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Passenger dead as souped up pick-up totaled in Phetchaburi crash


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9 minutes ago, HAKAPALITA said:

It comes from Education, not Control Freaks. Unfortunately some young are slow learners.

No amount of education will provide common sense. To make road deaths, or lack of control an excuse to suggest control freaks as the issue is to admit you do not even have the fundamental understanding that common sense isa  gene derived ability . You can not teach common sense, you can not buy common sense  and as your post illustrates you have no common sense thinking that education gives you common sense.   Education provides you with the tools to be able to make rationalised judgments, it can not provide you with  the common sense to extrapolate those issues upon which those rationlised judgments,  such as driving,  can be made.

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17 minutes ago, Esso49 said:

No amount of education will provide common sense. To make road deaths, or lack of control an excuse to suggest control freaks as the issue is to admit you do not even have the fundamental understanding that common sense isa  gene derived ability . You can not teach common sense, you can not buy common sense  and as your post illustrates you have no common sense thinking that education gives you common sense.   Education provides you with the tools to be able to make rationalised judgments, it can not provide you with  the common sense to extrapolate those issues upon which those rationlised judgments,  such as driving,  can be made.

Agreed. The Thais in general have a poor grasp of common sense.

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6 hours ago, NanLaew said:

They're referring to lowered suspension, low-profile tires usually accompanied by a 'chipped' ECU that marginally boosts engine power and greatly increases black exhaust smoke. These pimped pickups and their yokel drivers are the local equivalent of the ubiquitous Vauxhall Corsa favored by Chavs back in the UK.

 

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and a lot end up the same way

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8 hours ago, Vacuum said:

What's that?

lowered   

the stupid young people here dont realise when you lower a car/truck it changes the camber/castor angles on the front suspension tending for the reversing of the  self centering characturistics  further adding wide wheels will cause tramlining so you end up with a vehicle that will try to steer itself especially in the wet the speed is not really an issue it simply makes the inevitable collition that much bigger

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10 hours ago, Vacuum said:

What's that?

Look in fact like many of those modified pick-ups we see on the road.: they  lower the suspension, nothing to do  with wheelbase. The suspension become very rigid ( I guess, as usual, the journalist does not know what he write about or it is a bad translation ) .   Usually the also modify  the ECU ( computer chips ) to have more power.

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8 hours ago, NanLaew said:

They're referring to lowered suspension, low-profile tires usually accompanied by a 'chipped' ECU that marginally boosts engine power and greatly increases black exhaust smoke. These pimped pickups and their yokel drivers are the local equivalent of the ubiquitous Vauxhall Corsa favored by Chavs back in the UK.

 

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I've driven small Toyota pickups for years.  The back end is very light and it's very easy for it to break loose when the road is wet or slightly slippery.

 

A high school acquaintance had a Pontiac Firebird with a 400 cubic inch engine.  Very light in the back.  He passed someone on a wet road.  Whipped back into the lane and started spinning.  Hit a wooden telephone pole and snapped it off.  Fortunately he was going backwards the moment it hit, so he walked away from it.  He was a maniac of a driver.

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12 hours ago, ezzra said:

Souped up cars that are beyond the driver's skills to control coupled with a devil may care driving attitude, Is the recipe for road disasters..

Does anyone that owns vehicles check their tires and lights? My wife's GF had a car that she kept when her and husband broke up, the car was five years old over 60,000 km and you couldn't even leave a mark in the sand. When I walk by some car's the tire tread (what tread) is cracked! In the US we have a saying if you can see the top Lincoln's head on a penny time for tires, in Thailand you cant even hide an ant. The other thing I swear they think the light bulbs last as long as the vehicle, Wrong! When you see the old rounded truck cab, no doors, maybe no windshield, the tail lights don't work and don't even look like someone has unscrewed the screw in the lens cover.

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