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Description of situatio: Marge Simpson, the wife and a homemaker, is stuck in traffice and she is driving an SUV.
Description of Bad Driving Behavior: She gets frustrated and impatient waiting in traffic and drives off road. She drives though the park and other people's backyard and anything that gets in her way.
Description of situation: The bad guys are driving away from the good guys
Description of Bad Driving Behavior: The bad guys are trying to get away from the good guys and they are speeding on a busy road with side walks and side shops, like china town. And the bad guys are disregarding the safety of innocent bystander. They drive though fruit stands and garbage cans and some other stuffs.
Description of situation: The cops are chasing the bad guys.
Description of Bad Driving
Behavior: The bad guys are driving away from the cops and they run
red lights causing other cars to stop abruptly. Also they made a
fast U-turn in a not U-turn zone in heavy traffic.
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Description of situation: The Mother is drivng home from Taco Bells and the Taco Bell's mascot, the Chihuahua is chasing after her in a bus.
Description of Bad Driving Behavior: The mother is driving really fast. She makes turns with out slowing down and the dog is following the mother in a bus telling the driver to drive faster. They speed through residential zone without braking and the mother and the bus stop suddenly in front of her house.
Description of situation: The valet is getting in the car to park it and is asked to put it in a good spot.
Description of Bad Driving Behavior: As soon as the owner of the car leaves, the valet speeds away and he speed through the parking garage making truns with out signals and slowing down. When he gets to the roof, he jumped to the roof of a adjacent building in the car. Finally he makes the car spin in a 360 and somehow parallel parks it.
Description of situation: The commercial is in mostly animation. A gargoyle is chasing the truck.
Description of Bad Driving
Behavior: The truck is speeding to get away from the gargoyle.
And the truck drives up and down a wall and the gargoyle is following too
close and crashes into the wall. The truck finally makes a sudden
stop in front of a dark building.
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Description of situation: The bus cannot go under 50 mi/hr or it will explode.
Description of Bad Driving Behavior: In order to keep the speed of 50 mi/hr constantly, the bus speed. And when the bus encounters a traffic jam, it drives on the shoulder sideswiping all the car. Also the main character, Jack, tries to get on the bus from another car while both are going over 50. Jack maintains the same speed as the bus and leaps onto it. The whole movie is full of bad driving behavior, just hearing the title makes you guess what kind of drivng behavior is going to be on the movie.
Description of situation: The female character tris to escape from the bad guys.
Description of Bad Driving Behavior: The female character is in a limo with the bad guys and she tries to escape them through the sunroof. The male character tries to grab her from a helicopter. So the driver of the limo drives wildly to stop them. Like driving side to side on a bridge while planes are bombing the bridge.
Description of situation: The male character is trying to get away from the killer.
Description of Bad Driving Behavior: The male character gets way from the killer and tries to drive away. And when turns around he sees the killer behind the car and so he tries to run down the killer with the car. I would call that a bad driving behavior, trying to kill someone with your car.
The
Fifth Element
Day: Tuesday
Date: 4/13/99
Time: 11:30 pm
Channel/Network:
Video
Name of Program:
The Fifth Element
Type: Movie
Description of situation: The male character, who is a taxi driver, is tring get away from the authorities.
Description of Bad Driving
Behavior: This was a futuristic movie so the vehicles had no wheels,
they were floating. And the taxi driver flies really fast and goes
though bilboards. He also flies though other vehicles waiting for
the traffic light.