There are police videos of it happening all over YouTube. I first saw a guy running from the law eastbound from Houston. The helicopter couldn’t go fast enough.
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treadful@lemmy.zip 4 weeks agoHasn’t this actually happened a few times in LA? The hellcats outrunning the helicopters, I mean.
Shit, that experience might be worth the jail time.
sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
That seems like the kind of problem that a radio and a spike belt were designed to solve.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
At 180mph you only have to encounter one panicked bystander to cause a few deaths, including your own.
Even the best driver in the world shares the road with everyone else.
captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This reminds me of my parents explaning to me as a kid that even if you are the best driver in the world, everyone else is not and they cannot read your mind. So it would still be dangerous.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Pick a top professional international level motorsport like F1, NHRA, MotoGP. They have the best vehicles and drivers in the world. Mostly competing on closed courses with unidirectional flow. Still regularly have equipment failure and misjudgment lead to collisions. On a race course everyone agrees to the heightened level of risk.
captcha_incorrect@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I meant driving in ordinary traffic.