If they've got a billion dollars they also own their own track and can pay other drivers to lose races against them.
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Seriously, i think op doesn't understand how much a billion dollars actually is. With a billion dollars you could afford to repave every road you drive on regularly, and still have about a billion dollars left
Hell, you could invest a small fraction of that billion and your returns would allow you to keep those roads repaired long after you died.
nonono, you don't become a billionaire concerning yourself with what happens to others, especially after you die.
Pff, such a pleb ...
But, muh name on the road.
So, your statement makes sense if you remove the part about a billion dollars.
Brother, with a billion dollars I'd buy a yacht in a desert.
Bojack is that you?
Don't act like youuu don't know.
Have you seen undeveloped countries? The billionaires there are doing peachy.
Umm…. Yes it does.
Still better than driving over potholes with an empty bank account and a Camry.
The logical thing to do is get a private company to fix up those potholes for you with your wealth.
It's to turn all of the roads you care about into toll roads, except for you because you need to use the road for business reasons so that's exempt.
Billionaires don't drive on the same roads as us peasants.
Roads in the air (private jets)?
M'roads!
Ah, so you’ve been to Colorado.
What? I have a billion dollars.
Simple. You keep your Ferrari on your private island with your private racetrack, and keep your G Wagon at your house when you spend 2-3 weeks there a year.
At a certain price point cars are mundane and personal helicopter becomes primary mode of transportation. They don't have to care about roads if they don't use them. Like all things, Billionaires have different rules and use different services than the rest of us.
This depends how far away where they want is. I feel like down the block is impractical for a heli.
Down the block is "send someone" territory. Hell, with that money just about anything that you don't have to, or want to, attend to personally is "send someone" territory
The Farrari part reminds me of an early (like S1) episode of Castle. "How does the Farrari drive?" "Like any other car in NYC traffic"
I actually know of a guy who lives a road over from a relative that has some sort of super low luxury car, but the county road leading to his street is so bad he has to load it on a trailer to take it anywhere.
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