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%%* Rachel and Phoebe from ''Series/{{Friends}}''.

* ''Series/{{Batwoman|2019}}'': as shown on Season 3, Alice really sure like to drive especially driving the titular character Batmobile, no wonder both Ryan and Mary don't want to take a ride with her.

* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': Teenagers Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass are chronic offenders of this trip. More surprisingly, Miss Brooks usually is as well. A running gag has her telling Mrs. Davis why she can't drive her car. Often enough it's in the shop. However, there are ''many'' occasions where Miss Brooks is to blame after having proved herself a stereotypical [[WomenDrivers woman driver]]. In "Trial By Jury", Miss Brooks goes to court to fight a charge of reckless driving after her car crashes into a fruit stand.

* In TheSeventies action series ''Series/TheProfessionals'', Bodie and Doyle can't drive a car without squealing tires, or do a U-turn without using the handbrake. Eventually even the series started poking fun at it. In the episode "Blackout" a country policeman has to pedal off on his bicycle to get hold of a witness for [=CI5=], and gripes that: "They probably expect me to jump in my high-powered motor and go screaming around corners, tires screeching like on television!"

** In "Dead Run", the trucker Johnny Davis is a reckless driver who has gotten into four accidents in two years and can no longer get any insurance company to take a risk on him. His fellow trucker Pete gets him a job as one of the truckers who drive the condemned to {{Hell}}.
** In "Nightsong", Simon Locke's tendency to drive recklessly resulted in him being killed in 1981 when he drove his motorcycle over a cliff. He had been going much too fast because he needed to clear his head as he was afraid of success and his relationship with Andrea Fields becoming serious.
** In "The Crossing", Mark Cassidy's girlfriend Kelly was killed because of his careless driving. He is still haunted by the experience more than 20 years later.

* ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'': According to Claudia, Artie is this. This is an interesting variation, because in this case it's the energetic, younger character making the comment toward the less-energetic, older character instead of the vice-versa that normally happens.

-->'''Crowley:''' Why not?

* Pete Malloy seems to think this of Jim Reed on ''Series/AdamTwelve''. In "Vice Versa", Pete let his license expire, so Jim has to drive. Pete spends the episode nagging Jim as Jim does seem to take a few more risks than Pete. Not anything illegal, though.

** The Doctor in pretty much every incarnation, and it's only ''somewhat'' mitigated by them being a CrewOfOne for a six-person ship. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels When]] River corrected Eleven on the controls to level out flying and minimize sounds (largely by ''taking off the parking brake'', or [[TheGadfly so she claimed]][[labelnote:*]]confirmed by WordOfGod that she was pulling his leg on the brakes claim; the scene was written because the episode was underrunning[[/labelnote]]), he complained that he liked it better the original way. Of course, as noted in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife "The Doctor's Wife"]], it's an uphill struggle trying to get the TARDIS where the Doctor wants to go rather than where ''she'' wants to go.
*** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode "The Shakespeare Code"]], when Martha asks if passing a test is necessary to fly the TARDIS, the Doctor replies yes, and that he failed.

* ''[[Series/CanadasWorstDriver Canada's Worst Driver's]]'' entire premise revolves around this, as all of the drivers do things such as speeding, road raging, being distracted at the wheel, ignoring signs and traffic lights, driving while drunk, texting while driving, and much more.

* ''Series/{{Batwoman|2019}}'': as shown on Season 3, Alice really sure like drive especially driving the titular character Batmobile, no wonder both Ryan and Mary don't want to take a ride with her.

** As the police commissioner, Frank hasn't driven himself in years.

** Averted by Jamie, who drove himself to and from law school for years without a hitch. Naturally, it's him who Nicky opts to learn from.