Reply #17: That isn't what I'm saying.

[kentauros]

I said I know what my car is capable of, where the corners are, and how to take a curve without losing it. And I'm in a little Honda Civic, outdoing people in BMUUs (my semi-insulting term for "Beamers" :P) and other cars that are built for cornering and handling.

The problem is that people don't have those skills and don't even attempt to get them. It's all about being seen in their "performance" car. If it wasn't about that, then that idiot south of here wouldn't have driven his Bugatti Veyron into a lagoon at low speed! That car doesn't belong on US roadways anyhow. It's way too fast and our roads are, for the most part, too rough for the likes of a "supercar". Take to the real Autobahn, where they understand smooth and low uphill grades.

As I said before, Americans love speed, fast and straight. Curves scare the hell out of them so they take them at well below the posted limit, even if their car is able to handle them at twice the limit. They kill themselves easily enough on the open roads, as if speed is the only thrill to get in driving. And they kill themselves and each other by the worst thing of all: inattentiveness.