Intimidating Drivers

cqaigy2 · Aug 15, 2013

troutsqueezer said:
It's far too easy to shoot down this type of rhetoric with simple logic and deduction but I'm not going to go into that in this thread. Plus, it's hard to read because of the punctuation, probably caused by copying and pasting from another app. If you like to discuss this type of thinking, submit your ideas to a forum like Straight Dope where folks will be glad to take you on. Straight Dope Message Board - Powered by vBulletin

Please don't feed the animals.

Relic · Aug 16, 2013

troutsqueezer said:
It's interesting, when I drive the wife's Prius, I noticed that some folks who are driving in much larger vehicles, usually with over-sized tires, tend to tailgate me, pass unsafely and generally try to intimidate, using the size of their vehicle as a weapon. I don't get this behavior much when I drive my truck. Now, I'm going to generalize here, I'm aware: Sometimes, after something like this happens, the other driver and I will happen be headed to the same destination and when we each get out of our vehicles I can't help but notice that the other driver tends to be on the small side, physically. Rarely does this happen with big people in big trucks. I think perhaps they don't have self-image problems nearly as much, or at least don't use their vehicles to make up for their small size. I'm guessing they buy those big trucks to actually haul something big. I'm 6'2" at 220 lbs. and I sense that the other driver is sometimes a little surprised that the person they just tried to intimidate is not the person they envisioned driving a smaller car so they avoid eye contact at all costs. I'm not the type of person who intimidates others, the opposite in fact, but sometimes I would like to pick them up by the collar and say, "Hey, do you feel like intimidating me now, Punk?" :laughing:

BINGO

houstonscott · Aug 16, 2013

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/16/whatever-happened-to-the-chevy-volt/

HS

greasemonkeyok · Aug 16, 2013

Seriously HS, how many links do you make in a day, and do you get paid for that? 500 links and you get a free trip to The Mens Club maybe?

I think the subject of the thread is driver attitude and safety, not politics.

hawkeye08 · Aug 16, 2013

I considered this conversion a few years back...

Pontiac Fiero - Electric Conversion

aczlan · Aug 16, 2013

houstonscott said:
Just trying show that the idea that people are clambering to buy electric cars and hybrids is not true. They are propped up by government sales, by tax and government rebates, by green propaganda. If they had to compete in the market on their own they would stop producing them. Their green reputation is a hoax. Im not telling you not to by one, but drop the holy roller, I'm doing something for the environment or world or fighting those bad oil guy by driving one. The idea that any one whom is driving one is saving gas is a laugh. It's not true.

My parents neighbors with a first generation Prius that has over 250k miles on it would beg to disagree with you... I wouldn't go that route (I'd get a TDI and drop it into my Volvo V90), but they are saving money with their Prius and beater Dodge Dakota over their previous cars (Caravan and VW Rabbit pickup) while driving around in a far more comfortable fashion.

Aaron Z