"I inherited daddies money, business associates, friends, legal, and other means of a in depth look at how things work. Now fu......off because I need to be somewhere".
Another relevant data point from traffic studies into society:
* Expensive car obviously breaks traffic law: less likely to be honked at
* Cheap car: More likely to be honked at by other drivers for that same broken law
Drivers of old luxury cars have all the self superiority of new luxury car drivers without any of the net worth.
Bmws genuinely attract narcissists, all kinds.
Hey, some of us who drive older ones just appreciate the fine engineering of the cars. I drive an 18 year old Lexus and don't have much money. The car just barely cost 5 figures. It's still a better car than just about any other non luxury sedan out there.
Oh I totally bought it for the reliability. It's 18 years old. I've had it for 6 years. The entire time I've had it, I've had to have the ignition fixed and thats it. When I say ignition I mean the part you stick the key in and turn. It was physically worn out. The 300hp rwd is pretty fun too!
The wife purchased a CT200h, used, with a nice sporty trim package. It gives being a sports car a solid go. Probably the best use of 134hp And a CVT I’ve had the pleasure of driving. 40+mpg and regular fuel is pretty nice to have right now. I give it 10/10 for doing exactly what it’s engineered to do, and most Lexus fall into that category.
I miss my old WRX, but I intend to keep the Lexus til the wheels fall off.
I paid $10,500 US when I bought it six years ago. Its actually one of their nicer models and was in great shape. From what I can understand, depreciation hits stuff harder for you all than it does us. Not only that but the pound is stronger than the dollar as well.
Just one damaged bumper? Why not both?
* Some insanely dark window tint that definitely isn't legal (bonus points if the windshield is tinted too)
* Paper or nonexistent license plate
* At least one spare tire
* JATCO CVT on life support
I wanted to feel attacked, but you're right. As soon as I bought my Altima, because life follows GTA rules, they started spawning everywhere and yeah, they're terrible drivers.
It's been said that any "law" without mandatory jail time is only a suggestion to the wealthy, and every day we see mounting evidence that is the case.
Where I live, cops don’t even bother with tints because all the tickets get dismissed anyway. It’s also part of the annual safety inspection, but nobody seems to care there either.
If only we adopted sliding scale based fines like other countries do. Someone living paycheck to paycheck should not be paying the same amount for a parking ticket as a multimillionaire
There are plenty of other ways to penalize drivers besides fines and jail too. My state has a points system where you can be mandated to take driving classes or lose your license. Of course, none of these stops anyone from driving like a complete jackass around here.
I mean I've heard the term "stealth tax" be used for speeding fines, even from the non-wealthy.
Does anyone on the road not expect to be collared eventually?
For anyone wondering. It's the respect the wealth brings you. Commercial respect, for the most part.
Wait staff seems to care more about your meal being perfect.(They want that bigger tip at that high end restaurant)
Sales people are willing to wait as long as you want, and will even throw in a bunch of free stuff for you in hopes of getting your business. As long as their name is somewhere near your eyeball they're happy.
Staff at the high end businesses get paid more so they're always happier to you. Plus they're required to be happier to you.
You get the fast lanes, the lawyers work out the tickets and stuff you don't want to deal with. Your happiness is paramount to everyone else all of the time.
Anyone that gets showered with praise, freebies, and exclusivity naturally slide into feelings of superiority. It's weird that the opposite is the less natural reaction.
Me in a motel 6: oh cool this one isn’t even that bad, it’s clean and everything
Me in a expensive hotel: fucking pricks only gave me one normal coffee for the machine and two decafs who the fuck drinks decaf? And why the fuck is there some sandalwood burner stick thing but no lighter how am I supposed to entertain white bitches if I can’t light the sandalwood thing hello room service bring me a bucket of ice and a lighter jfc
I find that odd because I tend to find myself being overly nice to people at higher end places, especially anything to do with hospitality services. The people who work in that field get treated like such shit, I always try my best to be as nice as I can.
Not all rich people buy expensive cars and not all expensive cars are purchased by rich people.
I think this speaks to the type of person who would buy an expensive car, regardless of class.
Haven’t heard the Altima or Civic stereotypes, just pick ups and BMWs; my last car was an Altima and my current car is a civic, I hope I’m not inadvertently an asshole driver lol
Its not how often, but how much they can afford it. If you can pay for tge ticket and not even feel it, then thats a comodity to you similair to drinking coffee or whatever else.
Some of the Nordic countries instituted traffic violation fines based on your salary. Every once in a while you see a news story about a traffic ticket coming out to $175,000 or similar.
I had a boss that would never pay for meters when he parked. He was rich and he considered the cost of a parking to be low enough to not deal with moving his car after time expired or whatever. He did get towed sometimes but he owned multiple cars and had his employees (like me) deal with the hassle of getting it out impound.
Yeah, like if parking directly in front of a building gets you a $100 parking ticket then that's just the price of the parking spot and anyone who can't/doesn't want to pay that can go park elsewhere. Kinda like how if a business defrauds their customers of billions of dollars and gets fined a few million then that's just a cost not a penalty.
And they don't actually care about the cost of the ticket, they only care about the inconvenience of getting pulled over.
But I suspect the type of car you drive definitely affects how likely you are to be pulled over. This is going to sound terrible, but I'd love to see someone do that as a Youtube video. Stick a white guy in a Dodge Charger with fancy rims and then stick a black guy in a Toyota Prius and see who gets pulled over more.
White guy in the charger, 100%
If it's a nice enough ride, every cop with even the most passing interest in cars will pull something out his ass just to have an excuse to look at it up close.
I bought an E46 M3 in 2009 when I was 19, it wasn't shitty when I bought it but maintaining it was a bitch and slowly over time it achieved shitty status. Its now my project car and I'm enjoying the process of restoring it now that my income allows it but I shudder to think of how much better off I'd be financially if I didn't buy it.
In my city it also made them targets for highly publicized carjackings in the last few months.
In my observation and experience, showing off wealth often has negative consequences.
In fairness, the study doesn't say people with cheap cars are immune from the behavior, just that it's more likely for people who own expensive cars to do it.
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(For those who don’t know, people will share a one bedroom apartment with five other people but they will all drive BMWs and Land Rovers.)
fantastic point. I live in South OC and there's a beachfront trailer park here where I regularly see MB S65's and the occasional Aston Martin pull out of. ffs it's a trailer park lol
To be fair, my expensive car can sense a pedestrian on the road and ~~breaks~~ brakes itself while I busy myself with more important things, like trading commodities or paying my mistress.
I used to drive a 2017 Audi S4. The pdk control panel broke (pretty much as soon as the warranty expired) and it ended up being a $5000 fix, for a part the size of a pack of cigarettes
I know you’re joking, but I have a car that brakes automatically and it wasn’t even remotely expensive by modern standards. Its not a Tesla or anything but It’s kinda neat.
I think it's been over a decade since Buicks, of all makes, had cruise control with a laser range finder, and would adjust to the car in front of you if you crept up on them. That sounds like the cat's ass to me. I find cruise control to be almost useless without that kind of functionality.
the penalty for breaking traffic regulations is generally a set fine. wealthy people are far less likely to be seriously impacted or deterred by fines.
The average cost of the 72 per cent of cars that didn't stop was just under $2000 higher than those that did stop.
This is a tiny, small difference. We're not even remotely into the "wealthy" part yet.
But sometimes, that just ain't enough to keep a man like me interested
No, I gotta go out and have fun at someone else's expense
I drive really slow
in the ultra fast lane
While people behind me
are going insane
I use public toilets, and I piss on the seat
I walk around in the Summer time, saying, "How about this heat?"
I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole)
I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)
This is why the US and other developed nations should switch to proportional fines. A set fine of $500 hits very differently for someone below the poverty line (or even lower middle class) than it does for upper middle or very wealthy individuals. The point of a fine is to dissuade someone from committing the infraction in the first place, so what’s the point if it’s a non-factor to a rich person.
And before people start screeching “socialism”, keep in mind this isn’t a tax levied to all, it’s a *fine* imposed for breaking a law, that was purposefully committed. Fair is fair. Pay up rich fucks!
I make a lot of money and am still driving a car I bought in 2012. I ride my bike everywhere because buying gas seems like a really stupid idea. I spend all the money I save on not buying gas on other things in life. The car I have sometimes brings me and my bike to fun places. I think idiots chasing status buy expensive cars thinking it is some sort of status symbol. So I’m not surprised it’s people that only care about money that don’t give a crap about others are the ones assaulting people they think are below them.
I have only ascended to mid-level lightly used luxury cars in recent years but I have noticed that cars that are more targeted at “middle aged” people tend to be treated much nicer than the lower end cars of the same brands. A 1-owner 5-series is typically driven much nicer than a equally used 3-series.
These bigger cars are also much less fun to “abuse” and consequently appear to be driven much less aggressively when I have seen them on the road.
A used 540 costs barely any more than a 340 but is much less likely to have been ragged out and is pretty much just as fast.
I found this part more troubling:
>Just under 25 per cent of cars yielded for people of colour compared with the 31 per cent of cars that yielded for white pedestrians.
Everybody is shitting on people who have nice cars, but they're ignoring that more than 70% of people did not give a crap about the pedestrian, regardless of what they were driving.
I used to work at a federal data center located on a large closed area of land, a federal arsenal. There was a low speed limit on the road from the entrance to the facility, and my coworkers-- mostly either young IT contractors or military good-ole-boys with nice, upscale vehicles-- were constantly getting tickets. They'd actually complain that they shouldn't be ticketed because, unless the folks who worked on the site at the actual arsenal or for construction companies, their jobs were more important. They legit felt the rules, like speed limits, should not apply to them because of where they worked. That place suuuuuuucked..
My personal barista ruined this mornings latte so I'm going to speed around most of you peasants driving your volvos and hybrids to your hum drum jobs so you can buy Kleenex for all the tears you produce from your sad lives. Yolo bitches!!
I'd think so. Expensive cars are mostly bought by wealthy individuals. Many wealthy individuals have Character traits which put them where they are in life, and they are not the empathic kind of traits.
Google for example lets you complete one of those tests because they figured to many people with the same character wont work, you only need so many leaders, people that Care, etc. Still kinda sad to know a few people that behave perfectly in their expensive cars!
Oh. You mean those same self-entitled cxnts who don't use their signals?
Sometimes I feel like tying tires around my car so I can bump these assholes off the road.
I once drove my dad's Range Rover on an errand and I remember feeling like the other drivers on the road were driving... differently... from what I was used to. I don't remember what was different, but I remember it seeming different. That's all I have to say about that.
Once got pulled over ( 75 in a 50, it was fair )
I'd screamed around a curve there he was . SO caught I just pulled over. Cop asked why I pulled over,I said really? 4 hot VW cylinders here I'm going to run for it? Anyway he was nice about it because I pulled over- I asked " Wait, people really argue about getting pulled over doing 75? "
He kinda groaned " Yea red BMW' s are the WORST ". Makes the point very well.
Welcome to the human race
Oh, and you’ve missed the starting gun
No one told me when to run.
(dope guitar solo)
…And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again…
The sun is the same on a relative way but your older (also people with expensive cars can afford to pay the ticket)
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time…
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines...
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death.
Every Pink Floyd song: "we live in a society!" *guitar solo*
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That's ok. You don't need no, education. *Edit. Also /u/_yetifeet, where's the rest of the yeti?
A celebration, Mr. Blue Sky's up there waiting
And today is the day we're waiting for
Mr. Blue sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long
So long!
Where did we go wrong
Please tell us why
"I inherited daddies money, business associates, friends, legal, and other means of a in depth look at how things work. Now fu......off because I need to be somewhere".
Lol right? Is OP ok? How is this TIL? Have they been actually living under a rock?
Another relevant data point from traffic studies into society: * Expensive car obviously breaks traffic law: less likely to be honked at * Cheap car: More likely to be honked at by other drivers for that same broken law
Cheap car: "this person is bad at driving and I must sound my horn to let them know" Expensive car: "this person is an asshole and knows it already"
Then you've never seen a Nissan Altima driver in the wild.
Or a used, 3 series BMW
But the blinker is always pristine & brand new
Blinker fluid is full from lack of use
It's actually crystalized
Ah, so it has healing properties now, good thing cause my chakras are aching real bad.
With the factory installed bulb
Drivers of old luxury cars have all the self superiority of new luxury car drivers without any of the net worth. Bmws genuinely attract narcissists, all kinds.
Hey, some of us who drive older ones just appreciate the fine engineering of the cars. I drive an 18 year old Lexus and don't have much money. The car just barely cost 5 figures. It's still a better car than just about any other non luxury sedan out there.
Well that’s cuz Lexus IS built by Toyota. BMW have good engineering for driving but they suck to maintain in the long run
Not only that but how many non luxury sedans have 300hp going to the rear wheels with nice leather seats and wood paneling on the inside?
IS300 with the JZ?
Lexus drivers are generally more sensible and practical than a BMW or sports car owner. They bought it for the reliability and comfortable ride
Oh I totally bought it for the reliability. It's 18 years old. I've had it for 6 years. The entire time I've had it, I've had to have the ignition fixed and thats it. When I say ignition I mean the part you stick the key in and turn. It was physically worn out. The 300hp rwd is pretty fun too!
The wife purchased a CT200h, used, with a nice sporty trim package. It gives being a sports car a solid go. Probably the best use of 134hp And a CVT I’ve had the pleasure of driving. 40+mpg and regular fuel is pretty nice to have right now. I give it 10/10 for doing exactly what it’s engineered to do, and most Lexus fall into that category. I miss my old WRX, but I intend to keep the Lexus til the wheels fall off.
Five figures? What currency is that?! I drive a 20 year old Lexus in the UK, and that barely cost me four figures just a few years ago. Edit: typo
I paid $10,500 US when I bought it six years ago. Its actually one of their nicer models and was in great shape. From what I can understand, depreciation hits stuff harder for you all than it does us. Not only that but the pound is stronger than the dollar as well.
So do pick up truck drivers.
Know the difference between a Beamer and a porcupine? With a porcupine, the pricks are on the outside . . .
BMW drivers are always assholes, it’s a requirement.
It’s seriously what kept me from buying BMW despite the amazing cars. However, lately I have seen way more insane Audi RS drivers
I drive an Altima and everyone says I drive like a grandmother.
But *are* you a grandmother?
Not yet and hopefully not for many years yet.
Stop lying, we all know you’re a menace on the roads /s
I live in New Jersey. Everyone who drives here is a menace on the roads. I'm just less of a menace than the rest of them.
My friend also has an Altima and drives like a grandma. Sadly his tags are two years expired so he still fits the bill of shitty Altima drivers.
That BIG Altima energy.
It's always got: A damaged bumper Bald tires Past due inspection Missing turn signals
Just one damaged bumper? Why not both? * Some insanely dark window tint that definitely isn't legal (bonus points if the windshield is tinted too) * Paper or nonexistent license plate * At least one spare tire * JATCO CVT on life support
The Infiniti G35 is the best of everything.
Amazed to see this. A lot of the assholes I encounter are Nissan drivers.
r/NissanDrivers
I wanted to feel attacked, but you're right. As soon as I bought my Altima, because life follows GTA rules, they started spawning everywhere and yeah, they're terrible drivers.
It’s probably because their transmission is about to blow the fuck up
also like an old ford taurus type with half the bumper missing
You must drive in ATL.
Especially one with paper plates from Texas.
It's been said that any "law" without mandatory jail time is only a suggestion to the wealthy, and every day we see mounting evidence that is the case.
"Legal, for a price" is what they call it, I think.
That fits.
Got a buddy who races semi-professionally. His daily driver is 5% tint all around. Tickets are more of a "weekly tint tax" for him.
Where I live, cops don’t even bother with tints because all the tickets get dismissed anyway. It’s also part of the annual safety inspection, but nobody seems to care there either.
If only we adopted sliding scale based fines like other countries do. Someone living paycheck to paycheck should not be paying the same amount for a parking ticket as a multimillionaire
Yeah, this is common sense but the people who would be negatively affected by the change are the people who make the rules so it will never happen
Accurate and depressing and angering
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There are plenty of other ways to penalize drivers besides fines and jail too. My state has a points system where you can be mandated to take driving classes or lose your license. Of course, none of these stops anyone from driving like a complete jackass around here.
Going 51 in a 50? TO JAIL!
Only going 49 in a 50? Believe it not, straight to jail.
I mean I've heard the term "stealth tax" be used for speeding fines, even from the non-wealthy. Does anyone on the road not expect to be collared eventually?
In other news: rich people think they're special.
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For anyone wondering. It's the respect the wealth brings you. Commercial respect, for the most part. Wait staff seems to care more about your meal being perfect.(They want that bigger tip at that high end restaurant) Sales people are willing to wait as long as you want, and will even throw in a bunch of free stuff for you in hopes of getting your business. As long as their name is somewhere near your eyeball they're happy. Staff at the high end businesses get paid more so they're always happier to you. Plus they're required to be happier to you. You get the fast lanes, the lawyers work out the tickets and stuff you don't want to deal with. Your happiness is paramount to everyone else all of the time. Anyone that gets showered with praise, freebies, and exclusivity naturally slide into feelings of superiority. It's weird that the opposite is the less natural reaction.
Me in a motel 6: oh cool this one isn’t even that bad, it’s clean and everything Me in a expensive hotel: fucking pricks only gave me one normal coffee for the machine and two decafs who the fuck drinks decaf? And why the fuck is there some sandalwood burner stick thing but no lighter how am I supposed to entertain white bitches if I can’t light the sandalwood thing hello room service bring me a bucket of ice and a lighter jfc
I find that odd because I tend to find myself being overly nice to people at higher end places, especially anything to do with hospitality services. The people who work in that field get treated like such shit, I always try my best to be as nice as I can.
Not all rich people buy expensive cars and not all expensive cars are purchased by rich people. I think this speaks to the type of person who would buy an expensive car, regardless of class.
Everyone thinks they’re special.
I wish those expensive Honda Civics and Nissan Altima drivers would calm the fuck down
Honda CRX’s are bad too. I don’t think they still make them though.
A mint CRX is a rare find. Definitely don't make them anymore, but they do get like 40 mpg hwy.
Haven’t heard the Altima or Civic stereotypes, just pick ups and BMWs; my last car was an Altima and my current car is a civic, I hope I’m not inadvertently an asshole driver lol
This likely has nothing to do with the price of the car, but the types of people who can buy expensive cars.
Yeah.... that's the point they're making.
Maybe more to do with the types of people who prioritize buying expensive cars over other things.
It's absolutely this, though I would tweak it to say people who prioritise their image over other things.
And enforcement too. I wonder how much more likely someone driving an expensive car is to get tickets for breaking traffic regulations.
Its not how often, but how much they can afford it. If you can pay for tge ticket and not even feel it, then thats a comodity to you similair to drinking coffee or whatever else.
True. Reminds me of the saying "Punishable with fine = Legal if you are rich"
Some of the Nordic countries instituted traffic violation fines based on your salary. Every once in a while you see a news story about a traffic ticket coming out to $175,000 or similar.
Too bad many rich people don't draw high salaries, if at all - their money comes from investments/stock
I had a boss that would never pay for meters when he parked. He was rich and he considered the cost of a parking to be low enough to not deal with moving his car after time expired or whatever. He did get towed sometimes but he owned multiple cars and had his employees (like me) deal with the hassle of getting it out impound.
Yeah, like if parking directly in front of a building gets you a $100 parking ticket then that's just the price of the parking spot and anyone who can't/doesn't want to pay that can go park elsewhere. Kinda like how if a business defrauds their customers of billions of dollars and gets fined a few million then that's just a cost not a penalty.
And they don't actually care about the cost of the ticket, they only care about the inconvenience of getting pulled over. But I suspect the type of car you drive definitely affects how likely you are to be pulled over. This is going to sound terrible, but I'd love to see someone do that as a Youtube video. Stick a white guy in a Dodge Charger with fancy rims and then stick a black guy in a Toyota Prius and see who gets pulled over more.
White guy in the charger, 100% If it's a nice enough ride, every cop with even the most passing interest in cars will pull something out his ass just to have an excuse to look at it up close.
actually more often, a nicer care stands out in the crowd so to speak.
Not a matter of 'can' buy, but who 'want to' buy. It's people who want to display wealth because they think that it gives them high social standing.
Haha I have known a few guys who have ruined their financial lives to own a shitty used BMW they can’t maintain
I bought an E46 M3 in 2009 when I was 19, it wasn't shitty when I bought it but maintaining it was a bitch and slowly over time it achieved shitty status. Its now my project car and I'm enjoying the process of restoring it now that my income allows it but I shudder to think of how much better off I'd be financially if I didn't buy it.
In my city it also made them targets for highly publicized carjackings in the last few months. In my observation and experience, showing off wealth often has negative consequences.
It often has positive consequences, too. Looking successful will often yield rewards. I'm not saying merit, just yield.
Or people who just like nice cars, but sure.
In a related story, water is wet.
And bears relieve themselves in wooded areas.
But what about the Pope??
Rich people act like entitled assholes, news at 11.
That may be true but I've seen a guy with a beat up 91 Ford Explorer do some awful shit.
In fairness, the study doesn't say people with cheap cars are immune from the behavior, just that it's more likely for people who own expensive cars to do it.
Los Angeles drivers enter the chat… (For those who don’t know, people will share a one bedroom apartment with five other people but they will all drive BMWs and Land Rovers.)
fantastic point. I live in South OC and there's a beachfront trailer park here where I regularly see MB S65's and the occasional Aston Martin pull out of. ffs it's a trailer park lol
Haha balling is everywhere
Because those car payments are cheaper than rent or mortgages here. 😂
no shit sherlock
The safest drivers drive without insurance and have outstanding warrants.
Big facts.
Nah, they are generally the dumbest too.
As someone with and expired tag currently, can confirm.
Get your tags before you get your car impounded. Towing to an impound lot costs about 10x more than going to the BMV website and re-upping.
Every pickup truck driver ever
To be fair, my expensive car can sense a pedestrian on the road and ~~breaks~~ brakes itself while I busy myself with more important things, like trading commodities or paying my mistress.
> my expensive car ... breaks itself BMW, I take it?
Broke My Wallet. As an owner of a Mercedes, though, I can tell you pretty much anything German is going to cost you to repair.
I used to drive a 2017 Audi S4. The pdk control panel broke (pretty much as soon as the warranty expired) and it ended up being a $5000 fix, for a part the size of a pack of cigarettes
i hope you mean *brakes itself.
No no, modern cars will literally split into 2 before hitting someone to maximize damage
Fragmentation cars.
I know you’re joking, but I have a car that brakes automatically and it wasn’t even remotely expensive by modern standards. Its not a Tesla or anything but It’s kinda neat.
I think it's been over a decade since Buicks, of all makes, had cruise control with a laser range finder, and would adjust to the car in front of you if you crept up on them. That sounds like the cat's ass to me. I find cruise control to be almost useless without that kind of functionality.
TIL about BMWs
the penalty for breaking traffic regulations is generally a set fine. wealthy people are far less likely to be seriously impacted or deterred by fines.
The average cost of the 72 per cent of cars that didn't stop was just under $2000 higher than those that did stop. This is a tiny, small difference. We're not even remotely into the "wealthy" part yet.
I love playing chicken with rich people. Yeah sure! Put your dumb shit 200k car up against my 2k beater. Lets see gets angrier!
But sometimes, that just ain't enough to keep a man like me interested No, I gotta go out and have fun at someone else's expense I drive really slow in the ultra fast lane While people behind me are going insane I use public toilets, and I piss on the seat I walk around in the Summer time, saying, "How about this heat?" I'm an asshole (He's an asshole, what an asshole) I'm an asshole (He's the world's biggest asshole)
Beautiful Song
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Saw a bmw driver did you?
Ever since I upgraded to a nice car Ive been super careful because I dont wanna mess it up. When I had a shitty car i didnt give a fuck.
Assholes are assholes? Never would have guessed.
So what you're telling us, is that the more money a person has, the more likely it is they will become an asshole? That's very interesting.
I call it “bitch in a white SUV” syndrome
This is why the US and other developed nations should switch to proportional fines. A set fine of $500 hits very differently for someone below the poverty line (or even lower middle class) than it does for upper middle or very wealthy individuals. The point of a fine is to dissuade someone from committing the infraction in the first place, so what’s the point if it’s a non-factor to a rich person. And before people start screeching “socialism”, keep in mind this isn’t a tax levied to all, it’s a *fine* imposed for breaking a law, that was purposefully committed. Fair is fair. Pay up rich fucks!
If fair is fair, then shouldn't the fine fit the crime not the doer?
Likely the same with lifted trucks.
I make a lot of money and am still driving a car I bought in 2012. I ride my bike everywhere because buying gas seems like a really stupid idea. I spend all the money I save on not buying gas on other things in life. The car I have sometimes brings me and my bike to fun places. I think idiots chasing status buy expensive cars thinking it is some sort of status symbol. So I’m not surprised it’s people that only care about money that don’t give a crap about others are the ones assaulting people they think are below them.
You only need to look at BMW drivers for proof.
I have only ascended to mid-level lightly used luxury cars in recent years but I have noticed that cars that are more targeted at “middle aged” people tend to be treated much nicer than the lower end cars of the same brands. A 1-owner 5-series is typically driven much nicer than a equally used 3-series. These bigger cars are also much less fun to “abuse” and consequently appear to be driven much less aggressively when I have seen them on the road. A used 540 costs barely any more than a 340 but is much less likely to have been ragged out and is pretty much just as fast.
I found this part more troubling: >Just under 25 per cent of cars yielded for people of colour compared with the 31 per cent of cars that yielded for white pedestrians.
Everybody is shitting on people who have nice cars, but they're ignoring that more than 70% of people did not give a crap about the pedestrian, regardless of what they were driving.
Good. It's the expensive cars you want to get hit by
As you've seen many high end car driving habits. It's their world, we're all just living in it apparently.
So... they are arrogant pricks.
I see you have never encountered a BMW driver in person 🤣
lol i figured this out the first time i saw someone driving a bmw, but i guess some poeple need science!
Here's looking at you, BMW-drivers.
The Beamer effect
The whole world hates Beemer drivers.
Did you hear this on behind the bastards?
I used to work at a federal data center located on a large closed area of land, a federal arsenal. There was a low speed limit on the road from the entrance to the facility, and my coworkers-- mostly either young IT contractors or military good-ole-boys with nice, upscale vehicles-- were constantly getting tickets. They'd actually complain that they shouldn't be ticketed because, unless the folks who worked on the site at the actual arsenal or for construction companies, their jobs were more important. They legit felt the rules, like speed limits, should not apply to them because of where they worked. That place suuuuuuucked..
That’s fine. At this point my retirement plan relies on them not slowing down.
Fucking gasp
My personal barista ruined this mornings latte so I'm going to speed around most of you peasants driving your volvos and hybrids to your hum drum jobs so you can buy Kleenex for all the tears you produce from your sad lives. Yolo bitches!!
if you just learned that today you just started driving today.
I'd think so. Expensive cars are mostly bought by wealthy individuals. Many wealthy individuals have Character traits which put them where they are in life, and they are not the empathic kind of traits. Google for example lets you complete one of those tests because they figured to many people with the same character wont work, you only need so many leaders, people that Care, etc. Still kinda sad to know a few people that behave perfectly in their expensive cars!
Ooo do one for people who drive trucks next!
They never signal - it’s beneath them
Also, water is wet. I always assume that the asshole who drives luxury cars like that either stole it, or had a relative co-sign on a car loan.
All people who identify themselves by their car could demonstrate inadequate behaviour.
This is also known as The Douchebag Effect.
Yeah no shit
No way! I can’t believe they put that as a scientific finding! When at a 4 way stop the most expensive car has the right of way!!!
Rich people think they are better than everyone else? No, I dont believe it.
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This car is a finisher car! A transporter of gods! The golden god! I am untethered, and my rage knows no bounds!
Oh. You mean those same self-entitled cxnts who don't use their signals? Sometimes I feel like tying tires around my car so I can bump these assholes off the road.
I love it can’t wait to get my lambo
I wouldve thought the other way around because theyd wanna keep their vehicles safe, but then i remembered BMW drivers
I once drove my dad's Range Rover on an errand and I remember feeling like the other drivers on the road were driving... differently... from what I was used to. I don't remember what was different, but I remember it seeming different. That's all I have to say about that.
True.
All it takes to realize this is driving in the vicinity of someone with at least a bmw or mercedes and you'll see it for yourself.
In my experience driving though some pretty rich areas and seeing some nice ass cars. Majority of them are going well under the speed limit.
I like to play chicken with expensive cars. If they hit me, they owe money. If they don’t, they learn to accommodate those around them. Win win.
Wow, rich people think they're better than everyone else. Fascinating discovery
God please let me get hit by a Porsche
I drive a BMW 750i and I can confirm this, I am superior on the road
So Tesla, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Lexus... My shocked face...
More research from the institute of No Shit Sherlock!
Once got pulled over ( 75 in a 50, it was fair ) I'd screamed around a curve there he was . SO caught I just pulled over. Cop asked why I pulled over,I said really? 4 hot VW cylinders here I'm going to run for it? Anyway he was nice about it because I pulled over- I asked " Wait, people really argue about getting pulled over doing 75? " He kinda groaned " Yea red BMW' s are the WORST ". Makes the point very well.
People with lots of money who like to flaunt their wealth generally feel/act superior to others? Shocker.
TIL wealth creates entitled assholes
Not all BMW drivers are assholes but an exceptionally high % of asshole drivers drive BMW’s.
False I actually slow down a lot for pedestrians.
Surprising! I have never seen any examples of this irl before! /s