Re: One bad day is enough to be...dead
RC,
first of all you shouldn't worry about your age. As you said, it seemed to be rather due to current worries than anything else. I have to admit that driving a car on the limit is not the best thing to do in this case - still I have to recall this to myself sometimes.
Besides that PSM is definately a safety improvement - just today a friend of mine told me about an accident on the Autobahn with three of his closest family members - the driver had to perform an emergency lanechange at high speed.
To say that Porsche drivers are more trained or educated handling the car might be true - the fact that 911s are demanding cars just as much!
We had the very same discussion on the German board a couple of weeks ago and the vast majority of comments was AGAINST PSM in this car. Ridiculous, if you ask me!
Audi and others even imcorporated ABS and ASR in the AWD models a few years ago, why shouldn't it work with LSD?
As someone mentioned above, the majority of tragic and severe crashes I have seen and read about, especially on this board, was with non-ESP equipped GT models. The number of Turbos and 4S-models involved in these accidents is rather low, it seems to me!
first of all you shouldn't worry about your age. As you said, it seemed to be rather due to current worries than anything else. I have to admit that driving a car on the limit is not the best thing to do in this case - still I have to recall this to myself sometimes.
Besides that PSM is definately a safety improvement - just today a friend of mine told me about an accident on the Autobahn with three of his closest family members - the driver had to perform an emergency lanechange at high speed.
To say that Porsche drivers are more trained or educated handling the car might be true - the fact that 911s are demanding cars just as much!
We had the very same discussion on the German board a couple of weeks ago and the vast majority of comments was AGAINST PSM in this car. Ridiculous, if you ask me!
Audi and others even imcorporated ABS and ASR in the AWD models a few years ago, why shouldn't it work with LSD?
As someone mentioned above, the majority of tragic and severe crashes I have seen and read about, especially on this board, was with non-ESP equipped GT models. The number of Turbos and 4S-models involved in these accidents is rather low, it seems to me!
. Hence, I sleep at least ten hours, eat well, throw all worries out of my mind and then get behind the wheel. No cell phones. No passengers. Tire pressure. Check. Full tank of fuel. Check. Clean windshield and wipers. Check. Time to drive. After a two or three hour drive I come back home and feel like I've been on vacation. I am rejuvenated for anything life throws at me. 
Everyone thinks they're superman with lightning quick reflexes.
