Think Driving Fast is Fun? WARNING! GRAPHIC!

[extremeatheist]

No atheist. Leave.

Bigot much?^

My supra was totaled going 25mph when some illegal ran a sign, and drove through my car. In fact all of the accidents I have been involved in have occurred when I was going 30mph or less, not one of them have been my fault. Any idiot who drives recklessly, especially in traffic, or residential areas, deserves to either die or be jailed.

I do feel bad for the innocent people that get hurt or killed by reckless drivers, but not all people, in traffic accidents, are hurt or killed by reckless drivers.

If you are, for instance, pushing a baby across the street, you need to look both ways, and use common sense.

If people would do EVERYTHING with common sense, a lot of deaths and injuries would be avoided.

 

[VTEC_THIS]

Driving fast on public roads and driving like a "****tard" are the same things.

Absolutely true.

When you're driving fast you have to make decisions that much quicker. Our decisions aren't always right and even if you think you have "control of your car" or it's "safe to speed" you can't control other things that may happen. When you speed you make it that much more dangerous for you and those around you and when you speed, NO you're never completely in control of your car and other cars around you.

 

[NeoZer0]

Keep it on the track people!

 

[ramsack]

Wah wah. All propogranda... Driving fast on streets that have stop signs ever block is moronic. Driving faster on a highway is ok. If there is traffic then you literally can't. If it is empty then you are really only hurting you. Pedestrians have a responsibility of making themselves seen. If they just creep along, and then pop out in front of a parked car, it's not the driver's fault for hitting them. Even doing a 25 mph speed limit and paying attention, there wouldn't be enough time. It made me laugh, and I'm not a stupid driver. But then again I find joy in other people's pain.

 

[dsm-onster]

Speed does kill. You can make a basic human mistake at 55 and walk away from it. You or whoever you hit wont at 100. You_cannot_predict_that_no_one_will_be_there_just_because_no_one_is_there_when_you_first_look.

. . .BTW, if I ever catch any of you speeding on my roads where my family moves about, I will make you personally pay. . . No threat. That's a promise. Everyone of you who says you're safe when you speed because you know how to drive is being thickheaded and rediculous. I like you all on here, but don't talk about going fast in public and say "well, I do it safely". I'm sorry, but no; you can't predict what some other person on a public roadway may do with 100% accuracy; when they may enter it, cross your lane, stop, whatever. You're still far less likely to kill or be killed on a track, any kind of track. Besides real men take it to the track where the objective is fair because the roadway is the same for both parties. 'Rolls' are for dinner and drifting is for the proper course. drag racing can't be fair on a public roadway, the roads arn't even enough. There's always a lane with an advantage on public roads. IF you think/say that's just the nature of street racing and accept it, then you're not man enough to put your driving/modding skills to a real test with another man's.

 

[ramsack]

Watch Out for That 3D Optical Illusion on the Road!

That would be a more realistic way of enlightening people rather than some retarded propaganda film. But still, drivers shouldn't be 100% to blame if someone just runs out onto the road, even if they are speeding. Shit just happens and people need to stop blaming other people for every little thing that happens. Yes it would be sad to have that happen personally, but blame doesn't make someone undead.

 

[dsm-onster]

Well, If you're not speeding then you're doing your due diligence as a human being. The prescribed limit of speed is a judgment based on authorities who've at least somewhat studied the area. After that you take other's lives in your own hand. Period.

I agree morons who take stupid actions in the middle of normal traffic flow 'reap what they sow' quickly. If you're running at 55-60mph in a 55mph zone, any one jsut stepping out on the highway or pulling out of a private drive or pulling in front of you at a stopsign is clearly at fault. Everyone knows what a 55mph road looks like. They deserve whatever ramifications begotten.

But if you're going over the speed limit, other's may not see that you are or be capable of properly judging your rate of acceleration or speed. Jsut because they arn't experts of analyzing high speed actions doesn't mean they shouldn't be protected from such actions. These would be kids who may cross to get to gamas house on a wooded stretch, a person walking from their broken down dsm , anyone.

 

[GRAVEDIGGER]

Speed does kill. You can make a basic human mistake at 55 and walk away from it. You or whoever you hit wont at 100. You_cannot_predict_that_no_one_will_be_there_just_because_no_one_is_there_when_you_first_look.

. . .BTW, if I ever catch any of you speeding on my roads where my family moves about, I will make you personally pay. . . No threat. That's a promise. Everyone of you who says you're safe when you speed because you know how to drive is being thickheaded and rediculous. I like you all on here, but don't talk about going fast in public and say "well, I do it safely". I'm sorry, but no; you can't predict what some other person on a public roadway may do with 100% accuracy; when they may enter it, cross your lane, stop, whatever. You're still far less likely to kill or be killed on a track, any kind of track. Besides real men take it to the track where the objective is fair because the roadway is the same for both parties. 'Rolls' are for dinner and drifting is for the proper course. drag racing can't be fair on a public roadway, the roads arn't even enough. There's always a lane with an advantage on public roads. IF you think/say that's just the nature of street racing and accept it, then you're not man enough to put your driving/modding skills to a real test with another man's.

Perfectly said and spoken like a true wiseman.

 

[XiKeiyaZI]

What a bunch of ####in idiots. For you guys that didnt get anything out of that put your mothers, fathers, siblings, childrens or anyone you care about face on those people's that are being killed. I think this should be shown to every driver at least once a year just to keep it fresh in your mind.

I almost wanted to say something more out of the way.. but I decided to simply enlighten you.

I was hit by an S10 when I was 14. Driver was drunk, doing about 45. Broke a lot of things, ruined a lot of opportunities for me as well. Althetics are out of the window forever for me. I'm not crippled or anything, but my ribs are more fragile than brittle. I'll never forget sitting up from that person's yard wondering if I was dead and seeing beer bottles everywhere. You know what? That didn't piss me off. What pissed me off is they stitched his head up (he headbutted his steering wheel) and left me laying in the hallway for an hour before realizing "Most of this kids' upper body is shattered!"

My Best friend, brother, and the greatest person I've ever known was killed by a drunk driver. He was on the left side of the road. The driver was going the OPPOSITE direction, so Trae(the brother) got to see the damned thing coming. There is STILL a splatter mark where he was hit. I look at that spot every day.

Sad thing is... I just don't hold remorse for people. What happens, happens. Before you go off popping your mouth off and calling people 'idiots' simply because most claim they feel nothing, keep in mind that most everyone has lost someone to a drunk/idiot driver. Hell, I was damned near the victim of it. The fact still remains, though, that I just don't care. I have simply never appreciated human life enough and that's something that I'll answer for when the Ferryman asks for his toll. That's what happens when you spend 80% of your life shedding emotions, my friend.

 

[dsm-onster]

^^^do you speed much (I'm not talking 65 in a 55 here) or street race?

 

[ramsack]

I'm speaking more about when roads are say 35 and there are a few houses along that road. Then one day a kid decides to jump out in the street and gets hit by a car. Now the road is 25. It is a back country road. It's retarded. So many roads around my area are going from 35 to 25, and with no accidents or people being hit. It is purely old people's perception of the speed of cars. I've never seen any kids even playing near said roads. I speed. On those kinds of roads I do 25-30 during the day, and at night I do 30-35. If someone gets hit at night then it's because they didn't make themselves visible. I already hit a bicycle like this, and I was stopped and had just pressed the gas. It was like 11 at night and the moron was just flying on his bike, and was riding it on the sidewalk, and I looked both ways twice. I tap the gas and bam! Luckily he wasn't hurt. He didn't even get knocked over.

 

[EclipseTical]

Speed doesn't kill people, idiot unskilled drivers kill people. Lack of safety measures kills people.
Just like guns don't kill people, neither do fast cars.

"Never attribute to skill that which can be adequately explained by luck"


As already stated by the saner people on here -- take it to the track. All of you claiming to have superior driving skills would probably shit yourself on the first lap of an open track day when you realize you don't have a fraction of the "skill" you previously thought you did.

And i fully support Monster's sentiments: If something ever happens to my family because some idiot was out there racing on public roads then you best hope that a some other LEO gets to you first.

 

[dsm-onster]

I'm speaking more about when roads are say 35 and there are a few houses along that road. Then one day a kid decides to jump out in the street and gets hit by a car. Now the road is 25. It is a back country road. It's retarded. So many roads around my area are going from 35 to 25, and with no accidents or people being hit. It is purely old people's perception of the speed of cars. I've never seen any kids even playing near said roads. I speed. On those kinds of roads I do 25-30 during the day, and at night I do 30-35. If someone gets hit at night then it's because they didn't make themselves visible. I already hit a bicycle like this, and I was stopped and had just pressed the gas. It was like 11 at night and the moron was just flying on his bike, and was riding it on the sidewalk, and I looked both ways twice. I tap the gas and bam! Luckily he wasn't hurt. He didn't even get knocked over.

I can agree with the point of what you're saying here. My wife lost her aunt before my wife was born and can never get to know her. She was 4. She charged out in the road way in a 35mile zone residential area. There was no way for the person to stop in time even if they were going 15mph. They were not speeding. If the person was speeding they wouldn't be at fault in my eyes.

BUT, if she darted out in the road way 100ft down then it would be on the driver. If they were speeding they would not be able to stop in time. If they wern't they would. Simple human reaction time and physics at work. The driver has to do his due diligence.

 

[rlacasse1]

It kills me when I see the baby hit the windshield since my son is that age. And come to find out one of my wifes friends (who was watching him for us for a few hours) was holding him like that in the back seat while her boyfriend was driving because he was crying. Needless to say, she doesn't watch him anymore.

 

[donniekak]

Speed does kill. You can make a basic human mistake at 55 and walk away from it. You or whoever you hit wont at 100. You_cannot_predict_that_no_one_will_be_there_just_because_no_one_is_there_when_you_first_look.

. . .BTW, if I ever catch any of you speeding on my roads where my family moves about, I will make you personally pay. . . No threat. That's a promise. Everyone of you who says you're safe when you speed because you know how to drive is being thickheaded and rediculous. I like you all on here, but don't talk about going fast in public and say "well, I do it safely". I'm sorry, but no; you can't predict what some other person on a public roadway may do with 100% accuracy; when they may enter it, cross your lane, stop, whatever. You're still far less likely to kill or be killed on a track, any kind of track. Besides real men take it to the track where the objective is fair because the roadway is the same for both parties. 'Rolls' are for dinner and drifting is for the proper course. drag racing can't be fair on a public roadway, the roads arn't even enough. There's always a lane with an advantage on public roads. IF you think/say that's just the nature of street racing and accept it, then you're not man enough to put your driving/modding skills to a real test with another man's.

I feel the same way about the residential street in front of my house. I don't get it. The fastest you could drive on it is about 50 anyway.
But, living in AZ has me thinking differently about public roads than when i lived in the OH, WV, PA tri state area. There are roads out here that i tune cars on that are 5-10 miles of nothing. No turns, no cross streets, no houses, nothing but complete visibility. I was traveling one time and according to my odometer i drove without turning at all for 28 miles. Which makes it even more stupid to drive fast on the residential roads anyway. Usually it's kids in slow cars trying to drive fast.

 

[dsm-onster]

Hey. We all tune and we all know where a 3rd gear pull takes us. But I bet you don't run it through all of third like most of the street racers and idiots who think that have [Napoleon dynamite voice] "scils". My track is in delmar and I literally live 2 states down, about 80miles away. But, actually I talk to the town police officer. He will actually block the road for me and a few of my friends to tune and feel the car out for issues. It helps that he has a craptastic foxbody v8 . You have to take the same measures as at the track. Most don't have that luxury. But they have the luxury of a track closer to them.

Folks try to use my street as a thoroughfare to get through town quicker because they know the cops are staking out the main street heavily. going 60+ in a 35. I've actually stopped them with my fullsize. I don't care. I am fearless. My kids keep figuring out how to get over my fence. I can't take a chance and I WILL absolutely stop any threats to my family. It's is my chosen obligation and personal resposibility.

 

[extremeatheist]

As already stated by the saner people on here -- take it to the track. All of you claiming to have superior driving skills would probably shit yourself on the first lap of an open track day when you realize you don't have a fraction of the "skill" you previously thought you did.

And i fully support Monster's sentiments: If something ever happens to my family because some idiot was out there racing on public roads then you best hope that a some other LEO gets to you first.

This "Speed doesn't kill people, idiot unskilled drivers kill people. Lack of safety measures kills people.
Just like guns don't kill people, neither do fast cars." does NOT mean street racing.

I drive 100-200 a miles a day in town 5 days a week, at least once a day someone pulls out in front of me, forcing me to slam on the brakes. I'm not speeding either. I lose my job and my license if I get one more ticket so I am careful about my driving. I see people reading the newspaper, playing on their laptop, doing makeup, watching dvds all while driving. These people cause all kinds of accidents without speeding, street racing, or aggressive driving. These people are "idiot unskilled drivers"

I am not advocating street racing at all here, because yes street racing kills. There was a news report a saw a couple years ago where people were watching a street race (wrong to race and wrong to watch) well a few of the idiots were standing IN the road watching, and guess what they got killed. Sure you can say they shouldn't have been street racing, but these idiots were standing in the ####ing road, they deserved to be hit.

My point is you can't just automatically fault a driver who, for instance, happens to be going 5 over when a mom in a minivan, who is busy doing her make up, pulls out in front of him. If he was going 5mph or 70mph the woman didn't look before she pulled out.

 

[donniekak]

Hey. We all tune and we all know where a 3rd gear pull takes us. But I bet you don't run it through all of third like most of the street racers and idiots who think that have [Napoleon dynamite voice] "scils". My track is in delmar and I literally live 2 states down, about 80miles away. But, actually I talk to the town police officer. He will actually block the road for me and a few of my friends to tune and feel the car out for issues. It helps that he has a craptastic foxbody v8 . You have to take the same measures as at the track. Most don't have that luxury. But they have the luxury of a track closer to them.

Speedworld is 15 minutes from my house. I fine tune there by the increase in 1/8 to 1/4 mph.

 

[dsm-onster]

My point is you can't just automatically fault a driver who, for instance, happens to be going 5 over when a mom in a minivan, who is busy doing her make up, pulls out in front of him. If he was going 5mph or 70mph the woman didn't look before she pulled out.

Yes.

And when you are not speeding as the driver, then you did all you could as a normal human being in society not to increase the risk of your fellowman.

 

[extremeatheist]

Yes.

And when you are not speeding as the driver, then you did all you could as a normal human being in society not to increase the risk of your fellowman.

I agree, but it is so easy to gain 5mph, without even noticing in newer cars.

 

[ramsack]

This all kind of reminds me of Family Guy. The episode where Brian finds out he has a kid with that fat chick. He turns into some mushy emotional mess at the bar and all the guys tease him about it by asking what he would think if there was some kind of disaster, not even mentioning the kid. He just keeps freaking out like "oh my God , I don't know what I would do, oh my God!"

 

[EclipseTical]

This "Speed doesn't kill people, idiot unskilled drivers kill people. Lack of safety measures kills people.
Just like guns don't kill people, neither do fast cars." does NOT mean street racing.

I drive 100-200 a miles a day in town 5 days a week, at least once a day someone pulls out in front of me, forcing me to slam on the brakes. I'm not speeding either. I lose my job and my license if I get one more ticket so I am careful about my driving. I see people reading the newspaper, playing on their laptop, doing makeup, watching dvds all while driving. These people cause all kinds of accidents without speeding, street racing, or aggressive driving. These people are "idiot unskilled drivers"

I am not advocating street racing at all here, because yes street racing kills. There was a news report a saw a couple years ago where people were watching a street race (wrong to race and wrong to watch) well a few of the idiots were standing IN the road watching, and guess what they got killed. Sure you can say they shouldn't have been street racing, but these idiots were standing in the ####ing road, they deserved to be hit.

My point is you can't just automatically fault a driver who, for instance, happens to be going 5 over when a mom in a minivan, who is busy doing her make up, pulls out in front of him. If he was going 5mph or 70mph the woman didn't look before she pulled out.

I think you misunderstood what i was getting at-- I agree with you and certainly wouldn't fault someone who is driving along not being a jackass and suddenly some idiot pulls out in front of them. Distracted drivers (yapping on cell phone, putting on makeup, etc) are just as big a problem as people who race on public roads. Now if you’re out there doing 70 in a 35 and that minivan pulls out in front of you then you are at just as liable as the minivan driver if not more since you would be traveling well above the posted speed limit.

What my initial post you quoted was getting at is that a lot of people use their "superior driving skill" to justify racing at excessive speeds or other moronic behavior on public roads. A lot of those idiots think they are highly skilled when in reality they are just lucky that they haven’t crashed and/or hurt people yet.

I agree, but it is so easy to gain 5mph, without even noticing in newer cars.

If you don't know the MPH you're traveling at then you yourself are not doing your due diligence as a licensed motor vehicle operator. Period. My wife's new car drives so smooth that it is very easy to go over the speed limit without noticing it-- If I'm driving her car i watch my speed closer. It is up to you as the driver to be aware and to take corrective measure as appropriate.

 

[Jonman409]

@ 2:45, needs more edward cullen

 

[Thomas91169]

speed doesnt kill. If it did, every human would be limited to XX amount of speed otherwise they would just insta-die.

lets all remember physics people. Its not the fall that kills you, its the instant stop at the end when you hit the ground.

Just umm, dont #### up. If youre going to speed, you gotta be paying attention (not talking on the cell phone doing 80 in a 55) and doing "due diligence" (swear if i hear that phrase again in this thread......) as necessary at those speeds.

All you people worried about your kids in the street and people driving fast, maybe you should move to a better neighborhood and off of main street. We NEVER had cars driving down our street as kids, and if they did, it was people that lived there. And when we saw the car, we would jump onto the sidewalk as fast as possible. We were also taught "look both ways before crossing" which seems ol' grampy in that video lacked doing. I dont cite that driver at fault, wether or not he was doing 55 or 25 he still wouldve hit the geezer. Old guy needs to do his "due diligence" maybe.

Ill have to watch the rest of the video (was having issues buffering last night on wireless) and breakdown each scenario. The last one i saw was the dude that rear ended the lady who in turn killed some kids mom, which is total bullshit at the 5mph she might have gotten up to from being rear ended at a complete stop. Ive WITNESSED people get hit by a Mack truck at 35mph and walk away.

And the whole "Evanescence" song just adds to give you that sad reaction. Put some A7X in the vid and see what happens, people will start taking kill tallies.


btw, i see alot of Hypocrites in this thread talking about not speeding.

 

[dsm-onster]

They are STREETS. Cars drive down STREETS. YOUR car your parents drove put you at your house. It was driven on the the street you live on. Cars go down STREETS. Again. There's no issue with driving and someone not looking and darting in front of you. But, I'm not moving out of my quiet neighborhood because some a$$ speeds down my street. I'll pm you my address if you ask and want to first hand see why you shouldn't speed. Come try speeding down my street.

Speed is what kills. The sudden stop is nothing if you trip and fall. It's the rate of speed before the fall that unzips your insides.

The higher the speed, the more limited you are with your reaction time. The more limited you are with your reaction time the more likely you are to fail at a critical moment. You can't change your surroundings. You can't predict what will happen. You can move to other surroundings because you can only control your car. You can't sit there and type to us that if a person darts infront of you 50 or any amount of feet after that in front of you that you can stop in time if you're going over the speedlimit in a residential.

Who cares about the legitimacy of the actions in the video. The point is all we're talking about here. The title of the thread is "you think driving fast is fun? Warning! graphic!" not "is this video accurate?". The video is not accurate and it's NOT proper to speed. Reality is reality. Yes people are going to do it. But we all each can at least stop ONE person from doing. That's reality.