Is drifting driving?

That explains a lot! Now I know how you got that way. Have you ever had a serious head injury or a secret death wish?

 

You have known me for five years, Al! Bamboo scaffold climbing, almost crashing a three wheeler vendor cart, crashing your bicycle, blindfold walking (now that was painful ~ damn tree), and some other stunts that were stupid. Would you prefer a boring neighbor?

 

Well I can't argue with that. You are anything but boring. I guess it is your aim to not let me be bored huh?

 

In reality, it is to keep me from being bored. I love a challenge!

 

So I'm a "challange" huh? Well since you put it that way and it keeps you on your toes I guess I have achieved my purpose which is to keep YOU on YOUR toes. What we have here is a "symbiotic" relationship.

 

To me it is driving. 'Driving' to me is being behind the wheel of a moving car. You are behind the wheel of a moving car when drifting and you are controlling that motor vehicle, so it's driving. \(^.^)/

 

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You can say that again! In fact it is more driving than the usual run to the store or a vacation trip down some highway. I have to admire those who know how to do "drfting". It obviously requires excellent reflexes and skill handling the vehicle.

 

If only they would teach driving school students how to drift, then most probably most people would know how to drift in general. Too bad they don't teach it.

 

It takes a lot of skill to drift on purpose AND go exactly where you want, it take a lot of practice too. Watch the Tokyo version of Fast and Furious and the drifting up the ramps inside the parking lot is bananas! (That's Vin Diesel's favorite slang term btw, he makes a cameo at the end).

 

Why on earth would anyone want to teach "drifting" to high school students or anyone else for that matter so they can take the skill to the open highway thus making them (the highways) more dangerous than they already are for crying out loud? Would you want a loved one on the same roadway with some nut who has been drinking alchohol and is drifting down the highway toward your loved one? Think about it. Drifting is a skill that should be confined to the track and done by experienced skilled drivers! Young drivers drive dangerously enough without adding another dangerous maneuver to their bag of tricks.

 

Now that is "drifting"! If you go down then you really feel it. I have to admit in my youth I missed out on what was to come next when it came to driving. I think I would have been right in the thick of things then.

 

I agree with sidney that it should be taught! The more skills a person has the more safe he or she will be on the road during an emergency. Just like the first time I went into a skid...I had no idea that to correct it was to steer into it! Almost caused a major accident with a tanker! It is not necessarily "another dangerous maneuver" for young people"...hell, there are an equal amount of adults who should not be on the road as well!

 

I can see your point but at the same time how do you teach them to use the drifting skill ONLY in emergency situations and not endanger the general public?
In defense of the skill why not organize sanctioned drifting events like any other motor vehicle event?

 

Come on bigal, when you were in Viet Nam you survived when your boat was blown up! I am sure that you had training for what to do prior without sitting on a boat that was being blown up in training.

 

You are right about that, If some people crash from handbrake turns, what would happen if they tried to drift?

 

Is there any situation where drifting would be a skill you'd need to have? Funny story, recently a student driver at the local high school tried to do a little drifting in the instruction car. He ended up in the lagoon.

 

Lol, it's either they will survive a crash or die from it. Heaven forbid, they might even accidentally run over people when attempting to do it.