Comments | kremmen: Camry

kremmen

Camry

Jan 20, 2010 15:13

There was a time when the car to buy if you wanted to feel safe, regardless of your driving ability or attention span, was a Volvo. We all experienced the reality behind the stereotype, the Volvo drivers merging without looking, dawdling in the fast lane, turning without indicating, etc, etc. The Volvo drivers appear to have moved on. The Toyota ( Read more... )

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possbert January 20 2010, 08:37:13 UTC

I thought Volvo drivers had graduated to BMWs.

mexicanjewlizrd January 21 2010, 02:05:17 UTC

The problem with the result from your observations is proportion.

That is, there are a comparatively small number of Volvos on the road (compared to toyota, ford or holden). So, it becomes easier to generalise.

There are a LOT of Toyotas. And a LOT of them are Camrys. Even if there are a lot of a bad Camry drivers, proportionally it probably isn't statistically significant.

kremmen January 21 2010, 02:21:37 UTC

This depends on which significance you are looking for. I'm not suggesting that all Camry drivers are bad, just that a majority of drivers who don't want to be distracted by the unnecessary complications of knowing how to drive are choosing a Camry.

On the way home from the airport, I saw only one (yes, amazing, but it was late at night) example of bad driving. Some idiot dawdling in the right lane of the freeway, such than even a cab flashed his headlights at him. Yep, a Camry.