Question of the Day: What is the Worst Piece of Driving You’ve Seen?
The horrifically stupid Mercedes-Benz driver caught out in this video has us asking a very simple question today; what’s the very worst example of driving you’ve ever seen. In some cases, honest parties may admit to being the perpetrators of the worst driving they’ve witnessed—everyone has their off days, after all. Tell us about the most flagrantly awful helmsmanship you’ve witnessed, in comments.
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Anonymous
My Mom unfortunately. We were driving back from Florida to Northern NY and couldn't find a hotel near Washington so we drove through the night. Dad drove the whole way until about Pennsylvania. When Mom took over the reigns she proceeded to fall asleep and hit the rumblestrips. Thank God for rumblestrips.
bmwloco (bikes, not cars)
An Audi S4, black, dark windows, no tag damn near killed me last week in Mississippi.
I was riding my '84 BMW R100RS at about 75-80 mph in the left hand lane. He, she or it came out of the exit at hyper speed, and didn't even look into the left lane.
We missed by nanometers. If I'd had a rocket launcher, that bastard would have paid.
As it was three Brembos and two Fiamm horns saved my ass to ride another day.
TheStig
Anything by any minivan on the road at any given time.
Andrew van der Stock
I drive the I95 regularly. There's a certain nut job quotient on this road, particularly in the wet, slippy and dark. There is a special place for SUV drivers who tail gate. They really should know better.
Ducati Minor
My own, seen on tape during court proceedings in the case County of Orange v. van Hornyson.
There was much that happened during that event. I was returning from a trip to Keith Martin's Sunset suite. Martin had invited me to come see a fixed-up "Starliner." I thought he meant the car.
After my terrible disappointment, I drove back home. On the way through the Anaheim interstate, I was stopped by deputies and determined to be under the influence of eight different substances. I had taken no medication or narcotics, only a sip from some cider Mr. Martin provided me.
sick
Massa bumping Hamilton at the Japan GP.
Disgusting...
TheStig
That's not nearly as troubling as Hamilton ramming Kimi at a RED LIGHT in the pitlane. And that was just days after his dad did a job on a Carera GT.
Bill Bennett
Truly horrible driving? almost any other driver in a parking lot, the ones that scare me to death? Asian females, I see them I stop,,, or the morons driving huge pick up trucks that do not understand the concept that if you cannot keep your "vehicle" in your lane you need to yield, IE STOP your truck that my not small Audi Avant would fit into
Anonymous
Anytime anybody who hogs the passing lane or otherwise inhibits the smooth flow of traffic on highways. People from the province of Quebec. People who cut across empty portions of parking lots really fast in order to save time. My Mom, my sister, my Aunt, my grandmother, my cousin "Sheila" (hopefully you catch my drift)
I know it's not one piece of driving but I feel better for saying it nonetheless.
Trinks
My dad scares the bejeezus out of me when I ride with him.
VII
 I live in Miami...yeah. I'm no longer scared, just heavily, 'aware'
 - http://www.myspace.com/thedarkwind
AnonInSC
Rednecks that drive their trucks with their wrists, whats with that? and whats with young black males in huge SUVs, one hand holding the cell phone, the other holding their chin? Dummies that put the front seat all the way back then lean far right like they are about to take a nap, thats scary. (Just observations from my one-hour daily commute).
People daily doing everything else other than actually driving and thinking that they actually look anything other than retarded, thats the worst.
oollyoumn
I find that people with larger vehicles are typically more inconsiderate and unsafe. It is a regular occurrence for a truck or SUV to drift into my lane as they approach me. They also find it very difficult to park in a single space. I don't think people should drive a vehicle larger than their driving skill, but that would put many on a skateboard or less.
I was surprised recently when a car turning right onto a busy street appeared to have trouble staying in the right lane. I was approaching from their right and was not certain that the car would make the turn without entering my lane. I slowed and put two tires on the shoulder. As I passed I noticed the driver was talking on a cell phone and smoking simultaneously. I am still in awe that someone can make a 90 degree right turn with no hands on the steering wheel.
Anonymous
People that eat cereal while driving to work in the mornings, or is that just a Texas thing?
Steven J. Ewing
I once saw a lady breast-feeding her baby while driving. That's unsafe on so many levels.
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Steven J. Ewing
Production and Test Fleet Manager
Winding Road Magazine
Rod Panhard
Maybe not the worst, but a candidate for the worst would be yesterday, while driving home from the grocery store. In front of me is a Honda Accord driving on a flat right-rear tire. The smell of burning rubber fills my nostrils as I wait patiently for the driver to pull over. But alas, nothing happens. I set my right-turn signal to turn right, and behold, the Accord driver veers across the double-yellow line and into the lane of oncoming traffic.
And that's when I see the "space saver" spare mounted on the right front wheel.
I've got a photo and I've zapped out the license plate. But I left the most important part. It's here in New Jersey where few can actually drive but many are issued licenses.
DR Bush
When driving through Denver a few years back, I had a guy in a mazda miata pass me in the right lane in stop-and-go traffic while reading a novel on his steering wheel. I'll give him the benifit of the doubt in saying that novel was hopefully an instruction pamplet on how to drive, and he hadn't yet read the chapter about 'not reading books while driving'....especially in stop-and-go rush hour traffic.Â
"I have the fastest car in my entire garage"
Russ Bellinis
On a rainy night in the early 1970's, I was driving with my then fiance from Buffalo, NY to Long Island to meet her parents. As I slowed to enter a toll booth for one of the bridges into NYC, another car went flying past me, spun out and just managed to get it under control in time to get into the toll booth in front of me! I still don't know why the car didn't slide sideways into said toll booth.
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