Scrambler's Unified Theory of Driving - Rule 1

"Just wear your damn mask..." (jimal) 09/06/2013 at 23:21 • Filed to: SUToD

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Thought I'd try to start a conversation on proper driving. Please feel free to put your two cents in.

"If while driving, another driver has to do something in reaction to something you have done or are currently doing, you are doing it wrong."

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > Just wear your damn mask... 09/06/2013 at 23:28

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But, what if we're both in the left lane, I'm behind and your in front. I'm faster than you and you confirm by movie over. Am I still doing it wrong?

pdthedeuce > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/06/2013 at 23:37

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no , because the first car should move right after it passes , even if no one was behind it .

Just wear your damn mask... > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 09/06/2013 at 23:39

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As long as you aren't tailgating me or driving aggressively, you are not doing it wrong. The slower car should always give way to the faster car. Now in a perfect world, you would both be traveling in the middle or right lane (depending on the number of lanes), moving left to pass before returning to the travel lane. Some of this will be covered later.

GhostZ > Just wear your damn mask... 09/07/2013 at 01:08

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Define "has to do something in reaction" if you're driving and if they did nothing, they would be perfectly fine, but they do react and only cause harm to themselves, is it good or bad?

Just wear your damn mask... > GhostZ 09/07/2013 at 01:35

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If you are driving properly, other drivers should not have to react to you. They shouldn't have to change lanes, stop short, or alter what were doing. Whether or not not reacting will results in causing harm is secondary.

GhostZ > Just wear your damn mask... 09/07/2013 at 01:49

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I agree, on principle, that is correct.

However, on principle, it is also impossible, because every driver has to react to other drivers. How quickly you stop (or whether or coast or slam on the brakes) coming up to a stoplight determines how quickly the person behind you must stop, as well as how close they can follow, without resulting in a wreck.

Not to mention that anyone who drives a beautiful car now violates that rule.

I don't think there is a proper way to drive, ever. There are legal and illegal ways to drive, there are ways to drive that tend to cause a certain reaction (or can wear down parts in a certain way) but there is no absolute "proper" about it, just as how there is not way to 'properly' use the internet or a knife or a TV. There's a generally accepted way that is considered "safe", but there is no absolute, unified rules about how it is to be done.

Just wear your damn mask... > GhostZ 09/07/2013 at 12:56

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That is why this is a theory. I understand your stoplight analogy, but it is flawed in that everyone is reacting to the stoplight, not to the car in front of you. There are always going to be exceptions, but in the macro Rule 1 works.