burning excessive fossil fuels is the manlinest of manliness things ever, doncha know, coal rolling bro o’ mine?

“Wankpanzer” - I will definitely start using that phrase. Big cars with little men drivers, usually they drive these things to compensate for their smallish penises.

""The local police commissioner has warned that reckless drivers “will face the full force of the law … including seizure of your vehicle and imprisonment”. But are the courts listening?

Of the three men convicted at Birmingham magistrates court, one received a suspended sentence, a £272 fine, 150 hours of community work and a two-year driving ban. Another was handed a £1,275 fine and seven penalty points: in other words, he could step out of the court and back into his car. The man who did over 90mph in a 30mph zone got a £253 fine and a 56-day driving ban. He’ll be back on the roads in November. All appear to have kept their cars.""

Same thing happens in Poland. Police stops reckless drivers and court takes away their driving licenses. They keep driving, get stopped, and judges forbid them from driving. One guy was forbidden to drive over 30 times. No jail or nothing. Just a slap on the wrist.

And no one really knows why. Some of those people are well connected but not all of them. Judges simply don't think it's a problem that should be solved for some reason.

It's a bit better in Spain. Where I live police is actually tracking social media and using drones to find and stop illegal races. It also looks like judges are trying to help as I've seen cases where suspended jail time was handed out in first offense cases or reckless driving. It is still barely making a dent. I think the main problem is that idiot drivers are very determined. They will not stop meeting, driving like idiots and making noise because they got a fine or two. You would have to prosecute and jail thousands or people to stop it.

Singapore is fighting street racing culture and it's taking a lot of work including raids on car workshops and prosecutions of mechanics doing illegal modifications. They are getting some results but it's not easy.

As with everything the solution would have to be more drastic and affect everyone: mandatory speed limiters in every car, immediate confiscation or cars surpassing noise and emission limits. Of course most people will not agree to it so what's left are some half-measures that limit the issue but never really solve it.

I mean I'm usually the odd one out here because I'm into mechanical things, rural areas, and Motorsport.

I fully agree, assholes driving like this on public roads deserve prison. Even more so if in a vehicle weighing over 3000 lbs. I HATE SUVS AND TRUCKS SO DAMN MUCH. whew.

Keep racing on the track. Issue is, cops hate tracks, cities hate them, Karen's hates them, so there is no where for us to actually do our hobby. Sure you may say its a stupid hobby but anyone could say that about anything.

Street crime goes down when tracks are built, its a fact.

Y’ever been bullied?

Petro masculinity 😂.

It’s like they want people to make fun of them.

gonna be a fascinating time as gas spikes and these chuds lose their whole personality over not being able to drive their roided up shitmobiles everywhere.

same with monster truck rallies - how long can that garbage continue? or any conspicuous consumption?

we're better off with it all dead.

Look at history.

"Whippersnapper" came from young men racing horses and buggies on the roads. They'd snap the whips over the horses heads to make them go faster.

Petro-Insecurity, not Petro-Masculinity

Rolling coal, giant lifted trucks, all this shit, just take their licenses away forever and let them drown in the car-centric cesspool they created.

My mom drives like this, don't be sexist about a non gendered issue. Ah just realized it's from the opinion article title.

Because a cop's job is to protect the rich. They do the bare minimum to keep us in line, to keep the people from considering rioting, to keep us going to work, etc.

Power doesn't care whether we kill each other, wreck cars, plow over kids in the cross-walk, etc. Power has no empathy. Power only cares when we get so fed up we take to the streets and show up at their front door with torches and pitchforks. That's when the cops earn their pay, when they show up in force, kitted out, and ready to rumble.

Kids being shot inside the school? Hold back till the shooting stops, don't want any of us getting hurt.

People rioting and threatening power directly? Bring out the tanks. Remember the George Floyd protests?

My wife does this and she drives an EV. So what’s “Petro” and “masculine” about that?

Honestly driving fast is kinda overrated and probably a consequences of driving big comfortable cars and people bring dopamine junkies

Because we think it kills more of them than it actually kills the rest of us?

Racing has existed since the beginning of time, ever since one person challenged another that they are faster, and the bet was called. The Need for Speed is not just a cars problem... From horses to bikes, autos, boats, airplanes, and even commuter trains, someone wants to go fast. Best we can do is enforce and penalize dangerous behavior on the road and not shut down every motorsport park that gives people an "out" for this.

Trump is solving one part of the problem.... Now only rich assholes can have a big ass truck. So they'll probably be less and probably have insurance. Probably.

M.A.D.D. was too weak for the Vin Diesel onslaught. Also, fuck Jackie Stewart! /s

It's ignored by police because it's one or more less vehicles traveling fast. Not every State Trooper or Police Officer is trained to drive 140 mph or higher, I would guess most aren't. I'm sure the idiots in the trucks don't know how to drive that fast either.

Maybe play up their petro-instability. Describe how much more aggressively they can drive with the massive instant torque of an EV, compared to their obsolete clanking collection of gears

i see people switching lanes suddenly without warning is more dangerous.

Driving that’s too fast, too dangerous and utterly lawless: why do we tolerate this petro-masculinity?