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Statistical support or credible relevant facts are unnecessary to support the biases or wishful thinking of some posters, as rumors, irrelevant anecdotes, fabricated factoids, and/or something read or heard somewhere, are all the "proof" they need to support the dreck about bicycling, motoring or any other topic on which they care to pontificate about on BF.
I neglected that true statistical analysis significant to a p-value of 5% is superseded by internet stats, significant so the 'I saw a meme that proves it' value.
Sorry. I lost my head there for a second. Forgot I was online.
Do carry on. And watch out for those BMW drivers. They are all out to get you.
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So pick up drivers are more likely to roll coal
BMW drivers are more likely to be aggressive
Someone could suggest that the Prius drivers you mentioned are more likely to be smug and think they can do no wrong because they are saving the planet, so they drive dangerously in their silent cars that sneak up on you with no warning
Or that Porche and Audi drivers fall into the same category as the BMW drivers
Or that Volkswagon drivers are more likely to be high and run you off the road because of slowed reaction time
Or that Kia drivers are more likely to run you over because they are poor and had less access to good driver training
BMW drivers are more likely to be aggressive
Someone could suggest that the Prius drivers you mentioned are more likely to be smug and think they can do no wrong because they are saving the planet, so they drive dangerously in their silent cars that sneak up on you with no warning
Or that Porche and Audi drivers fall into the same category as the BMW drivers
Or that Volkswagon drivers are more likely to be high and run you off the road because of slowed reaction time
Or that Kia drivers are more likely to run you over because they are poor and had less access to good driver training
Porsche and Audi drivers do fall into the same category as BMW drivers. Mercedes Benz drivers see their cars more as status symbols than primarily performance machines, and are more likely to casually cruise.
Kia drivers are more likely to be poor or cheap, but I doubt they paid any less for their driver's ed than rich BMW drivers ed. If anything Kia drivers drive less aggressively because their engines are small and they're more concerned about the financial consequences of an accident.
Volkswagen drivers smoke more weed? I don't see where that could have come from. But I have owned a few VWs (I have never smoked weed), and I remember once Click & Clack joking about how VW drivers bought their VW so they could drive everywhere really fast. Everybody knows though that Click & Clack are discriminatory jerks. As a VW owner I did not laugh at all, was highly offended, and never listened to their stupid radio show ever again after that.
I mean we could do this all day. With some stereotype for every make and model of car. None of which can be verified with observable and replicatable statistics.
What it boils down to is that there is no shortage of dangerous drivers on the road. They are in every make and model of car.
What it boils down to is that there is no shortage of dangerous drivers on the road. They are in every make and model of car.
Differences exist, and OP made a funny. And that's all OK.
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Prius drivers are definitely more likely to be smug and think they can do no wrong because they are saving the planet, but are more likely to drive like grandpas because they have self-hate about driving a car in the first place.
And while they're busy hating themselves for destroying the planet, they're also busy destroying your plans of getting to work on time, by driving 10 under the limit.
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Actually...this checks out. I can find no fault with this generalization.
It may even be supportable with peer reviewed statistical research.
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Every time I see the thread title, I see,
"Ho-ho to the Whos, he was happily humming!"
"Ho-ho to the Whos, he was happily humming!"
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In my experience, the hubris of drivers who believe they own the road and ALL others are an inconvenience to their existence, tops out in 30k + cars and pickup trucks.
Happens damned near every time I take the highway in my car: BMW weaving up from behind (happens in any lane), no room to safely pass. Looks like they are gonna push it, so I sound a warning horn and the gasholes do it ANYWAY! It's a rare breed, in this land, that doesn't equate their worth in prestige dollars over the worth of your life.
See Jon Rosenburg's Scenes From a Multiverse (scroll down) https://martinperscheid.soup.io/since/183728534?mode=planet%2Ftv&newer=1
Happens damned near every time I take the highway in my car: BMW weaving up from behind (happens in any lane), no room to safely pass. Looks like they are gonna push it, so I sound a warning horn and the gasholes do it ANYWAY! It's a rare breed, in this land, that doesn't equate their worth in prestige dollars over the worth of your life.
See Jon Rosenburg's Scenes From a Multiverse (scroll down) https://martinperscheid.soup.io/since/183728534?mode=planet%2Ftv&newer=1
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Profiling drivers/cars is fun and an important part of staying alive as an urban bike commuter. In general, there a lot of people whose worth as a driver is far exceeded by the sticker price of their luxury vehicles.
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Hence the illogic of that ethical dilemna of the self-driving car. Faced with a decision would it be better to run over ten kids or one CEO at the bus stop? Nobody considers the self-driving car to search for an inanimate object to crash into. Why? That's because there is a heirarcy of whose lives take priority: people in cars take priority over people not in cars.
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Volkswagen drivers smoke more weed? I don't see where that could have come from. But I have owned a few VWs (I have never smoked weed), and I remember once Click & Clack joking about how VW drivers bought their VW so they could drive everywhere really fast. Everybody knows though that Click & Clack are discriminatory jerks. As a VW owner I did not laugh at all, was highly offended, and never listened to their stupid radio show ever again after that.
I never did get a thing from their program and it seemed like they didn't dispense much helpful information to the non-mechanical car owners that called in.
NPR has a special take on comedy that just isn't meant for people like me, that's for sure.
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Originally Posted by RubeRaded
Volkswagen drivers smoke more weed? I don't see where that could have come from. But I have owned a few VWs (I have never smoked weed), and I remember once Click & Clack joking about how VW drivers bought their VW so they could drive everywhere really fast. Everybody knows though that Click & Clack are discriminatory jerks. As a VW owner I did not laugh at all, was highly offended, and never listened to their stupid radio show ever again after that......
Differences exist, and OP made a funny. And that's all OK.
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Hence the illogic of that ethical dilemna of the self-driving car. Faced with a decision would it be better to run over ten kids or one CEO at the bus stop? Nobody considers the self-driving car to search for an inanimate object to crash into. Why? That's because there is a heirarcy of whose lives take priority: people in cars take priority over people not in cars.
Also, I would be comfortable programming into all self-driving cars the logic that guys standing at bus stops are never CEOs. Maybe that helps.