Gee, ya don't say?

Just watch out for the cars with lots of bumper stickers plastered all over the place. Especially if they're religious bumper stickers - they want to go meet Jesus but they don't want to go alone.

So I've got a question:
The bad thing about DUI is that it reduces your reaction time and judgement, right? It's not "that you're drunk", but rather it's what the alcohol does to your driving abilities. Right? Well, people have a range of abilities, and some of them have very slow reflexes and bad judgement even when sober. So why can't we identify them and take away their licenses?

If the whole DUI/MADD bullshiat isn't purely 1)NeoProhibitionism, or 2)fundraising, and is truly based on a desire for safer roads, we should be (relatively easily) able to design a DMV test which will identify people with reaction times/driving judgement in, say, the lowest 20% of the population. And we simply deny them the right to drive a car.

Again, if it's really safety we're interested in, that should make a dent in the non-alcohol related crashes (and should save lives and insurance company profits, which makes everyone happy).

We could, of course, still test for drunks. But this way we are being proactive in getting ALL deadly drivers off the road. Cool, huh?

Or maybe it's pure bullkaka, and the ONLY reason we hear biatching and mewling about drunk driving is that alcohol is the easiest thing to test for, and we can demonize it with dumbass stories of dead friends and relatives.

All of this could be solved by making the driving test five times more difficult.

(38%) report having shouted or cursed at other drivers in the past year

With good reason from the sound of it.

I used to sing in the car, thinking it was a safe place where nobody else would hear me. I stopped. Even I don't like the sound of my pathetic attempts to sing.

Tigger: All of this could be solved by making the driving test five times more difficult.

As I wrote in my blog - that woman(?) in front of me had the most evil, hateful, malicious grin on her face as she deliberately cut people off. She did it to me, then she did it to another person when she pulled off onto the main road. She was doing it on purpose, and clearly enjoyed the effect she was having on her fellow drivers.

Schadenfreude ist die schoenste Freude: Nearly six out of ten drivers in the U.S. are as dangerous as a drunk driver. And the news gets worse from there

Three-fifths perhaps? Maths are hard!

Secondly, 60% of all drivers in the U.S. are women?

One thing about women drivers that seems consistant - they can't stand merging. Every time I have issues merging into traffic, sure enough it's a woman driver who tried to cut me off.

I dunno. must be something genetic. like they can't stand someone getting in front of them or something.

Could it be from all of the ones texting people while trying to drive?!?

If you are going to have a 10 minute texting session, JUST CALL THEM!

I always like to keep at least three car lengths between me and the driver in front of me. If I'm on an interstate or something I go up to four. Do you know how farking impossible that is?

I do not want to ride the bumper of the person in front of me. I like having enough room to react to anything up ahead. However some asshole always feels this is their space to jump in and then breaks for some reason.

Don't even get me started on the pissing contest everyone makes the merges around here.

Drive defensively. Just assume that everyone else on the road is completely farking nuts and you'll do just fine.

paloma: one of the most frightening things i've ever seen from a driver? she was putting her contacts in at a red light. i would still love to know what she was thinking. if you need contact lenses...for the love of god, put them in before you get in a car.

She may have had to take one out to get a piece of dirt or trash out of it. I've pulled one of mine out, cleaned it, and put it back in at a long red light before.

It really isn't much different that a person taking their glasses of to clean them at a red light.

cowsspinach: Just yesterday a guy in a hummer side-swipped me. He told the cops he didn't see me and the cop response was "How could you not see her? You're driving a Hummer" but he kept saying he never saw me. I didn't see him hit me, all I heard was a "bang" and next thing I know the air bags go off and I see smoke. The door was jammed so I climbed through the window and knew I was bleeding on my head so I grabbed some kleenex and started to stop the bleeding. Ahh what a day!


/2 staples on my head
//thought it was unnecessary for 2-6 cop cars to show up
///whip lash is a biatch

I almost got hit by a 17 year old in a Range Rover like that. I saw her at the last minute and slammed on my breaks and hit the horn. We were at an intersection with another accident and there were 4 cops directing traffic. Stupid biatch was trying to turn left from the far right lane (straight only) and my lane, on her left, was a straight or turn left lane. She rolled down her window and flipped me off. Luckily a cop sitting in her car saw this. Shook her head and pulled her over.

After thinking about it I should have let her hit me. I need a new car and we don't have limited tort in Maryland. A 17 year old driving a Range Rover says "Daddy owns this and has deep pockets."

Farklee: Getting a beej strangely missing from the list.

At least for not married drivers.

Weaver95: Gee, ya don't say?

Just watch out for the cars with lots of bumper stickers plastered all over the place. Especially if they're religious bumper stickers - they want to go meet Jesus but they don't want to go alone.

You know, I really like reading your site. I would add this to your beware of drivers list, watch out for drivers with cowboy hats.