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Lets not lecture to me about driving safety if you think driving on a public road at 130 MPH is reasonable lol
lol i suppose a touché is in order
but again i'm not talking about staying at 130 the whole time, i've seen and experienced enough at this point to know that a fast enough well sorted car would have absolutely no trouble making a quick pull to 130 on such a road, and casually slowing back down again before a yet to be seen obstacle can present itself
this 1100hp evo 9 for instance only takes 4.1 seconds to do 60-130 mph, not nearly enough time for something to change in the road conditions
caution and proper judgement always need to be exercised of course but these speeds can (briefly) be reached safely without putting others at risk... but i'm not saying they can always be reached safely
caution and proper judgement always need to be exercised of course but these speeds can (briefly) be reached safely without putting others at risk... but i'm not saying they can always be reached safely
Proper judgement would be not to drive 130 MPH on a public road in the first place lol. There is no proper judgement that when exercised results in you deciding to drive 130 MPH on a public road, especially not a non controlled access road open to nature on either side.
Its just not a reasonable thing to do. There are places you can go to drive that fast if you want to.
And absolutely things can change in 4 seconds. Bear in mind that at 100 MPH in 1 second you travel 150 feet. In 4 seconds accelerating from 60-130 you have travelled ~600 feet, or the length of two football fields, lots can happen. If you need to stop at 130 MPH it takes another football field in distance for that to happen. So if you accelerate from 60-130 in that 4.1 seconds and then stop, you will have travelled over 3 football fields of distance before coming to a stop. Nothing can happen?!? Thats insane to think that lol
Just to further make the point, this is hitting a deer in broad daylight at 60 MPH. This driver could not react in time, at 130 MPH you are covering more than twice as much distance per second. Impossible for you to react.
This is a video of a Deputy Sheriff, a trained driver who has had training improving his reaction time from average, hitting a deer at 114 MPH. React to that.
Agree with SW17LS, I do not understand this obsession with blasting 130 mph down public roads. It is incredibly dangerous and irresponsible. IMO. I have never felt the need to drive faster than 85 mph.
See I drive that stretch of 95 multiple times a year since my wife's family live in NJ, I have done it 4 times since the beginning of November and I hardly ever see anybody at 100 or near that. With my cruise set to 80 I'm in the 95th percentile speed, which means I'm going as fast or faster as 95% of people on the road. Hardly any reason for me to surrender the left lane at 80. It may have been unusually fast on that Saturday morning but that isn't typical for that stretch of road.
You take the split to 295/Del Mem Bridge/ NJ TP that's on the right side of the screenshot that was really backed up Saturday morning. I stay in the left lanes. That part of 95 is a swampy, lightly patrolled section with some serious speeding probably because DE actually keeps their major roads in good condition. The further 95/495 split has some really bad speeding too. I was in the right lane of 495 approaching the PA border doing about 86 mph. A Porsche Macan blew by me doing 120-130ish.
I guess my point is the speeds Striker does for short amounts of time aren't that unusual.
What plagues us here is the personal fable, the idea that nothing bad is going to happen to us and that we have unique skills or ability that will allow us to perform better than the average person in any given situation. Note that you guys (Stroock and Striker) are still both really young, that personal fable fades as you age. You CAN die driving your car at 130 MPH, I promise you, and you CAN kill others too...I promise you. You are not any more capable of driving a car at those speeds than any other average driver, your ability is average...your reaction times are average. Things you dont expect will happen...DO Happen...I promise you.
You take the split to 295/Del Mem Bridge/ NJ TP that's on the right side of the screenshot that was really backed up Saturday morning. I stay in the left lanes. That part of 95 is a swampy, lightly patrolled section with some serious speeding probably because DE actually keeps their major roads in good condition. The further 95/495 split has some really bad speeding too. I was in the right lane of 495 approaching the PA border doing about 86 mph. A Porsche Macan blew by me doing 120-130ish.
I guess my point is the speeds Striker does for short amounts of time aren't that unusual.
Actually I don't, I go the same way you do much of the time, I also travel to Philadelphia a good bit and obviously I go that way. I have hardly ever seen anybody drive cars at those speeds on that stretch of roadway, and I've been driving it multiple times a year for 20 years.
It is extremely rare to see any car driving on any of these highways at 120-130 MPH. Does it happen? Sure but its not typical.
Proper judgement would be not to drive 130 MPH on a public road in the first place lol. There is no proper judgement that when exercised results in you deciding to drive 130 MPH on a public road, especially not a non controlled access road open to nature on either side.
well i'd never say anyone is wrong for thinking that lol, but i still believe it can be done... also i'll let striker answer what he means by a backroad instead of looking for additional examples (after he posts a vid of getting 18.5 mpg at 130 mph lol)
btw of those 2 deer strike vids, the first road is surrounded by tall trees and many sideroads/driveways and is clearly not suitable for excessive speeding, and as far as the cop goes i didn't realize we were considering this would be done at night! i take things very cautiously on a completely unlit dark road
well i'd never say anyone is wrong for thinking that lol, but i still believe it can be done... also i'll let striker answer what he means by a backroad instead of looking for additional examples (after he posts a vid of getting 18.5 mpg at 130 mph lol)
It can be done and you can get away with it without a calamity and it being a safe thing to do are two different things. Its just not safe...full stop.
btw of those 2 deer strike vids, the first road is surrounded by tall trees and many sideroads/driveways and is clearly not suitable for excessive speeding, and as far as the cop goes i didn't realize we were considering this would be done at night! i take things very cautiously on a completely unlit dark road
An animal can walk out of either of those fields at any moment, a deer, or any other sort of animal. Hell, a person can and you would have no time to react. At those speeds, you could very easily die. You could lose control of the car and flip, the animal could come through the windshield and kill you. Don't kid yourself.
And I remember a video of you driving your car over 100 MPH in the dark...
If you think you would have any reaction time in those scenarios, you're totally in your own head on that and there is no basis in reality. I've driven a car way faster than 130 MPH...on a racetrack...I know what that speed looks and feels like.
Actually I don't, I go the same way you do much of the time, I also travel to Philadelphia a good bit and obviously I go that way. I have hardly ever seen anybody drive cars at those speeds on that stretch of roadway, and I've been driving it multiple times a year for 20 years.
It is extremely rare to see any car driving on any of these highways at 120-130 MPH. Does it happen? Sure but its not typical.
Ah ok. I assumed you got on the NJ TP as soon as possible when you visit your wife's family.
I agree those speeds aren't typical but I still see it too much. 95 near the airport is very wide and flat and has bad speeding.
You are not any more capable of driving a car at those speeds than any other average driver, your ability is average...your reaction times are average.
well i dispute basically all of this lol but fine lets assume it's true, one key differentiating factor is i only do my triple digit pulls (like the 120+ stuff) on stretches of highway i'm familiar with and have driven on many times... so i'm never thinking about where am i going and only on monitoring the car and the immediate surroundings
based on what you've said it sounds like i'm actually typically going slower than you! any excessive speeding i do has significant thought behind it, and is only done for the briefest of moments... but again you're not there nor have i ever driven you anywhere so i can't fault your concern
SW17LS is preaching the truth in here. I'm still still in my 30s and the need for speed hasn't left me yet - I just make time for track days. Even then, 100mph+ can still be very dangerous. I've spooked myself at Road Atlanta (a fast track) a few times.
Striker, deer is what terrifies me at those speeds. PA and Ohio have similar deer populations. I'm sure you see lots of deer carcasses in late October as I do. I hope you never hit one on one of your speed blasts. Any abandoned air strips near where you live lol? That would be way safer.
I drove my brother down to Delaware to pick up his new truck Saturday morning. 95 gets pretty wide after Wilmington. Lots of people were way over 100.
I have thermals/NVGs to see them but that is my main concern as well, the road I use is open field both sides very far and you can check beforehand if anything is there. One of my cars also has thermal mounted on it.
01-03-24, 03:28 PM
Any abandoned air strips near where you live lol? That would be way safer.