# I am the world's best driver **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479 "2007-06-26T15:58:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/21 "2007-06-27T15:08:35Z")
[QUOTE=LouisB] I also survived traffic in Beijing. I am the worlds best passenger. [/QUOTE] Beijing traffic is nothing. A taxi in Shanghai, now that’s something :eek: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/22 "2007-06-27T15:16:18Z")
I burning your vanity plate. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/23 "2007-06-27T15:23:49Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] _waits patiently on the bus, reading a book_ [/QUOTE] If you’re not listening to a loud radio, cussing at the top of your lungs, groping other passengers, or stinking up the vehicle, you probably are the best bus rider in the universe. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2007, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/24 "2007-06-30T13:10:45Z")
[QUOTE=slaphead] Beijing traffic is nothing. A taxi in Shanghai, now that’s something :eek: [/QUOTE] I didn’t get to Shanghai; is traffic there really worse than Beijiing? I’ve lived in LA AND Miami and Beijing traffic terrified me. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/25 "2007-06-30T13:17:36Z")
I’m sorry to inform you, that _I_ and _I alone_ am the best driver, simply by experience. I have had Arctic training in North Dakota and Montana, Desert training in Arizona and New Mexico (NM for a time), and overseas training in Qatar and Afghanistan. If, for a moment, you think that overseas they have rules. . . I invite you to pinch yourself. Ever see a ‘roundabout’? Imagine a roundabout with Jerry Springer in the middle directing traffic. :eek: There are no rules over there. Add that, to the fact I’ve turned my 5,500 lb. pickup into a 13,650 lb. towing machine (moving with a trailer), and I’ve got y’all beat. 😃 Tripler I can K-turn with a 12-foot trailer. Can you? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/26 "2007-06-30T13:19:10Z")
Oh, and BTW: [A Fark link](http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070629/sc_livescience/ruralroadtriptop10deadlystates;_ylt=AmsKLygw6TU0VBxGlqHGfHfMWM0F) reminds us what roads to use the best caution on. ---
**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/27 "2007-06-30T15:06:55Z")
[QUOTE=LouisB] I didn’t get to Shanghai; is traffic there really worse than Beijiing? I’ve lived in LA AND Miami and Beijing traffic terrified me. [/QUOTE] I only spent a few days in each, but the general impression I got was that Beijing was a fairly dull, bland, pedestrian place compared to Shanghai. Bureaucratville compared to GetTheFuckOutaMyWayI’veGotALivingToEarn-ville. The motorway out of shanghai was my first and only experience of a full-size motor coach weaving through from lane to lane to get past inconveniently slow trucks and cars. :eek: Occasionally tailgating to persuade truck drivers to move over :eek: ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/28 "2007-06-30T15:45:06Z")
Meh-amateurs the lot of you. I drive kids. I have teen drivers. I drive the Dan Ryan and the Kennedy and the Borman-sometimes on the same day. Bow to me. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/29 "2007-07-01T03:15:44Z")
I took my driver’s test during an ice storm, and aced it I once swerved to avoid a moose, and saw a second moose directly in front of me, swerved, and saw a third moose… Missed that one too didn’t even spill my coffee Once hit black ice at 160 km/hr… slid sideways for at least 30 metres, counter steered, and regained control didn’t spill my coffee once 16 moose came at me on skateboards, on black ice, doing .9999 the speed of light… spilt a drop of coffee that time Blue shifted moose are scarey! FML ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/30 "2007-07-01T03:23:10Z")
[QUOTE=eleanorigby] Meh-amateurs the lot of you. I drive kids. I have teen drivers. I drive the Dan Ryan and the Kennedy and the Borman-sometimes on the same day. Bow to me. [/QUOTE] Pffft. Once, I was driving at mid day, in the center lane of the express lanes, at about 65th St., when the engine on my 93 Saturn stopped working. Died. With traffic on all sides of me, moving at about 65. I coasted the thing to a stop on the shoulder and sit here today to tell you about it. You had to be there. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/31 "2007-07-01T04:40:01Z")
[Ahem.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=369540) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2007, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479/32 "2007-07-01T05:53:12Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Actually, I _do_ own the road. [/QUOTE] I wanna see your deed. 😛 What’s that old saying, drive like you own the car, not the road? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-the-worlds-best-driver/409479.md?page=1)