A Very Scary Mix

[Migz]

  Silhoutte6T said:

MOST, and yes I totally agree most people my age are stupid on the road, and have no common sence for anything.

BUT there are some, that are actually responsible and know the limits.

Ironic isnt it

[stevoxr6t]

im currently driving a xr6t 300rwkw auto sedan im a very carefull driver but even myself ive had a couple of little scares say over taking in dry but foggy misty conditions pushing the foot on a little to much at 100ks shes kicked out on me..I reckon if a careless or showoff person was at the wheel I could see some damage getting done forsure

[Beaker]

  stevoxr6t said:

im currently driving a xr6t 300rwkw auto sedan im a very carefull driver but even myself ive had a couple of little scares say over taking in dry but foggy misty conditions pushing the foot on a little to much at 100ks shes kicked out on me..I reckon if a careless or showoff person was at the wheel I could see some damage getting done forsure

I'm new here so probably shouldn't rock the boat to much, and obviously I wasn't there so its hard to know - but just reading that post concerns me.

FWIW I was young enough to be stupid not that long ago and did some VERY dumb stuff - I also very nearly died when I spun a car at close to 200km/h. After that I decided that intentionaly driving fast on the road was stupid and took up rallying. I still like to drive quickly, but I'm a hell of a lot safer now since I can get rid of my 'need for speed' away from other motorists.

I guess my major concern is that a lot of 18 - 20 yo are in seriously fast machinery these days - 15 odd years ago when I was in that catagory I was driving a GSR Lancer and later a Sigma Turbo - both where pretty evil handling cars and when you pushed them too hard and lost them you weren't going that fast - once you get (say) a WRX to the point of no return you are doing a pretty high rate of knots - inexperienced drivers have been crashing cars since the model T - its just that speeds are getting higher.

FWIW - I don't have any solutions - I was bullet proof too and it took a pretty serious wake up call to make me realise I wasn't - my advice to those that think they are a good driver (and if I and all my mates are anything to go by) that's the majority - get involved in organised motorsport - a) you'll probably very quickly realise you aren't as good as you think you are (it certainly did for me) and b) You'll probably learn a lot, keep your licence and not kill yourself/anyone else.

- For what was going to be a quick second post on this board, it turned into a novel

[EZ2CME]

Whats FWIW stand for?

[tab]

Not sure, but for what it's worth who really cares?

[Beaker]

  EZ2CME said:

Whats FWIW stand for?

For What It's Worth

Doh -too slow

Edited 24/06/07 09:32 AM by Beaker

[SCRIBR]

  tab said:

Not sure, but for what it's worth who really cares?

u did it again!

I agree thought...im glad a couple of my mates drive crappy EA falcons/VS commos & not my ute!

[ZAP]

Apparently the "hoon" solution is to put ads on TV that show people wiggling their pinky at P platers doing burnouts.

It is meant to infer they have small dicks when they do a burnout. I wonder how much the consultant was that though of that little gem

[tab]

lol...at least we get a wrx slammed in to a concrete pylon up here in Qld

[SCRIBR]

lol the RTA(?) is worse than vicroads haha