The Question of Traffic Tickets: A Look at the Industry and its Motivations

Cops were really pulling us over to serve protect us and keep us safe from going that 5-over, then why do they feel the need to hide from us before pulling somebody over? It's simple - it's money. This explains the notorious "be traps" outside small towns especially in rural cities that go from 55 mile an hour speeds to 25 mile an hour speed zones. These areas are often a multi-billion dollar industry, and many small towns survive off of this revenue.

A lot of small towns do not survive without the revenue generated by traffic tickets unless it's reckless is not even worth fighting in court. Many just pay it and move on just to avoid the court fees and many more annoyances. Cars are actually safer than they've ever been, and for the most part, we have the lowest levels of traffic deaths in history. However, this doesn't help the revenue generated by miniscule traffic tickets.

Traffic engineers maintain that speed limits should be established according to the 85th percentile rule - a free-flowing traffic this means that the limits should be set at a level or under which eighty-five percent of the people are driving. Numerous other studies have shown that the 85 percentile is the safest possible level at which to set a speed limit. There's also the Solomon curve, which talks about speed in relation to crashes and how with some people in the country obeying the speed limit and others feeling safe and comfortable while ignoring it is a recipe for disaster.

Inconsistent speed causes reasonable speed limits help traffic to flow and a safer more uniform pace. An 18-month study following an increase in the speed limit along the New York Thruway from 55 to 65 miles an hour determined that the average travel speed remained the same even after raising the speed limit. A national study conducted by the Federal Highway Administration also concluded that raising or lowering the speed limit had practically no effect on actual travel speeds.

Well, what about fuel economy? That didn't work out either when the speed limit was 55 on was anywhere and it didn't really save that much gas.

Time for our little peace and love moment - the car scene as we stated before has a lot of ego and with ego comes disrespect and grudges. However, one thing I've noticed about the car scene overall is once you're in it you're in it for good. It's an open environment with a few ground rules when you're trying to get into this culture.

One don't be that guy in a car meant to ruin it - I'm talking to you, one wheel peel or burnouts. But the other one is don't act like you know everything. Make sure to ask questions and people will be glad to answer them. I personally love anything that someone has poured their heart and soul into. I think v8s are cool; I think four cylinders are cool; wise there's a whole mix of things, and I have an appreciation for almost everything.

If you go around acting like you know everything when you actually don't it will stab you in the back later because there is always somebody out there that knows more than you do. That applies to pretty much everything in life - not just cars. Be true to yourself; be honest, love the car life and have respect for others, and people will love you right back in return.

Don't be one of those people just to build their car to show off. Have a car that you love personally and don't care about what other people say. One of the most common issues in the car culture is people being so judgmental and seeing a project that they feel the need to go up to the owner's face and tell them how horrible it is in their eyes.

When you're out of meat, I mean, you'll have guys who like Mustangs and they're all like "Mustangs I don't look at that Honda." At the same time, I'm like "At the same time, I still love v8s and Mustangs and Corvettes and that kind of thing." So for me, I'm just going to be like okay, I get where you're coming from but at the same time, I'm like really cool too. Won't guess what that owner doesn't care about what you think because it's their car.

Besides why do you care so much if you don't like it? Stop wasting your time talking trash about others and focus on what you want to do. It's very common at night car meets especially for somebody to point out a car that in say "gosh, what a hunk of junk" and then turn around and find out that they don't even have a car.

In other words, they had no room to talk to those people - I love you but shut your mouth. Have an open mind, enjoy your cars and enjoy this life. That's the takeaway from our little chat, folks. Don't forget to subscribe and have a fantastic day!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enit all starts with the count of three whether it's a wool race a dig race or just the green light at your local track strip the feeling of acceleration is exhilarating but what is even more exhilarating is when you add another car to the mix the feeling of racing in any form is a naturally crave to compete with others I mean shoot that's why things like the Olympic Games exist in the first place now before we get started this film does not condone any type of street racing nor any other illegal activities that that involve automobiles but we are going to open the door to conversation about the issue and also analyze car culture in general as a whole so fasten your seat belt it's gonna be quite the ride chapter 1 street racing street racing by definition is the legal form of motor racing that occurs on public streets so the streets that you and I use to get to work travel on and so on and so forth there are several different types of street racing like Sprint's which are things like bull run or cannonball that are point-to-point races over long distances there are also organized dick races which are much more like something you would see at a local drag strip out on public roads to cars go from a dig which means from a dead stop and last but not least now the most popular form of street racing world racing what is roll racing no it has nothing to do with the butter rolls from your local Golden Corral it is exactly what it sounds like two cars lined up next to each other at a certain speed they count to three and they go world racing takes a lot more driver air out of the equation and sees what the actual car can do once it's up to speed a lot of the time starting at different speeds gonna have different results so if somebody asks for a 40 roll they are asking to start from 40 miles an hour pretty simple right other than having that smooth start one of the biggest appeals of it is that is much easier on the car therefore doesn't break stuff as all but starting from a dig or a dead stop really puts a ton of stress on the car especially on the rear-end street racing versus the track so I now know that most of you are probably wondering if you can do all this at your local track then why even risk losing your license or going to jail I mean shoot even one of my first conversations with one of my car friends was telling me that he had been to jail for street racing Oh blood sweat and gears moment times have changed early YouTube days good times but one of the biggest one overall is drum roll please convenience well yeah street racing is extremely convenient it's nearby it's cheap and if nobody's around you don't really seem to be bothering anybody it's rude you usually know in your area going to the track is usually won't a hassle let me explain there are two tracks near where I am from both are about an hour away now if the car wanted to race wasn't a daily driver slash is a very reliable it was only a fun car then I'd probably have to buy a truck and trailer to get it there versus driving it down the street I also would need to pay the entry fee which at a drag strip in America isn't too shabby it's usually between 17 and 20 bucks but of course that adds up over time other tracks that the circuit tracks though you're so lucky many circuits you have to pay hundreds of dollars even for a track day then you have to remember to say goodbye to your brakes and probably your tires in that session driving fast no matter what the setting is expensive yeah you know what let me just say that this hobby in general is expensive so that might not be a completely valid argument more than you can afford now seeing why people's street race shouldn't be that much of a shocker if you have two fast cars in a parking lot and you want to quickly see which one's faster it's not uncommon for people to drive a little bit do a ten-second pool and be done is it right no but it happens core people can be extremely indecisive and also impatient we constantly change the setup of our cars we are always on to the next thing ask a car person where they want to go eat and you'll get I don't care somewhere cheap to save money for a car instead of waiting another week or two or even a whole winter season to see which car is faster at a track people jump the gun and take it into their own hands went to see if that little Honda can take on a 630 horsepower Camaro hop on the highway one in the morning really quick done but it can also be done extremely and safe like this moment here those are the moments that people see and associate all street racing with crashing weaving through traffic downshifting every two seconds just to make noise that is what street racers look like and unfortunately it's true on many levels so do I think street racing should be legal well yeah it's kind of obvious the dangers that makes it too public and non car people alike but it's easy to see why people do it there's plenty of stories from places around the United States where people get let go by police without a slap on the wrist when they were caught street racing all because of their situational awareness there's nobody around no need to endanger but themselves they had personal responsibility using the late hours of the night in early morning but when you're doing those kind of things in broad daylight near the average Joe now those are the people that deserve to be charged in a world where DUI and texting is much more of a common fatality in a car than street racing kind of brings you into perspective personal responsibility is a huge factor besides how does a typical night of street racing go well usually you meet up somewhere with friends or the cars you are interested in we discuss who will be racing where to go what speed from a dig and other factors however you will always get kicked out by the police so what happened Josh Charlie got shut down that never happens then you go to your first spot and see if it's clear and of course it's not so then you will meet up again find another spot repeat eventually you'll find a spot and you'll get a few runs in and get out of there before disturbing anybody but then you realize is this really the convenient way to do it nope not worth it chapter 2 the after market the after market world for cars is huge it's an industry of millions and the possibility for any car is almost endless yes unless what to drop a different motor and a 240 you got it what nitrous google it what parts from Japan one click away it's incredible how easy it is to get parts as long as you have deep pockets as Sir Brian O'Connor says in America unlike many countries we have the mindset if the car is from the factory it isn't good enough we constantly modify our cars from wheels to tires to appearance to horsepower anything in everything if it can be changed it probably will be if we have the budget for it and are obsessed with our four wheeled babies take my car for example it's a simple 2013 Mustang GT there's various things done to the appearance it's on lowering springs and has minor mods but if I were to tell you what was done to the car I would probably still say it's near stock usually when you use the term I built my car it means nearly everything has been touched Pistons frauds forced induction you name it from crazy superchargers to huge turbos we will always squeeze the limit of our motors if we can which in turn creates a huge tuning industry and things like dyno days where the air fuel ratio the timing and everything comes together with your new setup like a symphony take this Honda for example who would have thought that we squeeze nearly 600 horsepower out of this little thing pretty fire it is such a big habit that when we buy a car we buy it more for the potential not the final result it was when it came out of the box and I quote I wonder how much horsepower this motor can handle on stock internals somebody one way or another nose just from the trial and error however there's a downside to all of this and that word is something in the coral that is all too common that word is ego a lot of people build a car just for the ego justice say they have a faster car than somebody else that's for me I've developed the mindset of your cars faster than mine good for you but for many it's the opposite and with the mindset of just wanting to go faster and faster the more money gets flushed down the toilet almost every performance platform has their own website dedicated to that one car it is an insane money maker in the automotive world and it's here to stay the horsepower wore later down the road it becomes Mora who has more money look at events like Texas 2k for example back in 2008 a group of guys named imv films I'm sure they're still on YouTube so look it up headache any bells supercharged Terminator Cobra the car it's somewhere in the ballpark of 600 where horsepower and ran low 11s that's a pretty impressive car but then they brought it to Texas to play around on the street back in 2008 if you had 600 horsepower you're a damn fast car and you can have a lot of fun however fast forward to now and you need a thousand horsepower just to keep up with that kind of horsepower hierarchy in the world of 2,000 horsepower GTR s it gives perspective on the horsepower of war look at car companies today for example and look how intense this horsepower war is 10 years ago we all thought sports cars of performance we're going to die out in the name of eco-friendly everything but with the new technology we ended up making cars even more crazy than they ever had before the original Dodge Challenger was in the 200 horsepower range and that was considered big boy stuff now look at the new Hellcat with better fuel economy that makes over 700 horsepower with a warranty it pretty much is the best time ever to be a car person if you think about it but it also takes a certain skill to get used to something that fast there are plenty of stories of people crashing in these kind of cars right off the line but a I guess hashtags driver mod needed it's gotten to the point where cars are so fast in the 8 mile and quarter mile that that measurement might be a little obsolete when you have car trapping over 200 miles an hour at times you might as well be the evolution of that which is the half-mile event which has been very successful to past decade half-mile shootouts are kind of the best of both worlds you have all the room you would ever need to probably even top out your car and you can raise all day long as if it was the street dig race roll race whatever you want we definitely need more of these events but what about the owners themselves Duke are people really ever give up on their projects or their cars why are you so obsessed with cars for example this is my friend Hunter he's a good friend of mine and he's just as much into cars as I am I think it gives a good level of you know your own personalization to something you're always looking to like dress yourself wear different articles of clothing to help define you so why not deal with your car - as a kid I I went around looking into cars windows and parking lots and looking just to see how fast they could go like oh look at look at the scarring 120 miles an hour and speedometer and thinking them that was so cool and growing up The Fast and the Furious movies came out Need for Speed came out and and that was kind of like build your love for it and everything starts snowballing to the point where it becomes a passion from wanting a go-kart as a kid to wanting this type of car when you when you get your license and then kind of growing from there we've made a lot of repairs to this it was almost a lemon I would almost say I was a lemon when I first got it um a few thousand dollars and repairs when I got it no it was a bunch of crap let me tell you when I bought this within three months I had to do $2,000 and repairs because of the computer going bad on it because of them trying to figure out that the computer had gone bad and replace everything up to the computer going bad but I mean in the end it turned out to be not such a bad thing because I basically got it tuned up bunch of preventive maintenance this seems pretty reasonable why do so many non car people question our love for our hobby in comparison to other hobbies and passions being around car people the conversation is is definitely a little bit tougher to get started you're always searching for for a conversation rather than when you're with car people having something to talk about and being able to fluidly go into a conversation and have fun with it right away at work it's pretty cool because I have a buddy who is talking about how he wants to swap a D Series for B Series because he wants to make like 200 horsepower something around it so we'll start talking about like oh yeah you need to upgrade your cam so you need to swap this motor in this one's a little better make sure you go VTEC versus non VTEC and he's like oh yeah okay and then everyone else was just sitting there looking at you like what are you talking about you guys are crazy and it's like a like your own secret language why do you spend all that money in your car what's the point then why do you do things like fishing why do you have so many fishing poles why do you have more than one guitar why do you like sports so much that you aren't even playing just never really made sense to me maybe it's just because it's such a high-profile hobby since if you're a car person it's almost all that you do and talk about every single day Chapter three this speed laws alright I know you probably saw this one coming now speed laws is a tricky subject due to well I'm a car guy and as easy to say now you're just biased because you think driving fast is cool and hip well first of all no I don't think that there's a time and place for everything it's pretty obvious I believe this the one ticket I ever truly deserved was a rough one and I learned my lesson really quick in my wrongdoing so right now as I approach this stoplight you will notice one thing it goes from two lanes to one lane and I was in the right lane and I forgot this fact now any normal person in the right lane like I am entering right now would let the people over on the left and let them merge over however like a soccer mom minivan like the one right there I decided to do the alternative and gone it i down shifted to second gear I cut the minivan off by accident this is why I cut this person off because they just cut me off so I drove semi-aggressive so then I merge over I coast along right here the speed limit at the time was 45 miles an hour as I'm cruising down this hill my middle school is up ahead and then what happened in this zone the school zone lights came on in being completely oblivious to that school zone light I went past my middle school and sitting there was an undercover Chevy Impala and then I made eye contact and then I knew after passing by middle school I then turned into the neighborhood to the left right up here and after I turned to the neighborhood I knew I was gonna have a very bad ahead of me he pulled me over and I got 56 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour school zone it was then I knew I was in a lot of trouble treating me with respect what was not happy and hit every right to be second I'm here to open a conversation let me give credit to where credit is due a journalist by the name of Patrick George of Jalopnik by the way make sure to check out Salaam Nick because they have good stuff he had a press car this press car being the awesome car that is the Camaro zl1 and he was driving it in the middle of nowhere and Rappahannock Virginia George gets on the gas it gets clocked by a lovely friend a Virginia State Trooper at 93 miles an hour okay yeah that's maybe pretty quick and yes it deserves a ticket but here's where things get ridiculous speeding past 80 miles an hour is reckless driving yet their speed limits in the United States that are 80 to 85 miles an hour on the highway cars can do these speeds in the right place today because they're modern and they're well put together they have to be with all our safety regulations nowadays 80 miles an hour being reckless driving in Virginia no matter how close the speed limit is is kind of crazy and the fact that you can be put in jail for that at 80 with the way that cars are built today and how fast cars can go and the way that they're developed and just the technology nowadays is insane the reason it tosses you in jail in Virginia is because it's the same misdemeanor a sexual battery and animal cruelty so I want you to think about this you get dropped off to jail for you know going too fast but you're in the same jail cell as somebody who violated somebody horribly and also somebody who took Pokemon a little too far yet here you sit George even stated that the guards were shocked that he was even in there it's a waste of time and resources for example take a look at these clips and try to guess how fast the cars going all right well the answer is over a hundred even the equinox is doing it the adventure drive videos by the way you should check those out because they're awesome taught me that in the right situation speeding isn't as evil if you think about it if you're in the right time place the Germans and the Autobahn have this all figured out this is all my opinion though it's the law and that's something you shouldn't break however it puts in perspective when you are driving on the highway and you might find yourself going 80 miles an hour and realizing this will throw me in jail and it's laughably silly with our modern tech shoot even when you get on the highway hardly anybody goes the speed limit and it doesn't really affect anything now there's a huge amount of controversy nowadays with the police how they treat suspects bla bla bla yes we all know there are corrupt cops every now and then but my point isn't related to that my question is if cops were really pulling us over to serve protect us and keep us safe from going that 5-over then why do they feel the need to hide from us before pulling somebody over well it's simple it's money it's a multi-billion dollar industry this explains the notorious be traps outside small towns especially in rural cities that go from 55 mile an hour speeds ohms to 25 mile an hour speed zones do I blame them not really a lot of small towns survive off that revenue and sad but it's true most of the time traffic tickets unless it's reckless is not even worth fighting in court many just pay it and move on just to avoid the court fees and many more annoyances cars are the safest they had ever been and for the most part we have the lowest levels of traffic deaths in history but that doesn't help the revenue growing of miniscule traffic tickets traffic engineers maintain that speed limits should be established according to the 85th percentile rule a free-flowing traffic this means that the limits should be set at a level or under which eighty-five percent of the people are driving numerous other studies have shown that the 85 percentile is the safest possible level at which to set a speed limit there's other things like the Solomon curve that talk about speed in relation to crashes and also that with some people in the country obeying the speed limit and the others where feels safe and comfortable while ignoring the speed limit is a recipe for a disaster inconsistent speed causes reasonable speed limits help traffic to flow and a safer more uniform pace an 18-month study following an increase in the speed limit along the New York Thruway from 55 to 65 miles an hour determined that the average beat of traffic 68 miles an hour remain the same even a national study conducted by federal highway administration also concluded that raising or lowering the speed limit had practically no effect on actual travel speeds well what about fuel economy well that didn't work out either when the speed limit was 55 on was anywhere and it didn't really save that much gas all right time for our little peace and love moment the car scene as we stated before has a lot of ego and with ego comes disrespect and grudges however one thing I've noticed about the car scene overall is once you're in it you're in it for good it's an open environment as a whole it has a few ground rules when you're trying to get into this culture one don't be that guy in a car meant to ruin it I'm talking to you one wheel peel or burnouts but the other one is don't act like you know everything make sure to ask questions and people will be glad to answer them I personally I love anything that someone has poured their heart and soul into I think v8s are cool I think four cylinders are cool wise there's a whole mix of things and I have an appreciation for almost everything if you go around acting like you know everything when you actually don't it will stab you in the back later because there is always somebody out there that knows more than you do that applies there pretty much everything in life not just cars be true to yourself be honest love the car life and have respect and people will love you right back in return don't be one of those people just to build their car to show off have a car that you love personally build a car that you love personally and don't care about what other people say one of the most common issues in the car culture is people being so judgmental and seeing a project that they feel the need to go up to the owners face and tell them how horrible it is in their eyes when you're out of meat I mean you'll have the guys who like Mustangs and they're all like Mustangs I don't look at that Honda and then I'm like at the same time like I have a German car but I still look on this and I still love v8s and Mustangs and Corvettes and that kind of thing so for me I'm just have to be like okay I get where you're coming from but at the same time I'm like really cool too won't guess what that owner doesn't care about what you think because it's their car besides why do you care so much if you don't like it stop wasting your time talking trash about others and focus on what you want to do it's very common at night car meets especially for somebody to point out a car that in say gosh what a hunk of junk and then turn around and find out that they don't even have a car in other words they had no room to talk to those people I love you but shut your mouth have an open mind enjoy your cars and enjoy this life I'm David Paterson and thank you for watching don't forget to subscribe and have a fantastic dayit all starts with the count of three whether it's a wool race a dig race or just the green light at your local track strip the feeling of acceleration is exhilarating but what is even more exhilarating is when you add another car to the mix the feeling of racing in any form is a naturally crave to compete with others I mean shoot that's why things like the Olympic Games exist in the first place now before we get started this film does not condone any type of street racing nor any other illegal activities that that involve automobiles but we are going to open the door to conversation about the issue and also analyze car culture in general as a whole so fasten your seat belt it's gonna be quite the ride chapter 1 street racing street racing by definition is the legal form of motor racing that occurs on public streets so the streets that you and I use to get to work travel on and so on and so forth there are several different types of street racing like Sprint's which are things like bull run or cannonball that are point-to-point races over long distances there are also organized dick races which are much more like something you would see at a local drag strip out on public roads to cars go from a dig which means from a dead stop and last but not least now the most popular form of street racing world racing what is roll racing no it has nothing to do with the butter rolls from your local Golden Corral it is exactly what it sounds like two cars lined up next to each other at a certain speed they count to three and they go world racing takes a lot more driver air out of the equation and sees what the actual car can do once it's up to speed a lot of the time starting at different speeds gonna have different results so if somebody asks for a 40 roll they are asking to start from 40 miles an hour pretty simple right other than having that smooth start one of the biggest appeals of it is that is much easier on the car therefore doesn't break stuff as all but starting from a dig or a dead stop really puts a ton of stress on the car especially on the rear-end street racing versus the track so I now know that most of you are probably wondering if you can do all this at your local track then why even risk losing your license or going to jail I mean shoot even one of my first conversations with one of my car friends was telling me that he had been to jail for street racing Oh blood sweat and gears moment times have changed early YouTube days good times but one of the biggest one overall is drum roll please convenience well yeah street racing is extremely convenient it's nearby it's cheap and if nobody's around you don't really seem to be bothering anybody it's rude you usually know in your area going to the track is usually won't a hassle let me explain there are two tracks near where I am from both are about an hour away now if the car wanted to race wasn't a daily driver slash is a very reliable it was only a fun car then I'd probably have to buy a truck and trailer to get it there versus driving it down the street I also would need to pay the entry fee which at a drag strip in America isn't too shabby it's usually between 17 and 20 bucks but of course that adds up over time other tracks that the circuit tracks though you're so lucky many circuits you have to pay hundreds of dollars even for a track day then you have to remember to say goodbye to your brakes and probably your tires in that session driving fast no matter what the setting is expensive yeah you know what let me just say that this hobby in general is expensive so that might not be a completely valid argument more than you can afford now seeing why people's street race shouldn't be that much of a shocker if you have two fast cars in a parking lot and you want to quickly see which one's faster it's not uncommon for people to drive a little bit do a ten-second pool and be done is it right no but it happens core people can be extremely indecisive and also impatient we constantly change the setup of our cars we are always on to the next thing ask a car person where they want to go eat and you'll get I don't care somewhere cheap to save money for a car instead of waiting another week or two or even a whole winter season to see which car is faster at a track people jump the gun and take it into their own hands went to see if that little Honda can take on a 630 horsepower Camaro hop on the highway one in the morning really quick done but it can also be done extremely and safe like this moment here those are the moments that people see and associate all street racing with crashing weaving through traffic downshifting every two seconds just to make noise that is what street racers look like and unfortunately it's true on many levels so do I think street racing should be legal well yeah it's kind of obvious the dangers that makes it too public and non car people alike but it's easy to see why people do it there's plenty of stories from places around the United States where people get let go by police without a slap on the wrist when they were caught street racing all because of their situational awareness there's nobody around no need to endanger but themselves they had personal responsibility using the late hours of the night in early morning but when you're doing those kind of things in broad daylight near the average Joe now those are the people that deserve to be charged in a world where DUI and texting is much more of a common fatality in a car than street racing kind of brings you into perspective personal responsibility is a huge factor besides how does a typical night of street racing go well usually you meet up somewhere with friends or the cars you are interested in we discuss who will be racing where to go what speed from a dig and other factors however you will always get kicked out by the police so what happened Josh Charlie got shut down that never happens then you go to your first spot and see if it's clear and of course it's not so then you will meet up again find another spot repeat eventually you'll find a spot and you'll get a few runs in and get out of there before disturbing anybody but then you realize is this really the convenient way to do it nope not worth it chapter 2 the after market the after market world for cars is huge it's an industry of millions and the possibility for any car is almost endless yes unless what to drop a different motor and a 240 you got it what nitrous google it what parts from Japan one click away it's incredible how easy it is to get parts as long as you have deep pockets as Sir Brian O'Connor says in America unlike many countries we have the mindset if the car is from the factory it isn't good enough we constantly modify our cars from wheels to tires to appearance to horsepower anything in everything if it can be changed it probably will be if we have the budget for it and are obsessed with our four wheeled babies take my car for example it's a simple 2013 Mustang GT there's various things done to the appearance it's on lowering springs and has minor mods but if I were to tell you what was done to the car I would probably still say it's near stock usually when you use the term I built my car it means nearly everything has been touched Pistons frauds forced induction you name it from crazy superchargers to huge turbos we will always squeeze the limit of our motors if we can which in turn creates a huge tuning industry and things like dyno days where the air fuel ratio the timing and everything comes together with your new setup like a symphony take this Honda for example who would have thought that we squeeze nearly 600 horsepower out of this little thing pretty fire it is such a big habit that when we buy a car we buy it more for the potential not the final result it was when it came out of the box and I quote I wonder how much horsepower this motor can handle on stock internals somebody one way or another nose just from the trial and error however there's a downside to all of this and that word is something in the coral that is all too common that word is ego a lot of people build a car just for the ego justice say they have a faster car than somebody else that's for me I've developed the mindset of your cars faster than mine good for you but for many it's the opposite and with the mindset of just wanting to go faster and faster the more money gets flushed down the toilet almost every performance platform has their own website dedicated to that one car it is an insane money maker in the automotive world and it's here to stay the horsepower wore later down the road it becomes Mora who has more money look at events like Texas 2k for example back in 2008 a group of guys named imv films I'm sure they're still on YouTube so look it up headache any bells supercharged Terminator Cobra the car it's somewhere in the ballpark of 600 where horsepower and ran low 11s that's a pretty impressive car but then they brought it to Texas to play around on the street back in 2008 if you had 600 horsepower you're a damn fast car and you can have a lot of fun however fast forward to now and you need a thousand horsepower just to keep up with that kind of horsepower hierarchy in the world of 2,000 horsepower GTR s it gives perspective on the horsepower of war look at car companies today for example and look how intense this horsepower war is 10 years ago we all thought sports cars of performance we're going to die out in the name of eco-friendly everything but with the new technology we ended up making cars even more crazy than they ever had before the original Dodge Challenger was in the 200 horsepower range and that was considered big boy stuff now look at the new Hellcat with better fuel economy that makes over 700 horsepower with a warranty it pretty much is the best time ever to be a car person if you think about it but it also takes a certain skill to get used to something that fast there are plenty of stories of people crashing in these kind of cars right off the line but a I guess hashtags driver mod needed it's gotten to the point where cars are so fast in the 8 mile and quarter mile that that measurement might be a little obsolete when you have car trapping over 200 miles an hour at times you might as well be the evolution of that which is the half-mile event which has been very successful to past decade half-mile shootouts are kind of the best of both worlds you have all the room you would ever need to probably even top out your car and you can raise all day long as if it was the street dig race roll race whatever you want we definitely need more of these events but what about the owners themselves Duke are people really ever give up on their projects or their cars why are you so obsessed with cars for example this is my friend Hunter he's a good friend of mine and he's just as much into cars as I am I think it gives a good level of you know your own personalization to something you're always looking to like dress yourself wear different articles of clothing to help define you so why not deal with your car - as a kid I I went around looking into cars windows and parking lots and looking just to see how fast they could go like oh look at look at the scarring 120 miles an hour and speedometer and thinking them that was so cool and growing up The Fast and the Furious movies came out Need for Speed came out and and that was kind of like build your love for it and everything starts snowballing to the point where it becomes a passion from wanting a go-kart as a kid to wanting this type of car when you when you get your license and then kind of growing from there we've made a lot of repairs to this it was almost a lemon I would almost say I was a lemon when I first got it um a few thousand dollars and repairs when I got it no it was a bunch of crap let me tell you when I bought this within three months I had to do $2,000 and repairs because of the computer going bad on it because of them trying to figure out that the computer had gone bad and replace everything up to the computer going bad but I mean in the end it turned out to be not such a bad thing because I basically got it tuned up bunch of preventive maintenance this seems pretty reasonable why do so many non car people question our love for our hobby in comparison to other hobbies and passions being around car people the conversation is is definitely a little bit tougher to get started you're always searching for for a conversation rather than when you're with car people having something to talk about and being able to fluidly go into a conversation and have fun with it right away at work it's pretty cool because I have a buddy who is talking about how he wants to swap a D Series for B Series because he wants to make like 200 horsepower something around it so we'll start talking about like oh yeah you need to upgrade your cam so you need to swap this motor in this one's a little better make sure you go VTEC versus non VTEC and he's like oh yeah okay and then everyone else was just sitting there looking at you like what are you talking about you guys are crazy and it's like a like your own secret language why do you spend all that money in your car what's the point then why do you do things like fishing why do you have so many fishing poles why do you have more than one guitar why do you like sports so much that you aren't even playing just never really made sense to me maybe it's just because it's such a high-profile hobby since if you're a car person it's almost all that you do and talk about every single day Chapter three this speed laws alright I know you probably saw this one coming now speed laws is a tricky subject due to well I'm a car guy and as easy to say now you're just biased because you think driving fast is cool and hip well first of all no I don't think that there's a time and place for everything it's pretty obvious I believe this the one ticket I ever truly deserved was a rough one and I learned my lesson really quick in my wrongdoing so right now as I approach this stoplight you will notice one thing it goes from two lanes to one lane and I was in the right lane and I forgot this fact now any normal person in the right lane like I am entering right now would let the people over on the left and let them merge over however like a soccer mom minivan like the one right there I decided to do the alternative and gone it i down shifted to second gear I cut the minivan off by accident this is why I cut this person off because they just cut me off so I drove semi-aggressive so then I merge over I coast along right here the speed limit at the time was 45 miles an hour as I'm cruising down this hill my middle school is up ahead and then what happened in this zone the school zone lights came on in being completely oblivious to that school zone light I went past my middle school and sitting there was an undercover Chevy Impala and then I made eye contact and then I knew after passing by middle school I then turned into the neighborhood to the left right up here and after I turned to the neighborhood I knew I was gonna have a very bad ahead of me he pulled me over and I got 56 miles per hour in a 25 mile per hour school zone it was then I knew I was in a lot of trouble treating me with respect what was not happy and hit every right to be second I'm here to open a conversation let me give credit to where credit is due a journalist by the name of Patrick George of Jalopnik by the way make sure to check out Salaam Nick because they have good stuff he had a press car this press car being the awesome car that is the Camaro zl1 and he was driving it in the middle of nowhere and Rappahannock Virginia George gets on the gas it gets clocked by a lovely friend a Virginia State Trooper at 93 miles an hour okay yeah that's maybe pretty quick and yes it deserves a ticket but here's where things get ridiculous speeding past 80 miles an hour is reckless driving yet their speed limits in the United States that are 80 to 85 miles an hour on the highway cars can do these speeds in the right place today because they're modern and they're well put together they have to be with all our safety regulations nowadays 80 miles an hour being reckless driving in Virginia no matter how close the speed limit is is kind of crazy and the fact that you can be put in jail for that at 80 with the way that cars are built today and how fast cars can go and the way that they're developed and just the technology nowadays is insane the reason it tosses you in jail in Virginia is because it's the same misdemeanor a sexual battery and animal cruelty so I want you to think about this you get dropped off to jail for you know going too fast but you're in the same jail cell as somebody who violated somebody horribly and also somebody who took Pokemon a little too far yet here you sit George even stated that the guards were shocked that he was even in there it's a waste of time and resources for example take a look at these clips and try to guess how fast the cars going all right well the answer is over a hundred even the equinox is doing it the adventure drive videos by the way you should check those out because they're awesome taught me that in the right situation speeding isn't as evil if you think about it if you're in the right time place the Germans and the Autobahn have this all figured out this is all my opinion though it's the law and that's something you shouldn't break however it puts in perspective when you are driving on the highway and you might find yourself going 80 miles an hour and realizing this will throw me in jail and it's laughably silly with our modern tech shoot even when you get on the highway hardly anybody goes the speed limit and it doesn't really affect anything now there's a huge amount of controversy nowadays with the police how they treat suspects bla bla bla yes we all know there are corrupt cops every now and then but my point isn't related to that my question is if cops were really pulling us over to serve protect us and keep us safe from going that 5-over then why do they feel the need to hide from us before pulling somebody over well it's simple it's money it's a multi-billion dollar industry this explains the notorious be traps outside small towns especially in rural cities that go from 55 mile an hour speeds ohms to 25 mile an hour speed zones do I blame them not really a lot of small towns survive off that revenue and sad but it's true most of the time traffic tickets unless it's reckless is not even worth fighting in court many just pay it and move on just to avoid the court fees and many more annoyances cars are the safest they had ever been and for the most part we have the lowest levels of traffic deaths in history but that doesn't help the revenue growing of miniscule traffic tickets traffic engineers maintain that speed limits should be established according to the 85th percentile rule a free-flowing traffic this means that the limits should be set at a level or under which eighty-five percent of the people are driving numerous other studies have shown that the 85 percentile is the safest possible level at which to set a speed limit there's other things like the Solomon curve that talk about speed in relation to crashes and also that with some people in the country obeying the speed limit and the others where feels safe and comfortable while ignoring the speed limit is a recipe for a disaster inconsistent speed causes reasonable speed limits help traffic to flow and a safer more uniform pace an 18-month study following an increase in the speed limit along the New York Thruway from 55 to 65 miles an hour determined that the average beat of traffic 68 miles an hour remain the same even a national study conducted by federal highway administration also concluded that raising or lowering the speed limit had practically no effect on actual travel speeds well what about fuel economy well that didn't work out either when the speed limit was 55 on was anywhere and it didn't really save that much gas all right time for our little peace and love moment the car scene as we stated before has a lot of ego and with ego comes disrespect and grudges however one thing I've noticed about the car scene overall is once you're in it you're in it for good it's an open environment as a whole it has a few ground rules when you're trying to get into this culture one don't be that guy in a car meant to ruin it I'm talking to you one wheel peel or burnouts but the other one is don't act like you know everything make sure to ask questions and people will be glad to answer them I personally I love anything that someone has poured their heart and soul into I think v8s are cool I think four cylinders are cool wise there's a whole mix of things and I have an appreciation for almost everything if you go around acting like you know everything when you actually don't it will stab you in the back later because there is always somebody out there that knows more than you do that applies there pretty much everything in life not just cars be true to yourself be honest love the car life and have respect and people will love you right back in return don't be one of those people just to build their car to show off have a car that you love personally build a car that you love personally and don't care about what other people say one of the most common issues in the car culture is people being so judgmental and seeing a project that they feel the need to go up to the owners face and tell them how horrible it is in their eyes when you're out of meat I mean you'll have the guys who like Mustangs and they're all like Mustangs I don't look at that Honda and then I'm like at the same time like I have a German car but I still look on this and I still love v8s and Mustangs and Corvettes and that kind of thing so for me I'm just have to be like okay I get where you're coming from but at the same time I'm like really cool too won't guess what that owner doesn't care about what you think because it's their car besides why do you care so much if you don't like it stop wasting your time talking trash about others and focus on what you want to do it's very common at night car meets especially for somebody to point out a car that in say gosh what a hunk of junk and then turn around and find out that they don't even have a car in other words they had no room to talk to those people I love you but shut your mouth have an open mind enjoy your cars and enjoy this life I'm David Paterson and thank you for watching don't forget to subscribe and have a fantastic day\n"