Many years ago had a little white car going screaming past us on the M3 IIRC - few miles further on a snaking mess of skid marks and the car was literally wedged in the fork of a tree at the side of the road some distance off the ground at the side of the road. Looked like everyone had walked away from that one though.
Thoughts on Excessive Speed
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Many years ago had a little white car going screaming past us on the M3 IIRC - few miles further on a snaking mess of skid marks and the car was literally wedged in the fork of a tree at the side of the road some distance off the ground at the side of the road. Looked like everyone had walked away from that one though.
Indeed, from you. Just quote one hysterical post?
The argument is so unrealistic it's laughable - going by his logic, there are quite a few sections of my local housing estate I could drive through at 60 mph perfectly safely in "good conditions" (e.g. just get rid of all the parked cars, other traffic, and pedestrians) 
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Tbh it is a function of when you grew up. Pre-reddit and other "internet front pages", you used to go to rotten.com etc... Goatse was par for the course for tricking friends etc. I didn't want to grow up this way - but the internet being completely open and poorly understood made it difficult to protect folk.
Btw I've not seen the brazilian machete video but there is DEFINITELY a chain saw version.
Talking about birds - the other day had a bird take an absolute dump on my windscreen mid drivingproperly obscuring my vision stuff - not something you can plan for. Something very wrong with that bird the amount that landed on my windscreen :s
I had a seagull hit my window at a speed I won't declare (a long time ago now). To this day I still can't believe it didn't smash the window in. Left blood and crap all over the car and a imprint on the windscreen till I polished it off.
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you only have to look at their reply to your earlier post to know what you're dealing with. and they had the cheek to accuse someone else of mental gymnastics.The argument is so unrealistic it's laughable - going by his logic, there are quite a few sections of my local housing estate I could drive through at 60 mph perfectly safely in "good conditions" (e.g. just get rid of all the parked cars, other traffic, and pedestrians)
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I definitely agree with whoever suggested getting a track day car if you have a yen for some speed in a fairly controlled environment. Morals aside, on today's roads speeding is gonna cost you at the best some money and at the worst your licence.
There's no fun in driving fast on UK roads any more. I can assure you track days or better yet, some proper racing will get it out of your system. I used to be a bit of a lunatic on the roads until I started racing competitively, then as I progressed I realised even the road car exotica are pitiful compared to something with ground effects and a lot of aero on slicks. Since then I have run bangers on the road and been happy to mainly pootle about. in fact driving on the roads is now a bit of a chore due to the volume of traffic in urban areas. Not too bad out here, but the cities... Sheesh!
As they say, stay safe.
There's no fun in driving fast on UK roads any more. I can assure you track days or better yet, some proper racing will get it out of your system. I used to be a bit of a lunatic on the roads until I started racing competitively, then as I progressed I realised even the road car exotica are pitiful compared to something with ground effects and a lot of aero on slicks. Since then I have run bangers on the road and been happy to mainly pootle about. in fact driving on the roads is now a bit of a chore due to the volume of traffic in urban areas. Not too bad out here, but the cities... Sheesh!
As they say, stay safe.
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You absolute cosmopolitan you!
I had a work colleague years ago who crashed into a stop sign because he got ‘attacked’ by a daddy long legs. He was fine, car was not and nor was the stop. There was much ribbing a pee extraction.
He then got the bill to replace the stop sign. It’s around about that time he decided he wasn’t scared of daddy long legs anymore.
The argument is so unrealistic it's laughable - going by his logic, there are quite a few sections of my local housing estate I could drive through at 60 mph perfectly safely in "good conditions" (e.g. just get rid of all the parked cars, other traffic, and pedestrians)
Which just proves the point that people are so anti speed they lack the basic understanding of driving to the conditions of the road.
i don't think that reply is proving the point you think it is.
I fail to see the relationship.
The majority of drivers that I see who are breaking the speed limit by what I’d consider a significant level also appear to be those most commonly with the least regard for road conditions, eg weaving through traffic, insufficient breaking distances and a general disregard of being polite to other drivers.
So you think that there would be a point where driving through a housing estate at 60mph would be acceptable?
I wouldnt by the very nature that its a housing estate...
In my experience it is unfortunately equally both ways - those who are deviating significantly from the speed limit both under and over are often those with less regard for road conditions or consideration for those around them. Though I'm sure plenty of people aren't happy with me either LOL but then I am at least attempting to drive to the rules and conditions :s
I find it scary how many people seem to drive now without much attention on the road - it seems to have become much worse since things resumed to more or less normal again since the lockdowns, a lot of people I think need to pull their heads out their rears.
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The same argument applies in that a motorway is not a racetrack.
Your posts indicate that you seem to be operating under the very dangerous assumption that your ability and judgement is infallible and that unpredictable events simply cannot occur.
I just hope you don't end up hurting anyone else if you are ever proven wrong.
Definitely backs up my suspicions that most people in the Midlands got their driving licence out of a Christmas cracker.
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As I said, people in Germany manage 100+ mph for hours at a time, all day, every day. Billions of miles driven. Why isn't everyone dead?
I've done well north of 150mph many, many times - sometimes for an hour at a time - completely legally. It is all about picking a speed safe for the conditions, your car and your ability.
BTW, I've spent well over 100 hours undergoing advanced driver training, Police Level 1 standard assessments etc. I don't use that as a justification for speeding, just mentioning it to say that broadly speaking I know how to judge the conditions (beyond looking at the number in the circle) and what is likely to be safe and what isn't. I've been driving for over 20 years now, have had a fair few performance cars which I've thoroughly enjoyed on road and track and never once have I had any sort of motoring conviction or driver awareness course.
