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You know, you can drive safely at a fast speed.
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I agree, but it's still dangerous driving fast. Just look at Formula 1 races today. They are safe, but accidents still happen.

both are true. but personally, i do not suggest driving fast on street. if you want fast speeds, go to a racing course and do it there. this will cost you, but not nearly as much if you kill someone or injure someone.
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Exactly. Racing at streets is just bad, there's innocent people roaming around, you never know what might happen. And he was driving fast at a construction zone.
 
Originally posted by MazKid
You know, you can drive safely at a fast speed. How do you know Wanna b wasn't practicing that technique?

Though, through a construction zone is about the worst place to go that fast.

And how do we know that wanna b is telling a true story? He could just be making it up to get a reaction...
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it is one of my goals to be to be a really great driver and to find mine and my cars limits. i don't drive wreckless, just fast;)

in the construction zone we went between about 80mph. not 95 mph. that was after the construction zone and on another highway. the construction zone was on 435. we got up to 95 on I-35.

this is a true story but weather or not you belive it is up to you cuz i don't really care if you do or not. and yes i did write to it to see all you guy's reactions. why else would i post it?

well, drive safely and maybe someday a little gray kia will come safely fly'n by you:D
 
Hi your dumb. Im suprised your kia didn't rattle to peices after 80 Miles per hour. Im not sure there is a way to not drive wrecklessly at that speed in that car, considering its on the ragged edge,the tires are what 4.5 inches wide?

Shame.
 
Originally posted by Sominon
Hi your dumb. Im suprised your kia didn't rattle to peices after 80 Miles per hour. Im not sure there is a way to not drive wrecklessly at that speed in that car, considering its on the ragged edge,the tires are what 4.5 inches wide?

Shame.
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you don't know **** about cars do you? just cuz its a kia doesn't make it bad car. theres no shakes or rattles up to 95mph witich is the fastest ive gone since me and my dad alined the front end and its a small car it does need wide tires.
 
Originally posted by MazKid
You know, you can drive safely at a fast speed. How do you know Wanna b wasn't practicing that technique?

Though, through a construction zone is about the worst place to go that fast.

And how do we know that wanna b is telling a true story? He could just be making it up to get a reaction...
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Yes, but thats then there's the difference between someone being a safe driver and then someone thinking that they are.
 
Originally posted by [color]=blue]Wana B[/color]
it is one of my goals to be to be a really great driver and to find mine and my cars limits. i don't drive wreckless, just fast

in the construction zone we went between about 80mph. not 95 mph. that was after the construction zone and on another highway. the construction zone was on 435. we got up to 95 on I-35.

well, drive safely and maybe someday a little gray kia will come safely fly'n by you
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Winding up....
Wana B: Driving fast is fine, wanting to be a great driver is fine, finding your cars limits is great to know as you know what it can and can't do. Which I commend you on.

Finding your cars limits in a construction zone and in traffic is a bonehead move. Call the local police precinct and find out about drivers school. Call your local race track and find out about racing school. Start saving your pennies to contact Skip Barber. While you're at it, start saving your pennies for something like this: http://aeroseek.chooseyouritem.com/exotics/files/51000/51200.html

While you can drive a Kia to over 100mph, you've never stopped to think "Should I drive it that fast" .

Let's do a little math here. 100mph is 150+ feet per second. That means every 1/10 of a second is a car length. If you see something in the road and you're travelling that fast, and it takes you a 1/2 second to react, you've already travelled 7 1/2 car lengths. How far ahead do your lights penetrate? Now on top of reaction time, you've got stopping distance to calculate. Let's also figure in how well your car can stop whilst braking and swerving? Can you say loss of control?

Find a driving school and attend it. You'll learn far better how to control the car in that 2 day session, than 2 years of driving home.

And I'll be at less of a risk from your stupidity.

Good luck, and let us know what happens.

AO
 
Originally posted by wana b drifter
in the construction zone we went between about 80mph. not 95 mph.
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If you seriously think that 15 mph makes a difference at that speed, you have absolutely no business driving that fast.

A professional driver with a well-trained threshold braking technique could probably get your car to a stop from 80 mph, under good road conditions, in about 220 feet. Add to that the 60 feet or so the car will travel while he moves his foot from the gas or brake. That makes 280 feet, or almost a football field, needed to safely stop a '95 Kia with a rusted muffler travelling 80 mph, under ideal conditions. Were you thinking a football field ahead of your car? I seriously doubt it. You were focused on the back bumper of that Mustang. I also seriously doubt that as a person who's had a license for probably 2 years, you have a well-trained threshold-braking technique, particularly not under panic conditions. I'd bet this week's paycheck that if something suddenly happened, you'd simply spike the brakes, leading directly to loss of steering control and adding oh, another 40 or 50 feet to your stopping distance.

80 mph in a construction zone is twice as fast as you should be going. You may feel indestructible, but what happens to the poor construction worker that hops the jersey wall in front of you? You yourself stated that you were weaving through traffic, meaning 95 mph was way too fast to be going for those conditions. When you're passing cars going 25+ mph slower than you, it dosen't take much for someone to misjudge how fast you're coming up and move over on you without signalling. It also doesn't take much of a tap to put you out of control at that speed - and in fact, all it would take is for you to overreact slightly when some bluehair in a Lincoln does decide to change lanes without checking her blind spot.

Frankly, you're a fool to drive like that under those conditions. Honestly I'm not concerned about you and what happpens as a result of your mistakes. I'm concerned about the innocent bystanders you may take with you. I hope you never drive like that with a passenger in the car, either. For some reason, it's always the passenger who ends up dying when the driver loses control at those speeds.

I'll add to Der Alta's excellent suggestions: go to www.scca.org and look up autocross events local to you. For $20 or $30 you can spend all Sunday driving your car at its limits in a safe, controlled environment, and you can get tips and advice from people who take driving very seriously.
 
ya know this happened at 10:50pm on a tuesday night in kansas. the traffic was pretty light and i know that none of you will belive this but when i was behind the mustang i didn't just focus on his rear bumper, i really did watch the other cars in front us, i watched for lane changes or brake lights to light up and i know some of the risks of driving that fast. i know about the people that don't check there blind spots before changing lanes. ive had it happen to me before and i know my car is closer to its edge so every input must be more precise and people probably aren't expecting 2 cars to come fly'n by 95mph on any highway. i don't know everything about driving fast but i but i do know enough to be able to do it safely in light traffic and i try to be as safe as i can at whatever speed i am driving at weather its 15 or 115mph.

autoX's are somethin that id like to try but its a 30 mile drive to the closest one and $30 is kinda alot of money to me right now. i work at pizza hut and am try'n to save up for a new car so money is kinda tight right now but i will try it someday.

in the construction zone the speed limit was 60mph and i was no where close to my cars limits there and neighter was he. we where just driven through there at about 70-80mph and passing slower traffic. there are only 2 streets that i go on to try and find mine and my cars limits. they're pretty flat, have lots of truns, and after about 10:30pm no ones on em. one is behind a mall and the other goes by the high school and negither of them have ANY blind corners.
 
When you're 18, you think about what YOU can do in you're car. When you're 32, you think(do) about what you can do to you're wife in you're car.:crazy: :yuck:
 
Originally posted by halfracedrift
seriously, W B D, There's a reason people have brains... THINK before you act.. might save your life one day..
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thank you soo much:D cuz i never ever think when i drive. i just put my right foot down and see where i end up. maybe you should think before you make a dumbass post cuz when you drive fast (or atleast when i do) you think about everything in front of you every car and every bit of road. you have to watch every car front of and predict what they will do and watch whats changing on the road. so don't EVER tell me i don't think when i drive you little ****.
 
Originally posted by Mr. Snowtire
Hey Wana B. Although I like to go fast, I occasionally visit Bangedup.com to bring me back to earth. Try it....and respect your elders.:trouble: :odd: :p
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im 3 years older then him. it pisses me off when people who can't even drive try to give me tips on it. and the stories ive heard from my dad keep me very close to reallity.
 
Obviously you're not that close to reality if you're still insisting upon being correct for the dumb ass things you were doing on a road. I know it can be fun to speed sometimes, but if you really thought before you drove, you'd ask yourself "Is it really worth it?" I can consider myself a new driver as well, I've had my license for a little over a year now, and I used to speed all the time, but after a few months one of my close friends got in a bad accident that was the fault of his reckless driving. I took a long hard look at how I was behaving on the road, and slowed down a lot. Now I almost never find myself going more than 5 or 10 mph over the speed limit. If you have somewhere to be, unless it's a long trip, speeding will most likely only save you a couple of minutes. Even though halfracedrift may be 3 years younger than you, I'd much rather be on the same road as him than I would you. Get a ****ing clue, you act like driving recklessly is okay because you think that you're a talented driver. Well chances are you're not, and even if you are a talented driver, nobody is perfect. And I don't thinkt hat endangering the lives of others is really worth the cheap thrills of racing for a few minutes.
 
Originally posted by MazKid
About the following a car at 95mph...we've done it many times. It is quite fun to drive along at 95mph, especially when someone in a much faster car is doing the same thing. While riding in my dad's RX-7, we've followed a very loud Camero on I-270 going 90-110mph(depending on traffic), he would be going 90, then the person infront of him would move into the next lane(we were in the fast lane), and he would downshift and take off, and so would we.
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:( Why can't my Dad have a fast car...sniff...

Right. I agree with the moderators and other people smarter than I am about that whole fiasco being terribly timed and located. So there.
 
Originally posted by SublimeDood10
Get a ****ing clue, you act like driving recklessly is okay because you think that you're a talented driver. Well chances are you're not, and even if you are a talented driver, nobody is perfect. And I don't thinkt hat endangering the lives of others is really worth the cheap thrills of racing for a few minutes.
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okay, listen there's a BIG ****ing difference between speeding and reckless driving:mad: i got up to i did 75-80 in 60! i don't care who else dies cuz of there dumb driving. so one of 2 things is going to come out of my driving: 1. i get killed. 2. i live and through my experiances i become a very good driver. no matter what happens it won't be the end of the world. i have made it 3 years driving like this and i have learned alot in this 3 years and i am going to keep learning. well we'll see what happens. will i become a great driver or die trying because i don't see myself changing my driving style anytime soon.
 
Originally posted by halfracedrift
Maybe we should just put an end to this arguement.... don't get so pissed off... we're all just trying to help you
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:lol: yeah thanx a bunch:rolleyes: but anyways just cuz you drive fast doesn't mean its reakless and remeber im 18(in 2 months) so makes me right;) and you'll have a hell of a hard time convincing me that im bad at the one thing i do best. ive read tons of magazine articles, webpages, watching countless races and tv shows to learn how i can become a better driver. cars are my life. ive around them since i was born. i am one of the very few or maybe the only 17y/o here that can downshift and rev match right, heel-toe shift right, and knows what double clutching really is. im probably not as good of driver as i think i am but im better then you think i am.
 
Well.... whatever you want.. just don't kill innocent people... or for that matter.. injure...

And.... Most of the people *adults* know that driving skill comes with experience, not reading or watching tv..
 
Originally posted by halfracedrift
Well.... whatever you want.. just don't kill innocent people... or for that matter.. injure...

And.... Most of the people *adults* know that driving skill comes with experience, not reading or watching tv..
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trust me you can learn ALOT from magazines and tv shows and stuff. most people *adults* know theres many ways to learn things, experience is one of the many and i try to soak up as much knowlage as can weather its from tv, magazines, the internet, or experience.

as for hurting innocent hopefully it won't happen, but that is one of the risk and i try to minimize this risk when im driving at any speed weather its 15 or 115mph i try my best to do it as safe as possiable. i VERY rarely hit anything over 100mph because it must be on the right road (a stright one and atleast a 4 lanes with VERY few or no on ramps) and at the right time (REALLY late when theres no traffic).
 
What he's implying is that driving is "Hands On" experience. TV and mags teach you lines to take and how to install a 6:71 blower on a Yugo, but not how to shoulder check or explain to a cop how you didn't see that kid run out in front of you. Next time be sure to add that you missed your shift because a beer bottle went under the brake pedal. The only reason you're getting so much grief is because some people drive the same highways and because there are so many impressionable kids on this forum.
 
i watch the races very closely. thats where i learned how to heel-toe shift and magazines and the internet have tought me alot about how slower is faster. you can learn lots of other stuff on internet that can make you a better driver too if just look around.
 
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