This guy gets it.
 

Might be a lifetime project. But the driving public needs to be educated.

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Very funny. Thanks.

I still think that someone will make a fortune by marketing an LED display for the rear or front with pre-programmed messages. The driver could choose which to use at the flip of a switch.

Cindy: "If they can't read English it's not going to work."

not to get all kumbayah or anything.

but i think that is annoying; the sign. nobody is perfect on the road. i make mistakes, so does everyone.

when we see a driver doing a bad thing, it is just a snapshot of that instance. forget a turn signal? merge badly? that doesnt mean the driver is like that all the time.

i drive defensively and practice forgive and forget. if i blow it and make a mistake, i usually stick up an apologetic hand..i own up to it and it has ever escalated from there.

Ahh, maybe annoying to some, but funny all the same, or at least an attempt.

As far as defensive driving, that is not the way to drive. It was articulated by my Dad who explained defensive driving was just waiting for someone to hit you. He used the term "offensive" driving, which means take the lead, get ahead of the vehicle, anticipate. It is the same approach to flying, you know, stay ahead of the airplane, situational awareness and head on a swivel. Don't wait, act. Defensive implies that you should react, whereas offensive implies anticipate, act and avoid.

Who came up with that term defensive driving?

interesting.

Anyone that shares the road with a 18 wheel tractor-trailer!

I have twice had a 18 wheeler give me a choice, change my position and yield or be dead right and stay where I was. I chose to live. Once was in St Louis in the maze of interchanges, a simi decided at the last second he was in the wrong lane and just swerved into my lane. I had to squeeze into a small spot in the wrong lane and ended up going into the wrong state. I had to go across the bridge before I could turn around.

Offensive driving will get you killed with the giant vehicles on the road and idiot drivers with their faces glues to a text message.

Whenever I hear that I respond with "the best defense is a good offence!"

I know this is all a joke but if that picture of Mr. safety (if it is real) he has severely limited his vision out the rear windows. ;)

Way to - illegally in some jurisdictions - obscure your rear view.

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SO TRUE!!!! I'm convinced people have no idea what the stalk on the left of the steering wheel is for!!!

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It's to give the other drivers a chance to speed up and take the spot that you want to move into.

He needs to add something for the losers that drive around in the dark without head/taillights.

That’s because some manufacturers choose to have their dash lit up all the time giving the impression that you’ve turned your lights on.

My stupid Toyota has tinted glass over the gauges so they have to be lit to be seen and with daytime running lights I have forgotten to turn my lights on a few times- got to meet the local Police one morning because ofit. Cop said it is fairly common to see on a few brands and with drunk people!

And..some drivers think that with their daytime running lights on they are ok at dusk or darker.
I don't think they have any idea that the rear has no lighting with the drl's on.

My son says Bston drivers consider using turn signals a sign of weakness, and the weak don’t fare well on Boston streets.

That must explain the "Use yah blinkah!" hiway signs I see so often

You absolutely miss the point. Of course all situations cannot be anticipated. But sitting there just waiting or being indecisive or tentative, which is defensive driving, IMO, will get you killed far more often than being on your toes.

If you consider the entirety of my definition, defensive is a reactionary term, "offensive" in the context I stated is anticipatory, being ahead of the game.

In your two cases could you have seen the trucks doing that? And why not? My use of the term Offensive driving means you would have considered those *******s doing something stupid

Hunkering down is not the solution, you anticipate on the track at high speed, you should do the same on the highway.

Exactly.

The use of the term "Offensive" involves anticipatory actions whereby you create or control the situation with the expected outcome being successful. "Defense" is where you relinquish control and hope for the best, not my preferred approach.

That's a side view. Do you not know how to properly use your mirrors?

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We should all be taking some methods from the "offensive" column and some from the "defensive" column.

Everything said about the offensive/anticipatory method is good because the anticipatory angle is an intelligent monitoring of "what ifs."

For instance if you're on a two-or-three-lanes-each-direction 40 MPH city street and you're passing someone on their right, you need to be aware they might not see you and be ready to react if they move into your lane. That might be a tap on your horn if you see it as it begins... or a move slightly to the right and brake while you tap the horn if you didn't catch it soon enough.

Some might call all that purely defensive, but it's a blend of the two. With the sheer numbers of people messin' with their phones while driving, one has to have their spidey sense tuned for each situation.

Looking at the purely offensive driving method, there's a weakness if you don't account for others' screwups. For instance if you're charging down a 30 MPH two lane residential street, if you're not ready for someone backing out of their driveway not looking, some would say blow your horn insistently and don't change your speed. But if they're crankin' some Creedence on the stereo, they might not hear you.

And then you've got to plow out through someone's yard to miss them or if they get out in front of you before you get the chance, BOOM. Same with a kid on a bicycle.

If you're canyon carving (or any kind of carving) and going around a blind corner and you don't leave yourself room to stop if there's a boulder, car, tree limb, etc. in your lane just out of your view... same thing. If you're following someone at two to four car lengths at 70 MPH... more of the same.

It's always a blend of the two. One should never see defensive driving skills as waiting for something to happen and/or just puttering around below the speed limit... that's a mischaracterization... it's intelligent anticipation, IMO.

+1 with Heel & Toe. Solely Offensive driving is frankly, OFFENSIVE, or as it is known in England these days as driving an Audi