Why are there no bad drivers?

[BrainsTracy]

Ask anyone about their driving ability and they will nearly always be "Good" or at least "above average" so where do all the numpties come from?

[potterfan3]

Because no one will admit they're a bad at anything

[ummmm]

I only know I'm not a bad driver because I've been told.

I don't know how some people even passed their test.

[starone]

My husband always thought he was the best there was.

[albaqwerty]

I'm average and courteous. Being courteous makes other drivers wave to me with one finger :)

[EvianBaby]

Most people are not bad drivers on the whole (although there are some exceptions). I would be everyone has done something wrong/stupid at some point while driving though.

[Postdog]

Depends on your definition of bad. I don't take risks or speed too much, but a few people I know would regard these as faults.

[BrainsTracy]

By bad I mean those that have no idea about things like roundabouts and when to give way for example. People who think that it is wrong to look prior to actually arriving at a junction and then stop anyway even when they don't have to, people who think if there is a 1 degree kink in the road they must do an emergency stop to get round it. etc ect

[EvianBaby]

Oh, good. That must make me a very good driver. I do none of those things. Pedal to the metal - junctions or no juntions. ;)

[BrainsTracy]

it was not a complete list!

[erin-x]

I like to think i'm a good driver and have been told so by friends and that. My Dad has always been an excellent driver and I think I take after him with things like hazard perception. He says that if i make sure i do everything right, it's just the other people i have to worry about.

[Mattk]

Did some major motorway mileage over the weekend and the number of idiots you see is incredible. People leaving the middle lane to move into the fast lane and entering gaps little bigger than their vehicle!

[albaqwerty]

My first driving instructor taught me how to 'read the road' the second one was a complete and utter total waste of space.

[mungbeanz]

I'm working in Albania and I can tell you they all live here. The roads are absolute chaos.

[albaqwerty]

Matt, it is NOT the fast lane. You can do 70 in the inside lane. (Well, depending upon how busy it is etc etc)

[starone]

It's everybody else's fault, isn't it?

[erin-x]

That doesn't stop them though Alba. I hate being in the car with my brother, especially on the motorway. It's scary!

[albaqwerty]

When my OH drives, the brake pedal never works on my side of the car :)

[andy-hughes]

The major problem is - all the time you learn, there is an experienced driver sitting there stopping you from getting into bad habbits.

The day you pass your test, that 'filter' is removed.

So a lot of people get into seriously bad driving methods, but they never know they have because no-one ever tells them, so they blythly assume they are as good as the day they passed.

Human nature dictates that everyone else hooting and flashing just means they are the bad drivers!

[albaqwerty]

Andy, you can hoot and flash at me any time :D