Are the ground crew vehicle drivers sober?

[JMBuilder]

Seeing the new ground vehicles drive around is awesome, but the way they drive is pretty wild. You'll see them careening through the construction areas, swerving and drifting in circles, nearly slamming into each other in the process. If there were animations for Kerbal ground crews when they got hit by them, there would be a lot of dead Kerbals. What do you guys think?

[Tataffe]

They are not sober, thanks to Jeb Daniels ...

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

In the eyes of jebadiah, it's a criminal offence to drive sober

[Duxwing]

They're not drunk; they're just Kerbals.

-Duxwing

[RogueMason]

There is a minimum speed on those things. The Kerbals who drive them have to jump on while those things are moving around the place. The only reason that one stops on the lifts in the VAB is because of... err, stuff...

[Levelord]

Here's the scary thing about their driving:

They are sober.

[karolus10]

They're not drunk; they're just Kerbals.

-Duxwing

Pretty much so, kerbals aren't worried about such petty stuff like safety when driving with so small speeds... what can go wrong anyway ?

[aNewHope]

Hey, they're Kerbals they are used to orbital velocities. Why should they bother about anything that moves slower than 100 m/s ?

[CosmicX1]

Nah, they're just really good drivers that always push it to the limit!!

[The Jedi Master]

As Kerbals are used to the controls of a spacecraft, they aren't used to cars and trucks. It also explains why rover buggies can be so hard to drive.

[Tiron]

They got the trucks from Dudski Kerman's junkyard and truck co. Which only gets the castoffs from Jebediah Kerman's Junkyard and Spaceship Parts Co. and Bill Kerman's Junkyard and Building Repair Co. (Bob Kerman's Junkyard and Christmas Tree Depot has their own supply sources.)

Edited August 12, 2013 by Tiron

[Necandi Brasil]

I love seeing those little guys drifting with dangerous liquids...

[A Fat Pokemon]

I think if they can survive a fall from orbit whilst landing on their head, a little tap of a vehicle going 100m/s isn't going to kill them

[nettcod]

Look at how they pilot rockets and spacecraft. Are you really surprised?

Edited August 12, 2013 by nettcod

[CalculusWarrior]

They drive as quickly as they want, because each vehicle is made of an experimental liquid metal that allows the truck to simply pass through obstacles and/or unaware bystanders.

[42undead2]

What if they have a drift competition? D1 (K1 in this universe I guess ) could be it.

[Scotius]

They are in big hurry.

[Skorpychan]

The speedometers are marked in m/s, but they read them as MPH.

[Aqua667]

Wait, what happens if they do drink and drive? The VAB gets reduced to a pile of flaming rubble? They drive really quickly because their vehicles have experimental high thrust shuttle engines with extreme gimbal range, allowing them to turn on a dime while traveling at suborbital speeds.