# Hilariously poor driving - video **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2014, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022 "2014-12-12T12:25:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/1 "2014-12-12T12:25:15Z")
[Parking-lot-challenged Canadian BMW driver has now been watched 4 million times](http://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-bmw-driver-will-have-you-yelling-at-the-screen-for-four-minutes-2014-12-08). Could someone actually be this clueless behind the wheel? Or drunk, or in a panicked fugue state, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/2 "2014-12-12T12:56:34Z")
Not quite that bad, but I have seen people struggle with figuring out turning the steering wheel for reversing. It’s so frustrating, you just want to reach into the driver side window and take control. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/3 "2014-12-12T13:00:41Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Not quite that bad, but I have seen people struggle with figuring out turning the steering wheel for reversing. It’s so frustrating, you just want to reach into the driver side window and take control. You reminded me - I did just that a few years ago. A guy was having an awful time trying to parallel park and getting very flustered. I asked if he wanted me to park his car for him and he appeared quite grateful and let me do it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/4 "2014-12-12T13:06:13Z")
Watch people backing a trailer sometime. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/5 "2014-12-12T15:07:52Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Watch people backing a trailer sometime. No kidding. The person in the video shouldn’t be allowed the control of a shopping cart, much less a car. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/6 "2014-12-12T15:11:29Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Watch people backing a trailer sometime. If you’re not experienced backing up a trailer it can be challenging. Everything for the trailer works opposite to the vehicle. I’ve borrowed trailers in the past and I really had to think about what I was doing. Backing up a car is pretty damned straight forward though, or should be! ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/7 "2014-12-12T15:22:39Z")
My wife is not quite that bad, but I’ve had to explain to her on at least three separate occasions that if you turn the wheel, back up, then go forwards without turning the wheel at all, you end up in the same place. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/8 "2014-12-12T16:04:38Z")
That’s painful to watch, but IMHO this driver is worse (and funnier). ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/9 "2014-12-12T16:12:33Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Watch people backing a trailer sometime. I just finished a trailer towing course for work and one of the challenges the instructor asked us to do was parallel park a 20 ft cargo trailer attached to a 9 pass Econoline van. Got it second try, but I had to get out twice to see blind spots. The other was to do a reverse serpentine with a 30 ft trailer and a 1 ton pickup. It’s amazing that people NEVER ask for help or even get out to see how close they are to another vehicle. Then again, this is the same mass of humanity that will go through the full drive through when the counters are empty… FWIW, apparently the woman wasn’t even aware she had hit the car. How is that even possible?!? If you are that distracted, you shouldn’t be on the road with a licence! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/10 "2014-12-12T16:49:04Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > That’s painful to watch, but IMHO this driver is worse (and funnier). I finally got round to watching the Canadian video yesterday. Now there’s this one. I don’t understand how drivers can be that incompetent, unless they are impaired. And I’ve seen some clueless drivers. These people are parodies. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/11 "2014-12-12T17:48:51Z")
[Calgary police are investigating.](http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/police-investigating-calgarys-worst-driver-who-took-five-painful-minutes-to-leave-a-parking-spot) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/12 "2014-12-12T18:43:49Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > [Calgary police are investigating.](http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/police-investigating-calgarys-worst-driver-who-took-five-painful-minutes-to-leave-a-parking-spot) I like this part: > [@](#): > > Does this person have a driver’s licence? Was a child driving? Was the driver under the influence of something? Was a child driving under the influence without a licence? ---
**Author:** ![Donnerwetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Donnerwetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donnerwetter)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/13 "2014-12-12T19:20:36Z")
I’d say the driver is just completely plastered. Pretty straightforward explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/14 "2014-12-12T20:37:54Z")
That, probably. My other theory is that maybe the driver has some sort of shoulder injury or injuries that prevented him/her to turn the wheel more than an inch or two at a time and not be able to look over his/her shoulder as well. If, in the kinda unlikely case that this is so, I’m betting heavy you-should-not-drive-or-operate-heavy-equipment painkillers are involved. Or the person is a flat-out dingbat. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/15 "2014-12-13T00:05:17Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > I just finished a trailer towing course for work and one of the challenges the instructor asked us to do was parallel park a 20 ft cargo trailer attached to a 9 pass Econoline van. Got it second try, but I had to get out twice to see blind spots. The other was to do a reverse serpentine with a 30 ft trailer and a 1 ton pickup. It’s amazing that people NEVER ask for help or even get out to see how close they are to another vehicle. Then again, this is the same mass of humanity that will go through the full drive through when the counters are empty… > > \*\*FWIW, apparently the woman \*\*wasn’t even aware she had hit the car. How is that even possible?!? If you are that distracted, you shouldn’t be on the road with a licence! \ Why assume the driver was a woman? :dubious: (I am a woman…) Maneuvering a trailer is a whole different level, I agree. Back in the '80s I drove a semi over the road for a few years and it does take a few to get used to driving something that high, wide, heavy and bendy in the middle. **Snowboarder Bo’s** contribution was also excruciating to watch. Holy shit. I have a hard time understanding how these drivers can be so utterly and pathetically inept. I’m going with really drunk or high, I think. (Or a child attempting to drive under the influence.) I do hope they can figure out who this driver is. With the amount of publicity this is getting, I don’t think I’d be wanting to drive a silver BMW SUV in Calgary right now. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/16 "2014-12-13T00:19:25Z")
The curb didn’t look too tall-I’d have back up onto the grass. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hilariously-poor-driving-video/707022/17 "2014-12-13T00:47:00Z")
This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. I’ve watched all 10 seasons of “Canada’s Worst Driver” and it seems like a majority of the contestants come from Alberta. I’m not sure this guy would even crack top 10 for that show–I mean, he got out of the parking lot, didn’t he, and he only hit one car, out of a possible 3-4. Edit: OK, maybe he hit 2 cars, not sure if he tapped that white SUV, too.