Speeding With Kids In The Car.
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Read a couple of stories in the press recently where drivers were lambasted for speeding with "terrified" kids in the car. Terrified my arse. My dad was fast but still not fast enough for us(fair enough he raced an an Intercity 125 in an Audi 100 5E where the railway line and motorway ran parallel, made car tyres scream round corners on our request, take off on humps and drifted his 2.3 Granada on wet roundabouts if his three unrestrained kids in the back screamed "make it skid make it skid" but we want more speed more of the time". If he was caught doing any of that now he'd make the front page of the Daily Mail and many of the sadder risk averse element on here would pontificate about just how outrageous such behavior is.
Is this because the kids of today aren't of the calliber of us 70s kids?
Not my experience. My wee nephew and niece read the big central speedo on my Cooper S and asked if I'd do 150mph for them. I explained the car could only do 140mph and I have to be very careful where and when I do it as if the police caught me I'd be put in prison. My niece replied "it's allright, just do it. If you get caught we'll come and visit you"
Is this because the kids of today aren't of the calliber of us 70s kids?
Not my experience. My wee nephew and niece read the big central speedo on my Cooper S and asked if I'd do 150mph for them. I explained the car could only do 140mph and I have to be very careful where and when I do it as if the police caught me I'd be put in prison. My niece replied "it's allright, just do it. If you get caught we'll come and visit you"
Tannedbaldhead said:
Read a couple of stories in the press recently where drivers were lambasted for speeding with "terrified" kids in the car. Terrified my arse."
How do you know?Having done a number of charity days taking underprivileged kids/ kids with cancer etc, around a race track or airfield circuit - the brief was always to tell the child that if they want you to slow down - they just shout "Slower"
Vast majority of kids wanted to go as fast as possible.
A few others were more nervous - and wanted to stay at a pace they were more comfortable with.
And this was with each car being released 30 seconds apart - so nothing to hit.
So, I can see some kids not being totally happy with a ton up on a crowded motorway.
You just don't know.
Troubleatmill said:
Tannedbaldhead said:
Read a couple of stories in the press recently where drivers were lambasted for speeding with "terrified" kids in the car. Terrified my arse."
How do you know?Having done a number of charity days taking underprivileged kids/ kids with cancer etc, around a race track or airfield circuit - the brief was always to tell the child that if they want you to slow down - they just shout "Slower"
Vast majority of kids wanted to go as fast as possible.
A few others were more nervous - and wanted to stay at a pace they were more comfortable with.
And this was with each car being released 30 seconds apart - so nothing to hit.
So, I can see some kids not being totally happy with a ton up on a crowded motorway.
You just don't know.
My Grandfather was a great driver. He used to stop at various hump-back bridges around Tring and get my long suffering Grandmother to get out and wander up the road a bit then call when the coast was clear. He'd then start the engine and see how high he could get the car - got some serious air on occasion. Great days. He was an absolute hand. I used to follow him when I first drove and couldn't even keep him in sight, despite him being well into his 80's by then. You never saw him brake, just pure smoothness. He drove Talbots. He didn't give a st about health and safety. We used to egg him on and he never let us down. I miss him.
Moonhawk said:
OP - don't you know that kids die instantly at anything over 70mph.
In fact it's drivers regularly exceeding 70mph on the M1 which is directly responsible for the high infant mortality rate somewhere or other......
It's scientemefic fact....
It's actually true, in the 90's I dieded hundreds of times when my dad was driving us around in Germany on the Autobahns.In fact it's drivers regularly exceeding 70mph on the M1 which is directly responsible for the high infant mortality rate somewhere or other......
It's scientemefic fact....
MrBarry123 said:
I think the point is that driving quickly with kids in the car is completely different to driving dangerously with kids in the car.
Quickly = relatively normal
Dangerously =
People who drive dangerously generally think they're driving safely. Only a psychopath would do something KNOWING it was dangerous. And if you've convinced yourself that you're not driving like a twunt why would you slow down just because your kids are with you?Quickly = relatively normal
Dangerously =
pits said:
Moonhawk said:
OP - don't you know that kids die instantly at anything over 70mph.
In fact it's drivers regularly exceeding 70mph on the M1 which is directly responsible for the high infant mortality rate somewhere or other......
It's scientemefic fact....
It's actually true, in the 90's I dieded hundreds of times when my dad was driving us around in Germany on the Autobahns.In fact it's drivers regularly exceeding 70mph on the M1 which is directly responsible for the high infant mortality rate somewhere or other......
It's scientemefic fact....
Countdown said:
pits said:
Moonhawk said:
OP - don't you know that kids die instantly at anything over 70mph.
In fact it's drivers regularly exceeding 70mph on the M1 which is directly responsible for the high infant mortality rate somewhere or other......
It's scientemefic fact....
It's actually true, in the 90's I dieded hundreds of times when my dad was driving us around in Germany on the Autobahns.In fact it's drivers regularly exceeding 70mph on the M1 which is directly responsible for the high infant mortality rate somewhere or other......
It's scientemefic fact....
Then it becomes hilarious
Countdown said:
People who drive dangerously generally think they're driving safely. Only a psychopath would do something KNOWING it was dangerous. And if you've convinced yourself that you're not driving like a twunt why would you slow down just because your kids are with you?
I must be a psycho, I do (and allow my kids to do) lots of dangerous things.I'm crazy, me.
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