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My first car was a '69 Beetle, and I treated the throttle like an on/off switch, not that it had much power to speak of. I would rally race that thing every time I drove, no matter what. Somehow I was never pulled over. Taking the car to it's limits was my drivers education.
Then I took a MSF motorcycle class so that I could get my endorsement. This taught me more about defensive driving than anything else. This made me a much safer motorist in general. For instance, I never enter an intersection without looking both ways for red light runners.
I have informal motorcycle race training which has made my street riding safer by getting to know what the handling limits are. It also had the effect of slowing down my spirited riding because it's simply impossible to get the same rush on the street as on the track without dying.
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