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I know you have stories like this. Everybody does. Every time I see a thread about bad drivers, every single person will claim that their home region has the worst drivers and has examples to back it up.
For thread-structure purposes, we'll run with that. I want bad-driver stories. Preferably, I'd like to see the location of the incident as well, for purposes of 'okay, yeah, you win, you really do have the worst drivers'.
I will start with two stories.
1. Watertown, WI
A coworker of mine got pulled over during lunch. He was playing his radio too loud. Not so much unusual about that.
He had the windows up. The cops could hear him from 75 feet away.
2. Johnson Creek, WI
I still had my learner's permit. My mom and myself were stuck behind a tractor. It was a double-yellow line, turning right (with the tractor blocking everything) in the rain. There starts to be a line of cars built up behind us. The guy behind us figures, fuck the rain and the tractor and the passing on double yellow, I'm gonna pass these guys.
Then the guy behind him thinks the same thing.
And the guy behind them.
And the guy behind them.
And so on for a grand total of eight cars. A convoy of eight cars passing a car and tractor, double yellow, turning right, in the rain. If there's anything coming, it's a 10-car pileup and everybody's screwed.
And I was the one with the learner's permit.
So that's your mark to beat. Go for it.
For thread-structure purposes, we'll run with that. I want bad-driver stories. Preferably, I'd like to see the location of the incident as well, for purposes of 'okay, yeah, you win, you really do have the worst drivers'.
I will start with two stories.
1. Watertown, WI
A coworker of mine got pulled over during lunch. He was playing his radio too loud. Not so much unusual about that.
He had the windows up. The cops could hear him from 75 feet away.
2. Johnson Creek, WI
I still had my learner's permit. My mom and myself were stuck behind a tractor. It was a double-yellow line, turning right (with the tractor blocking everything) in the rain. There starts to be a line of cars built up behind us. The guy behind us figures, fuck the rain and the tractor and the passing on double yellow, I'm gonna pass these guys.
Then the guy behind him thinks the same thing.
And the guy behind them.
And the guy behind them.
And so on for a grand total of eight cars. A convoy of eight cars passing a car and tractor, double yellow, turning right, in the rain. If there's anything coming, it's a 10-car pileup and everybody's screwed.
And I was the one with the learner's permit.
So that's your mark to beat. Go for it.
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So here I am driving in my usual lead footed manner in a 1996 Dodge Neon down this parkway when I get stuck by slow moving traffic, everyone is lined up behind a snow plow... I get the bright idea to go around it since I really had to pee, or at least it really felt like it... Vroom, around him I go, so I've passed him and about a mile or so down the road I begin to go into a turn and start to realize "Oh shit, I'm going too fast" and the car starts to lose control, next thing you know I see traffic on coming and I'm thinking "oh shit, oh shit" as I also realzie the damned snow plow is coming up behind me too, after getting the car to a slow speed it gracefully bumps the rear driver side tire into the curb on the side of on coming traffic in a way that blocks both lanes of traffic, I begin driving again suddenly feeling like I no longer have to pee... Needless to say my driving smartened up a bit after that...
I blame learning how to drive in Florida.....
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Two weeks later the person whose lawn he drove through bought a big giant boulder and put it between the road and their yard.
The way people phrase their mishaps tells quite a bit about their competence behind the wheel. The car started to lose control, not the driver.
Right now I live in a walkable city with public transporation, so I don't drive. The day may come, however, when economic necessity forces me to take a car to work. I realize that I shouldn't be on the road, but I might have to some day. If one of you should ever encounter me on the road and I do something that pisses you off, I apologize in advance.
While yes I lost control of the car, I would like to point out that the car lost traction, thus causing me to lose control, hence the car caused me to lose control.
Yes, I know my shitty ass driving did too, but when driving in snow, with tires that probably weren't really snow tires, it is possible for the car to lose control and not the driver, because you basically start to glide without actually meaning too...
There was another instance the year prior where I was simply taking a left hand turn at normal speeds 5mph or so when the ass end of the car almost hit a snowbank/phone pole...
Driving in snow is hell.... Doesn't matter how good a driver you are, ice and snow will mess you up...
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Us Northerners laugh at the Southerners because we have experience with it and give snowed-up roads the proper respect. Southerners tend to either:
A: Treat the snow like it's not there
B: Go nuts and shut down the whole city at the first sign of a snowflake
She was adamant that no court could ever convict her because the GPS in the car told her to go that way. God, she was annoying.
Here's another: my dad and I were at this shopping area parking lot and we were about to just starting to cross the street when some vehicle kept moving forward so we had to jump back. When we looked at the car, we noticed the driver was fixing her hair which explains why she didn't see us.
This is the best kind of excuse.
If you try to brake during a turn with snow on the ground yes your car will fishtail because you're doing something retarded. Really you shouldn't ever brake during a turn regardless of what the road's like unless you're trying to bring the back end out, because that's what trail-braking does. It puts the net movement vector perpendicular to the direction the car was heading.
'round here I don't see too many stupid drivers. Mostly people that like to match your speed when on an onramp when you are trying to let them in, rather than speeding up.
Agreed on the first point; not sure about the second one. In Massachusetts at least drunk driving laws are rightfully harsh.
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So we're on the highway driving through a big stretch of rock-cuts (anyone who's been through northwestern Ontario knows what I'm talking about), basically like 15 meters or so of rock on either side of the highway for about the next 200 meters.
Since it's my grandpa driving, he's going exactly the speed limit. We've just passed a transport truck, and the passing lane is ending as we're coming in to this section of rock cuts. The transport driver who is behind us now apparently thinks that now is the time for him to speed up, and my grandpa isn't going fast enough. So he decides to pass us.
...on the right side, on a 2 lane highway.
The idiot basically forces us into the oncoming lane because he's too fat for the shoulder, but there's another fucking transport coming straight at us. There's rock cuts on either side, remember, so this other truck can't really pull over that much. Luckily we both slow down and he pulls to the side enough that we avoid getting sandwiched between him and the fucking asshole, who just passes us and goes along like he's king of the goddamn highway.
I swear if I were to ever meet that fucking moron face to face, I'd introduce his nuts to a lead pipe.
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Anyone who is caught driving within 60 hours of being seen near a place that sells alcohol should be summarily shot and their corpse left in the gutter as an example.
They shut down all of Vegas for two inches of snow.
We don't even call the plows for 2" around here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMzeiMJQrvk
PNW people are terrible snow drivers.
This winter, they called a school snow day and the snow had yet to fall. Only ended up getting 6 inches of snow, but so many people didn't show up to work and people were leaving hours early, you would have thought a blizzard had gone through.
I live in Nebraska too, we normally don't think twice about a snow fall like that, but for whatever reason, everyone panicked.
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Hitting brakes at all with snow on the ground can and will lead to fish tailing. It doesn't matter if you're turning or not.
I was almost taken out on I-94 a year ago by somebody that hit the brakes too hard and fishtailed into the wall dividing the directions of traffic. It was pretty late at night so we were pretty much the only two cars on the road. I was doing about 45, he was probably doing 50 or 55 since he passed me. Well, I guess he decided he was going to fast when he hit the brakes and then the backend slid out to the right, he oversteered to compensate and it swung out to the left and he went backwards into the wall... he passed in front of me by less than 5 feet. I pulled over immediately and ran towards his car and he just drove away like nothing happened.
After I noticed he lost control I didn't slam the brakes... I took my foot off the gas and tapped them, released, tap again, and so on and so forth... In hindsight I should have probably hit them a bit harder to give myself a bigger cushion...
there's like three inches on the ground
how can you even suck that badly?
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pro-tip:
Turn into the skid. Yes, I know it feels weird. Just do it.
Observe at 1:20, the white car going against traffic.
I can't even understand that.
I mean, we just got a big dump of snow a little less than a week ago, I think it was somewhere like 30-50 cm or something stupid like that, and at worst there was a 5 car accident on the highway. But in the middle of the city like that? Even with all the idiots in my town it's still not as bad as that in the worst winter storm.
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I guess all my cars have had the magical property of being bound by the laws of physics while most cars aren't. Perhaps my POS '92 Sentra was secretly an Epic Mount.
I kid you not. The first time I drove with my Mom in winter after I got my license. She gets into a skid and she takes her hands off the wheel!
Mom or no, I chewed her out for that one.
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Jesus Christ, thread over.
There were at least two times during that video where I said "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!" at my screen. I am not typically one to yell at people who can't hear me.
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I get the feeling there was a pretty serious hill involved. Maybe also ice on the roads.
And I'm assuming no one had chains on their tires.
But then again, I know nothing about driving in the snow, living in socal.
I shouldn't have said "at all" because that's silly. If you hit your brakes too hard it can cause fishtailing.
When I had my learner's permit my dad took me to a big empty, unplowed church parking lot the first big snow we got and taught me how to control a skid. With that 1994 Camaro, a car that's reputedly "impossible" to drive in the snow.
Maybe if you're slamming on the brakes, which is like the number one thing you shouldn't do if you're driving in the snow. it's pretty possible to ease on the brake and slow down without losing control, unless you're driving on an ice rink
edit: goddamn you people post fast
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZlhpfCdyS4
Sorry for the sexist title. Just as a disclaimer I believe (and know) that shitty driving in gender neutral. But I can't help but find that video funny.
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I have. The thing is if you look carefully those cars tended to do pretty much exactly the opposite of anything sane while trying to correct their problems. The BMW demonstrates that it's perfectly possible to drive on that if you're not doing retarded shit. The first car was utterly ridiculous, kept jumping back and forth between the gas and brake and steering away from any hope of traction at every moment.
You don't need chains on your tires. You need decent tires, period, and you need to not fucking speed.
I have never put chains on either of our cars... one car has snows, the other doesn't. We slipped once this winter which resulted in a slight fishtail until we were going straight again, and we get a shitload of snow and ice (rural Vermont). If you're not driving like a moron, you're going to be fine. Your only concern should be the other assholes on the road.
That said, again... this is Vermont. In three inches of snow we can still find our golf balls.
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