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Old 08-01-19, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
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.
My bad.

I neglected that true statistical analysis significant to a p-value of 5% is superseded by internet stats, significant so the 'I saw a meme that proves it' value.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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Old 08-01-19, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Skipjacks
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
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.

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.
Do you object to the notion that there are meaningful differences in the demographic driving behavior of owners of various kinds of cars? Or that BMW drivers are being painted with a negative difference?

Differences exist, and OP made a funny. And that's all OK.
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Old 08-01-19, 02:31 PM
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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.
+1

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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Old 08-01-19, 03:19 PM
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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.
But....I um.....except for.....

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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Old 08-01-19, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by RubeRad
maybe that helmet with the bmw logo on it wasn't such a good idea after all!
That's it!
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Old 08-01-19, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Skipjacks
But....I um.....except for.....

Actually...this checks out. I can find no fault with this generalization.

It may even be supportable with peer reviewed statistical research.



nice pic! That captures the prius ecovibe for sure!
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Old 08-01-19, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by RubeRad


nice pic! That captures the prius ecovibe for sure!
If you haven't seen that episode of South Park, you are wrong and your life is incomplete.

It's called Smug Alert. I'm sure it's on YouTube or something.
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Old 08-01-19, 06:05 PM
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Every time I see the thread title, I see,

"Ho-ho to the Whos, he was happily humming!"
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Old 08-01-19, 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Skipjacks
If you haven't seen that episode of South Park, you are wrong and your life is incomplete.

It's called Smug Alert. I'm sure it's on YouTube or something.
Thanks for the tip!
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Thanks for the tip!
That's what she said.
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Old 08-03-19, 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Skipjacks
If you haven't seen that episode of South Park, you are wrong and your life is incomplete.

It's called Smug Alert. I'm sure it's on YouTube or something.
I don't think I've seen that one. I stopped watching SP after like 3 or 4 seasons.

My life is indeed incomplete. I've got hopefully at least 30-40 years left
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Old 08-03-19, 12:45 PM
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This was over in the funny pics thread, it belongs here

[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/6t1dIMj.jpg[/IMG]
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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

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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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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.
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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Originally Posted by RubeRad

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.
Click and Clack seemed like nerdy northeasterners that were trying to be comedians, IMO.

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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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.
I was a VW owner and resembled click and clack’s biases. They were still very funny, or was I too stoned to recognize?
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Originally Posted by FiftySix
Click and Clack seemed like nerdy northeasterners that were trying to be comedians, IMO.
Their incessant obnoxious guffawing at each other's lame jokes made the otherwise good show un-listenable, IMO.
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Originally Posted by Daniel4
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.
self-driving cars would not make the rash choices that put human drivers into the kind of positions where those kinds of dilemmas arise.

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.
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