Have you noticed any trends in the driving habits of the owners of different car makes? I have. BMW owners tend to stand out as being in a hurry very often. When there's someone overtaking me unnecessarily or tailgating me it's quite often a BMW. BMWs tend to be driven by young to middle-aged men always in a hurry in traffic. Mercedes-Benz drivers are often elderly men whose driving habits are nothing out of the ordinary despite the fact that some Mercs out there have very powerful engines.
By the way, I have also noticed a significant difference between driving habits in Tampere and Lahti. The subset of very impatient drivers with a propensity to flip the finger or otherwise behave poorly is clearly larger in Lahti than in Tampere. Those people exist in Tampere as well but I'd say I've had the middle finger shown to me, been tailgated or honked the horn at on more occasions in the five years I've lived here than in the 22 years I had a driving license while living in Tampere. Tampere Urban Area has a population about two and a half times bigger than Lahti Urban Area. Tampere also has a clearly better educated population than Lahti. Also, I've noticed that the extremes in people's behavior are more common here in Lahti - and not just in negative ways.
I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that the larger a city you live in the smoother the social interactions tend to be in general. If you make any kind of trouble in public in a big city, you'll immediately feel the pressure of a large crowd you're forcing to re-route its way around you. And if you're of an arrogant type and think you can get away with more than other people, it is more likely that someone tougher than you is present in a more crowded place. I could feel the pressure of the crowd during my visit in London a year ago. In the London Underground and on the busy streets streams of people come and go ceaselessly. It's in nobody's interest to make a fuss and people tend to subconsciously copy the behavior of the people around them.
Hi markku. The younger people here seem to drive Golf's. I know wht you are saying though and you can normally tell what type of person drives that car etc. I chose a car that wasn't on the hijack list of desirable cars and wasn't my first or even in my top 50 list. I would much rather have an Audi or a Mercedes/BMW but risk is too high.
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I've read about car jacking in Johannesburg.
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High end 4 x4 's are always at the top of the list with the VW's followed by the normal BMW's etc. Most make there way across the border into neighboring countries within hours of being hijacked. Insurance companies have "chasers" positioned at known crossing points to block them. I often see the helicopters flying around chasing cars providing air support to those on the ground.
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Interesting.
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The average young person here does not drive a BMW. But the BMW drivers tend not to be old or women.
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It would be great to see the behavior of other countries or specific countries, as for example I saw a conference of a Colombian-Japanese that makes reference of the differences of Latin (South American) and Japanese. He explained that in a clash of two Japanese the common was the kindness of who was going to pay the shock, this seemed very hard to believe (even today).
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I can believe that of the Japanese. The more civilized the place the more civilized the traffic.
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Yokoi Kenji explained many things among them that we see the Japanese as super intelligent karatecas and in turn they see the Latinos (us) as people who eat snakes both are wrong, he says. That gave me a lot of grace!
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I have noticed this as well, especially in big institutions/schools. People have smoother social interaction and everyone goes his/her own way.
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Definitely that behavior is and I dare to say it in many parts of the world, many times to me just for not going too fast they always insult me but I prefer to go slow, and much more when I go with my daughters ..
I was three days out of my city in these last days I did not have much connection to the internet in the place where I was.
Kind regards, Markku
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You should have seen the way people drive in Bangkok!
I have to keep praying while driving around the city center.
But I, myself, am a bad driver too! I got that middle finger a few times last month. Most people disregard traffic rules and most don't even know how to drive correctly. Driving license is easily obtained, and could be bought in the past! I got my driving lessons and license in England. But I must admit I am quite impatient with some drivers. This is a test of patience and sanity!
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Getting the middle finger is not indicative of being a bad driver. The accident stats per a kilometer driven are a pretty good measure of what the traffic is like in a country. I'd say traffic is quite orderly and peaceful anywhere in Finland for the most part. I've been to St. Petersburg, Russia, and experienced the traffic. I'm not driving there. Period.
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Yes! I often think that most bad drivers couldn’t accept their own mistakes and badly train driving habit! People here are so spoiled and such a bully when they are driving big expensive cars!
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