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If you buy a fast car, most manufacturers encourage you to learn to drive it first. Porsche USA does so by inviting you to a "free" professionally taught set of advanced driving lessons on a closed race track. They want you to know exactly what the car will do at high speeds (straights & corners), and exactly how dangerous it is at various speeds.
None of them will encourage you to drive at high speeds when anyone else is within 100 yards of you!
A good driver is not the danger, it is everyone else who has to share the road. So you never drive at high speed when anyone else is in sight! (not unless you know them at least).
Fast car driving is only to be done alone, or with a set of people who you know and trust. "Strangers" are never involved, it is simply too dangerous to let that happen.
If you still think "fast" car drivers are "silly", or dangerous, call your insurance broker for a quote on a fast car........I pay less for my Porsche than most people pay for their Camry! 23 years without an accident or claim, a lot of which has been spent driving at "silly" speeds alone on the road!
Really fast car drivers are not the danger IMHO, it is those in Mustangs, and old Camaros (even the odd F150) that behave badly on the roads........if I got a penny for every time they wanted to race me I could trade-in & up every year!
How can it be that I am allowed to drive 300km if I want on a German autobahn and you guys in the states have rediculously low speed limits? When I see on TV those 8 lane highways you have in the states they look perfect for speeding if organised correctly. Cars are built a lot better these days yet the speed limit has been around for eternity.
In Europe now, thank God, there is a trend for higer speed limits in Austria and Italy there are now trials of 160 km/h ( 100 mph) on some roads.
Looks like you are going to have more fun at 55 mph :)
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I agree, accidents are caused when inexperienced drivers get too close to each other.
How may times have you been concerned about the person in the car behind you? Too many times for me!
I keep my distance from the person in front, but, it is hard to keep your distance from the person behind.....they are the danger!
Some get so close, a very dangerous distance, that I either have to choose to slow right down and let them pass out of the way, or choose to speed up to lose them.
I hate driving in the congested city, simply because it is full of people who are talking on cell phones, doing their makeup, looking at the sites, and doing just about everything else other than concentrating on their driving!
I graduated from the Sammy Hagar school of driving.
