Drive like a lunatic

Never with a passenger. I want to drive to work tomorrow and clock 212km/h. Anything over 140 is reckless endangerment here.

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  • DADNSCAL

    You said never with a passenger like you’re only risking your life. You’re also risking the lives of other drivers and innocent bystanders. If you want to race, go to a racetrack.

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    • On the open road there is no such risk.

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  • notaserialkiller

    i run that fast all the time in my 1987 dodge diplomat but i do not get wanting to go that fast heading to work unless you really love your job. me I crawl in and fly out with my foot on the floor.

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  • olderdude-xx

    The highest speed I have driven in my life was 140 Miles per hour (225 Kilometers per hour)when I was in my very late teen years or very early 20's.

    In retrospect that was stupid back then as the tires were only rated for 80 mph - and I could have had a catastrophic blowout.

    I now run Z rated tires on my car so I don't have to worry about them coming apart at high speed (Z = greater than 149 mph). I've run Z rated tires since 1985 except the 1st set of tires on 2 cars (one of which I replaced the tires after about 5000 miles as they would not grip the road when cold and wet - very dangerous: I was stunned one fall day when it got into the 30's and I stopped at a normal stop on the way to work and the tires locked and skidded). I changed tires the next day to my preferred brand and Z rated tires (which gripped the road very well in the cold and wet and had decent traction in the winter).

    Driving out west on certain interstates its quite common to hit 90 mph for sustained periods in hot weather (most everyone drives at those speeds out there).

    Once when I was sleeping in the passenger seat and my wife was driving... down I-15 in Utah driving south from Idaho my wife was bored (miles after miles of flat straight desert with almost no traffic) and she and another car side by side raced to see what each car could do (or the driver was willing to do). My wife won the race by exceeding 120 MPH in a well maintained Hyundai Sonata with about 200,000 miles on it. I knew nothing about it at the time.

    When I woke up my wife told me about it, and all I said casually was "the tires are rated for that, and I understand why you did that." I saw that as normal and that most everyone will try that at least once in their life - and I make sure that my tires can handle that kind of driving for safety reasons.

    If you have a clear road where you don't have interfering traffic... Have fun...

    Also, be ready to pay the largest speeding ticket of your life if you get caught.

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    • It's actually Jail time here.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    i do that all the time on empty stretchesa rural interstate in a well maintained car built for it

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    • My usual top speed is 140kmh

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  • 1WeirdGuy

    Saw on youtube some 18 year old kid was street racing and he crashed and killed someone he got 25 years for it

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  • YE

    Have you written your will yet?

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    • I'd laugh. But I am more than capable of driving that fast. I wouldn't recommend going over 100mph/140kmh unless you know your car and your driving

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

        100 mph is 160 kph

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  • I used to street race. I learnt to drive 20 years ago. I was driving a car that had a catastrophic front end failure. None of the passengers knew until they saw the damage. My partner wondered why I ripped up the handbrake. The car would have flipped otherwise.

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