What kind of driver are you?

Though, actually, I'm not a full auto-bahner. I rarely drive that much over the limit (typically ten MPH at most) unless I'm way out in the middle of nowhere (like back roads in Nevada), and I get a speeding ticket about once every five years or so. But I've never used a radar detector, either, which probably would have helped.

I never accept a red rental car, though. I think they're cop bait. I also avoid the left lane except for passing. I've only gotten one speeding ticket in the right lane (back in '99). I think that cops look for speeders in the left lane.

I recall one incident many years ago, when I was going up to Princeton from DC for Gerry O'Neill's funeral, with another spacer (who was an early L-5 member, but shall remain nameless to protect the guilty) in his rental car. He was a left laner, and I told him repeatedly that he was asking for a ticket, particularly since we were in Maryland, which is notorious in regard to ticketing speeders. Sure enough, he got pulled over.

I also recall seeing another space enthusiast passing us, and laughing when he saw who just got pulled over. Not to mention chiding him after the service. I accepted no responsibility whatsoever. I'd warned him.

Gee, I guess I'm an autobahner, except for the part about driving after drinking, which I never do.

It's weird how speeds on the highway, at least in California, have risen. I drive 80 on the 405 and 5 (during the 3 hours a day they're not parking lots, that is), and this is pretty standard. Plenty of folks pass me going faster, and not many are going slower. Then the 5 north of Bakersfield is positively nuts -- you can drive 90 and be just going with the flow. Zowie. It's curiously different from twenty years ago, when going over 65 was considered pretty daring.

Auto-nomous.

Me and my honkin' big F-150 SuperCrew suckin' down the go-juice and rollin' up the occasional pretentious hybrid hippie. Yeehaw! Crank up the Toby Keith!

I'm the person that usually passes the 'Auto-Bahner"'s so what does that make me?

IMO, most people seem to drive like dyslexic retards with the reaction times of sloths.

I usually drive nothing but red cars. I mostly drive in the left lane, since I'm passing everyone anyways. Last time I got a ticket was about 4 years ago *knocks on formica*.

Cops usually hide just over hills or around the curving bends in the highway. They have this mindset that if you couldn't slow down fast enough to evade speeding detection then you couldn't slow down fast enough to avoid a stalled car in the road. Just slow down before you reach the crest of a hill or curve, check for all clear, and then proceed onward.

I'm going to try and reform my reckless ways by joining a road course club to bleed off my speeding urges. One group I have been looking at joining is NASA. Not the space jockey NASA but the National Auto Sport Association. They have events for normal people with vanilla street cars. *Shhhh* People even regularly bring rental fleet cars out to run around the course.

I'm looking into getting a Subaru Legacy GT to compete with. Something about standing on the gas and doing AWD power slides through the apex of a turn just stirs my soul and puts puddin' in my pants.

I'm an Auto Bahner(I drive too fast, I don't drink) I own a 2006 black Subaru Imprezza STI with the "arrest me" wing removed and all external STI badges replaced with stock WRX badges.
Something nice about a normal looking sedan
that can smoke most corvettes.

I've gotten 1 speeding ticket in the last three years. On long trips into the desert I've driven it insanely fast. The STI is very impressive it is clearly capable of more performance than I am willing to do. It also does amazingly well on dirt. The car is amazing a 135 MPH blowout was a non-event.

Woohoo! Subaru FTW!

I see I have some fellow-travellers here.

I drive a Subaru wagon because it's practical and economical. And because it takes off from the lights like a gazelle, can swallow four adults and a ton of luggage, is compact and easy to park, is smooth and comfortable on long trips, demands to be thrown at corners in the mountains (which NZ mostly is), can tow big things, laughs at mud and snow and torrential rain, and gets over 30 mpg. The unobtrusive ABS, climate aircon and factory standard leather-covered wood Momo steering wheel don't hurt either. But best of all, it doesn't annoy me even with 200,000 km on the clock, which is something that few cars I've driven can claim.

I guess I'm either auto-matic or auto-nomous -- I drive my truck because I like driving my truck, but it's a rugged truck.

My wife is definitely auto-pragmatic; she has been a Honda aficionado for years and has talked about getting a hybrid, or a diesel to use biodiesel, or looking forward to the advent of "E85" fuels.

Oh, and while there was a time when I was getting speeding tickets fairly regularly, my last one was eleven years ago.

<knocks on wood>

Ow.

I don't fit any of the categories.

I drive no more than 5 over, unless passing.
I complain about people who pass on the right, drive slow on the left, and tailgate when they can go around.
I complain about gas prices.
I drive a Honda S2000.
I don't drink and drive.
I prefer a car that is simple, convenient, and safe, but because I don't like stopping and paying gas prices not because of some abstract fear of mankind's effect on earth.

I'm probably close to Auto-Pilot, but I only prefer the passenger seat over listening to my wife complain about my driving on long trips. Otherwise, I rather drive and be behind the wheel.

I'm pretty sure all that really means is I am a man.

When my son was 25, his car was not only red, it was a mid-70s Nova. Jacked up, mag wheels, no front bumper, and he used the cam, four barrel and glasspacks instead of a horn to get people out of his way. He only got one ticket that entire year, and that was being impatient leaving a construction delay. How'd he manage this? Paying attention.

Guess it also depends on location. I-66 heading into DC from Manassas is 55 mph. I routinely set cruise-control at 67-68 and stay in the 2nd lane from the left. I am also passed on BOTH sides by cars doing 80-85. On the 55 mph roads, as long as you keep it under 70, the cops usually leave you alone.

Now - the stretch of I-95 between that construction abortion called the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Springfield can get REAL exciting. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, gets the pucker-factor up to 11 when you are doing 85 JUST TO KEEP UP WITH TRAFFIC and 18-wheelers are passing you (on both sides) like you are putzing along at 40.

"Damnation Alley" aka Jersey Turnpike can be fun as well.

I love cruisin' around in my 20mpg Grand Marquis, just enjoying the view. I guess that makes me an auto-nomic, or a road hazard at least.