Pricey car equals driver a Jerk?

Slow news day....

Personally......speaking as someone who usually drives 10+ year old cars, I think there's just a negative perception against people who drive nicer cars. Normally I'd think that CNN and scientists would have more important things to study and report about, but now that I think about it........this is right in their wheelhouse.

 

If I was going to make an unfounded, unproven, unjustified, probably unfair generalization, I might say that wealth in this culture translates into being able to get what you want, and do what you want to do.
That means simply that wealth becomes entitlement. Feeling entitled often translates into people acting like jerks.

Therefore as someone NOT entitled, I can afford to buy the premise that owners of more expensive vehicles are statistically more often jerks.

 

More expensive than......?

 

Now that may sound like useless make-work but just remember: somebody out there has a job designing turn signals for BMW.

 

But they did not put them on the car? Or is their design that bad?
I see too many drivers not use turn signals when needed.

 

Out walking the dog (story of our life now), watched some guy in a Transit van pull away from the curve (sans signal), then within about 30' hang a right at the intersection ('nother missed signal), then pirouette left into a U-turn in the intersection. He was poetry in motion, anyhoo.

 

Researchers used one white and one black man, and one white and one black woman -- also finding that cars were more likely to yield for the white and female participants. Vehicles stopped 31% of the time for both women and white participants, compared with 24% of the time for men and 25% of the time for black volunteers.

Gee, if they were going to bring race into their study, why didn't they indicate the race of the drivers who did or did not yield???

 

Jerk=jerk.

 

I don't know.
Maybe the wealthier class buy BMW's and drive like jerks, while the less affluent take whatever vehicles we can afford and do donuts in the parking lot.

In short, we can all be jerks, having money just affords us different ways of being one.

 

"But he also found people with "conscientious" characters seek out pricey models, too."

So these cars seem to attract both the good and the bad. But apparently not at the same rates.

 

the streets are democracy in action

 

They must be an option.

 

They must be a very expensive option. In over 45 years of driving, I don't believe I've EVER seen one equipped with functional signals.

 

hmm I wonder if it would be more confusing if the light started to blink when you turn the wheel past a certain point?

with all the mostly useless driver tech you would think the car could blink a light too while it’s at it

 

The most underappreciated job at BMW is the turn signal installer.

 

what if the rates on that side of things were the same and what happens if it’s an Asian?

 

Yes, it would. Plenty of twisty turny roads have sharper steering wheel angles than do common lane changes.

 

Probably have to poke him with a stick to wake him up when one with the option comes down the line.