Famous for 15 seconds, dead forever!

I was watching some YouTube videos of various car wrecks, stunts gone wrong and drag strip crashes when I realized Andy Warhol's quote about everyone being famous for fifteen minutes needed updating. The majority of the videoes were short, a couple of minutes is a long one. The truly nasty ones were a minute or less.
I felt sorry for the guy who lost his Corvette to a nitrous oxide induced fireball right at the start of the dragstrip. Especially when he gets to hear the chortling commentary his callow buddy made on the camcorder. At least he did the right thing. He took it to the strip, wore a helmet and qualified safety personel extinguished the blaze and carted away the remains. My sympathy wanes when it comes to stunt drivers, street racers and assorted lunatics with no respect for safety or human life.
I wasn't going to watch the crash videos. I was watching various engine dyno runs. You Tube had other plans. Those neat "related videos" they stack up soon drift away from intended target. The next thing you know, it's flying bodies and car/bike collisions.
One neat fact the videos demontrate is how safe modern cars have become. Crush zone technology, air bags, anti skid control and a host of other systems make it possible to walk away from accidents that are certifiably fatal with older cars. It doesn't make me want to leap into a Ferrari Testarossa and pile it into a retaining wall at a buck forty. I'm kind of conservative that way, rather be alive and anonymous than famous for 15 seconds and dead forever.