HOW FAST HAVE YOU GOT YOUR YARIS TO GO

[Foot]

Next we will start a thread, How fast have you legally gone in your Yaris?
I will start... I have gone 70mph on a clear,sunny no traffic, no radio on, and completely focused on the road.

[jayeh]

Originally Posted by Foot

Next we will start a thread, How fast have you legally gone in your Yaris?
I will start... I have gone 70mph on a clear,sunny no traffic, no radio on, and completely focused on the road.

62mph here!

[edmscan]

I must post the reason why I am bothered by it. First .. I will comment that I have been in Germany and have done 220 km/h and felt totally safe. It isn't so much the speed he was going but more the fashion he was doing it.

The poster had to record his high speed careless driving just so he could post it on YouTube. It promotes stupidity. If you watch the video . . he was passing other vehicles like they were standing still, thus making it a stupid and dangerous thing to do. If he would have posted his speed and not the videos I would have had no problem with it. In his second video he was just driving like an ass in a parking lot.

I will admit that I am biased in my opinion cause most of family are law enforcement officers, and when I see such crap on YouTube I cannot help but wanting to throw the book at them. It should be noted that such videos HAVE happened in Canada and the person involved have seen harsh penalties.

Can someone definitively tell me the speed limit in the area he was in and that he was not speeding at the time ?

If he would have done what he did in my province he would have received a huge ticket and the police would have attempted to permanently seize his car. (something they cannot currently do, but they are working on it)

There have been several cases of people driving at high speed in BC and having people killed in the process. Somehow I think that if one of your family members was killed by the poster of the video, you guys would probably not be promoting his actions.

I personally never go more than 15 km/h over the speed limit .. as excessive speed kills, something most of you seem to be forgetting.

[Kar98]

Originally Posted by edmscan

I must post the reason why I am bothered by it. First .. I will comment that I have been in Germany and have done 220 km/h and felt totally safe. It isn't so much the speed he was going but more the fashion he was doing it.

The poster had to record his high speed careless driving just so he could post it on YouTube. It promotes stupidity. If you watch the video . . he was passing other vehicles like they were standing still, thus making it a stupid and dangerous thing to do.

Oh man, if you're driving "this thread"-fast on the German autobahn, i.e. averaging 85 mph, you'll get passed often as if you were standing still.

Source: born and raised in Germany.

[edmscan]

Originally Posted by Kar98

Oh man, if you're driving "this thread"-fast on the German autobahn, i.e. averaging 85 mph, you'll get passed often as if you were standing still.

Source: born and raised in Germany.

Here . . I have a problem going 60 km/h due to all our pot holes (600,000 being fixed here this year). Our roads are a mess, but at least in Germany the roads are well maintained, thus high speeds are possible.

[Mittelklasse]

Originally Posted by edmscan

I will admit that I am biased in my opinion cause most of family are law enforcement officers, and when I see such crap on YouTube I cannot help but wanting to throw the book at them. It should be noted that such videos HAVE happened in Canada and the person involved have seen harsh penalties.

Most of my family got a degree in law and my father-in-law is an attorney, yet I'm not biased.

Originally Posted by edmscan

Can someone definitively tell me the speed limit in the area he was in and that he was not speeding at the time?

On elevated tollway it is 120 km/h (74 MPH). But in practice they allow up to 130 km/h (80 MPH). I was definitely speeding back there, eh?

Originally Posted by edmscan

If he would have done what he did in my province he would have received a huge ticket and the police would have attempted to permanently seize his car. (something they cannot currently do, but they are working on it)

Good thing I have been living in Thailand.

Originally Posted by edmscan

There have been several cases of people driving at high speed in BC and having people killed in the process. Somehow I think that if one of your family members was killed by the poster of the video, you guys would probably not be promoting his actions.

If somehow one of their family members managed to come to Thailand and climbed up on the elevated tollway here and jumped right in front of my car.

Also I didn't see anyone promoting my action, eh. I myself, too, don't think that driving at excessively high speed is a right thing to do; yet I don't think that makes one a criminal.

(Also, if you watch other top speed videos on my YouTube profile, you might notice that I only took those during late night and on an elevated tollway.)