# Help me give bad drivers a hand

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-give-bad-drivers-a-hand/578003>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 11, 2011, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-give-bad-drivers-a-hand/578003 "2011-04-11T20:46:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Marc\_Xenos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Marc\_Xenos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marc_Xenos)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-give-bad-drivers-a-hand/578003/21 "2011-04-12T17:25:50Z")

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Wouldn’t matter, since they wouldn’t recognize it being directed at them anyway. They’re absolutely positive that THEY are excellent drivers even while on a cellphone, even though nobody else might be. Like the idiots that proclaim they actually drive better while drunk than sober. (Although some do drive just as bad when sober.)

According to one survey, 98% of respondents considered themselves to be better than average drivers.

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**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-give-bad-drivers-a-hand/578003/22 "2011-04-12T18:14:45Z")

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> [@stpauler](#):
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> I always believed that we should have paint ball guns and be able to mark bad drivers with a shot. If you’ve got 10 shots on your car, you don’t get to drive for a week.

I should like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I’ve always believed that we should all have a Muad’dib button in our cars, so when you see a bad driver, you just use The Voice, shout “MMMMUUUUUAAAA-DEEB!” and the other driver will be instantly vaporized. That would be sweet. (That’s a Dune reference for those of you following along at home.)

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**Author:** ![Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/13edae/32.png) [@Interconnected\_Series\_of\_Tubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interconnected_Series_of_Tubes)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-give-bad-drivers-a-hand/578003/23 "2011-04-13T00:18:27Z")

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> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> What the world needs is my invention on the market. Put a alphanumeric lit display in your rear window with a keyboard next to the driver. Then you’d just type in “Hang up phone and drive” in the keyboard, hit the display button, and it appears in your rear window when you pass him.

Many many of these products already exist.

I thought about getting one for a while, but I thought it might be a little overly-antagonistic. Especially since (like everybody), I’m sometimes the ony driving like an asshole.

My ‘gtfoff your phone’ symbol is an exaggerated head-bouncing pantomime talking on my thumb-and-pinky phone, which in turn gets held up into the air and -clapped- shut with both hands like the world’s biggest flipphone.

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