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epilonious @ Jun 27th 2007 1:04PM
If you are driving a sports car on a public road. Your goal should be to drive like all the other cars, regardless of your individual cars capabilities. Whether or not your car can accelerate and turn and brake faster does NOT give you any right to speed and weave and tailgate. Thus, if a cop catches you doing it you are just as liable as the 1988 Hyundai doing the same thing. Even if you think the clunker was more dangerous because it can do less things well on a skidpad. I eschew the notion that cars should get some sort of excuse to disobey basic traffic laws based on their capabilities.
Thinking that you get to speed or weave more than other vehicles because you drive a sports car is a jackass' opinion that will get people hurt. This is because everyone else is expecting you to follow the rules of the road and not try to get around them for whatever dumb reason you can cook up (and "because I feel my car is physically capable of it" is the worst of the dumb reasons).
I retain my original point. If you have a gloriously sporty vehicle and think it can do all sorts of amazing performance feats, you take it to the race-track to prove it to yourself. You don't use it as an excuse to drive like an ass.