What is it with the SUV drivers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Possibilities:

Some SUV drivers buy SUVs because they hope the safety provided by a big, heavy vehicle will compensate for their lack of driving skills.

Some SUV drivers were perfectly good drivers to start with but became more careless once they enjoyed the extra protection provided by an SUV

When SUV drivers make mistakes, they're more noticeable because they're driving larger vehicles.

Many SUV drivers are probably perfectly good drivers, but you remember the ones who aren't.

Good list - on the last one, it seems related to penultimate.

I would add to this "Some SUV drivers do not adjust their driving style to reflect they are driving a much larger vehicle than a normal passenger automobile"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Possibilities:

Some SUV drivers buy SUVs because they hope the safety provided by a big, heavy vehicle will compensate for their lack of driving skills.

Some SUV drivers were perfectly good drivers to start with but became more careless once they enjoyed the extra protection provided by an SUV

When SUV drivers make mistakes, they're more noticeable because they're driving larger vehicles.

Many SUV drivers are probably perfectly good drivers, but you remember the ones who aren't.

Good list - on the last one, it seems related to penultimate.

I would add to this "Some SUV drivers do not adjust their driving style to reflect they are driving a much larger vehicle than a normal passenger automobile"

+1 on the last point. Some of the drivers I've seen on the campus seem to drive those things as if they're Sherman Army Tanks (a.k.a. "get out of my way lady, here i come")

[Anonymous]

We've all seen aggressive driving by SUVs both on and off of campus.

A Volvo Station wagon passed me at about 35 mph on school drive (where pedestrian children regularly walk/cross). Those Volvo drivers are so reckless

Incidentally, the car had a Trump/Pence sticker.

[Anonymous]

I feel the same way about BMW and Audi drivers. No patience.

[Anonymous]

Another possibility:

The sorts of drivers that have kids in fancy private schools are precisely the sorts of drivers that think the rules don't apply to them. The richer the driver, the more entitled they act.

[Anonymous]

In this thread: Women jealous of moms in luxury SUVs they wish they could drive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another possibility:

The sorts of drivers that have kids in fancy private schools are precisely the sorts of drivers that think the rules don't apply to them. The richer the driver, the more entitled they act.

I think that is kind of the point of this whole post - to reinforce that stereotype/assumption. The problem is I have never actually seen this in reality. I would think there are a lot of issues driving around the close - new, student drivers, tourists both walking and driving who are either oblivious or lost, complicated driving patterns on narrow roads - and yet I have never experienced any issues of dangerous or entitled driving. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In this thread: Women jealous of moms in luxury SUVs they wish they could drive.

I always get a good laugh out of seeing the monstrously big Mercedes SUV in pickup lines. I try to imagine whether the parent-driver ever has an existential crisis of, "who have I become?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In this thread: Women jealous of moms in luxury SUVs they wish they could drive.

I always get a good laugh out of seeing the monstrously big Mercedes SUV in pickup lines. I try to imagine whether the parent-driver ever has an existential crisis of, "who have I become?"

+1.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I'm trying to figure out how someone can be "cut off" by another driver on narrow roads that are one lane, etc. (But I totally agree about the boys taking 5 minutes to gather their lacrosse stick out of the back of the car and chatting with their parents as the line of cars stacks up behind them!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In this thread: Women jealous of moms in luxury SUVs they wish they could drive.

I always get a good laugh out of seeing the monstrously big Mercedes SUV in pickup lines. I try to imagine whether the parent-driver ever has an existential crisis of, "who have I become?"

+1.

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I'm trying to figure out how someone can be "cut off" by another driver on narrow roads that are one lane, etc. (But I totally agree about the boys taking 5 minutes to gather their lacrosse stick out of the back of the car and chatting with their parents as the line of cars stacks up behind them!)

+100 Yes! Parents: chat during the drive and get your boy out of the car and move on, especially when there is a line of cars behind you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In this thread: Women jealous of moms in luxury SUVs they wish they could drive.

I always get a good laugh out of seeing the monstrously big Mercedes SUV in pickup lines. I try to imagine whether the parent-driver ever has an existential crisis of, "who have I become?"

+1.

+2

[Anonymous]

Why doesn't the school manage this better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In this thread: Women jealous of moms in luxury SUVs they wish they could drive.

I always get a good laugh out of seeing the monstrously big Mercedes SUV in pickup lines. I try to imagine whether the parent-driver ever has an existential crisis of, "who have I become?"

+1.

+2

+3