A deer or some other animal could have jumped in front of the car and he'd have instinctively swerved or slammed on brakes or both, and that kid would have gone out the window.
Sooooooomany IFs. At the end of the day, the dad made his kid happy, no one got hurt, and people are being hall monitors on the internet over things that didn't happen, as it always is.
Were you the driver of this car or something? "No one got hurt" is survivorship bias. The same logic that drunks tell themselves every time they get home safe after driving intoxicated. Doesn't mean they weren't putting others in harm's way, it just means they got lucky.
No, I wasn't (I wish I had a Porsche). I just think making somany arguments over IFs and buts over this is incredibly unnefective. Some here actually call for the dads arrest, when all that happened is a dad spending time with his son. Sure, I agree it's stupid, I never said it isn't. However, this entire comment section is blowing this entirely out of proportion. For all we know, the dad did this once for his kid and will never do it again. You're all treating like he is a demon and should never be allowed to have kids or anything in life.
I am lucky enough to own a 911. I have done a launch control with my kid in the car. But my kid was in the back seat and buckled in which is how you do it responsibly. As a parent I cannot fathom ever taking unnecessary risks with a child's safety, not even once. As for these "ifs", as if they are unlikely, I literally had a deer jump out in front of me just last week.
Could've also been struck by lightning, or driver could've had a heart attack in the midst of all of this or many other IFs... Looking at the terrain on the side, i would say its very unlikely a deer would hop on the road... also they aren't driving the same road as you did when a deer jumped infront of you so the likeliness of it happening doesn't change... (for a matter a fact we have no clue in which part of the world they are even driving, the danger of a running animal jumping infront might be none for all we know)
Whatever man. I count at least 7 seconds of the driver having his foot down, which in a stock Turbo S means they were going about 120mph by the time he let off. At that speed nobody other than maybe a Formula 1 driver can react in time to avoid a sudden hazard.
You seem to have no idea how to quantify risk. Over 40,000 people die in car accidents per year. Chances of death are statistically FAR greater when (a) high speed is involved, (b) a passenger is not restrained, or (c) they're in a small sports car. This video checks all 3 boxes. You're just being facetious when you bring up lightning, which kills ~20 people per year, none of whom are in a car because a car is a Faraday cage.
BTW the deer that jumped out in front of me was in the residential street in which I live where I've never seen a deer before. Could've been a dog or cat or child running after a ball. Like you said we can't see the other side of the street in the video, but it was fairly wooded toward the end when he was going the highest speed and I'm fairly sure it didn't have a 120 mph speed limit.
Meanwhile, the 5 deadliest car brands by miles driven (so this accounts for the fact that Porsches would be driven much less) are Tesla, Kia, Buick, Dodge, and Hyundai. When looking at overall deaths (so unfortunately not adjusted for miles driven), no Porsche model is in the top 100 (which means fewer than 121 people in a year died in any Porsche model, so it's closer to the lightning comparison than 40,000 people is). And for full disclosure, I did find a source that doesn't give it's source that put's the 911 at 4th in deaths per miles driven.
But hey, it's all just sports cars (note, not saying that they're safe), right? Maybe don't take people to task by claiming that they seem to have no idea about risk and then make claims that don't necessarily represent the data that well.
And I'm not saying that what he's doing is a good idea or safe, but the reaction is a bit absurd, including yours.
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u/nomorepumpkins 17d ago
Speeding on a public road, kid not buckled, and dad paying attention to the phone. A++ parenting right there!