i'm a good driver. only 2 tickets ever. the last one was in 1991. two accidents in 1994. one only broke my headlight and the other i was stopped at a crosswalk in a school zone while kids were crossing the street and some jackass retired sr. citizen (canadian) rearended me giving me whiplash and then tried to tell the cop it was my fault.

this past summer i drove from portland thru yosemite to north carolina then to miami then thru texas accross the southwest and up the 5 thru cali and never even got pulled over once and not a flat tire either. goodluck perhaps? the speedlimit on most highways in the boonies is between 70 and 80.  

15 years of driving and no tickets.

Three accidents. 3 cars totalled. Each time I was hit in the driver's side by someone running a red light.

All three drivers were nurses.

Now I live in Boston, where driving is too complex to be summed up as "good" or "bad". It is all about driving effectively.

Fortunately the traffic here is so bad that we can't work up enough speed to kill each other.  

i havent driven a car in a really long time. probably fourteen years. and i have neither owned a car nor had a drivers license. so, like, whatever. just don't hit me with your car. 'cause that sucks... been there, done that.  

i drive once or twice a week these days. it's great.  

10 years of driving
one speed limit ticket
no accident
is that good driving enough for you, Homer?  

damn canadians.

i am a good driver. now. i used to be bad cause i was young and liked to go fast. so i got 2 speeding tickets. and i got in 2 accidents- one was totally my fault (i was lost and was trying to figure out where i was and didn't see a stop sign and my dear volvo got t-boned by a suv (my car had $400 damage and theirs had $3000-hahahaha) and one time it was technically my fault but the insurance people even admitted it shouldn't have been cause i was pulling out of a spot and some guy came whipping around a corner going very fast and hit me. but both of those happened over 10 years ago. in fact, i am a "roadstar", our insuarnce company gives me a bigger discount on insurance cause i'm that good. booyah.

now i have a job where i can walk to work in 5 minutes and it kicks ass, cause even though i'm awesome at driving, i hate it.  

I drove into a ditch on an ice-coated canadian rural road 4 am on new year 2000. luckily the next house was only half a mile.. was quite the experience though, gush of wind just blew me off the street. plus, I hit the only road sign in a 5 mile area.

other than that I've been without accident in the 10 years I'm driving. 2 speeding tickets (both for going about 15 km/h too fast on the highway, boo).  

i thought there was NO limit on the autobahns ?

i drive about 300 miles a week just to work. im a kickass driver. but i drive too fast aparrently.
no speeding tickets, no crashes, 4 parking tickets.

once i spun my works van 360˚ off the road and nearly down a cliff type hill, cos i took a corner too fast. it was a bad corner tho.....not my fault

motorbikes/scooters though, are a diferent story.
riden 2....crashed 2.
one (on holiday in greece) was a write off. i crashed through the front of a restaurant, into some signs, with no helmet......the restaurant owner wasn't best pleased.  

hmm, 5 years of accident and ticket free driving for me. I also got a couple weeks work of obnoxiously intense defensive driving training from UPS when I got trained as a driver.
The two big things to me:
1. Dont' follow closely
2. wait 3 seconds before you start at a traffic light(statistically this leaves you 95% less likely to have a wreck)

I got trained to drive assertively in an enormous UPS truck in the tourist section of Nashville at the busiest time of day.  

jdg, you f• cking idiot. slow down before you die.

i've hydroplaned at 55mph, crushing the outsides of my pappy's olds. but i had already frazzled the transmission on that one doing 110 out in colorado, catching air and shit. in a delta 88. woohoo!

no i no longer actively seek my own death.  

hehe soft, both times in a construction site section where 80 kmh was limit..

in reality maybe 30% of the autobahns have no speed limits, mostly it's 130kmh (not that anyone would care really)  

ive never had a ticket and ive never been in an accident -

ive clealy done plenty that deserved a crash and burn situation /kinda -- but i think im an ok driver -- so - ive save myself bfore a few disasters -- /family included -

i used to drive the 4 wheeler at top speed down the beach when i was doing the lifeguard/emt thing -- it could go about 60 -- so -- going over dunes one would natturaly catch air-- just float over the other side -- you could drive back and see the gaps in tire tracks to see how far you flew --- hehe - it was cool --- i stoped when a guard told me that the whole beach could hear me coming for a few miles :P

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I get extremely sleepy when I drive over 30 minutes. Often my eyes actually start to close and I begin to consider just pretending to sleep, which is not very good thinking!

I've only been driving now for 3 years, but have only had one accident and one speeding ticket. I'm a very cautious driver (excpet when I get sleepy) and drive with both hands on the wheel, even though it proves I'm not a manly man.

Cars are terrifying!  

yay! Hadn't thought of that. Coooool! THanks!  

cars ARE terrifying. hunks of superheated, careening metal piloted by stressed out monkies, many of whom are on psychiatric drugs for various forms of insanity, packed into veins of surging groupthink where one bad decision or shoddy piece of equipment could lead to mass death and disfigurement. LA is the worst. the fucking 405 is a razor lined dumbwaiter to hell.