I used to take my kids to the slick track go kart track In pidgeon forge TN every year on spring break. I'd rent the track for an hour where we could run all we wanted but other folks still could come in and run with us. Great fun and the kids learned about steering into a skid and so forth.

Crashing it?

Hauling logs out of the woods, high centering the rear axle and flipping back. I was walking there and caught it, shut it down, he crawled out from under it safe and sound but the smell of gas bothered him for years as it had been dripping down on him.

And lets not forget all the dash-mounted devices - touchscreens - featured in cars today.

Happy Motoring, Mark

He totaled vehicles from the maternal side? :confused:

Please explain.

I am truly scared by the guys who cross 4 lanes before a freeway exit and exect everyone to just move because they were slow in planning their exit.

Plus we regularly have crashes in Michigan where people go 100 mph on the freeway then run into traffic-- literally--:eek:

Should I just be careful and avoid the Hand of Natural Selection? :confused:

I see this pretty much every day. Some awful drivers around here. Thing that I think is funny is the folks swerving in and out of lanes trying to get ahead. Strategically picking one lane and making 1-2 moves over maybe 10 miles will almost always net you more than the swerving, plus saves a lot of aggravation. Always funny when someone cuts you off and swerved into another lane only to get stopped as you crawl by.

Also recommended is a car that can shoot flames out its exhaust if necessary .


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......Or get their Pruis run over riding @ 65 in the left lane with their noses high in the air.:rolleyes:
We have a name for them in NJ: Left Lane Dicks. ;)

THIS!!!

Yeah, I saw those signs in Ohio, going to and from the track this summer. Signs mean very little as not enough information. Number of deaths up 15% ? Well bad for those killed but number is worthless otherwise. Deaths per 100 million miles traveled is the best number to work with. Did THAT number go up or down? If deaths were up 15% but miles driven were up 30%, we are actually doing a good job. Then you need to break down the numbers to where and how the deaths occurred. Limited access highways (interstates and such), rural roads, city streets all have different rates. In Germany they do what they can to get people to drive on the Autobahn because the rate is so low there. Much better life expectancy than on basic rural road. Then you look at other factors and start fixing them. KY and Ohio have been making good effort at stopping crossover deaths. Accidents where driver crosses median and hit opposing traffic head-on. High fatality rate for that sort of thing. New (?) technique is to put posts and cables between roads in median. Works pretty well most of the time but not always. Little girl was killed in Ohio when she was standing outside of family's wrecked car and another car hit cable, snapped it, and it whipped back and hit her. Tragic. Try to stay in your car if possible, it's safer.
Point is, those signs are just safety propaganda. I see those numbers in the paper all the time and it drives me nuts. Give us some really useful numbers and we can have an intelligent discussion. Probably need to have the discussion, but not going to happen if they are just trying to feed us unhelpful numbers.

I rarely drive the interstate but yesterday drove about 60 miles out and back into Denver. On that trip I saw 5 cars exit the highway from the left lane, cutting across 3 lanes of dense traffic at the last second. My wife drove that same section of interstate last week and commented on the same thing. Not sure what's causing that increase in poor driving but it's definitely dangerous.

On board navigation...."TURN RIGHT NOW!!!!"

Yes, I just reached that hypothesis. I'm thinking that what is happening is that people are becoming dependent upon the GPS warning them to get into the right lane for an exit. When the GPS is muted or not turned on, they aren't paying attention enough to get in the right lane in time for the exit, so they make a desperate move at the last second. A bad side effect of on-board navigation separate from the human brain.

I wouldn't assume the numbers on the overhead signs are constantly up to date. What you likely saw was an old number and then a recent update.

Probably there are more deaths during the summer because more people drive more miles this time of year. It's not clear to me whether winter weather (hah!) increases or decreases the risk. On the one hand there are certainly more accidents during inclement weather. But speeds are also lower, so more likely to be fender benders.

Texas does the same thing with electronic signs, but the numbers are much more sobering - about 3,000 per year.

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Obamacare= more people going to doctors and hospitals=more overworked doctors=more accidents=Obama is the cause.