I Can't Drive 155

[mikailborg]

There's a video on the Internet of some guy taking his new Lamborghini up to two-hundred-and-some MPH on Arizona public roads. The driver insists it's cool because his car is made for those speeds, Arizona roads are straight and well-maintained, and it's night, so there's no other traffic. (Except for the other traffic he had to slow down for in the video.)

I found the video at a car enthusiast website, so of course there are plenty of comments cheering and backslapping and complimenting the guy on the size of his reproductive organ his vehicle and driving ability. After the irritation faded, I decided that my hope was none of these fools ever discover, in person, exactly why encouraging someone to drive >200 on a public road is a bad idea.

Comments

[stori-lundi.livejournal.com]

There's one state that doesn't have a speed limit during the day - Montana or something like that. Tell him to go there. Egads. What a jerk.

[tango.livejournal.com]

Funny, I believe YouTube videos of such actions have been used as evidence in court recently...

[rattrap.livejournal.com]

My personal fastest had been 118, and I've been in a car doing just under 130. At those speeds, you offer up prayers to both God and Sir Isaac Newton that nothing goes wrong, because if it does...

Besides, I prefer to save my drive pool for when I really need it, not for recreational purposes.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Can't imagine 200...but I've been on those long, flat, straight Arizona roads (along with long and flat and straight roads in Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico), and it's no difficulty at all to look down at your speedometer and realize you're traveling in the 110-120 mph range.

(And that occasionally you're still being passed.)

[kittykatya.livejournal.com]

There's a time and place for such things and it's usually on the Bonneville Salt Flats or on Top Gear. Anything other than that and it's just stupid. :P