The most dangerous roads in the world.

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The discussion revolves around personal experiences and perceptions of the most dangerous roads in the world. Participants share anecdotes about specific roads, highlighting their fears and the challenges associated with driving on these routes. The scope includes subjective experiences, geographical descriptions, and comparisons between different locations.

Discussion Character

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant shares a link to a collection of dangerous roads, expressing a mix of excitement and fear about driving on them.
  • Another participant describes their experience on the road from Nice to Montecarlo, emphasizing the perilous cliffs and their feelings of fear while driving close to the edge.
  • A later reply humorously references acrophobia recovery clinics in relation to the described road.
  • One participant recounts driving at high speeds on the same road, leading to a physical reaction afterwards.
  • Another participant contrasts the Nice to Montecarlo road with roads in Colombia, suggesting that the latter presents greater dangers due to violence.
  • A participant mentions the Canary Islands, comparing their winding roads up volcanoes to the previously discussed roads, noting the dangers of broken edges and wrecked cars below.
  • Route 1 in Massachusetts is described as chaotic, likening it to a high-speed race.
  • One participant points out that the Autobahn is not considered dangerous due to its advanced safety technology, while sharing their own scary experience in the Rockies, where road conditions were precarious.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants share various personal experiences and opinions about dangerous roads, but there is no consensus on which road is the most dangerous or the criteria for determining danger.

Contextual Notes

Some participants express subjective feelings of fear and danger without providing objective measures or comparisons, leading to a variety of interpretations of what constitutes a "dangerous" road.

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The scariest road I've ever been on was from Nice, France to Montecarlo, Monaco. The road is mountain on one side and sheer cliff down to the sea on the other. We were driving so close to the edge that looking out of the car window, all I could see was the water way below.
 
That's where the acrophobia recovery clinics are held...
 
Of course we were also going 100MPH in my aunt's new Aston Martin.

As soon as we stopped, I threw up in the back seat. :redface:
 
Compared to Colombia that road is nothing. At least no one is shooting at you...
 
Evo said:
The scariest road I've ever been on was from Nice, France to Montecarlo, Monaco. The road is mountain on one side and sheer cliff down to the sea on the other. We were driving so close to the edge that looking out of the car window, all I could see was the water way below.
Sounds like some of the roads in the Canary Islands which meander up volcanoes. It doesn't help that in places parts of the edge of the road have broken off nor does it engender a sense of well-being when you can see the burnt out shells of cars hundreds of feet below which didn't handle the hairpin bends very successfully.
 
Route 1 in the Saugus/Malden/Melrose Mass area. It's like trying to join the Indy 500 from a dead stop :)
 
Good, no one said "Autobahn", which would be wrong. The Autobahn has some of the most advanced tech to keep it safe.
Scariest road I've been on was going up into the Rockies in Colorado. I think we were going up to like Telluride (I was about 4 or 5) and its a sheer dropoff hundreds of feet down on one side of the road, and if I remember right, we passed a spot where part of the road had fallen in.
 

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