Are you the best driver in your friendship circle?

[ranhammerR34]

Yes I am.. Lowest number of tickets and accidents... Very attentive driver.

 

[Peter]

I'm probably the best in my country, everyone else sucks And i'm not even old enough to drive yet.

 

[Omnis]

You're not allowed to drive in Jamaica until you can captain a boat with 9 cups of rum punch in your system.

 

[Northstar]

I'm probably the best in my country, everyone else sucks And i'm not even old enough to drive yet.

He speaks the truth, when I went there cars would fly by at like 100mph. A majority also had damage.

Not to mention a couple cars I saw that had the windshields heavily tinted except for a little space in the middle.

 

[Steele_obsidion]

well i am not the best driver, i am good, but not the best, if im in my own car i feel more comfortable and know my limits, ive been driving my Fiencee's car for the past few months and it just doesnt feel right. it doesnt have my own spin on things i guess. i already killed her bumper, but that was the day i got kicked out, and i had a LOT on my mind.

 

[J-PaP]

I voted yes on the basis that
a. I have the biggest interest in cars out of my friends
b. I have the most experience out of my friends
c. I beat all my friends when we have gone karting

However.... None of my friends really care about cars/racing so all of the above points are negated as it doesn't prove I'm a better driver.

I know enough to be able to claim I am an above average driver and honestly think had I ever had the opportunity as a child to race(karts) I may be on a very different career path.

However I know I'm definitely not the best

 

[Pupik]

I'm just going to admit that I'm not not, since they all have a long way to go to surpass my speeding ticket total from the 1990s (15). I've been in more accidents/ding-ups than they have (or at least, admitted to). Never mind all the other tickets I've received. But...only 1 total ticket and no accidents since 2000.

At this point in my life and my friends and family, it all levels out by now. We know there's one or two family members that are likely to be more relaxed than others, and so that will shout at other drivers, but everybody pretty much obeys the rules of the road (with a little latitude towards speed limits).

On the other hand, I've been voted "least likely to get lost in a weird place" since I was in high school!

 

[eiriksmil]

Of all my friends, I am the only person who

A. Has never been puller over
B. Has never wrecked my car
C. Never had someone puke all over my backseat
D. Knows where my car is.
E. Knows where my license is at all times.

All of my friends have speeding tickets, wrecked their car, Got a DUI/ suspended license, etc....

My car is also the cleanest and doesn't have any cracked windows.

That doesn't mean you're a good driver... That means you haven't driven hard enough, have friends who can control themselves when drunk and that you're an organised person.. I've sent one of my cars into things and onto things and got pulled over in it three times in three months, once for powersliding it through a roundabout... Does all that make me a bad driver?

Anyway, I can't really class myself as this or that. In my age group, maaaybe, but among all my friends a buddy with 15 years more experience behind the wheel wins hands down

 

[TB]

That doesn't mean you're a good driver... That means you haven't driven hard enough

And where, exactly, in normal city driving would you need to drive your car hard? Not everyone has been to, or even wants to go to, a track, which is the only place that a car should really ever be pushed.

And "powersliding it through a roundabout" is not good driving, either. It's stupid and begging for an accident. So while it doesn't necessarily make you a bad driver, I do question your logic.

 

[TheCracker]

That doesn't mean you're a good driver... That means you haven't driven hard enough

I voted Yes. Not because i push my car harder than any of my friends do, that wouldn't necessarily make me the best driver. I voted 'yes' because out all my friends i've driven with, i concentrate on what i'm doing the most, i look further ahead then any of them do, and i have fewer bad driving habits then any of them. This is backed up with the fact that the in the 20 years that i've been driving, i've only been involved in an accident once and that was the other persons fault entirely. Other than that i've so much as lost a wing mirror. I've never been stopped by the police for an offence either. That makes me a better driver, it has nothing to do with speed or how big your balls are.

 

[Bram Turismo]

That doesn't mean you're a good driver... That means you haven't driven hard enough, have friends who can control themselves when drunk and that you're an organised person.. I've sent one of my cars into things and onto things and got pulled over in it three times in three months, once for powersliding it through a roundabout... Does all that make me a bad driver?

While being able to powerslide might be a good thing in your drifter world, it is utterly idiotic and pathetic to do these kind of things on public roads. First of all, Spock's list does make him a good driver. The fact that he's never been caught driving too fast, and that his driver's license never has been withdrawn shows that he knows how traffic works, and that he is aware of his responsibilities as a driver and towards other people in traffic.

Second, "friends who can control themselves when they're drunk" is absolute nonsense. You can try and tell me people that have too much alcohol in their blood still can drive good enough, but for me this is pure crap. Anyone who has even the slighest raised alcohol level in their blood will have worse orientation, view, and abilities to react to dangerous situations. Anyone with alcohol in their blood is a dangerous obstacle in traffic; whether it be drivers, cyclists or people who walk.

Powersliding does not mean you are a bad driver, but it does show that you are not aware of the danger you are putting other people in, and it does show your lack of responsibility towards others. If you want to powerslide, fine, do it somewhere private or on a track. But don't try and play the drifting hero on places where you put other people's lives at risk.

 

[eiriksmil]

Ookay, let's clear up one or two things here shall we

First of all, I've never claimed to be a good driver based on my shenenigans. While good driving is about car control, it's more about predicting all the stuff that'll go down in front of you and being ready.

First of all, Spock's list does make him a good driver. The fact that he's never been caught driving too fast, and that his driver's license never has been withdrawn shows that he knows how traffic works, and that he is aware of his responsibilities as a driver and towards other people in traffic.

Or that he has been lucky, what the **** do you know? As little as me, I was unserious (although I see that I didn't show it really good ) when I said he was this and that. I wouldn't know.

Second, "friends who can control themselves when they're drunk" is absolute nonsense.

Yo boss, before you preach more, hit up stotty's third point, drunk people puke.. Drinking and driving is dumb. Period.

If you want to powerslide, fine, do it somewhere private or on a track. But don't try and play the drifting hero on places where you put other people's lives at risk.

Did I miss something here? Were you in my car that evening? Since you know everything about the situation I mean. Oh, and do you have a license? If you don't, I can tell you that some day if you get the opportunity of doing something you shouldn't be doing (let's say slide through a quarter of a roundabout) and thereby "putting other people at risk", you're most likely gonna take it. It's easier to say in front of a screen than to do in a car, if you know what I mean On the other hand, if you do have a license and can say hand on heart that you've never done something even slightly dangerous on the road (but having got the experience of real car control elsewhere), my respect for you is massive

 

[Bram Turismo]

First of all, I've never claimed to be a good driver based on my shenenigans. While good driving is about car control, it's more about predicting all the stuff that'll go down in front of you and being ready.

That is clearly not what you originally said:

That doesn't mean you're a good driver... That means you haven't driven hard enough

Or that he has been lucky, what the **** do you know? As little as me, I was unserious (although I see that I didn't show it really good ) when I said he was this and that. I wouldn't know.

So you honestly think that people who do not have a history of getting speed tickets have just been lucky? I think it's something a little more that separates the group "speeding ticket drivers" from the others...

Did I miss something here? Were you in my car that evening? Since you know everything about the situation I mean. Oh, and do you have a license? If you don't, I can tell you that some day if you get the opportunity of doing something you shouldn't be doing (let's say slide through a quarter of a roundabout) and thereby "putting other people at risk", you're most likely gonna take it. It's easier to say in front of a screen than to do in a car, if you know what I mean On the other hand, if you do have a license and can say hand on heart that you've never done something even slightly dangerous on the road (but having got the experience of real car control elsewhere), my respect for you is massive

There is a difference between being dangerous on the road undeliberatly and deliberatly. Being a practicing drivers on the road can be a dangerous situation to others since that person does not fully know all the rules and/or car yet. However, if you slide your car through roundabouts then you clearly know you are doing a dangerous thing to others, and therefore you are being deliberatly dangerous:

I've sent one of my cars into things and onto things and got pulled over in it three times in three months, once for powersliding it through a roundabout

I can swear on my mother's grave that I have never, ever pulled off a dangerous manoevre knowing what I was doing. I will admit that I may have been involved in a dangerous situation in my first driving lesson. But when driving a car on my own, I have never put other people's lives at risk with me knowing it.

 

[ImprezaAddict]

Honestly, I think I am the best one because I'm the only car nut of my friends and the only one using a stick shift car. All my friends drive autos and usually near-miss a lot....

 

[eiriksmil]

So you honestly think that people who do not have a history of getting speed tickets have just been lucky?

Those who's just not had one ticket ever and they've had some years in the seat, yeah, lucky.

There is a difference between being dangerous on the road undeliberatly and deliberatly. Being a practicing drivers on the road can be a dangerous situation to others since that person does not fully know all the rules and/or car yet. However, if you slide your car through roundabouts then you clearly know you are doing a dangerous thing to others, and therefore you are being deliberatly dangerous

Undeliberatly dangerous is even worse, you don't even know/understand why a situation or a move is dangerous to other drivers, and can't read traffic. Those are dangerous, together with those that are driving over their own limits on the road.. I never learnt to go sideways on the road, just for the record..

 

[slims]

I'm probably the best in my country, everyone else sucks And i'm not even old enough to drive yet.

I guess you haven't been to watch a local rally. They got some tear head Jamaican rally drivers who come down to Barbados every year for our big international rally.