Street Racing Research Paper

Street Racing It is the primal urge amongst male teenagers; put the pedal to the floor and see who wins. It is street racing and it has caught on in the U.S. over the past decade as one of the worst influences on young impressionable minds today. The feeling you get when your going fast cannot be replaced by any other stimulant known to man. It's flashy, fun, and exciting until it goes wrong. The need for speed is increasing along with speed related deaths and accidents. Could modern culture have an effect on this with a series of movies and games?
The series is "The Fast and the Furious." The first two installments of the series of three movies revolve around drag racing in the streets of big cities with upgraded import cars. All of the stunts in the movie were performed by trained professionals in a closed environment. However, in the movies the stunt drivers always make things look so simple and that makes kids believe that they themselves can race and shoot through traffic at speeds peaking at or above 100 miles per hour and escape without a scratch. Teens do not seem to realize that only in the movies do people pull off wild and inhuman stunts and live to tell about it the next day.
Street racing is very dangerous. It can and has claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent people around the world. The National Highway Traffic Safety
In many cities here in the U.S. there are sanctioned areas where a driver can take their car and race other cars where there is no oncoming traffic, and ambulances are standing by. Every driver takes the risk of racing at a high rate of speed but if you have an accident on the track you have a safety crew that can be at your side in mere seconds. In the streets it can take up to thirty minutes for a rescue crew to arrive. In an accident, those minutes can mean the difference between a few scratches or the ultimate sacrifice of your own life or somebody