Fast and Furious 495

Random short thought that was too long to fit in a Facebook status:

Fast and Furious 17 was really good, provided that you can suspend ALL disbelief and any rudimentary knowledge of Physics. Just once, however, I'd love to see a realistic car chase or race in a movie. If it were set in DC, for example, then Dom (Vin Diesel) would race down the street until he got to the Beltway. About ten seconds after taking the on-ramp, he'd have to swerve onto the shoulder due to bumper to bumper traffic.

He'd race down the shoulder until he got to a work zone where the shoulder is blocked by construction vehicles, but, being the quick thinker that he is, he'd find an alternate route. He'd slam down on the clutch really hard as if that has any effect on how a transmission shifts gears and then he'd swerve off onto another highway like 95-North or better yet, 270-North. He'd be racing along at about 5, maybe even 10 miles an hour, which is pretty fast and not to mention furious for rush hour traffic in DC. Once he hits an HOV lane and opens it up to about 22 miles an hour, there'd be no catching him.