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What is your driving style?

  • 21-08-2013 08:59PM
    #1
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭


    Hiya guys, I just wanted to do a little comparison between Irish drivers and Polish drivers :D
    If you don't mind filling out the poll :D

    What is your driving style? 212 votes

    Offensive/Dynamic/Hard footer & Overtaking
    0% 0 votes
    Bit more dynamic than normal with some ot
    22% 47 votes
    Normal - easy acceleration, rarely overtaking
    55% 117 votes
    Slower than usual - economic driving, no overtaking
    17% 38 votes
    Very slowly - driving on low revs, left lane etc.
    4% 10 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    kaimera
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,392 ✭✭✭✭kaimera


    wat poll?


  • #3
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    kaimera wrote: »
    wat poll?

    It's there now.


  • #4
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Why do you assume that Dynamic hard footer driver who is often overtaking equals to offensive driving?


  • #5
    Driveby Dogboy
    Site Banned Posts: 257 ✭✭Driveby Dogboy


    Fast Lane all the way boy, foot down!


  • #6
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    CiniO wrote: »
    Why do you assume that Dynamic hard footer driver who is often overtaking equals to offensive driving?

    You've got a point.


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  • #7
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    foot down, mpg guage off the scale, sport mode engaged


  • #8
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    I think it might be hard to get realistic results, as people see driving differently.
    While driving style which for some person will be extremally fast and dangerous, for other might be just considered as crawling.

    Possibly the best way to judge it, is to calculate difference between amount of vehicles which you overtook to vehicles that overtook you. Possibly over longer distance.

    F.e. if you travel 400km route during which you overtook 300 cars, and 300 cars overtook you, it means that you are just in the middle - so half the drivers drive faster than you, while other half drive slower.
    If you overtook 600, and no one overtook you, that means you are the fastest.

    I indicated first option, as while I drive my car, I'm being overtaken really seldom.


  • #9
    ABajaninCork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,411 ✭✭✭ABajaninCork


    I drive like a Londoner innit? :D


  • #10
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I predict the second option will win here, a tad more "dynamic" than most :D

    Just a Q, what's with the "Polish" thing? It's not explained.


  • #11
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,445 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I've voted, but it really depends. Am I driving down the coast road on a Sunday afternoon, or late for work?

    ;)


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  • #12
    dr.fuzzenstein
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    ^^^+1

    Hard for me to say, most mornings cutting it fine, 140+ on motorway, rarely getting out of OT lane, except to let faster drivers overtake me, on the way home, all the time in the world, drive like a comatose corpse on the backroad (still rarely get hassled by faster drivers), about 80-100.
    On the weekend to Lahinch stuck behind the 60 km/h brigade anyway and couldn't care.

    One good way to gauge your driving style:
    If you think everyone is a lunatic, you get beeped, given the finger, flashed, beaten up, etc... on a daily basis, you are probably too slow. Add a few k's, get out of the "fasht" lane, stop pulling out on people and/or let them merge, you will be amazed at the difference.
    If, on the other hand, everyone is a moron, and you do the beeping, swearing, etc... you are probably a tad too fast.:D


  • #13
    TheBigGreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 752 ✭✭✭TheBigGreen


    Drive her like you're late for Mass!!!


  • #14
    ianobrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,755 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    I'm another that it's a depends. I can vote for all of them, depending on the situation.....


  • #15
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    biko wrote: »
    I predict the second option will win here, a tad more "dynamic" than most :D

    Just a Q, what's with the "Polish" thing? It's not explained.

    I'm Polish myself and have been to Poland just recently. After some experience on the Polish roads for the first time, I want to see how it compares to the drivers here (obviously Poles take more risk on the road, but I just want to see how much different the Irish are)


  • #16
    Mycroft H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »
    ^^^+1

    Hard for me to say, most mornings cutting it fine, 140+ on motorway, rarely getting out of OT lane, except to let faster drivers overtake me, on the way home, all the time in the world, drive like a comatose corpse on the backroad (still rarely get hassled by faster drivers), about 80-100.
    On the weekend to Lahinch stuck behind the 60 km/h brigade anyway and couldn't care.

    One good way to gauge your driving style:
    If you think everyone is a lunatic, you get beeped, given the finger, flashed, beaten up, etc... on a daily basis, you are probably too slow. Add a few k's, get out of the "fasht" lane, stop pulling out on people and/or let them merge, you will be amazed at the difference.
    If, on the other hand, everyone is a moron, and you do the beeping, swearing, etc... you are probably a tad too fast.:D

    Same. Moving on for work I'm tipping along but going home I could just set the cruise control for the speed in the inside lane which could be 50 odd mph.


  • #17
    kupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    Its a bit of a loaded question, your asking petrol heads do they go fast? :)

    I drive in a way the 2nd choice.
    I go fast when I can but know when to slow it down if traffic gets crazy. I dont pass out on blind corners and brows of hills and I hate seeing it. And if somebody does it to me I get v pissed. As they-re not only endangering their life but more importantly mine and anybody else that happens to be coming from the other side.

    Ive often said that if one of those drivers passed me out and further on down the road they were crashed in a ditch, I wouldnt stop to piss on them if they were on fire.


  • #18
    visual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,267 ✭✭✭visual


    No one admitted to driving very slowly at low revs in left lane.

    Is that because they are all in the middle lane.


  • #19
    Supergurrier
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Go hard or go home


  • #20
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    See sig, that turbo and pump get used the way they should be when needed :p


  • #21
    Idleater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,176 ✭✭✭Idleater


    Sobanek wrote: »
    (obviously Poles take more risk on the road, but I just want to see how much different the Irish are)

    Orly?


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  • #22
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Sobanek wrote: »
    I'm Polish myself and have been to Poland just recently. After some experience on the Polish roads for the first time, I want to see how it compares to the drivers here (obviously Poles take more risk on the road, but I just want to see how much different the Irish are)

    You are Polish but you never driven in Poland before except from your last visit there?

    So I assume you learnt to drive in Ireland.
    How do you find driving in there in Poland so?

    PS - I doubt this poll will help you to answer how much different Irish drivers are. You can just see it.
    Fact that most people filling out polls on motor forum tend to drive rather quicker is obvious ;)


  • #23
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    I'm never in a rush so i just drive normally, chilled out driving all the way ;)


  • #24
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    Used to be very offensive, then I realised the cost of petrol and tended to slow down quite a bit!
    I'd say I drive quite a bit faster a lot of the time than the average but I wouldn't tend to overtake at all any more unless the car was going incredibly slowly!


  • #25
    rizzodun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭rizzodun


    Was a bit too keen to get to work this morning and ended up locking the wheels coming to a roundabout, but I was in the left lane so....


  • #26
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    rizzodun wrote: »
    Was a bit too keen to get to work this morning and ended up locking the wheels coming to a roundabout, but I was in the left lane so....

    You must be one of very few lucky/unlucky* drivers to have car without ABS.



    * choose whichever suits you.


  • #27
    goz83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,035 ✭✭✭goz83


    I chose first option, but adding the word "offensive" will have pushed most people down a notch. My driving style is not offensive unless you're someone with a fuse so short, it's up your butt.


  • #28
    rizzodun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,598 ✭✭✭rizzodun


    CiniO wrote: »
    You must be one of very few lucky/unlucky* drivers to have car without ABS.



    * choose whichever suits you.

    Still stopped in plenty of time, I can see the value of ABS, luckily I've never had to call on my brakes in any car I've driven enough where I needed it.

    I voted the second option, but I'm with the majority here, it really depends on the situation. I try to put myself in a position where I don't have to drive like a lunatic, but I'm still capable of it from time to time.


  • #29
    Sobanek
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭Sobanek


    CiniO wrote: »
    You are Polish but you never driven in Poland before except from your last visit there?

    So I assume you learnt to drive in Ireland.
    How do you find driving in there in Poland so?

    PS - I doubt this poll will help you to answer how much different Irish drivers are. You can just see it.
    Fact that most people filling out polls on motor forum tend to drive rather quicker is obvious ;)

    Yeah, I learned to drive in Ireland, and the experience in Poland wasn't the best one (however I expected it) - people tailgating, flashing their high beams all the time (even while I was doing 60 in a 50!). Then seeing my friends drive like lunatics didn't help one bit :D
    I thought I was a wolf on the road, not a sheep, but when I drove in Poland, I was the sheep.


  • #30
    Chippy01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Chippy01


    What is your driving style?
    It all depends on which car I'm driving at the time, or which bike I'm riding at the time, and where I'm going, and at what time, and the weather conditions.

    Too many variables to answer your question.


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  • #31
    AugustusMinimus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,591 ✭✭✭AugustusMinimus


    What I don't get are people who normal will drive to the limit but will point blank refuse to overtake in almost all safe scenarios.

    These are the people who are blocking up our roads creating huge convoys which are simply impossible to overtake bar driving an M3.


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