He's an idiot, plain & simple.
Do you actually buy that he's not an intelligent human being because he decided to go really fast in his really fast car?
Presumably you like watching young NBA stars play. Well, the fans pay the giant salaries these kids make that bough him that car, so....
All the stone throwing in this thread is absurd. He's a young, rich kid who made a mistake. Off the high horse, team.
Off the high horse? Are you kidding me? Do you know how many auto-related fatalities occur every year due to reckless driving?
These are needless statistics that can easily be avoided by exercising common sense. Something Mr. Evans clearly didn't consider before driving 130 mph. To me that's plain stupidity in the common sense department. I don't care if he's young or not.
Who gives a darn what paid for the car? That shouldn't have to do with his idiotic decision to drive the car at a reckless speed on a freeway.
yes, high horse. if interested in response please see my previous posts. peace.
Nice dodge there. 
Not sure if you've been directly or indirectly affected by a motor vehicle fatality due to something that could easily have been avoided but that might have you singing a different tune.
No dodge -- I requested that you take a look at my previous posts, which had you done you might have gathered I’ve had a close friend spend a couple of weeks in the hospital following an accident with someone who was too busy yapping on a cellphone to watch Route 24 South. My father is also a senior state police official, so you might say I have a unique perspective on this topic.
Traditional wisdom suggests that “speed kills”. Well, it can depending on how it's deployed. But American roadways have MUCH more pervasive problems. To repeat myself, someone talking on a cellphone, or texting, or eating a burger, or playing a DVD, or reaching in the backseat to discipline their kid(s) – i.e. “distracted driving” -- is far more likely to cause an accident than someone who is speeding. And yet this is something that happens with alarming frequency and acceptance in this country. There are numerous studies that suggest engaging in distracted driving disables the driver as much or more as being drunk. Meanwhile, in most states “reckless driving” – which tends to involve high speed, but not necessarily as a direct coefficient of severity when compared with the car itself, how the car is being operated, who is operating it, and the road conditions in which he or she is operating it – ranks 4th on the list of causes for accidents. Distracted driving ranks 1st by a wide margin.
The simple fact is that most Americans (Masscavities are FAR from an exception) do not take driving seriously. I used the example of Europe, where folks drive considerably faster, but are simply far better, more diligent drivers, resulting in far fewer accidents. Speed certainly increases the likelihood and impact of accidents, but quality of driving is much more significant. Essentially – Are you an idiot for driving fast? Maybe – it really depends on how you drive. Are you an idiot for driving distracted? Yes. Unequivocally. Do more people drive distracted than drive really fast? Yes. Unequivocally.
Thus my disappointment with reading a litany of knee-jerk responses where folks label Tyreke Evans an out-and-out “idiot” for speeding, knowing full well that this hardly ranks in the high annals of stupidity for driving, much less life. Speeding is an American social taboo, as illustrated by the fact that Americans grab hold of our highways passing lanes and won’t let go of them regardless of their need of passing. Americans don’t like other people to go faster than them. When they’re passed, they flash their lights and shake their fists. This lack of respect for your neighbor on the road leads to more traffic, more smog, and frankly more accidents. It goes along with our cultural obsession with property and consumerism -- a sad and disgusting topic for another day. Tyreke took it to a relative extreme, but his driving didn't reflect great recklessness.
Meanwhile, my guess is the % of those here labeling Evans an “idiot” who are guilty of some form of distracted driving on an ongoing basis is likely high – at least 50%. Because over 50% of Americans who drive do so distracted periodically. Distracted driving is far more dangerous and far more common than excessive speeding, and having watched the video carefully it’s clear that what Evans did (driving very fast on a midday, sunny, dry 12 lane highway with limited traffic flow – never really interacting with a single other car on the road -- in an automobile highly capable of handling said speeds without exceeding its mechanical limits) is very low on the list of most dangerous forms of driving. Would I have a problem with it if he did it on 93 south of Boston? Yes – the road sets up very poorly for high speed in layout, road surface and traffic flow. Would I have a problem if he were doing what he was doing while eating a Big Mac? Yes. Would I have a problem if he was doing it in a 1995 Dodge Neon with 150,000 miles? Yes. Would I have a problem with it if he were doing it drunk? Of course. But if not, I refuse to sound like some naïve fool from 1950 insisting that speed kills. Stupid kills, and his driving just wasn’t that stupid.
I’m taking a lot of venom for defending Evans, but I’m trying to make a simple point. What Evans did is not as dangerous as what typical Massaperatures do every day, and the state essentially refuses to address legally in a progressive way. So here’s my request: if you’re going to call Evans -- a 20 year old kid who is a sudden millionaire without a job he has to go to during the daytime, if you see what i'm sayin' -- an unequivocal idiot for the rest of his days for pressing his gas pedal too hard, I’d like you to do precisely the same thing to anyone who is guilty of the forms of distracted driving I laid out, including yourself if applicable. If so, at least the playing field will be slightly level, thought only in concept if not in actual practice. If not, I’m going to continue to tell you that you’re sitting on a high horse, stereotyping something that’s statistically not as dangerous as you suggest, and otherwise throwing stones when presumably you’ve been guilty of doing a stupid thing or two, considering most of us have. Sound fair?
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