Driving in TV Shows

[Rii]

"But I hate it in old American films when the drivers don't watch the road."

This only happened in American films?

It's a line from the character depicted in my avatar. The English subs are incorrect, obviously catering to American sensibilities.

 

[Orac Zen]

I thought this was going to be a rant about how fake the scenery outside of the car windows looks in TV shows. They've fixed this somewhat in recent years, but it was distractingly bad pretty much since the dawn of TV.

Yes, and it's quite normal for the scenery to bounce up and down and / or repeat itself every few minutes.

I was thinking this would be a rant about how the driver sometimes doesn't look at the road for minutes at a time in some TV conversations.

Yes, because it's perfectly normal and safe to spend more time looking at the person(s) in the passenger and / or back seats than at the road.

I thought this was going to be a rant about how the driver always uses the steering wheel as if he's driving through a slalom course when the car is in fact on a perfectly straight road (according to the heavily matted bluescreen).

Yeah, what could be more natural-looking than that?

I think it's funny how TV/movie characters never wear their seatbelts, except when they're in an accident, and then, they're trapped in the car (usually on fire or submerged) and seem to have completely forgotten how a seatbelt works. Dude, you just press the button! It doesn't matter how hard you tug at it if you don't press the button! (The 1st X-Men movie has a really good example of this early on.)

Yeah, being in a car accident isn't much fun but unless one is unconscious it still should be possible to have enough of a grip to be able to undo a seat belt.