Man the punishments in the UK are so lenient.
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Punishments for drivers are almost universally lenient, unfortunately.
I'm surprised Max Dangerfield was only doing 140
Max Dangerfield? what where their parents thinking when they named him?
Right up there with naming your kid Horace Heracy. I mean, what did you expect him to do?
His parents had a premonition, and named thier child accordingly. like the parents naming thier child's last name a variation of METH, like methany and methvin.
That is just really close to "Max Power"
i knew someone during early covid that was named AUSTIN powers. at least its not MUSK children, or ABCDE, or methany or methvin.
Crikey!
Why does a 20 year old even own a car that can go that fast? Actually why can any car go that fast? You're not allowed to go even close to that on most highways.
was banned from driving for 50 months
50 years would be too short. Someone like that shouldn't be allowed behind a wheel ever again.
Actually why can any car go that fast?
German car, Autobahn. But most modern cars can go similarly fast. Petrol/gas usually faster than comparable diesel.
The high top speed is a by-product of the amount of power cars now have, power they need to accelerate from 0-60 fast enough for modern traffic, get up a hill, tow a caravan or whatever, and to comfortably and safely maintain motorway speeds.
Cars which can't reach higher speeds are really slow to accelerate and aren't comfortable, reliable, or safe at motorway speeds.
Eg. depending on the model a Lada Niva will have a top speed of only 120kph/75mph, but you really wouldn't want to drive over 100kmh/60mph for extended periods. It's not reliable, comfortable, safe, and I suspect it isn't efficient either.
Now obviously, you could limit the top speed but that's a matter of regulation, and relatively easy to bypass.
Luckily this will soon largely be a thing of the past, electric cars are different. AFAIK you can achieve acceptable levels of acceleration with lower top speeds.
Public roads in the UK aren't the only place you can drive a car, speed limits don't apply everywhere
The vast majority of cars can go 140mph. Some take a long time to accelerate to that but nearly all can when going downhill.
What a name
Bit of a tangent, don't know what happened here, but risk taking behaviour is often associated with suicidality.
I'm not alone in thinking that a lot of suicidal behaviour, conscious or unconscious, flies under the radar because it happens in traffic.
It's weird how if someone's suffering mental health issues, we wouldn't leave them alone with a knife or enough medication to overdose on, but will leave them a set of car keys.
Really hope fully self-driving cars will come on the market soon.
ah yes fully self driving cars so they can actually control where you can and can't go, no flock surveillance needed👍🏻
I mean, I take the bus and occasional taxi, fundamentally not that different. Especially now that that's increasingly difficult if not impossible to do with cash.
Also, unlike the US most modern cars in Europe already have tracking and monitoring included with eCall, that automatically sends your GPS location to emergency services. Ie. the police can track you at all times anyway. And obviously they're tracking your phone 24/7.
no flock surveillance needed👍🏻
Are you American? The UK doesn't have flock AFAIK. There's already a much larger network of CCTV, facial recognition vans, license plate scanners, and the like which are being supplemented by palantir contracts as we speak. This has been a thing for decades now. Millions of cameras across the UK.
You're shit out of luck already in the UK, unless you cycle everywhere and dress appropriately.
My bike is limited to 32 km/h before the engine stops providing power. Why is a car able to reach such speeds?
On the German autobahns there is no speed limit, but there is a convention between car makers that the electronic limiter is set at usually 255kph ~= 155mph. It’s quite common for real fast car owners to have the limiter removed or raised, so getting passed by a Porsche doing 300kph is a real possibility. And amusingly, the winter tyres maximum speed is 210kph. As a UK driver, we have 70mph as max, so it’s mental the first time you drive there.
Winter tyre maximum is often lower. 100mph/160kmh is common.
I regularly reach speeds of 240kmh/150mph on the Autobahn. Bog standard VW. TBH it's boring.
For those wondering, yes it can save time.
For example, if you maintain a high average speed driving from Brussels to Berlin, roughly 750km, you can make it under 6 hours. Add a short lunch break and that means you're able to leave Brussels in the morning and arrive in Berlin before the rush hour begins. Perhaps still do something in Berlin after you've arrived.
If you maintain 80mph/130kmh, in theory it'd take 6-7 hours, but you're far more likely to get stuck in rush hour traffic. That means you potentially end up DOUBLING journey time. At which point you arrive in the dark and too tired to go to an interview or whatever. Day after sucks too.
So driving fast makes the car a viable alternative to a plane or the ever unreliable Deutsche Bahn. And if you're not alone in the car, it's far more environmentally friendly than the plane, even if you're driving fast.
This is all theoretical. IME nowadays Germany's Autobahn is 50% road works.
You know you can just unlimit your bike? Right?
One reason is that unlimited speed roads and also racetracks exist and cars generally require much more driver certification than bicycles which anyone with a pulse is allowed to ride in a lot of places. I know I did over 50 km/h a couple of times as a teenager and pulled all kinds of stupid shit because it's not like they can take your cycling license away lol
Oh thats fine, he won't be able to drive if he doesnt get his license.
50 months? I would say atleast until he is 30. Such stupidity lingers for much more than 50 months.
I don’t think it’s 50 months and he just gets to drive again. It’s 50 months until he can attempt whatever the “extended test” is. Not sure what that all entails.
I don't doubt that he is technically qualified to drive. He can do a 3 point turn and read a speed sign during any test. What I doubt is that he will follow the rules when not in the middle of the test.
Yeah, I’m hoping the extended test has some sort of mental health component, but I wouldn’t bet on it.
The last time I heard someone get to the gym in such a hurry, it was this guy:
Spoiler for The Good Place
This guy is a demon pretending to be the soulmate of Eleanor, the lady in the picture. He was told that when he got asked tough questions, to say he was "going to the gym or something." So almost every time she talked to him, he'd hurry away saying he was "going to the gym."
Megan Williams, defending Dangerfield, said on the night in question he had become emotional after an argument with a friend and had decided to "drive to the gym in order to release his frustration".
I had to go read the article before I made the assumption that he went lifting instead of punching his girlfriend. However, that seems like a totally plausible explanation.
Must have been hysteria
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