JCC What's the most irresponsible thing you've done whilst driving?

I drove without a license or a permit, so I guess that would be the most irresponsible thing. Considering that I can't drive.

 

I no longer eat while behind the wheel. It's a 280 dollar fine with four demerit points in my province if you get caught.

I stopped before they started handing out tickets after watching Canada's Worst Driver and hearing the story made me realize I should just concentrate on the road and nothing else.

If you look up season seven. Aaron's story is a real eye opener.

http://driving.ca/auto-news/news/canadas-worst-driver-offers-worthy-lessons-2

Aaron Chesire’s life changed when he was T-boned by a distracted motorist.
And it took a television show, Canada’s Worst Driver, to help him get back on track.
Doctors weren’t sure Chesire would live in the weeks following the trauma. He was in a coma for two months, and he has 15 steel plates in his face.


In the hospital for more than six months, the Calgarian is lucky to be alive. He’s not without his scars, however. He suffered long-term brain damage, and uses a cane to help him walk.


Before the 2005 accident, Chesire worked for Budget Rent-a-Car, and was a lot attendant at Stampede Toyota. He was a good driver, certainly one who was competent behind the wheel.


But one of the hardest things for Chesire to do post-accident was return to driving.
"My level of competence was not back, and I was a bit of a gong show on the road," Chesire says.


"I was nervous behind the wheel, and I had trouble making quick decisions. I mean, I was just going through life like everybody else does, and then, wow, it could all be over so quickly."


To help him regain some confidence, Chesire’s dad nominated him to be on the television show Canada’s Worst Driver. Chesire became one of eight participants in Season 7 of the reality TV show that airs on Discovery Channel.


"Aaron was a poster child for Canada’s Worst Driver," says the show’s executive producer, Guy O’Sullivan of Proper Television. "He got hit by a bad driver, and very nearly killed. He’s proof of what the consequences of bad driving really are."
Chesire agrees.


"I tell people I was able to bring reality to reality TV," he says.
According to a Proper Television news release, Canada’s Worst Driver aims to improve road safety by rehabilitating the nation’s worst drivers, one bad driver at a time.


Through a series of challenges and intense driver training, motorists relearn the rules of the road while improving their core driving skills.
Each episode, one person graduates and returns to Canada’s streets a safer, more skilled motorist.


At the end of the season, host Andrew Younghusband declares one lousy licensee "Canada’s Worst Driver."


"The driving instruction was very good, and it was exactly what I needed," Chesire says. The instructors "helped change my actions in the car, and the lessons and challenges were very close to my own reality (of recovery).


"For example, the simple rule of looking where you want to go – I became more competent in life and as a driver."


Proper Television will soon be in Alberta and other Canadian cities searching for nominees, and according to O’Sullivan, there’s no lack of poor drivers in Alberta.
"We’re very thankful to the people of Alberta – you guys are terrible drivers," O’Sullivan laughs.


"No, really, I think there are more awful drivers in Alberta than anywhere else.
"Why is that? You just all seem to be more removed from what you’re doing behind the wheel."


Chesire wasn’t the only Alberta driver to appear in Season 7. He was joined by Tab Parks, also of Calgary, and Sly Grosjean of Lethbridge.


Each individual selected to participate in Canada’s Worst Driver lacks a particular driving skill, from the one with a lead foot to the one who is constantly distracted.
"There’s a range of problems we attempt to fix," O’Sullivan says.


"The rehabilitation part of the show is very important. There’s a lot of time and effort spent (off-camera) with a professional driving instructor.


"The tests or challenges just show what’s stuck with the participants."
According to O’Sullivan, the show is frightening to make, and his heart is in his mouth every season. There has never been an injury to cast or crew, but there have been close calls.


"We have to be really aware of what’s going on," O’Sullivan says.
Chesire was not Canada’s Worst Driver in Season 7.
He could have been sent home after the fourth show.
But he felt he was doing positive work, helping showcase the reality of the results of poor driving, and stayed on to the end.


Now, he participates in the P.A.R.T.Y. (Prevent Alcohol and Risk-Related Trauma in Youth) program, and speaks to school-aged children about choices in life – good and bad.


Chesire says: "Canada’s Worst Driver changed my life. I walked away a better driver and a better person."

Basically he was sitting at a stop sign, the other driver who hit him had dropped a cigarette and was looking for it and cruised right through the stop sign.

 

Thank goodness you didn't separate out the last option into 2 separate ones.

 

I'm curious but just thinking of someone having sex while driving boggles the mind.

 

that's good.

Since you started this thread, whats the most dangerous thing you did while behind the wheel.

 

There are two things I haven't done: refuse to use the cell phone while driving. To me that was obvious. I never applied makeup either while driving. I don't drink or smoke so that makes four things I never did while driving.

I did most of my dumb acts within the first six years of driving. I've smartened up since.

 

Gouranga.



****ing hare krishnas.

 

Photography out the passenger window, at around 90 mph.

In my defense, it was in North Dakota.

 

Hi JC! What's the biggest crime you've commited?????

 

On a long road trip in California we used cruise control to swap drivers while going 60mph instead of pulling over and losing precious minutes in a rest stop.

 

As Mechanics you do some crazy things to get noises and or other issues to occur while driving. You just don't do them with someone behind you.

 

I once owned an old tanker truck and used it to stalk car drivers on lonely stretches of two lane California desert highways. You know, the usual stuff: pass them then slow down to 25 mph. or come up behind them and tailgate at high speeds. Push them onto a railroad track in front of an oncoming freight train. Your typical spooky road rage terrorism.

 

Be wary of cliffs, Jibs.

 

The most irresponsible thing I've done while driving is hurtling a multi-ton hunk of metal and plastic at speeds that could kill or seriously injure me and anyone else on impact all while burning the processed remains of 100,000,000-year-old microscopic organisms that make the planet more inhospitable to my own and practically every other species on the planet.

 

Sneaking in some shots of Jack Daniel's, while using public transit. Wait, oh, while I'm driving? Never mind.

 

No, I just didn't have to worry about traffic. Or cops.

 

Or inclines.

 

The officials have already stated that next year it's predicted that distracted driving is going to be the number one cause for accidents putting drunk driving into second place.

That's a pretty scary thought