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Originally Posted by Stuart
I don't think there's any particular correlation between the brand of car and the skill of the driver. There are good drivers and bad drivers out there in every kind of vehicle.
It's like when I read claims that every person from the state of (fill in the blank, usually the adjacent state to whoever is claiming it) is a terrible driver. If you look around long enough you'll find that claim being made for every state in the union.
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There may be a bit of a disconnect here when it comes to terms.. There are bad drivers, meaning those who lack skill or common sense, and are dangerous and infuriating as a result. These people are dangerous on the road because driving on busy roads shared with many other drivers takes a certain amount of skill to do well. But then there are also entitled drivers and assholes, which are equally dangerous and infuriating, but for different reasons. They may have plenty of driving skill, but they think they own the road and are more entitled to it than everyone else, and they drive aggressively and selfishly.
Commonly held stereotypes amongst large numbers of people do not develop for no reason. Any one person or small group of people in one area may develop some personal biases, but when large numbers of people who are entirely unrelated to each other and in different parts of the country/world believe something, odds are there is a reason for that. Denying that is to deny humanity, as we all have the trait among us where we are able to spot trends and commonalities and such. This is simple human nature.
If you spent any length of time in my area, you would have to be utterly blind and oblivious to not recognize the blatantly obvious trend for recent, wealthier California transplants to drive like assholes here. I've been here long enough and have spent enough time on the roads to have seen and recognized the trend. As a whole, native Nevadans tend to drive more reasonably, closer to the speed limit, use blinkers, more courteous, etc.. But the recent California transplants with higher end cars are far, far more likely to drive aggressively, weave through traffic, significantly exceed the speed limit, etc.. It's just reality.
I've been using a dashcam for the last year and a half, and I save all the clips involving all the many types of idiocy, aggressive or otherwise bad driving I encounter(and plan to make a compilation video one of these days). Perhaps perusing through those clips would help show the bias, since some people seem to want to deny that trends do in fact exist on the road.
Edit: To say that certain types of drivers suck more than others does not mean that ALL of those types of drivers suck. When I said above that I see more entitled Audi drivers than any other make, that does not meant that ALL Audi drivers suck, it means that Audi drivers are more likely to suck. But since people seem to like to get offended about everything, it gets taken in ways other than the intended meaning. Stuart, if you are not one of the bad BMW drivers, there is no reason to take offense to anyone talking crap about BMW drivers, because they aren't talking about you.