<p>I've got terrible driving habits, but I don't care. I love the way I drive, yes, yes I do! I do many terrible things when driving, here's a few examples:</p>
<p>-When I see a stop sign or red light, I speed up like crazy and then SLAM on the brakes just because I like that tingly feeling the g-rush gives you! Of course, I go flying front, and so does everyone else in the car, and they all get ****ed off, but hey, I love it!</p>
<p>-When switching lanes, I don't gradually ease in, I QUICKLY turn the wheel left! then right! because I like the fact that my whole body goes with the car. In the trunk, the groceries get all messed up. :(</p>
<p>-When I see a fancy car next to me drive up, and the light is red, the first thing my mind thinks is ::RACE RACE RACE RACE::. So, I smash on the accelerator and GO GO GO GO! My car is crap however, so I scream various explitives at those faster/better cars!</p>
<p>Then I remember nice car=got nothing in the pants. Then I proceed to feel more manly. ^_^</p>
<p>well, i don't think your crazy habits hold a candle to my lead foot and late braking :)</p>
<p>I don't feel like i'm going anywhere unless i'm moving faster than 85 on the freeway. Three tickets my first few years of having a license - my insurance company loves me lol. But for all my speed, I am a very safe, competent driver. (and I could take you all on for driving skill bwahaha)</p>
<p>However, I would recommend that you don't jerk the wheel when you change lanes. Thats definitely not the best of ideas.</p>
<p>I'm not usually the preachy, big-stick-up-ass sort, but I find myself a little worried by this. I mean, sure, risk your lives if you want to, but can't you do it elsewhere than behind a wheel? Make all the bad decisions for yourself that you want, and only your mother will care, but when it puts other people at risk, then don't you have an ethical responsibility to be more careful?</p>
<p>...If you're worried about something as minor as this, you really have too much time on your hands. Shouldn't you be more concerned with the people that drive drunk? There are MUCH more serious issues in the world than this. </p>
<p>But, to address the original question, I have road rage, and I have a tendency to weave in & out of traffic. Luckily I haven't gotten any tickets (only been driving since september). </p>
<p>~ i get mad when people change lanes from behind me, then speed up and get in front of me, it's like they are saying im going too ****ing slow when im actually going way faster than i should, so i switch lanes and blow past them...road rage? probably.</p>
<p>~ if im first in the lane and stopped at a red light, i want to be the first to start going when it turns green and be out of there.</p>
<p>~i almost always go 5-30 miles over the speed limit and i've been driving since Jan. 2003 and i still havent gotten a ticket :)</p>
<p>I think a lot of driving laws are dumb and made for horrible drivers... The speed limits are all about 20 mph too slow. </p>
<p>But anyway... I have a Cadillac Seville SLS... and it has a Northstar V8. And I floor it nearly every chance I get. I drive like a rally racer on curvy country roads. Like one corner on my house, the speed limit goes from 45, down to 15 for this turn, and then back up to 45... I usually take it at about 40 and floor it on the way out. </p>
<p>My car has saved my butt a time or two though... Like it was raining this morning, and the roads were very slick, and I floored it to get in front of a school bus (they stop way too much) and I just glance at my speedometer, and it says "Stability control engaged" and surely enough, I felt a gentle rocking... </p>
<p>I don't know, it's so entrancing... If I go to college in state, I'm definatley going to get myself a Subaru WRX or a mistubishi Evo... and Once I'm a little older, and have some money, I wouldn't mind a Ford GT...</p>
<p>-well...I hate it when people speed to get past me then jump in front of me and begin going 20 mph...
-I run the red light in the morning constantly because I leave the house at 8:17 and school starts at 8:25...the damn light holds for like 3-5 minutes...</p>
<p>what the **** are you talking about?!? never heard anything as stupid as this... to point out the fact that your post required no thought whatsover, i've taken my time to list out your mental ineptitude just because others must be aware</p>
<p>-reckless driving is a "minor" thing?
-wait, when was druken driving mention? deviation? but hold on, we can find a common similarity: dangerous driving
-lol, this last comment is such a funny kicker, just cracks me up. i guess you care about 'worldly issues'(which i'm sure you partake an active role in) more than this "minor" thing which threatens your world more directly</p>
<p>but i digress,</p>
<p>BCgoUSC, props to your sly tongue</p>
<p>fhshortie08, cops can't give out tickets unless you are going 20mph over the limit <em>read this on a ticket once</em>anything under and all you get is a warning</p>
<p>cops can't give out tickets unless you are going 20mph over the limit <em>read this on a ticket once</em>anything under and all you get is a warning</p>
<p>Wait, you're kidding right? Cops can give you a ticket even if you're going just one mile an hour over the speed limit (it is called a limit, not a "you have a 20 mile an hour buffer over this speed"). 30+ miles an hour over and you can get reckless endangerment. My first ticket was for 83 in a 50, but the cop was rather nice and noted on the ticket that the safe speed was 55, so everything was all good :) - it was a pretty expensive ticket, though. It is completely possible to be safe at high speeds, but not everyone has that ability... hence speed limits that seem pretty low at times.</p>
<p>this was just what i saw, so i could be wrong. but by staying under 20mph over, i've never gotten a ticket. also, my dad got a warning once for doing 43 in a 25 residential zone at night. but like i said, i could be wrong about this tip</p>
<p>Yeah, it varies from place to place. My parents used to live in a really podunk county, and on sunday, they would have one deputy work the whole county... so needless to say, no one really obeyed the laws.</p>
<p>In my hometown, I usually float around 2-3 mph over... as long as there are people going faster than me, I figure I'm ok... and there always are.</p>
<p>In the next town over, the cops are a lot more anal... so I cruise on the limit there.</p>
<p>Exactly it really depends on the specific cop who pulls you over. But there is nothing to say that they have to give you a warning if you're going less than 20 over.</p>
<p>I would show a cop some leg... but I'm a guy, and it probably wouldn't work. I don't know what I would do... I'd probably freak out because I know my parents would kill me.</p>
<p>haha my mom just laughed at me when I got my tickets because she knew i had to do traffic school. She went to traffic school once and couldn't stand it, so now she just pays the fine and takes the point rather than going to traffic school. We both drive pretty fast.</p>