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Imagine yourself sitting in the driver’s seat of your car. Now imagine that your dream machine has a supercharged, nitrous oxide injected engine with more horsepower than an Indy car. The driver in the vehicle next to you gives you the familiar glance and nod. You both rev up your engines, attempting to intimidate the other into backing down. It doesn’t work. The man standing between your cars raises his arms up into the air. You pause, visualizing what will happen next. The man drops his arms; you hammer the gas pedal. In seconds you pass fifty, sixty, seventy miles per hour. In less that half of a minute and one-quarter of a mile, you muscle your car past the other driver and exceed 100 miles per hour. When you return to the starting line, you are congratulated by your friends, fellow racers, and those who just came to watch the races. No money is involved, at least not this time, and you sit, eager to again prove that you have the fastest car on the street. This scene is played out all too often on our city and suburban streets. Is this life of “the fast and the furious” endangering innocent lives? If it is, then how do we solve it? Is street racing a problem? The answer is without a doubt, yes. The re