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What’s the craziest thing you’ve seen someone driving do? (lemmy.world)

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My kid’s just finished the classroom part of driver education and it prompted a discussion of crazy things we’ve seen other drivers do.

The craziest thing I saw, many years ago now, was I came up behind a guy driving a Ford Ranger pickup and could see through his rear window that he was doing tricep extensions with a dumbbell in his right hand. I was more surprised as I passed to see he was shaving with an electric razor in his left hand. I don’t really know how he was steering.

Kiddo said they were told personal grooming was the fourth leading cause of accidents.

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[-] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 months ago

There was a vehicle I'd see on my daily commute for awhile. It would run every red light on one of the larger streets in my city, but the driver would slow down to make sure no one was coming.

The unfortunate thing was that due to the timing, I could easily and legally follow about 3-4 seconds behind the vehicle as the green lights are timed and the driver just happened to be a bit ahead of the cycle. I witnessed them more than a few times.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

but the driver would slow down to make sure no one was coming.

Sounds like pretty safe driving to me.

[-] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago

Comparatively yeah. It just sticks with me because apparently those 3-4 seconds made all the difference.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

It was a welcome addition to the conversation (just in case you took my previous comment negatively).

[-] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

No negativity taken. I'm sure I've seen worse regularly.. Too regularly. To the point that I don't bother committing it to memory at this point. People driving on the median or opposing traffic as a shortcut? Daily. People holding up an intersection to show off their sick burnout skills? A couple times a year.

Most of what I've read in here though? I haven't seen anyone so absorbed in not driving while driving.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Tailgating is the most dangerous thing I've seen.

Once I saw 5 cars travelling at 80+ mph each with barely a few feet between them

[-] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 months ago

Safe-ish, until some other driver on the crossing road approaches way faster than estimated, sees the light go yellow and floors it. Sure, they might see it in time, but there's a risk they don't. My dad once didn't see a crossing car at a yield intersection despite looking that way and got T-boned. He didn't think he was doing anything unsafe either.

Still safer than just blazing through though, so I guess partial credit for being carefully impatient?

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