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Archive for August 13th, 2007

Driving trends - is it just us?

Lately, I’ve noticed a sea change in local driving - more and more people seem to believe they’re actually in England. It seems that every day I come across some nutter careening along on the wrong side of the road, not swerving over to the right until the last possible moment. It doesn’t seem to be confined to any particular type of vehicle, and not all of them are on the phone (as far as I can tell - hands-free conversations aren’t easy to detect.)

Is this happening everywhere or just in the county where I live?

Normally nutty things like this are confined to a single type of driver, like the Civics and Volkswagens swinging across three or four lanes of highway every two to five seconds without actually gaining any distance over drivers who choose their lanes carefully; or the “why look before I leap?” lane changes of oversized, truck-based SUVs; or the “I drive faster in snow” behavior of inexperienced, overconfident 4×4 and AWD vehicles; or the “I don’t care how fast I go, as long as I don’t get passed” behavior of people driving in New Jersey with New York plates (for some reason not a big problem in their home state); or any of a number of other interesting trends of people with vehicles of a particular type. The wrong-side-of-the-road routine is inexplicable to me, and widespread as well.

Your thoughts?



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