Dumbest Driving Stunt

[konatown]

This COULD be considered driving because the accelerator is being held down. This was a couple friends of mine. We did this a second time but didn't film it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iKXaCOj_p28

[Haitian_King]

Your "reasoning" is seriously flawed, sorry!

Statistically, most accidents happen a few miles from your house and at less than highway speeds. In particular, the speed differential and angles (between your car and the other one) tends to be higher in fact than highway speeds where most people are within 5 to 10 mph of each other ... so you are more likely to die or get seriously injured from an accident at 35 mph. At high speeds, short of a frontal collision or a complete loss of control, dying is less likely, surprisingly enough.

Fact: just because you were lucky enough one time, does not mean you will be lucky the next. If you hit your windshield at 35 to 40mph, you could die the next time around.

So, please put your seat belt on at all times ... I'd rather not have to read of your death here at NICO before mine (which, ideally, will be of old age, and since I am older than you, I think ... )!

Z

I'm sure it is. I guess it's my youth. I'm mature enough to understand that it's stupid, I'm wrong, and that you're making a very real and valid point. I'm also immature enough to know all of this and still not care.

If I see a cop, I pull the seatbelt over my shoulder to give the illusion of me wearing it. I just feel "weird" wearing it.

I laugh at my roommate when he gets into the Q when I'm moving my Q from the front of the residence hall down to the student parking lot. Speed limit is 10 and the trip is about 30 seconds. He puts his seatbelt on regardless. He's probably the smart one.