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Vompatti 
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Joined: October 22 2005
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 Topic: Rate your Driving
Posted: August 15 2007 at 15:49 |
Luckily I don't have a car. 
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout
Joined: May 13 2007
Location: Europe
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Points: 37575
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 15:22 |
 Vompatti wrote:
I have no idea how I got my driving license. |
Could you do me a small favour and paint your car fluorescent green or something, just on the off chance I should happen to drive through Finland for any reason... 
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What?
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Chicapah
Prog Reviewer
Joined: February 14 2006
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 8238
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 15:12 |
To quote Dustin Hoffman's character in "Rainman,"
I'm an excellent driver...
Seriously, the secret is just to be aware of what's going on around you. You can call the person back when you get where you're going. Pay attention to the road!
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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Vompatti
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Joined: October 22 2005
Location: elsewhere
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Points: 67407
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 15:05 |
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I have no idea how I got my driving license.
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Tapfret
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Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin
Joined: August 12 2007
Location: Bryant, Wa
Status: Offline
Points: 8581
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Posted: August 15 2007 at 14:52 |
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My wife constantly nags at my driving, so yes, I'm an awesome driver!
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mr_johnny_lee
Forum Groupie
Joined: May 10 2006
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 86
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Posted: July 02 2007 at 12:17 |
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I am overall a safe driver but needsa lot more experience...I've passed my exam 18 months ago but I rarely get the chance to drive so whenever I do I still get a bit nervous.
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Jon
Sheffield, England (currently residing in Tokyo, Japan)
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chamberry
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Joined: October 24 2005
Location: Puerto Rico
Status: Offline
Points: 9008
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 13:36 |
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I can be both good and bad to the bone.
I've been driving alone for about 3 months now so I'm still learning the ropes when it gets difficult.
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk
Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 20248
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 13:25 |
Sean Trane wrote:
I'm good, but I can speed or do other infractions >> But I am never to be a danger to anyone while infracting rules
But I know when to do those infractions.  |
Better give some further explications before sounding like Mad Max.
Been driving since 79 and must be close to 1 000 000 Km. Only totalled one car (the second >> A Mazda GLC , my first being a 65 chevy Impala with a 6 cyl which had the greatest problem overcoming the 55 MPH limits), and since then I've only had a few brushes (bent or scratched metal) and I have a B/M of 3 (normal is 11 and it'sgetting really hazrd to find insurance at 17) . Never a suspended license, never burned ared light (but a few overiped oranges well), haven't gotten a ticket in the last three years (except parking).
I am very polite and careful of pedestrians, but if I can squish the seven poodles of this old lady that has them pooping all over the place, I will make sure I hit her instead of the poodles.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Jared
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 06 2005
Location: Hereford, UK
Status: Offline
Points: 19322
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 07:40 |
my last accident was in 1990...
...but I have collected 9 points on my licence in 20 years on the road...  |
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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micky
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Joined: October 02 2005
Location: .
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Points: 46833
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 07:34 |
'my driving techniques are great, but I drive like an ass' if you don't count many speeding tickets... one totalled '78 Firebird.... numerous other close calls... I'd say my technique is great..I'm still alive.  btw.... I learned to drive watching Mad Max... I am the Nightrider! I am a fuel-injected suicide machine! I am
a rocker! I am a roller! I am an out-of-controller!
I am the Chosen One! The
mighty hand of Vengeance! Sent down to strike the unroadworthy! HAHAHAHAH... hotter than a rolling
dice! Step right up, chum, and watch the kid lay down a rubber
road right to freedom!
Edited by micky - June 30 2007 at 07:37
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Sean Trane
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Prog Folk
Joined: April 29 2004
Location: Heart of Europe
Status: Offline
Points: 20248
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 07:24 |
I'm good, but I can speed or do other infractions >> But I am never to be a danger to anyone while infracting rules
But I know when to do those infractions.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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KoS
Forum Senior Member
Joined: May 17 2005
Location: Los Angeles
Status: Offline
Points: 16310
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 00:48 |
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"my driving techniques are great, but I drive like an ass"
Well I commute in Los Angeles, sometimes you have to be an ass. I have only been driving for six months so I haven't driven in all conditions.
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Arsillus
Forum Senior Member
Joined: March 26 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 7374
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 00:12 |
I think I'm a good driver. I could use more highway experience and my parallel parking blows, but I drive safely. I don't really even like driving- too much money and liability. I'd prefer just to bike everywhere (I'm sure I'll still be saying when I'm old....  )
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kazansky
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 24 2006
Location: Indonesia
Status: Offline
Points: 5085
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Posted: June 30 2007 at 00:00 |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
The T wrote:
If I was an animal, I would never speak to you again....(if Peru's bus drivers are like Ecuador's bus driver)...  |
I went two times driving to Guayaquil and Quito, believe me bus drivers are worst here.
Iván |
bus drivers are worst here too... they drive like they own the road... but the most troublesome are probably motorcycles ! they drive like they have many spare lifes...
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The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.
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Man With Hat
Collaborator
Jazz-Rock/Fusion/Canterbury Team
Joined: March 12 2005
Location: Neurotica
Status: Offline
Points: 166178
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Posted: June 29 2007 at 23:59 |
The Doctor wrote:
Generally a safe driver, but prone to extreme bouts of road rage. |
That sounds about right for me too...though I'm sure the doc got me beat in rage. 
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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kazansky
Forum Senior Member
Joined: December 24 2006
Location: Indonesia
Status: Offline
Points: 5085
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Posted: June 29 2007 at 23:57 |
i try to be safe, but inexperienced...
i crashed on my first day 
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The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Joined: April 27 2004
Location: Peru
Status: Offline
Points: 19535
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Posted: June 29 2007 at 23:40 |
The T wrote:
If I was an animal, I would never speak to you again....(if Peru's bus drivers are like Ecuador's bus driver)... |
I went two times driving to Guayaquil and Quito, believe me bus drivers are worst here.
Just as an example:
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - June 30 2007 at 00:02
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The T
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Joined: October 16 2006
Location: FL, USA
Status: Offline
Points: 17493
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Posted: June 29 2007 at 22:24 |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
In the city I an very cautious, here bus drivers are animals (With the pardon of the animals), they stp anywhere, get ouit passengers in the middle of the way, etc.
Iván |
If I was an animal, I would never speak to you again....(if Peru's bus drivers are like Ecuador's bus driver)...
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Joined: April 27 2004
Location: Peru
Status: Offline
Points: 19535
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Posted: June 29 2007 at 22:21 |
I drive for 26 years and have license for 24 (Here you can't get your license until you are 18, but I drived with USA one as if I was only visiting Perú), drived through the best and worst roads in coast, mountains and jungle, never caused an accident since I have license (Been collisioned by an idiot while standing on a traffic light). never had a tickett though I sometimes pass the speed limit, so I believe I'm above the average.
In the city I an very cautious, here bus drivers are animals (With the pardon of the animals), they stp anywhere, get ouit passengers in the middle of the way, etc.
Iván
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Atkingani
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator / Retired Admin
Joined: October 21 2005
Location: Terra Brasilis
Status: Offline
Points: 12288
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Posted: June 29 2007 at 21:59 |
32 years of license next September... never received a fine, never crashed or was crashed, etc. more or less a miracle considering how wild is the transit in Brazil, especially in Rio de Janeiro.
I'd say that I'm cautious and experienced. Anyway, I seek to practice all the time, the so-called 'defensive driving' - basically looking far ahead in the traffic and surroundings, never trusting in others' action, searching for escape areas, not driving beyond my comfort speed, checking brakes, tyres, etc.
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