[Quicksilver]

The first axiom for an extremely good handling is that a car has the best handling ability when it is setup just a bit past neutral where it is a bit unstable. With the careful addition of a lack-of-knowledge (and brakes) it can suddenly shift to very unstable.

Learning to drive a loose car at 150 miles an hour isn't something you do in a weekend training course or even a few months of concerted practice. It is something you sneak up on after endless hours of practice. Most serious enthusiasts refuse to go there because they refuse to entertain "the bumps along the way"... But!... learning this is the only way to get near the limit at high speeds.

Any halfway 'performance' oriented car that can reach these kind of speeds will come unstuck if you lift when the car isn't going straight and there isn't anything you can do about it because there is no way that you can look at someone and tell if they have the skills to deal with it. The idea that we would allow the legal profession to force mediocrity on use should be enough to get us marching in the streets with our pitchforks and torches.

At the root of this, I take great exception to the notion that every little microbe of 'unsafe' must be cleansed from our world because it is a stupid lie,
because . . .
LIFE HAS A 100% MORTALITY RATE!
Get over it.

Most everything that is wonderful in this world involves risk. Very often it is great risk that is required for the truly exceptional things. We choose what risks we take and should settle for the consequences.

I have a right to go out and do something that is likely to injure myself. I don't have a right to try to extract a pound of flesh from the universe if I screw up and discover the full extent of the risk.

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The only defendant in this lawsuit that makes any sense is the driver of the Ferrari that was leaving the pits. When your actions are dangerously oblivious to the surrounding danger and that hurts someone then that is wrong.

I don't believe that means that he should pay for pain and suffering because the universe made sure that we would feel pain and suffering and never said that we would be paid for it. It is also unreasonable that he should pay for Mrs. Cory's life. Sorry but bad things happen in life and there isn't enough money in the world to make it all go away.

(so there)