Being a passenger

Never get nervous as a passenger anymore - helps being a passenger on many track days (including the occasional spin). I am probably far too trusting.
 
peterattheboro said:
Depends who's driving.
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This.

If it just around town stuff then I don't really care but on faster drives I really find my trust dwindles fast unless I know the person.

As a passenger though, pretty much regardless of the standard of driving I will try and remain as calm as possible. There is nothing worse than a hysterical passenger!
 
I don't like other people driving apart from a couple of people, my dad's driving I don't mind although he does brake very late sometimes which can be scary!

I don't like my girlfriend driving as I find her a bit lazy with the gears and half of the time she put's her seatbelt on after she has set off, she has also just started with that stupid habit of driving with the front fogs on :mad: .

Oh, and then theres the fact she can't be bothered with any form of car maintenance, she never checks her fluid levels as she just likes to leave it for me, but i guess that's not too bad. But she will happily drive around on a flat tyre too which is a bit retarded even if only for the fact it's gonna cost us money when she needs new ones prematurely. And the fact she had a wheel bearing the other month that was gone so bad that at 30mph you had to raise your voice to talk over it but she thought it was fine so she just kept driving it without bothering to tell anyone.

She just has a bit of an "i can't be bothered/it doesn't matter" attitude towards driving.
 
Since passing my test I've only been a passenger in another car a handful of times. I suffer travel sickness, I'm a bit on edge(checking junctions) and tend to feel or wait for every gear change. I can't help but sit and read the gauges on the dashboard, either. :p

Despite me almost being a taxi service, it'd be weird if my other half could drive. It's an independence thing, too.

I've had terrible motion sickness all my days yet it's absolutely fine when I drive! :confused:
 
I hate being a passenger. I use my car as an excuse that I want to drive but in actual fact it's as much that as me hating being a passenger. Even in taxi's I find myself jumping and thinking "jeez that was close" a hell of a lot.

When I'm driving I know what is along either side of my vehicle, 1 or 2 cars in all lanes behind and what's coming up ahead. In contrast, just this morning I pulled out of my house and a neighbour was reversing out, I waited for her to pull out and went on her way. It was clear she had no clue I had waited 30 seconds for her to do a 2 or 3 point turn out onto the road. I followed her all the way to work and I was nervous for her. She clearly had absolutely no idea about what was going on around her for the entire journey - driving either too slow or too fast the majority of the time and would cross lane dividers when going around corners with absolutely no forward anticipation what-so-ever. That was me when I was driving my car, watching someone in front so you can begin to imagine what I am like when it comes to the passenger seat :D
 
I've had travel sickness since I was a kid so I've always sat in the front. Only recently when in the car with many friends have I had to sit in the back and I find I am always being a 'back seat driver'.

I don't like not being in control. I don't mind being in the car with my dad or my brother but my mates I always feel a bit uneasy.

Perhaps I am more critical of others as when I am a passenger I am constantly watching them and everything they do. One thing is some of my mates (yeah strangely more than 1, not sure how they manage!) have an odd thing where for some reason they end up steering left if they put in a cd or something, or even sometimes when changing gear they steer in the direction they just put the gear stick. Something that puts me in panic mode and I do often reach for the wheel and end up saying 'woah woah woah watch it'.

I don't think my mates like it when I do it at all, but I guess now I am driving I am not as trusting as a passenger. If I was a kid, as long as I was sitting in the front I'd be happy lol.

All I know is I wouldn't want to be a driving instructor or examiner.
 
Im an ok passenger. There are certain people I feel more at ease driving, such as my mam or dad.

Most other people I just grin and bare it.
 
DogsBody said:
The only problem with this is that your digi-card wouldnt be in, you would then be driving illegally on someone else's card :p:D
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Being pedantic, the cards would be in slot 1 & 2 respectively, afaik you leave them in situ when changing drivers... ;):D
 
I don't have a problem being a passenger with most people, it's just the one or two who's driving actually scared me to the point where i wouldn't ever get in the car with them again.

Got a mate who used to be a terrible passenger, fantastic driver though. He's getting better, although it helps that he actually trusts me with his life haha!
 
I have a select group of friends that I trust entirely, anyone else and I get that weird feeling that were going to crash when they start braking behind another car, why doesn't it ever feel like you're stopping quick enough?
 
Smokey McPot said:
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Absolutely this. My wife and I share our driving, and she's generally fine, though I wish she'd dodge the potholes so we don't all have to bounce around. My mum is also a great driver, so I don't mind getting a lift with her. Once you get on to friends, there's some who are absolutely fine and others who are mental or dangerous or inept, and I'd rather not ride with them!

My mum is an awful passenger... My dad doesn't drive, so my mum has basically done all the driving for 30 years. She freaks out if the passenger side is closer than 3 feet from the nearest obstruction.
 
I have to just stare upwards and close my eyes most of the time. Sometimes I don't feel like driving but if I'm with my mother or womenfriends I just want to push them out the way and get in their seat. I think driving alone a lot doesn't help as you think you know best and morons on the road lower your opinion of other drivers :p
 
Having very nearly been implanted in the front of a bus by a friend of mine, who insisted on pulling out on said bus in a classic mini and leaving me (rear offside passenger) so close I could have changed its wiper blades, I am now an extremely critical passenger.
 
Before I was driving, someone from uni gave me a lift to work to save me walking to the bus depot and getting the bus, but after being in the car with him once i figured the bus is worth it. I've never seen someone so terrible at driving. He drove like I did on my first driving lesson.

How some people these days get driving licenses I have no idea.


Also to counter the thread: Is there anyone who doesn't really like having passengers in their car? I can cope with my parents or my best mate but there are some mates I just hate to have as passengers because they bugger about and keep taking their seatbelts off etc, its a pain having to shout at my mates to put their seatbelts on.
 
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