10-08-2004, 02:54 PM
Never really thought about it! I knew they went through some training, but I had no idea it was so lacking. That is pretty sad if they can't even teach them proper hand techniques.... it's interesting that they get shortchanged in high speed and chase driving just like almost every teenager in America gets shortchanged in his/her day-to-day driving education. It's just an overall lack of understanding in this country, most people don't want to come to grips with how dangerous driving really is and how underqualified most of us are for it.
Reminds me of a "world scariest police videos" I was watching the other day. Guy is barrelling down the highway, cop in pursuit. Helicopter view shows this terrible curve/180 up ahead, guy barely notices it in time to slow down at all, goes careening off, car starts cartwheeling, he gets ejected from the car, and sure enough, the cop, who manages to slow down just a bit more is seconds behind. The cop car barely stays upright, flies across the same path and ends up in a gaurdrail, other car tumbles on, and cop car just BARELY misses the ejected criminal. And they show it in slow mo, with the idiot announcer "because of the cop's skills, he manages to keep his car under control and steers away from the man on the ground, just barely missing him". And I'm thinking... RIGHT. That cop had no more control than the other guy, and he didn't steer shit. He just happened to slow down just a bit more because he saw the first car go off, and his path didn't quite meet up with the guy. They both got lucky. And he probably also didn't see the "BIG ASS CURVE AHEAD" sign that had to be there. And I think we all know how your vision gets pretty narrow when you're going fast and you don't really know what you're doing. He got overwhelmed. :?
Reminds me of a "world scariest police videos" I was watching the other day. Guy is barrelling down the highway, cop in pursuit. Helicopter view shows this terrible curve/180 up ahead, guy barely notices it in time to slow down at all, goes careening off, car starts cartwheeling, he gets ejected from the car, and sure enough, the cop, who manages to slow down just a bit more is seconds behind. The cop car barely stays upright, flies across the same path and ends up in a gaurdrail, other car tumbles on, and cop car just BARELY misses the ejected criminal. And they show it in slow mo, with the idiot announcer "because of the cop's skills, he manages to keep his car under control and steers away from the man on the ground, just barely missing him". And I'm thinking... RIGHT. That cop had no more control than the other guy, and he didn't steer shit. He just happened to slow down just a bit more because he saw the first car go off, and his path didn't quite meet up with the guy. They both got lucky. And he probably also didn't see the "BIG ASS CURVE AHEAD" sign that had to be there. And I think we all know how your vision gets pretty narrow when you're going fast and you don't really know what you're doing. He got overwhelmed. :?