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- matthewjhughes, on 09/27/2008, -3/+2311.) Run over senior citizens.
- cobainirvana, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1813) Ask her for road head
- itsthemechanic, on 09/27/2008, -1/+1512) Get a motorcycle.
- DrDash, on 09/26/2008, -0/+14Odd title, but I agree with all but #7 and that is for a different reason. I don't think people know how to merge. This is a great list and I wish everyone would learn them... even just a few of them.
- Infidelcastr0, on 09/27/2008, -0/+101. Manual Transmission
2. RWD/AWD
4. The least "Comfortable" suspension you can find.
3. Good Tires
5. Use your goddamn turn signal. - jdoo, on 09/27/2008, -0/+8How about taking a drive in the mountains. Nothing like a few hours of scenic canyon carving to brighten up your mood!
- santiago1, on 09/27/2008, -1/+8To #8: If you see cars behind you and there's no one in front of you, then merge over to the right! Everyone wants to go their own speed, if you're impeding others, chances are, they will tailgate you.
- oxphantomxo, on 09/27/2008, -0/+7I only have one way, My Chevelle loud music and an abandoned country road.
- iJessicaRabbit, on 09/27/2008, -1/+8I'm from Chicago... if someone's tailgating you, and you're in the "fast lane", GTF out of the way :shurgs:. It's not like you can't have the lane back after they pass.
- inactive, on 09/27/2008, -0/+5Number one should be move out of the city. Most dangerous thing on the road is other people.
- JonTheGoose, on 09/27/2008, -0/+41. Create a doomsday virus
2. Immunize yourself against it
3. Unleash it upon the world
4. Enjoy the sweet open road
ahhhh relaxing - kenij, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4I believe this is the video the article was talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4
- The_Dude, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4These don't seem joyful. I'd rather 1. drive a 400+ horsepower car on a track or 2. drive a 400+ horsepower car on the highways of Wyoming. (or work for Top Gear)
- arcticblue, on 09/27/2008, -0/+4There is no joy in driving in Japan especially in Okinawa since the US didn't rebuild the rail system after the war and opted to instead import its car culture. The bad traffic plus all the military people here who don't have to take the real Japanese driving test (and it shows because they drive like *****...especially the young punks that think they are so cool with their stupid Skylines) make driving an absolute nightmare unless it's 3am and there are no other cars on the road. But then you have to watch out for the drunks since Okinawa is number 1 in Japan for drunk driving.
- abupu, on 09/27/2008, -1/+4Hmmm, don't know about that choice of title! Thought this was about you and your car! not road rules!
- rizzo2008, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3Get a small rear-drive sports car for the weekend and use public transportation or a commuter vehicle during the week. Autocrossing is fun but driving out of town and locating the most remote road you can possibly find to enjoy driving for the sake of driving is always the best.
- jdoo, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3Are you crazy? The Mazda Miata is one of the most affordable and most fun to drive cars out there! You can get a 1st generation Miata in decent shape for around $3,000!!!
- badmonkey6186, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3I love driving a stick. I hate driving a stick in stop and go traffic.
- wrestlingnrj, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3I know most diggers will disagree, but the way I am able to enjoy driving is by not driving a piece of crap econo-box. High horsepower/RWD or AWD/Manual Trans are what allow me to really enjoy driving. Now before everyone goes all crazy on me, I have been told by pretty much everyone that I drive with that I am one of the safest drivers they have ever ridden with. It think the biggest help was going to Skip Barber racing school.
- Viper753, on 09/27/2008, -0/+3*Cough* 300ZX Twin Turbo
- seantubridy, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Buy a scooter.
- balthisar, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2>>7. LATE MERGING IS OK
>>One of the biggest sources of road rage is late merging - when one motorway lane is going to end and the instructions are quite vague about when drivers should merge into the other lane. If a car doesn't merge straightaway, drivers in the backed up traffic queue get angry. In fact, those "selfish overtakers" are doing everyone a favour, says Mr Vanderbilt.
I used to be one of these people. Damn cheaters! Why can't they get into the line with the rest of us? But this was stupid attitude. People that didn't know the queue was forming are unpredictable, and jump into the line wherever they can, causing people to brake behind them, turning the whole thing into a cluster. Meanwhile the "cheaters" would zip along anyway. Merging at the merge point -- car by car -- is predictable and is faster for everyone. Or, would be faster if people all played by the same rules. - s4g4n, on 09/27/2008, -1/+3Dugg for the truth" Men honk more than women but women are most likely to be honked at, he adds. "
- vassar, on 09/28/2008, -0/+2How could anyone have fun in UK - with all the Speed Cameras!
http://www.speedcam.co.uk/gatso2.htm - OneLess, on 09/27/2008, -2/+4Brits watch American Idol?
- badenglishihave, on 09/27/2008, -1/+3I always get out of the way but there was a semi next to me in this particular instance so I couldn't. You should never get that close to somebody on the highway anyways.
- seantubridy, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Try getting on a bike or walking when you only have to go a 1/4 of a mile!
- jdoo, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Thats exactly what I did. RX8 on the weekend and ride the subway during the week. I love it!
- badenglishihave, on 09/27/2008, -1/+3Number 8 really pisses me off. I am from Massachusetts (supposedly the state of bad drivers) and yesterday I was being tailgated at only 4-5 ft. by some idiot New Yorker on the NY thruway while going 75mph.
What a great way to get yourself into an accident on the freeway. - stk198323, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2How should we blame the car company? They produced what people wanted. They are in the business of making money, not going bankrupt! If people would have bought econo car before, company would have offered them!
- Darkyuubi, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2I'm not sure if the article will help you rediscover the "joy" of driving, but its certainly a useful reminder of what not to do on the road...
- lofispy, on 09/27/2008, -2/+4All the bad drivers in the world would do well to listen to #10. As someone who does both road and stock car racing, I am often astounded by the postures and habits of my fellow drivers on the road, not to mention their lax reaction times. Yes, like the article says I do drive fast, but unlike most of the ***** out there, I do it both well and safely. My hands are always at 9 and 3, I am sitting straight up with my seat positioned so that both my arms can make a full turn without my back leaving the seat and I can access the pedals easily for heel-toe and double clutching. My eyes are always looking AHEAD of where I'm going, with the exception of a full scan of all dials and mirrors about every 20-30 seconds. And lastly, I have situational awareness, which is something ALL drivers need to learn. A game that me and my racing friends often play when we are driving together goes like this, at any given moment when the passenger says so, the driver must name the color and position of all the cars within about 100 yards of your position without looking. Most good drivers can do this with close to a %100 success rate, and if you can't, I highly recommend that you practice until you can. Why? Because unlike most of you, us race car drivers can see accidents and threats BEFORE they happen, because we are constantly anticipating the moves of the cars around us. And finally, just because I love racing, I think more of you digg geeks should give it a chance, instead of just making fun of NASCAR everytime you hear the word. Sure, the sport is still filled with rednecks and conservatives, but that is QUICKLY changing, especially as people like me begin to race at the local level and start to move up through the ranks. Hell, if just one fourth of you took 2 grand and instead of buying yet another quad-core computer you built yourself a mod-4 and took it to the track, not only would you have the time of your life getting rough and doing some serious bumping-is-racing, we can take the sport out of the hands of the retards and actually steer it towards a much better, much greener place. But alas, none of you care...you'll all just keep on being the people I want quarter-panel on the freeway to get you the hell out of my way but I can't because I know that chances are if you lost traction you'd die because you had never even taken a moment to learn how to steer out of skid correctly or properly use your brakes and gas. Oh well...I guess I'll just keep on being like one of five people here who actually like to race....
- Kevin108, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Of all the things I've ever done on the road while driving, just setting the cruise control to the speed limit and staying in the slow lane has made me much more calm and relaxed on the road. Not to mention it's letting me get around 40 mpg in a car rated for just 29.
- KaJuN4, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2"Drivers of convertible cars are less likely to use their horns than others, he says, because they don't have the anonymity of being enclosed and hidden."
It's quite the opposite for me on my motorcycle. I'm surprised I haven't worn out that horn because of people not paying attention, driving at night with no lights on, generally being morons, etc.
And I also feel special for knowing who they're talking about when they say "Learn from Lewis". - gotalkmoney, on 09/27/2008, -1/+3The only way I'll ever find joy again is if senior citizens are banned from the roads.
- rsbryswrrl, on 09/27/2008, -2/+4Number 1 should be "drive a 5-speed," but considering the article is from the UK the vast majority of Brits already do. Nothing irks me more than seeing some stuffed shirt or suburban mom driving their tank - um SUV - with no passengers, windows rolled up, AC on, cell phone to ear with absolutely no connection to the world outside their gas guzzler. I swear, my hubby and I see people texting, using their laptop, reading a book or the paper and applying their makeup every day on our carpooling commute in our 5-speed Honda Civic and they are totally oblivious! Driving a stick forces you to interact with the driving public around you.
- davidjunit, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2I look (plan/strategize) far ahead when I drive so I know what my chances are when looking to jump ahead and I plan accordingly and take my chances when there's a clear opening. I get pissy when some idiot who is clearly not even looking far enough ahead tries to race up to the front of a completely closed-up line when their lane is ending; I'm not at all polite about that and if they just so happen to need to merge at the last second and I'm there then I ignore them and let them get stuck. IMO, it's only OK to merge late if some slow person is leaving a huge gap down at the end of the merge, GO FOR IT!
We don't have mandatory driver education here and it's super easy to get a license so most people just kinda turn the key and press the go pedal and zone out. I had maybe one hour behind the wheel before I went to get my license (not my permit) and I passed. It was a lil' trip around the block. - razorsedge555, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2You're spot on there. The majority of the time I am stopped ( and sometimes moving ) I watch other drivers. Very few of them are actively engaged in DRIVING. More often than not they are doing someting else, usually talking on a phone. I'd like to see a high speed race where the drivers are talking on cell phones. I doubt it would last many laps.
- pagno, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2Ive been saying that since I started driving. They should make you take a driving test every 7-10yrs. Alertness and reaction time diminish with age.
- cobainirvana, on 09/27/2008, -0/+2As much as I appreciate the essay you just wrote, it does not compare to crysis maxed out. If only it didn't look more real than real life......
Well articulated ideas though. I agree with you also for the record. - cobainirvana, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1That sounds like something a goose would do......
- iJessicaRabbit, on 09/27/2008, -0/+15 points!
- pagno, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1Ill go out on a limb and say the DUI rate is due to US military stationed there.
- morcheeba, on 09/27/2008, -1/+2My Ducati, its deep L-twin engine, and a twisty mountain road.
- sirlancelot88, on 09/27/2008, -1/+2Buried for using "capiche" and referencing Native Americans in the same sentence.
- InsaneOni, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1You read my ***** mind.
- sirlancelot88, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1When I have kids, I'm going to tell them to run you guys over when you get old. It will be sweet karmic justice.
- stk198323, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1Wow virgule talk about making an ass out of you!
Toyota supra: not sold anymore
Acura NSX: not sold anymore
Mazda RX7: not sold anymore
Honda's type-R: not sold in NA, less and less model sold in Europe
Nizzan Z: ok maybe that one... but compare a 350Z to a Mustang, Camaro or Challenger the 350 sucks both in performance and price!
Now for NA brand:
Sunbird: replaced by G5, a better product
Sundance: plymouth doesnt even exist anymore!
Celebrity: canceled/ raplced by cavalier then cobalt
Fiesta: it's a great handling car, yet it's not sold anymore
Neon: canceled also, replaced with caliber which is not sportive but usefull (bigger size, chill zone, my gig, etc)
And no Japan did NOT make the gentleman agreement, that was japan based only. When sold in NA they had to put the true hp of car on the window, as tested by american association. The gentlemen agreement was to LIMIT the number SHOWN to the public, the car by themselves had way more power then what they said. GM did the same thing with some camaro model to lower insurance cost, the car had more hp then what it was rated for. The skyline was the same: rated 280hp in a car that had between 340 and 400 (depending on model), the car HAD 340 not 280!!! Get a clue man it's ***** unbelievable what a jap fag can spit out! - lofispy, on 09/27/2008, -0/+1Exactly.
- stk198323, on 09/28/2008, -0/+1We can suppose they did drop the ball in a way, but if you look at NA manufacturer, they are all in deep financial trouble. The same was true for nissan and renaud not long ago... They could not afford to put million and million into green research sadly. Now we could blame the likes of Toyota and Honda for it, they had a lot of spare money, and all they did was the Prius and the Insight. The only reason why they are making something more right now is because of the Volt. See how it took the Volt announcement to resurect the Insight and for Toyota to announce that this time they will plan for a plug-in Prius.
But in another way it'S a bit of chicken or egg game. No company want's to install hydrogen pump so no car manufacturer want's to put REAL money into hydrogen research because people will not buy it if there is not way to flll it up and then gas company use that argument to justify not spending for the pump... -
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