Geek and Gadgets Set Cross-US Speed Record

Brikus writes "And you thought your car had gadgets. In this story from Wired magazine, we hear about Alex Roy and his quest to break the record time for a cross-USA road trip. One of the biggest roadblocks to breaking the record: highway patrol officers, about 31,000 along the way. So Roy decked out his E39 BMW M5 with a thermal camera, radar/laser detectors, GPS devices, police scanners, and other high-tech gadgets and toys."

Comments

What a fuckwit Alex Roy is.

[mike_diack]

Did he not give a s**t about the risk of killing people on route.
Fuck him.

Re:What a bastard.

[satoshi1]

There you go again.

Someone can be a geek and can be a psychopath. This one dude is NOT setting a stereotype for geeks. He's setting a stereotype for idiots, and the average person will see that. They won't say "wow, geeks are reckless assholes," they'll just say "that dude's a fucking idiot."

Re:Americans can't drive

[rolfc]

Often, BMW and wreckless driving are linked together. I wonder if they are just as stupid when they choose an overpriced german car.

Re:What a bastard.

[zig007]

Free speech?
Do you believe the crap you write? I am about as non-conservative as they get, moron. And I am an atheist to.
I am not easily offended, I can assure you that, but when someone writes crap like this i tend to get pissed off.

This has nothing to do with naked tits or cursing or anything like that.
It is about not glorifying fucking awful behavior. I don't tolerate that. And you shouldn't either.

You are actually making free speech harder.
Your are using it as a means to try to suppress my views and to try and turn this into what you think it is:
Kind of cool.

Re:What a bastard.

[zig007]

Jeeze I hope that's not illegal. This is a free(ish) country still isn't it? I've gone on road trips where I drove about 12 hours straight, by myself. To call that "extremely dangerous" is to make yourself sound like an old granny. No, but it makes you sound REALLY stupid. No one drives for twelve hours straight unless that person is totally ignorant of the risks of doing so. Also, it is a quite masochistic exercise. We ARE talking no stops or pauses WHATSOEVER. Not to eat, rest, nothing.
Actually, it is illegal for truck drivers, for example. I think they have a 10 hour limit. Remember that they are professionals with a comfortable working environment and that they have experience of doing these things regularly. Also, they stop for short intervals. They have to keep itineraries.

Whether he actually killed someone or not is obviously completely irrelevant.

Since we know the outcome, we have more information about what went into it. Yeah, if you look at it solely as a mathematic problem with a known complexity.
If you don't know anything, the amount of information you get from the first outcome i so unimportant that it doesn't matter, hence it's low relevance.

Now you've really revealed that you think the positive outcome of this event was pure coincidence Have I? Interesting, since i never did so.
No, I don't think it was pure coincidence. He probably tried to avoid collisions to not have to go to jail for reckless endangerment or even murder(implied malice, the felony murder rule).