Quote Originally Posted by muhhan View Post
It's all well and good to be able to use advance driving techniques but best bet is to take it easy and try to prepare the car and your actions for the road ahead. When you think about it even the best racing drivers in their race spec vehicles have accidents so is it realistic to think that we, with all our driving experience, will be able to avoid an accident by using these race techniques on our crappy public roads with people around, in a car that isn't set up like these race spec machines? I'm not trying to dis anyone and my hat's off to any successful racing car drivers among us, but I'm a young driver who is well within the statistics for young male drivers and it is just too easy to have accidents.
Professional drivers drive their cars on the absolute limit. That's why they are professional drivers. No one drives on the limit on public roads, it's common sense. You can't compare the two. The only common ground is the fact that they are both cars, and the drivers are using the same technique to control them in the most efficient manner. So the answer is yes, it is realistic. Or rather, i'd much rather be in the car with someone who understands these techniques than Joe Goat who drives his corolla from A to B every day, as even though it doesn't prove any knowledge of understanding how a car reacts to the road, it shows a genuine interest in driving which makes far more likely.

Experience on it's own means jack shit. You need experience doing the right thing. I get in the car with people who've been driving for 5 times as long as me and there's times i'm terrified and think i'm going to die. Not to say I am a better "driver" than them, but if an emergency situation comes up I can bet that they'll have no idea.