Unpopular opinions
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God that is a huge pet peeve of mine. The minute that you make your problem someone else’s problem I start getting mad. It is a character flaw of mine not to simply let it go and not take it personally, but that kind of selfish and self-centered behavior triggers me.
“Sure, go ahead, clearly your time is more important than everyone else’s.”
Another peeve is when well-intentioned motorists let people in at the expense of people behind them. I’m sure they’re proud of themselves for their generosity, but no one elected them to pick winners and losers in traffic, and they’re robbing Peter to pay Paul, who will get his chance in his own due time without the arbitrary handout.
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@mclaincausey What most drivers fail to realize is that driving on a public road is a team sport. We all succeed when we work together. The reckless drivers that forget that they're operating a 3,000+ pound pieces of machinery which can go insanely fast with the press of a pedal need to gain some perspective (hopefully in a way that doesn't harm others).
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@Matt said in Unpopular opinions:
those who think they’re good at it
87% of german drivers rate their own skills as above-average (do the math)
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Similar to yours @mclaincausey I go completely fucking mental when the car in front slows down to let pedestrians cross the road, with zero regard for what is happening behind them. We have a junction close to here, where it happens all the time. The junction is on a main road which is about 50 yards after some traffic lights (so people are generally accelerating as they pull away from the lights). Some fools pull into the small side street, then stop suddenly to let pedestrians across (generally a nice thing to do of course), but if you are following them, you are left having to jam your brakes on so you don't rear end them, but that means that half of your car is left hanging out into the main road and the car behind you is definitely not expecting that to happen.....It's partly a road planning issue (I think the local chimps design the road systems in Gosport) because there is small traffic island in the middle of the side street, so there are often pedestrians on that island in the middle of the road.
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I’m significantly German genetically speaking and I’m the only one who knows how to drive any time I’m on the road. It’s just science.
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@Tago-Mago yeah as much as I love F1, I feel like WRC is the hardest and their drivers the most impressive.
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@Tago-Mago said in Unpopular opinions:
Forget maths and statistics, if you want proof that Germans are the greatest drivers, I present to you Walter Röhrl. I rest my case
BS, May I represent you any finnish rallydriver aka Flying Finn.
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A nice guy too - I met him at a rally we were both involved in.
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Never really thought German drivers were anything special as there's both a lot of aggressive entitlement on the Autobahn coupled with others who have an extreme over abundance of caution and respect for the rules to a fault.
Diving recently in rural Japan had me thinking that might be the best place I've ever driven a vehicle.
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@seawolf said in Unpopular opinions:
@Tago-Mago said in Unpopular opinions:
@seawolf said in Unpopular opinions:
I'm never surprised when I see Maryland drivers acting like lunatics. Sorry @Matt !
Maybe he was one of the nutjobs behind the wheel?
That's extremely likely.
Not just a Md. driver- a Baltimore City -driver isnt the right word- assailant works.
Traffic lights & stop signs are suggestions for the weak who should stay home .
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@pechelman all kidding aside, I find driving in Germany a lot more stressful than driving in Switzerland for example. I don’t drive as much as I used to for work but I do roughly 40000 km per year and I’ve seen some crazy shit on the autobahn, including a dude grabbing a gun from his glove compartment and waving it at me at 160 kph.
Having said that, Dutch drivers are the worst.
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Driving in Italy is quite an experience. I left Naples airport onto a 3 lane road that had 5 lanes of cars! How there aren’t more accidents with Vespa riders weaving in and out of traffic, I’ll never know.
