Does anybody else hate carrying passengers?
- Thread starter Joshy
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What this says to me is:
That you drive like your playing Carmageddon normally, except when your daughter is in the car when you feel that it's perhaps a good idea if you don't risk her life as much.
Yet if you do, what about the other people on the road you are putting at risk when your daugher isn't with you? ...and their children or yourself for that matter, I doubt your daughter would want to lose her Dad.
If you feel you have to modify your driving when you have your daughter in the car, then that says to me that you drive in an unsafe fashion the rest of the time.
Perhaps this is unfair and harsh judgement ...but that's what your post says to me anyway.
I see where your coming from Moeks, that said, I found myself reading his post and thinking, yes, thats a bit like me.
No, I don't take "risks" as such, that said, I will drive a lot harder generally on my own. And if I wanted to go "for a blast" then absolutely I would be on my own to do this.
But, to think this means that I would disregard the safety of others, would be wide of the mark.
I think we both hope its in this context that he posted.
Still strikes me as a touch odd that he'd drive differently though, it comes across as 'I wouldn't want my daughter to get hurt, but it's ok if she ends up with no dad'
If he feels his usual driving manner isn't safe enough for his daughter to be in his car, then it's not safe enough period.
If he feels his usual driving manner isn't safe enough for his daughter to be in his car, then it's not safe enough period.
What he's saying is that, maybe when his daughters in the car he might not take that usual overtake he normally would, of accelerate as harshly off a slip road, etc etc etc. I think you're over emphasising it personally.
Most of us go about our daily routine with a degree of self preservation though don't we?
The last thing I'm planning on when I'm driving is my own demise, but I stay aware that it is one of lifes risks, driving. No, I would not want to lose my life, never mind make my child an orphan.
Indeed.
In which case you'd be driving in a safe manner, as I aim to do, such that I wouldn't feel the need to 'take less risks' when carrying a passenger.
If I felt my driving was risky enough that I was endangering the safety of my passenger such that I ought to be changing it then frankly my driving was too risky to start with.
I just can't see the logic behind 'I drive perfectly safely, but I need to drive more safely with a passenger', if you drive safely to start with, there should be no need to modify your driving style due to concern for your passenger, especially if that passenger is family who would be massively effected by anything that happened even if they weren't in the car at the time.
Entirely illogical I suppose, yes. But I would conceed that I am a different driver in company to how I am on my own.
But, that said, I would never intentionally put myself in a dangerous situation, so I hope I'm still in the safe camp.
I also get annoyed when they touch the perfectly aligned towards the window passenger side vent. I don't care if you're cold, I want to make use of my wing mirrors.
Yes, car does have those small vents on the dashboard directed at the passenger window as well, but on short trips it's a lot quicker to point both there.As for passengers I don't really mind at all. In fact it was great to have my dad in front next to me when I had just started driving as he was calm, wouldn't moan and only intervine when I was hesitating (there's plenty of space for that overtake, ignore the retard who's just cut you off, etc etc.)
I have also noticed that I drive like a granny when I have people on board, I hardly go above 3.5k rpm, I take turns slowly, don't accelerate hard out of roundabouts, etc. Do not get me wrong, I'm fairly responsible on my own as well, but I feel that I'm also responsible for the other people's life in my car, so I turn it down a notch.