No! A dear friend of mine was killed while driving home by some illegal street racers! So NO! I have zero time or patience for them at all, and I always call 911 whenever I see it and thank god my memory is as good as is is, that I am able to recall their license plate numbers after only catching a quick glimpse! I also tell the 911 operator that I have the incident captured on my DashCam and ask them where I can meet the officer to give them a copy of the video. To those who feel that it’s harsh, I guarantee you the guy sitting in prison on a vehicular manslaughter charge, would have preferred an expensive ticket that night! I would DAMN sure rather have my friend back!
Just had 2 people killed, 4 injured, and 7 cars destroyed in my area due to an illegal street race. I believe we had 5 deaths last year due to illegal street racing in my suburban town.
I'm fine with racing, and there are several race tracks in the Bay Area that offer various types of racing for amateurs - you need a helmet and your car has to pass a safety check, and higher classes of cars need additional safety gear, but otherwise anyone can race. But those places are as safe as racing can get - spectators are protected and safety issues are very rare.
Racing on streets where people may be walking, kids playing, and other non-involved drivers driving is absolutely reckless and the penalties should be severe, in my opinion. Too many people - especially innocent, uninvolved people - are hurt and killed.
Depends on the race. If it is a chase or random encounter pass race, that’s one thing; if it is an organized drag that is another. The way that Club Midnight is reported to have done their racing is the best example of what I’m talking about. These guys would drive in excess of 200 mph on the open highway but their cars were fully built to be able to handle whatever came their way; they even improved their headlights by setting up double high beams to signal their approach to regular drivers. Japan had this shit down to a science and the guys racing were generally high profile individuals with a lot of prominence and a lot of power so they had to be responsible and make sure to never get caught.
In the US it is all about attention, which is lame as fuck.
Agreed, I visited Japan for swimming, I did see some people going insanely fast, I don't know if it is common or what, but one second they were there, then they were not..
I do not condone such actions such as this, it is 100% illegal for a reason, not only that but it could also cause public or property damage and harm. It may seem cool to be a bystander watching this but in reality it could be quite dangerous.
Yes it's still against the law but there are locations where it's held. In August My City has Classic Car Show over six to seven thousand cars how old all tricked out. Hot August Nights in Reno Nevada and they will have a street racing event that will be legal but there's always going to be street racing legal and illegal if you love cars and you love go fast and we build them to go fast and we build them to be faster than others
I did it a few times because of the thrill... it was stupid, even with many "precautions" taken at the time (effectively closing streets) it was dangerous... and even at the proper and legal tracks I saw accidents happening. So, no, I don't like it... I keep the adrenaline rush off the streets, I still like to go off-road where if something happens, it'll happen to me, nobody else.
It should not be illegal because nobody has the right to tell me how to drive except me. If I buy the car then nobody can tell me how to drive it except me.
You also cannot own the road and make rules for said road because the road did not consent to be owned by anyone.
I don’t mind it if it’s safe. We have to remember that their are myriad races happening all over without video. So when you see a guy crash on the YouTube video, don’t think that applies to everyone. I’m more of a spirited driver. I’ll street race, but it’s normally from a dig, or 50-130 on the highway.
The real challenge is drifting. The majority of street-racing faggoty Americans who think they're cool barely handling a straight line would piss & shit their pants in Japan or other countries where drifting is popular.
I don't care for criminals nor the crimes they commit. There is a reason this is illegal. It puts lives at risk and causes many deaths each year. Everyone who chooses to be present for this belongs in jail.
Street racing is stupid. Unless you actually have experience on a real race track, such as an NHRA sanctioned track, you also don't have the medical and rescue staff on hand when things go wrong, and they will go wrong.
When I was a kid there were street racers every Saturday night. My old Chevy could not race but I knew a guy who had a 64 Nova with a 327. It put out 350 HP. This car flew.
I dislike them due to the fact that I live on a long stretch of straight road and have had many cars land in my front yard upside down and periodically on fire. This is why I don't approve of them now.
They kill people. Who would pay $20,000.00 bucks to see a car racers family die than an innocent one. I would pay 20,000.00 to see the street racers family dead.
I said no, I have participated in many illegal street races and now I dislike them due to the fact that I live on a long stretch of straight road and have had many cars land in my front yard upside down and periodically on fire. This is why I don't approve of them now.
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