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Admin: Please don’t post wristshots while driving (in motion)

BlackTalon
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There are ones for experienced drivers as well and I cant recommend them enough. When I worked for Bayer they "made" us take one and it turned out to be both really fun and valuable. Taught by ex-race drivers, you take your own car to their facility (large parking lot) and do things like bring it up to 70 MPH and slam on the brakes so you know what your vehicle will actually do if you are in that situation. High speed cornering etc, and I did it in a big ol' Chevy Silverado so really good experience without the danger. Different schools in different parts of the country (US at least) certainly worth a few hours and couple hundred bucks for the fun....and insurance discount.
JwRosenthal JwRosenthal
Back when I was an active BMWCCA member I would see these schools held by the local chapter- not just for teens! They would put you in your car with a driving instructor on a closed course and have you push the car past it’s handling limits (wet track, cones etc). It’s thrill to explore what your car will do, it’s a shocker to discover what it won’t.
These sound like what PCA calls High-Performance Driving Clinics. They are vary similar to the TRSS school for teens, but have a couple notable differences:

-- TRSS schools are for any teen driver, while HPDCs are typically for drivers 18 or older, and who are members (or directly related to a member) of the car club hosting the HPDC.

-- The TRSS schools are typically held at very large parking lots, while HPDCs are usually held at race tracks (and the participants get to do 'hot laps' near the end of the HPDC).

-- The classroom info is a little different -- it tends to be a little more in-depth in HPDCs. But both usually teach threshold (or ABS) braking in straight lines and while steering, sudden evasive steering maneuvers, and skid recovery.

It's really distills down to this: New teen driver (16-18 years old) - TRSS school; adult driver or teen with a couple years of driving experience -- HPDC.
 
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I see nothing wrong with taking watch shots while driving at high speeds. Speed is not harmful, it’s becoming abruptly stationary that causes problems.
 
rob#1
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I got ploughed into by a massive truck the other day, but when exchanging details I forgot to ask the driver if perchance he was taking a wrist shot at the time 😗
 
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It's odd that this needs pointing out to people...

You would be surprised what needs pointing out .... Like bags of Almonds with a may contain nuts warnings :0)... .... as Douglas Bader said ... ''rules are for the obedience of fools and for the guidance of the wise man.... (then again he did end up with false legs ;0)

Some people always need extra 'training'
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BlackTalon BlackTalon
These sound like what PCA calls High-Performance Driving Clinics. They are vary similar to the TRSS school for teens, but have a couple notable differences:

-- TRSS schools are for any teen driver, while HPDCs are typically for drivers 18 or older, and who are members (or directly related to a member) of the car club hosting the HPDC.

-- The TRSS schools are typically held at very large parking lots, while HPDCs are usually held at race tracks (and the participants get to do 'hot laps' near the end of the HPDC).

-- The classroom info is a little different -- it tends to be a little more in-depth in HPDCs. But both usually teach threshold (or ABS) braking in straight lines and while steering, sudden evasive steering maneuvers, and skid recovery.

It's really distills down to this: New teen driver (16-18 years old) - TRSS school; adult driver or teen with a couple years of driving experience -- HPDC.
I can attest that it's never too late to learn. My wife got me a day at the BMW Performance driving school in SC a few years ago. I learned more in those 9 hours than in the previous four decades of driving - it totally transformed my approach to automotive safety.
 
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I learned more in those 9 hours than in the previous four decades of driving - it totally transformed my approach to automotive safety.

That sort of education should be required for anyone who buys a "performance" car and thinks they're gentlemen racers. I never had such training until I had to apply for the special NHRA drag racing license required for sub 7.50 second cars. A fairly extensive rigor at the time and included blindfolded sitting in cockpit dexterity and knowledge of switches and controls, along with quite a few driving scenarios of burnout, staging, half-track passes and shut down. The process scared the shit out of me, almost as badly as having to run the car in competition afterwards. A few years later I turned the controls over to someone else more competent. I learned that a man has to know his limitations. Most street speeders nowadays have no clue. The street is much more terrifying than the track.
 
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There is a popular Facebook group for a popular type of Omega watch that I’m a member of which, unlike other similar groups, has not banned pics taken by morons behind the wheel of (usually fast, German) cars clearly travelling at speed. I call them out repeatedly for their reckless behaviour, and I am repeatedly mocked and ridiculed for doing so.
 
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To quote my RN Trauma Unit Wife...

"Natural Selection exists for a reason".

And I agree ~ except when it comes to the innocent collateral damage.
 
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And they always seem to set up shop in the passing lane. I can picture the queue stacked behind them a mile deep while they’re screwing around taking wrist shots. Oblivious. This is why we can’t have nice things.
 
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madjestikmoose madjestikmoose
There is a popular Facebook group for a popular type of Omega watch that I’m a member of which, unlike other similar groups, has not banned pics taken by morons behind the wheel of (usually fast, German) cars clearly travelling at speed. I call them out repeatedly for their reckless behaviour, and I am repeatedly mocked and ridiculed for doing so.
The thing is they’ll probably be fine in a fast German car, its the dude on a motorcycle they hit that will end up getting croaked, or an e-scooter or a pedestrian. But yea I’d just rather people not see that in our community here and think we’re a bunch of arseholes. There’s been about a dozen or so pics just deleted since this was announced a year ago, but most people aren’t doing it here anymore.
 
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A few years ago I tried to count how many fatal crashes I had attended as a cop. I stopped counting at 150.

Other than a handful of suicides, each crash was sudden and unexpected. Name a cause, it’s happened.

Taking wrist shots of your watch? Yes, you may die suddenly and unexpectedly, or contribute to someone else’s demise.
 
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