"I personally learned that lesson right after buying my first car. Before you ask, it was nothing serious - the only injury suffered was to my ego. I had hardly driven since getting my licence, so a midnight cruise after bringing the car home felt right. The longer I drove around the empty neighbourhood streets, the more comfortable (overconfident) I felt, and the more pressure my foot applied on the accelerator."
"Content with my nighttime drive and still feeling bold, I opted to ignore the brake pedal when entering my building's parking garage, only to misjudge the distance between my car and a divider. Within the blink of an eye and mere hours after my first (young) adult purchase, the driver-side mirror on my 2013 Hyundai Elantra was on the ground in my rearview. I didn't tell my parents the truth about that until many years later."
The phrase "Speed kills" highlights that higher speed raises risk despite its exhilaration. A first-car owner drove late at night, grew overconfident, and misjudged distance in a parking garage, resulting in a broken driver-side mirror and embarrassment. The incident reinforced both an enjoyment of speed and a lesson on the value of slowing down. NBA teams are embracing faster play: league average pace is 100.3, tied for a 30-year high, and time-to-shot is 11.5 seconds, a multi-decade low. The Toronto Raptors last season ranked ninth in pace, second in average speed (4.42 m.p.h.), with a 11.1-second time-to-shot and 20.2 seconds per possession.
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