ANYBODY DRIVING AN EXPENSIVE CAR HERE?
If you drive an expensive car you're probably a jerk, scientists say [cnn.com]
The science is looking pretty unanimous on this one: Drivers of expensive cars are the worst.
A new study has found that drivers of flashy vehicles are less likely to stop and allow pedestrians to cross the road -- with the likelihood they'll slow down decreasing by 3% for every extra $1,000 that their vehicle is worth.
Tesla and regulators need to do more to prevent Autopilot deaths, safety agency says
I know Trump, Bloomberg, Steyer and Bernie are rich candidates. Just sayin.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.A jerk is a guy who buys a car he can not afford .You do not have to have a lot of money to buy a flashy car ,only a lot of credit .( original post deleted by mistake)
richiegtt
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Feb 26, 2020
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Fully agree. I was a jerk who bought an expensive car early in life, although I could afford it. I did not need it at all. The American dream went to my head.
What does it take to be rich, in your mind? A measly million?
itsmedammit
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Feb 26, 2020
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Wall Street has defined that a millionaire in America is one who has a net worth of $2.5 million. Bernie is worth $3 million.
My opinion is not important. But facts are.
@St-Sinner I was asking because you had said, "Question... 'Does Bernie fit into the 'Millionaires and Billionaires' definition? No matter, but now I am curious, is it Bernie that is worth 3 mil, or Bernie and his wife, as a couple? How do the people who keep track of these things count it?
@itsmedammit
Go ahead. Justify every which way you can as to how Bernie is a paragon of virtues and can do no wrong. His millions are not millions to you. He is not among the millionaires and billionaires he rants about.
@St-Sinner I was simply asking you a question.
"I know Trump, Bloomberg, Steyer and Bernie are rich candidates. Just sayin."
Oh for fuck's sake. Trump is worth somewhere between $1B - $3B, Steyer is worth about $2B, Bloomberg is worth over $60B while by comparison to all of them, Bernie is worth a measly $3M but you're going to lump him in with billionaires? If you're going to be that disingenuous with the facts you may as well just make up whatever shit you like.
You already have no credibility given your enormous and irrational anti-Bernie bias.
Sgt_Spanky
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Feb 26, 2020
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Question... "Does Bernie fit into the "Millionaires and Billionaires" definition?
@St-Sinner Do you equate low level millionaires as being on the same financial footing as billionaires? Is a BMW the same as a Ferrari since they're both luxuary vehicles?
@Sgt_Spanky
Socialism means yes, them all.
I think anyone who is paying attention doesn't need a study to believe this. I've even noticed owners of certain models are not good drivers. Often, when on the ferry an announcement is made, would the driver of a car please turn off your alarm (the motion of the ship sets off the alarm + who is going to steal a car on a ferry)? Invariably the car is an Audi with Mercedes coming in second.
JackPedigo
Level 9
Feb 26, 2020
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You misspelled Steyer, btw...
godlessinal
Level 7
Feb 26, 2020
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Thank you. I never misspell Bernie because I am fighting his evil spell on American voters for 5 years now. 
@St-Sinner
Keep up the good work.
Not me... I drive an old island car. Can't rev up the engine and impress anyone by reaching the speed limit very fast, haha!
Drivers I know that drive nice/expensive cars are nice (I only know nice people) but they do tend to let everyone around them to see their driving skills and ability to weave in and out of traffic quickly.
Where I live, most of the cars on the road are rentals driven by tourists, and who knows what they own/drive at home, but on my small island it's impossible to drive too fast or recklessly for the most part.
Julie808
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Feb 26, 2020
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I can’t find the paper but the commentary seems to be referring more to personality type than drivers of cars.
Critical thinking; check your sources, what are they expecting me to believe.
Geoffrey51
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Feb 26, 2020
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I think believe is the primary subject of this matter for most Believers that believe in things that are derogatory or subliminal it's almost here say and a lot of people know just how far here say goes that would be like saying people who wear expensive underwear must have big penises of course how are you going to know that without pulling off the Duds.. lol
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@Geoffrey51 Clicking through the links led me to the paper. There were 461 cars involved and 4 pedestrians female, male, black and white.
@Stephanie99 still can’t get a reference to the paper. Could you post the link please.
@Stephanie99 Thanks for that. Very interesting sociological data.
It would be better interesting to see if the results were similar in a similar suburb of London and Paris.
@Geoffrey51 So you know, you click on the first link. On that link the word "study" is highlighted and you click on that to get to the study.
Tesla and regulators need to do more to prevent Autopilot deaths, safety agency says
Shouldn't they just lower the price of the cars?
Autopilot and assisted driving safety appears, at this stage, to be safer than unassisted driving. Lots of differences in the data and incomplete information, though.
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