SUBSIM Radio Room Forums



SUBSIM: The Web's #1 resource for all submarine & naval simulations since 1997

Go Back   SUBSIM Radio Room Forums > General > General Topics
Forget password? Reset here

Closed Thread
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 04-01-18, 08:12 AM   #16
Jimbuna
Chief of the Boat
 
Jimbuna's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: 250 metres below the surface
Posts: 180,310
Downloads: 63
Uploads: 13


Default

^ Not much can be done other than driving defensively but you could consider following my example and purchasing a dash cam which if nothing else, will help in any future insurance claims.

I do miss not having the 'blues and twos' these days though.
__________________
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Oh my God, not again!!


GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)
Jimbuna is offline  
Old 04-01-18, 02:05 PM   #17
u crank
Old enough to know better
 
u crank's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Prince Edward Island
Posts: 11,551
Downloads: 136
Uploads: 0


Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nathaniel B. View Post
In summary: everyone on the road is a bad driver ... except me.
You have no idea how many times I have told my wife that. She doesn't seem to believe me.
__________________

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

― Arthur C. Clarke




u crank is online  
Old 04-02-18, 07:26 AM   #18
Commander Wallace
Silent Hunter
 
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Under the sea in an Octupus garden in the shade
Posts: 4,997
Downloads: 360
Uploads: 0


Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen View Post
.... oh no they bloody aren't: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=7870

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...-than-men.html

At 09:55 this morning I was driving along Lighton Avenue in Kirton and a woman driver pulled out of Sentance Crescent right in front of me, forcing me to step on the brake... she neither slowed down nor looked as she came out.

I've been in an almost-wreck on so many occassions because of women driving like this, so I'd like to keep a diary here of future experiences just as a counter to the kind of claptrap above which we're now having pushed at us.

Maybe it's just the law of averages catching up with you. The more you drive, the greater the chance you will encounter bad drivers. I'm sure you drive a lot, Eichornchen , with your art shows and other activities. We have all had our bad experiences with bad drivers.



This is a video of a state Trooper who was unfortunately injured by a careless driver in Utah. I saw on the news where another driver who was texting almost hit a state trooper, head on, but the video isn't available at this time as it just happened a few days ago.

Last edited by Commander Wallace; 04-02-18 at 09:21 AM.
Commander Wallace is offline  
Old 04-02-18, 01:39 PM   #19
Sailor Steve
Eternal Patrol
 
Sailor Steve's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: High in the mountains of Utah
Posts: 50,369
Downloads: 745
Uploads: 249


Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Commander Wallace View Post
The more you drive, the greater the chance you will encounter bad drivers.
Utahans like to talk about "typical" and "bad" Utah drivers. Whenever that topic comes up my first response is always "Never forget, you are one". When they start to get offended I mention the half-million cars on the road every day, and that if only 0.001% make a stupid mistake on a given day that's still 500 stupid mistakes being witnessed by several people who then comment "Stupid Utah drivers!" If you only have to make such mistake once in your life there are still going to be several people making derogatory comments.

So yes, no matter who or where you are there is going to be someone commenting on terrible drivers and using you as an example. By that standard, you are a bad driver, and so am I.
__________________
“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
Sailor Steve is offline  
Old 04-02-18, 01:45 PM   #20
STEED
Lucky Jack
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Down Town UK
Posts: 27,695
Downloads: 89
Uploads: 48


Default

No such thing as the perfect driver, all drivers can muck up for a number of reasons.

No I don't drive.
__________________
Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017.

To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!
STEED is offline  
Old 04-02-18, 03:28 PM   #21
Hitman
Pacific Aces Dev Team
 
Hitman's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Spain
Posts: 6,099
Downloads: 109
Uploads: 2


Default

Motorcycle rider here since I was 16, and also practicing "defensive driving" always. I have lost counts how many times it has saved me, knock on wood.

Regarding the thread title, I have always thought that women circulate better, but men drive better. When it comes to car control, men usually have the edge. Just think of all the couples you know and ask yourself who would be quicker on a cones slalom, or if asked to drive a difficult twisty road, the guy or the lady? I have little doubts, don't know a single case where I would say the lady is quicker (Though I know at least a lady that for sure would be quicker than me! Not than her men, though )
__________________
One day I will return to sea ...
Hitman is offline  
Old 04-02-18, 03:33 PM   #22
mapuc
Fleet Admiral
 
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Denmark
Posts: 17,711
Downloads: 37
Uploads: 0


Default

I have never seen myself as a good driver I know I had my limit and those was the reason to why I haven't been driving a car since 2010.

It have nothing to do with drinking or smoke funny tobacco or illness

My problems was and still are-concentration which is a big must when you drive a car from A to B.

Markus
mapuc is online  
Old 04-02-18, 03:59 PM   #23
Eichhörnchen
Starte das Auto
 
Eichhörnchen's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: The Fens
Posts: 15,712
Downloads: 5
Uploads: 0


Default

@ Hitman

Well, the thread was intended to be an ironic one: my protest against some recent and relentless propaganda which has been added to a general litany of anti-male stuff here in the UK just lately.

I don't dare to doubt the statistics yet they fly in the face of my own personal experience, in that whenever I've been threatened or indeed nearly creamed by another vehicle being driven recklessly, there's usually been a woman at the wheel. Just saying....
__________________
Eichhörnchen is online  
Old 04-02-18, 04:25 PM   #24
Buddahaid
Shark above Space Chicken
 
Buddahaid's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 8,526
Downloads: 160
Uploads: 0


Default

Maybe you've reached that age where you are invisible....
__________________
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/4962/oeBHq3.jpg
"However vast the darkness, we must provide our own light."
Stanley Kubrick

"Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming."
David Bowie
Buddahaid is offline  
Old 04-02-18, 04:28 PM   #25
Eichhörnchen
Starte das Auto
 
Eichhörnchen's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: The Fens
Posts: 15,712
Downloads: 5
Uploads: 0


Default

Good answer... I like that (I think)
__________________
Eichhörnchen is online  
Old 04-02-18, 07:38 PM   #26
Commander Wallace
Silent Hunter
 
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Under the sea in an Octupus garden in the shade
Posts: 4,997
Downloads: 360
Uploads: 0


Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sailor Steve View Post
Utahans like to talk about "typical" and "bad" Utah drivers. Whenever that topic comes up my first response is always "Never forget, you are one". When they start to get offended I mention the half-million cars on the road every day, and that if only 0.001% make a stupid mistake on a given day that's still 500 stupid mistakes being witnessed by several people who then comment "Stupid Utah drivers!" If you only have to make such mistake once in your life there are still going to be several people making derogatory comments.

So yes, no matter who or where you are there is going to be someone commenting on terrible drivers and using you as an example. By that standard, you are a bad driver, and so am I.

I know you live in Utah, Steve. You may not believe this but my comment wasn't meant as an indictment of drivers in your state. It just turned out that the video that I posted was that of another terrible driver.
Commander Wallace is offline  
Old 04-03-18, 05:41 AM   #27
Jimbuna
Chief of the Boat
 
Jimbuna's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: 250 metres below the surface
Posts: 180,310
Downloads: 63
Uploads: 13


Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen View Post

I don't dare to doubt the statistics yet they fly in the face of my own personal experience, in that whenever I've been threatened or indeed nearly creamed by another vehicle being driven recklessly, there's usually been a woman at the wheel. Just saying....
Well, I'll share this with you in the spirit of transparency and honesty.....

Been in quiute a few 'white knuckle' high speed chases accompanying a female driver and thought to myself "How the hell did she pass the same advanced course as me?"

Later on you ask the question of your female colleague in private and the usual response was usually along the lines of "Now you know how I feel when you're driving"

So as I posted earlier....spin a coin.
__________________
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Oh my God, not again!!


GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)
Jimbuna is offline  
Old 04-03-18, 06:54 AM   #28
Commander Wallace
Silent Hunter
 
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Under the sea in an Octupus garden in the shade
Posts: 4,997
Downloads: 360
Uploads: 0


Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimbuna View Post
Well, I'll share this with you in the spirit of transparency and honesty.....

Been in quiute a few 'white knuckle' high speed chases accompanying a female driver and thought to myself "How the hell did she pass the same advanced course as me?"

Later on you ask the question of your female colleague in private and the usual response was usually along the lines of "Now you know how I feel when you're driving"

So as I posted earlier....spin a coin.

Under those conditions,while the female driver was behind the wheel, did you ask for a blindfold and cigarette ?
Commander Wallace is offline  
Old 04-03-18, 09:42 AM   #29
Aktungbby
Gefallen Engel U-666
 
Aktungbby's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy
Posts: 27,709
Downloads: 22
Uploads: 0


Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Commander Wallace View Post
Under those conditions,while the female driver was behind the wheel, did you ask for a blindfold and cigarette ?
Who needs a blindfold...or a ....

__________________

"Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"
Aktungbby is online  
Old 04-03-18, 10:59 AM   #30
Sailor Steve
Eternal Patrol
 
Sailor Steve's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: High in the mountains of Utah
Posts: 50,369
Downloads: 745
Uploads: 249


Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Commander Wallace View Post
I know you live in Utah, Steve. You may not believe this but my comment wasn't meant as an indictment of drivers in your state. It just turned out that the video that I posted was that of another terrible driver.
I never said it was. I was merely picking up on what you said and adding my observations according to my own experience. I didn't even look at the video. My point was simply that people talk about others being terrible drivers and don't always look at the whole picture.
__________________
“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
Sailor Steve is offline  
Closed Thread

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:25 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © 1995- 2024 Subsim®
"Subsim" is a registered trademark, all rights reserved.