Party Vibe

i drove to and back from a party for the first time new years. was a bit skatty, even when on the motorway it fwelt like the car was only doin 40.

Was totally stoned when I passed my test (had a huge bucket bong about 1/2 hour before, as I was really nervous)….

Passed first time tho’.

Don’t smoke anymore, as I stopped enjoying it, but I think stoned people driving are going to be more careful to a certain extent, and less likely to react badly to being noised up etc….

Depends on the drug really – alcohol is a no no IMO – pissed people are far too confident about their own ability behind a wheel, and don’t realise that it’s been impaired by the alcohol…

Plenty people smoke tobacco behind the wheel tho’, and every sales rep/lorry driver is flying on caffeine pretty much (which is a drug, no matter how many try to ignore that it is)….

Stimulants have been shown in pretty much every study to enhance reaction times, and increase spatial/motion awareness, so they would seem to be relatively good drugs to drive on (and you are often ‘told’ to stop and have a rest/some coffee by those roadside signs)… Amphetamine is just another stimulant, so why would it make driving worse, and coffee not?

Having driven my son (aged 4) a fair number of miles, I would say the reason this woman crashed her car was more likely to have been the 2 kids, and 2 teens she had in the car. Kids (especially younger ones) really don’t understand that cars can be dangerous in any way, and are VERY distracting when you are behind the wheel. It is really easy (through no fault of your own, or the kids) to get distracted, and if that moment happens to be the wrong one (in which you need to take evasive action or somesuch), you are in trouble.

Many people who drive cars also lack IMO a decent level of ‘threat avoidance’ – ie the reading of road conditions, and reacting to them in a defensive manner as motorbike riders are all taught. I know lots of car drivers that have the attitude “just pull out, and expect the other driver to slow down/compensate for your action” – especially ones who drive rush hour a lot…. Bikers (those of us who are still alive) don’t dare to do this – the law of averages is that at some point, the other driver will be distracted. On a bike, you are very exposed, and very aware that you are. A car can feel safe when you are inside (not true, but that is how it feels)…

lol dunno how you did that!! i got well paranoid when i was stoned durin lessons. i try not to drive stoned too cos it makes feel not very in control.

i’d definitely agree with that. i rode a moped for two years and found it not only gave me good road sense and awareness, but its also made me more warey and cautious of other drivers. i was treated like shite on my ped and now expect every driver to be another middleage dickhead or careless teenager.

One time myself and my partner had just left helter skelter at the sanctuary, v. foggy and ended up driving on wrong side of road cos i couldnt make out the road. Got myself back on the correct side of the road and come up to a roundabout, golf gti spun out and gone straight over roundabout fully loaded with ravers.
I stopped and fitted 5 nutted blokes and me and misses in frontera and took them all back to sanctuary to find their buddies as they had to get back to brum i think.

As i said i never have and never will drive on drugs…..:groucho: xmas_badger

Don’t drive myself but without thinkin twice always travel to parties with friends who are under the influence. It can be dangerous, the night before x-mas eve there was a car full of us stationary at some traffic lights when a when a guy we know from the area plowed into the back of us, he was drunk & and high on coke, luckily he wasn’t goin too fast & nobody was seriously hurt & he got away with because we didn’t want to grass him up! Drugs can seriously affect your concentration when driving.

driving is so over rated.. people act like its hard or something. if u can walk to ur car, then u should be able to drive ur car:bounce_fl