editorial.autos.msn.com— From not buckling up to not getting enough shut-eye, here's a rundown of the 10 most common mistakes motorists make.
May 5, 2009View in Crawl 4
Very few accidents occur as a result of driving into a brick wall. There are lost of variable involved.Most driving at speeds of over 55 mph is done on limited access interstate highways, on which you are far less likely to be involved in an accident than you are on a two lane road with cross streets.So there's more to it than simple physics.Dumbass.
My favorite driving pet peeve is when people wait until the absolute last possible second to merge, when they are in a lane that is ending. Especially when the rest of traffic is merging farther back, and they think are special and get to move farther along in the lane before they need to move over. Not a type of a behavior that will get you killed in the normal accident type of way, but if you do it front of me enough times...
I'm surprised no has mentioned seat belts. In most parts of the country, it's just so obvious but go out to backwards redneck America and you get IDIOTS who don't put them on. You get IDIOTS who know "someone" who was in accident and would have died if they had their seat belt on (so they say). I've heard IDIOTS say wearing a seat belt is a "50/50 proposition." Those people piss me off to no end. Frankly, they should be shot so they can't harm others.
"If you are comfortable driving faster than the speed limit then you should be comfortable with the fact that speeding was responsible for over 30 percent of the auto-related fatalities in the U.S. last year."I hate this logic, they may as well say, "If you're comfortable knowing thousands of people die each year driving, then you should be comfortable driving."
Closed AccountMay 6, 2009
At 21, insurance companies give you the gift of maturity. Though, if you have a penis, the penis tax remains forever..
theengineer2008May 6, 2009Submitter
No, the right lane is the correct lane.
Closed AccountMay 6, 2009
Very few accidents occur as a result of driving into a brick wall. There are lost of variable involved.Most driving at speeds of over 55 mph is done on limited access interstate highways, on which you are far less likely to be involved in an accident than you are on a two lane road with cross streets.So there's more to it than simple physics.Dumbass.
fieryseraphMay 6, 2009
My favorite driving pet peeve is when people wait until the absolute last possible second to merge, when they are in a lane that is ending. Especially when the rest of traffic is merging farther back, and they think are special and get to move farther along in the lane before they need to move over. Not a type of a behavior that will get you killed in the normal accident type of way, but if you do it front of me enough times...
pappy97May 6, 2009
I'm surprised no has mentioned seat belts. In most parts of the country, it's just so obvious but go out to backwards redneck America and you get IDIOTS who don't put them on. You get IDIOTS who know "someone" who was in accident and would have died if they had their seat belt on (so they say). I've heard IDIOTS say wearing a seat belt is a "50/50 proposition." Those people piss me off to no end. Frankly, they should be shot so they can't harm others.
shinyplasticMay 6, 2009
"If you are comfortable driving faster than the speed limit then you should be comfortable with the fact that speeding was responsible for over 30 percent of the auto-related fatalities in the U.S. last year."I hate this logic, they may as well say, "If you're comfortable knowing thousands of people die each year driving, then you should be comfortable driving."
nildesperandoMay 9, 2009
The Saying: WHEN IN ROME, DO AS THE ROMANS DO. Who Said It: St. Ambrose When: 387 A.D.