Originally Posted by island911 (Post 12003749)

Being a "kid" in the 80's I thought the 60's would be the last of the big power cars. Clearly I was really wrong about that, Now even SUV's can run the quarter mile under 12 seconds. And yet the biggest death threat to young adults is fentanyl.

Originally Posted by Tobra (Post 12003975)

Wing car with a hemi, depending on the gearing, would be faster than you want to go on most tires now, can't even imagine that in olden days tires

ZFR-750, yeah

Had the Integra to an indicated 130 middle of nowhere to Midland, lot of straight slabs of concrete out there, you could probably land ALL the B-52s at the same time on it.

Now that I think of it, had the 914 up to 100, when I put the new brakes and tires in it, solid, quieter than I expected, targa top on, had plenty left

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey (Post 12003325)

Yeah like no teenagers ever drove like idiots before video games. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Seahawk (Post 12004130)

I didn't need them, into my 40's.:cool:

That said, and as been mentioned, at that speed tires become the life line, the difference between a bunch of "stuff" and a tree necklace.

178mph has nothing to do with perception(s) for amateurs, at that speed it is all about the physics. The fastest I have ever gone, as the saying goes, is 70mph down hill in a 62 VW Beetle.

Originally Posted by zakthor (Post 12004147)

For me it was 30 mph on a skateboard on a bumpy concrete sidewalk. Too fast to jump off- just gotta make it to the bottom of the hill.

Originally Posted by zakthor (Post 12004147)

For me it was 30 mph on a skateboard on a bumpy concrete sidewalk. Too fast to jump off- just gotta make it to the bottom of the hill.

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey (Post 12003715)

It's part that and the other part, a big part, is physiology.

Metabolism affects how all living things perceive time.

The higher the metabolism the slower the world appears to move.

All mammals have roughly the same number of heartbeats in a lifetime, ~1 Billion

Meaning a field mouse which has a calendar life span of roughly a year experiences about 75 years of equivalent human life in that one year.

Younger people have higher metabolisms than adults or old farts like us.

The world moves slower for them them than it does for us which is why our reaction times seem to get worse as we age, everything is moving just a bit faster for us.

That field mouse is hard to catch because to it we look like we are moving in slow motion.

So 150 in a car is a different perceived experience for younger people.

Originally Posted by Zeke (Post 12004336)

I'm not 100% sure on that, Professor.

Originally Posted by Geronimo '74 (Post 12004543)

176, even faster than a targa…

Originally Posted by fastfredracing (Post 12004009)

Originally Posted by zakthor (Post 12003951)

Uh… no? Where did you hear that?

it is still car accidents by a long shot.

Originally Posted by zakthor (Post 12003951)

Uh… no? Where did you hear that?

it is still car accidents by a long shot.

Originally Posted by island911 (Post 12004635)

LOL, Ouch! :D


You should check. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm

2/3rds of poisoning deaths (33.7 /100k) are fentanyl.

Motor vehicle traffic deaths (13.7 /100k)

Originally Posted by masraum (Post 12004686)

If you go by age group (15-24), the numbers change, because car wrecks get teens between 15-24, and poisoning only gets a 3 year run to make up for it. But even with that head start, the difference between automotive and poisoning is still <10% (7425 vs 6929)

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