Crossovers
- Avenging Class: When MHXX drives a car, she goes at ludicrous speeds and swerves all over the place. She claims that she's an awesome driver because she never crashes, but anyone who rides with her gets rattled.
- Cross Cases: Dean Winchester, as a result of the Mark of Cain making him aggressive. When he drives Harry Dresden and Sam to the final showdown, he drives at least 15-20 miles (24-30 KPH) over the speed limit at all times, runs red lights and stop signs, turns so fast he brings the side wheels off the road, and generally makes Harry fear for his life, while Sam sways and rocks with the ride, entirely unfazed. When they get there, they reluctantly hand the car over to Bob, who noisily revs the car up... and then slooowly pulls away.
- Fate of the Clans: Some Servants have the Riding skill. Depending on its rank, they can drive a car even if it's their first time. Mordred has sufficient enough Riding, so she drove Tenkei, Yukari, and Sukuna. As for her driving, let's just say it wasn't great for Tenkei's health.
Tenkei: Fuck! Don't try to defy the laws of physics!
- Glorious Shotgun Princess: Commander Shepard weaponizes her notoriously terrifying driving for interrogation purposes to get Miranda to reveal her ties to Cerberus.
- Halloween Unspectacular 2: In the Underworld King arc, it's shown that both Harrison of the police force and David of the Nickhouse's private security force drive like this. However, it's because of this that they end up saving Spongebob's life through some accidental Car Fu against the Underworld King.
- Last Child of Krypton: Misato is very, very careless with traffic rules when she drives. In chapter 2 Shinji gets to personally experience what means traveling in her car:
"Uh, yeah, can I call you back? Misato's trying to kill us."
"I am not," Misato snapped as the car drifted out onto the highway, slammed the car into a lower gear, and gunned it. The car fishtailed a bit, and then straightened as its tiny four cylinder engine roared, a look of manic glee on the driver's face.
"You know what the best thing about a rental car is, Shinji?"
"No, what?"
"No car can accelerate quicker, corner harder, or go from reverse into drive at a higher speed!"
- Justice: Zoro is fittingly one, given that he has No Sense of Direction. The Straw Hats actually use this to there advantage by appointing him the getaway driver when they commit robberies so no one can track their route.
- Lovehammer Inc: Angron's attempt to ride a warbike led to him breaking both the warbike and both his legs. He did take out a lot of Orks in the process though.
- My Hero Playthrough: Hadou Nejire. When Izuku sees her driving towards him, he assumes she must be a criminal given how completely she is ignoring traffic laws. And Ami compares riding with Nejire to the Knight Bus.
- In Prodigy
James receives a letter stating that he's no longer allowed to operate emergency vehicles in the state of Illinois because he caused a hundred million dollars worth of property damage. With an ambulance. - Realm of Entwined Science and Sorcery — Academy City: Mash Kyrielight decides to drive the party to where Shuten Douji is, but she keeps flooring it, hitting things, and driving on the sidewalk. She is oblivious to everyone screaming at her to slow down and get off the sidewalk. By the time they arrive, all four tires have popped and the car is wrecked. Romani points out just because she has the Riding Skill, doesn't mean she knows how to drive safely.
- Running Blind has Gil Grissom drive his SUV like a madman (seventy-plus miles per hour) in an effort to evade Vlad's trio of ghost vultures. One of them manages to crash into (and phase through) his windshield long enough to ask where he learned to drive, and he explains it with "Drove a cab in LA during college". After all is said and done, a clearly amused Danny asks him if he's ever considered a second career with NASCAR.
- Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton, Shinji does not like when Misato drives him to somewhere because he is afraid of dying. Or at the very least vomiting. In chapter 17:
Normally, a ride in Misato's car was a hair raising experience for the Third Child, who didn't have the strongest stomach and had discovered that he had a genuine aversion to the idea of dying when the possibility of it started to actually seem real.
And that was when his guardian was just out for a leisurely Sunday drive or something. When she had to get somewhere as soon as possible—such as when she needed to get her two charges to NERV Headquarters so they could get into their Evangelions before an Angel bearing down on the city arrived—being a passenger in her car was a truly terrifying ordeal.
- Control:
- In the main fic, Yukari's infamously erratic driving is made even worse by the fact she's under the effects of drugs. Her hardened drug-dealer and his peer Kano are terrified by her 120-mph driving.
Three blocks ago, Kano had sworn off of alcohol and women forever in return for a chance to escape from the vehicle with his life. He hadn't been coordinated enough to fasten his seatbelt and presently remained in a fetal position on the back seat, screaming like a girl at the top of his lungs. Usually he took drugs to intensify his experience of life. The drugs gave his worldsensations that he simply go those other-worldly sensations while at the same time being in a real life, 120 mile-per-hour surge of vehicular energy was not in the least bit fun. It was terrifying.
- Highway to Hell gives us a rather harrowing description of what would happen if Yukari got to drive the van Tomo had arranged for.
In a lot of fan fiction, Buffy's inability to master driving a car safely is explained as the car's inability to handle a Slayer's reflexes. There are a lot of stories out there wherein Buffy is placed behind the wheel of a high-performance pasta rocket and suddenly is driving as if she has the skills of Mario Andretti and Emerson Fittipaldi combined. This is often extended to other Slayers, who are depicted as commonly pulling off driving stunts that would kill regular humans if attempted.
- A Jump to the Left: Faith's driving is compared to popping wheelies on a bike while surrounded by toddlers on tricycles. Apparently, it was terrifying enough to make an alternate universe Xander discover religion.
- The Reality Theory Convergence: Faith avoids traffic tickets on her motorcycle by driving faster than the police can follow, usually into places cars can't go. Examples include Roof Hopping, driving through malls, and using L.A.'s storm water runoff pipes.
- Wild Ride: Jeremie Belpois' friends don't enjoy themselves at all while he's driving and he, for his part, is confused by their utter panic.
- Xanatos has one instance of Matt (who is fourteen at the time) driving a stolen Lamborghini. He drives like a complete maniac, though it's somewhat justified since he's trying to lose a cop.
- Nerve Damage: Luvia decides that since Lancelot can fly her private jet using Knight of Honor, she doesn't need to hire a pilot. Unfortunately, either Lancelot is too excited about Merlin removing his Madness Enhancement to fly normally, or Knight of Honor actually requires him to fly like he's in combat, so Luvia ends up badly airsick.
- Shinra High SOLDIER: The normally calm and stoic Sephiroth is revealed to drive like this. It terrifies his friend Yuffie.
- Raising Harry: La Vida Muggle: While it's not shown on-page, Dumbledore states that Snape is a rather reckless driver, enough so as to give apparation competition in how fast he can get from one place to another.
Dumbledore: Oh, it wasn't the hotel. It's more that I don't think my heart could take another voyage with Severus driving.
Aurilia: That bad?
Dumbledore: I was once told that there is nothing faster than the instantaneous travel of apparation — popping from one location to another, not unlike the teleportation I have read about in muggle fiction — yet I find that statement to be blatantly false when riding in an automobile with my potions' master at the wheel.
- In Once Upon a Wish when Sirius and Arcturus go to fetch Harry from the Dursleys, they pose as Muggles by traveling in a Bentley, with Tilly the house elf acting as their chauffeur.
Tilly was an awful driver, and the magic of the car saved them from many near collisions. They hopped curves and jumped on the sidewalks. The car would shrink or elongate as it was needed. They narrowly missed pedestrians and sideswiped trashcans. It was a harrowing experience for Sirius, who kept his paws over his eyes the whole time but felt the whole thing as he was thrown around the floorboard, but Arcturus took it in stride, sitting ramrod straight and swaying back and forth with the turns and swerves.
- Kyon: Big Damn Hero: Kyon's father is regarded as a very good and fast driver. However, when he learns his daughter was recently rescued from a kidnapping and sent to the hospital for a check-up he's told to have driven "efficiently", to the point to take 15 minutes for a run which usually takes 30.
- What a Brother! What a Bother!: England's older brothers Scotland, Ireland, and North Ireland are described as being extremely bad drivers, to the point that in one scene, North Ireland is apparantly ARRESTED out of context.
- Intercom has Riley's first time driving her own train of thought. Riley figures that she should be able to steer her own Train of Thought, but, due to her enthusiasm and not being used to handling it, she makes it behave in a way that's more akin to a roller coaster, much to Fear and Disgust's chagrin.
- Queen of All Oni: Ramirez, the Mexican private detective who helps out the J-Team when they're in Mexico City, is shown to drive like a total maniac.
- Shadows Awakening: At one point, Jade enables a getaway for her and Jackie by having one of her Kunochi Khan commandeer a car and drive them away. Unfortunately, since the Khan relies on Jade for directions on anything not related to fighting, and she doesn't know how to drive, they end up all over the place.
- Kill la Kill AU:
- Mako's driving is reckless to such a degree that she's ended them up in an alternate universe Los Angeles, once got a pickup truck tangled in wires, along with the fact that when determined she drove zig-zag through houses and gas station and on top and right through about four buildings, sending a police chopper to the ground. Unsurprisingly, in the former of the latter cases, Shiro decided to jump out.
- Gamagoori, true to canon, is this as well with the whole "spinning is driving" thing and, in the same fanfic, he "pulled a doodlebug" (driving both backward and forwards).
- There is also Nonon, who somehow got a car on top of a semi, which wasn't without something getting demolished and had an air raid siren going off.
- Sixes and Sevens: Emily Gower has a reputation among the higher-ups for having a lead foot, as Michael finds out when she turns a five hour drive from Taba to Amman into four. Her skills don't leave her passengers any less terrified when they're stuck in the car with her.
- X-Men: The Early Years: Jean Grey's teammates never want her to drive them around because they like living. She has a tendency to take turns on two wheels and drift in the direction of pedestrians instead of away from them - most notably, she almost ran Hank and Bobby over and they only survived by diving into a ditch.
As a result of the Mako's notoriously dodgy handling and of a
Fandom Nod in
Mass Effect 2 where Liara comments on Shepard taking altogether too much enjoyment in a car chase, it's common
Fanon that Shepard drives like someone with no concept of their mortality and no regard for others'. Anytime Shepard comes anywhere near a drivable vehicle in a fanfic, everyone who has ever ridden with them starts looking for alternatives.
- Canterlot Cooking Calamity: When Fluttershy and Big Mac are unable to make it to the school due to respective car troubles and a buffalo pride parade that does not seem to end, Sugar Sprinkles comes to pick them up. While she makes it to the school on time, her driving leaves Fluttershy vomiting at arrival and Big Mac jumping out and kissing the ground.
- A Diplomatic Visit: Discussed in chapter 2 of the second sequel, Diplomacy Through Schooling, where Shining Armor jokes about Twilight's driving likely being a bit of a problem because she has trouble focusing on things other than books. Twilight tells him that there are drivers who are a lot worse than she could be.
Twilight: They say that in Manehatten, the passenger chariots drive on the right side of the road. In the Griffish Isles, they drive on the left. And on some of the Minos Islands, they drive on the shady side.
- The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Vix-Lei, as demonstrated during the escape from the Lower East-South Quarter. It's explained afterward that she grew up around a shipyard and learned how to drive from her father's employees, most of whom had worked as her country's equivalent of cab drivers. She also admits to joyriding in the past. In the sequel Picking Up the Pieces, Night Blade explicitly notes that, when they go overseas, they'll get a different pilot for his family's private skimmer yacht, both because her driving makes Xvital's airsickness even worse than usual (fortunately, she has an excuse not to go this time) and because no insurance company would cover any vehicle that she's piloting.
- The Pirate Pegasus: Korsan's crew thinks their captain drives like crazy, given that he enjoys going on crazy joyrides. Rarity gets a front seat to a joyride when Korsan speedily drives the enormous The Perfection through a tight underground cave system, destroying a fair portion of the vessel upon escaping.
- Starlight Over Detrot: Sweet Shine (now calling herself "Taxi") regards the rules of the road as mere guidelines, and is the absolute master of offensive driving, up to and including Car Fu (but Celestia help you if you lay so much as a scratch on her baby...) For a long time it was implied that Hard Boiled was a Captain Crash, with several Noodle Incident references about why he's not allowed to drive. However, it turns out the reason he's not allowed to drive is that, once he gets behind the wheel, he turns into an adrenaline junkie maniac who makes Taxi look like an overly-cautious driver in comparison.
- Advice and Trust: In chapter 7 Asuka realizes why Misato drives like crazy. It is because Kaji taught her. He shattered the limit speed, threw the car into precisely calculated and highly risky drifts and drove on the train tracks.
"Um... Kaji-san? Aren't we going to have to stop and wait for the vehicle transport train?" Shinji asked nervously, noting they weren't slowing down as they shot through the caution-striped metal gateway.
"Ordinarily, yes, Shinji-kun..." Kaji said absently as they skidded sideways past the 'STOP HERE FOR LOADING' signs and barriers. "But during an Angel alert, they lock down the trains at the depo in the Geofront to save power and reduce MAGI load. So right now the tracks are empty and it would take too long for a train to get up here. So this is faster."
The edge of the drop onto the track was coming closer very fast. "Um... what's faster?" Asuka asked even more worriedly.
"The direct approach," Kaji said with a smile as he aimed the car at the tracks on a shallow angle.
They shot over the edge and onto the tracks at over 120 kph, to the chorus of the Children screaming in alarm. The darkness of the train tunnel into the Geofront loomed in front of them, angling steeply down.
- The Child of Love: Misato has little regard for the speed limit. When she is taking Teri anywhere, Asuka has to ask her driving carefully.
- Children of an Elder God: Misato is a terrible driver that ignores or otherwise disregards the existence of a tiny, non-important thing called "limit speed". In chapter 5:
Misato roared through the streets of Tokyo-3 in her car as if all the Angels were chasing her. Asuka laughed with delight while Shinji clung to his seatbelt, shaking. "Faster, faster!" Asuka shouted, while Shinji prayed for engine failure.
"I'm gonna have to slow down soon, or I'll drive right through our apartment building. I don't think the Andersons would like that." Misato took the corner at about fifty miles an hour without any trouble, thanks to the absence of any traffic. Shinji, on the other hand, was glad he hadn't eaten dinner yet.
- Doing It Right This Time: When Misato drove Shinji to the Geofront, Shinji was proud with himself for only needing to grab the safety handle twice for the whole ride, despite her crazy driving antics.
- Wings of Rebellion: Played straight with Makoto, and later with Sae when she joins, but it's played with Akira in that her driving isn't feared like Makoto's, but the ride is still bumpy and they crashed at least once. But not only that, she's not just terrible in driving cars, she's terrible with vehicles in general as she's shown to have trouble with a rowboat.
- Tales of Flame: Saffron City's Officer Jenny scares even her close friend Sabrina. Her Pokémon, however, can sleep through her driving, having been with her that long.
- Personality Conflicts: In Final Frontier, the tendency of Miami drivers to be this is brought up in narration ("Most of the drivers seem to regard the roads as training grounds for the Indy 500, moving at speeds clearly in excess of sanity.") and dialogue (Kim calls to Zack that "This is Miami!" ... "Driver Ed means learning how to shift with one hand and give the finger with the other!"). While justified (seeing as they're in the middle of an ongoing battle with a pack of Quantrons on armed and armored motorcycles), Kim's hardly one to talk, seeing as how she and the other Warriors had just popped wheelies and drove their Shark Cycles over a slow-moving Cadillac.
- Keepers of the Elements has Deanna as the resident crazy driver. When she gets behind the wheel, her erratic driving terrifies her passengers and gets the police on her trail, which only prompts her to make her driving even crazier to evade them. It gets to the point that her car goes airborne multiple times, and to top it off she's periodically maniacally laughing throughout the trip.
- Total Drama Legacy has Marissa, who is a terrible driver. Her younger brother Marlin states in a confessional that her Driver's Ed instructor once called her a "lost cause" and said she'd "have to learn to be very dependent on buses and taxis". It's also stated that she once got into a go-kart accident at a birthday party. Naturally, she gets eliminated in the episode where the campers have a go-kart race.
- Intrepid: Taylor's Awesomeness by Analysis leads to her making accurate motions no matter how fast she drives the SUV. To everyone else, however, she appears to be a madwoman making crazy turns and going off the road to try and drive through a forest of trees at over 100 MPH.
