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Old 07-20-2008, 11:07 PM   #40 (permalink)
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NO! He is CLEARLY A FOOL! After he f-ed up HE IMMEDIALTLY ALMOST LOST IT AGAIN! Slamming his foot on the gas Trying to Still SHoW HOW COOL he IS!
Also how can you say blindly? I obviously SAW the evidence!
You saw a guy start rolling after a green light, then spin out. If he'd really "slammed his foot on the gas" he'd have been squealing tires from the git-go. On a slick road it's way too easy to spin out on a turn like that, even at low speed.

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I also said I'll never lose rear grip. If I act in such a way I am fully aware of the possible outcomes. When you push the limit you will eventually go past/over it and hopefully can bring it back.
Sure a good driver can anticipate it but he Can Avoid it he truly wished too. For example all he had to do was cross the intersection in a safe manner, instead he decided its showoff time.
So, you stay at home with the car in the garage? That's the only way to ever be 100% fully aware of all outcomes, and be guaranteed that nothing unexpected will happen. (provided nothing ever gets near your car, pets, people, tools, nothing.) If you drive a car, you have to accept that unforeseen things can and will happen. Spins can happen at speeds as low a 15 mph. Two words can sum up the unexpected rule of driving better than anything I know: black ice. Sometimes luck smiles and nothing bad comes of crossing some, sometimes it doesn't. And there's nothing ANY driver can do about it, other than stay home.

And judging from the vid, he did try to "bring it back," as you say. He spins to the left, then the car swings to the right.

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I'll agree with you that it could happen to anybody.. Anybody ACTING out of Line with the law! If you chose to drive in such a manner sooner or later is going to bite you in the ass. HE CLEARLY was trying to showoff and he messed up and went careening into oncoming traffic but luckly the oncoming truck went off the road to make room.
GEEZE! He accelerated at a green light! WOW! What do you know, you actually have to press the gas pedal to make the car move forward!

Going back to that nasty left-hand turn that I mentioned earlier, you can easily spin out while driving within all posted speed limits and traffic laws. And till he spun, he didn't do anything illegal. Last time I looked there wasn't a law against accelerating hard on a public road, as long as you're not racing and you don't chirp the tires.


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Or try this one on for size... For you to Blindly to define my driving characteristics is "stupid".
I got evidence, where's yours?

I suggest you take the notes. I already know this lesson.
Evidence? I've got evidence that you've assumed that this driver is a showoff and an idiot, and don't know ANY of the circumstances surrounding this incident. You just up and jumped this guy out of nowhere. Hell, you might actually be correct, maybe he was showing off. But it doesn't matter, because there's not enough evidence to support either judgement in the video. The road could have been wet, he could have
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