| Go karts are fun. They make you feel like you | | | | Translation Trees don't move, you will. And |
| are in a Formula 1 racer. You are so close to the | | | | probably in the opposite direction like a super ball! |
| ground that it feels like you are going 100 mph. At | | | | Go karts to a mother are equal to NRDD : |
| that moment the farthest thing from our minds is | | | | - Noise |
| the reality of racing, especially the history of | | | | - Recklessness |
| racing, where people died. | | | | - Danger |
| We almost forget that a teen idol James Dean | | | | - Death. |
| rolled his Porche Spyder and lost his life. There is | | | | You may not think an accident can be that |
| a glory to racing, and there is the tragic to racing. | | | | severe, however, counting the cost is a large part |
| Back then, that was the learning curve in racing. It | | | | of go karting. An understanding of vehicle |
| was a later innovation to use roll bars, roll cages | | | | dynamics and the potential disasters that can |
| and better safety equipment to prevent such | | | | occur when gokarting need to be grasped and |
| catastrophes. | | | | understood. |
| The reality though is most people do not want to | | | | When we watch "You-Tube" and see some |
| face this: accidents do happen. | | | | Yahoo jumping off a roof and landing on his |
| We tend to have these nerves of steel, which | | | | privates, we know that is dumb. If we know that |
| steal reality away from underneath us. | | | | is dumb then we need to put similar thinking into |
| We need to ask the following questions: | | | | keeping the "dumb" in the closet. |
| - What contingency plans do I have that will cover | | | | Insurance is designed to repair the broken bones |
| an accident? | | | | and the scrapes, but the unsaid is that it cannot |
| - Do I have insurance? | | | | repair a paraplegic or a broken neck. Even |
| - What if a neighbor rides my go kart and hurts | | | | Christopher Reeve didn't make it...don't think that |
| themselves? | | | | gokarting is any different. |
| - Do I have insurance that will cover them? | | | | A healthy fear of the laws of nature and their |
| - Or how will this be handled? | | | | reaction towards gokart performance is a good |
| - Can I get insurance for a go kart? | | | | thing. |
| The grief of fretting mothers needs to be | | | | Your job here is to minimize those risks... |
| considered at the outset. Put yourself in a | | | | Hence the next section "How am I going to Drive |
| mother's shoes, and you will get the idea. | | | | This Go Kart? |