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Yesterday, Environics released the results of a study commissioned by Goodyear Canada about driving attitudes. It found that 74 percent of Canadians hate drivers “who engage in road rage/impolite gestures.” Another 72 percent are angered by motorists who tailgate or follow too closely, who allow their doors to hit the car next to them, or who speed up to block others from passing or changing lanes. Environics' Vice-President of Consumer Research David MacDonald added that those who were most critical of other drivers were guilty of their own bad driving habits. Speaking of tragic ironies: Tuesday, at the height of morning rush hour, we saw the crumpled remains of a Porsche Carrera and a Dodge Infiniti—the result of a collision at the corner of University Avenue and King Street. One of the drivers was adamant that he was in the right because he had the green. But the police officer at the scene said, “yeah, but you’re supposed to let them finish making the left-hand turn.”
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Did that guy get hit by a marble slab from the First Canadian Place?
Ha! great headline. Funny.
I'm sure having expensive, cool stuff is nice, and maybe even makes some feel a little more important, but I've learned that the stress of worrying about something happening to whatever nice thing you have (car, motorcycle) just isn't worth it. I've seen people have heart attacks over scratches. I mean, come on, a Porsche in a crowded city...an accident waiting to happen.
NOW he has the perfect city car - gobs of passing and weaving power,room for 2 adults, and with those bangs and scratches, he'll rest easy knowing he can't depreciate the value of the vehicle much more! Once you have the first scratch on your precious baby, you're lesss likely to get stressed out about further scratches. Call it initiation. Or Car-ma.
If that accident happened Wednesday morning, I think the other car was an Infiniti G35 (not whatever a Dodge Infiniti is). Suffice it to say, German engineers weep.
Dave is correct.
I mean, Dave is correct about the car. But the accident happened Tuesday.
You're right - it was Tuesday. This week's been a blur.
Rule of cars. They make people assholes. And the more expensive the car, the bigger the the asshole it makes a person.
I don't mean to be a jerk - I'm sure there's a lot of people who drive expensive cars and obey the rules. But from my experience, they're in the minority. While driving, I find it's almost always the expensive cars (or cabs) that cut me off, and when I'm walking/biking, it's those that almost hit me by driving too fast, not signalling, not stopping at stop signs, or speeding up to make that yellow light.