Surprised?

[fujimoh]

Originally Posted by Corey

I'm actually surprised that Florida wasn't rated the lowest. After seeing what little it takes to get a license here (essentially driving in a circle in an enclosed parking lot and parking between two cones), I'm surprised the highways and byways aren't 24 hours of bloody carnage.

Try driving in Panama City between the early bird special hours of 4 to 6. When I first moved here I thought they had developed a remote control system. Then I started making out the blue hair looking thru the steering wheel

[Corey]

Originally Posted by fujimoh

Try driving in Panama City between the early bird special hours of 4 to 6. When I first moved here I thought they had developed a remote control system. Then I started making out the blue hair looking thru the steering wheel

It's scary. They go dangerously slow as well.

[Homeslice]

Originally Posted by fujimoh

Try driving in Panama City between the early bird special hours of 4 to 6. When I first moved here I thought they had developed a remote control system. Then I started making out the blue hair looking thru the steering wheel

Hmm, those early hours are mostly 20 or 30-somethings in any place I've lived in.

The retired's usually don't appear until 9:30 or so (after all the normal people have arrived at work).

[goof2]

Originally Posted by Homeslice

Hmm, those early hours are mostly 20 or 30-somethings in any place I've lived in.

The retired's usually don't appear until 9:30 or so (after all the normal people have arrived at work).

4-6pm when all the restaurants in FL have their "early bird" dinner discounts to attract old people, not 4-6am. Old people eat dinner early as hell and they are cheap too so they will get out their in their 10 year old, 10k mile Buick, Lincoln, or Chrysler and play bumper cars with rush hour traffic.

[azoomm]

I'm just tired of everyone multitasking while they drive. And, I don't just mean phones - I mean eating that hamburger, doing paperwork and all the other crap people are so busy doing other than driving.

[Rangerscott]

Three problems Ive been seeing lately.

1. People waiting for a green to turn right.

2. People too stupid to memorize a 4-way intersection light sequence so they know when to go on the turn around. Its not fucking hard to remember. A line of cars form because dumbass in the front is too fucking stupid to see which lane of cars are moving to see if they're going to be turning left in front of the turn around that they are in.

3. Nobody honks any more to tell dumbass in front to go. I dont give a shit if its rude. Get the fuck out of the way if you're too god damn stupid to see that no one is coming.

[derf]

Originally Posted by Rangerscott

Three problems Ive been seeing lately.

One big problem with the driving test is that its too easy and way irrelivant. The last DMV test I took, just about a decade ago for my M endorsment, the written exam was very focused on alcohol, in fact 1/2 of the test was about alcohol. 1/4 was about road signs and 1/4 was about motorcycling. Ok so whatever, the alcohol thing doesnt really apply to me, i'm a light weight, one drink yeh I can still drive fine, any more than that and I wouldnt even risk it. The DMV says that I should be good for 3!?!?

Having driven in holland though, and seen their driving test first hand I can tell you that a longer better and annually scheduled test wont fix shit. They take their driving test every decade, which consists of an hour long 85 question written test covering danger signs, and driving theory. Then once you pass that you take (for the initial liscense) a 40 hour driving class, and a 4 hour driving test. People there drive just as bad as people here. its just human nature to fuck things up.

[Rangerscott]

Had a precher that lived in Australia before. Took him a few tries to pass. He said it's extremely hard. They nit pick everything you do.

[Particle Man]

I've come up with the ultimate feature: a car that senses you're sitting in the left lane while not passing people. This feature shocks the fuck out of the driver while simultaneously blasting, "MOVE THE FUCK OVER, FUCKSTICK" and sounding a klaxon unil said fuckstick moves over.

[Gas Man]

Originally Posted by Particle Man

I've come up with the ultimate feature: a car that senses you're sitting in the left lane while not passing people. This feature shocks the fuck out of the driver while simultaneously blasting, "MOVE THE FUCK OVER, FUCKSTICK" and sounding a klaxon unil said fuckstick moves over.

This should be the next fed requirement of auto manufactures.