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I'm kind of paranoid now about the way these kinds of things happen, i rolling start floored it to 100km/h today on the entrance into the freeway and when i hit gear 2 and floored it i lost traction for a split second, does that mean i could have spun out or something, or maybe I'm thinking too much? That event makes me paranoid about driving =\

And yes the population is increasing so no matter how much restrictions there are, the percentage of people who are turned into figures on our roads will remain the same, there's always the chance there, and if there's a chance there's a toll.

^ Hey mate yeah you would of spun it if you kept the power on. If your asking these kind of questions on a forum then I recommend doing some advanced training courses. Driving the car you own, you will be in this situation again and no matter what you get told it won't mean much without practise in car control.

I'm kind of paranoid now about the way these kinds of things happen, i rolling start floored it to 100km/h today on the entrance into the freeway and when i hit gear 2 and floored it i lost traction for a split second, does that mean i could have spun out or something, or maybe I'm thinking too much? That event makes me paranoid about driving =\

Yeah it's possible to spin out. Reality is, 999 times out of 1000 you could be fine doing what you did. The number of people dying is nowhere near proportionate to the number of people doing silly things in cars. That's why we do it, because we know we'll most likely get away with it. Cancer is more likely to clean you up than a car accident.

But there's still that 1 in 1000 chance that it's gonna be your time. Do it twice and you bring down the odds to 1 in 500. Three times and it's 1 in 333. Feel it getting closer? Only it doesn't always work that way with a shitload of chances...for some unlucky people, it's the first time they try something silly...others it's the second. Some go their whole life of stupid driving without seeing consequence. But all it takes is a pothole, a stick/rock in the road, a patch of oil, a simple misjudgement, a mechanical failure. It ain't how good you are at driving. The common mentality is that people who die doing this must not know how to control a car. Yes being a clever driver can help, but you only have to look at people like Peter Brock and Ayerton Senna...professional racing drivers who died driving fast...to know that sometimes it's just the wrong place at the wrong time. And the best thing you can do to draw those odds out to 1 in 10000, 1 in 100000...is to avoid driving like that. It's your call in the end really...just sucks that innocents get taken out like this too.

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