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This study was aimed at measuring skill and safety-motive dimensions in drivers' self-assessments of their driving abilities and at investigating correlations among three driving inventories and six general personality measures. The questionnaires were completed by 113 students with a driver's licence. The orthogonal model with the skill and safety-motive factors explained 35% of the variance in the questionnaire based on the work of Spolander (Drivers' Assessment of Their Own Driving Ability, 1983) and Hatakka, Keskinen, Katila and Laapotti (International Conference on Traffic Safety, 1991). Multiple regression analysis showed driving experience to be a significant predictor of safety and skill-oriented driving, so that with driving experience drivers assess themselves as more fluent in handling the car, but lower in safety aspects of driving. The safety-motive scale had only weak correlations with driving-specific or personality measures except the Lie-scale of the EPQ, which suggests that.