I regularly travel in excess of 75mph on the country roads here at night. On at least a dozen occasions, farm equipment has been left unattended across the lanes, without lights or reflective tape. Haven't hit anything yet. People just don't pay attention. You don't need to stop, just slow down and veer.
That we treat everyone as having the same driving capabilities is as dumb as assuming everyone can be competitive in a basketball game.
Just one night, when ur just a little more sleepy, eyes a little less able to focus, just a smidgen less microseconds of attention, that veer may come such that the suspension can't handle the abrupt maneuver ....and then we know why you stopped posting here
Don't assume you'll always have the same lightning speed responses...doing so @75mph+ is foolish (dumb in ur words
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10mph slower could make the difference btw life n death, when u get older perhaps it will dawn on u...maybe not...Darwin experiment.
And what of you not having the ability, say the rare occurrence when u also have microseconds to decide what to do, if there are oncoming vehicle(s). Do you end up making a wife/husband/spouse & children at home a widower. Kind of selfish, self-centered actions if u ask me. There are other (potential) lives to consider, not just ur own. If it's a straight road, clear line of sight, I can see little risk. But what of blind spots, curves in the road?
I used to know a winemaker, he had a Pontiac Grand Am with the stealth supercharger. He used to ride motorcycles @ur age, thought he'd never make it past 50 (his son died of a tragic, 1 in a million carburetor backfire/gasoline vapor ignition that burned his lungs so badly he died shortly thereafter). After we were done drinknig wines at his winery, he would leave in that GA, blasting down the super twisty backroads of River Road West, Sonoma Cty. I tried to keep up with him on those *narrow*, barely more enough for 2way traffic, twisty roads (say 25mph is the max even a F1 or go cart could pull)...in my old '85 Civic. Didn't take him much time to pull away from me, once we left the winery. He was very familiar with those roads, but he was taking up the entire road to go as fast as he did, and could have easily had an head on collision flying around all of the tight turns with multiple blind spots. ...the next James Dean?
Deserted backcountry roads, until another car you didn't see comes around the bend & you both end up dead. Call me a
Tortoise, but I'll be relative sure to be able to drive that road again, come the next day.
Lot of 'roadkill' motorcyclists around these parts,
Mulholland Drive, up in SM Mtn's inland from Malibu, is a fave. Heh, David Lynch made a movie with that road as a plot line prop
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/
Yeah, deserted country roads, until you find that rare occurence, I'm sure you don't mind the 1-100,000 odds. But I prefer for u to do a safer alternative like playing the lottery. If you beat the odds there, you retire w/o endangering someone's life
