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"A passenger was ejected, and the driver died after being trapped in the burning vehicle"

by journal 10mo ago

toomuchtodo 10mo ago
2026 Ferrari 296 GTS https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-developer-vince-zampella-crash-call-of-duty/3819576/ https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-develope... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_296 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_296 (shared for context around vehicle power and dynamics likely leading or contributing to the event)
- tsunamifury 10mo ago
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  - dragonwriter 10mo ago
    > Always funny to see how out of touch journalists describing a new 500k car as if it was priced like a family SUV (six figures, the running costs for most luxury SUVs) Always funny to see HN commenters treat "most luxury SUVs" as an equivalent class to "family SUVs" while making fun of “out of touch journalists” supposedly equating dissimilar vehicle classes.
  - watwut 10mo ago
    The article is not describing that car as a "family priced". And you are not describing family car either, you are describing luxury car. What does that have to do with inflation denial is a mystery.
riazrizvi 10mo ago
I‘m in the habit of speeding, I think it’s closely tied to the mental stresses you push yourself into, in sedentary, intellectual work. Thankfully I no longer own a car/motorcycle, and have other physical outlets now, to better balance it all out. I’m only here now myself at 55 through luck.
- vasco 10mo ago
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  - riazrizvi 10mo ago
    I too used to believe reductive statements about the human condition like this, made some kind of valid point.
    - vasco 10mo ago
      You justified reckless driving because you have a desk job.
      - darubedarob 10mo ago
        He justified reckless driving by having a stressfull society that grinds you to paste during the day. And experiencing "danger" recalibrates that stress sensor stuck at 11. Thats why the project management crowd consistsof paragliders, riverrafters, pilots,rock-climbers and wingsuit flyers ir race car drivers. The danger is the one thing resetting body cortisol levels. Trying to educate that away is a foolish miss understanding of the human condition.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_hormone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_hormone One can only redirect the behaviour.
        vasco 10mo ago
        No, you wrote that, he said sedentary intellectual work = desk job. Your argument is quite different and applies to everyone living today. Which doesn't mean its right but its very different than an argument that places desk jobs as more likely to do it than other people.
- switchbak 10mo ago
  No, I don’t think that’s it. Almost everyone one I associate with does similar kinds of work, and I don’t see that same willingness to expose them and others to undue risk like that.
__turbobrew__ 10mo ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Dude crashed his Ferrari.
- lysace 10mo ago
  Realistic racing sim games have taught me not to want a supercar for daily drives. Way too easy to f up. Just one such example (1983): https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/10/business/corporate-triumph-then-death-in-a-ferrari.html https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/10/business/corporate-triump... https://archive.ph/gbrZv https://archive.ph/gbrZv > CORPORATE TRIUMPH, THEN DEATH IN A FERRARI > The young president of a successful new computer company died Wednesday afternoon in a car crash in California's Silicon Valley, hours after his company had sold its stock to the public for the first time and he had become a multimillionaire.
  - joshu 10mo ago
    supercars from 1983 are very different than modern cars. they have traction control now and are much tamer.
    - lysace 10mo ago
      But of course there is a button to disable it. https://www.thedrive.com/news/37353/driver-turns-off-traction-control-in-a-ferrari-812-superfast-crashes-one-nanosecond-later https://www.thedrive.com/news/37353/driver-turns-off-tractio...
    - anonzzzies 10mo ago
      I still rather drive (get driven) a modern tank like suv. Or truck/bus conversion. I see these young/hip people spend countless hours in the gym, spending 1000k+/mo on supplements etc to 'live forever' only to wrap themselves around a tree at a young age on some superbike or car.
      - rob74 10mo ago
        ...or getting run over by a tank like suv with limited vision around the car (it's tank like after all) while cycling.

"A passenger was ejected, and the driver died after being trapped in the burning vehicle"

by journal 10mo ago

"A passenger was ejected, and the driver died after being trapped in the burning vehicle"

2026 Ferrari 296 GTS https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-developer-vince-zampella-crash-call-of-duty/3819576/ https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-develope... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_296 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_296 (shared for context around vehicle power and dynamics likely leading or contributing to the event)

tsunamifury 10mo ago
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- dragonwriter 10mo ago
  > Always funny to see how out of touch journalists describing a new 500k car as if it was priced like a family SUV (six figures, the running costs for most luxury SUVs) Always funny to see HN commenters treat "most luxury SUVs" as an equivalent class to "family SUVs" while making fun of “out of touch journalists” supposedly equating dissimilar vehicle classes.
- watwut 10mo ago
  The article is not describing that car as a "family priced". And you are not describing family car either, you are describing luxury car. What does that have to do with inflation denial is a mystery.

riazrizvi 10mo ago

I‘m in the habit of speeding, I think it’s closely tied to the mental stresses you push yourself into, in sedentary, intellectual work. Thankfully I no longer own a car/motorcycle, and have other physical outlets now, to better balance it all out. I’m only here now myself at 55 through luck.

vasco 10mo ago
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- riazrizvi 10mo ago
  I too used to believe reductive statements about the human condition like this, made some kind of valid point.
  - vasco 10mo ago
    You justified reckless driving because you have a desk job.
    - darubedarob 10mo ago
      He justified reckless driving by having a stressfull society that grinds you to paste during the day. And experiencing "danger" recalibrates that stress sensor stuck at 11. Thats why the project management crowd consistsof paragliders, riverrafters, pilots,rock-climbers and wingsuit flyers ir race car drivers. The danger is the one thing resetting body cortisol levels. Trying to educate that away is a foolish miss understanding of the human condition.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_hormone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress_hormone One can only redirect the behaviour.
      - vasco 10mo ago
        No, you wrote that, he said sedentary intellectual work = desk job. Your argument is quite different and applies to everyone living today. Which doesn't mean its right but its very different than an argument that places desk jobs as more likely to do it than other people.
switchbak 10mo ago
No, I don’t think that’s it. Almost everyone one I associate with does similar kinds of work, and I don’t see that same willingness to expose them and others to undue risk like that.

__turbobrew__ 10mo ago

Not sure why you are being downvoted. Dude crashed his Ferrari.

lysace 10mo ago
Realistic racing sim games have taught me not to want a supercar for daily drives. Way too easy to f up. Just one such example (1983): https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/10/business/corporate-triumph-then-death-in-a-ferrari.html https://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/10/business/corporate-triump... https://archive.ph/gbrZv https://archive.ph/gbrZv > CORPORATE TRIUMPH, THEN DEATH IN A FERRARI > The young president of a successful new computer company died Wednesday afternoon in a car crash in California's Silicon Valley, hours after his company had sold its stock to the public for the first time and he had become a multimillionaire.
- joshu 10mo ago
  supercars from 1983 are very different than modern cars. they have traction control now and are much tamer.
  - lysace 10mo ago
    But of course there is a button to disable it. https://www.thedrive.com/news/37353/driver-turns-off-traction-control-in-a-ferrari-812-superfast-crashes-one-nanosecond-later https://www.thedrive.com/news/37353/driver-turns-off-tractio...
  - anonzzzies 10mo ago
    I still rather drive (get driven) a modern tank like suv. Or truck/bus conversion. I see these young/hip people spend countless hours in the gym, spending 1000k+/mo on supplements etc to 'live forever' only to wrap themselves around a tree at a young age on some superbike or car.
    - rob74 10mo ago
      ...or getting run over by a tank like suv with limited vision around the car (it's tank like after all) while cycling.