ITT: post things normies say about your driving

Before I did track days my friends never really had anything to say.

After track days they started complaining
>You don't need to brake so hard
>Why are you braking with your left foot
>You're not a racecar driver
>You're going to need brakes if you keep driving like this

I never use to brake hard whatsoever until track days. After changing pads a few times the entire process takes about 30 minutes if I'm taking my time.

>Let user drive, we'll get there early

Also, not sure if it's related to track days, but I do about 10 over everywhere now as well.

If my lady is with me I make sure the ride is smooth.

>Safety first

I always tell her. She gets all flustered and she'll put her seatbelt on.

yeah, i dont understand the normie obsession with saving brake pads. They're not very hard to change or very expensive

one I get hit with a lot is "how do you drive on the right side?"

don't stain the seats user

>yeah, i dont understand the normie obsession with saving brake pads. They're not very hard to change or very expensive
It's not about that, it's about fuel economy and you don't want your brake lights to show up too often on the highway.

>one I get hit with a lot is "how do you drive on the right side?"

What do you mean?

He clearly drives a RHD car.

>About fuel economy
Normies don't coast to stoplights waiting for it to turn green. They'll zip up to a stopped semi, slam on the brakes, and then get upset the semi doesn't accelerate to 60 as quickly as their SUV.

i own a JDM sti

oh yeah and another thing people notice is how the brakes are squaky as shit until they earm up

yea it sounds cool

>accelerate too fast
>take curves too fast
>shifts are smooth (because revmatch)

>drop to 3rd and start engine braking up to a red light
>its approaching 9pm and im on an arterial road so barely any cars
>one guy behind me speeds right up to my bumper then overtakes and slams on his brakes at the light
>i roll up and get the green before even stopping
nothin personnel kid

>*coasts up behinds you*
>*unsheathes engine brake*

>*downshifts 3rd*
>heh...... you aint seen nothin yet kid.......
>*downshifts to second*
>s-surely

>you're a good driver, user
Getting in a decent fender-bender opened my eyes up a bit. I usually drive defensively, being very wary of other cars. However, I also drive offensively where I need to.

I've only really been driving for a few years (got license 12 years ago, didn't need it when I moved to the city), but it feels good to be called a good driver nonetheless.
As long as we get to our destination and no one fears for their life, I think its a job well done.

[angry old mom tone]Hey HEY HEY DON'T TURN SO FAST JEEZ user

>but if you Tesla gets rear ended wouldn't the battery explode?
fucking hell

'Stop it it scares me'

This. So fucking stupid.

But they usually don't say "rev" cuz they're retarded. More like "why is the engine so loud and high?"

whatever

"We had this thread yesterday"

>n-nani?

>you're a very cautious and calculated driver compliments on that

The fuck does this even mean?

>U drive like ur dad, always speeding up
>Bitch it's an onramp
>It's not a reason to go so fast

Please open the trunk, i have a family

I get occasional comments like "Why do you rev when you brake?"

Most often it's "how did you see that?" Or "How did you know they were going to pull out?" etc.

Normies don't look far enough in front and don't plan ahead/take other road users into account

>being stuck behind some idiot trying to merge onto the highway at 30 mph while the speed limit is 55 and everyone on the highway is doing 60-70 mph

>saving brake pads
You engine brake to prevent brake fade so you can actually stop at the bottom of the mountain.
Normies ride their brakes down hills and then wonder why they fucking crash into traffic at the bottom.

t. Appalachian user currently dealing with a massive influx of Floridians

revmatching to a stoplight is just because racecar meme zomg:brum shit, doesn't really save pads that much

>"Why don't you let the car coast in a downhill"

Because, you stupid bitch who probably bough your license, coasting in a downhill in a fuel injected car waste more gas as there is no fuel cut-off.
Also, I have to use the brakes to control the speed, since there is no action from the engine brake, which makes the pads wear out earlier.

I can't believe there are morons around here that still have the same habits of back when there were only carbureted pieces of shit on the road.

"That was the most scared I've been in a car probably ever, I literally had my eyes closed the whole time"
>never passed 90 mph that ride

because they are taught by even dumber people who learned to drive with carbureted cars and now consider themselves too old to learn anything new, so they continue to drive their GDI Kias like it's 1971.

>muh i wasnt born with this newfangled gadgetry personally affecting my life so therefore it never existed and i don't have to change my habits fuck those lazy millenials amirite

Good thing about these old hags is that eventually they will die and we remain here to bury whatever old-timed non-sense they believed in.

>as there is no fuel cut-off

every EFI I have driven downhill cuts the fuel off, even mine, that has LPG cuts fuel off.

I am genuinely interested what is happening here.

when with friends:
>wow, you're a better driver than Paul, user; he swerves all the time

when with family:
>wtf bro you're going too fast
>ey yo watch your six
>lol stupid bitch can't reverse for shit
>DON'T USE THE REARVIEW MIRROR FUCKHEAD TURN YOUR BACK
>pass the lighter

I swear, when I'm with my brother or parents, THAT'S when I flub while driving.
can someone explain this irrational nervousness?

Colleague asked me
>Why do you have a sports car if you drive so slow?
Because we're in the middle of the city and everyone is on their phone.

I took him for a drive on country road, he stopped asking.

I used to turn around when maneuvering in reverse. My parents told me to use my mirrors. It's been much easier ever since.

As far as parents go, they are used to driving and their reactions are somewhat instinctive, because they do not expect the car to move in that way, even I do it without catching myself.

I did a scandinavian flick into my neighborhood and a girl on the sidewalk yelled idiot at me

i was drifting around a park the other day and a delivery driver in a truck gave me a thumbs up. feels good

Not a car, but motorcycle
>why do you wear gear? If you crash you're gonna die anyways
>do a wheelie
>it's so hot why are you not driving a car with a/c?
>do you ride in the rain?
>do a wheelie
>you wanna race my stock Honda?
>why do you take off so fast from a light?
>why do you ride faster than traffic?
>do a wheelie
>your bike is too loud
>your bike isn't loud enough
>why do you park in front of stores?
>do a stoppie
>can you teach me how to ride on your bike?
>why didn't you get a zx14r, hyabusa, cbr1000rr, R1 etc...
>do a wheelie

Alright that's all I got right now.

>you're gonna break your gearbox like that, you have to wait a little moment after dropping gear into neutral and before moving into other gear

i still have no idea if they're right or not. probably not though, i sometimes heel-toe and then everyone probably thinks i'm burning the clutch, freaking out about how my car is going to break down right now after that

If it goes in easily, you aren't breaking shit.

reversing with mirrors is cool
using them in traffic I find it to be a big no-no
my mom keeps trading paint with lots of cars from not looking around
yet she insists she drives...

This. Slamming it from 2 to 3 or 3 to 4 when the revs match may be just the most satisfying thing I have done in a car

That's why I said
>maneuvering
turning around is more useful if there is traffic and you need to go for a longer period of time.

If you coast in gear, there is cut off.
If you coast in neutral, idling... then no cut off

I re-read it, I thought the post meant coasting in gear and I was really confused. Yeah coasting in neutral is dumb overall even if it didn't save fuel.

they will just be replaced by younger morons even more set in their ways either because an older person told them to or because they have such short attention spans they never learned how to properly drive anyway.

luckily that isn't everybody, just a seemingly large proportion. Lots of older people are great drivers, you don't see them because they drive reasonably and don't hold up traffic believing they're "safe".

lol

My father told me when I was starting to drive:
>As soon as you get on the ramp, you punch it, user.

Not having retarded parents is great.

This
My mom always taught me that the on ramp is for getting up to speed, and that you get to cruising speed before the end so you can just smoothly merge into traffic.

>Teslafag
Its you whose the normie here, buddy

>tfw gf was really mad at me
>I suggest we go for a cute night drive
>Find a single-track country road and can't resist hooning
>Get to the end, stop, she's sick
>Doesn't help my situation in the slightest

Only bros appreciate driving like Mika Häkkinen.

That sounds horrible Jesus

>I Yaris
Lord have mercy.

>>why do you wear gear? If you crash you're gonna die anyways
even as a joke that's a horrible thing to say

Literally called Grandma driver by my GF when shes in the car. Always huffing and puffing at me to change lanes and gets upset if we get stuck behind someone turning left. Always brings this up when applicable in conversation with other people.

On my own i drive 100-140km/h most of the time, depending on how well i know the road, traffic, and police presence.

If we drive separately I always arrive at our destination way before her.

Your family sounds like a bunch of niggers

this is the one thinf that triggers me about some drivers

they keep driving 50kmh until theyre already on the fucjing highway, then they speed up

god i hate this kind of people

>If we drive separately I always arrive at our destination way before her.
No wonder, that's the logical result of this entire between-car-slalom thing. When you do that, you annoy everyone, slow down other cars, cars before you slow down because they see retard in the rear mirror, then you get stuck between someone because you switched to empty lane that was empty for a reason, and then you arrive at your destination late in result. Going fast is good, going fast while sacrificing traffic smoothness is always a wrong choice.

don't worry user, your gf is a shit driver who has no idea about how traffic works. angry driver = shit driver.

of course I embellished things up a bit

>your driving is real smooth

>maximum attack
>passenger hold to dear life
>actually presses his feet like he is hitting the brake pedal before corners
>"you wont be mad if i brake your door handle right?"
>mfw

Really? Why? Idling downhill would be great if this want true.

>carb habits
it's mountain habit. you don't brake on the mountain roads because when you have 2km long downhill your brakes would overheat. so, coasting.

rule of thumb there is to coast on gear similar to gear you'd need to put on to get uphill

Because when you put it in neutral it takes away the mechanical advantage of gearing. Same reason trucks downshift, a lower gear with no throttle input reduces speed. Of course they have actual engine brakes that dump the compression stroke and that helps quite a bit. Sometimes they miss gears though, and commercial diesel engines are not designed to spin above 3500 rpm for the most part. It's kinda cool to see a c15 that someone dropped too low and wrapped up to 7k, at least if motors that are blown apart is your idea of cool.

So no one knows what he meant by this? I had someone tell me this and I honestly can't think the fuck it would mean.

Mine would be screaming at me the by turn three, "Do that shit in your own car when I'm not here!", or something like that. I'm single now. I miss that.

>with Cambodian gambling addict friend at red hawk casino
>rev it a bit past 3k
>WOAH WHY ARE SPEEDING

>Saturn SC2
>AT LEAST 400lb fat shit in passenger seat, Girl in back because he doesn't fit
>Stop trans-breaking You're going to wear out the clutch

>My dad works at...

Parents and famz:
>now son. The lines are only a guide. Try to corner as straight as as possible.
>if you want to lunch an auto. You hold the brakes and rev to 3k. Make sure to lock the ecu in in "2", you don't want it shifting up and out of the power band.
>give it a little gas (not enough to accelerate any) just before the apex. It gives you more grip.
>take it easy. The tires aren't warm yet
Everyone else.
>how come you never brake?
>how do you corner that quick?
>shit were going 120
>why are you wiggling your pinky at that guy(stance bro)?

>night drive with an old friend, took car for a test spin
>feeling like having a smoke, took out pack of cigarettes from my pocket
>he's freaking out for no reason, this wrong, that wrong, too fast, watch the road
>guy is literally going crazy, screaming
>pretended i don't see it, just got out of the corner sideways, moving on

i mean who cares, i'm driving with my eyes closed anyway

>if you keep driving like that you're gonna ruin your tires!

>Actually presses his feet like he is hitting the break
I do this all the time when I'm a passenger to someone I don't know well. It's like an automatic reaction.

>Watch out user, you're going to hit that!
>That was close
>You almost took of their mirror
I know my car's size really well, so everyone thinks I'm going to hit shit. I never do.

ITT dank street racers

Was this real?

>don't rev so much you're going to hurt the engine

it's a 1.6l in a sea of 300HP V6 toyota family cars. give me a break.

>why is your car so loud
my car is fucked with a lot of road noise
>why is there tape on your windshield
it's really small and to tell if the cracks expanding

now for me to drive seriously

"do a burnout"

To add to this as an R1 owner:

>Do a wheelie
>Is it fast?
>What's the fastest you've gone?
>Is it scary?
>Do a wheelie
>Have you ever stunted it?
>Is it fast?
>How fast does it go?
>I was going to get one but I knew I'd kill myself
>Do a wheelie
>Have you ever crashed?
>Is that a 600?

Repeat forever.

>Floridians
fucking shit, MA here, they're crawling all over the place, it's awful
why do they come up here

If they don't enjoy spirited driving, I'm the posterchild of someone sitting with a driving instructor trying to pass my test.
If you enjoy what a 2200lb car can do on 225/45R15's when they're warm, buckle up.

you can identify risks well, and drive without putting yourself in risk needlessly

>rev matching
>shifting UP

My nigga what

He must have a .1lb flywheel or constant mesh.

or a kid pretending he knows what he's talking about. is it summer holidays in america or something?

Who keeps track of that.
I prefer downshifts on HP-less engines that scream to cover up a suffer able lack of torque.

youtu.be/FvGR1rf6zCQ?t=1m50s

People from Florida can't drive for shit, honestly

Just do the fucking wheelie

>I was going to get one but I knew I'd kill myself

The only valid one, the way i drive is dangerous enough

Kind of sounds like you made all that up. Do you even drive?

You are an idiot