How Do You Drive During Low-Traffic Hours?
Does anyone else use the low-traffic hours to practice good, patient driving? Kinda like a mock driver's ed exam or something? (Yeah I know, I'm nerdy :icon17:)
While driving home last night, I noticed there were hardly any cars on the road, so I figured I would get some precision safe driving in. Times like that, I like to test myself: approaching slowly before entering the turn bay, see how long I can hold the speedometer at exactly 3mph under the speed limit, stop just before the front tires touch the stop line, patient lane changes, accellerate gently from the stop light, 5mph in the parking lot, blah, blah, blah. Late at night and early in the morning when the roads are practically empty, I take the time to practice safe/defensive driving because It's easy when the distractions are significantly limited (tailgaters, bicyclists, j-walkers sprinting across the road when the crosswalk is 50 feet away, etc.). |
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I guess I'm exactly the opposite. I practice safe driving when other people are around. And I guess I don't so much as practice it as I just do it since I'm completely practiced, I guess.
When no one is around, I'll go faster and do slightly more hooligany things, but certainly nothing that will plant me into a curb. I'll also avoid doing so at night when police-to-civilian car ratios are higher and I can't identify anyone at a distance (let alone see objects, deer, animals, people quickly). (Ok, I usually don't accelerate gently from a stoplight. Maybe only when there's a much badder car next to me...) But hey, whatever helps your zen/mental state is what I think you should do when the road is clearer. :) |
I drive like a F*ing maniac all the time
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The only thing I do is when braking, I try to come to a stop without even feeling it.
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Like I stole it!!!!!
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wat i like to do is when im stopped next to some old folk, slowly roll backwards and watch grandma in a state of panic telling grandpa he's creeping forward. :icon17: ;) jk |
Pretty chill, don't want to get caught on a speed trap.
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And at night I tend to drive a little faster than normal. During traffic I drive fast, but people around here love to take all three lanes and drive side by side at the same speed, so most of the time I find myself stuck behind other cars. I don't worry about cops just because I know their spots and the police around here are pretty lenient on speeders anyway. |
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I’m opposite too. Nice morning at sunrise, about 70 degrees w/ low humidity, stop light on an open road pretty much brings an evil smile to my face. Yeah, gotta blow out the carbon right?
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When I have a passenger I like to practice not making them rock forward in their seat when shifting gears.
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If you really need to "practice", I highly recommend the Nissan LEAF. Lots of nice LED's and totally harmless… 80 KW AC motor (0 to 90 in 5.2 minutes!)
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like taking the back roads but the problem with that is this time of year the deer are up and moving so i won't be doing that too much.
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I like to stay right on the tail of those motorcyclists who think they get more traction with two wheels than four wheels. :p It puts a damper on their spirits seeing me right with them after the turn. Of course in an N/A car they gain on the straights but I have no delusions of grandeur here, I expect that.
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I think about driving to the beach (7 hours away), then talk myself out of it.
:ugh2: But, I drive like a grandma whether there's traffic or not, and I'm pretty good at coming to a stop smoothly. Sometimes I'll try to get that perfect shift, but I'm usually too tired/too deep in thought to do it right. |
I like to see how far I can drive with my eyes closed.
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I drive it like i stole it!!! :D
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In the wee hours of the morn'n I B datalogg'n my WOT runs and practicing my launches. I practice my defense driving skillz every week day morn'n I drive to work (not in my Z of coarse). :D
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well....i used to go super dee duper fast...because im young and stupid
since i got stopped 3 times in a week and a half tho ive been seeing how high i can get my mpg. 13.9 and goin no where but up (.2 a week!!!) the dumb thing is every time i got stopped it wasnt trying to be a speed racer...1 ticket out of the 3 |
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