Gazman

I recently saw the below comment on another forum, can anybody confirm that it is true???

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Okay, here's my comment, in my own words honest

"In british columbia, 40 kph is regarded as Recklessly Dangerous High Speed so its pretty hard to get overtaken by anything unless you're actually in reverse.

Its not uncommon to find a half empty six lane road with a 50kph speed limit and cars moving at a sedate 48kph. Its like slow motion and can be disturbing when you first experience it.

I think its because its so easy to pass the drivers test they're all scared behind the wheel".

christmasoompa

Really sorry, but due to copyright etc, you can't copy and paste posts from other forums.

Could you maybe just give a general overview of what it said instead?

Thx.

dbd33

That people drive extremely poorly? Yes, that's true.

That in some provinces people drive on the left and in other provinces on the right? No, not yet.

That all the cars are beige or grey? No, just most of them.

bats

Some cars are brown.

Cars are driven on the left on rural roads when the driver wants to turn left. For some reason the driver front of you moves to the left about 100 yards before the turning. I think this is on the same non-braking principle that's used when you turn right and the car behind you is incapable of braking enough to stay in the right hand lane, they have to move out and sort of overtake you as you turn.

Cars cannot be steered around corners either, all corners must be cut, even if it's a blind corner.

jamesmc

yup thats all true in rural Manitoba ..

iaink

This is because canadians are very environmentally concious*, and realise that braking and then accelerating back to cruising speed uses more gas and creates more emissions.

By pulling over to the left for a "country left turn", or when passing you on the left as you turn right it means fewer people have to turn their cruise control off

Likewise cutting corners allows drivers to maintain more of their original speed by hitting the apex of the corner, thereby needing to use less gas to get back up to cruising speed.

Now you know

*This is not necessarily true, but the logic is flawless.

iaink

Didnt we do a thread last week about this, more or less?

dbd33

I haven't driven in BC but given that the population is very old, Asian and/or stoned, it sounds credible.

Gazman

Are you saying that 'silver-car syndrome' has not immersed itself in Candian society the way it has in UK & Ireland???

Gazman

oh dear, what am I letting myself in for?!

dbd33

Grey vs. Silver and Brown vs. Beige are differences too subtle for me in most cases. BMW does offer a brown/green very like the colour of liquid cow shit though, that makes their cars stand out from the Hyundais with the same styling.

iaink

Ridiculous insurance premiums and a lot of shouting at other drivers general level of competence and awareness if you are anything like the rest of us....

iaink

Sounds a lot like my new one. "Brown"* was chosen for preference as I actually own this one, rather than lease, so with long term ownership in mind it matches the road dirt coating it has now (that every car ends up in the winter regardless of original colour) and the rust it will have in a few years time.

*"Metallic Urban Titanium" in marketingspeak

cheeky_monkey

Damn i love silver cars..in fact my car here is silver..in fact its probably a shitty grey/black/brown colour right now

jamesmc

loads &loads of white cars,half tons driving in whiteouts wi no rearlights on.!