I can't be the only one noticing this......?

I think alot of people driving just intend for the car to be a transport from A to B. When you are driving you are not supposed to be distracted, you must be in control of your vehicle at all times. This means knowing how things work on your car, before you engage the clutch/auto drive system. This means setting your mirrors, know your light controls,signal controls, windshield wiper controls, radio, and heating/cooling system controls etc.
When driving under 50 km/h I try and keep 2 car lengths, and snug up tight at lights. At highway speeds I try 3 to 5 car lengths, so that I can have reaction time. I swear I see cars at 90 km/h only 1 car length behind.....

golferjohn said:

Adopting Germany's license requirements could help-out (but it won't 'fix stupid')

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Never a more factual post that I have seen posted here. You can't fix stupid and the police seem to be unwilling to pull people over and find out if they're drunk or stupid.

PD

It's a legal requirement to stay right except to pass in a lot of countries. Those same countries usually have better driver training.

Not sure why both aren't more of a priority here.

It's amazing to drive on European motorways, where everybody is constantly leap-frogging to pass, at wicked speeds, but immediately get back to the right. Even on four-lane highways this works because everyone knows the law, and the rules.

80watts said:

...When driving under 50 km/h I try and keep 2 car lengths, and snug up tight at lights. At highway speeds I try 3 to 5 car lengths, so that I can have reaction time. I swear I see cars at 90 km/h only 1 car length behind.....

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Jezz, I hope you are never behind me!

Germans have “tailgating cameras” on overpasses. They calculate the speed and distance between two cars.

I hate tailgaters.

I drive a lot of gravel miles. In the country, common courtesy is to slow down and get as far to the right as you can when meeting oncoming traffic so you don't stone each other. I met a delivery guy from town who delivers parts to some rural shops. He did neither and flung a rock into my windshield.

A few weeks later I was coming off the highway onto gravel and this same guy comes up behind me hell bent for leather and wanting to pass no less. You. Just. Don't. Do. That. I knew exactly where he was going so I slowed right down to 30kph and wouldn't let him pass. We have a four mile slow parade to the shop he's going to. We both pull into the yard, I get out and take a ball-peen hammer out of the truck box and plant it in his windshield. I let him keep the hammer.

The neighbours all wondered why the guy wasn't driving so fast anymore?

PierreCoeur said:

Ha you got off lightly. I got hit in December by a 19 year old American student while stopped at a light and $8000 later and a month in the shop I ended up having to pay the deductible myself.

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It is very strange that you had to pay the deductible. Were you partially to blame?

I was backed into the other day by a young girl. My car was parked at the time and I was not in it. To her credit, she stayed around and was VERY apologethic. I have been told both by ICBC and the repair shop that I will not be out of pocket a single dollar.

JD

Late to the party on this thread - but just saw it and figured I had to weigh in.

In my opinion drivers have generally gotten worse and worse over time. The 'rules of the road' which are not just the written ones but the common sense ones have been getting stretched past what is acceptable. I for one dread being at the head of the line at a red light. When it turns green there is a good chance some fucking idiot who saw his light being green from half a block away is going to run the intersection. Add in distracted driving, the entitled, the new, all potentially in overpowered large vehicles and the roads become mine field.

Then there are the car sharers.

How many have been cut off by these 'drivers'? Had to hit the brakes when they do something impulsively? Stopped and had a nervous piss because you had to contend with two of these mofos on the same block?

A few weeks ago, I experienced a moment of validation. I mean true justice. A Modo and two Evo's were sitting nicely mangled up partially on the south boulevard of Cambie. Looked to me like they all tried to turn at the same time.
It was as if the hand of god himself had delivered penance upon them.