end result is quite pronounced where I live (Czech Republic).
- WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
  Dunno. Here in Poland women are less reckless (more reckful? Angličtina je opravdu divná). I haven't spotted a marked difference. It's more about drivers who think they know it all. What I fear most on the road is a self-proclaimed veteran driver. I've learned to drive at 37 years old, maybe it's got something to do with it.
tonyedgecombe 5y ago
In case anybody has doubts about this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214140520300359 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22141...
Someone 5y ago
I think that at least partially is because those cars drive so well. It just doesn’t feel like you’re going fast in them. As an extreme example, anybody who has ever been in a Citroen 2CV knows that you wouldn’t do any of those [1] because of a) the noise and b) the fear. [1] with the exception of tailgating of trucks. That’s [2] the only way to relatively comfortably do close to 100 km/hour in these. [2] https://hubnut.org/2013/09/08/2cv-enjoy-the-silence/ https://hubnut.org/2013/09/08/2cv-enjoy-the-silence/ also helps.

by croon 5y ago

WesolyKubeczek 5y ago

Drove today in a 20 kph zone. Was just dragging behind a BMW that was going nicely within the speed limit. It was so uncharacteristic that I thought: man, it won't end well. Such things don't just happen. He's gonna do something. A moment later the BMW turned left without blinking. Well. At least I knew I wasn't dreaming it. The world was back to how I knew it.

Toutouxc 5y ago
I witnessed a similar thing today, I was the first car in front of a black BMW for over 20 kilometers on twisty country roads. There was a young man behind the wheel and he gave me lots of space when I was turning onto the road on a busy intersection, was keeping his distance, never looked down at his phone AFAIK, and it felt really nice not to be expecting to be hit from behind at any moment.

Toutouxc 5y ago

My GF does a similar thing, but it's spotting woman drivers from behind. My belief is that it's usually the girl and women's boyfriends and husbands who are to blame, because they don't let them drive very often or even ridicule them from the passenger seat when they do, but the end result is quite pronounced where I live (Czech Republic).

WesolyKubeczek 5y ago
Dunno. Here in Poland women are less reckless (more reckful? Angličtina je opravdu divná). I haven't spotted a marked difference. It's more about drivers who think they know it all. What I fear most on the road is a self-proclaimed veteran driver. I've learned to drive at 37 years old, maybe it's got something to do with it.

tonyedgecombe 5y ago

In case anybody has doubts about this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214140520300359 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22141...

Someone 5y ago

I think that at least partially is because those cars drive so well. It just doesn’t feel like you’re going fast in them. As an extreme example, anybody who has ever been in a Citroen 2CV knows that you wouldn’t do any of those [1] because of a) the noise and b) the fear. [1] with the exception of tailgating of trucks. That’s [2] the only way to relatively comfortably do close to 100 km/hour in these. [2] https://hubnut.org/2013/09/08/2cv-enjoy-the-silence/ https://hubnut.org/2013/09/08/2cv-enjoy-the-silence/ also helps.