As I've said before in another post...I fucking hate tailgaters.
There seems to be two kinds of drivers in British Columbia that seem to piss most rational drivers off and there are VERY few of the rational drivers out there - they're about as rare as hen's teeth. In fact if you think that you're a rational driver, chances are; you're probably not. I'll absolutely 100% guarantee that you will fall within either one of the following categories.
#1) The "I Don't Know What The Fuck I'm Doing Behind The Wheel": (aka Richmond Driver, Asian Driver, Granny/Granpa): can be of any race or creed and can be of any age. These are the drivers who I call terminally stupid simply because they seem to lose their cognitive function when they get behind the wheel. - These are the idiots that will cut across two lanes to make a left or right turn because they didn't use enough foresight to think far enough ahead to make the lane changes prior to reaching the intersection. Or the idiot that can't seem to decide where he's going to turn and keeps going for five or six blocks with the signal light still on.
#2) The Over-Aggressive Jack-Ass: This encompasses road-ragers, tailgaters, speed-demons, Impatient Peters (I'll resist calling them "DICKS") and others of that ilk. These psychopaths have no regard for any safety measures, regularly flout speed limits as demeaning to their supposed "skill level", abuse other drivers and routinely cause havoc on British Columbia Roads as well as accidents.
There is a scarier driver than the Over Aggressive Jack-Ass and that's the IDKWTFIDBTW&OAJA combination. The Over Aggressive Jack-Ass "I Don't Know What The Fuck I'm Doing Behind The Wheel" combo is the type that you constantly see on driver forums touting their "supposed skill"; flaunting their mounds of speeding tickets and generally saying that they know how to handle their car. If they did know how to handle their car, they'd be driving in a calm rational manner, wouldn't they and their driving records would show it. These are also the ones thinking that they're an amateur road engineer or speed technician citing bullshit out their ears just because they haven't wrecked their car in three years though compiling an impressive list of near-misses. They're usually between 16 and 30 (though there is really no hard-line age-limit with this sub-type) and haven't had a rational road-safety thought in years. Their road skills amount to: hit the gas pedal and hope to hell they don't hit anything between Point A and Point B. These people are the reason why our insurance levels rise substantially over the years.
Most rational drivers have over 20+ years of Road-Star (with no claims in the past 10 years). If you are under 25 - you don't know what the fuck you're doing, you haven't developed enough skill behind the wheel yet. It doesn't matter what ICBC does, what will matter is when they start taking #1 and #2 and subtype #1&2 off the road. If ICBC does that, then the chance of accidents will go absolutely way down...mainly because the roads would be damned near empty. Ah... what a paradise that would be.
...if it weren't for civil liberties groups; but that's another rant for another time...
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