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Good points and nice essay Cramer. I do like to 911s in the fast lane though. I mean, to see some guy doing 57mph in a 911 in the middle late is a complete waste. I rarely see guys drive em the way they're supposed to be driven--even safely. You can safely have some fun.
The best point is the braking. I agree. I may stop, but that doesn't meant the bozo behind me will be able to. I'm always aware of this.
On the other hand, RarlyL8 echoes my views concerning individual choice. Then again, most of us are from a different, unsheltered generation. When I was a kid in the 70s, you could ride in the back of a truck. You could ride a bicycle or skateboard without a helmet.
Kids today, for being just as arrogant, are twice as protected and naive. Joe Hotshot in his Honda was riding a BMX bicycle with a dork@ss helmet on a year before he runs into me in his car. A helmet like that would have gotten you laughed off the roadside when I was a kid.
So these kids haven't had to deal with much risk = responsibility = learning to care for yourself. The CA gov't has become a big Mommy for them. They'd be better served to learned a few lessons on a bicycle before getting into a car. It'd make em more cautious.
Anyway, on the general responsibility and personal choice/stupidity. (before this goes on and on).
I remember flying down the freeway not long after I got the car to have some guy in a big Ford truck catch up to me at about 85 mph. Then, with his buddy in the car, he passed, and I think he must have bumped his steering wheel slightly.
That truck went side to side like nothing I'd ever seen as he tried to compensate and looked as though it was a hair from complete disaster, and he quickly slowed down.
That's HIS fault, not mine. If he had so much as bumped it a smidgeon more, that behemoth would have rolled into a heap of tattered metal.
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