- I'm a good driver.
Do you agree with this statement?
even though most drivers are reactionary and retaliatory got
to get back at the other drivers for doing something wrong
today,we're going to talk about social driving
and how you can be a safer , smarter driver
stick around. We'll be right back with that information.
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We've been talking about social driving a lot of late
I created the new defensive driving model.
One of the pieces of the defensive driving model
that I created Spock three,
which is social driving space management, speed management,
observation and communication.
Social driving is really the problem or the situation
that we're dealing When we drive every day,
people not stopping at stop signs,
people running red lights,
people keeping up with traffic flow,
people charging yellow lights at intersections,
discourteous behavior, people cutting in front of you.
Those types of things,
all of this is what I'm looking
at in terms of social driving.
and I love reading the comments that people leave me here
on the channel because it gets my brain thinking.
It gets me thinking about how I can better help you,
how I can better impart the information to you
that you need to be both a better, safer, smarter driver
and to pass your driver's test.
so social driving,
and I've been giving this a lot of thought because I'm as a,
as you may or may not know,
I am working on a book and I'm putting that together
and thinking about that,
and the ideas are beginning to come together
and I've been
giving a lot of thought to social driving
and what is social drive?
We know that driving is a social activity and I have coined
the phrase, "social driving",
and exactly what Tim just said.
Driving is cooperation, not competition,
but for most people I would argue it is
in no way cooperation.
It's more about competition.
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- And I just want to show you
this comment here
from a smart driver on the channel,
and I'm not having a goal at this driver. Okay?
I'm a good driver. Okay?
They didn't say I'm a good driver,
but that's the premise of the comment.
Every idiot on the road needs to be issued a letter
in the mail to attend an education class
on how to properly drive and to stop tailgating someone.
I usually drive slower on purpose.
When some tard starts tailgating the, I drop my speed,
10 kilometers an hour.
You'd be surprised how many dumb asses
can't drive in Ontario.
Alright, so
this isn't
just Ontario.
Okay? This happens everywhere.
and I get this comment all the time.
I got a comment the other day about,
oh, here in Calgary,
if you signal to change lanes, people speed up.
If they speed up, when you're changing lanes,
they're doing you a favor.
Cause they're getting out of the way
and creating a gap for you.
So the piece about that is I'm a good driver
and everybody else is a bad driver
is exactly what Tim just said.
that it's about competition.
Most drivers get in a car and it's not about cooperation.
It's about competition.
It's about me against the masses of idiots out there.
Everybody else is bad. I'm a good driver.
and that's exactly what that comment said to me.
I'm a good driver. Everybody else is a bonehead.
But if you ever noticed that people that drive faster than
you are boneheads and people
that drive slower than you are knuckleheads,
that's the attitude that we have
driving in the activity of driving. social driving is based
on a loose set of road rules,
which we adhere to, or we don't adhere to.
and most people don't adhere to the road rules because
if they speed, for example, it's a victimless crime.
Nobody got hurt. There was no crash, no consequences.
so it's a victimless crime. It's like tax fraud,
nothing happened.
So the very idea of social driving is based on this idea
that I'm a good driver and it's competitive.
and when other people do something wrong to us,
we retaliate, we react.
We're following too close, We're speeding.
So therefore everything that we do when we drive
is reactionary and we're hoping on a wing and a prayer when
we're following too close,
that we react in time
to whatever else other people and other road users
do on the roadway.
When it's cooperation,
as Tim said,
then we read traffic patterns
and we respond accordingly
and we are safer smarter drivers.
So I want to thank that person who left that comment,
because that was the last major piece
that I've been working
on in terms of social driving.
What is social driving?
Social driving is based on the very premise
that I am a good driver.
Everybody else is an idiot and everything
that I do when I drive is going to be reactionary,
And even sometimes it's going to be retaliatory.
I'm not going to let somebody else in.
I'm going to cut somebody off because that idiot cut me off.
I'm going to slow down 10 kilometers an hour.
When somebody is tailgating me and create a dangerous
situation because that's what's happening.
When somebody tailgates you, when you slow down,
you are now creating a dangerous situation.
You are now the hazard on the roadway.
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