end of the line for me.

[Grandavi]

Originally Posted by CyFi6

sorry to hear it but doing something illegal is doing something illegal. I have a supra, i had an mr2, both flashy cars, but i stick to the law, i dont speed, i dont go out late at night and drive around with other people that race, ive never gotten a ticket. Its easy to stay out of trouble, you just gotta have self control

Agreed... bearing in mind... 55 mph is a bogus speed limit in my opinion. (for normal highways). Having said that, though, 30 years ago when I got my license (yikes... thats a long time ago!) there were not any where near the amount of people on the roads. At that time as well, cars were not anywhere near as safe either.

I think that it would be nice for every "area" (this is a pipe-dream btw) to have a test area for young drivers to drive. Allow for a quarter-mile race, a place to experiment with skids and slides (I watched Tokyo-drift... to do that on public roads is like walking downtown with an uzi... but that's my opinion) and try for a top end on your vehicle. I also think it would be great to have supervised playgrounds for kids. Both dont exist any longer other than perhaps race-tracks in your area that allow you to run. I am teaching my kids how to react to different events in vehicles by finding areas that are as safe as reasonably possible, because in my youth all the racing, rat racing (thats chasing each other through town and country roads) and experimentation I have done have saved both me and my family in several incidents that should have turned into major accidents.

However, I strongly believe that today, 99% of road rules will prevent you from being injured/killed or injuring/killing someone else and therefore should be obeyed. Its just nice to know how to avoid that accident when someone else (or nature) disobeys the rules.

Possibly the worst thing that a person can do is to believe they can do something because they saw it on TV or in a movie... lol