Classic kid mistake. Son, you are confusing reaction times and physical skills with real world experience. There is no doubt that youth have superior reaction times. That doesn't make you a good driver.

The fact that you were doing 40 in a 30 and narrowly missed running over a kid proves my point. What if you didn't see the kid? What if the kid jumped out from behind a large van? What if you were changing the radio station? See my point?

Instead of learning your lesson and becoming a better driver through the experience, you demonstrate exactly why you are NOT a good driver. Despite your superior "skills", you exhibit poor judgement.

Why do you suppose us old guys get better insurance rates? Do you think it is because our skills or reaction times get better with age? No. It's because we learn to better judge potential issues. You are relying solely on what you can see. With age you will learn there are dangers you can not see, so you drive in anticipation of them.

Let me sum it up- Imagine you telling me that you know more about ***** after you've only been getting laid for a few years. That would be silly, wouldn't it? You've got a lot of ladies left to conquer, and a lot of miles to cover, before you are truly good at it.

 

It's not speed that is deadly, it's the sudden stop lol

 

But I have touched alot of ***** in the past 8 years....

 

I'm just going to stop no matter what I say there is going to be something said about it. It just plain out pisses me off that since younger drivers are usually more prone to accidents that any and all teen drivers are labeled as ****.

 

In their defense, you were doing ten over on a residential street bro....

Don't get me wrong, I always go 4 or 5 over in like 45s and stuff and 8 or 9 over in like 70s, but I NEVER speed down streets where there could be children playing...Like he said, luckily she didn't hop out from behind something and you had time to stop. I'm not even one to talk, I've been in enough accidents and I'm only 20. When you first start driving you'll think you're invincible guys. Then you wake up 2 weeks later in a hospital 3 hours away with 2 broken legs and a brain injury. I'm not saying you guys are bad or good drivers, I'm just saying that maybe you should consider getting off your horses here and heed some of these older guys' advice.

 

im only 21 and rarely break 70 in the 70mph's around here because i realized even when im doing 75-80 someones gunna come up doing 90 so i just take the slow lane

 

[QUOTE=Shiloh 24;1820385]I'm just going to stop no matter what I say there is going to be something said about it. It just plain out pisses me off that since younger drivers are usually more prone to accidents that any and all teen drivers are labeled as ****.[/QUOTE]

Dont even start that.... I think what a lot of you younger guys are failing to acknowledge is that the older guys on here were once a teenaged driver as well and were in the same shoes as you are. Sh*t I know I was a bad driver when I first got my license looking back now, although at the time I thought I was a "great" driver. I would show off for friends, show off for the girls at school, didn't pay as much attention to the road or lights, goofed off here and there. Now eventhough I never got one ticket, not one accident and only missed one question on my written test and had 2 points knocked off the driving portion, I look back at the stupid crap I did and wonder how the f*** I thought I was a great driver.

As the years go by you refine your driving style/skills, you mature, and you learn from the experiences that you encounter along the way that cannot be tought from any book or test. By the time you hit your mid 20's you'll look back and go WTF was I thinking back then, good driver my ***!!!

To the OP -

Is a 5.7 Hemi or CTD right for a 17yr old KID? HELL NO!!! To much power mixed with not enough experience, maturity and responcibility is not a good combo. Still get a truck but drop down to the 4.7 and work your way up.

 

dont listen to the oldies lol i got my hemi when i was 16 and have been just fine. yes its alot of power for your first car but i was responsible about it.

 

or it's the pothole in the road that causes you to flip an SRT-10!

Lol, reminds me of the second day I had my truck pictured in my sig...accident, older lady at a stop sign hit me as I was passing in front of her (I had no stop sign) and gave me a nice dinger, hardly noticeable though. For her: Front bumper half way off, shattered headlight, grille all messed up.

Boy, I got a little dinger and I WAS PISSED

 

No that was a popped tire...