I Love Driving.

[ems]

I'm so focused on driving that I forget to look both ways.

I've always kicked myself mentally afterwards....

But despite this I enjoy it and have never had a crash.

One thing I do badly that bothers me is that when I stop up at a roundabout in a manual car, I leave it in 2nd gear and nearly always forget to put it into 1st when taking off again..

Cutting out the engine under pressure with an impatient queue behind me... Flustered at times by a honk of the horn..
Or just plain mad at the cheek of them to blast me....

Maybe I should have titled this as 'Crap Driving/Road Rage'?!

Hate city driving and multi-laned roundabouts. .. totally enjoy country spins... The gates and foxes don't criticize me for it.... As long as I steer clear of them....

 

[Keigan]

I love driving, it calms me to know I am moving.

 

[Judge]

Yeah...I love driving. Always have. Doesn't have to be fast, but I love the feel of accelerating into turns with minimal body roll . LOL...I have to go through two roundabouts just to come home. True, they aren't always fun to drive through.

Road rage? Nooooooo. People get killed doing that here. "Those who are about to die salute you!"

 

[Chance]

Driving has always been my freedom. I worked my butt off to get my first car and my license so I didn't have to depend on others, or walk to where I needed to go.

From there I had wheels that got me to jobs, and that gave me more freedom. I worked and worked until I had the money to support myself and drive away from hell on earth... So, yes I love driving and vehicles more than about anything on this planet... : )

 

[Suzanne]

I do not have my licence right now, but did get a chance to drive a car, and my "instructor" must have forgotten that it was the first time on the road for me, because when I did make an error, he screamed at me and then, got me to do some very complicated manauvers.

I did find it stressful, but also incredably empowering and all my social anxiety went. Road rage would will never effect me, because as far as I am concerned, I am in charge of making the road safe.

It is complicated right now, but there is a possible solution for me to get my licence, for I NEED to drive.

 

[xudo]

I enjoy driving. I don't have a car any more and it does mean that it's harder to get places. I don't have a problem with roundabouts, maybe because there are so many here especially close to my house.

 

[Gracey]

If you forget that you've approached that junction in 2nd gear and want to accelerate away from the junction you'll need enough engine revs to make second gear workable (with manual gears)
Works better if the car is still moving forward ever so slightly and you'll never be able to accelerate away at speed but it prevents a stall. (Turn music off and listen to the engine, you'll be able to hear what gear you're in by how the engine sounds)-(possibly)

I generally adore driving, don't do so much of it at the moment, but in general I love everything about it. Freedom, always moving forward, car handling, the physics and forces, the perfect way all systems work in unison, combustion engine powering the drive through the c.v joints, ranges of gears and so on and so on.
I also like the control. The understanding, the decision making and the control.

 

[Manuheleku]

Cars and driving have always been a special interest for me.

 

[ems]

Driving has always been my freedom. I worked my butt off to get my first car and my license so I didn't have to depend on others, or walk to where I needed to go.

From there I had wheels that got me to jobs, and that gave me more freedom. I worked and worked until I had the money to support myself and drive away from hell on earth... So, yes I love driving and vehicles more than about anything on this planet... : )[/QUOTE

Exactly!

 

[oregano]

Me too, when I was a kid I would carry around books on cars because my mom and dad always carried novels with them wherever they went but I HATE fiction so I would carry around picture books of antique cars. My dad was obsessed with tinkering with old cars, every so often he'd show up with a beat up old car he'd bought and he tried to make it run properly, which he couldn't, but I loved playing around the old cars. When I became an adult I liked driving far away, up to several hundred miles, which drove my folks crazy. I still love "old car smell" because it reminds me of my grandpa and his ancient Dodge pickup. Sadly, American pickups aren't made like that anymore, all cloth and carpet instead of vinyl.

 

[hutchie]

Ben Collins, The Stigg from Top Gear wrote a book on driving, how to get the best out of a vehicle, some of it technical and over my head, but I got the general ideas and understand driving better and vehicles.

He also did a biography, explained a lot and great read.