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Originally Posted by jmg
Ok, I agree that everyone should be properly trained, but my point was that it doesn't matter if it's a 100hp car or a 500ph car, you can drive recklessly in either. BUT, if you have restraint, you can drive a 500hp car even if you don't know how to recover from oversteer if you simply stay close to the speed limit and don't drive around like you are racing. It's possible to drive a 500hp car at a reasonable speed. On the flip side, just because some 20yr old drives a 500hp car on the track and knows how to do high speed drifts doesn't mean they are automatically safer drivers than the soccer mom juggling a coffee cup and a steering wheel. The situations that lead to speed related skills by someone in a supercar isn't from a lack of skill, it's from a lack of restraint.
Infamous case in point: Paul Walker's death. The driver had experience on the track. And you can say that it was a mechanical fault of the Porsche etc etc, but in the end, that accident wouldn't have happened at the speed limit.
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No clue who Paul walker is, but I've done two years of school runs there in the states, and I've driven through the states four times. The school zone is the most dangerous place to be at, makeup and coffee is apparently very safe since you're driving slowly while applying/inhaling.
With your point on hp, I agree. Sadly the stopping power of a stock 500hp car is a bit different than the one of a clio. Now go and share my words in any forum, and we go back to tuning.
I drive for fun, and that's why I love brakes. It makes the horses fly, since I know I can stop them.
Things that go well with youth and alcohol, stupidity and immortality are the answers. At this age, I actually do know the difference of living and well, a crash
A pall of mine is a driving instructor here , has been one for 20 years. It takes track training, some rally, some highway and some traffic lessons to get a license here, and two years of your life. He says, he hasn't had a pupil who didn't know how to drive a manual in all that time he's been giving lessons, but the handy parking brake apparently breaks our egos easier than his rough language.
But if someone would tell our grandmas to slow the fuck down, I'd be happy. The given speed limit is not what you have to drive at any conditions you speeding old bone bags who take over me daily!!!