Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

[Mighty Thor]

1. -Do cut people off when your driving?

2. -Are you a patient driver?

3. -Do you go 20-30 mph more than the speed limiter?

4. -Do you flip people off if they are too slow or hold you back?

5. -At the stop light do you have the urge to drag race a car next to you?

6. -Do you feel like you own the road and everybody else is just an obstacle?

7. -Do you like racing another car that is at the same level as yours?

8. -Do you tend to forget that there are human beings in those cars?


I am just paraphrasing what I heard on the radio today. The KFI talk radio talks to the police officers and what they said was that the more people customized or personalized (modified) their cars the more they tend to be jerks on the roads. They are the ones that cause the most accidents, get more tickets, and to do deliquent behaviors that sometimes leads to death, including pedestrians.

This seems to be very true for drivers who are in the teens, twenties, and early thirties. Not so much true for drivers who are in their late thirties, forties and so on. It has a lot to do with maturity.

[vanbibber]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

1- no
2- sometimes
3- if no one is around or a race comes along, yes. not usually though.
4- ive been known to give the bird
5- depends on the car or if i can tell the ******* is about to try and cut me off.
6- no, but people who cant drive to my expectations should be shot
7- yes
8- no, unless its some tool, then they arent humans, but things that are useless to society.

im a jerk, but i use my brain. 1 ticket in 10 years of driving, never been in a accident that was my fault.

[t-topV6]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

i think im a pretty good driver... the only thing on that list is the being patient one. im not always patient, but at the same time i won't fly past them, flip them off, honk the horn, or do something otherwise obnoxious.

[IwannaCamarosoBad]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

1. No
2. Yes
3. No
4. No
5. Depends on what they're driving, reminds me of that acura ricer dood in SC revin at my bro's 5.0
6.definitely not
7. Never raced
8. nope

[Bonemaro]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

1. -no

2. -yes

3. -no

4. -no

5. - I might take off like a bat out of hell, but I let off somewhere around the speed limit.

6. - They are not obsticles, they are a slalom course.

7. -That might be fun.

8. -nah...

[TheGr8Schlotzky]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

1. no
2. most of the time
3. no
4. nope
5. no
6. no
7. I'd rather kill or be killed, but honestly I never race.
8. no

[ZO6vette037]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

1. No

2. Yes

3. Sometimes

4. Not alot... only when some stupid girl, on her cell phone, cuts into the lane when I am on the bike and I let her know she was in the wrong.

5. I'm a car guy. Its in my blood!

6. +1 for bonemaro's slalom course

7. Yes and No, but I like to meet the guy/girl to see what they got under the hood.

8. No, I always know someone could have a kid(s) in the car and I would never want to hurt and child.

[kylerobison]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

i own the road. other drivers are just obstacules

[kristen]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

1. -Do cut people off when your driving?

2. -Are you a patient driver?when i'm not driving in philly

3. -Do you go 20-30 mph more than the speed limiter?never

4. -Do you flip people off if they are too slow or hold you back?in my younger days

5. -At the stop light do you have the urge to drag race a car next to you?when i'm in my camaro. but i don't do it.

6. -Do you feel like you own the road and everybody else is just an obstacle?nope

7. -Do you like racing another car that is at the same level as yours?he!l yes i do....but i don't do it

8. -Do you tend to forget that there are human beings in those cars?i would never do nething if someone else was in my car

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[SpeedingFirebird]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

1. -Do cut people off when your driving?

2. -Are you a patient driver?

3. -Do you go 20-30 mph more than the speed limiter?

4. -Do you flip people off if they are too slow or hold you back?

5. -At the stop light do you have the urge to drag race a car next to you?

6. -Do you feel like you own the road and everybody else is just an obstacle?

7. -Do you like racing another car that is at the same level as yours?

8. -Do you tend to forget that there are human beings in those cars?


I am just paraphrasing what I heard on the radio today. The KFI talk radio talks to the police officers and what they said was that the more people customized or personalized (modified) their cars the more they tend to be jerks on the roads. They are the ones that cause the most accidents, get more tickets, and to do deliquent behaviors that sometimes leads to death, including pedestrians.

This seems to be very true for drivers who are in the teens, twenties, and early thirties. Not so much true for drivers who are in their late thirties, forties and so on. It has a lot to do with maturity.

Flipping people off you think are going slow is stupid. So is tailgating people in the slow lane. I think everyone forgets there are humans and children in cars.

Admittedly, I have bad road rage, but I calm down quite a lot when my son is in my car. Having a shorter commute now also helps since I am in the car less.

1. Sometimes
2. nope
3. sometimes
4. no
5. no
6. Used to when commuting with NYC traffic. Getting better. :)
7. Well yeah. At the track.
8. no

[LETZRIDE]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

1. -Do cut people off when your driving? No

2. -Are you a patient driver? Most of the time yes

3. -Do you go 20-30 mph more than the speed limiter? no

4. -Do you flip people off if they are too slow or hold you back?Nope, I rarely ever even use my horn (except when italy won that game)

5. -At the stop light do you have the urge to drag race a car next to you? Sometimes I do, but I never do it.

6. -Do you feel like you own the road and everybody else is just an obstacle? Naw

7. -Do you like racing another car that is at the same level as yours? When at the track, yes

8. -Do you tend to forget that there are human beings in those cars? No, cars dont drive themselves


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I think that alot of people profile and stereotype us young people in "souped up" or modified cars. They see a few idiots in modified cars racing or being idiots and think it is all of us...

[notsonic]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

ive had three incidents where i:

passed someone near the end of a merge, i was on the left, right lane was ending.

made a right, only to find out that i cut someone off who sped around the corner to the left of the intersection.

and didnt turn on red, and proceeded to flip off the guy behind me since he didnt want to wait for the light.


all three times people blocked my car, and got out to yell at me. what the **** is wrong with people? i just lean on my horn till they go away.


unless im in a hurry, which is very rare, i love driving, and im usually very mellow. i just dont like people on the highway in the left lane doin 10-20 less than everyone else. just move over plz.

[LETZRIDE]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

haha Im the same way...like sometime I'll cut into lanes where there is a line up of cars getting off at an exit, but thats usually when I dont know where I am going and dont see the sign until much later...I hate ppl that drive in the left lane and dont pass people on the highway...I try and only pass on the left unless you absoulty force me to pass on the right. I usually highbeam the guy in the left lane to move and try and give em a chance...

But like the guy above me, unless I am in a hurry I am pretty mellow on the road as well, I love driving around so yea...Usually stick to trying to maintain around 110 on the highway.

[FirebirdPhil]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

1. -Do cut people off when your driving?
-No

2. -Are you a patient driver?
-Yes, too patient

3. -Do you go 20-30 mph more than the speed limiter?
-No

4. -Do you flip people off if they are too slow or hold you back?
-Nope, too many crazy people out there

5. -At the stop light do you have the urge to drag race a car next to you?
-I just naturally take off faster than the guy next to me, but I stop accelerating at the limit

6. -Do you feel like you own the road and everybody else is just an obstacle?
-Well, my taxes pay for the roads, so yes. But I don't see others as obstacles

7. -Do you like racing another car that is at the same level as yours?
-Yes, but thats what a track is for

8. -Do you tend to forget that there are human beings in those cars?
-There's a difference between human beings and soccer moms with their one kid in SUVs made for 8 adults. :p

[tmon930]

Re: Are you a jerk when it comes to driving?

1. -Do cut people off when your driving? no

2. -Are you a patient driver? most of the time

3. -Do you go 20-30 mph more than the speed limit? hell no

4. -Do you flip people off if they are too slow or hold you back? no just pass them and hopefully they dont try to run me over to "teach me a lesson". long story...

5. -At the stop light do you have the urge to drag race a car next to you? only if it's a rustang

6. -Do you feel like you own the road and everybody else is just an obstacle? slalom ftw

7. -Do you like racing another car that is at the same level as yours? i'd love to

8. -Do you tend to forget that there are human beings in those cars? there is?

i try to be a good driver. 2 speeding tickets in 2 months when i first got my liscense was enough lesson for me.