Intelligent Driving

[Cedars]

How about this one:

Your already going above the speed limit (who doesnt sometimes?) and someone is riding your tail cuz your still not going fast enough.

Slow up enough (or pull over) to let them pass. That way, if a cop is waiting for speeders the guy you just let pass will pick up the tag and you can drive by waving.

[Jay-qu]

Originally Posted by freeztar

This is a very good one!
I do the same thing, especially in traffic. It used to annoy the heck out of my girlfriend when I would be coasting at 5mph with a good 100 yards in front of me during bumper to bumper traffic (quite commonplace here). People will honk, yell, and pass me in disgust, only to end up as the next link in the mamba line way in front of me. When you have a 5 speed, it's *so* much better this way.

It also saves petrol and your brakes, making your drive just that little be less harmful

[Buffy]

Originally Posted by Cedars

Your already going above the speed limit (who doesnt sometimes?) and someone is riding your tail cuz your still not going fast enough.

The least obeyed law in the US is "Slower Traffic Keep Right." This actually is a huge advantage for those of us who do the right thing and stay in the right lane except for passing because so many meatheads sit in the fast lane going at or under the speed limit, that you can breeze by them all in the "slow lane" (with the cruise control on!).....

See the breaking glass, in the underpass,
Buffy

[Jet2]

- Intelligent Driver avoid going out in rush hour. May be then those rush hours would be reduced.

- Intelligent Driver take public transport more or ride bicycle more. It would definitely help stop air pollution. Yet walking more is good to health.

- Intelligent Driver don't waste money on luxury car. Especially those extremely highend sportive ones for they suck in the traffic.

[sanctus]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

• Dont trust recommended speed signs - I practice watching the curves of corners and bends in roads and instead of making sure my speedo reads the recommended speed for the corner I am approaching I 'feel' the right speed for the corner. Sometimes these recommended speeds can be much to quick (esp. when wet) or more likely, much to slow - I find having an intuitive feeling of driving is much better than going by numbers.
  

Weel, you have some small mountains in Melbourne but I guess not enough...anyway here all roads in the mountains have no speed signs and hence the speed is always limited at 80km/h (as on all the "principal roads" a category we have here), unless when entering a village it is 50 and then when you get out of the village it is mostly just the "cancelled 50"-sign and rarely the 80 km/h-sign. So if you go with 80 km/h into a 180° turn it is really that you are not intelligent...

All this to say that for me it seemed a common sense thing since I learned driving on those roads.


Jet2 agree completely, you forgot just to mention my favorite definition of the sportive utility vehicles SUV=stupid useless vehicle...

[InfiniteNow]

Speaking purely from personal experience, and relying solely on anecdotal evidence, I'm of the perspective that there's no such thing as an intelligent driver.

[REASON]

Here's a big one:

• Accelerate to speed on the onramp to the highway - Nothing drives me more insane than when people nervously slow down or come to a stop when merging onto the highway. It is incredibly dangerous, and someone almost got me killed once. The onramp is like a launching shoot. Step on the gas with the intention of reaching the speed of the traffic flow on the highway by the time you get to the top. It makes merging so much easier, and avoids getting the folks behind you killed, like me.

[freeztar]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

Speaking purely from personal experience, and relying solely on anecdotal evidence, I'm of the perspective that there's no such thing as an intelligent driver.

I was going to start the thread with the question: Does it exist?
But obviously I decided not to...

[freeztar]

Originally Posted by REASON

Here's a big one:

• Accelerate to speed on the onramp to the highway - Nothing drives me more insane than when people nervously slow down or come to a stop when merging onto the highway. It is incredibly dangerous, and someone almost got me killed once. The onramp is like a launching shoot. Step on the gas with the intention of reaching the speed of the traffic flow on the highway by the time you get to the top. It makes merging so much easier, and avoids getting the folks behind you killed, like me.

That's spooky!

I was just driving back to the office with my lunch and thinking about the same exact thing. I was going to post it, but you beat me to it. Great minds think alike.

[ck27]

Originally Posted by Buffy

The least obeyed law in the US is "Slower Traffic Keep Right." This actually is a huge advantage for those of us who do the right thing and stay in the right lane except for passing because so many meatheads sit in the fast lane going at or under the speed limit, that you can breeze by them all in the "slow lane" (with the cruise control on!).....

See the breaking glass, in the underpass,
Buffy

I did not know that was a law? I thought that was suppose to be common courtesy... I think its illegal go to above the speed limit no matter what lane you are in so you can be going 60 if the speed limit is 60in the farthest left lane.