Eli5 why drivers lose control and crash powerful cars, often rentals, so often.
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I suspect physics isn’t the culprit here. When you drive a rental, it’s probably a car you’re not used to. Powerful or not, it handles differently from your usual car. So here you are, trying to drive Car X like it is Car Y. Mistakes are more likely.
Plus a lot of people think differently about a rental car than they do their own car, and feel like maybe they can get away with things they normally couldn’t. Anything bad that happens won’t happen to “their” car. It’s kind of the same psychology behind why some tourists act like jerks even though they’re better behaved at home.
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