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yes. it is dangerous. driving fast is dangerous. but people do FAR more dangerous things on their commute to work every morning and after happy hour. how do
by beachstartup 13y ago
yes. it is dangerous. driving fast is dangerous. but people do FAR more dangerous things on their commute to work every morning and after happy hour.
how do you compare a dedicated, concentrated driver + spotter/navigator pair with $20k of equipment and performance/safety modifications in a BMW M5 to: your typical groggy office worker fatass drinking coffee, listening to an audio book, eating an egg mcmuffin and texting on his phone doing 85mph down the interstate on his morning commute, in a shitbox Saturn with drum brakes and an under-inflated tires that couldn't brake from 85mph in a mile's distance?
you're surrounded by far more dangerous things on the road every day, it just looks boring and pedestrian like some guy going to work instead of exciting and dangerous like 2 guys with sunglasses in an M5 speeding down the highway.
- chad_oliver 13y agoThat's a false dichotomy.
- beachstartup 13y agowhy? i clearly state driving fast is dangerous.
- iblaine 13y agoThe risks are obvious and here's a bit of proof to back that up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Gumball_3000_collision http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Gumball_3000_collision
- gambiting 13y agoIf anything, Gumball is a proof that it can be done safely. There are hundreds of contestants every single year and statistically it's one of the safest motorsport-events in the world.
- Someone 13y agoIrrelevant. This is not about comparing motorsport events for safety.
- gambiting 13y agoThen what is it about? In the end,we are just a bunch of guys on the Internet, every comment is irrelevant.
- mistercow 13y agoThe point is that the bar for "safe" for a motorsport event is way lower than for public roads.
- jlgreco 13y agoI don't particularly care to crunch the numbers or look up the figures, but I am going to go ahead and guess that one deadly incident for hundreds of drivers driving several thousand miles, for several years, is in the general ballpark of the standard fatalities per mile in America. Doing some quick "fermi-math" here, I'm guessing it is about the same.
- Someone 13y agoAgain, that is irrelevant for this case, where the guys racing are out on the street with its curbs, lamp posts, uneven paving, manholes, etc, and where they choose to be on the same 'track' as people who aren't volunteering to be in such a racing condition, and who aren't all, at the moment, physically or mentally prepared for it (in many cases, they aren't even capable of being physically and mentally prepared for it. Not everyone is born a racing driver, and those that are, grow old, too) Formula one is relatively safe nowadays because all cars are safe, the drivers have superhuman driving ability, are physically prepared, and wear safety gear, because the circuits are smooth and without things you can hit that will kill you, and because medical assistance is close by when needed.
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- PhasmaFelis 13y ago"yes. it is dangerous. driving fast is dangerous. but people do FAR more dangerous things on their commute to work every morning and after happy hour." Yeah, and driving a pen into your eyeball is FAR less dangerous than shooting yourself in the head with a .45. I'm not sure why I should care about the distinction, though. Your shithead texting at 85mph and Mr. "I'm Too Rich To Obey The Law" here are both assholes endangering innocent people with willful carelessness. Fuck 'em both.