There's a difference between a roadblock and a unit waiting up ahead to try and intercept you bud.
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I was in a JPN Wangan room the other day, and specifically asked a guy from Japan (well, he said he was from Tokyo, sounded Japanese...but on teh webz, who knows) that very question
"Is the rumour that cops won't chase you if you go fast enough true?"
His response was "Yes, true...they won't chase you, they will call ahead to the next unit. The trick is though, at the speeds those guys do, it's difficult for the 'next cop' to predict when and where you will appear. You either blow by 'next guy' just like the first, or you exit the freeway before you reach them." That's paraphrased, but the basic idea of the conversation we had.
Regretfully, I forgot to ask him about the constant increase in speed cameras, and the roll they play.
If I remember correctly, didn't Jeremy Clarkson use a mask or something to avoid cameras when he drove the GTR across Japan in that Top Gear special?
Never been to Japan myself, but there definitely seems to be a much different acceptance of this type of reckless driving. If anyone in America tried this, it'd be on Fox News ASAP, and they'd have Apache Longbows chasing them down the highway (maybe all the tunnels, also with their underground exits, makes an arial chase difficult in Tokyo?)
Also remember, many of the aftermarket tuners that are household names today, first cut their teeth by street racing. Companies like Top Secret, RE Amemiya, Bee R, RWB, all earned their rep on the streets before the track. It's not like these guys are secretive about it either....there's videos of them hitting 200mph in traffic all over YouTube, and the cars aren't exactly discrete.
I just can't see this happening in America. Maybe shops like UGR come close to this, but I certainly don't see vids of the UGR owner and 15 of his buddies rippin the freeway at 150mph+, like Amemiya San.
