I am the only one who gets run off the road by SUV's when driving the NSX?

[dyee]

Don't take it as sexist but one look(female judging by your name) you were easily identified as someone who is not aggressive and won't retaliate or kick up your driving level up a few notches. If it were a rough tough type with prison corn rows in an NSX I probably think the lane change would be carefully reconsidered. Then again if the loud music were going that would be an attention getter. Be seen........be in the way..... bottom line. If you let the traffic run you, it'll run you right out of town....... out of Carolina to Florida as I see in your Avatar description. Sorry to be blunt and truthful. That's why I own an NSX.

Danny RED SR 71
REPEAL V.C. 22351:smile: :biggrin: :wink:

 

[JPS Europa]

If you think that the NSX is invisible...
http://paul.harhen.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=44

 

[nchopp]

Sounds like the definition of defensive driving is to allow room for a vehicle to change lanes into then drive defensively like you lost your testicles and let the other driver dictate pace and location of their vehicle. When the vehicle takes that spot or wants it then you are ready to hit the brake, honk the horn or pull next to them in another lane and give them useless dogstares, the finger, or lip service..... (which, if you would have just stayed ahead you'd still be in that lane any way). What kind of crap is that? If you get cut off you get everything you deserve. By letting them see an open space next to their vehicle you just invited the disaster. What if the front 1/2 of your X were at the grill or further in front? Would Bo(SUV)zo change into that lane? If you say yes UR LYING!!!

Danny RED SR 71
REPEAL V.C.22351

So maintaining safe following distance is bad? Did you skip school the day they taught driver's ed or something?

 

[dyee]

No one around me is safe enough. I don't ALLOW people to have a blind spot. I'm in front or at minimum...... visible where they can't cut me off. I live in California where I drive with the best of them in heavy city traffic. No accidents and I've been driving since 1981. I've owned three cars in 25 + years. You live where the traffic density is less than the size of my p**** (I'm asian so you can guess what p**** means). I can drive. Tickets... yes. I do drive fast. Have never caused an accident, have never endangered people around me. I prefer to get out in front of the pack as quickly as possible so tailgating isn't even an issue. Bet ur the guy on the cell phone blabbing away. Driving and parenting are two resposibilities where you can have no talent but do both. Forget about the right vs privilege argument..... if you can't do either it doesn't matter if it's a right or a privilege

Danny RED SR 71
REPEAL V.C. 22351

 

[91 NSX]

I am constantly on the defensive when driving the NSX. I don't get in anyone's blind spot (for longer than a micro-second), and I don't allow anyone to stay in mine while they look the car over...so I can't lane change if I have to.

Plus, I'm constantly checking my mirrors for tailgaters and trying to watch the front to avoid stone chips from leading vehicles. Basically, I feel like a squirrel, constantly looking all over the place trying to avoid other vehicles. That is why, if I can, I find lesser traveled roads so I can enjoy the NSX in relative peace... :smile:

 

[dyee]

Yeh..... the front of the line is a road much less travelled.

:smile: :biggrin: :wink:
Danny RED SR 71
REPEAL V.C. 22351

 

[vancouver]

I have noticed that I definitely get tailgated more in the NSX Not good!

 

[Cozmo]

I have noticed that I definitely get tailgated more in the NSX Not good!

That's odd, for the most part I find that people stay way behind me when I'm in mine, at least when I stop. Once in a while some idiot will come right up to my bumper when i'm stopped at a light on an uphill and make me nervous, but that is rare.

 

[latzke]

Even in cars, people don't know how to check their mirrors. And they don't know how to set their mirrors.

Ever been directly behind a car and looked in the side view mirrors? Can you see the driver? You shouldn't be able to. If you start looking you'll see that most people set their side mirrors that way, to look straight down the side of the car. Which doesn't do squat except give them another view of what they can already see in their center rear view mirror.

The correct way to set up side view mirrors is with just a touch of overlap with the rear view mirror. When a car is overtaking, it should just begin to appear in the side view mirror as it is leaving the rear view mirror. This affords the widest view of the side, rear, and side of the car. I never need to head-check to make a lane change (although I do anyway), and I never "miss" a car next to me.

I've been in modern cars where the mirrors don't even pivot out enough to be set correctly (and I'm not tall...tall folks would need them farther out because they're sitting farther back). It is one thing for ill-informed drivers to set them incorrectly, it is quite another for the manufacturer to completely overlook this or design in these drivers' bad habits.

 

[latzke]

That's odd, for the most part I find that people stay way behind me when I'm in mine, at least when I stop. Once in a while some idiot will come right up to my bumper when i'm stopped at a light on an uphill and make me nervous, but that is rare.

I get both. Some people leave more room than I'm used to seeing, I think because they can see over/past the car and so have an idea why I'm not driving as fast as they like (traffic of situation ahead). Others I assume are driving as they normally do (too close) and compound it by having no regard for stopping distances...or they're empowered by the better than normal visibility.

 

[oldnews]

Alixp81, I'm guessing that's you in the avatar, don't see many women posting on here, good to shuffle up the ranks some.

 

[sptrader]

Solution: a Louder Exhaust !!! LOL
SUV's are dangerous, they need some sort of alarm, to alert their drivers when cars are along side of them.

 

[tbromley]

I never ride beside anyone if I can help it and as soon as I can if I'm boxed in I get out of that condition. You need to be behind SUVs or ahead of them - never beside them if at all possible. I keep plenty of room between me and the next guy in front cause I don't want stone chips. You ride close to bumpers and you'll eat too much crap. I drive my car to work a lot and it's hard to drive defensively enough all the time with tight traffic but I really keep away from others as much as possible. You really can't be too defensive these days. I have to be behind or in front of guys like that so I can judge what they're going to do next! It's damn crazy out there!

 

[SilverOne]

I dont really have that problem, then again I dont drive next to SUV's...I pass em. Sounds like you need to speed up a lil :biggrin: , or at least when near them. They dont scare me, if they piss me off I swerve at them, cut them off, or break check em to piss the off back :biggrin: I drive my NSX even more agressivly than I do my trucks, and they always get out of my way....someday when they dont, well they'll get hit lol.
And honk like a crazy SOB at them to get there attention, I do it everytime someone changes lanes in front of me without signaling.....then I cut em them back off to return the jester......followed by a break check if Im really mad

And last but not least, carry a paintball gun behind your seat :biggrin: , they cut you off you pepper their SUV in mutilpe pretty colors :tongue:

LOL, this is a good one.

 

[danny49]

You have to drive a nsx like your driving a motorcycle.

 

[Dhalsim]

wow...this thread was brought back from a 3 year vacation...........

 

[R77F1]

You have to drive a nsx like your driving a motorcycle.

^+1 always on a look out and stay away from blind spot!

 

[R13]

wow...this thread was brought back from a 3 year vacation...........

So,

-The OP has sold her NSX "boo".

-Dyee last posted in May, which means he made it at least 3+ years without dieing in some horrible accident he caused with his "proactive" psycho driving and/or being thrown in jail for repeated reckless.

-Everyone should now now realize that if you operate your vehicle within 5 miles of a major urban center and/or the states of Florida or NJ you will be cut off, tailgated, nearly sideswiped, accosted for driving sensibly, and possibly sexually molested while driving. No idea why this is, but people tend to lose their minds and go into crazy attack mode in these areas...or in the case of FL they are senile.

-Loud exhaust helps. so does driving with marker lights on.

-You don't have to slalom traffic, but don't sit in someone's blind spot, even if it means killing the cruise control.

I'm out.